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Stuart

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  1. You have a short memory if you don’t remember his two sack-inducing runs over the last two seasons. No Rovers manager has had worse runs than Mowbray, and at ANY other club would have already been sacked.
  2. As a rule of thumb, whatever Tony says, do the opposite. Statistically he is one of Rovers worst ever managers but he speaks in a grandfatherly way about football and it impresses people.
  3. Good post. You’ll do well on here. As tp says, the fundamental issue with Brereton is that he cost money that we don’t have (we may well go into another transfer embargo based in no small part on his fee) and he hasn’t looked like paying that back on or off the pitch (transfer value). But because of that money, expectation was higher from the outset and to compound this it has also meant that he has been played regularly despite under-performing. Had he come from our academy he’s have been loaned out, maybe even sold (let go) long before now. This vicious cycle of playing while out of form has, over time, knocked his confidence and we have only seen glimpses of a footballer - let alone a £7m one (a big deal for a second division club long out of the PL). Our out-of-touch manager has created a team where tall, leggy players play out wide to make room for a small quick one who he believes he can sell - something that happened when our previous cash cow (Bradley Dack) got injured. This hasn’t been good for our performances, our results, or development as a team or for Brereton (and that team has now even been dismantled due to contracts ending and the money running out). It has however created an asset out of one player, Adam Armstrong. The dilemma now is that Mowbray has turned us into a one-man team and that one man may soon be gone. Talk of Brereton leaving as well, with little talk of any replacements, let alone adequate replacements, is therefore, despite the contradiction, unwelcome. Our club has been through a decade of mismanagement and negligent owners, having previously been given a real boost when the late Jack Walker, a local-boy-made-good, gave back to the town by bequeathing it the legacy of an infrastructure worthy of the name of “champions of England”. Sadly after 10 years of scavengers and chancers helping to ruin the club, the current incumbents seem to be determined to destroy the relationship with the fans as well. This manager will never be sacked as long as he stays out of the relegation zone (and maybe not even then!) Poor Brereton could have been successful here but he has been badly let down by the people in charge - as well all have. Brereton being called up for Chile is the highlight of his time here. Hopefully it will be the making of him. Sadly, without a better manager I fear it will be short-lived.
  4. So the strategy from Waggott appears to be to put up walk on prices to ridiculous levels to ‘incentivise’ fans to buying a ST? Is that about the size of it? We are so lucky to have someone like him doing all he can. In reality it’s really hard to see how this all turns around without Venky’s leaving and Rovers going into administration. The off-the-field issues are a bigger part of the experience following Venkys Rovers than the on-field matters. And yet, a change of manager to someone like Sparky would change the mood of the fanbase 180 degrees overnight. Overnight! That’s the fickle nature of football. We can close our eyes and pretend everything behind the scenes will just get done, put it to the back of our minds and focus on the football side of things. IF the football side captures the imagination. Instead we are expected to do all that while the football is crap, our transfer prospects are bleak, and the manager takes the piss out of fans with his comments to the press. We aren’t even in it together. How is Waggott justifying his enormous and out-of-touch wage? We lose more money and fans every season. Meanwhile we have the longest serving manager in the Championship. That should signify and upward trajectory not a downward one!
  5. I’ve had less time recently to post much and a dwindling inclination but even I’m happy for Ben. He’s going to need to work bloody hard to maintain it but I bet he’s buzzing right now. Now, we just need a feelgood factor at Ewood and not some Mowbray platitude about how BBD is “like a new signing”.
  6. And all after walking over to the Riverside before the board went up to make the journey as long as possible. I credit Tugay with the rule change for subs going off the field at the nearest point. ☺️
  7. A big stink was made recently by the mods about a different topic that generated a lot of opinion. Lots of posts were hidden as a result including mine. This wasn’t because it had gone on too long it was all removed very quickly. If mods are going to lay down the law they have to follow it themselves. Moreso even.
  8. It has no place in a thread about Rovers transfers. Many topics similarly worthy to other people have been removed. The discussion was about newspapers and their motives, please do not twist it as you have.
  9. Off topic and political. Practice what you preach please.
  10. This is the problem the longer Venkys are here. Young, ignorant fans don’t know any different and history will be rewritten. Stockholm syndrome in full flow. Mowbray has cleverly tapped into this zeitgeist with talk of us “not having Shearer and Sutton any more”. I just wish these know-nowts weren’t quite so smug. The lad there “Finch” was probably in primary school when these club killers rocked up. They are the biggest threat to the future of this club and we are totally reliant on them writing off £200m (and rising). Meanwhile they are being 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻‘d at by the young generation of fans, who blame other supporters for our plight.
  11. The daft thing is, Williams would have taken action and Mowbray would have been fully understanding of the reason. “All part and parcel of the game”. He must pinch himself every time he wakes up. Absolute lottery ticket.
  12. All we need now is to keep Armstrong and we’ll be just as bad as we were last season. But everyone will say it’s been a great window. Genuis really.
  13. So what does he actually do then? Because on the face of it, he’s a very highly paid admin staff member who is happy with his lot - or he surely would have walked.
  14. Let me save you all the worry. He’ll be sold for ‘undisclosed’.
  15. A furious backlash from whom? Rovers fans: “it’s not reight but tha’ll not stop me supporting my club” Would any of the 2,500 hardcore fans say anything at all? I expect they would blame covid and the club being skint and carry on paying (…Waggott’s salary). I’m actually surprised this wasn’t discussed and publicly confirmed at the FF meeting two-and-a-bit weeks ago. Should be a slam dunk, nothing-to-see-here confirmation of the pricing and/or discount rather than some confirmation of a “loyalty based” scheme. Unless the details were confidential?
  16. Belongs in ICBINF. An insidious and divisive place I have very happily avoided for several years now.
  17. The money tied up in Brockhall is what will save this club when all of the chancers and vultures and scavengers and the rats have made their coin. If it is cashed in now so that a small group of people can get rich at the expense of the club then we are heading into oblivion.
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