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I don’t see a goalscorer there.

This new “ strategy”from the people making all the decisions will boil down to results on the field. If they fail they will get so much abuse and they’ll all deserve it. I don’t think there is one single person at the top of this club with a modicum of success at doing what they’re being asked to do. Rovers are in a really bad position. The people the fans want to be here are being willingly shipped out while those with nothing of substance to offer are immovable. It can’t last and succeed.

Why would Pasha stop Gestede speaking to the local paper?

The wage budget has been cut. This isn’t any kind of alternative master plan. It’s simply the only thing that’s left open to Gestede and company. They have to let the higher earners go and just hope that somehow they can get around it. In other words they’re all lieing to us all. Time for a few truths from the owners. If they were to say that they couldn’t continue funding the club at the previous levels then we would all have to accept it. We might not be happy with it but we would accept it. but then rightly, they would be urged to put the club up for sale. With a wage budget seemingly at the bottom end of this league the chances of success are virtually nil. It happens sometimes but it hasn’t happened here for 15 years. The teams with the highest wage bill tend to be the teams at the top of the league. We’re on a downward trajectory with no signs of it changing.

Yep, the games changed. When me and you started watching football, winning the top league was in the sight of lots of clubs. Now it’s stitched up. Possibly 4 or maybe 5 clubs in total have any hope at all of winning it and that’s not going to change in the foreseeable future. Everyone else can try to match these clubs but they’ve no chance. Every other club is just playing second fiddle to the “masters”.

Yeah, but it’s to do with ceilings or something. Ive got a brill idea. Why don’t we sack Gestede, get rid of Pasha and get a manager who knows the Championship and knows a good player when he sees one. You know, like it used to be.

It’s not over and I can’t see how it can get better.

Oh dear.

I suspect Gestede has been tasked with getting rid of all the high earners and his ego ( which we all know about because he refused to play at one point) allows him to be a right bastard and walk all over anyone who disagrees with him.

Transfer windows used to be exciting. Say goodbye to those days, there won’t be anymore under Venkys.

Voluntarily killing the club. Absolute despicable tossers.

‘Twas moi. I guess Venkys don’t think so though. Maybe they believe they’re on top of the game here and can put together a successful team while paying sub standard wages. Or maybe they just don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They could tell the truth and explain they’re cutting their financial backing, then the question would be “why don’t you sell”. It beats me what they are trying to achieve now.

Who knows how much we paid. surely though, if I was paying 2 mill for a player and giving him a 3 year contract I would want someone with championship experience or someone proven to score goals at a similar level. Rovers can’t or won’t do that because they won’t pay the wage. Because we won’t pay the wages we have to gamble more. It’s not the road to success in my opinion, unless you either have top class scouts or you get lucky. Dont forget, league position tends to correlate very significantly with the wage bill.

3 year contract with 12 months option. Someone is certain he’s the real deal. They’d better be right.

I hate saying it but the club is rotten to the core. The owners, through the “directors” to Gestede, not one of them should be here. In fact, neither should many of the players. The whole ship needs rebuilding.

and back to Adam. theres one thing lacking from his game that could hold him back, his workrate. He isn’t the modern all action midfielder that runs and tackles for the full 90. He isn’t one who’s going to dictate the possession for you or put opposition players under constant pressure. He’s the one with the silky skills that used behind the top strikers in the world can be devastating. If he did combine that workrate with his obvious exceptional talent he would be one of the best in the world. I don’t think he will.

A lot has changed at Ewood since the restrictions were put onto any money they send over.

That’s a naive thing to say. Those two would score goals in any team Chaddy. They created plenty of their own chances like err….. good strikers do. Would you have made Ripley a priority signing over Shearer?

@chaddyrovers You get dodgy refereeing decisions and miss game defining chances all the time. Every team does. The thing is when you can’t score yourselves every little incident is vital. The trick is to score more goals yourselves then these things aren’t even on the fans minds on their way home or for days afterwards. The other trick is to see past these incidents, see the bigger picture and understand why the team is living on the brink every game.

It’s not just at Ewood Matty. Apart from the usual chants inside the ground there’s hardly any real dissent or protests anywhere. We all know rovers have a small core support of fans who will turn up whatever the circumstances simply because the club is their life. I was like that when I started in ‘62. Don’t forget a lot of fans had walked away after the ‘60 cup final when tickets were apparently very hard to get hold of. There was a lot of anger with stories of players selling tickets outside woolworths etc. Many fans vowed never to return and didn’t. Losing fans isnt new to rovers. We should really admire those that will go whatever situation the club is in. Now if all of those fans could do that while still acknowledging that the clubs a sh1tshow. That would help😀

Have to ask dodgy Pasha for a dodgy stick.

How do you all expect people working at our club to know how good he was though?

You don’t know that.

We’ll look back in a few years at that team and think “oh my God. How poor was that team”.