13 minutes ago, Silas said:

I swear when this Saudi shambles started some of AJ's fights were on by 10.20pm. 

But maybe my mind playing tricks.

Was the only part I was fully on board with.

Now I have to put with the shit atmosphere and a shit time.

I think it’s crap 

A childhood memory is being woken up at silly o’clock to see Mayweather v Hatton. None of this crazy production beforehand from what I can remember. Nothing wrong with Michael Buffer stood in the middle calling out the boxers. They are out America-ing the Americans here…… 

6 minutes ago, Silas said:

Why the hell do they drag this so late?

Almost 1am in Saudi. Getting late in UK. New York 6pm. 

Get the bloody fights on earlier. 

They'll piss on with songs, elaborate ring walks etc for 45 mins after this bout.

Genuinely don’t understand it. More ad revenue breaks?!

We have to fanny on 4am/5am get ups for Vegas fights. This seems pretty perfect time for EVERYONE- 3pm in LA so football kick off time.

It's boiling my blood. 

Tell me about it 

Came back up to Blackburn to watch this with my old man. After a day in the sun he couldn’t be arsed to stay out. Now the old git has gone to bed….could have stayed at home and saved him £25 

At least I got to see a good days cricket down Cherry Tree 🍺

12 minutes ago, Silas said:

There's many people speculating how many of the Sim's gym boxers have lost all their power and stamina since Benn got his double test failure.

Almost like something is missing from them all now. 

Do you think the sucker punch helped Silas? 👀👀

9 minutes ago, Silas said:

There's many people speculating how many of the Sim's gym boxers have lost all their power and stamina since Benn got his double test failure.

Almost like something is missing from them all now. 

Yeah seeing that on social media myself. I always thought Cordina’s trainer was Joe Gallagher. Can’t say I follow boxing as much as I used to. One of the most corrupt sports in the world for a reason….. 😂

Cordina got found out tonight. No clue why he stayed on the inside. It will be interesting to see if he had an injury - didn’t use his jab much at all and legs looked like he had gone 

9 hours ago, Upside Down said:

What a ridiculous statement. 

Shows how little you understand about what has gone on at this club.

Behave yourself. Parsonblue can speak for himself, but it is clear he has been supporting this club for many a year through thick and thin. He’s been posting on this site for years and is contributions have been excellent 

To be fairly honest you are quite a terrible poster. I am not against a swear word, but your posts are both ladened with expletives and clearly lacking the awareness that not everybody will agree with you. Wind your neck in and understand that we are all supporters of Rovers here

Really bloody annoying how frequently we make mistakes in our club correspondence 

Have we ever had a player called Jay Haddock?

Steve Wagott oversees such as an amateur operation. Have some respect. He does not deserve his wage 

It is still Rangers and the Rangers of old

Anything else is just hand wringing nonsense for me. It is not the clubs fault their owners fell foul of the law. The fans are forever entitled to celebrate the history of Rangers and continue in the tradition of Rangers 

1 hour ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

I think it showed his character and it’s not one I want in the trenches of a relegation battle

see szmodics for comparison. Do you think he would act in such a way? 
 

Yes.

All footballers go for money. We all do. Go on any construction site and everybody is bragging about being on a quid more than the next man. It is no different for footballers

If a team had come in for Szmodics in January and offered him £10k a week more, he'd have been gone

I think Southgate will take Henderson and some will be sorely disappointed. I don't think he has actually played much for Ajax but still, he's a leader of that England team and obviously someone Southgate trusts

Had I been manager, I would have perhaps asked him if he'd come along in the non-playing staff, if only to offer support to Wharton and Mainoo who I would be taking, with a view to playing Wharton alongside Rice and Bellingham. Call it bias if you will, but Wharton has not looked out of place in any of the games I have watched, especially against Chelsea and Liverpool

We have some crap kick off times this year. 8pm on a Sunday night for the first game is not what the doctor ordered

You can't blame McGuire. That happens in every walk of life. You mess somebody around, the next time they deal with you there is a premium expected or else they won't bother

Good luck to him. He's obviously a talented player but unfortunately I doubt we will see him in Rovers' colours. Given he is American and young, I only hope he doesn't conflate that lot at board level with Rovers. They are a blight on our club at the moment and not a representation

13 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

I think it’s really ignorant to call Rangers and Celtic

‘Mickey Mouse’ clubs, when they’re two of the best supported in Britain tbh. 
With that being said, I don’t really get people supporting Celtic or Rangers alongside an English club, as I’ve always been one to just support Rovers and nobody else, but to each their own!

Yeah the "Old Firm" are great games to watch whilst nursing that Sunday morning hangover but that's about it, really

I will always be more on the side of Rangers for obvious reasons, but the result won't make me lose any sleep for sure

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

Didn't realise you were on first name terms with him.

