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  1. I have been a long term reader of this forum, and I have always enjoyed reading people’s opinions on Rovers, without ever posting myself. After 30 years of supporting Rovers, I think I am at my lowest point, and there have been many lows over the past 12 years as you all know. I cannot stomach the thought of another 12 years under our current “owners”. As many have posted over the last couple of months, where do we go from here to rid ourselves of these people who have shamed and continue to shame this once proud and great football club. 12 years of mis-management, lies, and embarrassment. Does it make me any less of a fan to think rovers would be better off getting relegated in order to force a reaction in India? As we are only going to be in the exact same position or worse next season in the championship. The topic of protests. I admire those who organised the tennis ball protest against Newcastle albeit it was a small protest. What will it take for Rovers fans to invade the pitch in numbers like reading have done, hitting the club and owners in the pocket with abandoned matches. Through the Lancashire telegraph or other platforms, can an open letter to the owners be compiled requesting them to sell the football club as their position is untenable and beyond repair. This may have been tried in years gone by, and be nothing more than something the owners would simply overlook but at least it hammers home the fans feelings. Surely more pressure must be applied to the Football League for more stringent criteria to be put in place on owners. A founder member of the Football League being dragged through the mud, and technically being ran on the basis payments are approved by a court in India. I can live with the club not having much money to spend on players, but to be subjected to a constant cycle of crisis and incompetence at every level I cannot. At the very least we demand the club is ran professionally by people who care and have good intentions.
    41 points
  2. skyblue here, he screwed Charlton over and did the same for us, the man is a fraud and shouldn't be allowed near a football club I hope you can get rid of him asap.
    36 points
  3. Three games ago I was quite comfortable that we wouldn't to down. That doubt dissipated somewhat after Swansea but after Tuesday and today I'm convinced we will be relegated. The first ten minutes aside Plymouth were streets ahead of us and if I was a fan of theirs I would have been disappointed not to win and win by three or four goals. We started well, scored and Sigurdsson misses an easy chance and for some unfathomable reason the game changed. We must have the slowest three centre halves in living memory so to play a high line against a pacy young team was footballing suicide. Time and time again they got in from either a simple ball over the top, down the sides or in behind. So we get through to half time and expect changes particularly when we see Hedges doing a strenuous warm up at half time. But no, our tactically astute manager doesn't see it the same way as us and that we are once again being overrun in midfield. The second half starts in exactly the same vein and lo and behold a ball over the top of our high line catches us out and McFadzean is off. I honestly don't think that anybody with half a brain cell thought at that point we could win. Then a couple of baffling changes which hindered us even more handed a bigger advantage to Plymouth whose changes we really positive. The inevitable happened and once again was a calamity of errors. I really thought Plymouth would go on to win from there and once again bad finishing and luck saved us. Two players worthy of mention were Szmodics and Ayari. The rest were pretty useless but the biggest criticism from me is for Eustace. I know it's only early in his time here but the omens aren't good, in fact they are poor. He doesn't appear to have and tactical nous or has the ability to change anything. His one dimensional approach is alarming and his touchline demeanour doesn't inspire me. Still he might be happy tonight as, according to him today wasn't a must win game. I'm struggling to get angry right now and my acceptance is almost a fait accompli after the last thirteen years. My disgust is for the owners and their munchkins at Ewood. Hopefully something happens on Tuesday in a court on another continent that hastens their departure. On the bus home me and my granddaughter looked at the likely line up of League One next season and have already planned some trips.
    32 points
  4. Others may disagree but for me JDT had the makings of a fantastic manager. If they had only backed him in January 2023, I think we may well have gone up. This season, he had his legs taken from beneath him and was left to front a club in crisis. Despite this, until injuries and the paper thin squad was exposed we were riding high in the table and playing the best football for many years. The fact that he eventually got worn down by Swag and the off field incompetence, I certainly won’t be holding against him. He was a breath of fresh air and tried to breathe new passion, aspiration and ambition into a near dead club and a long suffering and dwindling fan base. Eventually, he may have failed but I think he gave it everything he had. For a short while it felt like we might be getting our Rovers back but as we all know, it is very difficult to beat the system / authority no matter how hard you try.
