JHRover

Doesn't actually matter what the fee is. It isn't a good deal for Rovers because it isn't going into strengthening the club. The real bad news might yet come if Adam Wharton is transferred. A £10 million+ windfall could prop up this disgraceful regime for another couple of years yet.

If the club was run by people with ambition or interest in football then we would have easily kept those 3 and strengthened even on a limited budget (not that the budget should be limited with the money brought in) But the club is being run by non-football people for non-footballing reasons, so it is immaterial to those people whether we do ok or not or whether we keep our best players or not. All that matters to them is that the bigger earners leave, transfer fees are pocketed and friendly agents are kept in work bringing in randomers from overseas.

They're also getting good at timing departures and arrivals to coincide with one another. Some would call that good management but I read it that we are utterly incapable of doing business until we are certain one that costs more is going out the other way first. Naturally then the bad news of a popular player leaving can be 'covered' by the 'good news' of a total randomer and unknown coming in who 'might' be better but lets be realistic, is almost certain to be inferior especially with his injury issues. You won't get a more reliable person than Travis - excellent fitness record, can run around non stop for 95 minutes 3 times a week, never had any serious injury problems - to be replaced by this mon who already it seems has injury issues and a frankly bizarre 'pay as you play' deal according to Nixon, can see why he ticks the Regime's boxes then.

I think the best we will get from him is an admission that he was never offered a new contract and some comments about how difficult it has been in the last few weeks as he's been fit and wanting to play but was told to stay away. Then it will be the usual PR soundbites about what a great big club Derby are, straight out of the new signing playbook.

Travis has never struck me as a character who would refuse to play. Quite the opposite I think he'd put a shift in even if he wasn't 100% fit or ready. Indeed he was available pre-season and at West Brom. So yeah, on balance I'd believe that the issue is more that the Club are desperate to cash in and get his wages gone so are doing their level best to generate some sort of bidding war and ensure he doesn't get injured in the meantime.

The Oystons had hold of Blackpool for 32 years but at least during that time they rebuilt most of Bloomfield Road and had several promotions, including one to the PL. So some bits of good/progression in there. Likewise Glazers - plenty of bad but fundamentally they have continued to invest in their squad and facilities and have won numerous major trophies even in the time since Fergie retired. I'm struggling to think of another ownership regime that has held on to a club for 15 years and counting and delivered nothing good - the highlights, even for their defenders, have been keeping us out of administration and a promotion from the 3rd division.

Rovers in their wisdom have ensured no way back by deliberately making him the problem for 'wanting' a move to Derby and the manager publicly announcing this in his press conference. Had he not done so there would have been a chance of keeping this behind closed doors and rescuing the situation if an appropriate offer didn't materialise. But then again they've known for 12+ months he was getting offloaded and his wages off the books. All deliberate. I suspect he was high on the list for removal last summer and it was only the presence of Eustace and his unwillingness to accept what they were doing that led to him staying last season. All we are seeing is their long term plan being carried out with increasing desperation as we approach deadline day and other than a relatively low bid from Derby probably haven't got the sort of offer that Suhail and his underlings want for their figures.

I've been accused several times of being a 'conspiracy theorist' for suggesting that the Club/Regime makes an effort to paint a picture and false narrative of events in a bid to get the media and fanbase on side and against the departing player/staff member. I think after what we have witnessed the last few weeks with Travis we can see what this Regime is all about. Vile, despicable, cowardly. A disgraceful way to conduct business and treat anyone let alone the club captain who has been with us for over a decade and made over 200 senior appearances. But only to be expected these days from this Regime. They belong in the gutter. I'm past the point of caring yet still feel embarrassment and shame to be even linked to this Club these days. And the only thing worse than that is still, after all these episodes and all this time, dozens of fans line up like obedient dogs to swallow the club narrative whole and be taken for another ride.

Maybe the club shop is shut again or there's another 'staff event' meaning no tickets available tomorrow

Gestede needed a pliable 'coach' back then and Eustace wasn't that. Eustace could put his foot down and got Weimann/Batth/McFadz and Cantwell by kicking off. Bet he was delighted when Derby took him off our hands - compensation AND an opportunity to bring in someone like Ismael who will put up with more of the nonsense without kicking off.

Well we've already got Radio Rovers, Rovervision, Darwen End, Blackburn End Upper, town centre shop, ladies team, matchday programme, non matchday Blues Bar, reduced opening for the club shop, not to mention other things such as routine maintenance, cleanliness, staffing all falling victim to the insatiable appetite for cuts. So only to be expected that once the 'big' ones were dealt with that attention would turn to smaller things such as Sky Sports subscriptions. This is the problem when you have owners and stooges only interested in cutting costs - it becomes an addiction and no stone is left unturned. Everything can be justified under the banner of 'it saves money'. Technically they are right it does. I've asked a few times where does that quest end? Close the whole club down - that will save money as well? Demolish Ewood and move to Darwen? Knock down Brockhall (oh yeah, already tried that one). The legions of fans who continue to line up to defend and support these decisions seem to think there is a red line somewhere that this regime will never cross and their routine of trotting down to Ewood and sitting in their seat every fortnight is sacred and will never be infringed on by regime. Newsflash - they don't care and nothing is safe.