All I'll say is this, keep defending the messaging and you'll soon need to change from 'Dreams of 1995' to 'Dreams of 2011'.

There are few things more dangerous for a company, a club, or a person than consistently lowering their expectations. I don't expect him to give up his job, but I do expect him to take on a role with ambition and a desire to actually succeed, not simply maintain a salary.

You aren't to realise. You don't know me after all

I really don't know what you mean by the second bit. Don't think I am defending the messaging. Pretty irrelevant

In any company the expectations are set out by those at the top. The expectation of BRFC is to maintain Championship status. It has been that way since we were relegated, hence why whenever we get in promotion contention there is no desire from board level to push on. If you can't see that by now, then you never will. You can disagree with those objectives but you are firing at the wrong man if you are blaming Mr. Eustace, if that names suits you more

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

Their odds of sneaking into the top 4 would have been long even had they won last night. Villa would have only needed a draw to secure a Champions League spot.

When you then factor in that an equaliser would have done nothing to help them, I can somewhat understand why they weren't particularly fussed.

The reaction would have been exactly the same at Ewood had we been in a similar set of circumstances.

It wouldn't have been from me

Spurs have shown a real small-club mentality. Ange Postocoglu realised that. That is why he was clearly very, very pissed off about the whole situation

Their odds weren't long. 2 pts behind Villa who were away at in-form Palace, whilst Spurs had crap Sheffield Utd

Their odds on it are now nil. And they celebrated that. Weak and pathetic if you ask me and certainly not a club I'd want to play for. I suspect plenty of pros feel that way too, hence their bad reputation in football circles

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

If he is then he has the choice of either speaking up about it or walking away.

He'll get little sympathy for me for taking a job and lowering expectations through the public messages that he sends out.

There was a stark contrast in the aftermath of the final day between the messaging from Eustace versus the messaging from some players.

There were players stating that it was good to survive, but we shouldn't have been there in the first place. Then there was Eustace saying that it was cause for celebration and making it out that he'd pulled off the great escape.

I don't know why certain football fans seem to have the mentality that staff should surrender their contracted work because of their own thoughts

I hate McDonalds. Think they are a scumbag company. But do I think that everyone who works for McDonalds should walk away or protest against them? No

I've not been a fan of the way John has gone about some of his interviews. But I also understand he has a job to do and a salary to maintain. I don't think he should have to surrender that because we are at odds with how the club is run. The lowering of the expectations has already been done. Steve Waggott did that last summer. When John got the job, his sole responsibility was to ensure survival. So he completed that objective. In that respect, he had something to celebrate, whereas the likes of Carter etc were here before, when the expectation was to achieve play offs. John knows nothing of that. If he came here and started banging the same drum JDT had then he would have lasted all of 5 minutes and found himself not only out of work, but also with a reputation that club owners / directors cannot trust

One of the big issues around the Spurs fans' mentality is not that they celebrated Arsenal not winning the league, it is that they also celebrated themselves not being able to qualify for the Champions League

It is a real small time mentality to be celebrating that. City could have still won the league had they lost. Spurs however have another season where they sit outside of the top 4 and have won fuck all. Yet their fans did the Poznan

1 hour ago, jones_rover said:

I wonder if Eustace will be interested in any of the Brum players, having been their manager less than 12 months ago?

Do any of them fit the bill for what we need?

It wouldn't surprise me to see a move for Dembele or Bacuna. Think they will be out of our price range

The way JE wants to play, the players that will come in will be wide and quick. The issue is going to be whether he will get the money he needs for these players to be of the standard we require

7 hours ago, Upside Down said:

This guy really needs to learn to just keep his mouth shut. We already know he's just another yes man plodder, there's no need to keep announcing it to the world.

To be brutally honest, you could take your own advice

"We" don't already know anything. It is you and a handful - literally, a handful - of posters who parrot this yes man plodder Steve Kean nonsense

The rest of us can see him for what he is. A coach who is operating with his hands tied behind his back

2 hours ago, 47er said:

We've had him since he was 6! They could make more than us after 6 months!!  

Puts you off the game.

Its rotten.

It’s not the game. It’s our directors 

Blues got £25m for Jude Bellingham riding to £35m after a triple digit transfer. That is low when you consider where he is now. They had crap owners as well 

6 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Well in fairness he does have a relevant CV for getting transfers over the line.

However.

Under this regime its more than likely just a smoke and mirrors job, apart from of course to Chaddy as always.

So did Silvester mate

He's been at the club donkey years. Liverpool before that. I bet he oversaw hundreds of transfers in his career. Is it a case of someone winding down in their end years, falling behind the pace of modern working, or did he suddenly forget how it was all done? I'd say none - I'd say he has been hamstrung by above and now is his time to fall on the sword

They all will eventually, except the Rao's.

