JHRover

Leicester haven't yet rejoined the Football League so I can only assume the authorities will threaten them with rejection and expulsion into non league. Of course not, they'll be welcomed back into the Championship, allowed to use their parachute money to run a massive wage bill and be favourites for automatic promotion again, just like last time. The system is a joke and ripe for abuse.

It seems to be a new word that has sprung up in recent years. Fair enough communicate with supporters who ultimately pay people's wages and fund the club but not sure who counts as a stakeholder who isn't a supporter.

I think at best we are getting a Broughton type external appointment - someone relatively inexperienced who would love to add Blackburn Rovers and Championship to his CV who would probably have good intentions, come in and realise what a joke the club is and be gone again within 12 months More likely is they let the 'search' drag on for months, this will be an excuse for another botched summer, with ultimately the remaining trio filling the void and curtain twitcher consolidating his power.

What is a stakeholder?

Is this the excuse now for why we can't sort contracts and bring in new signings, because we are awaiting a new CEO? Sounds like a typical Venky Rovers excuse.

I see this as the age old Venky distraction tactics. We saw it in full effect last season after the January debacle. Attempts to blame Broughton, Cheston and Silvester for the shenanigans, so they left quickly under a short club statement and then they can claim to have learned lessons and that action is being taken. The latest chaos with the dismal interviews, then stooge 1 being forced out of the shadows and now the negative publicity with the ladies team and presumably dismal season ticket sales so another scapegoat needed. Only we are running short on options there so bring forward Waggott's retirement. They're playing games and sadly people will fall for it again. Nothing really changes until the owners and their main stooge are gone. Until then they'll just keep on shuffling and distracting.

Prospective CEO when realising that he will have no line to or communication with India, like Waggott will only be measured on how much he cuts and saves, has to employ work experience blokes in senior positions at the Club, oh and has to take orders from the curtain twitcher who sits below him in the club pecking order yet has contact with the owners. Yeah on second thoughts you can stick your job. They aren't looking for a CEO they are looking for a figurehead to provide legitimacy and act as a shield.

Prospective CEO when realising that he will have no line to or communication with India, like Waggott will only be measured on how much he cuts and saves, has to employ work experience blokes in senior positions at the Club, oh and has to take orders from the curtain twitcher who sits below him in the club pecking order yet has contact with the owners. Yeah on second thoughts you can stick your job. They aren't looking for a CEO they are looking for a figurehead to provide legitimacy and act as a shield.

Even if by some miracle they decided to replace Waggott with a competent external CEO rather than promote the work experience guy from within, ask yourselves who is going to come in and work at an organisation whereby Pasha is technically subordinate to the CEO but practically is the head honcho as he is the only one with a connection to India and has their ear. It's just a ridiculous and laughable situation. Unworkable even if they decided to recruit a proper CEO, which they won't because those cost and will need assurances. Easier and cheaper just to muddle on with the chuckle brothers and hope it works out ok. Unacceptable in professional football.

I always expected Waggott to bail when the shit was truly about to hit the fan and that until that day arrived he would hang on collecting his hefty salary. So hopefully the regimes collapse is imminent. Then again more likely in my opinion a convenient shuffle to cover for his retirement whilst putting out an impression of changes been made when we all know that won't really happen. It will still be business as usual upstairs and probably even more power for head stooge and his patsy Gestede. Give it a year or two and Gestede will be the sacrificial lamb when the pressure is building again.

Indeed he's gone. Confirmed by the club in a typically limited and vague manner with zero mention of who is - officially at least - running the show now. As far as I am concerned a positive but ultimately pointless whilst Venkys and their main stooge remains. We will just lurch from one incompetent to another under their ownership. I expected a fall guy this summer. Last year it was Broughton, they needed one this to keep the heat off India and head stooge which has been building. The women's team furore will have caused them grief so this announcement used to head off trouble there. They aren't daft. Of course it has long been rumoured that Waggott was preparing for retirement so it may simply be that and the head stooge attempting to collect some credit/points by making it appear as a removal. Venkys out, that's all that really matters.

Which is why there is a good argument to say that the chaos that unfolded at Bolton, Derby, Reading etc. is a preferable and better outcome than what we are enduring here. Yes fine Venkys have ensured that the bills have been paid and we've avoided administration and all that comes with it. I'm not sure I'd consider that a badge of honour on their part considering where we were when they rocked up but hey ho. But those other clubs have suffered short, sharp shocks, changed ownership and cleared the decks and rebuilt and renewed. Give me that and some future optimism and trust between ownership and fans over the hell they continue to subject us to here, nearly 15 years in.

Yep we are getting to that territory now. Flog Brittain, Travis or Tronstad to a Middlesbrough or West Brom for a couple of million to pay the lekky bills until August.

Is this the bit where "we can't compete" with what Derby are offering (ignoring our billionaire ownership and the fact they are skint and were in admin a few years ago, and we'd go the same way as them if Venkys ever left)?

If you are going to lie might as well go high especially when half the fanbase will swallow it whole.

Once they walk then a new owner comes along. Many, many, many owners have given up owning clubs and funding losses and have passed it over to someone else to take it on. League One Reading managed it only last week. The fans don't need a plan on that front. It isn't a job for the fans to concentrate on. All we can do is hope the new owners are better than this lot (highly likely). No club has ceased to exist because an outgoing owner hasn't found a replacement.

It makes financial sense to shut the whole thing down and put houses on Ewood and Brockhall. I'm interested as to why some seem to think it is ok to slash in some areas because it saves money but stop short of going the whole hog. Basically it's because "I'm alright Jack" as long as there's a men's team at a reasonable level every other Saturday at Ewood nothing else bothers them. Be careful though...the same excuses and reasons for this could easily be transferred elsewhere to justify what they are up to.

Broadcast that season tickets are back on sale one day and the next close the club shop at short notice for an "event". They just don't take this seriously.

Agreed, although I do believe that the cash for Rhodes, Brereton and Gallagher was possibly one of the Indians' personal cash that they agreed to stump up front hence the sudden and strange nature of those deals that stand out like a sore thumb. I think one of them agreed to cough up the necessary extra cash for those on the basis they expected to recover it again from later sales.

A fairly rapid return hearing date there.

I'm convinced of it, I'm sure the only reason the Indians agreed to employ him was on the basis he would ultimately pay for himself with savings made.

"In a structure that is community based" What does that actually mean other than small time operation? What is this obsession with "community" they have down there other than it excuses them thinking small every time?

Exactly. The principle applies equally to all other aspects of the operation including the men's team. Only they won't be so blatant about it with the men, the end result will inevitably be the same, ending up at a lower level on a permanent basis because it is easier and cheaper for this lot to handle.

Look on the bright side, it isn't all bad, that saving will do wonders for Waggott trying to hit his target and qualify for his bonus next year.

Can I just check, do Venkys still 'never refuse to sign a cheque' or have we given up on that one at last?