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  1. 2 hours ago, Old Codger said:

    Burble burble burble, blahbladdyblah.

    Three nil to the Tractor Boys, John Eustace won't go far...

    This is Rovers' cup final for this season. Rise to the occasion and maybe the campaign could end with a little pride and a flourish. Baulk or worse still freeze in the headlights, and the downward trajectory might become a little too compelling to avoid a galling tailspin into the third division.

    Dark days at the home of football.

    Oh, and just as an aside, I was speaking with a neighbour who is a dyed in the wool follower of all things shite at th'Turd, and he reckons that this season is actually "going to plan" with the beanie bloke looking to rebuild through another dominant season in the Champ, before taking a re-vitalised army of knuckle-draggers back to Mid Prem permanence. I know, I've had a warning already for talking non-football matters on the forum, but really, a 5 year plan including boing boing?? The idea of a bouncing turd really does nothing for my love of football. 

    C'mon Rovers players tomorrow. Give it some welly, and play for a bit of pride.

     

    Some of them convinced themselves a while ago that signing players not good enough is all part of some Yank/Kompany masterplan.

    They'll get pasted every week get relegated but bounce straight back and second time around they'll know what its all about and take the prem by storm.

    Only in Burnley could such delusion prosper and when they come down a flog half of them again reality will dawn, then again no it probably won't.

  2. 1 hour ago, Torgeir said:

    Didn't hear that. Are you sure? Installments both way; incomings and outgoings. Can't be used as an excuse.

    The way he goes on about it in the first podcast to me comes across as if he's speaking about a big wedge that is available to put to use in several different directions.

    Even if he's speaking hypothetically it's still a bit fairy tale he should be a bit more realistic it's the kind of talk that leads to disappointment and anger when the opposite happens.

    He surely knows it's in instalments and the first one has likely already gone and if there is no funding from India for whatever reason the next one will be gone.  Also he said he'd been told it would be reinvested which isn't exactly set in stone seeing as a few months ago he was told he'd have the same budget as last year.  Then he was assuming that funding issued would have been sorted before now before delayed court cases messed it up.

    I guess what i'm saying is he should be a bit more guarded and realistic in what he is projecting as he knows better how it could go really.

    He's trading on hope and expectation rather than facts at the min.

     

  3. 1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

    I have listened to GB's interview with Elliott Jackson and I really enjoyed listened to him. He answered the questions and he has a plan how he would like to move the club forward playing squad wise and transfer wise. 

    I agree with GB plans how to use the Wharton's money into 4 parts and it is a sensible plan and hopefully the board will listened to him. Given he is in charge of the footballing side he should be listened to. Will he? we will see. 

    it is clear who was at fault for the 3 failed deadline day transfer signings and it isn't GB. It is people above him and as I have stated previously who I would have sack over this  

    I will listened to the Andy Bayes one tonight on my way to work

    He talks about the Wharton money as if it is coming into the club in one lump and will be separate from everything else so can be divided into 4 different areas ?

    To me he was actually saying it could be used One or two of 4 different ways i can't think he's that naive that he really thinks there is going to be a giant pot to be divided up. I think we all know that from previous sales and now the financial issues the Wharton instalments will be used soley for running costs barring maybe a million for a couple of Pickering style signings.

    Then we'll be told it's re-invested in youth to develop.

    Gregg knows this and imo is just covering himself so when that happens he can say well i made my recommendations to the board public and they chose to go a different way.

    Shrug of shoulders.

  4. 1 hour ago, AllRoverAsia said:

    A guy from India was appointed something in finance not too long ago. I can't recall if he was to be bars in India or the UK.

    Meanwhile at Ewood it's jobworth musical chairs.

    A moment ago whilst on the main Rovers website looking for a name for the Indian finance guy I got this.

    You may think this is an old image, it's not.

    As we now have the like of Scott Wharton doing the bidding of the VSW cabal and slagging off JDT publicly this is a little odd.

