Hull seem to have managed to get rid of a detested former owner and found a new owner with ambition and drive. Another example proving that there are options out there for Championship clubs to get new owners and rebuild. The problem we have is that with relegation to League One our options narrow drastically. We need rid of them whilst still in the Championship. I find it difficult to put into words my hatred for these people and the imposters in the directors box who rake in good incomes from this club, whilst the hard workers like Tomasson and Broughton are the ones inevitably facing the grief for it all.

We will quickly see what this football club is all about in the next couple of weeks. A serious club with a single ounce of ambition or determination would embrace the opening of the transfer window and use the opportunity to address the serious shortages that we have in our ranks, even if that means a couple of serious loan signings. Unfortunately we know from hard experience that the January window won't be used for proactive season changing business, and that we will be looking for kids as project signings and holding on hoping for a club to take pity on us with a cheap short term loan e.g. Sorba Thomas last season. The Club is a joke from top to bottom.

People were saying the same about Tyler Morton last season. He's now playing every week for a side pushing for the play-offs. Meanwhile we flounder. Travis will attract attention from elsewhere because he has attributes of value. That's why he's one of a small number who we have that clubs will bid for and that's why they are intent on forcing him out. I hope people realise by now that the 'replacement' will be inferior.

I suspect you are right. I've been privately suspicious of his absences for a few weeks now and tonight takes it to a whole new level. Conveniently he's a senior experienced player, likely now one of our top earners, capable of attracting cash bids from elsewhere as the Millwall/Luton links proved. Almost as though its all to do with player cost/value/external interest and nothing to do with what is best for Blackburn Rovers.

All it suggests to me is that it is very convenient. Isn't it remarkable how every single time we are ripe for some investment something 'beyond our control' comes along and stops them investing? If it wasn't the Indian government it would be some other excuse. What APPEARS to be the case is they have been singled out for restrictions due to past financial conduct which may or may not be dodgy. I don't think government agencies freeze assets unless they've got good reason to. So they haven't been persecuted but rather have attracted this attention. Could they get around it? Well they could likely have avoided it altogether if they had done things differently/properly from the start and it was accepted as legitimate by the authorities. And like with most things in life if they were absolutely determined to overcome the issue I believe they could find a way, but in the end it suits them down to the ground to convince everyone that they are powerless and 'doing all they can'. Of course there is a certain minimum that must be done which includes paying wages on time and keeping the lights on, hence the court case to keep things ticking over. Without that cash the whole circus comes crashing down and they lose control of their baby.

Or alternatively it suggests the financing issue was never really all it was claimed to be and they've always had the ability to make signings including cash buys.

Yes this is the Venky and shadow man model. Money only comes in if there's a 'business plan' argument supporting it. See Davenport, Edun etc. Interesting that the Indian government 'restrictions' seem to be eased for this one but of course prevent any signings of proven quality/ experience.

At the end of the day we concede too many goals. The second most in the division and it is now one clean sheet in the last thirteen games and only four all season long. Until or unless we sort that side of things out we are going to struggle. Unfortunately I genuinely believe that there is more interest at Brockhall in persisting with our 'style' in an effort to enhance individual reputations and values than there is resorting to a less attractive style but being able to grind out results. In times gone by I'd expect to see a focus on a clean sheet at Hull and if that means a boring 0-0 so be it but I just don't think there's any intention or desire to focus on that here.

They wanted Kaminski gone. It was the 'project' in action. Signed for a few hundred grand a few years ago, improved, offers come in for millions from a PL side. They saw an opportunity to get another senior player on the wrong side of 25 out of the door, get their hands on a few million and spend a fraction of it on another 'project' replacement. The intention was clearly to roll with Pears for the time being, who came to their rescue last season by surprising everyone with his competency when Kaminski was out injured. The only aim and ambition at this football club. Unfortunately a large number of supporters are fully subscribed and signed up to it and think that is what being a non-PL club is these days.

We will concede at least once We will not draw We will likely lose We will almost certainly collect more cautions than the opposition We will probably sustain another injury

If reports are to be believed the Indian government's restrictions on Venkys could put the same people out of employment. Or if Venkys woke up tomorrow and decided to completely turn off the ever decreasing trickle they'd be unemployed. How many people have already lost their jobs since Venkys took over due to ever dwindling income and cost cutters like Waggott running the show?

We know from experience what January will bring. At best a couple of cheapish project signings a la Pickering or this latest Crewe defender we've been linked with. More likely one loan if we are lucky like we got with Thomas last year. This will be dependent on us getting equal or greater wages off the books first New owners needed.

Says who?

We have enough problems to deal with under horrendous owners and their stooges. The last thing we need is for our own fans to start believing that what they have done / are doing is natural or organic. It certainly isn't. They've dragged the club back decades and will at best keep it held back. We can all dig around for statistics to suit a particular narrative. One of the classics is that our 'natural level' is being an impoverished 2nd tier club with low gates, of course taken from the decade before Jack Walker got involved. I'll never understand why so many people wish to select that particular era, one when every club going was struggling for fans and money, and ignore everything before and since then (140 other years with healthier numbers). It's all irrelevant of course except believing that the likes of Bolton and Preston are somehow 'bound' to get better gates than us due to 'metro' populations is precisely the sort of claptrap that isn't backed up by the realities on the ground and is exactly the sort of thing that makes Waggott's life easier, convincing people 'we've done all we can' when actually it is his policies depriving us of far healthier gates, not the population or catchment area.

