Fella who talks of nothing more of dinner parties with Dingles, turns his nose up at the oiks in the stands, and was too scared to attend the derby last season, now bemoaning Ewood and its fans as ‘docile’ and un-hostile. 😅

The Grand old Riverside..

No doubt about it, we need something in this game, I am going to keep myself busy with other stuff, I think if I watched it I would seriously trouble my heart

The Three Caps - Cool Jerk

I was hoping he was found dead in Luton with a cactus up his arse and a copy of Mein Kampf in his hand. That would destroy any sympathy idiots like Moyes would still have for him.

The most depressing bit for me is that we will likely have a few quid to play with, but who is JE realistically going to attract? JDT was a legendary international-class player and he clearly knew what he wanted - we just couldn't afford them (or sabotaged the deals). It would be the most Rovers thing ever if we spent £10m-£15m this summer and wasted it on a load of dross.

It took Mowbray 5 years of 'development' to get us to 69 points. That includes 10 transfer windows during which he was only forced to sell Adam Armstrong and had, comparatively speaking, a massive budget. JDT came in 2 weeks before pre-season started having just lost Lenihan, Nyambe and Rothwell The way to do this is simple and obvious. It doesn't need someone to reinvent the wheel with clever strategies. It needs price reductions across the board, it needs people to see value in the product and it needs serious sustained efforts at selling. When it comes to value in the product there are many aspects to this. Selling all your quality players, spending no money, throwing in the academy kids - this is not going to persuade anyone that you have any ambitions or serious intentions. With half the games being midweek, red button, Sky, dodgy sticks, lunchtime kick offs then the price of a season ticket has to reflect this as a large number of people will be unwilling or unable to get to those matches. So you have to have a price whereby it is still worth being a season ticket holder even if you miss all those games. Preston and Bolton - £250 per adult. So even if you missed 50% of all the games you are still getting the other 50% for a reasonable price that's still good value despite the Sky tv and kick off nonsense. But at £400 per adult if you miss 50% of the games you are looking at a price which is hardly worth it when the club often offers matchday tickets at £15-25. People will just pick and choose and not be any worse off. There is also an onus on the club to drive sales. Putting a few tweets out and tacky straplines about commitment or similar isn't enough. You need to engage clubs, schools, previous buyers, get people buying in groups. This takes time and effort. You can't do it overnight. Too much effort here. Waggott has got away with his low hanging fruit policy for 5-6 years milking the results of Mowbray getting us back up and protected by Covid and then JDTs good season. I think he's going to get the results of his ruinous policies very soon. May need to bring forward that retirement date.

No other Championship club has had to sell £25 million worth of players (+ substantial wage reductions) just to keep the lights on Why have Rovers? They will try to normalise our situation making reference to annual losses and FFP but it isn't normal. Its unique.

Even if clubs agree to subsidise season ticket prices, which is a nice idea but will not happen. The number of games that Sky will be showing and allowed to be showed by the EFL is a disgrace. And even with cheaper tickets, season tickets will become less and less appealing when such disregard is shown by Sky and the EFL to match going fans making it impossible for many to attend so many fixtures when in the past, most would be 3pm on Saturday and only a fraction would be moved at the inconvience of the supporter. Football is nothing without fans? Dont make me laugh.

The striker pool below Gallagher now consists of Telalovic, Vale and Leonard. That says everything you need to know about operation downgrade.

Cov sold out their allocation yesterday (4,339) and have been told they can’t have more. Yet, for the previous relegation six pointer they rolled the red carpet out, 7k, then a few hundred more as if that wasn’t enough. They make it up as they go along down there 🤷‍♂️

Any manager that doesn't try to win or get level in a massive game deserves any pelters that come his way.

