And it's been that way under Mowbray, it'll be that way under the next man, and the man after that, ad nauseum. It'll keep happening because no one weilding any power really cares, or has any passion for change. There's no real plan apart from to get through each season, like washing the dishes, but with no real competence or drive. Collect your vast wage and move onto the next 12 month grind.

Be interesting to see how they handle getting relegated, and if things don't pan out as they did last season in the Championship, how they handle that. I've already seen threads online about their golden boy "Vinnie" getting the sack, or should resign.

Having Armstrong in the side and Gallagher on the wing would be a vast improvement at the moment.

No, we'd still get beat. Why did you let Siggy leave Chrisene on his own? Why did you let Moran lose the ball all the time? Why didn't Dolan score? Why couldn't Telalovic get his shot on target in the last five minutes? All your fault, you should be making the players better.

I’ve no idea about that but I do know it was well known inside the club towards the end of last season that the wage bill had to be cut, and the higher ups wanted to sell the silver. I’ve no idea about the coaches, but the players were not happy about it given they’d had a decent season and everyone had bought into the project. I assume that had the biggest impact on the morale of the team.

He’s not told that. He’s told if Travis and Buckley go out we can bring in players that can make more of an impact. But what it really is, is cutting the wage bill. Last season, both players were given a chance and started remarkably poorly. Travis was given the captains armband, so JDT clearly rated him before the season kicked off.

I don't believe this collection of players can do much better. We have no Samba's, Todd's, Kevin Moran's. There's been no rhyme or reason to picking up some of these players at all. Recruitment have just gone, here you go, make something of that. We're relying on a moment of magic from Sammie every game. We simply don't have the forward players with enough about them in this league, we're playing without fullbacks when JRC goes forward. Chrisene and Siggy is suicide but what's the other option? Tronstad, without Wharton, was on his own. It's an absolute mess and we'll need a magician not a coach or a manager. And at the same time there's so many players disappearing in the Summer, you have to wonder if they give a stuff. The guys at the top don't seem to.

You don't blame Waggott for not closing down Hodge, you blame him for being a supine fuckwit. For allowing the squad to fall into such decline. For employing a manager incapable of a relegation scrap. All of those things that have led us to this moment.

We've just given someone older than him a contract.

If only they'd messed up on the paperwork when they bought the club. They've been toxic.

Arguably, a clumsily assembled team of mismatched players will be playing. Certainly not players capable of a relegation fight, which the CEO and Venkys puppets knew about in advance but failed to prepare for both in terms of coaching staff and players. Even worse, when the head coach offered to leave he was told to carry on his footballing philosophy. Champagne football on next to no budget.

When was the last time they addressed the fans? A decade ago? (as in a TV interview, not Steve Waggott typing something up and typing THE RAO FAMILY underneath it).

The owners aren't doing anything. They passively allow a handful of under qualified people to make the executive decisions whilst their sleazy affairs impact the clubs finances. That's what will lead the club to relegation. If you deny that, then you're excusing them.

There's a lot worse than sulking going on behind the scenes. The owners need to sell the club, they are clearly incapable of governing it and have little respect for BRFC as a historic institution, and even less respect for the fans.

More like get behind the Venkys and the lads these days.

He could do this but when he asked to leave it appeared relatively rosy. It would have been difficult to renege when the club was in an arguably decent state, finishing outside the play offs on goal difference. All to play for in the coming season with a veneer of respectability Now it's more difficult to defend themselves after allowing their sleazy affairs to interfere with the running of the club. It says a lot about the club and the owners that they won't come to a mutual agreement when a manager wants to leave. It's obvious that it's not good for anyone, and they refused purely to avoid answering awkward questions. Like, why did your most successful appointment want to leave after one season?

And when he is, if it gets no better there can be no excuses from the usual places.

It's quite clear that if he asked to go, and they wouldn't let him, then he's bound by contract or he'd be away. I'm not sure why people are debating this. It's also easy to work out what happened. He got us to within a whisker of the play offs. They told him the project had changed. He asks if he can leave as this isn't what he signed up for. They shit themselves and say no. A manager leaving the club on a relative high would be strange and raise questions. Like the cowards they are the allowed the situation to decline till he was dragged down with them.

Balaji signed Owen Coyle 😄 When Neil Warnock had agreed to the role. Got to be one of the worst decisions ever made in football.

It depends on the contract. I wouldn't call a multi-million pound football manager contract as indentured servitude.

If you sign a contract and then break it, I'm sure that technically they could do yes.

One thing that Venkys have always been great at is making a bad situation worse. You can't buy class, or in their case, intelligence.

I agree, but I don't believe we have many players with the ability to scrap. They've not planned for this at all despite knowing for some time that we were heading for trouble.

Yep. "We don't need expensive players, we can always lease them" Annie Deshit. "Reports that Blackburn are looking to bring in David Beckham and Ronaldinho." Sky Sports. There's always been conflicting interests in the club since the club was bought, with two extremes instead of a pragmatic and sensible approach.

Waggott said that Suhail, Babu and Mr Desai were in charge, in his meeting with Glen M.