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.

If someone is paying you 300k a year plus perks for a part time gig you'll tend to portray they are wonderful because to you they are. To most others they are to running this illustrious old club what Eddie Edwards was to Olympic Ski jumping.

Hide in the shadows and give the impression it's nothing to do with you when it's exactly the opposite. This guy is the 'Operations Manager' that is on the official site so what is he operating. the whole club ? Time for answers is long overdue.

Phillips was happy to trade becoming an established first teamer here in a side that finished 7th with the prospect of getting many games/experience and a big money move down the line. Instead it was double or treble the wages, a London penthouse and a loan to Plymouth. Forget him, he'll still be plodding around the loan market in the Championship next season and probably the season after. It was all on him and his agent.

I'd like to think the only way he's dodgy is in the eyeballs but that lowlight reel is grim. If you're going to purposely let one in though there are less obvious ways than Sundays howler.

Him and his 15k pwk will be long gone whether he wants to stay or not.

We've already blow 800k plus add ons probably on Leo so the chances of any keeper changes are virtually zero i'm afraid. The only chance was when Pears was doing ok earlier under Eustace he might have caught the attention of another Champ club who want an English keeper in their squad for a modest fee. That would've freed up a wage and position but i dread t think who Broughton would've foisted on us next, most likely Leo !!!

We continue the Waggot Venky express train to be the new Crewe of League 1. Income targets reduced and easier to hit. Wage budget and matchday expense reduced and easier to manage with less from India. Academy downgrade and merged with first team on one site - cheaper and easier to manage. Pathway to first team squad easier for more players. Less big money sales but more quicker cheaper ones with add ons to Championship clubs. Ta ta DoF in cost saving measure but CEO and Shadow remain in well paid part time work running it all.

A brainless one seeing as Coventry are likely to be pushing a result or at least just celebrating another good season and having a party in their last away fixture. Roll up roll up to the Ewood red carpet Sky Blues, if you're lucky you might get gifted a goal or two as well.

That team might be enough to see midtable in league 1 and bugger all else.

Brittain, Hedges, JRC, Markandy, Garrett, Pickering, Wharton should all be above average in league 1 consistently. Pears will still be Pears and Leo will shit bricks at the amount of hoofs and set pieces coming at him in that league. All the other pros will be gone and the rest of the youngsters have it all to prove, it will be a long hard winter for sure.

Iv'e said it many times since we aren't losing that pathetic last min goal to Coventry at Ewood with TK in the sticks. Main difference is though he was a keeper who earns points with vital saves at crucial points in games, Pears and his ilk still make good stops but 9/10 a half decent effort will beat him too easily. It''s those fine margins between real class and bang average.

The main point being once Weds went two up down that end having so many fans having a carnival in one end became more of a help to them than it should have been. And it was avoidable so why give teams that opportunity in the first place in what was really a one off 6 pointer not a run of the mill game.

Yes Pears has rescued both him and Hyam a time or three this season from their constant presenting the ball to the opposition.

I see nothing in him or his style that would give us a real chance of bouncing straight back his football would only prosper in league one if he can bring in a couple of bruisers at the back and a couple of strikers. I'm still mixed in opinion on his actual impact since taking over as although he made strides tightening up there are half a dozen games where we can justifiably say we should have have been displaying a clear 'must win' attitude but didn't. If we do survive it's going to be by the skin of or teeth rather than some heroic rescue act by him but yes the problems run deeper as we say on Sunday.

Yep the Weds fans only really influenced their side once they'd been gifted two goals again down that end, one a counter and piss poor defending again and one the howler of the century. Not much action at all in front of the home end until Markandy came on apart from Sammie missing one he should have scored. 'But why are you not cheering'....

