RevidgeBlue

Yes, according to Nixon Dennis was a masterstroke pulled off by Waggott thanks to us agreeing a £20 k p.w. contribution to the players wages.

Sorry, we were shocking at West Brom.

Haven't they just signed Kone for a similar fee as well? Or is that the same deal? Either way we're getting left behind, even by run of the mill Clubs.

It varies from player to player but I think there are certain occasions when you can be so definitive. Older supporters will remember strikers Dave Hargreaves and Paul Mckinnon coming in for trial games from Accrington Stanley and Sutton United respectively and looking completely out of their depth. Id seen enough of Grabbi after one game to conclude we'd been sold a complete dud at a vastly inflated price. I think I was 100% correct with that snap judgment but I got grief about it for ages because people didn't want to accept we'd been conned out of £7m. (How you doing USA? 🙂) For present purposes Im not sure who's said what about which player but I wouldn't be arguing with anyone who said De Neve or Montgomery were nowhere near the required standard. Tbh Henriksson could hardly have played worse so far either but he does appear to have a better pedigree so hopefully with him it's a case of settling in.

Is that exactly what we've got now by any chance?

Been a lot more of this sort of disparaging talk (not just from you) recently "If you're writing him off too early it's not the sport for you" If you dont rate such and such a player you know nothing about the sport" " If you can't see that we clearly played 4-1 -2-1-1-1 etc during pre season maybe it's not the sport for you" It's nothing really to do with anyone else whether someone rates a particular player or not, although you're obviously free to disagree. Mowbray seemingly didn't rate Raya that highly. Does that mean he's been in the wrong career all his life? Therefore any chance of dialling the hyperbole down a bit?

If someone was doing their job properly it'd be a first.

Have they given a reason for the change from 11p.m. to 7p.m.? At least Suhail has a ready made excuse for various transfers falling through this time for the next FF Meeting. "As far as we were aware" the deadline was still 11p.m.!

So in VI 's 14 competitive matches so far......... We've conceded the opening goal inside the first 20 mins 8 times. Of those eight, 4 of them were actually inside the first 10 mins. Out of those four where we conceded inside the first 10 mins, we actually conceded a second goal inside the opening 10 mins on 3 out of the 4 occasions!!! Surely these figures are completely unacceptable no matter how good or bad we think the players are or whatever level you happen to be playing at. They smack of a lack of organisation, lack of concentration from the first whistle and an unwillingness to put it all on the line for this manager.

What a lovely post. As hopeless as the situation seems, we have to keep fighting for their benefit.

He played RB in the Worthington Cup Final didn't he? He was OK there but much better at CB.

Eustace left. Something Im sure you can sympathise with.

Suspect this will be a very brutal and humiliating afternoon for anyone connected with Blackburn Rovers. Apart from the management of course. Have we told them we'll change kit so that they can play in the kit of their choice yet?

I'd say our best performers last season in no particular order were Travis, Brittain, Dolan and Batth. Guess what! 3 of them are no longer here and one appears to be on his way out. There's a reason for that other Clubs aren't daft and have noticed the way they played last year and are willing to pay for them and our management simply don't care as they are only interested in cutting costs.

Yep. He's already done one nonsensical puff piece to placate the fan base where he suggests progress has been made on the RW position but then quotes VI as saying "It's difficult to say anything is close" which actually suggests the exact opposite! Never mind Rover the dog, I wish Eustace would come in for Jackson as well.

100%. Whilst JDT was constantly calling out the powers that be, you felt there was some hope despite the ownership. Eustace was slightly more professional as it were in the sense that he didn't make his dissatisfaction so public. But you could tell he wasn't happy, Towards the end you could hear the optimism draining out of him with every interview. This guy gives the impression all is well and he's 100 % on board. That may change of course but I doubt it.

Id rather that than sell him for £1.5m. Is that how little you value our Championship status at?

Take the plastic snake stuff elsewhere please. Things are bad enough as it is.

You've not seen the games this season then? Just on Gueye and Travis, if VI doesn't rate Travis and thinks Woodrow is a better option than Gueye that says a lot more about the manager than it says about those two players.

Of course he's in on it. All these cheap foreign imports from inferior Leagues are allegedly the right profile of player to suit him and the exciting high intensity pressing football he is claimed to favour. And of which there is absolutely no sign. I think they're all taking us for mugs - including the manager.

The above post is a prime example of why some people should be allowed nowhere near social media. No doubt Jack is a fervent member of the plastic snake brigade.

If we are eventually reduced to seeing what's left on the loan market at the last minute (as usual) I think we'll be sadly disappointed. For every Elliott/Van Hecke/Beck there's a lot more Barry Douglas's/Clarkson's/Poveda's/Cozier Duberry's/Woodrow's/ Dennis's who are either completely shite and/or a complete waste of money. It's the only thing I agree with VI on.

Is he unhappy? He's been quite blasé about the impending departures of Brittain and Travis as though they're only to be expected and he's known about them for some time.

What did he do tonight? After he gave the ball away on the edge of our area he perked up a little and played one or two nice balls but nothing earth shattering. The receiving player still always has it all to do. Does he score any goals? - No Does he provide any assists? - No Does he provide any defence splitting balls which leave the receiving player with a clear cut chance? - No. And this was against League 1 opposition.

I disagree completely on that point sg - regardless of quality you would expect a decent coach to be able to set the team up to be motivated and difficult to beat as a bare minimum. How often do we concede goals in the first 20 mins under VI? It must be more often than not, and quite often it's the first ten minutes and out of those, sometimes more than one!