Indian Chicken feed is a classic business with a moat. Difficult to exploit for profit maximisation but Venky's has a national logistics set up nobody else is remotely likely to want to compete against because of the low ticket/low margin and limited opportunity for diversification- there is only so much penicillin etc. a chicken is able to pop down.

If they didn't want to sell him

Story sounds fake. Why would the selling Club prefer a loan to a loan with a view? You'd have thought it would be the other way round.

This moron runs our lot close in the fuckwit stakes. Another grand old club being destroyed by a useless owner. When will the authorities act?

If we have ambition, both Weiman and Baath had the possibility of being big players for us in a promotion push this season. As a Pasha cash management operation, neither player would feature in Rovers operations and Derby have done Pasha a big favour. As for signing a Saudi international, I hope the loaning club are paying a chunk of his wages...

Wharton always has a brain fart moment

The point with Wharton I think is that if we had not been so desperate to shove him out of the door to keep the lights on when we did, there would have been a lot more interest the following summer and we'd have achieved a much better fee. £18m was ludicrous given the general state of the market both then and now.

For our 12.30 kick off Millwall fans will have to leave at some unearthly hour. Although they aren't the best away supported club it will deter some from travelling (as it will Rovers fans too). There is zero consideration for travelling fans for games which, on paper wouldn't be attractive to a neutral. I haven't seen anywhere that Sky have published viewing figures for some of their red button choices.

I doubt we would have done. We will have waited to see how severe the injury was first. Which is a fairly sensible move but we then ran the risk of not showing enough loyalty to him and as has happened, he took a better offer. Had that contract been offered shortly after he picked up his injury, he probably would have signed it but then he could have been out for longer and then we'd all be kicking off that we signed him up for another year and wasted all those wages. In fairness, it was a slightly difficult situation, depending on when we knew how long he'd be out for. JE could have been in his ear from the moment he got the Derby job as well tbf, so he might never have signed it.

Agree with Batth being a big loss. Wharton has never been our best CB though. Can have great games, but concentration, pace, distribution all big issues for him.

I thought Batth was brilliant for us but a fully fit Wharton is our best CB imo. Would have loved to have seen them play together. Anyone saying Batth isn't a big loss is just being silly imo.

Their costs have rocketed post covid/Ukriane like most other businesses and it has impacted their profit margins significantly although i think they still corner the market over their across the whole chicken spectrum. Investing in it though is probably a lot less attractive than it was 5 years ago.

I would be more interested to know if Rovers actually offered him a contract before his surgery? If they had done so, then maybe he would have signed it and wouldn't now be at a rival club

Says just as much about this stupid set up as it does about him.

England win the toss and bowl under cloudy skies, we need early wickets, taking advantage of these conditions. Come on England.

Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed that Weimann elected to have surgery whilst being paid by rovers to be fit for the next season. Only then to fuck off to a rival?

Batth is still a superior player to wharton

There’s a bloke called Pears available for a bargain £20m

The share price has always been volatile. Glad to see it dropping but it is still quite a lot higher than it was when they first bought the club. They benefitted massively from the beef ban in India a few years ago and their shares sky rocketed by about 400% so they are still in a fairly good position I would think. Sadly

His garden will be looking nice.

Danny Batth turns 35. He was a very solid player, especially with Wharton out. With him back in all honestly it makes sense to not give him another year. Look at Sunderland where he came from. They took the chance even though he was quite a useful player for them.

Agreed 👍 although weimann did bring that knowledge and experience of being in the right places to be fair. I can't see him affecting us if he gets minutes v Rovers

Well played fellas. Pulled it out the bag in the final round ⚽

VIEWS.

I posted something along those lines a couple of summers back. Obviously those are now essentially 3 years out of date as they were for the accounting period 21/22. What I will state is that we have seen a further real terms (inflation etc) reduction in the costs of the playing staff compared to our Championship Rivals since this period I had to go into the individual accounts for each club individually to find the figures as they did not seem to be collated anywhere that I could find Edit - maybe this twitter account has collated this information at some point, might be worth an ask