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Strange when all of the true fans in the LT comments pledged to bring every member of their family as well as their entire friendship circle. Plans must have changed.

I don’t for one second want him playing for us but to be honest de neve might- MIGHT- flourish in league 1 just for his pace alone. If we go on the basis that the Brighton lad we had last year has tore it up this season. He was all pace too

Never usually happens. Only prestige staff get put on shift when sales are really low. It’s of course the boycott that’s making the sales really low and that’s why I put it on here to pretty much show not many people are turning up.

Wouldn’t be against Rowett at all, shame Rudy and Pasha make the choices

Do you know if this happens much, or if it's really unusual?

I've always regarded Myers' views as a bit of an irrelevance. Sort of an official/unofficial PR guy for the regime. Id take more notice of anything he said about Everton where he'd no doubt be speaking from the heart. By the same token I'm not particularly offended by anything he's said here. Everyone is free to make their own mind up on whether a boycott is a good idea or not. I would however question his .motivation for piping up now after years of silence and at whose behest his comments are made. My guess would be management.

We gave De Neve 4x his wage at his last club no way we shifting him unless we pay him off

I made it necessarily short, thinking that might be a very good option. I didn’t wanna waste a lot of words on this one.

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Excellent work. Particularly, your point about relegation to L1 this time, it will not be a quick and sure return as last time. The club needs an enema and a re-birth.

Are we boycotting the match thread too?

Rowett is the obvious choice and I imagine the man Waggott would be targeting if he was still here and given the choice to select the next manager. Lord knows who Gestede and Pasha would come up with. Somebody recently sacked from a team in relegation trouble in a random European league, I'd assume.

More of the same I’m afraid. How much more misery can we tolerate? 0-3.

I can't get most of the LT output (and Im certainly not paying for it) Did he ACTUALLY say that? That's up there with "The list". I can't recall any other manager saying anything vaguely resembling that in 55 years. Please anyone feel free to refresh my memory if Im wrong.

WTF is VI still in employment ?

Spot on. Nobody wants Waggott near a fully functioning Blackburn Rovers, but what we are left with is not only inferior, but dangerous. We struggled to get a CEO, when we had one the club just about functioned, now it no longer does.....

He was mis-managed unfortunately and it was too much too soon and another breakdown. Hopefully they’ll learn when it comes to easing Carter back in.

I have no idea why people keep throwing Dunns name in he really shouldn't be anywhere near it.

Speaking to people at work today, all agreed that his time should be up. Some calling for Dunn/Johnson till the end of season, I don't see the appeal in that to be honest, I get why some would want that but now is not the time for sentiment, we are bang in trouble, I haven't really thought of who I'd want to come in because he seemingly has the safest job in football so I'd be wasting my time. Any normal football club would have been drawing a list of replacements up weeks ago but they are clearly happy to just keep plodding along with this guy, it's a sorry state but exactly what we have all become used too sadly. It's my wedding anniversary Saturday and the wife wants to have a day out so I am boycotting the game unintentionally, it will be a toxic place if we go behind and go on to lose. IF he is eventually booted, I just hope it's not too late, though I fear it already is. This club depresses me.... Prediction for Saturday: Rovers 0-2 Watford (Own Goal and a couple of injuries) - Attendance Under 10,000 but club say 12/13. Ismael Out!

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The only bit I disagree with is your suggestion that the bottom list would be the foundations of a lengthy stay in League 1. Am I the only one who thinks that they would get absolutely eaten alive in the third tier? Most of the top list aren't nearly as good as they probably think they are either. The only ones Id be keen to press forward with next season (whatever happens) are Alebiosu, Gudjohnssen Jorgensen, Wharton (if fit) Tyjon, Pratt, Litherland Atcheson Powell. And of course most of the first five would be the first out of the door if the **** hit the fan.

I went to Wimbledon (the tennis tournament) in the summer, and got speaking to an American chap who made hoses of all things (high grade ones for aircraft / spacecraft) and said he literally went to see Wrexham as a possible European base for manufacturing as he had heard of it from the TV show. I think it's been proven many times in the past that the success of a football has a correlation with investment not just due to increased footfall and expenditure but be because the town is recognised and thus seems more attractive. I read something similar about Sunderland and the investment in the town correlating well with the success of the football club.

The bit in bold is explained by Myers in the interview below, at 1:58:20. Myers had just left Everton and was out of work, when he received a call from Venkatesh Rao in India telling him how much they wanted him to work for Rovers. He told Myers to get himself down to Ewood and that they would sort it all out for him. Derek Shaw met Myers the following day and told him he had been given instructions from India to appoint Myers as a Director. Myers explains how he found this bizarre because he thought he was coming to Rovers as a Press Officer, not as a Director. This was a call made in India. Why? I presume it is because Myers went out to meet them in Pune in the early days of the takeover when working for Sky. Remember the puff piece Sky did on the owners back then, when covering the 'Pune 9' trip etc? I seem to recall there was footage of their mansions, a brief couple of words from one or two of the family about Rovers and something about one of the brothers having a collection of 70 vintage cars or something. Anyway, I'm sure Myers was a part of that trip, leading the coverage and he was somebody that they struck up a friendship with. In the interview below, Myers reveals that he was asked several times to join Rovers before he actually did, when working for Sky, but he didn't want to leave Sky for Rovers. This suggests he made quite an impression on Venkatesh and Co who were eager to have him on board ever since that initial meeting. He says in yesterday's statement, that Venky's are lovely, respectful people who had ambitions for Rovers. This is almost certainly based on what he experienced when in their company in Pune. They might well be respectful people, they might be fantastic hosts, but they are not fantastic football club owners. To be fair, Myers acknowledges this in the statement, when he notes that saying something and actually achieving it are two different things. He has called for them to sell up and leave in a respectful way and we can't really expect him to do more than that. He's never going to lay into them or criticise them and I wouldn't expect him to. IMO, Myers is a genuine guy who shouldn't be copping stick for anything in that statement. I don't think there is an agenda behind it. He states in the interview below that he wanted to bring a divided fanbase together at Rovers, he wanted to try and fix a fractured club and fanbase. You can see these same sentiments in last night's statement where he says he understands both sides of the argument. He wants the fans to back the players and staff, hence he doesn't want fans to boycott, but he also understands the 15 years of frustration and that change needs to happen. Him calling for the owners to sell up, in a respectful way, should be enough to tell us how he feels. He's not a Rovers fan, but he understands how we feel and why we want them out. It's just that he, personally, has a respectful relationship with them so he can't go all out like we can. Incidentally, Myers reveals that he left Rovers out of principle because he didn't like the way the club was being ran and the direction things were heading in. Does that sound familiar? I suspect he, JDT and Eustace would have a lot of things in common to talk about. All these years on from Myers leaving Rovers and we're in the same position again as a club. We can all see where this is heading, including Myers. He's not the bad guy here. He's one of the very few genuine people that we have had here in 15 years of chancers, snakes and bullshitters. I recommend everybody to listen to this from 1 hour 58 onwards for context. His statement will make more sense after doing so. Myers spends a good 15 minutes or so talking about Rovers and Venky's, the running of the club etc. He was the man responsible for putting the historic timeline around the ground, the mural. Myers wanted to showcase the club's history and was trying to get the fans to reconnect with the club. The timeline was discarded not long after he left Rovers, which says it all about the bastards who remained in place after he left.

Grim. But I agree other than I think pears might be hard to shift and he would probably get the jersey back at his level of football