That's because it's always been a small town family club fanbase and a fairly big ground not often full, plenty other clubs have the same type of fanbase. It's the stadium itself that is the giant white elephant way too big and way too accommodating for visiting fans from much larger areas. PNE and Burnley, Blackpool and Bolton fans no different whatsoever....their stadiums are though. As someone who has travelled all over supporting Rovers through various periods of form etc i will die on the hill that most places are the same when their team is shite, their are problems at the club or there is nothing to play for. The exceptions are very rare but again most don't have a stadium way to big for their core fanbase and town. Coventry, Sheff Weds, Derby, Stoke, Boro, Sunderland, West Brom, Villa, Brum, to name a few iv'e visited regularly over last decade or so and all shite atmosphere and empty seats all over the gaff when things weren't going well. Yet again amongst our small minded fans it only ever happens at Ewood !!! Have some of you lot ever actually been anywhere else apart from when Rovers were on a good run ?

Has Waggot filled the upper first ? If not, why not ?

Yep another day of watching a rowdy DE full of big city day trippers on piss enjoying their big day out at Ewood ! From another club reborn from the doldrums whilst we trudge aimlessly on providing a gravy train and nest egg for a few useless disconnected individuals in head office. But hey why aren't there 20k in home sections cheering from the rooftops this team who've let us down for 3/4 of the season ?

We've got a lilly livered soft centre in the squad again moaning about it instead of appreciating where they are and the support they actually get. They are flinging out excuses again left right and centre and we are yet again falling for the 'blame the fans' deflection tactics. Oh just outshout them from the other end ? Still doesn't make much difference when the opposition are attacking their end repeatedly because their players are set up better and trying harder. They are STILL kicking into a massed bank of seven thousand fans even if there is 20 thousand in the other end ! When you get a big city team coming you have a lower tier full of mainly aled up blokes between the ages of 16-60, when you look in the Blackburn End lower tier you have a real mix of age, gender, kids and family groups it's a different demographic they ain't going to be bouncing round the stand unless the team is having a real go down that end. It was no different when we were challenging the top of the Prem. Don't fall for the narrative twisting agenda it's all down to the players to lift the negative vibe this ownership and those running this club have created over the last decade.

Repeated mistakes and poor in general is the real issue and it'll happen again that's why he remains in the spotlight. This isn't a Tim Flowers or Paul Robinson isolated incident in a top level god knows how many games difference. Calamity James and Joe Hart in between regular bloopers produced world class performances there is no comparison. Yes still early in his career and he's never getting to those levels but a team like us cannot afford TWO such poor keepers.

Raya always had monumental potential and TK came in as the finished article so the job was certainly made easier with those keepers. Steele was bang average and went backwards at a rate of knots once John Keeley left so i think coaches can make a difference but an even bigger one imo is made by working alongside a good established number 1 for the number 2 and back up. As said though without the raw materials and natural ability the best coaches in the world can't make a good keeper and Pears to me has always looked as if he isn't a natural just someone who has to work really hard just to get to grips with the basics. Leo actually does look like a sharp and agile more natural keeper but isn't suited to this standard of British football yet but with both of these we continue to suffer because of the new 'development' model being put before results and ambition. Nothing highlights it more than the entire keeper dept.

Yep but the lazy and the clueless who run the club won't acknowledge the desperate need to reboot the season ticket base and get as many home fans in as possible. They'll just say if we restrict the 4 or 5 potential huge followings per season ticket prices will have to rise again to cover it. No interest whatsoever in the cost of points or home fans being pissed off with it. The DoF should be walking into Waggot and the shadow mans offices and saying 3 times you've filled that end with away fans this season and 3 times we've lost with many of the goals coming at that end and a few resulting from complete howlers. That's 9 points. Of course there is the bigger picture but it also needs acknowledging they've created a development team as a first team propped up by a few senior pros so the dynamics are different than they were a few years ago. A squad of 30% home grown kids, young loanees and average journeymen needs and environment it can thrive in and use every advantage possible in the quest for enough points to tread water. Restrict the big city teams to 5k filling upstairs first that's more than adequate and food for thought is Sheff Weds if that was a dead rubber would've brought 2.5 to 3.5k tops. So for a few extra quid that will neither make or break the financial mess at Rovers we've rolled over and allowed them double that for their big day out and most important game so far. Well done.