2 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Easiest quid I’ll ever make…

Would you take it in copper! lol

2 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

We sold our lowest number of STs for over 30 years… so of course it’s a no.

I'll bet you a quid! 😉

(STs summer of '22 for '22/'23 season).....10k plus!

10 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

This is the way I look at it - Has he increased the number of fans that want to watch Blackburn Rovers ?

On one hand no, on the other hand (based on demographics and age groups at recent away games) Yes!

I've become a 'fossil', moaning about our exuberant teenage away following, they are in ever increasing numbers I have to say, and have been reminded that we were all 16 once!

I'm sure you'll get my drift! 🙂

36 minutes ago, matt83 said:

100% they should. We’re a bloody shambles and have been for 12 years so no surprises. This is all on our useless owners and the bumpkins they put in charge of the club. The fact our ceo is on £300k and couldn't handle his mates (a mate who got him the job no less) contract ending with respect is truly pathetic.
However, there’s plenty out there who have defended the Venkys in recent years telling us we should be grateful for crumbs from their £1.5 billion fortune, so it’s a timely reminder to them that the Venkys are still shit, still haven’t learnt anything and nothing good will happen to rovers while there at the wheel.

That said as far as Mowbray is concerned over the past 5 years there has been numerous occasions where he has blown smoke up their arse. So for me it’s karma that they’ve shown their true colours and are treating him appallingly now. You reep what you sow. 

I'm wholeheartedly in agreement with you.

Just think, with 'their brass', how it could be!

2 minutes ago, matt83 said:

I wouldn’t say we’re in a much better place. After 5 years and another £120 million spent I’d say we’re in a slightly better place. 

Factoring in players out of contract, loanees returning to their clubs and likes of Brereton who will likely go I’d say the squad is marginally better.

In terms of the club as a whole being far removed from the one he joined 5 years ago. £220 million in debt - worse off, no functioning boardroom - probably the same, his useless donkey mate as ceo - worse off, the medical and recruiting department all off to pastures new - worse off, ground 5 years more dilapidated - worse off, training ground/academy - same. 

Clearly not all his fault at all but other than him replacing an absolute cretin in coyle I’m struggling to see the great impact he’s had throughout the club. 

Matt, it's all about opinions

The point I was really trying to make was that after 5 years (whether or not that be considered success or failure) Blackburn Rovers FC , a proud football club, should be dealing with matters better than it would appear.

7 hours ago, longsiders1882 said:

They were winnable, as was Norwich and a few others under Dyche that we lost. I wasn’t happy he was sacked but so far it has paid dividends. We haven’t won 3 on the bounce in 3 years.

That said he is still I believe a great manager who, with the right club, could well repeat his Burnley miracle. You could do a lot worse.

Spit! 😉

4 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Great win for Burnley, well done, keep it up.

Great loss by Leeds, well done, keep it up.

Pull your finger out Everton and condemn Leeds.

How can anyone 'champion' that lot?! I'd relegate all 3 of 'em and stick barcodes in the mix too as well as the Canaries and Watford!

Hang on a minute, with 5 relegated, do we still have a chance?! 😉 🙂

Refs generally in England are shit....I haven't seen a good one yet this season in The Championship. The linesman at Deepdale on Monday being typical!

What compounds matters is VAR in the PL, even slowing things down and looking at situations from a variety of angles, the 'adjudicators' still get it wrong!

Biased/bent?......no, couldn't possibly be so!.....inept?....yep!!

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax!

The ONLY positive of Venkys tenure is that they continue to sign cheques and have the financial wherewithal to ensure they never bounce.

It was forever thus!

It's bollocks by Mowbray and a true deflection from his personal failings both as a leader of men and being tactically inept as a football coach at this level on a consistent basis.

He helped stabilise our club and has many plusses in the bank but should really have had the dignity and good grace to recognise his inability to move the club on any further 12 months ago and should have gone with everyone's blessing and good wishes then.

His inane ramblings this season are frankly an embarrassment. Thanks Tony but you should have fecked off 12 months ago.

Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun

(good to be back on guys and a touch of light relief to the shit show at Rovers but with a tenuous link)

1 minute ago, roversfan2001 said:

Are we supposed to be happy with these prices?

NO!

I'm really getting brassed off with all the negative vibes and back biting amongst supporters.

Glenn, you've had 12 years with your approach, have been AWOL for yonks and now appear back on the scene , I'll ask you a few questions:

1. What have you achieved  to date? (after 12 years as you state)

2. Do you think your approach of misspelt aggression towards the owners is ever likely to work, if so why?

3. What are your specific aims and how do you plan to take the club forward based upon your aims, particularly with regard to working capital?

