Championship Season 25-26

[Upside Down]

5 hours ago, B16Rover said:

The two teams with the two shittest ownerships are at the very bottom of the list.

Who'd have thought, eh

And yes, venkys are far worse than Chansiri by some order of magnitude.

[Tom]

I think it’s barely a debate, Chansiri is by far the worst owner in English football.

The silver lining is he’s so bad that they will be free of him sooner than our current managed decline so ours feels worse, a slow death rather than a quick one with chance to rise again

[JHRover]

Chansiri about to sell up to Mike Ashley by the sounds of things. 

Lucky Sheffield Wednesday. 

Whereas we'll be stuck with this lot forever.

Precisely why I'd have rather had a couple of years of Sheffield Wednesday misery with an end to it and some light at the end of the tunnel to what we've got. 

Still, nobody buys loss making, debt ridden, struggling Championship clubs eh?

[Upside Down]

How many clubs have had their ownership deliberately relegate them out of the Premier League and then repeatedly & deliberately sabotage any chances of them ever getting back there?

I can only think of 1 example. 

 

[chaddyrovers]

50 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Chansiri about to sell up to Mike Ashley by the sounds of things. 

Lucky Sheffield Wednesday. 

Whereas we'll be stuck with this lot forever.

Precisely why I'd have rather had a couple of years of Sheffield Wednesday misery with an end to it and some light at the end of the tunnel to what we've got. 

Still, nobody buys loss making, debt ridden, struggling Championship clubs eh?

From what reliable source?.

[Rogerb]

BBC reporting Sheffield Wednesday due to be served with winding up petition due to unpaid tax bill of £1 million.

[JHRover]

Push is going to come to shove at Hillsborough very soon indeed. When the HMRC winding up petitions get served the clock is ticking.

No more kicking the can down the road

Interested parties will be hovering and waiting to pick them up on the cheap when they're out of time and options. 

[Gav]

55 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Push is going to come to shove at Hillsborough very soon indeed. When the HMRC winding up petitions get served the clock is ticking.

No more kicking the can down the road

Interested parties will be hovering and waiting to pick them up on the cheap when they're out of time and options. 

I'd take that right now here, as nothing improves until the rats desert the ship.

VENKYS OUT - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

Edited 2 hours ago by Gav

[StHelensRover]

On 12/10/2025 at 15:08, B16Rover said:

At a time when almost every single club in England has seen a rise in attendances (the last ten years or so), our attendances have remained pretty much identical. That means in real terms that our attendances have fallen compared with everyone else, I wonder why that is. That's also without doing the eye-test at Ewood where you can see for some games that the attendance is many thousands below the officially reported one.

It's not because we're tinpot, or have no fans, like some would like to wind us up with. The derby match last season was capped at 27k or whatever and realistically that game could have seen 28 or 29k tickets sold if they hadn't gone OTT with the security. The game against Oxford at the end of League One got a similar gate as well.

I believe that attendances Will jump significantly if we can get these owners to sell up. I'm not saying we'd be getting 25k every week, I'm not daft. But the feel good factor at the club would certainly bring a few thousand back and if we could build on that momentum, then who knows?

25k attendances pre-Venkys, now looks like easily under 10k for some of these midweek games. Venkys out 

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, StHelensRover said:

At a time when almost every single club in England has seen a rise in attendances (the last ten years or so), our attendances have remained pretty much identical. That means in real terms that our attendances have fallen compared with everyone else, I wonder why that is. That's also without doing the eye-test at Ewood where you can see for some games that the attendance is many thousands below the officially reported one.

It's not because we're tinpot, or have no fans, like some would like to wind us up with. The derby match last season was capped at 27k or whatever and realistically that game could have seen 28 or 29k tickets sold if they hadn't gone OTT with the security. The game against Oxford at the end of League One got a similar gate as well.

I believe that attendances Will jump significantly if we can get these owners to sell up. I'm not saying we'd be getting 25k every week, I'm not daft. But the feel good factor at the club would certainly bring a few thousand back and if we could build on that momentum, then who knows?

25k attendances pre-Venkys, now looks like easily under 10k for some of these midweek games. Venkys out 

Fortunately for this regime we got low gates back in the 80s so they and their defenders can hide behind that one for a good while - simply pretend that everything that happened 1991-2012 was an aberration and abnormal and all we have now is 'normality'.

Of course this overlooks a couple of big issues - like how come every other club in the League - who all also got significantly lower crowds in the 80s - are no longer at those levels and have increased their support significantly

Surely if 'back to non-Premier League normal' was the way of it then the likes of Bolton, Preston, and many many others in the Championship and below would be back to 10,000 or less? Strange how they don't appear to be plagued by comparisons to a bygone era 40+ years ago.

And also why people want to focus all their efforts on the late 70s and 80s when we had low gates....those people never want to focus on the century prior to that, when Rovers got far bigger crowds, nor the 30 years after that when Rovers got far bigger crowds, but instead obsess about what we got during a relatively short window in our history at a time when nationally crowds were suffering due to all manner of issues not restricted to Rovers - hooliganism, economic problems, dangerous grounds.