13 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Yeah, I renewed mine yesterday and it offered 2 options online, direct debit and card payment.

I was told earlier today that there is a premium added to the cost for paying monthly and it was a large amount and collected with the first payment. Was that the case with you?

1 hour ago, gumboots said:

I told them I no longer wanted to be on their mailing list a few years back when the only reply I received to a letter explaining my reasons for not buying a season ticket was 'OK. Bye  so that's why I don't get mail any more. However, nor does anyone else in my household. Its several years since we bought STs but we have been to matches since so surely, using the address they do still have, they ought to have tried to tempt us. 

 

In contrast, Sale Sharks had problems with their ST system and the ticket office were replying to queries from fans on FB all weekend just to try to sort peoples tickets for them. First 500 to renew got invited to the club barbecue at the training ground to meet players and staff. Inexpensive PR

Amazing PR that and fair play to them.

1 hour ago, perthblue02 said:

email? ha ha ha, they are still trying to work out how to plug the fax machine back in after dodgy del unplugged it during the transfer widow a few years ago.

Rumor has it that deadly Derek, got his tie stuck in the fax machine, when sending his resignation letter to Balaji. He finished up arriving in India 10 minutes later. 

3 hours ago, tomphil said:

Last time we had all these similar issues we had no proper CEO and no long term steady manager.

So the real question is why is all this happening again ?

Probably because India has lost interest again aside from leaving instruction to set the budget. Last time half of it was blamed on the slow nature of the wheels turning between there and here.  Yet all these people and procedures have been put in place over the years at big cost to smooth all that out.

So what's going on ?

Proper tinpot outfit yet costing 20 million a season in losses.  Pathetic.

I think most people have worked out, that you don't need to be in the office to work these days, although I guess you have to be prepared to roll your sleeves up and get stick in. How they ever got away with the line that the slow nature of the wheels turning is beyond me.

Does it matter that I am tying this from Spain and will it matter when I call my next client and generate some business? It has to be one of the most feeble excuses they have ever used.

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Yet, a quick Google search shows club after club recording record sales.

There’s something badly amiss at this football club.

It's a new variant of the Indian Flew!!

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Don't think it's any secret Honeyman is ex SEM is it?

Might not have a formal contract to advise the Club any more but the agency being run by this bloke still seem to be our first port of call for transfers.

I still don't think everyone is fully aware of what has gone on and is still going on. Even if everyone on here knows, there is no harm in a reminder now and then, especially as the badly advised line, still crops up.

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Interesting how Smallwood flags up there, the man allowed to sit out his contract. Even getting a few months 'covid' extension.

It's a cosy little set up make no mistake.

I suspect the two firms of accountants, once brought in to check the books was to try to figure out, cosy little things like this. It must be difficult to work out, who is playing and who is sat there on a players contract, with no prospect of any games ever.  If the standard is Myles above your level, yet you have been paid a signing on fee and premier league wages, to carry things for the players, who from India, is likely to know?

Whether it's a while ago or current some strange things are still happening and it is enough to make some people cry.

6 minutes ago, tomphil said:

The same guy blowing smoke up Venkys on his twitter feed ?  

Feed being the operative word...... hmm.

HSH and CH football service Limited.

I wonder if there is any historic link to SEM for either of those?

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04155991/officers

On 18/07/2021 at 00:14, chaddyrovers said:

My starting team would be against Swansea 

                    Kaminski 

Nyambe Lenihan Ayala Pickering 

      Travis  Davenport  Buckley 

Dolan        Armstrong    Brereton 

Armstrong will not be here by then.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09312825/officers

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5 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

I agree with pretty much all of this. I get that the words 'badly advised' anger many because some Rovers fans use that as a cop out to excuse the owners. However, it is true that they were and still are being badly advised. That doesn't excuse them in any way, though. They are not innocent or naive, they simply know nothing about football and how best to run a football club. Why they still own this club is a mystery.

In my opinion, they don't know when to step in and put their foot down, so things just drag on and on. Remember that nonsense "we are confused" interview? He wasn't kidding. That's why the charlatans are having a whale of a time. They will never have it this 'good' again at any other club.

The HSH pillocks, Waggott, whoever else has their ear...I don't believe a single one of them advises anything for the benefit of the club. It's all about getting out as much as they can for themselves and their mates. It doesn't take a genius to work out why one of the clowns recently called them 'fantastic owners'.

Any owner with a shred of football knowledge would recognise that 2 wins in 17 isn't good enough and that a change needs to be made. Mowbray even expected it. Not these owners, though.

Any owner with a shred of football knowledge would recognise that your best assets need to be tied down to help the club in the long term. Not these owners, though.

