To be fair to Rovers they are certainly pulling out all the stops these days Like arranging for the Grand National to be moved to lunchtime so that Rovers fans can watch it before we play Leeds at 12:30pm. Some effort.

The only consolation to potential relegation is that hopefully it will be the final straw and things will start to get really ugly. By that I mean the deluded folk who convince themselves that all is fine and well will realise the truth, that the financial implications are enough to break the status quo and hopefully rid us of these people one way or the other. That's the only hope I have, that there is a tipping point somewhere along the line and another relegation and £7-10 million down on the revenue might just hopefully cause a chain reaction upstairs. The way things are going there will be people celebrating clinging on to Championship status, as though this is some sort of major achievement for a side that has spent almost all the last 2.5 years occupying a top 6 position and probably still would be if it wasn't for the owners and their employees doing their best to dismantle the club. These are the important issues here. Which players are left and which manager acts as figurehead are unimportant when you've got the problems we have at the top of the club. It's like talking about what colour wallpaper you'd prefer in your living room when your roof has a gaping hole in it and the windows are smashed through. Whether it is Eustace, Johnson or another puppet appointed as the sacrificial lamb to oversee the next round of cost cuts and sales is of minor importance. We won't be coming back up next time around and if they continue on the course they've set in the last 3 years we will be in League One sooner rather than later. That is a fact and it is totally deserved and a direct result of their management and decision making.

A similar thought had occurred to me. I'm convinced that he is renumerated at least partly based on how much he 'saves' the owners, and of course relevant to that metric is the wage bill and transfer fees. If true I see absolutely no reason why he would want contract extensions or big transfer fees. But even if true the owners have employed him and have let him continue for 6.5 years and counting. So at the very least they are happy with how he's doing things. What we can't allow ourselves to do is fall for the 'innocent oblivious naive Venkys' line again. Been there done that, and still some people fervently claim all our problems were nothing to do with them but purely the result of bad advice/being taken advantage of. It's nonsense - their name over the door = their ultimate responsibility and the reason why they have to go. No ifs or buts. Too much blood on their hands for that.

With guaranteed big followings from promotion chasing Ipswich, Southampton, Coventry and fighting for their safety Sheffield Wednesday? 'We'll look into it'

Presumably even if they allowed the sales to happen we'd have then suffered the very same 'admin errors' experienced in the last few transfer windows, conveniently meaning no money gets spent.

I personally wouldn't have complained at selling Rothwell or Brereton when it was clear neither were signing new contracts IF the money was used to replace them, Unfortunately the very reason they weren't signing new contracts, why virtually nobody other than academy graduates on their first professional deals have signed extensions, is that the club has systematically and rapidly reduced the wage bill. So I doubt they were even offered sensible terms, or if they were they were never going to sign them as they simply weren't competitive for the standard of player in question. And for the same reason we were never, ever, ever, going to see the money reinvested, which is why the McGuire and O'Brien stunts were little more than con jobs orchestrated by liars. Serious money was never changing hands.

People talk about tough games when we play top 6 or 6 pointers. Well this and Bristol City are the ones against sides stuck in mid-table in dodgy form and going nowhere. On paper it should be the ideal fixture to target a win in. Managerless, missing a few to injury and other than a win against a poor Cardiff side yesterday have been in terrible form themselves. Unfortunately with 2 wins in 21 or whatever it is now it is clear that this side hasn't got the capacity to target any fixture as a win and there is something seriously wrong. Put simply we aren't good enough to get results. I wonder why that is.

Does anyone actually care at this stage? He could be Pep Guardiola's natural successor for all we know, but under these owners it is irrelevant. They'll find a way to undermine him and force him out. They ain't going to sack a shite manager - Kean, Coyle They ain't going to back a decent manager - JDT, Allardyce, maybe Lambert John Eustace could be a Mourinho in the making, or could be another Kean. Ultimately makes no difference to this club under these awful people.

Waggott is the human manifestation of Venkys. Inadequate, incompetent, untrustworthy, out of his depth, embarrassing Should be nowhere near running a professional football club, definitely not one in the second tier of English football Yet here he is. And until he's gone along with his disgusting bosses we are only going one way.

Venkys out Nothing else matters until then.

