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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 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 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

Glen mentioned that a while back. Are you not overthinking that a bit? Surely all it needs is a dedicated Bank account to be opened and some sort of record kept of moneys in and out? You're not regulated by the FCA. If I donate my £25 or whatever, Im taking it entirely on trust that it's going to be legitimately used for protest purposes and not going to be spent down the pub. If it is, there's nothing I can do about it. What do other people think? Anyone able to assist or offer any better ideas?

Well, it's too late money wise for Saturday but it would be sensible to ask for a bit of help going forward.

OMG..What has Myers done now? Long ago, I decided he was a just fly in the ointment, stepping in at key times with unhelpful, patronising comments, undermining supporters. What I would like to ask him is how he would respond if his own beloved Everton was being trashed like this?

100%. No other tool we can use. We hold the power.

It is too late now and I don’t think we need worry about banners. If enough people, out of the few who continue to attend Ewood, show some gumption and observe the call to boycott, it will at least send a message and if nowt else, make one feel that they have done what they could. I have had a ST for well over 40 years and attend, whatever the weather and league position, but I won’t be there on Saturday and I can only hope, that the majority feel the same way.

Every position is a specialist role RF. I don’t see that he’s in any way outstanding defensively or offensively. Hes tidy.

It needs someone to be in charge of the fund.

Can we have some actual substance please, where are these rumours from? Link/screenshot?

Rumours of Harry Pickering to Reading Ryan Nyambe too.

The centre halves do indeed need protecting. Ours don’t get much protection.

That's the answer I was fearing but not the one I was hoping for. The cost of a few signs must be absolutely minimal. Would it not have been a better idea to get your ducks in a row and establish a bit of a fighting fund before organising a call for a boycott? Surely a lot of people would be willing to donate a small amount (myself included).

Yeah he's still trying to position himself as a bridge between them and us but it's rather pointless now. They aren't going to offer him a job and even if they did trotting out the same rhetoric won't work this time there's way too much water under the bridge.

Genuine question @glen9mullan, and apologies if I have missed in the thread, do the Raos know about Saturday's boycott and have you been in touch with them directly?

Once we are relegated (and we will be) none of the following will be here, either due to getting the wage bill down, they hold some value or will want to leave: Gudjohnsen Alebiosu Tronstad Cantwell Mori Toth Miller Picks (assuming he's still here) Ribeiro (assuming he's still here) Pears Hedges (out of contract) TGH (not signed, end of loan) Baradji (not signed, end of loan) Cashin (end of loan) Jorgensen (Can't see him sticking around for League One) Forshaw (out of contract) Tyjon I think the club would look to shift out: Wharton Carter McLoughlin They'll want McLoughlin's wages off the books and Carter and Wharton might be difficult to shift due to injuries Which leaves: De Neve (might get a move back to a low level in europe) Taveres (no ones taking him) Kargbo (no ones taking him) Yuki (someone might take him, but he's been awful for a good while now) Montgomery Garrett Henriksson (might get a move back to a low level in europe) O'Riordan Pratt Litherland Powell Doherty Acheson (assuming he doesn't get picked off by a bigger fish) Michalski Barrett Edmonson (returns from loan) Dlamini That's a squad of 17, pretty much academy players (or dross) which I suspect would be the foundations for our lengthy exile into League One. Wage bill down significantly and pats on the back all round in the circus.

The centre halves particularly McClaughlan need protecting and the defence tightening us as whole like Eustace pinpointed when he came in. Tighten it up, get Pickering back in and if they can't get a shield in front of them with the likes of Forshaw, Tronstad and TGH we might as well give up. They need to become a unit again and build from there, 4 at the back now imo. Andre back up top and the new guy playing off him, drop Yuki and drop off a bit to allow space in behind.

If Wharton wasn't injured and had had a good season they'd have had him out the door the min there was a sniff of a fee. 100% guaranteed.

I agree with you, Im just suggesting possible reasons why they don't.

But the club haven’t been onside for months now, Elliott is banned from all things Ewood / Brockhall. And yet his job continues, seemingly without any real impediment and from what I can see commercially, the current day Rovers seem to place no direct advertising with the LT. In my opinion, going to war, they have nothing to lose and potentially a lot to gain.

As time went on once Gestede arrived Waggot was a thorn in the side of the other two that's obvious, if he served their purpose he'd still be here. He clearly held the club back and was a downscaler but that was his methodology and his experience was in that field, keep it stable whilst chipping away at it. We were going backwards but at a slower rate and i said at the time him gone removed any last remaining semblance of actual football stewardship whatever guise it came in. Now we have a guy drunk on his own control of the money and a tea boy ex player aligned with him both controlling their puppet in the technical area. So basically there is no one to challenge them, watch them and if need be try to go over their heads. The division before was bad enough but yielding full control to these two has proven even worse, they are driven on pure ideology not reality.