I think both yourself and Tyrone are spot on with your analogy and industry comparisons. Football is no different than any other business in so much that leadership starts at the top: it's no good being an absentee landlord unless you wholeheartedly empower those at the helm to make all of the decisions within an agreed budget.
The set up at Rovers is ludicrous: who's ever heard anywhere else that a manager 'recommends' a couple of 'mates' for positions that sit above themselves in the hierarchy, neither with real credentials, and they are both appointed at Director level.
Until Venkys realise that the club needs to be run properly and the executive truly empowered, we will go nowhere other than down.
For the record, I'd get rid of Mowbray, he's been generally dire in every respect, and would have done earlier in the year but in the great scheme of things it would change little IMO.
Venkys can't be faulted for their financial backing in the past couple of years but in terms of general stewardship and custodians of the club, they're almost as shit as ever.