Maybe they're just warning us about Wes?

You can't complain about the deleted larks, then as soon as I give you an undeleted one, you want to delete it.

Sorry, here's an undeleted one for you.

What a silly, inflammatory thing to say. Proportionately to my income I would think I spend more on Rovers that Venkys do proportionately to theirs. And I would imagine that applies to lots of other Rovers fans.

I’m behind him, I will him on every game, I’ve cheered him at games, I cheer him from my laptop... I also think he just won’t make it here and all things considered it was a terrible deal by the club

Raya was dropped because he made mistakes. Frequently. I don’t think there were many protests when he got dropped. Walton was definitely a downgrade and we shouldn’t have sold Raya without a decent replacement lined up. However, I can understand why he was sold in the first place. Frankly I’m very surprised that a top side wants him.

The stadium Jack built after this fella leaves could well see a closed Blackburn End Upper, Riverside, Darwen End, Blues Bar and radio station, with a vast reduction in crowds. And he was brought in to increase revenue?

Berup... Made you look!

New 5 year deal for Bell incoming?

‘We all thought he was poor’ ‘everyone was happy for him to go’ is justification for their own poor judgement of a player.

As I said before Uddersfelt I think there should have been an option for £230 for an ifollow season ticket that secures your seat next season and provides access to all home games, with the option of a £7 surcharge and removal of ifollow for any game we can actually attend The principle is similar to what they have done but this is more consumer friendly

Journalists speak to people that have, they call them ‘sources’.

Imagine selling the most promising keeper your club has ever produced for a bargain £3m but then only getting a measly 10% sell on fee. Brentford absolutely had our pants down, you’d have thought 20-25% minimum for them getting him for that price. F*****g madness!

Imagine, after seeing the totally avoidable, tragic decline of this football club over the past decade, the complete trashing of Jack’s legacy, and that’s the conclusion you reach. A shameful post.

I love the irony of him being called Swag ?. He looks like he should be in Phoneix Nights

I’m just so happy that everyone now calls him Swag! ???

Mercer can fund it with his gambling winnings. Can just see the recycling bin overflowing with merlot now.

To be fair if we have to change our style to accommodate Wycombe we are in a lot of trouble!

Fair's fair, he can afford it but he demands to see every match, except the ones he chooses not to see. And he won't get on a train. But not going because you can't afford it is an absolute disgrace, and an insult to the Venky brand.

If you are talking about the decade of decay then that's a very low bar you are setting. I asked the other day for one tangible benefit Waggott has brought to Rovers and as yet nobody has come up with one. Twice in the last three seasons there have been extortionate increases in admission prices which has affected the uptake. One of Waggotts objectives was to grow the supporter base, he has done the opposite by vastly diminishing it. I have said before there are several posters on this site who could do a better job than Waggott at a fraction of the cost.

Have to disagree on this one. Evans is an over paid over-rated dud I'd be delighted to see the back of. I can't believe he's lasted at the Club as long as he has. The problem we have is that Johnson falls into exactly the same category and is arguably even worse. It's like trying to pick a Championship level striker between Brereton and Gallagher.

Raya going for £15m this summer is further proof that the decision to sell him was a wrong one. If the rumours are true that we had a bid in for £10m for a player, then if we are to be lazy and assume Arsenal's bid would have come anyway, that would mean we could potentially have had £25m to put into the club in one window. Might have made Waggott less emotional about fans back in the ground; might have meant our cash flow isn't "as bad" as made out; might have meant season tickets didn't require an 18% price hike; might have also meant we'd be paying 7 figures for a top quality player that we need to push us over the line to play offs / promotion. All entirely hypothetical, but as with everything involved in finance, eventually you can always spot your mistake and hypothesise about what you could have done with the money had you done something differently months / years ago. It was a mistake by Mowbray and Waggott. That's the end of it.

Wow, that's a lot more than 1.7m, you're right! No wonder we are in debt! Dack is a very good player at this level, but paying the best part of a billion for him was madness...

He was a developing keeper, he made mistakes, but more fool those that couldn’t see his immense potential. £2/3million was a crap deal... however 20% sell on would soften the blow somewhat, 10% would be a shocker of a negotiation for such a young talent.

Happy days! 2-1 and Thompson the left back scores. ? Hopefully he can step up and get a game for the first team at some point.

But hey, they're paying the bills....

Blackburn Rovers is therefore owned, ran and administered by a selection of people that have zero knowledge (or seeming interest to learn) of the demographics of Blackburn and it’s environs, and the price points that will push customers away - little wonder then that we will see our ST base further collapse this summer. This need to ‘increase revenue’ is actually producing policies that will do the exact opposite due to their own ignorance.

Very good player. He's a cracking left back both in defense and attack, it's actually part of the reason he's played in midfield on a couple of ocassions. Technically very good and not shy getting stuck in. I chucked his name out last night based purely off the fact that it looks like the kind of deal Rovers are looking at these days (which I saw someone else allude to earlier). A player who's probably available for less than their actual market price for one reason or another, who would add some real quality. If it turns out to be him, i'd be ecstatic because he's probably PL quality IMO.

Manager ?

I wouldn't have sacked John Williams and Tom Finn as they did. We were a steady mid table PL club with proper management. I don't want to go into the history of the last decade because it's been done many times suffice to say we are where we are now through incompetence and arrogance. I wouldn't alienate the fans like Waggott has done.

Incredible. You criticise supporters and come out with a ridiculous statement about Venkys being more committed than some fans and you might not buy a season ticket yourself. Hypocrisy. Edit: The whole flaming thing is unsustainable now because of their absolute incompetence.

