Sounds like win, win, win, win for Waggott this summer Get shut of Broughton Fans 'blame' him for the January debacles and struggles this season. Waggott seen to be taking action to correct things. Broughton's wage off the books. Back to the old routine of signing players linked to certain agencies and individuals. Waggott gets the credit in India for £30 odd million coming in from AW and Szmodics, both a large part due to the work of JDT and nothing to do with Waggott or the shadow man. Another few years on the gravy train whilst people delude themselves lessons learned or reinvestment coming. Wake up folks, this is typical Venky manoeuvring to make it appear things are happening, they won't and the same old faces remain behind it all. Only at Rovers would we employ a DOF structure, spend 2 years at it, rake in £40 million through sales then get rid and start again to save on costs.

He has a bee in his bonnet but to be honest i don't remember him getting much stick. Like a few former managers as well as players and execs it's an easy stick to beat Rovers fans with to cover for themselves. I've not met one fan in the last 20 years who still thinks or expects 1995 or anything remotely close. Just because we have a bunch of fans who expect hard work as a bare minimum from every player every game it doesn't sit well with some of these entitled wankers.

Huddersfield Adults: £249 U23s: £159 U18s: £129 U16s: £109 U11s: £49 What a sensible football club.

Undoubtedly things have shifted with regards to their intentions from what they were in 2010 to what they are today. I too don't subscribe to the active sabotage theory, but the fact that they have had not one but two promotion opportunities unexpectedly drop into their lap in the last couple of years and done absolutely nothing to try to take advantage of that, tells me that we are well and truly at the back of their minds. People may want to continue to delude themselves that these people have any degree of interest, pride, care, ambition for this club but I think basically we are a loss making entity that they have zero interest in, and essentially their involvement goes as far as sanctioning an annual budget in the summer and leaving the jokers in the boardroom to do what they want/can with that amount. Deliberate or not it will only lead to one thing. There's no place in any industry, professional sport especially, for people who aren't interested or committed. Signing off another round of share issue every few months to cover the debt isn't commitment for the purposes of driving an organisation forward, it's just doing the necessary to keep the lights on and bailiffs away. It isn't good enough.

Only the fools running this club could increase prices after hardly winning a home game in six months, after repeated shambles off the pitch, after seeing Sky relentlessly promoting their new much expanded TV coverage, after getting them on sale months later than pretty much every other club, after seeing our neighbours having them on sale at very competitive prices. I mean, what chance does Blackburn Rovers have?

That's exactly what we are looking for and to be honest, would be fine by me.

One thing though is that Ipswich and Luton are outliers By and large, parachute payments are strangling EFL clubs. Since their introduction the league tables suggest that you are far more likely to go up if you are in receipt of them. The simple fact of the matter that you receive 5 times more money than everybody else means you are at a competitive advantage Again though, they exist solely to prop up the unsustainable Premier League. It isn't addressing the problem, it is just making more clubs part of the 'winners' group, whilst making it even more difficult for everybody else

Someone mentioned Aaron Connolly on a free. At 24 years old I'd definitely be taking a look at him.

Indeed. If the owners were interested or determined to get us promoted they would have been touching down (metaphorically or literally) at Ewood in December / January in the last 2 years and providing resources needed to try and get us over the line. No guarantees of success of course but you'd be desperate to do whatever you possibly could to keep it going and get to the holy land. Top 2 was there for hitting, top 6 as a minimum. What we saw wasn't that, but rather a heavily restricted and maxed-out budget operation at Ewood bringing in a few loans of largely inadequate quality but pretty much all they could do with the resources available. You certainly don't sit around wailing about FFP or potential future problems. You act, hope it works, and if it doesn't you deal with it later by selling someone and juggling things around. They just haven't the interest. I very much doubt they even know we were in a promotion push, it makes no difference to them, I doubt they will yet know we have nearly been relegated (again) or care. I think Waggott and Pasha are instructed to not bother them more than once per year or if not instructed to do so then they certainly aren't going to go out of their way to do it. The 'owners statements' we've had recently little more than Waggott and Pasha putting a few bits down which they are permitted to do. Mowbray, JDT, the players and fans deserved better. The owners have, through their negligence and disinterest, sunk promotion hopes.

