3 hours ago, JBiz said:

YouTube I think. If you can’t find it, there’s definitely extended highlight on Swansea’s YT, and it’s hilarious listening to “the penny dropping”…!

Their commentary is more insufferable than our own!

10 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Stay clear of the let comments page.  I needed a sick bucket.  Definition of deluded 

I was daft enough to go on there and it’s wound me right up.  Anyone criticises Mowbray or Venky’s, they get called dingles or anti-Rovers.

Wanting what’s best for the Coventrio rather than BRFC puts you at an elevated fan status nowadays.

Deluded weirdos. 

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Good to come back like that and goals to boost Breretons confidence.

As for some of our fans singing 'Mowbray give us a wave'.....fook right off!!😠

Really miffed me hearing those chants.  Some of our fans have a real short-term memory and seem to have forgotten last season’s death spiral, as well as the annual falling apart we have had to endure in almost every single campaign under Tony

3 hours ago, Trinidad Rover said:

Exactly.

Any relatively commercially savvy organization would be thinking about how to make inroads into a potential new market of 19m people. Wasn't this the whole reason Venky's bought us....to get the Rovers brand into the Indian market. 

Sadly, we are run by Steve Waggott who counts Coventry and Southend as his previous experience. 

Another, in my view fairly obvious point, throw money at a new contract for Brereton - it would pay for itself if the club could actually work out how to create an income stream from 'Brereton Mania'.

It really isn't Harvard level business economics. Venky's if you're listening.......I'll come and run the commercial organization, for double Waggott's salary and a season ticket.

Double?!  You want £600k a year?!  Jeebus!

3 hours ago, Miller11 said:

I really enjoyed that.

Nyambe and Buckley were excellent, Kaminski picking up where he left off. Really impressed with Magloire, the lad is a physical phenomenon and those attributes alone mean he should be in and around the first team not shipped out in favour of other teams kids. Pickering has a lovely left foot but struggled defensively against a tough opponent. Garrett loves a tackle, Cirino looks like one to watch, Dolan was busy first half, and what a hit by McBride… the way he set the ball down it was always flying in! 
Armstrong looked like his head was in Southampton. Oh, and that Diaz lad reminds me a lot of Brereton we had last season.

We’re obviously going to be reliant on a lot of these young lads at times throughout the season. What a shame that during what is probably the academy’s most purple patch since it’s inception, there is such an uninspiring manager at the helm. A dynamic manager with motivational skills might get these lads playing fearlessly and above themselves giving us something to get really excited about.

Absolutely spot on post but only disagreement is I think that Diaz lad looked better than Brereton 😉

Really enjoyed tonight.  Great to be back.  Impressed by Dolan, Nyambe and Buckley from the off.  Thought Brero looked great when he came on and was happy to see him playing with confidence.  Also thought Cirino looked very assured and composed for a young lad.

Still not confident for what’s coming under Mowbray this season but happy with the performance in general tonight and was brilliant to be back at Ewood.

COYB

(edit: typo)

On 06/07/2021 at 18:47, SuperBrfc said:

I imagine it will be disheartening for those players who have a bit about them and who want to achieve things. Downing was left bemused by the 'performances have been good' nonsense during that awful run. He can't have been alone in thinking that.

Having said that, there will also be a few taking advantage of the holiday camp setup, happy to just collect their wages with no pressure to succeed. If there's one club that badly needs a shift in mentality and culture...

Where does he say that/got a link?  I've tried to find an article but no luck!

I don't think Elliott Bennett or Corry Evans departing are any reflection on the state of affairs at BRFC.  Both are players who haven't been good enough for years and their departures have been long overdue.  If either were offered a "derisory deal" then that's probably because the club/manager would only want them to re-sign as squad players on incredibly low wages.  I'm inclined to believe that Bennett doesn't give much of a sod about his wage at this stage of his career and being close to home and having a load more playing time would have most certainly made sense for him and his family.

There's plenty to poke at at BRFC and how we might well be in the mire or at least heading there, but the suggestion Bennett choosing to sign for Shrewsbury is part of that?  Nonsense.

4 hours ago, J*B said:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.fourfourtwo.com/amp/features/there-any-point-handing-a-transfer-request-fourfourtwo-investigates

You were right about the loyalty bonus, but incorrect about a departing player being owed his full wages up to the end of his contract.

13 hours ago, bringdunnback said:

Not shooting you down at all but I don't believe it, two things stick out to me that don't add up.

Kean was a disgrace, but I don't believe he would turn up drunk. It doesn't fit the profile before he joined the club, he was a very well respected coach. I severely doubt he would rock up to training inebriated. He was just a terrible manager.

