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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 13:33 18 Feb 2026
Accounts aren't my thing but everything you have outlined sounds convincing to me.
As an aside the PL is moving away from PSR next season:
https://www.premierleague.com/
Does anyone know if this is coming to the EFL and what it might mean for us going forward if the rules do change? |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 11:12 18 Feb 2026
No love for Hevertton Santos?
Don't answer that :-)
He might not have cost much but he was Nourry's first signing. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 09:46 18 Feb 2026
Craig Johnston was a Strayan.
Although born in South Africa, and played for England U-21.
But he grew up in Australia and played his youth football there |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 11:26 17 Feb 2026
So they could have just explained that clearly in the first place and avoided all the confusion!
Or does that count as telling us too much!?
It's all a bit silly and unnecessary. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 10:35 17 Feb 2026
I was being semi-serious.
Pitches are checked before every game by the referee and officials from both clubs, but I don't know what sort of checklist they use or how thorough the checks are.
But footballers are expensive assets and they have a powerful union.
If a particular pitch has a large number of injuries then people outside the club might start taking an interest.
If a pattern were to emerge in the type of injury or if they were happening in a particular part of the pitch then that might raise some interesting questions.
But maybe we're just unlucky.
Or cursed!! :-) |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 09:38 17 Feb 2026
How many serious injuries are you allowed in one season before the EFL and other clubs lawyers start taking an interest in our playing surface?
One of the main objections to artificial pitches is that there's an increased likelihood of injury to players.
We are single-handedly disproving that objection. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 20:12 16 Feb 2026
I agree with some of what you say but not everything.
Hoos as Chairman is a curious one.
Normally a company chairman does a lot of their work in the boardroom, and to a certain extent a lot of what they do is protecting shareholders interests and making sure their objectives are being properly implemented.
QPR is slightly unusual in that the board and the owners are the same thing (apart from those fans who have held onto very small shareholdings). And I believe Ruben now holds over 75% of the shares and can do almost anything he wants.
So what is the point of Hoos as Chairman?
I assumed he was kept on in that role to act as a mentor to Nourry, keep an eye open to make sure he didn't do anything reckless with the club, and as a last resort step back in if junior didn't prove up to the job
So I think there's more to Hoos than just window dressing - but I could be wrong.
With respect to Millwall I think they have been doing a lot right for a long time, and were moving in the right direction even before Steve Gallen was appointed. Joe Edwards was a mis-step on their part but this isn't a Wawll forum so we don't need to pick the bones out of that, or the friction between Harris and Gallen.
But Gallen has been doing good things for a long time. He came to Millwall from Charlton which isn't an easy sell but he has settled in and Wawll seem to be benefitting from it.
I would love to have seen Gallen as our DoF.
I don't like this combined CEO/DoF role. I would prefer a CEO who looked after the overall running of the club and left someone with a solid background within football to look after that side of things.
It has been said by others on this forum but Nourry came into this dual role with no experience in either capacity. It was a huge gamble.
Whether Nourry is a success or a failure he is going to leave at some point, and he is going to leave two positions open. Are we going to stick with the combined role or bring in two experienced specialists? I know what I would prefer. |
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Reply | Next season’s squad
at 13:08 16 Feb 2026
We know we probably need at least one decent sale in the summer to finance investment in the squad.
- We know there has been some interest in Varane (who is out injured)
- We know the club might be willing to sell Field (out on loan)
- And apart from Burrell the big breakout who might pull in some decent money is Madsen (also just picked up an injury)
Problem is that Varane, Field, and Madsen are all midfielders which is an area where we are light already.
So if we sell two of them we will probably need to bring in three in that position. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 11:32 16 Feb 2026
Millwall have been doing a lot right for a good while now.
Despite that they spent most of the 2023-24 season hovering just above the relegation places and only a strong finish bumped them up to 13th and 59 points.
If you remember that was the season Rowett left and they appointed the hot young talent Joe Edwards to take them to the next level. That bombed so badly they had to bring back Neil Harris to steady the ship.
So even clubs that are doing it right and steadily progressing will make the odd mis-step, and the Championship is so unforgiving that one wrong appointment can cause everything to unravel. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 22:47 15 Feb 2026
But where does Besoccer get its data from?
If there's no obligation on clubs to report injuries Besoccer is possibly scraping news reports or club social media posts for its data, and that's never going to be reliable. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 22:44 15 Feb 2026
For me injuries are important because the club's player trading model will suffer if we can't keep players fit.