And then you woke up.

I’ve always gone with Occam’s Razor with regards to these owners; they are arrogant, neglectful fools, I don’t really go in for active sabotage. However, there’s also no point in trying to square their intentions in 2010 to what they are in 2024, I see no evidence that they want PL football for Blackburn Rovers.

Can we start the annual poll of whether we’ll be buying one so I can put no before inevitably renewing again? 😂

Rosenior had far better conditions and backing than JDT had in his first season and has delivered the same league position. Done reasonably well and realistically looking at the 6 above them in the table couldn't have expected much higher. Why it was even more important to get top 6 last season when competing with the likes of Luton, Coventry and Sunderland rather than Southampton, Leeds, West Brom. But had huge backing by Championship standards and missed out. For an ambitious owner rather than one on autopilot that isn't enough. All about getting to the PL asap, unless you are Venkys of course

Unfortunately no one else in our side was on his level so he was two moves ahead of everyone

Imagine If he ends up at Burnley!!!

I don’t think a single Rovers fan thinks he’ll be staying.

As I said when GB was brought in. Waggott brought him in to protect himself and make a new guy the fall guy.

Tyrese Campbell has a worse record than Gallagher. It's unsuprising that Stoke fans want rid.

That question has been answered quite a few times already, so of it proven and come of if speculation There is one thing that jumps out to everyone prepared to look and that is the destruction of everything that had worked for years, so it is hard not to believe that they wanted us out of the premier league as quickly as possible. They very nearly relegated us in their first part season and managed it in their first full season. After that, they nearly managed back to back relegations, despite us being favourites to go straight back up and have since managed to relegate us to the third tier and nearly did it again, this season. For billionaires, who we are told never fail to sign a cheque, this is one hell of a record, so something tells me they are totally incompetent or corrupt.

The only way around this is an effective Football Governance Bill. In particular, the "fit and proper" test needs to be changed to cover 3 years only, with re-testing mandatory It just seems a really unfair situation in that your financial performance is reviewed in cycles, which may mean you are penalised on the pitch, but effectively the people in charge of the commercial operation are not reviewed. This season it became abundantly clear that, for a period of time, the Rao family were not fit and proper owners according to the FA test. They were not allowed to fund their business without third party clearance. The club may say that this is now over, however the Rovers essentially lost a season of its history, and could have suffered a relegation because of those problems A similar situation lead to Tony Xia selling his stake in Aston Villa. The Chinese govt got involved and the rest is history. Here, the owners were very clear they had no intention of trying to move the club forward, and instead settled for a season of barely treading water whilst they fixed their own problems. We aren't even any of the wiser of whether it is resolved yet. It could be another season where a town club thousands of miles away in England suffers because of a tax dispute with the Indian government... A really bizarre situation. Globalism at its worst The FA really need to get a grip. But I am starting to think HMRC doesn't want any true football reform. Their tax receipts owing to the English pyramid must be huge. Why change something that is working so well for them? It seems like a real easy win for any government to try and tackle this, but at the moment they are just skirting around the edges

Signing someone from Liverpool or Brighton on loan and pushing Gilsenan to the side when he deserves his chance

I see it going like this - McFadzean - New one year deal Fleck - New one year deal Gallagher - Option taken Dolan - Option taken Sign - 3 or 4 loans Sell - Szmodics, Hyam

Considering the last striker we signed was from the German 4th division, i'd be absolutely delighted with Aaron Connolly. He might not have an 8-pack like Telalovic, but he's always looked very dangerous and lively against us, and he knows where the net is.

Please god. I'll give him a lift.

So back to square one with signings being made based on agents' recommendations and contracts being allowed to run down.

There was no timescale on Flecks latest injury but he had to go and have surgery for it. I can't imagine he'll be back anytime soon, he's 32 years old and has played about 2 games in the last 2 years. I can't for the life of me see why he would get a new contract.

