Hasta

That’s a lot of footballing contracts they would need to pay off though.

If Venkys ever decide they don’t want to put £15mill a year into the club, but no-one is willing to pay money for a business which is losing £15mill a year, what do they do? And if the club is put into administration in that circumstance, the training ground is conveniently separate.

God some negativity on here. We are up against a city club who can get over 15000 home fans and were in the top flight barely 40 years ago. What do some of you lot expect?

The reason we are in the situation with point 2, is probably because over the years we have never done point 1.

To be fair, I'd probably sell in January for £51 million

Honestly you could get page after page of views on this. An issue with Kean (because there are several) was that he was willingly happy to release or alienate players of the quality of Ryan Nelson, Michel Salgado and Brett Emerton to replace them with players suggested by SEM, at the same time as transfers were suddenly being allowed to happen whilst bypassing the board of directors.. (Theres a letter from our Chief exec that confirms this) Releasing proven international and premier league players and replacing them with several nobodies from Portugal (all linked to the same agency) and with Myles Anderson (son of Jerome Anderson) is clearly, clearly not in the interest of Blackburn Rovers effort to retain Premier league status, but may be in the interest of the new players coming in and anybody else who profits from those transfers. Why would a manager acting in the best interests of Blackburn Rovers go along with this? If Kean has really been cut loose from all his previous connections and is now just wanting to operate as purely an academy coach and has no ties elsewhere then he might be a half decent coach. But the fact this failed manager keeps getting articles in media, mentioned on radio and sky sports tell us somebody is still quite close to Kean to have the power to make these mainstream media organisations try and keep him relevant and rewrite history as him being the hard-working manager-done-wrong. The club has never recovered. The fanbase has never recovered. The everyday people who lost their jobs at Ewood may never have recovered, nor the surrounding areas that rely on matchday traffic. The sad thing is as much as Blackburn Rovers fans shouted, the message wasn't allowed to get out. Therefore the general football public think he was just a manager out of his depth who got a rough ride from a nasty set of supporters.

Let’s remember the John Williams letter to Venkys revealed: ”it had been made clear they (the board) would have no input into the club’s transfer window strategy and they described this as ‘unacceptable’ and ‘not in the best interests of the club’. The letter revealed manager Steve Kean was no longer required to report to the board on transfer matters. It also called for Mrs Desai to explain to the board the role played at the time by the SEM agency – headed by agent Jerome Anderson – in the club’s transfer policy.” Unless people are foolish enough to believe Venkys were handling transfer policy directly themselves, that’s not badly run. That’s against FA rules and is certainly a reason for the authorities to intervene.

Preston Fans view of ewood match prices.

United fans will tell you it's not the Liverpool and City games that concern them, but more the performances in the games against Everton, Villa, Leicester, West Ham, Southampton.

If you don't think last nights result will have any impact on Saturday's gate, my mate has just phoned me and says having witnessed the game on Sky he is not bothering coming over to Blackburn to watch it on Saturday. And he's already bought the ticket !

No chance.

Calf problem. He got a tattoo on it.

Off topic but you've given me a slight way in here. Myles Anderson, who is still playing, spent longer on the salary books at Rovers than at any of the other substantial number of clubs in his career.

It’s halloween , not April Fools Day. 😀😀

I just think your wrong. It wasn’t out of context. The interviewer was praising Rothwell for his contribution to the game and Mowbray decided to drop in those lines. If he was here for the next 3 years but not listening to his manager I could understand going public (think Souey and Dunny). But when you are trying to convince a player to sign a new contract those quotes serve no purpose. It’s just stupidity. However, as stated, I think he’s making his excuses for why he’s not bothered Rothwell will be leaving.

I told one of our staff today that she needs to make more notes in meetings as she forgets some of the things she has to do. I didn't post it on our social media accounts though.

Regardless of the final line, Joe Rothwell wakes up to read that we have to put an extra body in midfield if we play him because he isn't that good. I listened to the interview live on Radio Lancs @roversfan99 and whinged about it to my mate straight away. He also criticises hi first half showing. You dont get players to sign new contracts by criticising half of their performance publicly when they won you the match, and then by stating that playing him give you a problem as you have to play an extra man in midfield because he's not good enough. It all points to Mowbray excusing why he's not bothered about losing Rothwell when he's out of contract. Later on in the interview he states that on Saturday "if he's honest" Reading may have had better individuals and technical players in the game. Who put in a better individual performance or technical performance than Dolan and Rothwell in that game? It is said just to keep that whole "aren't we doing well to compete" smoke screen up.

Well I don't know where you sit but if Brereton was coming on generally from the Blackburn End he always got support. I never heard 'groans' from the crowd as a group. Audibly, the Rovers crowd have always been 100% behind Brereton at games. What some people don't like is the fact that individual fans, whether on social media, on here, in the pub or even in the ground can have a negative view of one of their players - but that has always happened here and at all other clubs. You go on Facebook and say you think Brereton is a waste of space and you will get people angrily and bluntly stating that Rovers fans shouldn't hold that opinion about one of their own players (even though that's all it is - an opinion). And after a bad performance and a defeat where Brereton has been poor, I can imagine someone making the Birmingham story up as a way of deflecting blame onto the people they've spent all week arguing with on Facebook. As others have said, nobody could corroborate the story.

Facebook excuse list:- What can you expect, they’re a premier league team. ❌ What can you expect, look at their crowds compared to ours. ❌ What can you expect, look at their budget, ❌

I'm not a Cantona fan at all but I do find amusing the thought of Matthew Simmons running down a few rows of steps to undoubtedly hurl quite a bit of abuse. About 5 seconds later he's probably thinking "shit I wasn't expecting that". It's like people hurling abuse on twitter that they wouldn't say to someone face to face because they think that there can be no comeuppance. Only that time there was.

I don't know the setup and safety issues at Bloomfield but if Preston had got 1000 more tickets at Turf Moor than Rovers fans were getting a couple of weeks later we'd be kicking off about it.

That’s just bizarre. I’m not surprised PNE fans are fuming.

His defensive recruitment policy is the stuff of idiots. We're never short of lightweight midfielders though.

Defenders are coming. If only they had.

When we've read it as a direct quote from Mowbray it hard not to form that opinion.