    31 points
  5. We'll lose anyone capable of playing in the Championship for a start. Sammi first to go. It'll be a real battle to get back up and I can'r see how we will. The problem is I'm wondering if I'll care. 75 years since I saw my first game and a long family history of support before that. Never expected it to end but it doesn't seem like Rovers anymore, it seems like we're buying into a foreign scam. Time to give Venkys an ultimatum---fuck off or we will.
    27 points
  6. I am of the opinion that selling Adam has helped to stave off administration in the short term. I also heard he didn't want to leave and was happy with the progress he was making under Tomasson. If it's true it's a shameful way to treat a young lad whose head must have been spinning. Shame on them all.
    26 points
  7. It’s obviously all JDTs fault if we go down… …for being rational, for being intelligent, for playing attractive football, for being logical, for being a quality coach, for calling out incompetence, for wanting new players, for not towing the line and doing what he was told.… But don’t worry, you can all breathe a sigh of relief because we’ve sacked him and a new project (puppet) is in place with us all in it together. Let’s get back to what we know and love, over promising and under delivering, easy training, easy street, mediocrity, turgid football, poor computer skills, poor communication skills, January admin errors, increased prices, court cases, power vacuums, a compliant LET, docile fans, comment section bots… Phew, I mean there was a danger there of us being a sensible club. Order restored.
    23 points
  8. As I’ve said previously we’ve somehow ended up with the most unbelievable bad luck, a unique situation from what I can see. We have owners that have absolutely no ambition for the club apart from keeping it out of administration, but also refuse to even entertain selling it to someone who does have ambition for it. We’re fucked.
    22 points
  9. JDT did well in his first season. Obviously the second half of 22/23 was pretty galling, but when you've got a squad filled with weak-minded players it's somewhat inevitable. We also had our main goalscorer totally lose form after Christmas and stop scoring, which was a hammerblow to our chances of keeping up with the teams around us. This season we were doing fine until November, at which point injuries crippled us and the proverbial chickens came home to roost insofar as our dismal recruitment and financial cutbacks are concerned. The players seemed to lose faith and confidence (doesn't take much with this lot) and we went on a huge downward spiral. JDT was either unable or unwilling to change how we played to try and shore up, so we were just conceding ridiculous amounts of goals with no end in sight. The manager's position had become untenable by January as seemingly the "senior committee" of players had lost their trust in him and the relationship between JDT and the higher-ups was irrevocably fractured. It probably had been since the summer when he first offered his resignation. I think we only got to see glimpses of what was possible under JDT as he wasn't suitably backed for the project he had signed up for. I'm sure he was clear on what he saw as requirements to succeed before he was appointed, so that's on the owners and upper management if they were not able to commit to the manager's vision during the course of his contract. Obviously things can change financially, but at that point JDT did the right thing and offered to leave and the owners stubbornly refused to let him go. Again, that's completely their fault. Nobody with a modicum of sense would force the manager to stay in that scenario. JDT was never the problem, and the truth is neither is Eustace. The owners have always been and will always be the problem. They aren't capable of running this club properly and they've had long enough to prove otherwise. Until they go we are stuffed no matter who comes in. At best treading water in the Championship, at worst hurtling down the leagues if things really do start to unravel.
    22 points
  10. I liked Tomasson's interviews and found them a refreshing change from the mundane stuff from Mowbray. For me it was enlightening to hear him calling out the right people for the right reasons. He was misled on more than one occasion and I personally thought he was right to have a go even if it goes against the grain for the majority of managers interviews.
    22 points
  11. It's just another bland statement written presumably by one of the acolytes at Ewood. It tells us nothing at all apart from the usual diatribe about their 'full support'. Well that worked well in the Summer when they slashed the budgets when an opportunity to build on our best season in fourteen years was missed. We lost the best manager we have had in years and sold our crown jewel. And mentioning Covid again is embarrassing. Every club in the EFL came through it and emerged stronger but we regressed. They can stick their 'full support' and patronising statements up their arses.
    21 points
  12. I think this is why I've lost any enthusiasm I've had over the last couple of years. JDT was that bit of hope that we might do something properly, show a bit of ambition - call out the incompetence we've seen for the last 12 years and forcibly challenge & try to change it. And now we're back to no mark / no ambition / towing the line / a new manager bounce that never left the floor in the first place / 'we're all in it together'... Absolute bollocks, the lot of it.