3 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

Really good post that @JHRover

Now that we've seen Ipswich and Luton go up, the argument that you need the parachute money to compete is looking somewhat shaky. What a surprise that both clubs have owners and managers who are completely aligned, on and off the field.

Can you imagine us signing a player like Kiefer Moore in January last year under JDT, or even the Mowbray season before the decline? Just wouldn't happen. That's a normal footballing decision that normal well run clubs do. 

One thing though is that Ipswich and Luton are outliers

By and large, parachute payments are strangling EFL clubs. Since their introduction the league tables suggest that you are far more likely to go up if you are in receipt of them. The simple fact of the matter that you receive 5 times more money than everybody else means you are at a competitive advantage

Again though, they exist solely to prop up the unsustainable Premier League. It isn't addressing the problem, it is just making more clubs part of the 'winners' group, whilst making it even more difficult for everybody else

18 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Undoubtedly things have shifted with regards to their intentions from what they were in 2010 to what they are today.

I too don't subscribe to the active sabotage theory, but the fact that they have had not one but two promotion opportunities unexpectedly drop into their lap in the last couple of years and done absolutely nothing to try to take advantage of that, tells me that we are well and truly at the back of their minds.

People may want to continue to delude themselves that these people have any degree of interest, pride, care, ambition for this club but I think basically we are a loss making entity that they have zero interest in, and essentially their involvement goes as far as sanctioning an annual budget in the summer and leaving the jokers in the boardroom to do what they want/can with that amount.

Deliberate or not it will only lead to one thing. There's no place in any industry, professional sport especially, for people who aren't interested or committed.

Signing off another round of share issue every few months to cover the debt isn't commitment for the purposes of driving an organisation forward, it's just doing the necessary to keep the lights on and bailiffs away. It isn't good enough.

The only way around this is an effective Football Governance Bill. In particular, the "fit and proper" test needs to be changed to cover 3 years only, with re-testing mandatory

It just seems a really unfair situation in that your financial performance is reviewed in cycles, which may mean you are penalised on the pitch, but effectively the people in charge of the commercial operation are not reviewed. This season it became abundantly clear that, for a period of time, the Rao family were not fit and proper owners according to the FA test. They were not allowed to fund their business without third party clearance. The club may say that this is now over, however the Rovers essentially lost a season of its history, and could have suffered a relegation because of those problems

A similar situation lead to Tony Xia selling his stake in Aston Villa. The Chinese govt got involved and the rest is history. Here, the owners were very clear they had no intention of trying to move the club forward, and instead settled for a season of barely treading water whilst they fixed their own problems. We aren't even any of the wiser of whether it is resolved yet. It could be another season where a town club thousands of miles away in England suffers because of a tax dispute with the Indian government... A really bizarre situation. Globalism at its worst

The FA really need to get a grip. But I am starting to think HMRC doesn't want any true football reform. Their tax receipts owing to the English pyramid must be huge. Why change something that is working so well for them? It seems like a real easy win for any government to try and tackle this, but at the moment they are just skirting around the edges

7 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

He seems like his heart is in the right place but not his brain. He's only owned the club just over 2 years and is about to be on his 4th manager. Hull under Rosenior have just had their first top half finish in the Championship in the last 7 seasons and I would not be at all surprised to see them go backwards next season.

That's a good point EA

I guess it all depends on what sporting directors he has in the background. In the modern game, they are the continuity and the head coaches come and go

I think the signings they make show they are going in the right direction. Some very good loan signings, and the players they bring in permanently all have potential for re-sale. I think they bought Philogene for around £4/5m which is a bit of a steal to be honest. He's a good player and you can imagine they'll at least double their money on him eventually

My eyes are green with envy looking at Hull atm. Which is something I never imagined I'd be saying

3 hours ago, superniko said:

I'm amazed he's gone too, but will wait to see the replacement before judging i.e. if they went and got Cooper would it still be viewed as bad. Rosenior will walk into another Championship job though.

To miss out on playoffs with a squad with Carvalho, Zaroury, Philogene, Seri, Tufan, Delap, Twine. 

I'd imagine they've got to rebuild a bit next year as a lot of the above players were loans, and i'd be surprised if Philogene doesn't step up to the Prem too.

This is exactly why he was sacked

Hull City had a great squad this season. Make no mistake about it. I always had them down as dark horses for automatic promotion. I'd say their owners consider Rosenior a failure given the backing he received. You can add Aaron Connelley to that mix too, whilst for 6 months they had Vinagre in at left back

I think you would back someone like JDT to get promoted with the squad they had.

In January they also signed Billy Sharpe and Ryan Giles

The new Hull owner is something we can only dream of. Ambitious, thoughtful of the supporters. And when people ask "who would buy Rovers" - just think about Hull fecking City for a moment.