    No doubt Rovers will claim they have now spotted what was just human error.

    Arses and Elbows.....

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    No surprise if you've seen some of the VH group websites they look like a kid has done them on GoDaddy.

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  5. 2 hours ago, bluebruce said:

    I don't see any reason to think that would be the case? They've replaced one British finance guy with another British finance guy, I'm not sure why that indicates a move of the finances from here to India. The appointment in India might be more relevant in that regard, I don't know. In the other post you said Babu, but hasn't he been at the club for years now, or is it a different Babu?

    Babu has been on the board for years yes and he is allegedly the guy responsible for seeing the finance get from India to here, so he'll have been a bit redundant recently !

    What no one seems to know is what the other guy has been added for.

    Now we have a long standing guy here apparently standing down for family reasons amid a myriad of rumours, the most sane one being he is just retiring. Why the club couldn't just say that then who knows but it doesn't help the cloak and dagger stuff, then we have an officer replacing a director.

    Aren't companies the size of Rovers required to have a certain number of UK based directors ?

  6. 13 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

    Well he's been immediately replaced by Matt Wright, so I can't imagine it changes a thing in regards to where the finances are managed.

    They still need one on the ground here to manage all the takings and outgoings in Blackburn.

    The main finance though of player, football operation wages, transfer, debts, funding etc will surely be done direct from India ?

    How many finance people does one club need seeing as they already appointed another in India recently.

  7. Charlie Cheston stepping down.

    I presume all the finances might be managed in India now with maybe all bills paid directly from there cutting out the need to money transfer.

    Not sure if that's possible or how it would impact their situation over there but no doubt it'll turn to shit anyway.

    It would also increase the need for more revenue in Blackburn to cover any shortfall in day to day costs here, more price increases on the horizon.

  8. The best way to narrow the odds of a Rovers victory is to press and counter and get a goal or two up but obviously not leaving the huge voids of space at the back we did under JDT.

    We just don't hold on to 0-0 then nick a game late it's just not in this squads DNA though i get the impression that is what Eustace is trying for based on evidence so far.

    As always Rovers need to be 1/3 goals up at half time to have any hope of 3 points.

  9. That Fleck move is the work of genuine incompetence and probably stopped that money going towards another deal like say for instance McGuires loan fee.

    Waggot needs removing from this club immediately before he does any more damage as does the clown he works in tandem with.

    The only thing that has covered for those two was Mowbrays experienced steady hand i think it was obvious him and Venus ran the football operation until the last season they were here.  Then in comes JDT who it seems was Broughtons pick, new gaffer bounce, does well, so what do they do ?

    Don't back him and play a part in him giving up and starting to look elsewhere for new employment.

    We are stuck with this ownership but there is no need to be stuck with these internal incompetent power grabbers, get them out by any means.

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  10. 1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

    You're daft to think we have a good reputation in football.

    JDT resigned and was replaced by a very inexperienced manager who was gagging for another crack at a Head Coach job. It's not rocket science.

    I'd love the Venkys to fuck off - and I do think we'd be an attractive proposition to a buyer (assuming our Indian overlords don't take our training ground / Academy when they leave), but they've made it very clear that they simply don't want to sell. 

    Reputation ?

    Money talks as do job vacancies and the chance to relaunch a career, the reputation here is if you toe the line, the owners like you then it's easy money and that is appealing to anybody.

    If you go for the right people with the right offer they'll come if there is nothing better being flung under their nose.  Here they go for easy to employ, cheaper targets and THAT is why Eustace is here and why JDT was here.

    Same with GB, offering this step up to someone like him would see him make very few demands and obviously be prepared to put up with nonsense.

  11. Think Celtic would be a great move for him and i'd rather see him up there than at an ambitious Champ club or one in the Prem coming straight back down.

    Bag full of goals for him playing for the best side in the pub league, Europe, better for his international career and huge fanbase to worship him.

