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Waggot was the public face of Rovers as a CEO should be but he was only half a CEO behind the scenes i'd wager. He took the brunt of the stick whilst the others hid in the shadows and he did his best often to hide as well although maybe he was gagged who knows. This is the club who went to lengths to hire a director of communications and then stopped him from communicating ! So they finally get Waggot out the door as the fall guy, after finishing 7th, then embark on wrecking the stability at least his presence provided. The last advert for a new CEO read basically as a stadium manager even Nixon confirmed this so it's obvious who is running everything now so they should be held accountable for everything. Starting Saturday.

Change of formation essential. Wing backs hasn’t worked without the two Ryan’s. Need to switch to four at the back. Would go with Ribeiro as best of a bad bunch at left back. Reluctantly put McLoughlin in. Pratt deserves his place. Forshaw over TGH. Powell impressed me on Tuesday. May be good enough to scrape a draw.

Don't forget Pearsy for £500k

I think the biggest difference maker we can make as fans is to not buy a season ticket for next year. Simple to do, hits them right in the pocket and will panic the club when they realise they will be playing in an empty stadium.

Whilst our 21's and first team are pretty much the same thing these days, I've wondered for a while how we have not been able to get more young players out playing professional football. We clearly see the (cheap) path of Academy to first team, surely some professional football would be beneficial before coming into Championship fixtures.

Oh yeah absolutely. I'm convinced that all three of Pasha, Gestede and previously Waggott are being paid in part based on how much money they save / make for the Indians. Certainly in the cases of Gestede and Waggott I think the Indians only agreed to put them on the payroll on the understanding both would pay for themselves on money saved.

Imagine employing someone as naive and incompetent as that as your negotiator! He literally gave away all his leverage (and probably his annual salary) in one sentence. Multiply that by the number of deals he’s done. Just who the hell gave this no mark the job? Perhaps we should send him ‘Negotiation for Dummies’ or ‘ The Art of the Deal’.😂😂😂

Couldn't agree more. Time to realise we score at a rate of under 1 goal a game and that we need to not concede to have a chance of anything.

Never anywhere near? Pretty sure his last season we were I think for long periods we were in the top 4 if memory serves me right and the the typical rovers blow out happened

Yea pretty much my thoughts on melton

Oh yeah completely agree. It's the only set of players I could cobble together that at least might make it difficult for the opposition. It certainly isn't scoring any goals. We're just far too easy to play against with Cantwell, Baradji, McLoughlin etc in the side.

Completely agree. Whenever I met him he struck me as an extremely knowledgeable football person.

Obviously we knew anyway, but it does lift the curtain to what an unprofessional/out of its depth set-up it is.

I didn't like Mowbray at all personally. Had a cushty job. Told Venkys not to spend. Threw players under the bus. Played square pegs in round holes. Terrible in January. At one point played Sam Gallagher at RB. Was never anywhere near playoffs with a way way better squad than JDT and Eustace (who both nearly got playoffs if it weren't for the shambles in January and summer windows)

Give it Lowey to the end of the season (did Suhail ever get to the bottom of if he’s still employed or not?)

Bonuses related to financial management, I'm certain. Assurances of a stable, well paid job, too.

What's Tony Pulis doing nowadays?

Whilst he got his fair share of pelters when he was here, (Gurning Chump etc from me) Mowbray was a manager held in high regard within the game, especially by others from his era (I spoke to both Mark Hughes and Mick McCarthy about Mowbray and both were very complimentary about him and his approach). Like others at the time I couldn't see the pressure he must have been under to conform to 'the model' that is now visible in all of its glory via Pasha and Gestede. On reflection, perhaps TM was just ground down like the rest of us, and his gurning demeanour simply a reflection of his being prevented from doing the things he wanted to do. Perhaps we will never know, but since JDT, Eustace and now (it seems) Ismael have all now complained of the same constraints on their ability to deliver results, I think we can all agree that the success of Blackburn Rovers as a competitive football club is NOT the main objective for whoever is actually driving the club. Ultimately, that space is occupied by the odious absentee owners, whose work appears delegated to the deeply questionable capabilities of Suhail shady boy Pasha (who as we know trousers a healthy salary year in year out and appears accountable to no-one). VENKYS OUT! PASHA OUT!

Even with our stooges Pasha and Gestede, there will be a breaking point that causes them to act. I expect Rovers to lose on Saturday therefore, for impact, it might well be better if Watford do a 'Norwich' (as they did at WBA) on us. if that doesn't do the trick, I think another defeat in the next match to Hull will. The window will then be about to close and a good time, from the stooges' perspective, to part company with Ismael but not before we see the departure of one or more from Alebiosu, Tronstad and Cantwell.

In the past I don't think it would have made a drop of difference, they'd have just stomached the additional cost and continued with it like they did after relegation from the PL and last time they took us out of the Championship. So they'd probably do similar this time around, although in 2017 it did at the very least result in a shift in the way they were running the club. But since then there has been a major cutback to their financial input and running of the place. I suppose it depends on how much of that is just voluntary and how much is forced. If they simply can't continue funding large losses and are on the precipice there's a hope relegation will be the final tip over the edge they need. It's only a hope, not an expectation. I expect this lot will just sell 2-3 players to plug the gap and carry on.

These stockholm syndrome sufferers will no doubt be out in force blaming the boycotters and stay-aways for relegation if/when it happens. Anything and anyone but Venkys! They'll blame fellow supporters, Waggott, Ismael, Gestede, Pasha, all the previous administrators, managers, players, the weather, the EFL, Covid, small town small gates etc. The one thing they won't blame is the people ultimately in control and responsible for it all. What a strange way to live your life.

He's already said he won't change the formation. ---------------------Toth ------O'Riordan--McLoughlin--Pratt Miller--------------------------------Powell -------------Tronstad---TGH -------------------Baradji ----------Ohashi---------Jorgensen Assuming Cantwell isn't back and he's already said that Alebiosu won't start. I think we need to take Acheson out for a game (even though I rate him highly), we've conceded 6 goals in 2 games since he bizarrely took Pratt out of the team, so restore him. Powell is better than any of the alternative wing backs and I think he said Miller would be back for this one. TGH is toss but he'll run around a lot and put himself about a bit at the very least. Push Baradji higher up because he's unbelievable casual in tracking back.

The question is, would relegation make it more, or less likely that Venkys would sell up?

Kind of backs up what the Peterborough end said about buying Leonard and how they were preparing themselves to pay more. Gestede is just desperate to sell anybody he can, bring money in so he can look good to the owners whilst spending a bit of it again on his united nations cheap punt scheme. What's he getting out of it ?

Yeah, once they've gone or a takeover is well on the way. Absolutely.