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Good luck all today. I hope your pre-season optimism survives past 3:05pm

I don't remember the last time I had pre-season optimism for Blackburn. All I pray for is survival.

There's a 16 year old starting in midfield for Sunderland today. Somewhat nervous now.

Think Villa will end up finishing 6th-9th. Weaker squad compared to last season so not expecting any improvement unfortunately. Hopefully will beat Hull on Monday though, think they might struggle this season.

PuppetBoy wrote:There's a 16 year old starting in midfield for Sunderland today. Somewhat nervous now.

It's ok, we have a good record with youngsters. Just ask Adam Johnson.

How I've missed this.

On the train to St Andrews (just after minting procrastination and then leaving my ticket behind), first day optimism.

Corazon de Leon wrote:I don't remember the last time I had pre-season optimism for Blackburn. All I pray for is survival.

What's the state of Blackburn's ownership like? Is it still the Venkys? How do the fans see them?

Ecno wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:I don't remember the last time I had pre-season optimism for Blackburn. All I pray for is survival.

What's the state of Blackburn's ownership like? Is it still the Venkys? How do the fans see them?

Yes. They've put a little bit of effort in with their last few appointments and while they're not exactly loose with the purse strings they do seem to be trying to make up for the mistakes they made in the first few years. There was a rumour that they would get a massive compensatory payment if Blackburn dropped into league one within the first ten years of their ownership. Completely unfounded of course, but the turnaround since we went down has been quite interesting to watch...

IT’S BACK!!! That first game of the season buzz.

We're gonna win the league lads.

PuppetBoy wrote:We're gonna win the league lads.

strawberry floating right we are!

I'm just going to enjoy being top of the table. Might be the last time we see it.

Go on the Robins!

Andi

Blackburn!

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Blackburn!

Say nothing. Utter no words.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Blackburn!

This was your fault.

Corazon de Leon wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Blackburn!

This was your fault.

Damn I'm sorry bro

Well that wasn't an ideal start! No complaints about the result, as for the most part Swansea looked the better team expect for the very first 5 mins and a spell of 10 mins or so in the second half Swansea just looked the better of the two.

Defensively we looked poor at points as we did attacking barely getting on target (think 3 in total), couple of efforts that should have been on target weren't.

Oh well.

We were kinda rubbish but we won! \o/