When were said coaches not allowed to go and watch players? That has been the case anyway for the last 15 months. We have certainly heard before the pandemic of scouts going to games across Europe. Even TM has suggested in the past that it was important that players were watched before any major judgements.

Maybe I misheard about the turning up drunk but it was spoken that he was a drunk at least and it was well-known he would often stink of booze, maybe from night before I don’t know.  I was fairly drunk myself when hearing the tale so I could have mixed it up a bit haha

I never profess to be an ITK'er but I came across some interesting info the other week that came from a source who is either currently in the recruitment team at Rovers or recently departed.  Quite high up too I believe.  I should probably clarify with my friend who spent a good deal of time with him a few weeks ago as to whether he's a current staff member or not, but maybe for the best to not give too much away, especially how they met and got talking for risk of compromising his role should he still be in it.

He was highly critical of how things are run at Rovers, whether it be playing side, transfer side or club matters.  Said it's basically a bit of a shambles behind the scenes and things move so slowly and we aren't run as we should be.  Said how Kean was pissed whilst at the training ground/Ewood on numerous occasions, highly critical of most managers but did say Bowyer was a good guy and wasn't a bad manager.  Says Tony is an alright guy but doesn't rate him that much as a manager.  There were a number of other tidbits and insights but aren't overly relevant to this discussion.

One of the most interesting bits was about our scouting and transfer policy.  He said it's moved heavily to revolve around data analysis but what's best in his and other scout's eyes is going and viewing a player yourself in person, but for some reason the club won't allow them to do this.  I'm not sure if it's a money-saving exercise, but he was incredibly frustrated that he and other staff weren't allowed to go and watch players before deciding if they were right for the club.  Basically said it was bonkers that this is how the club operates.

Anyways, I know it's not much but thought it might be worth sharing.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19220124.tony-mowbray-sticking-beliefs-amid-rovers-criticism/
 

“Every football club wants to go in a direction, I’ve talked a lot about a journey and making this team a more possession-based and ball orientated team,” he said

“I’ve spent my career not liking stats, it’s down to whether you win or lose, but there is a correlation out there between having more possession and losing.”

Wait, am I tripping?  Has he admitted there’s a correlation between more possession and losing, whilst insisting on a more possession-based system?  Surely he means winning???  Though our correlation is certainly one with losing. 
 

Need to listen to the audio to see if that’s what was said.  Flabbergasting, if so. 

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Have watched the whole thing now.

He says the owners and Waggott "can see the level".

What does that mean? Does he actually think we're playing well but not quite getting the results?

Truly insane ramblings.

Your guess is as good as mine.  Does he actually believe we've been playing well last 14 games?? (Or even before then).  It's absolutely baffling.  Either way, it stinks.

7 minutes ago, callumrovers said:

There not going to put a mowbray out ad going around Ewood are they??

Or we create an ad for a fake housing development company specialising in downsizing structures in place and building houses, all with the intention of lining pockets.  Make a few sneaky, snide references to the Coventrio.  Might garner publicity if it succeeded haha

"If you were in their position you’d be doing the same, or may be you wouldn’t. Maybe you’d be a results orientated owner who, ‘lose three on the bounce, sack him and get the next one in’ but then you might have four, five, six managers a season if that was the case."

It was 5 on the bounce and now 1 win in 14, Tony...

He's fucking deluded as fuck

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19218742.mowbray-hasnt-sought-assurance-future-venkys/

If you can stomach it.

I know someone who used to be employed by the club and knows a lot of staff and how the club is run.  They are almost certain Waggott was hired with almost the intention of selling off the land at Brockhall and downgrading and skimping (this is speculation btw).  One thing that isn’t speculation however... and this is coming from someone who had access to information on the company accounts... guess how much he’s on a year... £300k.  For comparison, Williams and Finn were on less than that COMBINED.   

12 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Yeah was just being facetious.

Inthink that's just him to be fair. I get the feeling it would be difficult to try and stop him doing it. My player of the year by a mile.

Anyway we digress.

Anyone gone yet?

Thanks to TM and co, I've gone mad, if that counts 🤷‍♂️

It’s Mark Venus’s birthday today.  I would say it would be a very welcome for us yet shitty birthday for him getting potted, but no doubt he’d be equally delighted as us, since he’d get a nice payoff.  Knob.  

He says the goals aren’t there due to our striker situation...??  What?!  We don’t score cause we create fuck all due to absolutely bobbins tactics.  It’s not as if we miss a wealth of chances each game.  Hell, I can barely think of 5 clear-cut chances across the last 14 games. 

Two-nil down and in need of goals.  Make a triple like-for-like change across defence and midfield, and leave an attacker on the bench.  Fuck off Mowbray.  

Chap I work with used to work at Rovers and still has connections at the club.  It’s info we probably all knew but Dack’s fucked and out for a year at least apparently.