Hasta

If we don’t lose anyone under contract we will be ok. I don’t mean comfortably, it might be nervy, but I think we would have enough to stop up. If, for example, Travis and Brittain left I think we would have major problems,

I’d say there will certainly be a percentage of rovers fans who would either renew or purchase based on Rovers making exciting signings. Do you disagree?

The likes of Tronstadt , Hyam , Pickering, Cantwell and Ohashi will probably see us safe. The season after will be horrendous.

The club puts stories out to encourage fans to buy season tickets and stay invested. The likes of Jackson and Nixon peddle them to the fan base and some people lap it up. Nothing new. Of course we will bring new players in, but if there's a significant fee or other comparable interested parties we will lose out and not get them. I'd be surprised if any of the main players sign a new contract. If we can't get Baath and Weimann back in it tells it's own story. Reading between the lines with the player liaison lass that got let go, that was the final straw between some players and the clubs chiefs. Unless the recruitment team can pull some absolute gems out, next season is stagnation and the season after could be one of the biggest shitshows we've seen yet under Venkys.

In your context the customer is told "The price is £xxx" but pay for it now and you get a percentage off. Therefore it's all transparent. In Rovers case (and other football clubs), it feels like you are told "The price is £xxx, and it will go up by an as-yet undisclosed amount in so many days time. They clearly had no definite plan other than see how many we sell in phase 1 and that will make them decide how much to put them up by.

Gestede actually said:- "The plan for our squad is to give as much (acadamy minutes) as we can. The year before was 2000 minutes for our academy players, almost 3000 minutes the year before, so now we want to go back to those numbers." i.e we have set ourselves a target.

They’ll want the new Chief Exec in before the next meeting so he can be another one to say “Happened before my time, fresh start, I’ll look into it, blah blah blah”

I don’t disagree on the overall point, but that first season of Gallaghers was statistically better (just).

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With Ismael all of his good results at the end of the season came when he benched Gueye and used him sparingly. He clearly didnt fancy him.

Footage is circulating. It does seem to turn to plough into the crowd unfortunately. (no one post it please)

He did. An incompetent one.

Half of it was. The other half was about the ref being incompetent, which he was.

That’s the problem. He shouldn’t have made such a quick decision. The guideline state Delaying the flag/whistle for an offence is only permissible in a very clear attacking situation when a player is about to score a goal or has a clear run into/towards the opponents’ penalty area.

Villa scored, incorrectly disallowed and going to miss out on a Champions League spot here cos the referee has blown the whistle before the ball went in the net so VAR couldn’t intervene.

Any news on who is beating us to signing Batth yet?

Wilder is gonna be spitting mad 😂😂😂

Hope Sunderland go up this afternoon, if only to show selling your best player and investing a portion of the profit on a couple of decent signings can actually achieve you success. You don’t need parachute riches.

How many times have you sat in Suhail’s office and been fed scones?

The likes of Suhail employ them.

No chance in the Waggot role. No way he is going to face up to interviews, be named in articles and generally put his head above the parapet. It took him 10 years to attend a fans forum. He’ll be as much in control as he has been during Waggots reign, which may well be fully anyway.

No and there is no reason they can give to justify why they don’t join. All I can tell them to do is join. I reignited this thread on the back of the women’s team going. We now know WATR have now spent 5 years talking and talking and talking and talking to a guy who Venkys have just dismissed in 2 sentences.

Before the dawn, the darkest hour.

What's the plan if they walked? Put ticket prices up. Introduce a match-day buying tax. Cut a number of long-serving staff. Get rid of things like the women's team. Make the first team squad made up of a a majority of youth players, loans and freebies. Cut any fan-friendly services which cost us money, like match day programmes and Radio Rovers. Sell half of Brockhall for land. Reduce travel expenditure like flying. Cut back on non-essential ground maintenance. After that, we will see how much of an annual loss we actually need to fund. Oh, hang on a minute......

https://www.roverstrust.com/news/statement-blackburn-rovers-women "We had been in dialogue with club executives about the future of our Women’s team as per our memorandum of understanding, but were only given 10 minutes notice prior to the announcement." We call upon the Board and Owners of Blackburn Rovers to think again and have serious discussions with ourselves as to how the Club (Men’s and Women’s teams) have a viable and competitive future.’ Honestly lads, I'm a WATR member but they clearly don't want to have the relationship with you that you want from them. You can call on them to have serious discussions time after time, but they won't. They see their minimal discussion with you as a box-ticking and appeasement exercise, to be shown as an example of engagement. This quote from the Rovers website statement on women's football reflects the whole approach of this regime to the club over the last few years. There surely comes a day when you have to draw a line. Join the coalition.