Lancashire Telegraph BANNED.

[Gutted]

2 hours ago, glen9mullan said:

Both the coalition and trust issued statements a couple of days ago

Thanks Glen. Apologies I must have totally missed these somehow. Great that this has been done. 

[47er]

11 minutes ago, Gutted said:

Thanks Glen. Apologies I must have totally missed these somehow. Great that this has been done. 

Not widely reported though?

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, Mike Graham said:

I am a Trust member and have not seen any Trust statement.  There has been nothing for 3 months.

No change from the years that you were chairman of it then.

[Mike Graham]

6 hours ago, Upside Down said:

No change from the years that you were chairman of it then.

Don’t let facts get in the way of a good argument.

[lraC]

The bullying them, seems to have raised it's head here, good and proper.

We have heard accusations of alleged bullying that caused a certain member of staff to cry and has allegedly led to players being frozen out and staff and players leaving. We have also heard about a fan being threated with legal action for posts made on this very site, quoting some of the things he was told.

We now have the local paper banned, for things that they have now refuted in writing, so I have to come to the conclusion that this is also a bullying tactic to try to gag them.

Nothing to see here though, according to some.

[Herbie6590]

12 minutes ago, lraC said:

The bullying them, seems to have raised it's head here, good and proper.

We have heard accusations of alleged bullying that caused a certain member of staff to cry and has allegedly led to players being frozen out and staff and players leaving. We have also heard about a fan being threated with legal action for posts made on this very site, quoting some of the things he was told.

We now have the local paper banned, for things that they have now refuted in writing, so I have to come to the conclusion that this is also a bullying tactic to try to gag them.

Nothing to see here though, according to some.

Corporate coercive control…

[benhben]

What effect do the coalition statements have? Seemingly the club have no interest in the opinions of fans and fan groups.

When is this independent football regulator due to be operational? Are these things the supporter trusts could refer to the regulator?

I cant see any statements or fan pressure having any effect on the cancers in charge. The only way for change is some official external pressure that forces change or causes Venkys to sell up. Cant see it unfortunately. 

[Devon Rover]

This is not intended to be negative, especially as I think those statements are very good. But what is the intended audience and influence for them? Until Glen kindly posted them above, I hadn't seen them. That's probably because I'm not a group member. But I would imagine it isn't group members who need to receive and read the statements but those of us outside them, and the media, if they are to have any effect. Have I missed those anywhere, in which case ignore me?!

[47er]

Sheff Wed players told they won't be paid on time ---again.

There's always someone worse off than yourself!!

We only have the second worst owners in Britain.

[Mattyblue]

We are worse off in the long run as he’ll be gone sooner rather than later and a grand old club like them will recover.

We will continue to see wages paid (for an ever lower wage bill) for ever and a day as we fall down the leagues.

[KentExile]

28 minutes ago, 47er said:

Sheff Wed players told they won't be paid on time ---again.

There's always someone worse off than yourself!!

We only have the second worst owners in Britain.

 

5 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

We are worse off in the long run as he’ll be gone sooner rather than later and a grand old club like them will recover.

We will continue to see wages paid (for an ever lower wage bill) for ever and a day as we fall down the leagues.

 

Both of these statements are true, Sheff Weds owner is worse than ours, but their silver lining is that this means he will be gone sooner, enabling a recovery, whilst Rovers are stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of decline

[Wheelton Blue]

11 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

We are worse off in the long run as he’ll be gone sooner rather than later and a grand old club like them will recover.

We will continue to see wages paid (for an ever lower wage bill) for ever and a day as we fall down the leagues.

Eventually something will give and they'll leave.

But I fear that will still be a long time coming, at which point there'll hardly be anything left.

[Crimpshrine]

2 hours ago, benhben said:

What effect do the coalition statements have? Seemingly the club have no interest in the opinions of fans and fan groups.

When is this independent football regulator due to be operational? Are these things the supporter trusts could refer to the regulator?

I cant see any statements or fan pressure having any effect on the cancers in charge. The only way for change is some official external pressure that forces change or causes Venkys to sell up. Cant see it unfortunately. 

WATR are meeting with Martyn Henderson next week. Martyn is Interim COO at the Independent Regulator for Football. 

It is probably the first step in a long process.

[lraC]

22 minutes ago, Crimpshrine said:

WATR are meeting with Martyn Henderson next week. Martyn is Interim COO at the Independent Regulator for Football. 

It is probably the first step in a long process.

Hope he has some clout and can start to sort these club wreckers out. 

[philipl]

Expose?

Which one????

They could run one a day for at least a week.

Andy Cryer sent a welcome message of solidarity. Now there is a gentleman who went through a lot when covering the Rovers.

I will repeat myself, the club statements offer no room for compromise. A very dangerous game for the club to be playing. Gestede may not know the extent of the skeletons littering Ewood since the start of 2010. Find it difficult to believe Pasha doesn't know at least 80% in which case this ban is both reckless and desperate.

Edited 1 hour ago by philipl

[lraC]

25 minutes ago, philipl said:

Expose?

Which one????

They could run one a day for at least a week.

Andy Cryer sent a welcome message of solidarity. Now there is a gentleman who went through a lot when covering the Rovers.

I will repeat myself, the club statements offer no room for compromise. A very dangerous game for the club to be playing. Gestede may not know the extent of the skeletons littering Ewood since the start of 2010. Find it difficult to believe Pasha doesn't know at least 80% in which case this ban is both reckless and desperate.

let's hope they really go to town, as this feels like the perfect opportunity for the local paper and the fans to unite and show these people for what they really are.

[RevidgeBlue]

41 minutes ago, philipl said:

Expose?

Which one????

They could run one a day for at least a week.

Andy Cryer sent a welcome message of solidarity. Now there is a gentleman who went through a lot when covering the Rovers.

I will repeat myself, the club statements offer no room for compromise. A very dangerous game for the club to be playing. Gestede may not know the extent of the skeletons littering Ewood since the start of 2010. Find it difficult to believe Pasha doesn't know at least 80% in which case this ban is both reckless and desperate.

To the extent there are any skeletons, not sure why the LT would be aware of any of them.

They could have a field day highlighting instead of ignoring as previously some of the stuff that's in the public domain though.

Investment turned down for the ladies team, deliberately relegated, now losing anything from 5 or 6 nil to 13 nil every week.

The Court Case. Wharton offloaded for a pitiful amount to keep the lights on.

Sky Sports removed from Blues Bar.

The dispute with the kit manufacturers.

CEO left and not replaced. 

The allegedly toxic atmosphere within the Club and the very high turnover of both playing and non playing staff.

And that's all relatively recent stuff without even examining the transfer deadline day debacles or before that events from years ago.

Edited 45 minutes ago by RevidgeBlue

[lraC]

15 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

To the extent there are any skeletons, not sure why the LT would be aware of any of them.

They could have a field day highlighting instead of ignoring as previously some of the stuff that's in the public domain though.

Investment turned down for the ladies team, deliberately relegated, now losing anything from 5 or 6 nil to 13 nil every week.

The Court Case. Wharton offloaded for a pitiful amount to keep the lights on.

Sky Sports removed from Blues Bar.

The dispute with the kit manufacturers.

CEO left and not replaced. 

The allegedly toxic atmosphere within the Club and the very high turnover of both playing and non playing staff.

And that's all relatively recent stuff without even examining the transfer deadline day debacles or before that events from years ago.

I am convinced it has been all kept under wraps to keep the relationship intact.

Who knows what's going on behind closed doors now, but they could have a filed day now, unless the club back down and quickly.