Maybe they'll let you go onto Currys website and order a new phone / printer, then once it has been delivered you can fully take part in the charade

May be correct, but I think this is ultimately the responsibility of the club, owners, board, to not just sit back and wait for the Trust to come along with proposals and ideas and then when they do 'yay or nay' them. Someone somewhere in a position of power and decision making has to take a lead on it and be judged on it. Unfortunately the owners don't get this, or simply don't care, and as such it appears nobody is tasked with growing anything, infact quite the opposite, if it saves money they have licence to cut and reduce. Over a decade the damage becomes huge and potentially irreversible, no matter how positive the intentions of people trying to change it.

What it needs is the club to DRIVE this and build on it. That's the only way we will get attendances moving in a positive direction and for it to be sustained. What we appear to have here is the ideas and effort being made by supporters, which I've no doubt the club will facilitate and allow, but that can't be the way of it longer term, it is the club's job to do something about numbers through the turnstiles. Unfortunately with negligent ownership quite content to leave the same old faces in place ticking their boxes and meeting their personal targets that isn't going to happen, and no matter how much goodwill is developed by JDT's team and initiatives such as this one, it will be smashed to bits if Waggott keeps on bumping up ST prices and reducing the quality of the product on offer.

Could always promote half season tickets, but at not much different price to a FULL season ticket at Preston and Bolton and with presumably zero ambition to do anything in the January transfer window I can't imagine many will see much value in those.

They just keep digging a deeper hole for themselves. Quite rightly criticised for another pointless and insane policy the biggest effect of which will be to annoy home fans and almost certainly reducing what would already be a low gate, rather than admit this and revert to normal ticketing plans they keep on going with it. It seems they now accept and recognise that some fans will be unable to participate in 'digital day' and so have released a statement about this on....you guessed it.....the club website. So those people who don't have internet access or use social media, even those who only use it occasionally, likely won't see this statement. Over the phone support....but what use is this if you don't have internet access or a smartphone? To some people it isn't that they don't know how to use digital tickets / online ticketing....they simply don't have it. No amount of 'support' on the phone will overcome that. A 'digital hub' in the Rovers store.....to guide people through the 'online journey'. But again if no printing of tickets is available this still leaves the question of how someone with no internet / printer / smartphone is going to be able to get through the turnstile come matchday. And the best one of the lot.....online resources. One big problem, as above, is that some people don't have or use the internet. So what use is online guidance to them? It's just a complete fiasco.

That's the sort of short term but potentially difference making signing a play off and promotion targeting club would make. Low risk, short term, add a bit to the wage bill but valuable experience and know-how. Then compare to the ridiculous transfer business we've conducted over the last couple of years whilst sat just outside the top 2 but with reinforcements needed.

Good, I think it is external humiliation particularly by the media and rival clubs that will get Waggott's back up. He clearly has no interest in what Rovers fans think or want, because such grumbles can be kept 'in house', but the more people outside the club know what a tinpot outfit we are the more likely it is he'll feel some degree of embarrassment, hopefully.

I suspect it is just dealt with on a game-by-game basis, made up at the point the 'powers that be' are deciding how to approach the fixture. In much the same way as it seems the entire club strategy is made up on a year-by-year basis depending upon what side of bed the owners get out of and what they fancy doing. With the skeletal, bare-minimum-will-do system down there they've got it sussed for the League games because those are easy to predict and cater for. It's the same every year, they know in the summer that they'll have 23 league games to deal with and those will fall roughly each fortnight and usually the numbers turning up will fall somewhere between 11,000 and 14,000. They know from the start they'll have their Preston/Leeds/Sunderland/Middlesbrough ones which will cause some additional hassle but will be covered by them charging £30 a head for it. There's more of a problem with cup games, because these are possibles rather than guaranteed and we don't find out about them until a few weeks beforehand. Also in the vast majority of cases they are against small clubs with small followings and there are much less home fans interested in going. The difficulty this creates is ensuring the fixture passes with minimum hassle and expense, that's all they are interested in doing down there. So shut the Riverside, shut the BBE, digital tickets, close hospitality, these are all brainwaves coming from Waggott and his underlings as to how to reduce and minimise cost and hassle whilst still meeting the obligation of hosting the match. Bare minimum effort. I've no doubt they'd rather we didn't have any of these games and they could just do the 23 league matches. I'm sure there's people down there who would rather we exited the cup at the first hurdle every year or played every tie away from home so it saves them extra work. Digital tickets just saves them a job. Keeps fans away from the shop and ticket office, avoids any need to pay staff to sell them especially on matchday. So what if it means 4000 instead of 5000.

Think of the brownie points Waggott will get from India when that deal happens, he'll probably get a massive bonus and another 5 years in the job as the idiots in India credit him with landing them a massive transfer fee.

No shame in losing at Southampton. They have a better team and squad than us, for a number of reasons, and they have dealt with pretty much everyone who has gone there this season, apart from Leicester and Ipswich. What is really annoying me is the number of goals we are shipping. People will make out that Southampton are dismantling all they come up against but in reality their wins at home have usually been tight affairs decided by a goal or two. 2-1 v QPR, 3-1 v Leeds, 1-1 v Rotherham, 3-1 v Birmingham, 2-1 v WBA, 1-0 v Bristol, 2-0 v Cardiff We break new ground by shipping 4. I don't believe this is all down to Dominic Hyam being injured, and if it is I think that is arguably more worrying that we are so reliant on his presence to stop the flow of goals. 38 goals conceded in 22 games. Only Rotherham and Norwich have let more in. 11 defeats in 22 games, only the bottom 3 have lost more. These are deeply alarming statistics for me, they suggest a big problem somewhere.

That may all be correct. The important question is whether he is any good at his job, not whether he tries, listens or is a decent bloke. This is supposed to be a professional organisation in a cut throat competitive industry. Having a cup of tea with people and listening to their views pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. It really takes a special level of thought process to give away fans more options and choice than you do for home fans including season ticket holders, but that's what we have here. 'Sh1t on your own fans' certainly applies here