I think that farce follows the farce that we weren’t able to get better performances and results with him in the team. He should’ve been our Dewsbury-Hall, albeit he is still very inexperienced. It’s something of a pattern as we see Branthwaite having another good game for Everton. We’ve had talents at the club but rarely been able to put together a coherent team. I’ve been cautious about overstating Wharton’s performances but I think one thing he is doing for Palace is simplifying their game. He plays clever passes but he also plays with minimal touches. Palace’s lauded individualists probably need a player like Wharton. He also seems to have helped Will Hughes improve past few games.

I did have a reply ready for this but I deemed it inappropriate for a football forum! 😄😬

He made the right choice to come, absolutely. But he then made the wrong choice in heading it to Hyam (instead of getting it as far away as possible). More importantly, he stops then saunters back to his goal, rather than sprinting back to his line - as you'd expect in that situation. He definitely played his part in the first goal. The 3rd is just bizarre how we didn't stop the ball from going over the line. The very worst case is an indirect free kick, which they're never scoring from.

We just rest them during the 90 minutes.

Maybe its just me, but I have a real sense this season, that the club have gone back 12yrs on and off the pitch. I haven't been to a game since Wharton was sold and JDT walked and I have no intention of attending anytime soon, they can shove the season tickets where the sun doesn't shine to be frank. In my opinion we made JDT's position untenable, after what can only be described as a superb first season. He came in during the summer, after many managers had turned us down, and seemingly pulled rabbits out of hats week in week out. We hit last summer with a real sense of optimism, the club able to push on, the football excellent at times and then the bombshell that our bent owners are in court and funds are pulled, the taps turned off, coincidence? or just criminality? Either way the club suffers, the fans suffer and its back to 2012 all over again. Selling Adam Wharton this season was absolutely criminal, they couldn't wait to get the lad out of the door. Here we have a Rovers fan playing for his boyhood club, a future England star, sold from under the managers nose as soon as a bid came in. I don't care about administration, I don't care if we needed the money, they sold at the first opportunity that arose, that is the point here. Then JDT walks, lied to again by owners who promise so much, yet deliver so little and its back to square one, the best manager in 12yrs and they've bolloxed it up. Then on the back of that we have the players, our wonderful players who put us in the position, telling the fans they need more backing, more people coming through the gates, talk about no bloody accountability of self-awareness! Needless to say, our season ticket money will be staying in the bank, I doubt I'll go again until these owners leave, but when they do, we have 5 season tickets waiting to be bought, the clock is ticking for these abhorrent owners.

We never change the content of a user's posts, so please don't accuse the admin or moderation team of that. We're generally limited to changing a thread title or hiding posts. If Luca Toni appeared in a quoted post, either it was in the original post or the poster quoting you made the amendment themselves.

Fingers crossed - they owe us after last year.

Probably the next one we buy will be !

No other keeper is as as bad as our two clowns.

The EFL and clubs wanted more money from TV rights. If it wasn't Sky Sports it would be Dazn or Premier Sports. Clubs wanted more money cos they thought their TV rights was worth more the current TV deal. Any TV Company would more games to TV for more money. Fairly simple and understandable point of view. That's why Clubs are/should lower their ST and match day prices starting with this season. I have posted my thoughts what ST and match day prices. What do you think of those ideas?

Now I'd never thought of that... all roads lead to je rome

No wins at Ewood in 8 attempts for starters. I’m a Rovers fan and if I see a manager coming out with sound bites and making out things are all rosey, when I can clearly see the exact opposite, he becomes unpopular in my mind. If I feel that way, unless I am the exception, then I suspect others will too. Do you have any evidence that he is popular and do you feel in your heart of hearts that he is popular either with you, or the fans in general?

Obviously he has no faith beyond the first 11. As with every position, the budget cuts have left us with absolutely no depth.

Signed lots of quality at Birmingham as reflected by their league position. Ollie Burke? Dreadful player. Absolutely no chance of us geting Johansson. Id be amazed if we dont stick with the 2 clowns signed on deals for the forseeable. Even more amazed if we spent a million on a keeper that is actually good.

I need to reel that in a bit, I'll end up as the next manager and/or CEO.