We should spend money but there is not even a 1% chance that £17m goes back into the club.

He’s got more metal in his legs than Douglas Bader. That’s one for the old guys on here.

Especially ManUre, a graveyard for many a talent and it will take time, if ever, for the new minority owner to have any real effect.

That is the sort of stat which will catch Southgate's attention and he will know all about Adam at England youth levels. He's in with a chance, if he was with a Big Name Club he would be a shoe in.

He has the feel of one of those players who will sign for someone this summer on a free, have a stellar season, move next summer for big money, and then never get more than 5 goals in a season again for the rest of his career

Still waiting for what is immensely important to our club. Waggots is aware, been offered plenty of advice, really needs to get the pricing structure correct. If not, this could be a disaster.

I'm not far from Stoke and have plenty of friends/work colleagues who support them. Most are glad to see the back of Campbell and say he's a complete waste of time and wasted potential. Had a few good games towards the end of this season as it's been known for a while that he would be leaving and he's in the shop window.

Campbell, Kelly and Panzo are all great shouts to be fair. I personally wouldn't want any of them but could see all of them appealing to the club.

I'm one of those! I'll go with Liam Kelly, due to be released by Coventry, Waggott will be drooling.

He just signed a new one in November: https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/november/28/sammie-nets-new-long-term-deal-/

Absolutely no chance we will get this lad.

U2 - With or Without You

Because this is Blackburn Rovers and the laws of logic and reality do not apply here. Also, the club is nothing more than a financial tool for the owners to do.... Whatever it is they're doing.

yeah it's great innit? For the first, I still can't believe he carried the ball at pace for that long, my heart is still in my mouth over that last touch that just drags a tad, and looks like it's going to go under his foot - it still gets me. But the calmness of the finish is something else, to take it that early. Pure instinct. Some great footage here of the 2nd on Rovers insta, look at that away end...credit to you all, especially to whoever that is caning it down the steps at full speed 🤣 I believe the kids call it "limbs". I know it's been a shit storm of a season, and the club hierachy and owners are what they are - but they can't take away moments like that.

'We've done all we can' Cardiff just through the 10,000 sold barrier Starting at £309 adults so just the £90 less than here for a better product. Wonder if we will hear news this side of the Euros. No rush, what's the urgency, not as if we need money.

Don’t appoint rookie managers then if that’s the expectation.

Only at Rovers: - Implement a new structure with a DoF. - Hire an exciting forwardthinking headcoach - Reach the highest position in years. - Do all you can to sabotage aboves working conditions. - Get rid of headcoach - Hire a boring new headcoach - Sideline the DoF - The director brings in old players. - Barely avoid relegauon whats next in this exciting adventure?

By selling him in January we basically turned down a free loan of a top end Premier League midfielder until the end of the season, and very nearly went down because of it. In fact it’s worse because I can’t see any reason why his value wouldn’t have appreciated whilst playing for us between January and now. He was at the start of a long term contract, happy to stay and on relative peanuts. One of the bigger fuck ups in a long line of them from our owners and board.

Might be true but Waggott has told me face to face that Fleck was his recruitment, they had known each other for a long time and once it looked like Adam was going Waggott personally rung “Flecky” and Sheff Utd to do a deal - which was essentially “you’ve 6 months left on your contract and aren’t playing for Sheff Utd, we will take over your deal”.

and so my subscription cancellations begin... I wonder if they read the messages. Yes, that is a small amount of my money not going to the club each month because the CEO is a plodder. It all adds up.

We didnt sell Brereton, those same owners who are getting credit chose to stubbornly reject bids. Same with Rothwell. If you own a Championship club then losses are unfortunately par for the course unless you get promoted.

Just on McFadz, effective but limited guys aren't a problem if they're cheap and aren't relied upon exclusively. We won't want to set up with 5 at the back every week, but there'll games like Leicester/Leeds away where we'd be mad not to. I'd keep him around another year, especially given his experience and attitude. Nothing wrong with having a hard arse around a squad like ours.