58 minutes ago, tomphil said:

There are just way too many layers at Rovers and with this ownership back in India it must be absolute chaos and that's before you factor in a lack of ability or braincells.

Under the last ownership the business was twice as big yet got by perfectly well with a basic board of directors and staff with i think one go between in the void between club and Trust fund.  I doubt any other club of this size in the UK has as many cooks spoiling the broth.

A CEO, secretary, operations manager, DoF, finance director, Head of finance, then 2 more with similar titles in India before you even get to the 4 owners.

Yet all we are doing is signing frees. loans and kids and a 2 million transfer is hardly ground breaking.

Oh and whoever else agents/advisers etc who are involved in the process, its crazy 8-12 people potentially involved in what 3 or 4 should comfortably be doing.

I wish we had as many centre forwards.

The answers to this current fiasco don’t currently lie with sackings in the U.K. The answers lie with Venkys and the courts in India. The future of our club lies in India. If this situation is going to go on for any length at all - even another 12 months - Venkys need to act. Seems to me there’s very little time.

one more… Why would Maguire or his club even think of discussing a pre-contract deal for Maguire in the summer (as has been reported) with a club that currently can’t pay a fee?

The difference is that the LT is just a comments section. Fans make their comments and aren’t really held to task. Next day the topic has moved on.

This is a forum, it’s a place for debate. Discussions on any single topic can literally go on over years - and if you say something others don’t agree with then you’ll very likely be pulled up every time.

Its not the people who are different, it’s the media format that’s different.

3 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Yeah I tend to agree with that den. I would certainly refuse to audio record any of my work related meetings.

Many years ago I, along with a number of other rovers fans regularly used to meet with JW and TF at Ewood to discuss plenty of quite relevant rovers related topics. Some fans might remember it. 
 

JW told us that some of what was said had to remain confidential. If it wasn’t then he would simply deny ever having said it. I wouldn’t ever try to tell the trust members how to run their organisation but in my experience, in order to get a little more understanding of what really goes on at the club, confidentiality can be important.

The problem with recording meetings is that the club will be very careful what they say. That’s to no one’s benefit.

1 hour ago, Oldgregg86 said:

One of the things for me is the Adam Wharton sale and not because I’m entitled and didn’t expect him to be sold eventually but the symbolic nature of the whole situation. 

I don’t and can’t support the thieves and gangsters in India and our boardroom like the fans who have walked away. 
 

Still it’s my club , my team , my colours, my badge , my fans and my players so I go and get behind the lads (ffs)

Wharton was one of our own like a lot of the kids who came through the academy jack set up , and for this very reason . Now though Travis and Buckley get shipped to reduce wages and whartons gone and who am I supporting . Brighton and liverpools kids til the end of the season. Five loans in that’s half a team who won’t be here next year I have no affinity to . 
 

It’s hard to get emotionally involved when you’re being ripped off and over priced, not given a second thought and constantly lied to. The farce of the transfer window (again) highlighting the lies/cock ups/ disjointed thinking of the whole set up and scattergun approach to it ,plus, the sale of our Adam shows there is no model or anything to have hope for or belief in to keep throwing your support behind. 
 

Still I’ve been going on ewood for 30 years and I’ve met a lot of wonderful people. Can still have a beer and a social occasion and try and get involved in the on field “entertainment “.  They can’t take that away from me….can they.

First sip of a pint and  I mention the banner , you should be punched was the response from friends. I sit on the coach to away games and listen to 40 people slag off the venky out chants with the same usual guff and waffle repeated on here. Try and explain anything and I’m shot down by 30 people so I sit angry and disillusioned to Norwich or wherever on some other hellish journey . 
 

So as a staunch defender of JDT I believe I look at him as a symbol of hope and a memory of what once was. I probably have blue n white tinted glasses to his tactics and how he sets up a team as just his enthusiasm and passion reminds me of what mine once was . 
 

Now he wants out like lambert before him. We’re heading back to league one , I’m skint with a young family and I’m sat by myself over hundred quid light on the way back from Cardiff , work in the morning, usually by myself these days, surrounded by Venky sleeved shirts with names of players at other clubs on there back after watching Liverpool and Brighton’s future stars make there mistakes with the uttering and echos up and down the coach of I don’t know what they want ,20 million them angels pump in. 
 

Ewood is a hallow shell filled with these Shaun of the dead zombies , gangsters crooks and criminals in the boxes around them, prices increasing why my kid kicks a ball into a bin for a charge . 
 

it’s all getting to much for people . Even I’m getting to the point of having the rest of the season off just to re evaluate my life

Waggott, Broughton, the owners and everyone else involved in running rovers into the ground should read your post oldgregg and take in what you’re saying. I reckon you summarise so well how many fans feel - current and lapsed.

They should read it because only they can do something about it. 

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I know that our recruitment team did all the scouting and research on Duncan McGuire 

and what guarantee does that give us?

I guess what I’m saying is that in summer the market is a lot bigger. The choices are greater. Why would we stick with paying a fee for a totally unproven player from a vastly inferior league? 
 

we’ve just sold Wharton for c£20m and you would be happy with this? I wouldn’t.
 

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

he is unknown to us but our recruitment team have done their scouting and research on him. 

we need to make a number of signings in the summer. Do you want a list of players we should be targeting this summer?

Did I ask for a list?

Someone explain to me why Rovers would go to the summer transfer window with Maguire - an unknown MLS footballer as their target? 
 
Is that the limit of our ambition?

5 minutes ago, Bethnal said:

There are still people in the comments defending the ownership. I don’t know how clear it has to be for them. 

I blame the walker family. They didn’t care who they sold to.

I’m assuming JDT offered to walk away for free last summer, not this summer because the aim for the club was simply “stay up”. That was turned down and now they’ll have to sack him and pay up his contract.

Just for clarification. What a total shitshow.

This situation can’t go on. JDT is making his own position untenable.

I respect his honesty though.

5 points above relegation zone.

2 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Can someone vouch for this guy or is it just more trash? 

His bio simply says he’s a fan.

7 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Why on earth would Tomasson be in charge tomorrow and leave immediately after? Than just isn't going to happen. I think he might well leave soon but under those circumstances, never.

I can’t see how this situation can be resolved Arbitro.

24 minutes ago, alex l said:

Wharton finally announced by palace

https://x.com/CPFC/status/1753122855347273956?s=20

We will never see that money. Loans this window, nothing for permanent signings in the summer.

I’ll bloody swear by that.