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  1. A fairly pointless and uninspiring interview whereby just about everything Broughton says is caveated. "We already have clear plans of what we are trying to do" - that doesn't mean those plans will be followed or accepted by upstairs "I have been told that it won't impact our transfer business going into the summer" - being told something doesn't mean shit especially at Ewood Park "A geopolitical challenge" aka being investigated by authorities for illegal activities "Hopefully have the squad to come out of the summer in a better position", hopefully isn't good enough for me. What we can see here is a clear divergence between Broughton and the 'others'. Like JDT before him he is using the media to show those who can read between the lines where the real responsibility and decision making lies and it isn't with him. He can do all he can but it is meaningless if the board and owners don't follow it, which they won't because they don't care what the underlings think, they'll just do whatever it is they fancy doing from one window to the next. If they're in a tight spot or short on cash they'll reduce the squad to rubble without a second's thought. If they're interested or having fun they'll ignore huge bids for out of contract players. I don't blame Broughton, it seems to me he has been brought here to do a job that is now impossible to perform, working for liars and charlatans who have made it mission impossible. Think back to last season, a hair's breadth from the playoffs and FA Cup semi final, bright ambitious young manager, bright good young squad. Could that have been more comprehensively demolished, wrecked, undermined and undone in the space of 6-9 months? I doubt a dingle paid to deliberately ruin the club could have done more to wreck us than our great 'well meaning' owners and board.
    16 points
  2. This is what you tend to find with the better managers with burning ambition to succeed and quickly. JDT was never here to plod along for years on end (unlike his predecessor). He was here to be successful, and quickly, and had the club supported him in his quest he would have got us into the play-offs and who knows where we'd be now. I think it is inevitable that when such a character goes into a club and injects a winning mentality into a group accustomed to the old uncle Tony 'arm around the shoulder' routine it will end up upsetting a few. You hear about this sort of stuff with Mourinho, Van Gaal and other world class coaches - they go in somewhere, immediately and ruthlessly deliver improvement and usually success, and then afterwards you get some players grumbling about them or not happy with how things went. Too much of a happy camp down there and has been for years. From the 'right good go' days of Bowyer to the 'we don't want a double promotion we want to stabilise in the Championship' uncle Tony.
    15 points
  3. Tried this on Twitter yesterday. All you get back is fans explaining how Ipswich get 28,000 fans, have a much bigger catchment area and are a much more exciting proposition to investors. When you try and rationalise that with: They had ~15K fans prior to their turnaround in fortunes due to good management and ownership A lot of the land around them is farm land, it’s not full of houses with families. The North West is the hot bed for the countries football. They can’t give you any rationale explanation and end up insulting you. Our fan base is completely brainwashed into thinking this is all normal and there’s no other way out. Which is exactly why any protests will fail, sadly.
    15 points
  4. Running a small squad intentionally in order to allow for youth development? I remember when I was lucky enough to meet with John Williams. He met many fans on a one to one basis at that time. It was after Jack Walker had died, while we were still in the PL but owned by the Walker trustees. He explained that finances were much tighter and that the wage budget had been reduced. He said there were two options open to him. Either run a larger squad which would have been with a likely reduced player quality, or run a smaller squad that allowed him to potentially bring better quality players in. He had opted for the smaller squad because he believed without top players the club would struggle. I thought he’d made the right decision. No mention of Academy players at all. Compare that with the way the club is currently going. “Intentionally” going with a smaller squad - not with the intention of bringing in better players. It’s very, very obvious we aren’t bringing in better players. We’re either selling them, or watching them walk away for nothing. Academy players would make the first team in a championship side anyway, if they were good enough. We’ve seen it happening now for lots of years. That’s a plan? It’s a plan for disaster IMO. It’s a defeatist plan. It’s a plan based on just HOPING some of the youngsters come through. If they don’t come through, what then?