    21 points
  13. On attendances, the average when Venkys took over was 25000 with Allardyce as manager. Top half prem side as well. Anyone remember the “I’d rather watch rovers in the lower leagues than watch this crap”? I do.
    20 points
  14. At this point I can't get onboard with anything that comes from Waggott. He's had more than enough time to prove he's capable of doing the job and at best he's proved that he can just about make sure we don't go bankrupt by selling all our best players. The guy is clearly incapable of pushing us any further than total mediocracy and anyone entertaining him and his nonsense should know better.
    20 points
  15. The biggest clowns were the fans who said, "JDT got everything he needed from the window and we had a great Jan window" What planet were those people on
    20 points
  16. Didn’t take long for people to start blaming JDT and to subsequently take the heat off Venky’s and Waggott. BRB- just off to hang my head against a brick wall.
    20 points
  17. 10 years ago gates at Ewood were averaging over 14,000 and that was a reasonable figure at the time by Championship levels. Certainly similar ball park to most. For example - 2014/15 our average gate was 14,900 or so, which over the season was more than Huddersfield, Wigan, Blackpool, Millwall, Brentford, Bournemouth and Rotherham, it was also similar to Bolton (15,400), Birmingham (16,100), Watford (16,600), Charlton (16,700) and Reading (17,000) Not game changing numbers behind Fulham (18,000), Middlesbrough (19,000) and Ipswich (19,600) So basically 2/3 of the league was at or similar numbers to ourselves. Of course that's inconvenient to the doom mongers and self-pity brigade of which that bloke in California is one, doesn't fit the narrative of little old Rovers struggling to compete. Fortunately now the numbers are looking better for them because there has been an explosion in gates across the EFL which Rovers have managed through suicidal policies to do the complete opposite to, leaving us down at the very bottom of the League and with numbers that are perfect ammunition for the pro-Venky mob to use to their advantage. Another reason for us slipping down that table is that two of those clubs have gone on to get promoted - Brentford, Bournemouth - to the Premier League, despite having significantly lower numbers than us turning up to watch. Amazing that. Almost as though having tiny grounds and hardly any fans is irrelevant to success. It actually comes down to competent management and investment, neither of which have been seen here for a very long time. BTW, investment isn't paying your bills on time. Investment is actually going above and beyond the essential bare minimum.
    19 points
  18. Thought it was just me. Tried one interview and it was a banal collection of cliches largely consisting of ‘Blackburn’ ‘you know’ ‘togetherness’, ‘Hedgy’, ‘Pearsy’ etc etc 🙄 I’m back to swerving all their pre and post match tripe like I’ve been for every Venky appointment, JDT aside.
    19 points
  19. He's beyond clueless that fella.
    18 points
  20. When you look back at that infamous eve of season Swag interview and we sat here at the time aghast at the outlandish (we thought) and unambitious things he was saying. (After two seasons knocking on the door of the Premier League) “We just want to develop players and stay in this division” (Despite the owners being billionaires) “We need to help them” And so it has come to pass- A squad full of loans and young lads ‘to develop’ as we ‘aim’ to stay in the division. Wharton sold to ‘help’ pay the bills for them.
    18 points
  21. Fleck was a desperation stage gamble that ticked all the boxes for all the parties Sheff Utd got shut and off their books and squad early. Fleck got a shot at earning a longer deal here or impressing suffiently to attract interest from elsewhere. Rovers got a quick fix at favourable cost to address a problem of their own making. Unfortunately for us the risk was all on Rovers, because someone with his recent fitness record was always at risk of issues and so it has proven. But when you operate like this club has operated you get what you deserve. We wouldn't have needed Fleck if we hadn't taken the unprecedented step of loaning our captain (excellent fitness record) out in the first few days of the window But when you are more interested in cutting costs than winning games these are the sort of decisions you get. We are now going to probably lose Championship status and all that goes with it as a result of such short-sightedness
    18 points
  22. I wasn't convinced when he came in and I've seen nothing to change my mind. And the most worrying aspect is that he had the perfect run of games to start his tenure with a few wins. We've not just failed to win any of those, but we've been awful to watch (Newcastle aside). No excuses.