As designed by those in control the 'anti JDT' stuff has gone down a treat on the Venkygraph, Facebook and twitter. Legions of fans now using this as 'evidence' that the problem here was JDT, that he had lost the dressing room, that the players weren't happy under him and that things should be fine now we've got Eustace in charge. It really is that simple to pull the wool over the eyes of so many so quickly. All I know as a supporter who has seen an awful lot of crap in the last 12 years is that JDT delivered more in less time than anyone else, that we went nearer to cracking the play-offs than under anyone else, that we went nearer to Wembley than under anyone else and this was despite being given zero backing during January and working with extreme limitations. Obviously as a humble supporter and not a 'pro' I'm not privy to what goes on in private but whatever did go on clearly didn't do us much harm last season or the first half of this season as we sat in or close to the top 6 despite slashing and burning the squad, deliberately. I don't personally care what individuals thought about the manager. What matters is results. Give me last season under JDT above any other season we've had under relentless mediocrity and failure under these wretched people. Anyhow, happy camp back on. Content to plod along in the bottom half of the Championship for the next 4-5 years if we are lucky, Keeping pondlife like Waggott in well paid employment as he continues to gut the club, cutting costs and quality until its retirement day and there's nothing left but 6000 fans rattling around Ewood reminiscing about the 80s. At least the senior pros will enjoy themselves and not get upset at a winner demanding more of them. Maybe one day St Tony will come home and tell them more about what wonderful human beings they all are.

Pretty sure they are capped at £30 a ticket for any Premier League game Ipswich are selling season tickets from Monday, starting from £381 an adult. So cheaper than us, in a more affluent region, and offering a far superior product, despite 'not knowing what league they are going to be in' How is that possible Waggott?

Probably instructed to do so by Waggott and shadow man. Blame the external factors, never hold those inside the club responsible for our failings.

This is what you tend to find with the better managers with burning ambition to succeed and quickly. JDT was never here to plod along for years on end (unlike his predecessor). He was here to be successful, and quickly, and had the club supported him in his quest he would have got us into the play-offs and who knows where we'd be now. I think it is inevitable that when such a character goes into a club and injects a winning mentality into a group accustomed to the old uncle Tony 'arm around the shoulder' routine it will end up upsetting a few. You hear about this sort of stuff with Mourinho, Van Gaal and other world class coaches - they go in somewhere, immediately and ruthlessly deliver improvement and usually success, and then afterwards you get some players grumbling about them or not happy with how things went. Too much of a happy camp down there and has been for years. From the 'right good go' days of Bowyer to the 'we don't want a double promotion we want to stabilise in the Championship' uncle Tony.

The party line is 'human error'. That's what they are all saying because it is the only thing they can think up other than admitting that the problem lies in India, which will see immediate dismissal. Of course it wasn't human error. Once and that might be believable, but to happen at least 3 times in a year and coincidentally only on the potential expensive / cash buys coming in and not on the frees, loans and sales, says it all. There would never have been 'human error' on signing off the Adam Wharton cash bonanza coming in, that's for sure. Liars the lot of them. I've got no axe to grind with Broughton. I suspect he is well intentioned and would want to be successful here. But like so many before him he has fallen foul of a sham, a con, a facade of a normal well intentioned ambitious football club but scratch ever so slightly at the surface and the rotten reality becomes clear. He would be wise to plan his exit ASAP. It would be career suicide to remain here, only those with no ambition or no prospect of higher/better employment elsewhere would stick around here, hence being run by the lowlife we are.

Indeed. Away fans were previously housed in the yellow corner at Elland Road which is the worst seating and lowest price. The move to the main stand allows them to charge away fans top prices. They also aren't bothered if away fans don't buy tickets because they can allocate the bottom area to home fans if take up is low and will sell out when top of the league. I expect similar at Leicester where they will either be celebrating promotion or in need of a win to go up. They'll want Rovers fans in low numbers so they can give extra seats to the home fans, who will pay anything for such an occasion. So expect £35+ for that one too.

Even with Rovers' 'subsidy' it's still £35 a pop at Leeds for an early tv game, and still £5 more than their fans had to pay at Ewood.

There's not a chance they'll bin shadow man off. He's in their circle and has been from the start. They didn't get rid of him when we went down last time and that relegation followed him interfering in things by getting rid of Bowyer and then big budget cuts. If anything his power has only grown over time, the only interruption to that being when Mowbray went out to India and struck up a direct relationship with the top brass out there. I imagine shadow man was quite happy to see the back of Mowbray and his power, and much prefers a situation where he is the one and only link to India and all decisions have to go through him before the owners will even hear about them. Waggott would probably be encouraged to bring forward his retirement with a golden pay-off for his service but good grief, at pushing 70 and based in Kent you have to ask why a bloke in his position would carry on with what we are led to believe is such a tough, important, thankless job. Yet just with politicians they defy usual norms and seemingly want to continue in such positions long beyond normal retirement age. Almost as though the job isn't actually that tough or that the perks that come with it are just too good to turn down.

