Had to happen. Gary Croft standing in for T20’s. The problems run deeper though. This is a poor squad. As David Loyd said a bowling squad needs real pace and quality leg spin. Hartley apart it’s full of medium pacers. On the batting front Lancs have been scoring at just over two runs per over. That’s no good, that’s just standing there and letting sides bowl at you. There are also rumours of club debt running too high not helped by being banned from staging concerts at the ground. I also dont think we have enough involvement from real cricket men in the boardroom. Chilton comes across as weak. It’s primarily short on cricketing knowledge.

A big lump who is one of the poorest headers of a ball that I can remember.

I was on the riverside for that game too. 40,000 packed into Ewood. Imagine it with 61,000 on!

30,000 in a ground nowhere near as big as the modern one. Imagine what it was like when the record attendance of 61,000 was set. 50,000 wasn’t uncommon then. Notice also - if you look closely enough - kids sat over the wall on the running track on all sides of the ground.

It’s a welcome move for me and normally I’d be looking forward to moving forward. Venkys have latched onto the obvious unrest at the club and with the fans. The problem is that they don’t understand what’s really happening down here, how the fans feel or have felt for the last 15 years, or what they need to do to turn all that around. They might be doing this with good intentions, or they might have other reasons but in my opinion they don’t understand and they never will. if you don’t understand the problem you can’t fix it.

Halfway up the PL when they took over. As others have said they’ve either cut, or tried to cut every asset of the club. Someone tell me what hasn’t been cut? No money available for anything. No ambition. No honesty about anything whatsoever. There’s only one possible worse situation that I can think of. Liquidation.

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Thanks. Either way it just has to be a really big problem for them. More so when it goes on for year after year. When Waggott says it has no bearing on the financing of the club, he can’t possibly know that’s correct. Honesty with the (dwindling number) of fans doesn’t exist with this lot. If it’s a problem, say it is.

Is the guarantee demanded in cash rather than just a written guarantee. Anyone know?

Good season? its now 13 years since we were relegated from the Prem and we’ve never finished in the top 6 of the league below in all that time. It was also another season where we were nailed on for a top 6 finish then blew it. we can either cling on to measly pickings or look at the bigger picture. I would say it’s anything but good.

Views please? I’ll keep mine short. I think both managers and players can hold their heads high. They have all done as much as was humanly possible. I couldn’t ask more from them. Management and owners might think they’ve done as much as they could have done under the circumstances. I disagree. Once more the January transfer window offered the opportunity to back the manager and the squad by “meaningfully” strengthening. Of course that means putting in money. Was that money available? I think it was due simply to the amount of cash brought into the club from big transfer sales. However, the owners “chose” not to. This has gone on now - apart from the very rare splashing out of transfer fees on the likes of Rhodes, BBD - for 15 years and IMO isnt going to change. So well done to players and managers but you’ve been let down too much, too often.

I’ve not seen anything in either Gueye or Ohashi to change my mind. Neither of them offer enough.

The only thing that would interest me would be if he got the boot and was replaced by someone who wanted to win games in any way he could. That wouldn’t be age related, it would be ability driven. This lot are turning us into a youth club.

Sounds like the owners have decided they are only going to give a minimal transfer budget to the manager no matter what incoming transfer fees are. There just isn’t chance of progression under that kind of strict regimen. Exactly the opposite. No manager of any standing will stay under those circumstances. The outlook is so grim. How can the club move forward or progress under these owners? Where is the ambition? I don’t remember the last time I heard anyone at Ewood say anything positive about the future.

Arsenal would have done better defending the corner properly rather than whingeing about Sutton putting pressure on Winterburn. who cares 😂

Well thanks Rudy and thanks Admin. The timing of the poll to coincide with Gestedes interview was absolute perfection. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this site come together so comprehensively before. The Raos and top execs have truly been sussed. Everybody can see your naievity towards how you all believe this path your trodding is in any kind of way, the right way. It isn’t and it never will be. and for the first time you’re being truly called out.

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