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RevidgeBlue

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  1. Imo the more you hear from Broughton the more obvious it becomes he's only in it for the ride.

    No guarantees given whatsoever regarding transfers going forward but "I've submitted my report". (Roughly translates as "I couldnt care less what happens after that - as long as I continue to get paid Im all right Jack")

    And who in their right mind would retain some of their transfer budget? If you have a budget (subject to FFP) then you spend it all in the hope of doing as well as you possibly can NOW.  If things dont then work out you'd have to work on your wits and wheel and deal and tweak things about until they do work.

    Hopefully Eustace won't want this guy hanging around for long - then at least it would be one less to worry about.

  2. 22 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

    I love how you have such strong feelings of disgust towards so many people at the club yet have nothing to say about the owners.

    I've had plenty to say about them since the financial landscape changed. You along with my old mate roversfan99 just choose to disregard it.

  3. Well, the likes of Waggott and Broughton (and Mowbray before them) are or were only interested in feathering their own nests and doing the bare minimum to keep the gravy train rolling on as long as possible.

    Why do the owners let them get away with it? Probably because they can afford it and don't care enough and can't be arsed to put more effort in to try and change things and make us successful.

  4. Only Southgate could make such a talented bunch of players look so insipid.

    Coming the day after he didn't have the cajones to say the right thing about the new England shirt and toed the FA/Nike party line instead.

    Another opportunity will go to waste again this summer. As one or two others have said we'll win nowt with him in charge. Criminal he wasn't potted after the World Cup but then he always says the right thing as far as his employers are concerned so unfortunately the job is probably his as long as he wants it.

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  5. 5 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

    I'll take that as a wind up!

    No matter what we think of Gally, he works hard & would've been replaced by........ nothing!!

    So.... even in that scenario we'd have been no worse off on the pitch as he offers absolutely nothing but at least we'd have had some money in the Bank.

    Obviously in an ideal world he should have been sold and replaced at zero net cost  by the younger Mcguire.

    As for Broughton, bullshitter extraordinaire. I had to try very hard not to throw the phone out of the car window listening to that pile of smarmy shite. The main  purpose of the interview seemed to be to blow smoke up his arse but on the odd occasion a difficult question arose he completely ducked it.

    Clearly only here for his own betterment financially and also only interested in selling players. Well I'm glad he's glad that we're keeping the "big" Clubs happy and that we're seemingly on a mission to find a home for our best young talent away from Ewood Park.

    Why is no-one at the Club interested in US doing well on the pitch or winning football matches?

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  6. On 19/03/2024 at 06:36, K-Hod said:

    No, it’s not until April now, due to availability of Steve Waggott.

    Are the Forum going to put up with being messed about like this indefinitely? All you get when he does turn up is "I didn't know about it" or "I'll look into it".

    We've had two high profile transfers either messed up or sabotaged in successive January transfer windows,  a manager walk out in disgust, and now that the future of the Club appears to be hanging by a thread at the whim of an Indian Court, Waggott's avoiding you because its got a bit too hot in the kitchen.

    You should refuse to meet with the Club and go Public with your decision until they start taking meetings seriously and provide dome satisfactory answers as to the Club's future.

    And by this I mean some actual  detail of what they're going to do.  No more of this stock bs from Waggott about "the owners remain fully committed" when actions suggest otherwise and which translate as far as he is concerned as "I couldn't care less what happens to the Club as long as I can screw another 2 or 3 years money out of it."

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  7. On 17/03/2024 at 20:25, Hasta said:

    The players had downed tools under JDT as results show, albeit he was operating without Hedges, Hyam, Dolan, Gallagher and Pears. Leo alone cost him several points. The body language in that QPR game from the players and the bench was appalling and Britain’s comments after JDT had left had told us that his departure was inevitable.

    However under Eustace the players  seem to have been slow ‘picking back up’ the tools. To me his job this season is to stop up, and I believe with the players available and points we have on the board that should have been fairly easily achievable. If we do stop up then next season I will then start to judge him albeit with the off field situation giving him plenty of slack. However if we go down this season it will be an absolute failure on his part.
     

     

    I think that's the best summary I've seen.

    I'm pretty convinced that if JDT had stayed we'd have gone down, as much as I liked him.

    If Eustace keeps us up this season that's job done for that period as far as I'm concerned.

    I do however have reservations about his ability to take us forward over the course of a full season next year based on what we've seen so far.

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  8. 1 hour ago, K-Hod said:

    At the owners, I hope.

    No closer to home.

    Obviously it was the owners decision to pull the Mcguire permanent deal for financial reasons due to the Court case, but those conditions weren't pertaining when the O Brien and Brierley deals were authorised but mysteriously fell by the wayside at the last minute nor do I blame the owners for the Mcguire loan deal going mysteriously tits up in similar circumstances after they authorised it.

    I wonder who would look better if we spent less money over the year?

    Edit: You can of course blame the owners 100% that multiple heads haven't rolled as a result of all three incidents.

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  9. 7 hours ago, JHRover said:

    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.

     

    You'd imagine authorisation to go ahead is given at a relatively early stage. Even we surely wouldnt be stupid enough to take all our deals down to the wire without even knowing whether the owners will give them the go ahead.

    A case in point is the Mcguire permanent deal which was seemingly initially authorised but then pulled at the last minute for financial reasons. 

    The loan deal would appear to be completely different. Once again this was seemingly authorised after the failure of the permanent deal and  GB "negotiated" a deal with a ludicrous option to purchase fee which ensured there would never be any danger of it being made permanent.