    14 points
  5. As designed by those in control the 'anti JDT' stuff has gone down a treat on the Venkygraph, Facebook and twitter. Legions of fans now using this as 'evidence' that the problem here was JDT, that he had lost the dressing room, that the players weren't happy under him and that things should be fine now we've got Eustace in charge. It really is that simple to pull the wool over the eyes of so many so quickly. All I know as a supporter who has seen an awful lot of crap in the last 12 years is that JDT delivered more in less time than anyone else, that we went nearer to cracking the play-offs than under anyone else, that we went nearer to Wembley than under anyone else and this was despite being given zero backing during January and working with extreme limitations. Obviously as a humble supporter and not a 'pro' I'm not privy to what goes on in private but whatever did go on clearly didn't do us much harm last season or the first half of this season as we sat in or close to the top 6 despite slashing and burning the squad, deliberately. I don't personally care what individuals thought about the manager. What matters is results. Give me last season under JDT above any other season we've had under relentless mediocrity and failure under these wretched people. Anyhow, happy camp back on. Content to plod along in the bottom half of the Championship for the next 4-5 years if we are lucky, Keeping pondlife like Waggott in well paid employment as he continues to gut the club, cutting costs and quality until its retirement day and there's nothing left but 6000 fans rattling around Ewood reminiscing about the 80s. At least the senior pros will enjoy themselves and not get upset at a winner demanding more of them. Maybe one day St Tony will come home and tell them more about what wonderful human beings they all are.
    13 points
  6. That’s this season, that wasn’t the tactic last season which SW is largely moaning about. We were a very decent side last season as league and cup showed. Pathetic, loser talk. Which is what most of them are.
    13 points
  7. Could’ve sold him for £180million and the team still wouldn’t have seen any of it and we’d still be ‘on the cusp of FFP’.
    12 points
  8. I get why people would suggest that Broughton has had to work in very difficult circumstances. But I dont see how anyone could say that he has done an excellent job.
    11 points
  9. There's not a chance they'll bin shadow man off. He's in their circle and has been from the start. They didn't get rid of him when we went down last time and that relegation followed him interfering in things by getting rid of Bowyer and then big budget cuts. If anything his power has only grown over time, the only interruption to that being when Mowbray went out to India and struck up a direct relationship with the top brass out there. I imagine shadow man was quite happy to see the back of Mowbray and his power, and much prefers a situation where he is the one and only link to India and all decisions have to go through him before the owners will even hear about them. Waggott would probably be encouraged to bring forward his retirement with a golden pay-off for his service but good grief, at pushing 70 and based in Kent you have to ask why a bloke in his position would carry on with what we are led to believe is such a tough, important, thankless job. Yet just with politicians they defy usual norms and seemingly want to continue in such positions long beyond normal retirement age. Almost as though the job isn't actually that tough or that the perks that come with it are just too good to turn down.
    11 points
  10. It’s a miracle we get the crowds we do. Supporting Rovers under the the Chicken Chokers is only slightly preferable to knocking nails through the back of your hand.
    10 points
  11. The guy interviewing him is clearly an idiot, maybe Broughton has purposely chosen someone to do the interview that lacks the knowledge and the ability to press and probe to give him an easy time. He repeatedly said that he "recommends" to do this and that. Seems like he is not being listened to. He recommends that we spend money on fees and wages from the Wharton money, as well as some into infrastructure and for a rainy day. Not that any of that WILL happen. We know it won't. He implies that the board knows what he thinks should be done post McGuire debacle, and that the recruitment team can't do all the work and then be let down. Clear he wants someone to be sacked, perhaps further shedding light that our staff are not all working from the same hymn sheet yet the owners clearly aren't bothered enough to do anything about it. The board of directors are between Broughton and the owners. He clearly doesn't hold much power. Broughton has been told that the owners issues wont impact the summer. Yeah right. He also said that the owners remain 100% committed so that alone renders the rest of the interview to be meaningless.
    10 points
  12. Poor from Wharton to come out publicly criticizing JDT. Let's not re-write history Scott....you were crap for a season and haven't pulled up trees this year. JDT set high standards and took no prisoners, likely having played at the highest level with world class players. How many of our squad will get anywhere close to his achievements in the game? JDT was never going to work at Rovers under this setup and owners. His standards were too high and we were never going to have the players with the ability or character to play how he wanted. He had thrown in the towel from Jan onwards. I think the players will like Eustace and come out saying he is great as they have an easier ride - doing what they've done before and with a coach who settles for less.