But in terms of performance on the pitch I agree with you that the condition of our players hasn't looked good enough.
But whether it's injuries or conditioning that all comes down to Ben Williams who ultimately reports to Nourry. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 21:09 15 Feb 2026
I changed my original answer with some help from AI.
It seems that in America there is transparency around sports injuries to protect gambling integrity.
There aren't any similar transparency rules for British football. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 20:29 15 Feb 2026
Edit
- Forget my initial response.
Performance data in American sports and English football is owned by the clubs.
The key difference (according to Gemini AI) is that American sports requires certain injuries to be reportable to protect the integrity of betting, but there are no equivalent rules in English football
https://share.google/aimode/U4
"Common Reportable Injuries by Category
- Ligament Sprains & Muscle Strains: The most common injuries, often affecting the knee (ACL, MCL) or ankle.
- Concussions: Frequently reported, particularly in football, soccer, and lacrosse, and sometimes reported regardless of time loss.
- Contusions (Bruises): Very common, representing a high percentage of overall reported injuries.
- Fractures & Dislocations: Broken bones (e.g., collarbone) and joint displacements.
- Overuse Injuries: Conditions like tendinitis, stress fractures, or bursitis resulting from repetitive strain.
- Acute Trauma: Injuries from collisions, such as lacerations or punctures.
- Heat Illness: Conditions like heat stroke or heat exhaustion, especially in football.
Specific Reporting Contexts
- NCAA & High School (RIO): Injuries are reported if they require medical attention and cause a player to miss at least one day of activity. However, serious injuries like concussions and fractures are reported even if they do not result in time loss.
- NFL/Professional: Teams are required to disclose any injury that affects a player's ability to practice or play at 100% capacity (e.g., "limited" or "did not participate") to the public to prevent gambling insider information.
- Time-Loss Severity: Injuries are further classified as Minor (<8 days), Moderate (8-21 days), or Severe (>21 days).
Common Reportable Injury Locations
- Head/Face: High incidence of concussions and lacerations.
- Knee: ACL and MCL tears, as well as meniscal injuries.
- Ankle: Sprains, especially in basketball and soccer.
- Shoulder: Strains and dislocations.
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Reply | The Season is Done
at 17:50 15 Feb 2026
I agree with you there.
It's far too soon for the players to hit the beach.
My point was that with all our injuries to key players it was going to be difficult/impossible to sustain a playoff push.
It's a bad situation we've landed in but we have to try and make something of it. All our injuries will at least open up some first team opportunities for our fringe and younger players who will get a chance to show what they can do and find out what the game is like at this level. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 15:51 15 Feb 2026
Both Furlong and Helguson made very ropey starts for us and took a while to settle.
And all three players you mention were a lot older and more experienced than Kone is now and Dykes was when he played for us.
What I would say about Dykes is he's not a natural footballer.
But Dykes is a very athletic Australian. Apparently we're very big on them now - make of that what you will. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 15:20 15 Feb 2026
You might be right about that.
But we can't know for certain.
Last summer we were heavily linked to Schalke striker Pape Meissa Ba only to pull the plug at the very last moment:
https://www.westlondonsport.co
Landing Kone is probably the reason we pulled out of the Ba move, but could we have got Kone just with the Kelman money? We had already signed Poku and Mbengue by that point.
EDIT:
Ba has hardly played this season and has 1 goal and 0 assists
https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/p
Definitely a bullet dodged!
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 15:03 15 Feb 2026
I think Kone and Dykes are both competent at holding the ball up.
But neither can be expected to do that job alone.
Dykes certainly got isolated at times with no support.
And I think it's fair to question if our squad of dinky little wingers are the right players to support Kone either in getting the ball into the box for him or providing adequate assistance with keeping the ball at the right end of the pitch.
Kone hasn't been the raging success that Burrell has been this season but if we were to put Kone up for sale we would not be short of offers. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 14:55 15 Feb 2026
Fair point.
I can't comment on exactly when the Eze deal was done and when exactly we knew, but it was common knowledge that Eze was going somewhere so the board might have decided to take a punt.
Something that I think tends to get overlooked is how lucky Nourry has been up to now.
He was appointed CEO just as our P&S situation was improving which meant he had money to spend.
In his first season he loaned Kelman out to Orient where through no effort on our part Orient sent him back to us as the EFL top scorer last season.
And then after years of wishful thinking Eze finally made his big money move to one of the top clubs.
Without Kelman and Eze coming good at the right time we would have had a very different transfer window last summer.
Maybe Nourry's luck has finally run out! |
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