    18 points
  23. We actually will, thanks. Well, I certainly will. I’m as fed up as anyone with all the nonsense involving the owners.
    17 points
  24. A really good performance today in my opinion, probably the best league showing of Eustace's tenure. We defended really well and if they were going to score it was going to be from one of our errors rather than then creating it for themselves. For me the key was going back to a four man midfield as we didn't allow them to dominate as teams have done to us in recent weeks. It helped having Tronstad back and he was his usual tidy self. We have to keep him fit at all costs. If I was going to be critical I thought our final ball in attacking positions left a bit to be desired or even the lack of shooting when I thought we had chances to do so. A special mention today from me for Brittain and Hyam. I have been really critical of them recently but today they were both really good. I thought though that Hedges was our stand out player. Considering his fitness levels must be way off he really put a shift in. The clean sheet is really welcome and if we set up with the same system from now on we won't concede too many. A special word for the fans today. The 'I don't care about Venky's' song was quite innovate and simplistic but it contained the sentiments most of us feel. And there weren't too many fans not singing it around where I was. That should be echoing around Ewood on Good Friday.
    17 points
  25. Is he buggery. My initial view is he’s your standard lower league journeyman manager, happy to have a job so will come out with the standard manager cliched claptrap. Maybe he’s another Coyle or Appleton, we’ll see. But some of you have very short memories if you are comparing him to an individual that played a central role in completely ruining this football club.
    17 points
  26. Of course JDT has forgotten about us, as does every professional as soon as they get a new gig, they are all guns for hire. However, whilst here he was striving for this club to be more - it’s the fact that it isn’t run like a professional football club as to why he’s gone.
    17 points
  27. K**n's reign of terror is being seriously glossed over here. I'm not convinced by Eustace so far in his short time with us but comparisons to K**n are significantly wide of the mark. K**n was a backstabber, a drink driver and a pathological liar. Eustace isn't anywhere near the levels of that cretin.
    17 points
  28. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/march/05/eustace-praises-his-side-s-character/ I just have missed this 'character' of the players he talks about. I saw lots of weak characters who were prepared to take the easy option far too often.
    17 points
  29. 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
  30. Luton and Brentford got promoted on those gates, Burnley used to get those gates, PNE get similar and there are other examples. Yet 230 million down the shitter, two top 2 positions blown because of not even a million quids worth of backing. Every decent player being cashed to pay the bills and Rovers fans have to be grateful to their billionaire overlords because we have a good community trust. If that hooray attitude comes from the inner sanctum of the club and i suspect it does then no wonder we are in a mess - again.
    16 points
  31. What confirmed this even more, was that months of JDT calling out Waggot and taking the piss out of him about various things including the bus saw nothing happen, but the first time he mentions Suhail he was gone within a week.
    16 points
  32. Maybe so but a blind man on a galloping horse could see that the back five needed changing at half time today, let alone a professional football coach.
    16 points
  33. I honestly can't remember an incident as embarrassing as the Pickering and Ayari corner near the end. It kind of sums up Blackburn Rovers right now. And Hyam gesturing to the crowd because the wanted him to play forward but he took the cowards way and went back to McFadzean. And that fucker is our captain, our leader and supposed inspiration. I hope the boos at the end are ringing in his ears for the next few days. Five at the back at home to Millwall really is poor from the manager. Once again we were outnumbered in midfield as Millwall were allowed to do what they are good at namely out muscle us. So many of our players were poor, no really poor but special mention must go to Dolan and Gallagher who were neither use nor ornament. It was weary tonight and players look like they are frightened to death. Is it all down to confidence? I'm not sure it is. We are insipid, lack any fight or motivation and seem to have little pride. I know he's only been here a short while but the signs aren't good with Eustace. His tactics are so basic, we don't seem to have a game plan and he just doesn't seem to have and motivational aptitude. But we are stuck with him.
    16 points
  34. Two types of manager in the world. Those who are willing to play the Venky game and those who aren't. JDT and Lambert weren't. Realised they'd been conned, just like the rest of us, and knew for the sake of their sanity they needed to get out of it quickly. The rest were just grateful to have a job here and put up with it.