    9 points
  13. If we do go down and those two aren't removed straight away i'm just about done with it all. Just no point anymore the club is completely fecked under venkys and employing useless cretins like that there'll be no coming back without Tony Mowbray to hold their hands.
    9 points
  14. Iv'e said many time the 20 million a year line buys many fans off as well as covering many cracks and dark holes. Just like life in general especially politics and the like if people would just open their eyes and open their minds a little things would be a lot clearer. No need at all to deal in conspiracy just start with ALL the facts and work from there and in regards to Rovers there is more than enough to explain what the real issue is here and has been for about 13 years. The rest of the stuff is just what many others clubs have to deal with but when it's incompetent at the heart of it things will never ever progress no many how much money/income or fans there is. Plenty examples of that as well BUT when it reaches rock bottom there is usually a change and a turnaround of fortunes. We on the other hand are destined to be stuck in an eternal loop that becomes ever decreasing circles.
    9 points
  15. I love how you have such strong feelings of disgust towards so many people at the club yet have nothing to say about the owners.
    9 points
  16. Yeah what a bullshitter Waggott is.Broughton also explicitly said in that interview that he asked for JDT to be added to the shortlist.Waggot was telling fans on here ,that he had already been identified prior to Broughton's arrival. Good interview I thought, the majority of the recruitment has been woeful this season but anyone would find it hard in those circumstances,budget changing every 2 minutes. Interesting he made a point of saying "Iv been told " when asked about the budget this coming summer his demeanor suggested to me he wasn't holding his breath. Also how he stated how he feels the main reason of him getting the job was due to his academy background.So any fans expecting a wheeler dealer type with heavy experience in this sort of role to be a replacement are going to be disappointed. This fella might not be any good at his job, I personally don't feel it's been woeful when you consider the conditions he has had to work under but he certainly doesn't deserve anywhere near as much grief as those above him.
    9 points
  17. He talks about the Watford game as a turning point when we were one up, relatively comfortable but doesn't mention why. Our keeper threw two into his goal costing us badly. This is a keeper who has individually cost us more than any other player. Who signed him again?
    8 points
  18. You aren't alone mate.Feel like I'm getting kicked in the Balls Daily for supporting my team,doesn't feel right anymore.The lies and deceit are suffocating.
    8 points
  19. there is no intention from anyone in power at ewood to get to the premier league,absolutely no intention at all,we`ve seen it over 14 years,everytime we get a side that looks like it`s capable of the play offs venkys sell everyone of any value and cut the managers budget,from bowyer to lambert to mowbray to jdt,just when the side needed backing venkys turn the money taps off
    8 points
  20. JDT was the right manager at the wrong club. We now got an steady Eddie trying his best to get draws playing boring football. Had we got decent owners we would had been in the premier league. Malaise of a club.
    8 points
  21. Wilkinson is pretty well informed and this would not surprise me at all. I don't think the club has a shred of credibility left. Goodness knows what other clubs, players and agents (other than those already on the Rovers' gravy train) think of us.
    8 points
  22. One thing that is interesting, off the back of this interview, is that it shows fans are deliberately being directly lied to. Whether it's the SS/Hyam/JDT bits or some other things, either Broughton or Waggott have openly been lying to the fans. And I know where my money is, between the two.
    8 points
  23. ipswich were run as badly as we currently are for a few years,they were floundering in league one until they got new owners,nothing about crowd sizes or catchment areas,ffs it`s about having people running the club who know what they are doing and care about trying to be succesfull,the guttersnipe that own and run ewood could`nt give a flying fart about any of that,they are all in it for themselves,as for venkys,im`e still mystified why they continue to bother,it`s not like they gain anything from it
    8 points
  24. In the short time he's been here he's had FOUR deals the he's put together sabotaged by those above him. They're just the ones we know about. Impossible to judge whether he's any good or not given the circumstances he has to work under. Obviously some questions he has to answer politically as he's still employed by the club and unlike JDT he isn't a former champions league winner with millions in the bank. It will be interesting to see how much longer he lasts here but I'm sure he's looking for an exit strategy.
