It sounds as though owners/ management are working together on a project to develop the academy lads into saleable assets - but not reinvest that money into the squad. Not in January at least, even if the opportunity of finishing in the play off positions is very much in reach. You can’t build like that. Good players don’t hang around mid or lower table championship clubs. If they get a good offer from elsewhere they’re off. If an opportunity of reaching the play offs arises you simply have to go for it. In fact being as successful as you possibly can should apply every week of every year. Isnt the truth that the owners know nothing about how to run a successful English football club and therefore have no idea how to appoint people that do know. In fact they shouldn’t be involved in football at all.

What they don’t get is that the vast majority of football fans want one thing really from their club. They want to see a club with genuine ambition and determination to fight as hard as they can for success. If a professional football club doesn’t have that, it has no reason to exist. It might as well drop out of the football league and go play amateur football somewhere else. Fans need to believe that their club itself believes it can be successful. If that belief isn’t evident fans will wonder why they should bother at all. That message has to be driven from the top and in 15 years I haven’t seen it. Under this lot I don’t expect to. We might get a few more attempts now to show they’re “trying” but they’re so imbedded in their own depressing vision for the future it will be so difficult to persuade anyone of their honesty. We need a clean sweep.

The only managers who have managed to hang around the club in the last 15 years are those that allude to us punching above our weight. Any manager suggesting that with a bit of backing we could challenge for promotion are gone PDQ.

This is him? From LET. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14445910.former-blackburn-rovers-defender-ken-taylor-dies-aged-85/

Chilton head hunted him from Gloucestershire where in his two seasons there, relegated them to the second division then finished bottom of that division the next season.

I think so

Best time for me too. Else Bray Newton Clayton England McGrath THEN THIS FORWARD LINE…. Ferguson McEvoy Pickering Douglas Harrison. Fabulous team.

I was very fortunate to see that half back line of Clayton, Woods (then England) and McGrath. It was an absolute privilege to watch all of them. RIP Mick.

We’re talking like bringing in players who fit the managers style is something revolutionary. Isn’t that what every manager ever should have been doing. Its also a bit easier to do when you’ve got some cash to spend and you hit the market early. When you’re last in line and waiting for clubs who have finished their transfer window business to release their players who aren’t needed at that point, it’s almost impossible to bring in players matched to your “plans”.

He’s just the latest addition to the bunch of clueless, negative cronies that we already have. Will only tell us why we can’t succeed in this league, never why we can.

Because it gives him a wall to hide behind. It gives him an excuse for failure.

Waggott out banner in the JWL as well.

Too many initials for me. Bottom line though is that this whole thing, this whole scenario would not occur under proper ownership. The whole lot need booting out. Every single one of them.

I reckon for the first time in 15 years the top people at Ewood are worried about the direction the club is heading, the way fans are reacting and how attendances are falling. All thanks to Glen and most of the fans groups putting on a united front. It just has to be obvious to anyone with even the remotest idea of how professional football clubs operate that surviving simply by bringing through youngsters, selling them and reinvesting none of that money into the squad cannot ever succeed. A club can’t survive like that never mind prosper. Waggott and co deep down know it. So far none of them have the balls to face down the owners over it. Time for them to stand up for the overriding good of Blackburn Rovers FC. If they don’t, they deserve everything they get.

Just a comment on the fans to boycott games. They ARE boycotting games. Between ten and fifteen thousand fans have walked away over the past 15 years. Those fans staying away is the biggest argument we’ve got against the way the club is being run. How’s about using photos of the empty stadium a bit more often?

How many season tickets is this going to sell?

Relegation football.

Ismael, Gestede, Pasha, Waggott. Imposters.

Gestede saying we’re doing well then sky showing our results worst in league over the last 19 league games

Amateurs

I’m sure you remember when they first took over - and after the ridiculous claims they were going to sign the best players in the world had fallen to the wayside, they then claimed that they could sustain a mid table PL club by investing £5m/year and bringing through youth players. I’m sure that was how the club was sold to them and despite the very odd gamble such as Rhodes and Brereton, that’s still their fundamental thinking. Now we’re in the lower leagues and losing money hand over fist, even the £5m has disappeared. Theyre not going to change now IMO.

You’re doing a good job Glen. It must be quite stressful. my only comment - and it isn’t very helpful - is that your campaign will very likely need to be ongoing for some considerable time. I’m sure you’ve thought of that. You will need help and hopefully all the other groups who’ve fallen behind you can give you practical help as well. It needs the fan groups to get together, fall in as one and put concerted pressure on the people running the club. oh, one other comment. There can only be one aim. The owners must sell the club.

I think he’s just a guy who has no control at the club, who has no answers to our problems. We could change the personnel - as we have done numerous times - but it will make no difference. Rovers are owned by people who have no grip on how to run an English football club effectively. I was always wary of what would happen to Rovers if their funding disappeared but there’s no future, nothing to look forward to while Venkys are here. They have to sell up.

When Venkys took over they had John Williams and Tom Finn running the club. A premier league club at that. Those three stooges and Championship football is where they’ve taken us to - and they’ve paid an absolute fortune to get us there. Football geniuses.