Hang on, so if your issue is cost, be damned and ‘the owners are more committed than fans’, yet you yourself won’t go because of trains and the like? Some brass neck.

Indeed. The people justifying the sale by saying (wrongly) everyone agreed it was a good deal are the same ones who would be crowing about it had he bombed at Brentford.

Understandable if you didn’t rate him. I didn’t understand it then, and I certainly don’t understand it now.

It’s really sad reading this thread. Obviously the club are in desperate need of income - and yes the clubs future could well be in the balance if the owners pull the plug. So it’s understandable that the club seeks to bring in as much money as it possibly can. However.... as much as Waggott is attempting to do that, he is - in my opinion - completely misunderstanding how football fans from the poorer areas of the country think. They aren’t going to pay more money for a product that might not arrive, so in the short term the club will lose out. That’s a big enough problem in itself, but on top of that any fans he loses now, he could lose permanently. Once fans stop attending they don’t often return. So his judgement on this is out, in just about every way. Short term and long term, he’s put the club at even more risk that they were before he put his oar in.

Did we miss him last year? Not with Walton doing such a superb job, no. Why wouldn't we have got £10m for him eventually?

I understand everyone's feelings towards Waggott, he comes across as insincere. His hashtag-ed emotional blackmail schtick is tiresome to say the least - family, not a football club with players earning more in a week than some fans do in a year, will always take priority. Someone should remind him of that. #WeAreTogether is just meaningless at a time when people are losing their jobs. Unless Steve, Mogga and the players are going to send me a few quid cos we're all mates and in it together?? Why would anyone buy a ST at the moment except out of blind loyalty? There is no guaranteed 'product', and they've put the prices up! WTF!! Also, when Waggott talks about 'added value' because you get 7 away games to watch on i-follow he totally misses the point about why the hardcore buy ST's. It's not about simply watching matches, it's about the live experience. You can't commodify that so he really shouldn't try. He needs to think about his 'message'. I worry about the bigger picture. The bigger picture here is the future of the club. With Lancashire getting hammered with Covid, and lets be honest, it's only going to get worse over the coming months, there's seems very little chance of Rovers getting in the crowds to cover even the most basic of costs. Some clubs will more-than-likely go bust this season without external funding. Maccs is probably just the start. Waggott should concentrate on the bigger picture. What are Venky's plans going forward if ST sales are minimal? Are they going to continue covering the shortfall (which will increase exponentially this season) and what is their long-term planning for a club with massively reduced income? What is the EFL plan for dealing with clubs on the brink? Are contingencies in place (Govt funding for example)? The lack of communication on the real issues facing the club is something he needs to address.

I don’t know a Rovers fan that didn’t want Gallagher or Chapman. Cunningham injury was unfortunate. Few of the others like Leutwiler did their jobs as back ups. I personally rate Bradley Johnson, think he was an improvement on what we had. Its game of opinions though. For every criticism of £7 million on Brereton I see no praise on £1.7 million for Dack and Armstrong.

You cant give him credit for his good signings then when he blows 7m on a dud, assume that it is someone elses doing.

Just had a meal and a couple of beers with my 2 sons, none of us are going to buy a season ticket. It's not even likely to be a realistic proposition to purchase. Keep safe people. COYB Waggott and co must be on a different planet, they should be crawling over themselves to encourage us to re-engage...... As it is, they haven't a fucking clue....

Hope you're right but he came out with the play-off chat last summer. He needs to concentrate on winning games. We haven't won many since football resumed after lockdown.

Even if we naturally dismiss your nonsense about people moaning and not getting behind him... The price tag has to play a part but even without it, on his individual merits, he has looked out of his depth for most of his Rovers career, which has progressed to offering zero goal threat but going on maybe a couple of neat dribbles in unharmful areas. He also had a good pre season last year, it meant nothing. Why do you think he would get 6-10 as a striker? He played up front on Tuesday and he never gets into the box. He doesnt have the goalscoring instinct, and even when he gets presented with chances he misses, v Bristol City he was put through by a defender and fell over his feet, v Doncaster Armstrong unselfishly squared it for an empty net, he missed the target, v Newcastle the ball fell to him and he couldnt get it out of his feet.

There’s a lot the club is doing perfectly fine with considering the oil tanker pace of decision making. Decent transfer business, TM has never had to sell a player against his will, investment in data tech at the training ground, an academy doing well. My issue is the everyday running of the club, from ground maintenance to ticket pricing. Our £300,000 a year Chief Executive is not in charge of these decisions? It is an Indian emissary of the Rao’s making the decisions on day to day business operations?

We really are the most dysfunctional of organisations. Some corporate set-up, this. Yet, we see senior staff member after staff member defend it and those that put it in place. They must get some serious remuneration.

Swag, the definition of stolen loot. He's stolen a living here for quite some time now. I'm yet to see the 'plan' down Ewood in fairness, we always seem to be behind the curve and the place is a disgrace. I'll wait for it though...

The trouble with Bell is that when he sees the ball at his feet it seems to confuse him. Like 'where's that come from, I probably should try and run with it for a while'. Then he gets confused again and thinks 'actually, I'd better stop'. Then he just passes it to the opposition.

Likes of Gallagher would benefit no end from that.

No, it will be because of the mismanagement, negligence and incompetence of the three arrogant offspring of a successful Indian businessman.

Raya wanted to leave after being dropped and publicly criticised by his manager - completely understandable. Raya did have/still has huge potential - he's still very young for a keeper. Definitely a mistake selling him - and I thought so at the time. Even worse was how we replaced him.