A fairly pointless and uninspiring interview whereby just about everything Broughton says is caveated. "We already have clear plans of what we are trying to do" - that doesn't mean those plans will be followed or accepted by upstairs "I have been told that it won't impact our transfer business going into the summer" - being told something doesn't mean shit especially at Ewood Park "A geopolitical challenge" aka being investigated by authorities for illegal activities "Hopefully have the squad to come out of the summer in a better position", hopefully isn't good enough for me. What we can see here is a clear divergence between Broughton and the 'others'. Like JDT before him he is using the media to show those who can read between the lines where the real responsibility and decision making lies and it isn't with him. He can do all he can but it is meaningless if the board and owners don't follow it, which they won't because they don't care what the underlings think, they'll just do whatever it is they fancy doing from one window to the next. If they're in a tight spot or short on cash they'll reduce the squad to rubble without a second's thought. If they're interested or having fun they'll ignore huge bids for out of contract players. I don't blame Broughton, it seems to me he has been brought here to do a job that is now impossible to perform, working for liars and charlatans who have made it mission impossible. Think back to last season, a hair's breadth from the playoffs and FA Cup semi final, bright ambitious young manager, bright good young squad. Could that have been more comprehensively demolished, wrecked, undermined and undone in the space of 6-9 months? I doubt a dingle paid to deliberately ruin the club could have done more to wreck us than our great 'well meaning' owners and board.

Ipswich had the fortune to be taken over by a group of people with a plan and ambition, Americans who have come in to get a return on their investment, and they've already started to do that by selling a share of the club for big money. This all runs contrary to the negative elements of the fanbase who wish to convince themselves and others that we have no such option, that there is no alternative for this club than to exist as a decaying rotting husk under Venkys forever. People call me negative yet I believe there is a better brighter alternative to the awful people that own and manage us today, whereas those who refuse to countenance such a possibility and resort to name calling and the rest rather than open their eyes to the possibility of a better future. Absolutely no sympathy towards the owners and board who have created the injury issues themselves. Ironic that they'll be moaning about absences if Buckley is out when we fired him off to Sheffield Wednesday not long ago supposedly surplus to requirements and we have our captain who will be sat on his backside cheering on his Ipswich team-mates from the stands on Friday due to further Rovers nonsense. You reap what you sow.

Largely agreed although I think the 'big' deals like O'Brien and McGuire - where the wage bill needs stretching or cash needs putting up beyond the set summer budget - requires their special permission and authorisation. Owners set a budget in the summer, Waggott and shadow man left to get on with it. This will cover the essential costs and they have permission to reinvest a percentage of money generated so long as the wage bill comes down. Either permission for extra spending is too slow to come through, they don't agree to it or Waggott and shadow man don't even ask them not wanting to cause any turbulence it's fundamentally getting permission from India to do something that is the issue.

He's unfit to be CEO at any normal, sensible, stable football club. Oh yeah, he never has been. Distressed, mismanaged, failing clubs are his business. Charlton, Coventry, Southend, Gillingham, Rovers. Odd that he keeps ending up at such failing organisations yet never gets a job at a stable organisation.

When anyone worries themselves about promotion and relegation it would be useful to remember this sort of thing. Whilst we are now fighting to preserve our Championship status the CEO and shadow man are scurrying like rats in the shadows trying to find new ways of getting players out and off the wage bill. Even going behind the manager's back and undermining him in the process. They're not here to do any good by BRFC. Promotion, relegation, progress, growth, improvement - never on the agenda with this lowlife scum. They're paid to do one thing and one thing only. We need shut of the lot of them and this club will never improve or prosper until they are history.

Fully agree. This is Venkys in action. All the work and preparation is done and sorted by those on the ground at Ewood / Brockhall. Final sign off / approval needed from India - either doesn't come or comes too late and they don't have authority to press 'go'. Deal collapses, everyone looks rather stupid, fans in uproar, media asking questions, laughing stock of the game. What to do? Tell the truth - that Venkys are to blame and can't be contacted? No chance, that's a sackable offence at Rovers, and a sure fire way to ensure you are unemployable in football So instead make up some cock and bull nonsense about admin errors and the rest. All a clear ploy to confuse and lay the blame anywhere but India.

These kind of slippery underhand maneouvurings are no surprise at all to me. I'm convinced that a number of Mowbray's signings were arranged without his input or involvement. Why though, if Tomasson rated the player, would they be so sneaky about it?