The manager looks fed up, his demeanor says he couldn't care less and he is now slowly backtracking from his aim of the top 6. Not a problem. Crack on. After all, who has given them all that spiel and jargon about 'philosophy, identity, transitions, possession football, growing the club etc'? He's probably viewed as some kind of football expert in Pune who just needs a bit more time.

Do the owners want Premier League football? Probably, but they have no idea how to get there and imo, they are entrusting people at the club, who don't want promotion to the Premier League. The entire lot of them need to go in order for us to get our club back. As the owners won't sell up, the first step should be to launch the Coventrio out.

As pointed out by Arbitro, they chose to ignore the letter written, by Paul Hunt, Williams, Finn & Goodwin. They have also ignored the offer Ian Battersby, & Ian Currie, to buy into the club, which would have allowed them to eventually, bow out. At that time, the debt was a fraction of the current level. The fans letter sent a few weeks ago, again has been totally ignored. Even now, players contracts are not renewed in time and people are brought in as recently as this week, who can only be regarded as connected to the others, already here, who appear to be, feathering their own nests.

Surely when all they seem to listen to, are the wrong people, it can’t be bad luck. HSH look like nothing but trouble, yet the owners allow them to carry on bringing players, managers and administrators in whilst describing the owners as fantastic. What is going on? 
No wonder people have suspicions that someone else is a shadow owner, what else can make all this plausible?

5 minutes ago, LScotty2706 said:

Rovers 1-0 down at half time

Where did you get the score update from?

1 hour ago, Ianrally said:

Mowbray comment you could easily belive him making, before a ball is kicked.

"The season is going well at the moment. I have just checked the table and we are up to third". 

He doesn’t check the table, especially the treatment table. 

13 minutes ago, JoeH said:

You'll eat your words. He's a top talent and only been held back by two injuries sadly. Was immense in his half at Fylde, best player on the day.

I hear some good things about him and a crop of other youngsters too. 

2 minutes ago, JBiz said:

And winds lots of us up and turns us off the point of a forum.

End of the day that’s just my view point, maybe its just bad timing in my part that I catch ;cathartic, unfunny attempts at humour in threads, or unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, or flip flopping, writing off players, accusing posters of “defending the club”, posters accusing renewers as “supporting our decline” etc.

Anyway, to the pub for what should be a historic day for English football. 

It shows you care and a bit of sarcastic humour, isn’t up everyone’s street.

Enjoy the pub and the day. Hope we are all on a high later.

14 hours ago, gumboots said:

No they won't. They will have bought in good faith. If the club decides to close a stand after selling tickets there, they shouldn't charge extra. When I go to the theatre we always buy the cheapest tickets for seats we are prepared to sit in. If they move us we don't pay extra. If the rest of the theatre is full then we sit in the seats weve chosen gladly

Have you seen, comedy of errors? 

7 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i think it`s even worse,at least kean was a clueless idiot who did`nt know what he was doing,in that respect he was going to get the bullet or resign due  boardroom pressure,mowbray and swag have the club to themselves with no one apparently bothered about what they do,look at some of the performances last season,it was clear no one gave a flying ****, the manager was sat on his arse at games looking comatosed more often than not

im`e not in any way trying to defend the cupid stunt kean but at least he did try to show some leadership on the touchline,mowbray is just taking the **** out of us,he might as well go to the telegraph and announce he`s not bothered about the fans and club,just his fat salary,in that respect he`s worse than kean and he disgusts me

There was a rumour that when Kean was playing at being manager, that he organised a fancy dress party, with the theme being Cluedo characters. When the manager turned up, no one could work out, who he was, until Danny Murphy announced that he was Kean, as Mustard. 

10 hours ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Poor old Tony takes all the flack

Hoping to be saved by Bradley Dack.

His pension fund is his only concern.

When will those Rovers fans learn?

But his mate Steve is on his side.

Trying to flog Brockhall was pretty fucking snide.

We won't be free until the Coventrio are binned...

And the Venkys stand on the Ewood turf with a mic....

"Sorry to all Rovers fans and especially Uncle Jack... for we have sinned"

Are these Words worth more than the club?. I’m a poet and I didn’t know it!!

44 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

It’s unbelievable that people are trying to use this as evidence of us being well run.

We are well funded because we have to be… because we continue to be run absolutely terribly.

Another thing, how much longer can people continue to absolve Venky’s of all blame and pile it all on that wanker Anderson. He’s been out of the picture for at least 9 years. Apparently. 

Whats the tipping point? Half a billion? We are steadily heading towards that. They’ve wasted more than the GDP of some small countries already. Something simply has to change quickly, but nothing ever does.

Being well run ........... into the ground.

2 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Don’t worry it will all be good when we have Dack fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 🕺

He will be poetry in motion. 

30 minutes ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Well not 60k crowds like Wembley but flocks of blue and white scarves. A host of golden Rovers fans. 😉

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, we will drift into obscurity, with the greatest of ease.