    8 points
  25. Things are going well for us right now, we're aiming successive promotions and a return to the Premier League for first time since Blackburn won the League Cup. It's been a mess for the most part, some 15 years of doing next to nothing watching Marcus Evans single handily attempting to sink a once proud club name without trace and a succession of absolute dire managerial appointments, one after the other, attempt and fail while we had to watch the parade go by. But things are different now. I could never place McKenna on a plateau with Robson and Ramsey but he's the best without question since George Burley and made us competitive and scoring goals almost freely. Mark Ashton has made a big difference too but many fans were sceptical since he was hated at Bristol City but in all fairness, he's been part of a revolution that has really taken off and a vital piece of the jigsaw as to where we now find ourselves. The new ownership was always a risk but right now people are just trying to focus on the positives. Trips to Blackburn in the past were usually eventful. The final day draw 30 years ago that saved our season, winning in the F.A. Cup when you were League Champions etc and tomorrow should prove another exciting chapter. We'll know what is required at kick off time as our nearest rivals will have already played their fixtures. Some of our players like Broadhead and Moore may have minds elsewhere after the unfortunate Wales failure to qualify a couple of days ago but we have a lot of strength in depth and can call on names from the bench if needed if the game doesn't flow our way. Seems unfair to call out on a rival fans message board over who's going to win or lose but all you can ask for is an entertaining game with both teams going for it and the referee doesn't need to get involved much. I know you have some standout players who can cause us and other opponents problems and remember this season we've already been beaten by both Cambridge and Stevenage not to mention Maidstone in a home game. Were a goal ahead at Cardiff just recently some 8 minutes into additional time and still somehow managed to lose. The thing with us, we sometimes can't see out games from winning positions or lose focus at critical times. If Blackburn are to win this you need to take advantage of such vulnerabilities. We can be got at and exposed, particularly as some key names like Burns won't be featured. I hope it's a good game, may the best team win really.
    7 points
  26. Predicting a win here would be based on absolutely nothing. Message to the players: We are expecting you to lose, we think you're a set of bottle jobs that can barely put a tackle in and it's about time you proved us wrong. Get out there and do it!
    7 points
  27. I've always thought of him as a blagger, a man way out of his depth and this interview reinforces that view to me. His cheesy grin doesn't help but I could put up with that if I had any faith in him. The McGuire situation wasn't nearly covered in the level of detail it should have been. Why wasn't he questioned on why the deal changed so much whilst the player himself was in mid-air and why he ended up in a hotel in Sheffield ready to sign for Sheffield Wednesday. His answer about the regression this season question was that of a politician as he insulted our intelligence. And, for legal reasons he couldn't to into the Tomasson situation. He has clearly been told not to. His boast about young players signing professional contracts is misleading to me. With a couple of exceptions they pretty much all haven't been near the first team. Most are happy to sign to become professional footballers and are on poor wages. His boast about 24 years in professional football sums his ego up. Pretty much nobody has heard of him and likely never will.
    7 points
  28. The party line is 'human error'. That's what they are all saying because it is the only thing they can think up other than admitting that the problem lies in India, which will see immediate dismissal. Of course it wasn't human error. Once and that might be believable, but to happen at least 3 times in a year and coincidentally only on the potential expensive / cash buys coming in and not on the frees, loans and sales, says it all. There would never have been 'human error' on signing off the Adam Wharton cash bonanza coming in, that's for sure. Liars the lot of them. I've got no axe to grind with Broughton. I suspect he is well intentioned and would want to be successful here. But like so many before him he has fallen foul of a sham, a con, a facade of a normal well intentioned ambitious football club but scratch ever so slightly at the surface and the rotten reality becomes clear. He would be wise to plan his exit ASAP. It would be career suicide to remain here, only those with no ambition or no prospect of higher/better employment elsewhere would stick around here, hence being run by the lowlife we are.
    7 points
  29. Pedagogy! What does he think we are? A bloody Sure Start project? Picking through this Paul Senioresque bullshit, one thing stood out. The small squad thing is a deliberate policy. We are being asked to believe that this is to allow space for academy graduates( as opposed to saving money) The other thing we are being asked to believe is that this is the roadmap to the Premier League. I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!...Blackburn Alexandra is the name of the game!