    16 points
  35. 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
  36. I said after O'Brien that it was deliberately sabotaged. I'm totally convinced that all three were deliberately sabotaged. They never seem to make these mistakes when bringing in shit players for no money or when they are selling off the best player we've had for 15 years.
    15 points
  37. As is now the usual way of it Waggott is prompted into releasing a hasty and poorly drafted 'statement' purporting to be from/on behalf of the Owners only after a major development occurs and confusion and speculation runs rampant for 5-6 days. If this genuinely came from the owners and they genuinely wanted to communicate they would have released a statement setting out exactly what the issue in India is and would have released it promptly rather than doing nothing for days on end then coming up with this drivel. If you believe the owners have had any input into this beyond their dogsbody giving it the once over before it went onto the website I think you are deluded. This is just the latest attempt by Waggott to portray this as business as usual. I'm not buying it. I find it frankly disgusting that the 'statement' is used once again by Waggott as an attempt to thank the owners for their input, bizarrely referencing Covid, now 4 years ago, as an issue or excuse. Strikes me as a desperate bid by a lackey to take action to divert building anger away from India. Probably caused by him hearing the Venkys song at MIddlesbrough on Saturday.
    15 points
  38. This is one of the many ways that the current rules around football club ownership fails the fans The court case in India has a direct impact on the club and therefore on the fans and the town itself. Yet we are left in the dark. It's not exactly clear what is going to happen. Most supporters have had an interest in Rovers long before they "bought us". Why on earth do fans not have a right to know what is going on at the club? Everything is second hand, or whatever can be gleamed from the internet This leaves the whole sport open to abuses. The authorities need to get a grip but they show no appetite. Whilst the money comes rolling in and HMRC keep getting their huge PL tax bills then the govt doesn't really care what happens to clubs like us
    15 points
  39. How can the signing of a footballer who has hardly kicked a ball in the last 12 months owing to 2 broken leg issues be low risk either physically or financially? Any club with any nous would not have signed a player with such an injury record unless they had got at least half a dozen 60 minute appearances under their belt in the last couple of months. You saw it with Dack, players with serious injuries are always prone to breaking down. As for "Only 5 months contract" - how much do you think that has cost plus his medical surgery / rehab!?!? IMO, anything from £300k to £500k with all costs factored in. The only way it could have been deemed no risk was it Fleck had been signed on a pay as you play basis.
    15 points
  40. Unlucky? Most players wouldnt come with the risk of having their leg broken twice very recently and having a plate in there in the first place. Probably dont loan out your captain who as far as I am aware has 2 legs both without plates in. A luxury.
    15 points
  41. 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
  42. Fully agree. This is Venkys in action. All the work and preparation is done and sorted by those on the ground at Ewood / Brockhall. Final sign off / approval needed from India - either doesn't come or comes too late and they don't have authority to press 'go'. Deal collapses, everyone looks rather stupid, fans in uproar, media asking questions, laughing stock of the game. What to do? Tell the truth - that Venkys are to blame and can't be contacted? No chance, that's a sackable offence at Rovers, and a sure fire way to ensure you are unemployable in football So instead make up some cock and bull nonsense about admin errors and the rest. All a clear ploy to confuse and lay the blame anywhere but India.
    14 points
  43. The fact they would rather the club limp along in this zombie like chaotic state for months or even years on end whilst confusion and uncertainty runs rampant, allowing all our assets to be sold to the highest bidder, flushing Championship status and a shot at the PL down the toilet, alienating many more fans and condemning us to a dismal future in League One or beyond all the while going through the aggro of going to court every few months for permission to keep the lights on, rather than just admit defeat, and for once act in the best interests of the club by taking steps to sell or transfer it elsewhere thus protecting it from further immediate damage and keeping it free of their legal issues really just displays what self centred despicable people they are deep down. You get the likes of Mowbray, Waggott and the rest of them down there singing their praises about what lovely wonderful caring people they are when that is based on them getting paid by them, wined and dined in India and the rest. What actually matters is actions and putting the club first. We've known from day 1 that it isn't on their radar to do this and still to this day their egos and self centred pride / legal / financial concerns take absolute priority over just doing the right thing, admitting defeat and letting someone else take it on. Horrible people.
