11 hours ago, rovers11 said:

There surely can be no excuses for not spending money this summer. We are told that Venkys can now send money across, barring some small "minor technical challenges"; we sold Wharton for £22m; are getting circa £4m for Raya; more TV money to the tune of around £2m; and Sammie will go for around £10-12m. That's £40m+ in revenue. I know most of that is paid in instalments but we can also pay transfer fees in instalments too.

I fully expect a summer of spending buttons, making administrative 'mistakes' on any transfer involving a fee, and signing non-entities like Telalovic, though. We are now purely all about developing young players and have been for some time. There's no ambition to get promoted. 

All correct which is one of the reasons they employ a snake oil salesman as CEO. He can earn his corn making up excuses about why we still can't invest after raking in £40 million, feed little bits to the Telegraph and Fans Forums and unfortunately a large chunk of the gullible ones will swallow it all as fact and truth. 

Nothing more we can do, let's rely on the kids.

Nobody else in the country gives the away team 7000+ away tickets at the drop of a hat to make some extra money 

Apart from fake club MK Dons 

Why do Rovers?

Exactly. It makes no odds to Blackburn Rovers' prospects whether we get £2 million, £20 million or £40 million for AW

As with all decent players they won't be replaced and there won't be reinvestment. So doesn't matter. The team gets worse.

We are currently at close to £25 million in transfer cash brought in since July 2023 and what have we done? Nothing. Cut cut cut, none spent, launched ourselves into relegation contention and forced out a Good manager.

Would an extra £5-10 million for AW have changed that? Nope.

Would keeping him have changed it? Well it would have kept us clear of trouble. Probably. Until next season when the inevitable happens.

If Carlsberg did weekends for Steve Waggott

Priceless win at Leeds probably keeps him safe in position for another year

Szmodics in League team of the year and closing in on the golden Boot. Will add a couple of million to his price tag and increase the competition for his signature.

Rovers win 'Fan engagement' award which is beyond a joke yet he'll be able to produce that as evidence his policies are correct and this will counter all the other issues with attendances and ticket prices which the stats show have been a total failure.

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Its the residents around the area that will complain about the Parking, congestion and traffic queues to Blackburn Council 

 

What's that got to do with the Club? Complain all they like the club was here before they were and is doing nothing wrong filling its seats up.

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

you worked it out for yourself so what's was the point in asking the question JH? 

So who decides what a positive result is?

Coventry at home soon. What is a 'positive result' out of that one? Or does it depend what happens tomorrow?

So that's QPR, Millwall and Plymouth who have all managed to defeat the mighty Leicester in the last few weeks whilst battling for their Championship lives.

We've got our chance to do the same. Over to the manager and players. But before then we'll have the local media and negative brigade telling us how it's mission impossible and how Leicester are unstoppable.

If only we had some empty spare land close to Ewood that we could use for parking on matchdays......

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

We can for sure go to Leeds tomorrow and pick up a positive result. Looks like Scott Wharton is out but Glisenan and Telalovic are back fit. 

If we play 4-2-3-1 formation I would pick this team 

                Pears 

Brittain Carter Hyam Pickering

              JRC Tronstad

   Dolan  Szmodics Chrisene

               Gallagher

Subs:- Wahlstedt O'Riordan McFadzean Buckley Garrett Moran Telalovic Glisenan Markanday

I hear the phrase 'positive result' a lot these days. What does it mean?

Anything other than a defeat? 

Or a win?

I'd argue that away at Leeds a draw would be a positive result, but at home v Sheffield Wednesday only a win would be a positive result.

51 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Steve is a happy lad now Weds have shifted all their tickets, no need to bother with anything more than 12k home fans and a few extra kids.

20k crowd guaranteed.

At this rate there'll be another pay rise on the horizon.

Any more than 20,000 these days and they go into a tailspin having to issue warnings about parking, congestion, traffic, queues, bumper crowds etc.

Just under 20,000 right in the comfort zone. 

3 minutes ago, rigger said:

Because a large percentage of Rovers fans don't live in Blackburn.

True. Interesting the club doesn't acknowledge this fact when marketing and advertising, only when it comes to restricting.

I'm struggling to see why John Smith with an Accy postcode and address couldn't buy one. Obviously a Sheffield or Yorkshire postcode is a different matter but suspect the number of Ewood attending Rovers fans who aren't season ticket holders in that group is very small.

'We'll look into it...after the game has passed and the damage is done and it's too late to do anything'

Why can't they just do it by postcode or is that too difficult?

5 minutes ago, lraC said:

Change our Name to Man United Seconds, play in red, change the name of the ground to mini old Trafford and fill it every week. Loan all of their up and coming youngsters.

Lets face it we have already run events for other clubs at Ewood for other clubs this season, so that's probably next.

 

WTF

The argument appears to be that if it makes us money, increases noise levels or fills otherwise empty seats then it is worth doing.

Slippery slope there

Those in favour where does it stop?

