Guy N. Cognito

Definitely. Gianluigi Buffoon can't be relied on.

For a lot of people, their identity is wrapped up in their chosen team. Any criticism or negativity feels like a personal attack. Challenging the club means challenging themselves, when the status quo is easier to support. Also, we Brits are an historically passive island of people. Keep calm & carry on, stiff upper lip, etc. We generally keep our heads down and hope someone else sorts out the mess.

We all know Pears has periods of being "okay" and then he'll drop an absolute bollock the following week. This game changes nowt.

We're a mediocre outfit. Take out a couple key players and we're goosed. How on earth can one expect any strength in depth on this bare-bones operation? Agyemang alone cost more than our summer business. Statistically, there wasn't a lot between us, but the game was won in the first-half. Eustace knew he could sit back and our feeble attack would have no reply, penalty notwithstanding.

Sounds like he was there for most of it!

All those years of pointless pointing on the pitch finally paying off. Not gonna lie, I'm sweating on that £500 I put on Brentford to go down....

I can't even work up the energy to get angry about Ismael's incompetence. He deserves to get potted, but what happens next? Let's say we hire someone who turns things around. Next summer we're bombarded with bullshit about the next dawn at the club, the new project blablabla... The usual bullshit from the spin machine to peddle season tickets and shirts before teeing us up for the inevitable disappointment It's all so tiresome.

The elephant in the room is WHY do they still own us? What have they got out of this arrangement for 15 years? Some fans speculate that Rovers are so insignificant in their portfolio that it doesn't matter to them, but why would you keep a business that haemorrhages money and constantly needs servicing when you have no emotional or operational interest? As far as we're aware, they've never once entertained selling the club either. The only explanation that makes sense is that we're a handy foreign asset for "moving" money around and dodging taxes.

My best guess would be that they're paving the way for Balaji's son to takeover. He'll convince baba to loosen the purse-strings and play Football Manager for a season. It will all go tits up because we'll sign a load of dross recommended by their "advisers", the son will get bored, and then we'll have a few seasons of gruelling austerity to make up for it.

Are you deliberately obtuse as part of a bit? If so, I admire your commitment.

This is a key point. As much I want Suhail and Gestede kicked to the curb, it doesn't deal with the underlying issue. First the remit was to get Kean & Anderson out, then Shaw, Agnew, Singh, Waggott etc... There comes a point where you have to accept that the more things change, the more they stay the same. There has been a conveyor belt of these clowns running through the club from the moment Venky's took over. For as long as they own the club, they will keep employing impostors who can't believe their luck. Any professional with an ounce of integrity and self-respect doesn't last two seconds. Now and again we might accidentally stumble on a winning formula and put on a facade of normalcy... until the club realises we're doing too well and course-corrects into the iceberg.

It's not so much contrarianism as it is trying to kibosh every major protest idea by poisoning the well. It's a running theme with this poster and certainly raises eyebrows...

Still not sure what the venerable John Williams was smoking when he took leave of his senses to headhunt Paul Ince. He said he wasn't following a model of ex-United star turned manager, so in that case, what was his rationale? Even in his preliminary press conference Ince looked woefully out of his depth and was shitting bricks. It's compounded by the fact we turned down Michael Laudrup because he wanted a get-out clause.

The jury might still be out on Toth, but as long as he keeps Pears out of the sticks I'm not complaining.

I would say it's a combination of old-skool superfans and club plants. Don't ask me on the ratio!

Indeed. Some clubs are fundamentally broken. Look at Man Utd. They've had a string of established managers, thrown buckets of cash at it, and they're still a laughing stock. There is a malaise from the top down that permeates the club and leaves little room for success. Same is true of Rovers to some extent. Although we've spent precious little money, every time we stumble on a winning formula, the club manages to get in its own way. We're going nowhere but down until the club is cleaned of the current incumbents.

Not convinced by Ismael, but then again it doesn't matter who's in the dugout. Even when the club accidentally unearths a diamond in the rough, they eventually grow weary of the club's self-defeating business model and piss off to pastures new.

The million dollar question will always remain: WHY do they hold onto us? It's honestly unfathomable. Most dodgy foreign owners have a short shelf-life, but incredibly Venky's have held the club longer than Uncle Jack. They don't attend matches, they're not invested in the club's fortunes, so what's the point? Even if we were a footnote in their monthly agenda, it doesn't make sense to keep an asset that constantly needs servicing and brings no financial benefit UNLESS it was being used for unscrupulous means.

I think we'll be alright, and they'll be three teams crappier than us come the end of the season. But would I put money on that? Ummm...

When you thought the club couldn't plumb new depths, they have fallen to a new low. The shocking thing is, you probably couldn't think of a more milquetoast reporter than Elliot Jackson, but even he was enough to ruffle the feathers at the club into blackballing the LET. Just goes to show how vulnerable Pasha and Rudy are without Waggott's spin-doctoring.

It's scandalous that an ex-player who went on protest to secure a move elsewhere is now part of our executive team. A sign of the times when it comes to this farce of a football club.

We're a bog-standard Championship side. A good run and we're in with a playoff shout (before it's internally sabotaged). A few bad results and we're in a relegation battle.