Not many other serious football clubs actively want to force out / offload all proven quality players due to a cost cutting regime to the extent that they refuse to even discuss deserved new contracts causing managers to walk out mid-season. It doesn't happen elsewhere because no other owners/board would allow it. Only the freak show at Ewood and the chickens will soon be coming home to roost.

Not available for the Preston game. Ok makes some sense. Nor for the Leicester, Derby, Birmingham or Wrexham matches. For those presumably the 'pie and peas' will be getting dropped again in favour of a cash grab hoping to rinse the tourists/expected big away followings/anniversary 'bumper crowd'

A shame the ownership isn't one of them. Still as long as they remain embroiled in an investigation and Court proceedings in India I will continue to hold out faint hope of it being brought to an end in the not-too-distant future.

I always assumed that given the League's deal with Sky, the club being part of the Sky show and all that they wouldn't actually then have to pay to broadcast Sky at the club. The sort of balancing act decision that a local boozer or sports club has to weigh up not a multi million pound Championship football club.

Of course, what idiots we are, the focus of the Regime as ever is to keep costs down for fans, offer great value and strengthening connections between fans and club. Anyone who thinks this is just a cynical cost cutting scheme really needs to get their facts right. I applaud their honesty and transparency. Praise the communication!

There's clearly no intention to sell or to get us back to the PL. Those who believe that they are keeping us with a view to getting back to the PL to recover their investment I think are deluded. The only calculations they need to be thinking about are whether they want another 10 years of funding a Championship / League One club to the tune of £10 million+ a year, ultimately costing them a further £100 million or more on top of what it has already cost, or whether they are better putting a stop to it now, stopping the drain of money and handing it over for a nominal amount to someone willing to try and better the club.

Just think, we can be told about how 'we can't compete' with clubs like Bolton, Wigan, Huddersfield, Luton and Cardiff. Have any of you seen how many people live in those places compared to Blackburn with Darwen?

Absolutely... if anyone wanted an insight into the lengths and depths this regime will go to to arse cover and deflect the blame those two sorry, shameful recent episodes in our history are up there with the best of them. We've had a very high turnover in players over the years and yet the only ones that face 'admin errors' are those that require the club to commit to substantial costs. Convenient. Another example of this club apparently facing 'issues' and 'difficulties' and 'strange things' that no other club ever comes up against. They are good at lying. I think most sensible people can work out there's a pattern here and it all leads back to the regime. They must think the fanbase is totally stupid. But then again with the views of some supporters and an ever compliant local media lining up to swallow and regurgitate whatever rubbish they serve up I can hardly blame them for trying.

Whether he wants to count it or not doesn't matter. It goes on his managerial statistics - now played 15, won 4, drawn 3, lost 8.

After all this time you still haven't realised that my comments were tongue in cheek and sarcastic. No wonder the club can pull the wool over your eyes so easily.

No no no you haven't read the script. Joe Rothwell left because his wife wanted to live on the South Coast (since gone to Leeds and Rangers) JDT left to take the Sweden job (which he took ages after leaving here) Lenihan left even though we offered him a huge deal to stay (yeah right) Eustace left for family reasons and to save 30 minutes on his commute Brittain left despite us "imminently" agreeing terms on a new deal with him Travis is going to leave for 'life changing' money at Derby County None of the above anything at all to do with the approach of Rovers.

Birmingham and Wrexham have exploited their owners' connections abroad particularly in the USA and signed highly lucrative international sponsorship deals despite only being able to offer League One/Two football up until this year. Ambition. Thinking big. Not accepting your lot in life with a shrug of the shoulders. Contrast to this rotten regime, refusing to look beyond Darwen for sponsors or fans, not having a commercial director. 'We're a local small town club' bizarrely used as some sort of badge of honour yet hamstringing the club financially. These owners have done NOTHING in 15 years to secure the club advantageous sponsorship. Other than their own 'sponsorship' - forced to do it as a way of legitimately getting more money into the club (stickers on the shirts and filthy boards across the Riverside) there hasn't been a single sponsorship of any size or duration with Indian companies/firms. Zero effort or interest.

If its the difference between promotion and not, or relegation and survival, then its a price worth paying. Too often here the focus is on the individual - their cost, transfer fee, wages, scope for increasing in value The focus really needs to be on the team and giving it the experience, depth and quality to actually go and achieve something in the game rather than just existing with no purpose whilst rivals all overtake us.

We're getting to the point where you have to balance potential outgoings/incomings and the costs/benefits of those with the value of retaining Championship status. Even the most deluded and optimistic of supporters can surely see now that this isn't a good Championship squad and that it is going to be one almighty struggle this season. It always makes me wonder the thought process going on in some people's heads when they clamour for a player to be sold (or in this case be forced out) on the basis it 'makes financial sense' to sell now, get a million or two in (that won't be used to improve the squad, because even if they allowed a chunk of it to be spent on fees our wage 'model' prevents us from getting proven quality) and then a direct result of these sort of sales is potential relegation to League One and probably £10 million+ in revenue lost. There's still a lot of delusion around that we can just offload all these players, cut costs, sign equivalent or better quality and stay in the Championship (if you consider that to be some sort of achievement, I don't but the people running the club do). The penny will drop in the coming weeks only it will be too late when it does.