I mean we often have 20,000 empty seats at Ewood thanks to Venkys and Waggott, so presumably they'd be happy if we handed away fans all the BBE and Riverside if possible, pocketed loads of money for no benefit to the club and condensed all the home fans into the JW stand.

Happy days.

18 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

Where do you go from a 5-0 defeat to Bristol in such a crucial period/ fixture.

Bottle jobs. Relegation and a big shake up of the club is needed. We'll have to go right back to the bones as a club to make any kind of long term progress - and under new owners. 

Plenty of decent people will lose jobs but that is what happens in football under bad ownership.

Waggott is doing a great job of making life more difficult too, selling huge allocations to away teams in 6 pointers. Keep it up Steve! 👍

People often talk about potential job losses as a reason we need Venkys to keep funding us rather than risk administration. 

As though under vile Venkys and Waggott there haven't been any job losses over the last 12 years and as though self-inflicted relegation under them won't result in more.

With the likes of Waggott penny pinching everywhere I'd take it as given that those employed at the club are essential roles and probably on as low a wage as we can find and get away with. Hence a setup not fit for purpose.

Administration still means the club functions and essential tasks performed. Those here now would probably still be needed in administration.

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

poor carter must be well p****d off,best centre back at the club and he is`nt getting a sniff

And in the upcoming summer episode Carter is surplus to requirements / sulking because of a lack of game time and therefore we simply have to move him on and cash in on him

How convenient!

You heard it here first

24 minutes ago, M_B said:

The financial argument never really added up in my opinion, not when they could supposedly have received £2 million for Gallagher and offloaded the highest wage in the process. 

Got told by someone who supposedly knows what happened, there was a blazing row at training, Travis told Tomasson to f off and walked off, and the rest is history. 

All I'll say is that I find it remarkably convenient that all the top earners and players who can attract interest from elsewhere end up becoming 'surplus' to requirements and moved on.

Almost as though someone is working their way down a list of the most senior/expensive assets and getting shut one by one.

Of course the key issue, regardless of the cause, is we lost another senior pro and had zero intention of replacing him as we slid head first towards League One.

£10,000 x 24 weeks is a saving Waggott will be enjoying let's put it that way.

7 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

With the desperation of saving money etc I'm suprised that they are willing to still open the Riverside for next season with how small the uptake is and will be in there, and I sit in there.

Has there been any discussions about that being a possibility?

The day they shut the Riverside they will approach it in the same way they did the Darwen End closure.

Basically no consultation or advance warning just an announcement that it's shut and 'find somewhere else to sit'.

They don't think far enough ahead or care about fans enough to plan for this or run a process of discussing it. They'll just make the decision based on their immediate cashflow and targets and tough sh*t if you don't like it.

3 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Sending out Travis i think might have been the straw that broke the camels back for JDT he was club captain and probably the heartbeat of the dressing room.

I think regardless of whether it tipped JDT over the edge (and I'll maintain until my dying day that the move was 100% financially motivated and nothing at all to do with football) I am certain that offloading your captain in the first few days of the window to a league rival on loan will have had a serious impact on the dressing room.

Travis might not have been best mates with JDT but he will have been popular with quite a few in the dressing room I'm sure of that, and when such a decision is made people will rightly start asking questions and be miffed.

Bolton sold 13,000 season tickets for next year.

They don't know what league they are going to be in.

What are we doing?

Wednesday confirmed a 7000 sellout.

Waggott confirmed a Rovers sellout but not on the ticket front.

The bad news of being humiliated at Bristol City last night quickly buried by 7000 Owls coming to town and boosting his balance sheets.

22 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Despite having a very good season by our standards last term, plenty simply never took to him. They much prefer your standard lower league conveyor belt manager -  you hear it at Ewood, you see it on this thread.

Same with Allardyce and Lambert. Never really liked from the off by a large portion of the fanbase and many glad to see the back of them, whereas St Tony, whose first act was taking us down to the third division, should have been given the job for life and will be yearned after for years to come.

Looks like Eustace falling into the same bracket. A dismal run of results so far with no end in sight and yet I can see it playing out now - blame JDT for everything, nothing to do with Venkys, Waggott, Eustace, lets all pull together and rebuild in the summer.

1 minute ago, cesus said:

He does realise there is a bumper pay deal for staying in the Championship this year doesn't he? Wednesday go 1-0 up early, they are having a party at our place at our expense in the league.

This is the Rovers paradox. You'll have scrotes like Waggott making efforts to save a few quid on grass seed or boost ticket sales by a few grand yet longer term their mismanagement of the club on the pitch is costing us tens of millions.

Negligence has already seen Lenihan, Rothwell, Diaz waltz off for nothing, next up will be Gallagher and Dolan, and relegation to League One will cost circa £10 million overnight before we get on to ticket sales and sponsorship.

A bit like the last few Januarys where a small yet sensible spend may well have been the difference and got us into the top 6 and potential promotion yet they do nothing but weaken us.

1 hour ago, MB Rover said:

And Stockport and Wrexham..

Both will surpass us in the near future. Owners who invest and want them to get better, redeveloping their grounds, full houses every week.