    7 points
  30. Tyler Morton (yes him) actually started in CM last week for the u21s. A.Wharton wasn't even in the squad originally, get your head around that! The England setup is far too biased to big clubs. There's no way Morton would be anywhere near the squad if he was a permanent Hull player, rather than on loan from Liverpool.
    7 points
  31. 1,591. Not sure how that relates to the post above stating that they had sold 1,800 tickets. Still a record attendance though. I went to a women's game for the first time yesterday and had a thoroughly good time. Rovers put away two good goals very early on and were then defending for most of the rest of the game. It was a novelty to see a Rovers player at Ewood just completely beat the Southampton defence for pace for the first goal - not a sight we have seen for a while with the men's team. The front two were lively and the defence very solid but midfield were mostly run over. Hence Southampton had most of the ball but did very little with it apart from a period in the second half when Alex Brooks pulled off a few excellent saves to keep Rovers in front.
    7 points
  32. I’ve never rated Southgate as a manager. He’s a decent human being and he was a very good player, but that’s as far as it goes for me. If I read in tomorrows paper that we’d sacked Eustace and replaced him with Southgate I wouldn’t exactly be overjoyed.
    7 points
  33. Yet more displays of absolutely pathetic behaviour from the shittest squad we've ever had. I have absolutely no time for any of them. They are soft as shit and get outdone, out muscled and easily brushed aside by anyone and every one. Soft cunts the lot of them. Not one of these soft crybabies would last more than four seconds with Souness, Hughes, Allardyce, Dalglish or even Roy Hodgson. The reason we are so shit, the reason we automatically lose a game when going a goal down, the reason we failed to make the playoffs and the reason we'll be relegated maybe this year and definitely next is because of the shit soft arsed players we have. Fuck the lot of them. Fuck off Scott Wharton. JDT is a Champions League winner, you are a second tier dolloper. I know who I would have gotten rid of from this club.
    6 points
  34. So you’ve got a DoF working towards a ‘model’ of bringing in young lads to ‘develop’… whilst at the same time an ex-agent CEO bringing in players in their mid 30s without seemingly any due diligence by the sounds of it. 14 years and look at the state of it.
    6 points
  35. only human error is poppa venky not wearing a jonny
    6 points
  36. To become a sustainable Premier League club requires at the very least, having competent people in charge. It can be easily demonstrated that we don’t have that. They can’t even get through a transfer window without calamity.
    6 points
  37. Ipswich had the fortune to be taken over by a group of people with a plan and ambition, Americans who have come in to get a return on their investment, and they've already started to do that by selling a share of the club for big money. This all runs contrary to the negative elements of the fanbase who wish to convince themselves and others that we have no such option, that there is no alternative for this club than to exist as a decaying rotting husk under Venkys forever. People call me negative yet I believe there is a better brighter alternative to the awful people that own and manage us today, whereas those who refuse to countenance such a possibility and resort to name calling and the rest rather than open their eyes to the possibility of a better future. Absolutely no sympathy towards the owners and board who have created the injury issues themselves. Ironic that they'll be moaning about absences if Buckley is out when we fired him off to Sheffield Wednesday not long ago supposedly surplus to requirements and we have our captain who will be sat on his backside cheering on his Ipswich team-mates from the stands on Friday due to further Rovers nonsense. You reap what you sow.
    6 points
  38. thats bad news,im` e not siggys biggest fan but to me he should have been played through the middle,his first touch is excellent as is his positional sense,he gets some great chances,he does`nt give you anything out wide
    6 points
  39. So deliberately trying to weaken the squad on the last day of the window when in a relegation battle. 🤔
    6 points
  40. I think the Italy game in the last Euros final was a perfect demonstration of Southgate's limitations as a coach. 1-0, on top and the game/trophy there to be won. But he sat back, put on players like Henderson and invited Italy to come upon us. And we all know what happened from there.
