The football club is skint. The owner's aren't. We are skint by choice, the owners could change that at any point.

I don't know whether it is deliberate or just the way you write but I get the impression from this that you are happy with how things are at Rovers and don't think there is anything wrong with how we operate? John Textor the bloke whose club has just won the FA Cup and qualified for Europe?

We aren't Skint JH. We just don't invest at the levels we would like to see. Plus the problems in India which hopefully get sorted shortly for good Are we skint? If we were skint why are paying transfer fees for 2 summer signings so far? Ismael making his own changes to the staff. Interesting

I remember under Williams basically every penny in went out on wages, which was probably unsustainable in the long run.

What agenda? It's yourself moving away the point of what changes are actually coming in and inventing changes that aren't coming this season?

Why would anyone want to stay here if there are other options even at the same level and on the same pay? The club is run like a joke and there's every possibility we'd become the next Sheffield Wednesday.

So get a better CEO in than Swag and a few more press releases on egg letter headed paper and we’re happy.

Is this coming in Matty this season???

The Sheffield Wednesday owner is clearly struggling financially outside football. What can they do given Every football club is private business at the end of the day? Why would the football authorities have a problem how Venkys run the club? Every monthly wage paid, paying the tax man on time and other bills, etc. Selling players and reinvesting that money in small bits in transfer funds.. We want the club running much better, ownership engaged with fans and local community, better CEO running it, etc. Look how John Textor have runs clubs and the mess he has created at every club he has done yet some people think he should buy Rovers. It would be much worser under him. Look at Lyon situation

We wait with baited breath for the 150th shirt. Can't help but think they'll fk that up aswell.

Nixon reckons that David Lowe will just leave the club altogether, rather than be moved into any other roles at the club.

I agree that we don't really know but if we've been trying to get him to sign a new contract for 2 years and we've not been successful, you'd have to say that the contract on offer hasn't been good enough. Even when he's had managers like JDT, who took us to the brink of the play offs, or Eustace, with whom the players really seemed to like, he still hasn't signed it. That surely throws the spotlight back onto the club, in that they haven't offered anything remotely tempting for Dolan to sign. Journo's now saying we haven't even tried to engage him or his agent in talks again, suggests that the club won't be increasing their offer any further and clearly Dolan and his agent believe they can get more money elsewhere.

I thought he was talking about Sheff Wednesday.

Prepare to be astounded.

Dear me Chaddy, deary deary me.

One day the penny will drop

Unless we are in the room none of us. We all have our opinions but thats all they are. We tried to negotiate with him 2 years ago and he stonewall us then cos he had no agent Are we skint? No. They owners have had their well documented problems in India. You know this. We spent around 4-5 million last season and spent this summer also and still looking to spend more. Not its not 10 millions budget we are spending some money

Yeah, fair point. Death by a thousand cuts and all that, for us

They might have ambition, but I wonder what the strategy is?. They had the oldest squad in the Championship last year, and have now added 2 more veterans + Morris (29) to it. They basicly have a squad with no resale value and need to recycle the squad every year. Surely they will be solid and experienced with Eustace, but it seems like they are settling for mid-table security.

Or his only offer

Won’t be us and that’s the problem. Terrible ownership often ends just like we are seeing at Sheff Wed (see also Reading in recent times), but the apt word is ‘ends’. Here, I only forsee us limping on, zombie style, but with ‘the lights on’ for ever and a day.

I have never gotten this footballers career is short. They work about a third of what an average person works, but in that time they earn ten times as much.

What an absolute mess. Gotta feel for those that are involved and of course, the long suffering fans as well. Feels like this could easily be us, Venky's just turn off the taps and let the club to implode. Once again though, you've gotta be asking serious questions of the Footballing authorities, another club that has been a disaster for long enough and now it's finally reached the tipping point, how have they allowed it to get to this state?

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Thanks Matty! But that doesn’t fit Chaddy’s agenda