I won't get into pantomime season but you will see I answered it. Let's look at hard cash matchday income lost amongst clubs currently in the Championship likely to be pushing for promotion this season: Norwich City £14m Nottingham Forest £9m Swansea City £7m Bristol City £6m Millwall £6m Reading £5m PNE £4m Rovers £4m Parachute payments are more than swallowed up by outsized wage bills incurred when in the Premier League.

YES 100% agreed If Brennan continues his development, he will be a threat to Gallagher being selected as well.

Can we agree on the following? 1) If football grounds are open to a %age (probably under 50) of supporters, Rovers and Rovers' fans will be at a huge advantage compared with every other club in the Championship 2) Compared with the clubs Rovers are hopefully competing with for promotion, Rovers are less badly affected by Covid 3) Venky's are doing much less worse today than they were prior to appointing Tony Mowbray

This needs merging with the Summer Transfers thread.

Tony Green- what a talent he was! Blackpool was notorious. A combination including more than the normal proportion of maiacs in a relatively small home following and the away fans being enlarged by people travelling for the Pleasure Beach before and after the game turned Bloomfield Road into a battle ground .

Don't forget Junky Johnson on the wing. That WBA side I think was everybody's second favourite team. I was living in Leeds at the time and always went to Eland Road when they were the visitors.

I posted this on the 6th of June last year: The Leeds link has been around for a few days- their owner has said no but this has just been posted: https://www.teamtalk.com/news/french-journalist-provides-huge-update-on-leeds-investment-talks If you want to link Qatar and Rovers: https://www.arabianbusiness.com/blackburn-rovers-deny-deal-talks-with-qatari-royals-430269.html https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/15722809 All those stories are completely for real. I have explained this on another recent thread somewhere on the MB. There is a particular reason why this particular Qatari being in the market would stimulate some lazy journalists to think Blackburn Rovers. This thread should be entitled "Potential Buyer for Rovers" Rovers are emphatically not being sold.

tomphil wonder no more. There are oodles of evidence that 2+2= 4 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/venkys-denies-intent-to-sell-blackburn-rovers-g6kwfkbj9rfhttps://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/9362126.blackburn-rovers-owners-tell-qatar-oil-giant-dont-want-sell/ https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/nov/14/venkys-interest-selling-blackburn-rovers https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/11/15/2758862/blackburn-rovers-owners-dismiss-reports-linking-club-with-qatari- https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/blackburn-rovers-fc-up-for-sale/articleshow/31975419.cms https://www.rugbytradedirectory.com/shock-takeover-bid-for-blackburn-rovers Al-Khelaifi was previously linked with a move for Blackburn Rovers- https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10322277/nasser-al-khelaifi-leeds-united-psg/

Isn't Tyrhys Northern Irish?

That is what the fans of Wigan, Bolton, Blackpool, Bury, Macclesfield, Stockport and Chester all thought too....

Having actively worked on finding new buyers I can tell you there are more hen's teeth than serious candidates. To my knowledge, there has only been one buyer who 1) had the cash to pay-off the Venky's 2) had the cash to invest seriously in Rovers 3) did their homework 4) submitted a serious offer in writing. That was Qatar in 2011

Belgium only got a 1-1 with Ivory Coast last night although that probably says more about the quality of Ivorians emerging.

Of course- absolute genius of a player

And your list of buyers is....

Evans subbed after 77 minutes Aleesami seems to be getting a full game in the 0-0 v Serbia. Williams not got a run for RoI after 80 minutes in their 0-0 in Slovakia

Agreed, Roque Santa Cruz but for his injuries. Duff world class at Rovers- never did at after he left us though.

Corry Evans very involved. A great cross followed by a typical Evans scuffed shot.

Not Rovers but viewing figures for all sports have collapsed in the USA this year. Boy is English football hung out to dry if numbers like this repeat for worldwide audiences of our game. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/the-decline-in-pandemic-sports-viewership.html

Aleesami starts for Norway. Williams a sub for RoI

Bournemouth asking for £17m

Dack is six weeks away if we are lucky. So he makes the bench on 21 November at Luton and probably stays on the bench to avoid a real kicking in the 24 November game at Preston. So with the best will in the world he gets 9 games in before the January window. He is going to have to go some to attract a PL bid in January. Possible but gut feel is it is not happening. Next summer is a different matter altogether.

I believe Rovers have the same arrangement as when they were re-banked away from Barclays- a £15m overdraft from the State Bank of India secured by Venky's.

If West Brom beat West Ham to King, presumably King replaces Grosicki who is in Forest via Athens Also lining up against us on a similar deal is likely to be Anthony Knockaert.