    We'd be needing 10 million though !

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

    He's by far the most qualified man in the building (and was even when we had JDT and co employed). 

    You have to learn on the job at times - it's his first time being a DoF. I'm not entirely sure why he gets caught up in all the hatred (well I do, but I won't go into that) - he's very much earned his crack at a DoF job. 

    Now ideally you'd want a more experienced DoF to walk into a first-time DoF role at Ewood Park and set up the system - but who worth their salt is going to take on this gig?

    That last line is daft and trotted out too many times in regards to Rovers.

    'Who can we sign', 'Who will buy us'. 'Who will manage us' etc etc    There are plenty out there who'd come and as i pointed out it's our first real stab at a having a proper DoF model so what do they do ?

    They hire someone who has never done it before then hide in shadows as he presides over another step in the right direction turning to a shit show.  He clearly isn't actually directing anything he's just another intermediate adviser who can't make anything but the most basic decisions and all his ideas and directions have to go through several layers above him before he even gets a 'maybe' answer.

    That is why they've hired a rookie and of course in his naivety he'll front up answering questions and taking flak for stuff that isn't down to him.

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  13. I like Wharton he's one of us and it's good to see him back playing well again but in all honesty he struggled with JDTs style more than others.  He wasn't alone in that but he also fell away a bit the season before under a different style with TM.

    He was out because he was making basic defensive errors, not alone again, and that was mainly down to him. Poor though that it seems there was no arm around the shoulder and the dropping him for the Burnley game was another of JDTs many cock ups.  Not sure what he was trying to prove there but i'd wager that was the start of an uneasy relationship between Scott and the head coach.

    What i did like in that interview is how gutted he obviously was and still is he was dropped from that game, lad was nearly choking up.

    Barnes isn't putting him in the back of the net that day like he did Hyam !

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  14. 32 minutes ago, Hasta said:

    To be fair he does mention that. He states that we pulled out of the original deal whilst he was still in America sat with his representatives, and that rumours of him being in the air when the deal got pulled are absolutely not true. He then came across as he had the opportunity to sign for another Championship club. It's in the Jackson interview.

    What is telling in the Bayes interview is when the questions are slightly off what he expected how his answers aren't as pre-rehearsed. He trots the "up until the Watford game" out in every interview. As soon as Bayes calls it out that its over the last 46 games we have been relegation contenders, not just since Christmas, he doesn't have an answer other than to waffle.

    Fair play to Andy Bayes. You often find Radio Lancs interviews with all of the local clubs will pull out the more difficult questions when things are not going well and it felt like that again. The Jackson interview and the academy interview were all pally, pally plain sailing. The Bayes one is a bit more awkward.

    Overall I just dont think Broughton is very good at his job. I'm not even sure what his job covers any more as he's now making it very clear in all interviews that the manager will have the final say, on whether we sign Maguire or on past JDT recruitment. Therefore is all he do negotiate contracts with people.

    He is shining the light a little bit for us though. He's sending out enough clear signs to say that the others at the club are incompetent and he knows what should happen to make the club successful but whether he is listened to, or that model of re-investment is followed, he cannot guarantee. 

    Hes never been a DoF before and it clearly shows there are times he's winging it because he has no experience in that role with these issues.

    Just symptomatic of what has happened many times under this ownership, they employ people who aren't qualified to the required standard for the roles given to them. A constant need to to try and put cheaper yes men in and assume they'll grow into the role.

    Why ?

    It all started with Kean and there have been so many examples along the way. It's been the polar opposite of the Jack Walker then John Williams philosophy, if you want the job doing properly and you can afford it then hire the best you can convince to come to the club.

    It saves money in the long run and has a far greater chance of delivering what you need.

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  15. Iv'e nothing against Broughton i'm sure he didn't envisage some of the crap he was signing up for and most of it isn't his fault. I'd feel better if they sacked the Waggot and Shadow man and let him actually run the show although no guarantees which way it would go.

