Hasta

Just watched it. I thought GB come across OK although it wasn't really a taxing interview. I suspect the questions, including the McGuire situation, were pre-vetted. There were opportunities for the interviewer to expand, For example when Bropughton says: "But the situation had come to a head by [the end of January] where a head coach change had become inevitable.", there is no investigation why that situation had arose. Similarly on McGuire we agreed a fee but then we were "Unable to do a permanent transfer". No inquiry as to why. 99% of the people who watch that YouTube channel will have no idea to the background of this. It does feel a bit like a PR piece. For the neutral viewer, the insistence (twice) that Hyam and Sammy were not on our radar prior to the new recruitment team would seem a bit weird. It's clear he's talking to the Rovers fans specifically there and not the show itself. "I've been told it won't affect the budget". Hmm. Season tickets are going to be an absolute nightmare to sell this summer. I think we will see this line about the budget from the club all through the summer until it dawns again it's all bullshit. Interesting he does throw others under the bus with the two January screw-ups. Overall much ado about nothing other than a few interesting confirmations. The big questions on GB, such as why when we are skint are we wasting good money on the likes of Wahlstedt and Fleck, will never be touched on in any interview unfortunately.

Stoke hold their season ticket prices for the 17th consecutive season. Adult tickets from £344. Don't know what division they will be in next season. edit - should have been in the Fans Forum thread but as we got talking about attendances.

Jockey was suspended (still is) but the trainer actually wasn’t involved and subsequently instructed the owner to remove both of his horses from his yard (obviously indicating he thinks the owner and jockey had colluded). It’s pretty blatant when you see the race. The investigation is still ongoing 9 months on with the BHA saying the jockey and the owners are not co-operating. I would speculate they will have been able to trace who made money from the horse losing and that may have led back to Barnes.

Imagine turning down £28 reciprocal deal just to charge Leeds fans £2 more, knowing full well we would get stung for £47 in return.

If we take 2000 to Elland Road that will cost Rovers £23,500 Charging 8000 Leeds fans the extra £2 instead of agreeing the £28 fee with Leeds generated us around £16,000. Therefore I hope Waggot managed to squeeze the extra £2 out of 3750 Rovers fans for the home game in order to break even on this masterstroke.

Sheff Wednesday game now 12.30 on a Sunday on Sky. Yay .

47 / 48 points may well keep us up, but may still lead to a nervous last day where someone else needs to do us a favour. Id hope we are safe before we go to Leicester.

International break has arrived. Let’s have the cover up story now please Greg.

The players had downed tools under JDT as results show, albeit he was operating without Hedges, Hyam, Dolan, Gallagher and Pears. Leo alone cost him several points. The body language in that QPR game from the players and the bench was appalling and Britain’s comments after JDT had left had told us that his departure was inevitable. However under Eustace the players seem to have been slow ‘picking back up’ the tools. To me his job this season is to stop up, and I believe with the players available and points we have on the board that should have been fairly easily achievable. If we do stop up then next season I will then start to judge him albeit with the off field situation giving him plenty of slack. However if we go down this season it will be an absolute failure on his part.

Some might say we will find a brighter day.

Good luck to Waggot and the marketing team trying to sell season tickets this summer.

It was Gregorio Broughtez

He’s hardly going to tell the truth ”Honestly lads I don’t care. I’ll be 70 after this season and this job has given me a final few years to top up my savings and pension. If it looks like it’s going to get stressful financially I’m just going to bail out. I’m making key decisions now but in 2 or 3 years time I really won’t give two hoots about Blackburn Rovers. I’m not concerned or have any emotion regarding the long term future of this club. I’m in it purely to do the financial wishes of the owners in the present and get well rewarded for it.”

Even if we stay up, I imagine we will be in the drop zone by the Sheff Wednesday game and it will come down to those two last home games.

The Stoke game was a good performances. We don’t know how much influence Eustace had on that game, but it’s worrying that the performances since Stoke have got worse with the football getting poorer. The longer he’s here, the worse the football is. Yesterday was as bad as the QPR performance if not worse, with poor finishing letting us off with a draw. Now we have been playing midweek / Saturday so it’s been a bit limited what JE can work on, but JDT’s home performances against Watford, Rotherham and Huddersield were significantly better than what we saw yesterday even though they themselves were pretty shitty . If it’s right that Carter misses most of the season we are seriously hoping that one of the young centre halves proves to be a surprise success and that Tronstadt is back and can stay fit for the rest of the season after the international break. The situation is getting bleaker and I’m not getting many positives from Eustace either on or off the pitch.

8/11

Waggot-esque Why have old people when we can sell that seat to younger people for more money.

Andy Holt statement on Coleman and Bell sacking

JDT got cut a bit of slack because he was the first person we've had who was prepared to highlight the incompetence above. Previously most managers just tow the line and thank the owners, and I fear that is where we back are.

He’s not, but he is clearly the best that Saint Gregg has left us with.

Probably just leased.

Here's 329 of them on a Saturday in 2022

Yes but we played Leicester back in October.

Aside from the QPR game, where I think everything had come to a head with JDT behind the scenes, we tend to at least be competitive against the average sides at Ewood. Being terrible away from home is not unusual for us so the Cardiff, Brum and Swansea performances are a repeat of what we are used to. I think we either win this, or dominate but end up drawing. I’d be surprised if we lose.

I mean the Rovers own official site says on all news articles and reports around the Stoke and Birmingham games that he officially took charge for the Birmingham game. It states that Lowe and Johnson took charge for the Stoke game but does acknowledge Eustace turned up on the touchline after 60 minutes with rovers leading 3-1. Are people really that desperate to paint a rosey picture they are trying to give him that. The statistics on all footy stats sites have him as managing 5 league games and yet to win, and whether his era comes to an end in 4 months or 4 years the Stoke game will always be excluded from his stats. As I’ve said, I don’t blame him that much so far. To get an instant reaction with this squad was always going to be difficult. I’m certainly not thinking he should be anywhere near being sacked. But he still is yet to win a game.