I am 100% sure that the above squad ends in League 2.

I think ideas of him going on a run are beyond fanciful. He has always looked well out of his depth, another symptom of the owners cutting budgets beyond reasonable levels.

Very few of our players offer more than very little, while there are a few that offer less than even that.

Wasn't he one of the lads that had the same agent as JDT ? Now he's getting even less of a sniff than before, make of that what you will.

As JHRover said earlier, we should be seeing incomings before anyone else leaves. The squad is threadbare enough as it is. We'll have 5 players in the previous match day squad return to their parent clubs or have their contracts expire. Then whatever happens with Dolan & Gally on top of that. Get rid of anymore before we add to it and we'll have the admin staff on the bench before long.

Be a pretty quiet forum if no-one gave their opinions.

er,probably because he`ll earn a ****load of money😁

Rovers have to lower the prices this coming season with the new TV deal coming which the EFL wanted more money from TV revenue. Games will be moved to a number of different kick offs from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Rovers should charged £199 for Riverside, £249 for BBE and lower JW, £280 for JW upper wing and £330 for JW upper centre I think Rovers also need to look at match day prices policy where you need to make attractive for walk on fans to attend also. £10 for midweek games, £15 to £20 for weekend games I hope Rovers actually serious think about this cos some people won't be attend to every game due to work or family commitments was kick offs changing.

Hull 1 up. Hull could have a significant part to play in keeping us up. They win tonight and Coventry are out if it. They win on Saturday against Ipswich and it would mean Leiceter will almost certainly be promoted by the time we play them. Going into the final day, Norwich would need a result against Birmingham to secure a place in the play offs whilst Hull would be desperate to beat Plymouth to have a chance of getting into the play offs. Come on Hull basically! I have more faith in Hull doing their bit to keep us up than I do in our players.

Hopefully the ‘95 one. I appreciate they’re now in their 50s but I’d still have more confidence in them getting the win we all crave.

The difference between JDT’s style of football and demeanor and enthusiasm compared to Mowbray are poles apart. As was being eluded to here, had he been backed, not only was he likely to get us up, he would have done it in style. That ship has sailed and will not be back in the harbor any time soon.

Cesspit

The 'timing' of all those court hearings has been just perfect enough to impede the football club. Another monumental Venky coincidence.

The latter definitely as at cheap tickets they'll not want to go to any extra expense of stewards and police etc. If it was full price they'd be given as many as they wanted.

When you turn your first team squad into a development squad at Championship level with the only aim to stay up and sell players then who can be surprised this is where it leads ? You reap what you sow and the main issue has been individual bad mistakes and the only thing as consistent as that is Sammies goals. They are the only thing that has kept us from complete disaster up until now and along the way one or two other senior pros who have been trying to carry the can have dropped off badly down to the level this stupid new 'model' has taken us. All alright upstairs though because we've raked in 25 million in sales to rescue the owners blushes so the execs are blue eyed boys in India, bonuses and hampers all round. Downgrade continues in summer one way or another.

He needs to be a target. Get him scared and out of our club.

Stevie Wonder - He’s Misstra Know-It-All

Still can't believe how many no fucks given and not a care in the world attitudes before last night's undeserved awards Should be a no distraction week and fully focused on the cov game , not blowing smoke up there fragile egos when a huge important game coming up. If there are awards do it when it's over ffs.

I totally agree. Why don’t we go back to being level is deemed to be onside, and when the lines are drawn, if the red line and the green line are touching each other then that is also classed as onside. There should be a defined distance between the lines before it’s called offside to negate the exact moment the player passing the ball actually touches the ball. Goal line technology is perfect and immediate, just like Hawkeye at tennis. Why VAR takes so long is a joke and therefore needs to be scrapped until a better solution is found.

It's not that complicated - the owners have simply turned off the taps. They did it to Lambert, they did it to Mowbray at the end of his tenure and they've done it to JDT. The squad cost two buttons and a piece of string to put together and it's showing.