    I do feel though that when he isn't signing known players with some pedigree for a fee and decent wage then he has been found badly wanting. And that is what he's here for under the current set up and he's unlikely to be given a transfer budget so the thought of more Ennis, Leo, Tele, Mola etc is very worrying.

    Even Hirst which he papped on about in hindsight, yes he was obviously a player with championship potential but like Ennis and the others he just did not fit the then head coaches style.

    Perhaps Eustace will have easier to fulfil requiements.

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  16. 4 hours ago, Upside Down said:

    Wrong.

    The only remit this club should have is to be a top half premier league team. Like it was when these cunts took over.

    That is the absolute bare minimum I will accept from them.

    That's an ideology as well so forget about it.

    It's done, gone, never happening under their watch whether it be two years or twenty and you can pin this !

  17. 1 hour ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

    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!

    Yep we all know the small squad is really just to drive down the wage bill and use cheap youth therefore also justifying the academy.

    We had a debate on here a few years ago initially pushed by someone who has now disappeared. His argument why use the players we had then on journeymen and upper champ wages just to finish midtable when we could use our own younger ones.

    Of course the kickback was that's a sure fire way to league one what we really need is a better manager and directors.

    Well after briefly bucking the trend here we are.

  18. 5 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

    I think , if we are going to be relegated  , those 2 gentleman will slink away quietly and never to be seen again .

    I am not sure , where Venkys go if we get relegated this season ,cos it will have been totally stage managed !

    Well ideally they'd clear off and a result the nest of dweebs hiding in the comfortable confines of Ewood wood be gone as well as a result.

    However we are stuck with them but there is no need to hold on to tweedle Dum and tweedle Dee because they've failed and heads need to roll.

  19. He always speaks well and i'm sure his intentions are good but he's pitching things that will never happen here and he has zero experience of delivering in a capacity as a DoF anyway.

    So it's basically 'look ##FC did it like this and so did ##FC so if we do the same we'll get the same result'.

    Ideology.

    And this 'sustainable Prem club line' is the biggest nonsense of the lot you need to move heaven and earth to get there first before you worry about that. One season up there would, without being stupid of course, totally reset the clubs finances and then we can think about sustaining it.

    Right now the only remit should be a sustainable top end Championship club that starts every season with a 50/50 chance of finishing in the top 6.  What they are delivering and it started  over 2 years ago is a club that has a 50/50 chance of dropping to league 1 every season and an 20/80 chance of finishing in the top 6.

    So his waffle is just empty words, the new jam tomorrow 'journey' talk that needs resetting every time there is another good player flogged and not replaced or another budget cut.

    It's BS Gregg lad BS and you are fooling no one.

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  20. 6 hours ago, Trinidad Rover said:

    Buy out bidder - Dan Williams Interview

    Doing some googling and found this....I wonder what might have been.

    It looks like this got fairly serious at one stage. Anyone know what happened?

    Hard to imagine it being a lot worse.

    Fair play to the Telerag with that interview and line of questioning they won't even ask the CEO real questions these days. Their quality has gone down the plug hole just like the club

  21. 25 minutes ago, islander200 said:

    Yeah but they could have got his wages off the books and received a transfer fee if they accepted the bid from Ipswich.

    It just doesn't make sense to turn down multiple bids from Ipswich, then when Ipswich have signed their alternatives we then make Gally available for transfer.

    You can't really hold that as a valid reason to think it's not true because the way they do things makes very little sense anyway.

    We know even in the best scenario deadline day is crazy things change by the minute, say JDT was the only man wanting Gally to stay so Rovers were holding out for an offer they couldn't refuse and he'd have to lump it. Then Ipswich sign Moore so that's off the table but there's a loan offer from Brum or somewhere ?

    There are literally a dozen scenarios that could unfold and one of those is very much someone in the club trying to move him off the wage bill at the 11th hour with no replacement and looking for a pat on the back.

     

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