So many problems. You're just accepting the party line and that Silvester is to blame for this. I ask why a bloke who has worked as a Secretary for many many years and overseen countless transfers many more complex than a 6 month loan deal would suddenly forget how to do his job. He didn't forget how to complete the sale of Adam Wharton, or any other deal that brought cash in to the club. He didn't forget how to complete naff loans and cheap deals that have served the club little purpose. Only the big juicy deal that was costing cash and big wages. Interesting. Why do you believe Silvester is to blame and who are you listening to for your information? My workplace requires people to be qualified to do the role, is she? Club secretary is a very important position, these days you even get the blame when other people make mistakes 🙂 One of the reasons the club is in this state is because we take the easy and cheap route and promote inexperience from within rather than heading out into the big wide world and finding established proven operators.

So you think the solution to what happened in January is to get rid of a vastly experienced Secretary and replace him with his assistant, and expect everything to be fine?

So the assistant takes over from her boss. Presumably on a lot less money and no experience in the role I'm sure that's the ideal way to address the 'January issues' and ensure there's no repeat.

Because there isn't one. It is bullshit fed to the fans to pretend that the January fiasco was caused by factors out of the owners/boards control and by individuals conveniently going rogue. They know people are on to them and know that the only alternative to admitting the owners and their underling are to blame is to make up this rubbish with promises of a brighter future. Meanwhile the Adam Wharton money disappears and no money gets spent. Excuse after excuse.

I think Wednesday get a result at Sunderland and Birmingham will beat a half hearted Norwich. I expect Birmingham to go ahead and hold on. So it will come down to Plymouth not beating Hull....

The only way we'll be looking at new goalkeepers is in the unlikely event either Pears or Wahlstedt attract cash bids from elsewhere and we manage to sell them. That will be a financially motivated decision depending on whether anyone entices us with cash. Until that happens both will be under contract and they won't be worrying about that position in the transfer window.

What we could really do with to kick off a squad rebuild quickly and proactively and to put us at an advantage to most other Championship clubs is a big pile of guaranteed cash coming in from sales. Money that will enable us to pay what is needed to beat other clubs to signatures of good players and money we aren't waiting on things to fall into place to get.

You also have to look at the bigger picture with Szmodics. This season his goals are likely to be the only reason we don't end up in League One, costing the club upwards of £10 million and then some. If we ain't spending in the summer, and we probably ain't, then someone somewhere has to balance potential relegation against a tidy profit on Szmodics. Selling him might be pats on the back in the directors box but medium term sees our Championship status go up in smoke. Of course there's never any accountability or recognition of this at the club. Never any acknowledgment that management and transfer decisions ultimately impact on the club and finances down the line.

Probably difficult if he's spending all week down in Kent and only turns up at Ewood for the matchday prawn sandwiches.

Yes I know. So why can't we?

I was reading a lot of Coventry fans comments after the game yesterday. Disappointed that they have fallen short in the playoff chase and technically regressed in League position having gone to penalties in the final last season, but generally a lot of confidence and belief in a process there and that with more investment in the summer they'll be in the promotion race next season. No talk on there about selling star players before this season has even finished.. Something to believe in and hope for the future. Us? How much we'll get for Szmodics and which youngsters on loan. How exciting. People need something to believe in. Most of what goes on at Rovers is unbelievable.

Thank god we sold him and got the money. Now we can afford to repair the BBE lifts and the undersoil heating. Who knows, get shut of Sammie and we might be able to get the moss power washed off the brickwork.

The question is why. Nobody else makes this loss to exist in the Championship. So why do Rovers??? When we have the answer to that we can't get any further.

Don't you know we've got the lifts in the BBE to repair this summer?

Fully agree. One thing these rancid owners are good at is rapidly transforming something good into something terrible. A year ago the play-offs within grasp yet THEIR ownership has reduced us to a side still working out the permutations to avoid League One (again). Horrible people, the worst owners in football and employing spivs and liars.

So another campaign ends at Ewood with no news at all about new season tickets. You'd probably expect a club desperate for cash and keen to get as many tickets sold as possible to have them on sale by now, or at least have announced prices and be pushing them like mad whilst there's a crowd on Ewood and a captive audience. But no, in typical Rovers fashion we do nothing, we let the season end and then we'll announce something in a month or so when people are off doing other things with their time and money.

A combination of their recent home form being solid, having Rowett in the dugout, and that they know they need to win. They'll treat it as a cup final, their ground will be full and they've done this sort of thing more than one before on the final game of the season.

If Bolton get through the play-offs I wonder who the 'be careful what you wish for' gang will use as their poster for why we can't hope to be rid of Venkys. All these other clubs who go bust, reset, get through it and go again, coming back in far better health than Venky Rovers. One day we'll do the same, we need to, just hope its sooner rather than later.

I think we are now in Plymouth's hands and hoping they don't beat Hull final day. That's our best chance of survival. Hull a tricky side to beat but Plymouth unpredictable at home. I think it is a banker that Wednesday finish the job off and get something against a rudderless on the beach Sunderland, after comprehensively dealing with us and WBA. I think it is highly likely we lose at Leicester, and I'd bet on Birmingham getting past Norwich at home. Really couldn't have asked for better circumstances today. At home, against a side with nothing to play for, knackered after a big week and playing with 10 men for over 30 minutes. Couldn't manage it.

Where's the connection? Gestede was long gone from Rovers before Waggott turned up so doubt they knew each other or that Waggott is letting him shadow him at Forum meetings as a favour to an old friend. I'm not aware of a similar arrangement ever occurring before, and it isn't the first time I've heard of Gestede being around the club and training ground which all just seems odd to me if he isn't employed there.

I may have missed this among the talk of using the Adam Wharton cash to repair the broken lifts at Ewood but can anyone explain why Rudy Gestede was in attendance at the meeting on behalf of the Club? I can't find any mention of this in the minutes and cannot find any mention of him being employed at the club or what role he performs.

I know he's done a good job. Point was what happens next. JDT got zero backing and undermined in 3 transfer windows, forced to sell his best players and offered nothing by way of reinvestment. I bet QPR's board don't do that to their manager this summer. Our January transfers were nothing short of laughable. Just because we signed 6 does not mean they are remotely good enough or that the manager has been backed.

Unlike JDT here they'll actually try to back him and improve under him.

Can't block those pathways for the youngsters. It just wouldn't be fair to sign proven players when we've an academy model to follow!

Surely these facility repairs and safe standing could all be funded comfortably from the £25 million cash coming into the club since last summer? Or are we supposed to forget about that. Just like we are supposed to forget that not long ago Coventry were a 4th division side playing in Northampton, so yes I take exception when Rovers employees are using them as an example of what we could/should be. The only reason we are below them is because of mismanagement at our end which has been bettered by virtually every other club in the Football League.