Mashed Potatoes

Given his length of service don't you think it might be possible that he's simply doing the job that the people who employ him, and hired him, want him to do ?

Your judgement is so consistently poor I would not want any of your contacts anywhere near the club.

If the reports are true any item of expenditure of £5000 or more has to be signed off in India. What sort of "CEO" is going to take a job where their actual level of responsibility is no more than what might be expected from middle management ? John Williams left within a few months of working for these owners and since then they have had a variety of individuals who would be flattered by being described as mediocre. The job is rubbish for any talented CEO because of the way the owners want it run.

One of life's optimists I see. After all this time do you really see them attracting someone of the calibre of John Williams ?

I think that argument -or something along those lines - has been used about 6 or 7 times in the last 7 or 8 years. There has to be a point where you give the man you have a chance - if your strategy changes every year it means you don't have a stategy at all.

Like Shaw and Agnew for example ?

There shouldn't be - with £55m in parachute payments they can clearly afford higher wages.

Depreciated or written off. If a player who cost £4m had a four year contract their residual value at the end of the contract would be nil under accounting policies adopted by every club other than Derby, That would mean that the cost of the player would be fully amortised - or written off - in the club's accounts over the 4 years with a charge of £1m each year to profit and loss.

That misses the point that Waggott will be working to parameters set for him by those to whom he reports - which will be the owners. Just saying Waggott Out is pointless - he would be replaced by somebody whose remit would be exactly the same.

I don't think they have the money for signings which is why they are trying to bring in players on loan. Clearly that limits the quality of the players they will be able to bring in. Right now you would think they and Bournemouth are the two most likely to be relegated but I agree with you that yet another change of manager is not the answer; the constant chopping and changing of managers is a large part of the reason why they are where they are.

You don't sound much of a supporter.

Yes - but we should always remember that the problems at "the club" are really in India and not the staff at Ewood Park.

Other clubs don't have owners who either place unrealistic valuations on players or simply refuse to sell certain players.

We wouldn't have had his contribution on the pitch - and no manager is going to accept being told not to pick his best player.

To which he could have said "OK". Would have achieved the square root of nothing and is not an approach being pursued by other clubs.

You can't sell a player unless he agrees to the move so how could Broughton have decided for himself that Brereton would be sold.

McCarthy was fired after losing 8 games in a row at Cardiff so needs to show that he can still manage in the modern game.

Nobody - but if we do sign somebody Les Miserables will be on here complaining he's no good.

I suspect you were criticising the club on 14 May 1995.

Parachute payment clubs have taken 2 of the 3 promotion places in each of the last 4 seasons, including both the top 2 automatic places in the last 2 seasons, usually from 5 or 6 such clubs in the division leaving one spot for the 18/19 clubs without parachute payments. This season it looks highly likely that the 2 automatic places will once again go to parachute payment clubs. The truth is that they represent a significant competitive advantage.

Undav does fit the bill.

Do you have a source for the rumour ?

There may have been other bidders - who knows ? - but based on what was being reported at the time it was reasonable to regard Venkys as the best bet , given that they were a successful publicly quoted company in India. I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would take a whole series of decisions that were obviously not in their own interests, or those of the club. As I recall, the club was up for sale for 2 to 3 years before it was sold. The only "bidders" whose names leaked in to the public domain were some alleged property magnate called Dan something who appeared to have risen without trace as nobody could find out anything about him, and another bloke who ended up being hunted by Interpol.

This doesn't makes sense. Have you been on the bottle ?

Finished 6th with Dalglish and got promoted. I was cheering.