Billy Paul - Me and Mrs Jones.

4 minutes ago, Mellor Rover said:

Sounds like a no to me? 😉

Definitely not a no!!!

1 minute ago, glen9mullan said:

And where have you actually got to?

Fannying around playing their tune, is actually disrespectful to the efforts of many over the last 12 years.

Have you actually spoken to the owners yet? 

I have, and will always say exactly what I think, and fall in the handful of people who has and does have direct contact with the people that own our club.

As stated, and i've already made contact with Balaji Rao in the last hour, these prices are so out of touch 

Perhaps rather than slate supporters opinions, why dont you tell everyone what you know that no-one else can know!!!!!!!

 

Good for you mate, you crack on your way and I'll cart on with ours, best of luck.

We're all Rovers when all said and done and only want what's best for the club we all love.

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

Are we getting anywhere regardless?

I believe so Matty but patience is a virtue!

Christ, I can't believe much of what I'm reading on here from various posters:

Does anyone firmly believe that anyone is going to get anywhere by publicly coming out with phrases like "We need to cull the lot"!?

I'll leave that thought with you all.....

4 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Lenny and Pickering as full backs ? Not for me. If we’re playing 4 at the back one of Wharton, Van Hecke and Lenihan will have to sit on the bench. Next to Ayala no doubt.

I'd leave Darragh out (his heart's not in it)  and have a central defensive pairing of JPVH and Scott Wharton.

Full backs I'd have Nyambe (? unsure tbh) right and Giles left. (With a 3 man midfield tucking in where appropriate to allow the full backs to bomb on forward)

Midfield I'd go Travis, Buckley, Rothwell (? if his heart is still in it but he's still on the payroll!)

Up front, Brereton, Dack, Dolan.

We need to be on it from the first minute and press from the front!

COYB!, (we cannot lose to these wankers!)

14 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

This is why people can’t be taking rumours on here as gospel.

JoeH is saying he’s had a PL offer and Darren Rover is saying there has been no interest in either him or Lenihan. 
Re Nyambe, they both can’t be right….

Correct!

47 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Given this is now in black and white, I am busy casting my Rovers movie.

Joe Rothwell has to be played by Anthony Quayle!!!

You never fail to crack me up Len!.........could you also see Joe Rothwell as a 'Lawrence of Arabia' type figure? (rhetorical!)

2 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

It's the lack of respect for the club and the fans, the lack of honesty and the arrogance that has ended any positive thoughts I might have had about him previously.

Imagine if in January he had said something like:

"We find ourselves in a great position but we need to keep it going. There's more to come from these lads. We will be doing everything we can to get this club back into the Premier League. It's not going to be easy but we're going to give it our best shot. The fans have had it tough for a number of years and they've stuck by the club and it would be special if we could do this for the fans, the players and everybody connected to the football club".

Something like that would have brought a sense of optimism and shown an honest attempt to succeed. Everybody could get behind that as it would show an honest intent. If the manager and the players gave it everything but we fell away I could live with that. I can accept honest endeavour which falls short due to a lack of quality or due to not having the finances that others do.

But this arrogant, defiant garbage that Mowbray has shown? Never. I can't accept that. Not once has he personally talked about promotion, about wanting to go up, about wanting the play offs. That says it all. He's tried to pass it off on to the players with all this "they" stuff, while shrugging his shoulders himself. "The lads have an opportunity", "they could make it special". He's pissed about with the side, as good as thrown our chance away, yet his response is to be arrogant and swear at the fans (as has been said on here after the Stoke game). Have some shame.

This isn't just about promotion. As I highlighted in my previous post, he has been disrespecting the club for a number of years and taking us for mugs.

You should have spoken to Travis, Wharton and Brereton on Monday evening.......they were all seething but definitely and wholeheartedly committed, hence their anger and frustration!

6 minutes ago, matt83 said:

I think the Lord Acton quote "All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” could apply to Mowbray. He’s been the king of his own fiefdom for 5 long tedious years now. During which at times some of his loyal subjects have almost deified him for nothing more than mediocrity.

During his unchallenged reign he’s had hopeless owners, spineless local media, his mate that he hired as his boss, an ape apathetic fanbase ground down by 12 years of misery. His ego and self importance has grown and grown to the point ewood is barely big enough to fit his big head in. Now some of the lowly peasants have revolted in the most minuscule way and he just can’t handle it. Toys firmly out of the pram.

His long time coming departure can’t come a day too soon. 

Hear, here Matt, well said.