I agree with you especially on the way loyal supporters have been treated and the rest of the football world couldn't give a monkes when its happening, and the way our wonderful owners have completely destroyed the club that we all love. A club with such a glorious history and tradition and fighting spirit, reduced to a shambles a shell of what it once was, it breaks my heart as a Rovers fan. The only thing I hang on to is one day they will be gone and supporters can have the club they know and love back. I hope its soon rather then later when theres nothing left of it to give back to us.

I went through a period of my life where Rovers came before everything. The generation before missed children being born and weddings had to be in the closed season! I do agree with your comment NR, but for some, it’s still the only thing that matters. Hope you’re well by the way 👍

Def Leppard - Let It Go

It'll be this year or next.

Want to keep developing kids to make the first team? Easy, just drop down the leagues.

Venkys was enough to stop me going. I saw them for what they were straight away. For those that still go it's just one thing after another. If it isn't the sky high price or the deliberate sabotage of the entire season then it's the EFL changing the kick off time and date to suit sky or whatever other media conglomerate wanting to show the game for some reason. Just a disgraceful situation where the fans are treated like utter shit by the club, the league and the media corporations. You can't hold it against anyone who says fuck this and jacks it in. I'm genuinely amazed they still get as many people turn up as they do. They certainly don't deserve it.

I am not criticising the academy or individual players. I am criticising the club for setting arbitary targets which I feel creates a conflict of interest, and am also criticising the club for putting an unrealistic burden on producing players that are capable of playing in the Championship. All for the purpose of saving money. You've taken your own interpretation of Gestede's messages in your usual blinkered way and have assumed its all part of a viable and logical plan. You've also not acknowledged the reasons why we had so many academy minutes 2 seasons ago. One now departed special talent and also a lack of depth to the point where we nearly went down.

Do you think those PL clubs are going to play him? Or do you think he will sit in their academy for a year before loans to successive EFL clubs, eventually being sold off. PL interest has no bearing on whether a player is ready for the championship.

That is where yet again Mike you are misinterpret my comments. Mike, like I said different people have different commitments and different situations. I have been very open and honest that Rovers is my main social activity and that I can make every home game without other commitments getting in the way of my attending games at Ewood Park

very true but it was win. Confidence is high at the minute and we need to just carry this on

We have always develop our own players and we should carry this on for the future. Yes I question you over your comments about academy players because you are very quick to point out their negatives and what they didn't do which is always your focus in my opinion. We see when the season how much our academy players play but I don't what is wrong with have 3 players who one is very highly rated and chased by big PL clubs and 2 players who played last season show their worth for me.

Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

Jack leading out the team at Wembley for the Charity Shield, brilliant stuff. *Sounds not great.

Unrealistic for most People.

@glen9mullan is the man that knows pressure isnt for tyres, its for Pasha 😄

Pasha under pressure? Or no news currently? Lots going on behind the scenes I assume?

That deposit has to be carrying a lot of the weight there, surely. Lease costs might have come down too, I dunno, but that's a huge difference in vehicle value for you to be paying a smaller monthly. Either way I expect you'll really like your new car. One thing Polestar and Volvo will do together is help Volvo avoid the fines for not producing enough EVs as a percent of their sales in the UK. Any petrol/diesel car sold above the allowance means a hefty fine, and companies who sell more than enough EVs can sell their credits to other companies to avoid those fines. Or in the case of Volvo and Polestar, probably just give them to Volvo. If Volvo are already selling enough EVs as a proportion (I've no idea if they are), then the credits can just be sold to other companies like Ford who probably aren't meeting the requirements. Other countries have similar schemes.

Venkys ownership has killed just about everything else in one way or another so season ticket sales just go hand in hand with that. Nobody trusts them from one week to the next even most of their 'defend the status quo' mob if they are being honest.

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat That’s My Home

That’s what I’m saying

We do accept it, but you keep using it as some sort of brag. Prioritising Rovers games over literally everything isn’t the flex you think it is.

A better club? The bar is set incredibly low on that score. Seriously, are there any Championship clubs with worse owners / operational management? If we'd offered him a "decent enough wage packet" we wouldn't be in the current situation. Agree, he won't get a PL move but are there really any less progressive or ambitious Championship clubs than Rovers? I think not. Again Chaddy, I think you are trying to defend the indefensible. Wake up and smell the coffee.

these lot are absolute scumbags

to be fair to the Port Vale Marketing team they're not working for Saachi and Saachi and will be doing about 15 'marketing/promotion' jobs, spread across social media, commercial, hospitality, events and whatever else might come under their remit so I can let them off

Agree in principle, that was great vision by Jack, but that vision was that WE should benefit and that one day WE might produce a Man U style golden generation for ourselves. When the charlatans took over that dream disappeared, we were never going to benefit from a major emerging talent, others were. We're less of a nursery now and more like a simple incubator. For those old enough, think Crewe. They produced some really good players but they were never going to play for Crewe. Agree that Academy sales keep some of the lights on but we get peanuts when the talents emerge and are told by their agents to not sign long term papers. Most of our kids come from far and wide, they're not all Wartons from Blackburn. They owe us nowt and aren't emotionally tied to the club. They're here for one reason only - we're recognised as a launch pad for better things elsewhere. So I repeat ... what's the point? This wasn't Jack's vision.