    14 points
  44. These people have things completely the wrong way round. They effectively argue that "if 20000- home fans turned up to every game we would have a good team". In reality, if we had a good team, 20000 fans would turn up! Its the entertainment game, the club has to incentivise the fans. They have to put on something that's worth paying for. What they are doing is relying on the loyalty of fans which has built up over years without giving them the experience which attracted them in the first place. If you were 9-10 years old in 1993, and living in the Blackburn area there was only one place to be on a Saturday--- all that has been thrown away years ago.
    14 points
  45. New article in The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/5277307/2024/03/05/blackburn-rovers-gary-neville/ Don't think it adds anything new, but details how the Modi government's crackdown on the wealth transferring money out of the country links to Venky's purchasing Gary Neville's house for £7.4m in 2011 (there's your lede!). Summarising given the paywall: - Nothing new, but it details how £9m of Pune property has been seized by the govt so far based on 'unpaid tax and interest' on the investment in Neville's house. Venky's were allowed by the Delhi high court to pump in £26m in the summer and a further £11.5m in Nov (with equivalent amounts put in holding accounts), but a decision to allow more in Jan was delayed. Rovers provide boilerplate comment that the owners have assured them of their continued support, they hope to settle the matter soon, etc. No concern about staff wages not being paid. - Gives a general run-through of our past ~10 years, lack of signings of late, focus on youth, becoming a spot for young PL loans, etc. - Refers to signings and managerial appointments being run by both SW and GB, with input from the head coach. No mention of if that's changed in the past month or so... - GB/JDT hoped to add more Championship experience until Suhail informed them of the urgent budget changes. Example: GB/JDT were excited to sign Baath, with a deal verbally agreed, but were then told they could not sign anyone over 30. - Same thing happened with another unnamed target, so JDT offered to resign. Venky's, fans of JDT's coaching talent (albeit less appreciative of his public/private 'communications'), refused to accept his resignation. JDT felt his days were numbered, but was persuaded that if he kept the team in playoff contention, some more funds could be released for the Jan window. A loss of form followed a promising start; the Watford loss referred to as a 'killer' for morale. - The Athletic repeat their version of the McGuire saga (which Jackson's reporting partially refutes): initial deal nixed mid-flight, McGuire flew over anyway to secure a deal with Sheff Wed. That fell through, so his agent approached us about a loan. The "usual to-ing and fro-ing" occurred between GB, SW, Suhail, and Venky's before a ~£550k loan deal was agreed with a £5.5m purchase option. Deal and documents all signed, etc., but failed to click submit... Suggests we'll try to return for him in the summer. - Not the first time the recruitment team had agreed terms for a deal before there was 'ominous' silence from India and then word from Suhail that the deal could not go ahead. - JDT again offered to resign. Venky's said they'd accept subject to an agreement on terms. JDT "said to have made a financial 'sacrifice' to facilitate his departure" - Agent: McGuire was an extreme case, but there's an acceptance with all negotiations with Rovers that any agreement may be vetoed by Venky's. - Eustace's quick arrival was due to 'contingencies' being in place, as it was expected that JDT would leave in the summer. Refers to a wide, thorough recruitment process, variety of candidates interviewed. - Comment from Ian Herbert about the grim state of things after selling Wharton and JDT leaving, uncertainty about funding now tied to the whims of an Indian judge... Tim Farron can only highlight the Academy as a positive.
    14 points
  46. Still not a peep out of Greg and co. about how they managed to fuck up a 3rd transfer window either. They’re stealing a living. The whole upper management needs gutting.
    14 points
  47. I'm sure its not lost on anyone, but the atmosphere last night came across loud and clear and the gates was very good too. This is what it used to be like week in week out before these inept owners arrived on the scene. All we need is decent ownership, proper people running the club again and nights like last night will become the norm. Well done to all concerned and special mention for mini protest, which was beamed around the world on BBC and make no mistake it was mentioned many times in commentary, job done. VENKYS OUT - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
    14 points
  48. I haven't read all the posts on here but what I have read (all post match posts) have been complimentary and reflected how well we played, the game and individual players. It was almost like we had won walking away from Ewood last night.
    14 points
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