    However for the second year in a row it appears we couldn't even get the paperwork for the loan right - either through negligence or by design. It is I think insulting everyone's intelligence to suggest we could cock up three deals accidentally especially when it only generally seems to happen to high value incoming deals and I know where I would be pointing the finger.

     

  10. 4 hours ago, martonrover said:

    Surely, player trading is chiefly a responsibility for the Director of Football.

    I wonder if Broughton was aware of what Waggott and Pasha were up to?

    If he was then it was totally out of order not involving JDT in discussions.

    If he wasn't, then obviously he still wasn't aggrieved enough to take the moral high ground like JDT did and negotiate his own departure.

    Speaks volumes.

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  11. 9 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

    Anybody know if Broughton still turns up for work or is he gardening?

    I expect he'll pop up again next season like nothing has happened and everything will be brushed under the carpet and conveniently forgotten.

  12. 6 minutes ago, arbitro said:

    I was told last night that on the last day of the window Pasha and Waggott arranged a loan deal for a player Tomasson rated behind his back. Tomasson got wind of this and asked the player who told him it was true but he was of the understanding that Tomasson had agreed to it. Tomasson went ballistic at those two and went to town on them, it was said to me that it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Being the cowards that are they were scared they would be called out in his press conference the day before the QPR game and stopped him doing it. This ties in with the 'ask Steve and Pasha' comment after the QPR game.

    And Broughton knew nothing of this scurrilous deal.

    I was told the name of the player but it would be unfair to name him.

     

    Of all the things JDT could be aggrieved about that doesn't sound like it should be very high up the list.

    Why would he be upset about a loan deal being arranged for a player he rated?

    And also difficult to believe this player wouldnt have been an improvement on the players we did end up with who Broughton presumably did sign?

    Plus as we used to keep getting told, he was a head Coach and not a manager so wouldn't have had the sole say on incomings.

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  13. 10 hours ago, J*B said:

    Yes to both - the idea of going up, being sold AND having to effectively buy a full squad (as I'm not sure any of ours would be good enough) - absolutely terrifies me and stinks of "straight back down". If that was to happen I don't think I'd find much fun getting tonked most weeks by the worlds best players. 

    At this stage of the season I would be setting targets for each game - Ipswich, Southampton and Leeds in my opinion, will beat us 99/100 times at the moment. So I would prioritise goal difference in those games and instead would target getting a minimum of 6 points from Sunderland, Bristol and Sheff Weds. Which I think would be enough to keep us up. 

    Nurse? !!!!

    Bloody Hell, Ipswich Southampton and Leeds aren't Manchester City or Barcelona. Get a grip!

    We should be targeting something off every game. One of the three mentioned above might have an off day when we play them and I think it's more likely we'll beat one of them then routinely roll over all three of the so called "lesser" sides.

     

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  14. 17 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

    it`s 1/100 that eustace will get **** all of the raya and wharton transfer money,they really think the fans are gullible and stupid,some are definately,the majority know what to expect with this rancid lot

    Agreed, but subject to the word "should" they've put a statement out saying the recent financial issues are practically resolved.

    Whether they intended to do that may be a moot point but they can hardly use the Court proceedings as an excuse going forward now.

  15. 3 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

    highly likely,not before promising that venkys troubles are behind them and they are commited to giving eustace a substancial budget,the month after,it`s announced there is no money due to whatever they make up,we`ve all been here before steve,it`s not going work this time you greasy double glazing salesman

    Difficult not to think otherwise isn't it.

    Waggott will be gutted if he has to send our (sorry the leased) new bus back.

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  16. The "statement" is quite clear in the inference that whatever problems there were previously as regards getting funding over  have allegedly now more or less been resolved and there are only a few procedural points to iron out.

    Everyone should keep a copy of this statement close to hand in case there is no change to the current situation. The Club and owners will have hung themselves by their own petard should that turn out to be the case.

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  17. On 16/03/2024 at 12:18, harryhealless1928 said:

    Yes its hard for Broughton when hes only buttons to spend.

    But...Gary Bowyerdid as good a job(perhaps better) with buttons as well as being first team manager; even though hardly using  the Academy lads.

    Cairney, Duffy &  Gestede come to mind immediately for some sort of fee generated before the wages sent Venkys into cost-cutting mode. 

    It was allegedly Gary Bowyer's Dad Ian, of former Notts Forest fame under Cloughie, who was involved in the scouting when we had that relatively golden recruitment period.

    How we could do with someone at the Club now who knows the game and has a real eye for a player instead of Broughton and legions of analysts who wouldn't know a decent player if they tripped over them.

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  18. 6 minutes ago, martonrover said:

    I think Jackson is a Sheff Weds supporter.

    To be fair, Eustace has been making that point since his arrival.

    I guess the chant from yesterday, (“I don’t care about Venkys”), is a bit of a compromise to draw all factions within the fan base together, but it’s a bit too tame for me.

    Is the chant "I don't care about Venky's" simply that one line chanted over and over? Or is it part of a longer song with some additional context?

    If not its a bit of an odd message to send out, to the uninitiated it sounds like those singing it aren't too bothered either way way whether Venky's stay or go.

  19. 12 minutes ago, booth said:

    So basically, they'll sell when they can pocket the promotion money.

    What a set of dunces.

    It's Nixon, so I'd treat the story with a lorry load of salt but even if it were true they'd have to be fairly quick to sell us as a PL Club given that promotion is arguably a licence to get tubbed for a season then go straight back down.

    All indications up to now (before the current Court case) were that they'd never consider selling, ever, and in the unlikely event we did ever get promoted under them you'd think being in the Premier League would make them less not more inclined to sell.

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