Perhaps if a protest was based on “X in” it might work better. Obviously that means finding someone who could entertain those sort of costs, but it would be much easier to get behind.

Love our captain btw

This was the first post I read in this thread today so I’m ignoring everything else and just accepting this as reality and going to bed. Night lads

Business spectacles on - applying for jobs, and those comments on bbc Sunday… It’s not a one way street. These lads know what they’re getting into. It would also be career suicide to just jump without a net, that’s the point of agents, his stock is probably as good as it’s been right now. It’s the engineering that gets me. At least JDT did it on the radio, JE has done it whilst preaching family, it just doesn’t sit well.

Money and the opportunity to (re)build a cv come to mind. Do you need 500 words with an evaluation?

Middle ground reached between us there, couldn’t agree more.

Monkey tennis?

You’re probably right but you’ve said the same things umpteen times and then “Tony Hawked” your way into 3-1 rovers predictions by the weekend. I personally wouldn’t like Edwards either. I hope whoever it is gets sorted this week though. That happened last time, as tiny as that prospect may be.

Really bloody odd to hear someone having a go at Damien Johnson but this is BRFCS. I must be in a strange mood to engage with this, and despite many reoccurring “Rao induced” themes you post about on every subject and thread, you’re missing the fact football (again) is a business. You put a club with a decent squad (sorry but there’s more opinions than just here) 6th in the league, open to a new manager. Taking someone from another club aside, it would take some mental gymnastics not to see this as a better proposition than the previous times we’ve stuck up the VACANCY board. There is very little to lose for any of those out of work managers who could take over a well organised and well drilled John Eustace team. Mid table mediocracy as probably worst outcome is likely more enticing than you’d ever expect. Whilst I don’t think Waggott could find his arse in a fog, I’m yet to fall down the “Gestede is a schill” rabbit hole many here are.

I would take anything in the press with a pinch of salt. Remember I said there would’ve been no approach if he hadn’t already talked to them.

It’s an obvious lack of commitment despite expecting it from players, staff and fans.

I don’t read nixon news or posts if I can help it, especially Twitter. It’s all so monetised now, you’ve no way of disseminating what’s fact or opinion, and most is click based. Wouldn’t be surprised he’s trying to engage rovers fans into arguments to get a higher monthly pay out. Re the contracts - there’s plenty of posters who would drive dolan hyam and hedges to derby with John, so this “contracts expiring” isn’t as simple as that. Also loans cost money, and many of those leaving are on loan, that could be argued as opportunity, especially if we’ve money in the bank. On a specific contract, I think it would be pointless giving someone like Dolan 15k pw for 5 years, and as an example of that - his advisors will know that his best wage will come from free transfer - we aren’t going to beat that for numerous reasons, the main one being 150+ games into his career his final contribution be it shot or pass is often shite. Eustace has done a very good job at rovers with the Willy he has wee’d with, but it’s surely not a surprise to anyone that many passionate rovers fans would be frustrated at the timing an obvious manufacturing of this scenario! You never know, I’d imagine the CVs are flooding in, despite what we know about the Rao’s. Managers will see 15 (18) games to get a huge tick on the CV and very little chance of a X.

Shots fired 😂 You know controversy gets hits? Being serious though, can I unequivocally state that I regularly reflect and rue the day, that we ever ended up on the shelf of a billionaire conglomerate. Thank god I wasn’t born in 1997 (sorry @Gamst21)

Actually love this post - however @47er would be the first to admit he’s always been “spiky” 😂

When am I guest starring on one of these podcasts anyway 😂

To me it seems painfully obvious he has engineered his way to derby, the culmination of this announcing it on IPlayer Edit - you don’t speak to a club you haven’t already spoken too, if that makes sense

The black and white of it is Eustace is moving to a club he probably prefers to work for, closer to his own pit, with a carte blanche expectation level and likely a long term contract to boot. Thats the engineering of someone who understands the game from the point of view as an employee. The unfortunate part that this ignores, he also was a custodian of a “public” establishment and if you’re preaching togetherness and family, you’ll look a cock if you can’t even see your own contract out. It’s not a coincidence we’re looking for a manager exactly 12 months on (after the transfer window). Anyone with any inkling of knowledge of football, specifically rovers, knows what’s holding us back and it’s not Mowbray, JDT or Eustace. All those three have their flaws, but I still think the position were currently in (insane after our recent form!) will attract a better level of appointment than previously.

Easy to understand, football business aside. Following a club is a personal love and decision, when you’ve just watched someone who preached togetherness basically engineer their way out - you can’t blame fans for being very fucked off. (At the owners AND JE)

Just to add my thoughts; I agree with the most part of those angry at the owners (they’re ultimately responsible for the club) but I’d just like to add that John Eustace shouldn’t be coming out of this smelling like roses. For all the togetherness and family quotes, he’s basically engineered this mid season. Can’t blame the man professionally but it’s hard to accept, as a member of that “family”, moving to a rival, and basically begging for it on live tv. Professionally I understand, it’s a short career to some extent and I’d prefer the new commute. Personally I feel like he’s used us and dropped us at a moments notice. Theres an obvious “groundhog day” feeling that we can’t ignore, but I’d rather any rovers manager had the personal values not to engineer this sort of decision mid season.

There’s loads in that we all want, I mean the expectation of a new owner - I can fully understand why you’d give up on that but I don’t want too 😂 https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/middlesbroughs-psr-situation-explained-amid-29463544.amp Re Boro though - have a read of the quote. To be right on the limit, they’re playing a different game. Exactly what happens with active owners, look at City ffs, spent more in January than the entire league last January! Football is fucked ultimately.

The sort of active interest though that I’m sure we all agree we’d want, however our story is over a decade of disrespect. I’m not sure it’s Gibson who still owns or runs Boro but I’d rip the arm of a Blackburn businessman prepared to take the club on. I agree but to a certain extent it’s negligible because I have an overriding feeling that we’re never even thought about by the Rao’s, unless it’s an annual AGM on losses!

Well that’s subjective I think, easier to sell a business not regularly losing money.

I don’t understand the last sentence, in terms of ignoring the site there are times when (we both know this) that it’s useful for rumours, especially for those like me who don’t use social media. In terms of the other point. I’m sorry that I have the opinion there are a group of “legacy” posters who simply won’t stop bringing the same old arguments into every thread. That’s just where I’ve got too!

Because their owner is day to day investing in the club, ours isn’t and I’d rather they didn’t. If that’s hard to understand then fair enough.

You mean those with 100m+ year wage bills with parachute payments? Btw if you took them out of the equation we would 2nd.