    6 points
  41. Shearer was better than Kane in his pomp.
    6 points
  42. So.... even in that scenario we'd have been no worse off on the pitch as he offers absolutely nothing but at least we'd have had some money in the Bank. Obviously in an ideal world he should have been sold and replaced at zero net cost by the younger Mcguire. As for Broughton, bullshitter extraordinaire. I had to try very hard not to throw the phone out of the car window listening to that pile of smarmy shite. The main purpose of the interview seemed to be to blow smoke up his arse but on the odd occasion a difficult question arose he completely ducked it. Clearly only here for his own betterment financially and also only interested in selling players. Well I'm glad he's glad that we're keeping the "big" Clubs happy and that we're seemingly on a mission to find a home for our best young talent away from Ewood Park. Why is no-one at the Club interested in US doing well on the pitch or winning football matches?
    6 points
  43. TK made his Belgian debut as an 83rd minute sub against Ireland (just after Sammy was subbed off). That should add a few 100k to the transfer fee from Luton.
    6 points
  44. Andy Bayes and Elliott Jackson should be all over this, constantly asking when the promised January window review will be provided, by Swag or Greg the 🥚.
    6 points
  45. The club have Shadow Man who has open direct access to the Raos. I do not believe that those at the club were still awaiting approval from India. At best the signings were pulled last minute under orders from India. At worst they were never happening, just smoke and mirrors. The cover up was also wasting monies in appeals just to fecking cover up. This time GB has, quite rightly, not taken overall responsibility and has not been allowed as yet to give his transfer window review. A fecking circus run by crooked clowns.
    6 points
  46. Ended up being a great game today. Rovers were missing a couple of important players but managed to score a couple of great goals early on and then hang on for the win on a sunny day at Ewood in front of a record crowd. That win means they have broken their record for most points scored in a Championship season and there are still four games to go against teams either below or level with them. Next home game is against Reading on Sunday, April 14th at Ewood.
    5 points
  47. 'Our squad is small enough, PURPOSEFULLY' FFS there you have it, nothing more than a development club.
    5 points
  48. Equally, he clearly isn't on gardening leave as @Mercer cryptically insinuated before ignoring any questions to clarify that suggestion.
    5 points
  49. So Rovers Women are playing at Ewood tomorrow v Southampton, kick off at 2pm. They are aiming for a record crowd and seeing as the previous record was about 1,100, ticket sales suggest it will easily be beaten tomorrow as per the Rovers WFC Insta. So if you want to support the Women and be a part of what is likely to be a record-breaking crowd, come on down. As part of the work towards a record attendance, the hospitality is at a lower price than normal in case you fancy giving that a go as an alternative. Rovers recently won 2-1 at Ewood in a recent Monday night game v Lewes. Currently unbeaten in 3 games and comfortably mid-table, they face a Southampton side currently in the promotion race (Southampton currently sit third and the top four only have one point between them).
    5 points
  50. What Ipswich have done since promotion is pretty remarkable to be fair, our League 1 season followed a season of typical Venkys budget slashing and whilst some of the players were a class above in League 1, they were miles off being top 6 players in the Championship. Finishing 15th and then 11th wasn't a failure considering we had the likes of Bennett, Evans, Smallwood, an aging Graham, Mulgrew, Williams etc that needed phasing out and it was just before we had an influx of good young players coming through. The two points of the last decade or so in which we should have pushed on were with the side under Bowyer, we had a really core but needed a proper manager and more quality on top, instead we went down the selling everyone off and keeping Bowyer for too long route. We also should have pushed on after Mowbray had laid good foundations establishing the likes of Travis, Buckley, Wharton, Lenihan and a few of his own signings, before Tomasson then came to take that on further. In those 2 seasons where we just fell short, we needed to sell the players running down their deals and reinvest and create a deeper and better squad. Instead Venkys went down the route of not spending when in good positions, ensuring that we rejected any opportunity to get some money in to reinvest and threw in getting themselves into a legal issue causing total turmoil and a slide down the table. Thats the Venkys project, some good work is done in spite of them and then they ensure that it all collapses and sets us back years before it can start to happen again, hence why a top 6 finish is above our ceiling.
    5 points
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