Also - to throw my tin foil hat into the ring, who was the last player we signed “late to football”, out of a university (or at least from my haze of a memory we did)

Yea definitely one of those “stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the airport” salty responses 😂 I was just highlighting to @RevidgeBlue that the revisionism works both ways, however if I came across as critical of Baath in particularly - it wasn’t intentional, he did well last season.

The classic BRFCS approach is they’re world beaters when they leave, tbf

Yea I know all that already.

Depends if you count new signings as new contracts! Ribeiro is the most recent to sign an extension though, from my limited memory!

Refusing to play a game crosses a line for me as a rovers fan, one that’s difficult to come back from. The Szmodics revelations for example, tarnished my opinion of him. I do understand that footballers will go to maximise their earnings but if I was an owner or manager, I’d be steering clear of players who’ve done it.

I just find the tin foil stuff pointless when there’s hours of genuine tangible reasons to hate the owners.

Agents are locusts, not only bad for the environment but there are thousands of them. I’m sure we agree on that. The line that I choose to draw is harking back to Steve fucking Kean. If you look hard enough, you’ll find any connection you want to see.

This shit just kills me. Why is it so hard to just acknowledge that the owners are negligent?

But they don’t! And they won’t! So why the fuck are we even discussing it. Other clubs - not all, but successful ones like our ambition, have people involved who CARE!

We don’t have to accept anything but our owners have no interest, that’s a fact. Whilst I’d support anyone trying to arrest that terminal issue, basically calling people plants and liars because they don’t “catastrophise” to a similar extent, is just dumb.

I’d love a fan owned Blackburn rovers at any level, I’m all up for that but it’s a difficult scenario to enforce without support from the government etc. The meddling with football clubs by foreign owners is just another example of the dereliction of duty by politicians, governments et al in regards british infrastructure

Tinfoilhat.gif Seriously though, the owners are cunts in reality. Why imagine a stick to beat someone with when there are weapons strewn all over the floor?

Different argument all together - the examples I could give you all have owners that invest. There’s a difference between being a club plant, and acknowledging that a future without a billionaire means a different reality (especially comparing parachute clubs)

@roversfan99 have you ever made a post that didn’t include “it’s worrying”?

Wages 60+ million in the last three years, outstrips all revenue including player sales

they’ve never hired the best for the job, re board etc - we all agree on this. The point / question was simple? Are we hoping for more investment from the owners? Is this what we want? The people we lament day by day, the cause of all the issues? We want them to invest? It’s not that simple in my world. I will agree till the cows come home how much they’ve fucked us up, but I cannot sit here expectant of cash or investment from absent owners.

What should it be relying on; 1. Turnover? People won’t come till we change owners or are promoted 2. the owners investment? We want rid of the owners… Answers on a postcard,

Wonderful pivot, to a wonderful place!

“I can defend people’s right to think what they want” 😂

Just shook it multiple times but I my brain still insists that the owners are cunts for reasons we can see and don’t need to imagine

the point; Facts are important. Slag the owners for lots of what you said, but give the fucking “venky black hole” a rest because it makes you and others sound like conspiracy nutjobs.

GoalpostsMoved.gif Nobody is going to argue that our owners are interested or investing.

“You don’t agree, you must be a club plant / a Burnley fan / Balaji Rao”… BRFCS 101

Wages don’t exist. Pass it on.