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Richard Oakley

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  1. I don't know as Keane would last past the first training session. Boy would I like to be a fly on the wall watching Keane's encounter with our good group of lads 'down the country club'. I'm sure I'd learn a whole bunch of words derived from the Irish gaelic. Would he bring his own hairdryers? Keane would certainly shake things up!
  2. Judging by seems to be happening on the pitch, there's precious little coaching going on.
  3. If Watford beat us 4/5/6-0, I won't be cheering. If Mowbray and Co. get fired, I'll give a slight cheer, 'cos that's only half the job. I'll give a full cheer on having the right manager and board and promotion back to the Premier League.
  4. What did I write that was in any way biased? Mowbray admitted to lucking into a team and formation. Expect to be promoted in 4 years when backed by owners willing to spend the cash? Yes. I certainly would not expect the manager to want to slam the breaks on. I have no idea, if there is a causal link behinf Mowbray's failure to get us back to the Premier League and plans to sell the STC. There's no way Venkys can continue to make £20m a year available to the club, for FFP reasons, if no other. A financial crunch is coming, if we aren't promoted this season. The club did not announce any plans in advance about selling land. That suggests that people at the club were trying to sneak it through planning in secret, just like at Coventry. Yeah, I'd call that a conspiracy on the part of the Coventry Three. It's clear you don't understand what Mowbray having total control of football at Blackburn Rovers means.
  5. Mowbray hasn't trained at the STC for about a month claiming the pitches are frozen. That is his decision. I don't believe his reason. I sit in amazement at the breathtaking bewildering non-sequitors of things you don't think Mowbray is responsible for. You think he's done a good job. i don't. Hired to keep us up. he failed. He should have gone then, but got an improved contract. Been there before. 4 defeats in 11. One Southend fan going so far as naming him Southend's man of the match for changing formation back to the ineffective one that went 2-0 down. Mowbray lucked into team and formation. His game plan cost us the match at Charlton and with it the League 1 title. Three seasons back working for owners who say they want us back in the Premier League pronto without delivering ands he wont this season, either. A manager who said he had to talk Venkys out of spending more money. What manager in their right mind ever does that? One named Mowbray. No sign of the £50m transfer war chest or Mr Balaji Rao's promise to pay Mowbray whatever it'd take to get us into the Premier League. Perhaps he liked fake Mowbray better than the real thing.
  6. There's no evidence Mowbray isn't. Mowbray has complete control over football and Brockall's part of his remit. If we got stuff in the middle of a good run of form winning games, there wouldn't be any point in calling for the manager's head or expect him to be fired. Our recent run of defeats has people saying that we could and should have conceded more goals in each game. That will eventually happen. It can't get swept under the rug. Change has to happen.
  7. Yes. I think it did get built. Their first Swiss partner had the Swiss police all over them. Venkys were going to spend $400m (which i didn't believe they had) on the plant. For some reason the figure of $250m sticks in my head, as does $270m, but that could just have been Venkys agreeing with whatever estimate a reporter came up with. I haven't checked up on it since and didn't know the Swiss holding company had been wound up. Perhaps the Swiss are tougher on what constitutes holding company activity than we are in this country. The Companies Registrar in the UK did start to wind up VLL after non-responses for information about lack of activity around 2012. Venkys responded and I've not seen any action started since.
  8. Venkys don't do state-of-the-art. Venkys said it going to build a state-of-the-art animal vaccine pharma plant in Switzerland. When it was eventually built, it wasn't state-of-the-art. The article i read said it was built to a 'high standard'.
  9. We're at a pivotal moment in our history. A number of us expected the financial screw to be turned at the beginning of this season. Mowbray clearly talked Venkys out of that by saying we were going for promotion this season. By now, that's been exposed for a load of old tosh. Everything calls for a clear out of the Kentaro/SEM and successor HSH people from the club, including Mowbray's mates. I don't know, if Venkys can see that. I hope Venkys can. Now we've gone from a plucked out figure from Nixon of £20m for a sell-off of land and downsizing, to an equally plucked out figure of £68m. That's without deducting anything for a rebuild of the JTC or cost of training facilities whilst that occurs. Then people add in another pie-in-the sky single season net receipt of £32m for Armstrong and Dack and say that's £100m. That is what you get just for being in the Premier League for one season and doesn't involve hawking off assets or players who'll get us to the Premier League and hopefully keep us there. Once assets are gone, they're gone for good. The Premier League is a gift that keeps on giving. Venkys can do a lot better than Mowbray and his team. It's time Venkys did make the change.
  10. My question about Kaminski was a genuine one. I'm not claiming that the european scout didn't bring him in and he's been a good signing not that he's progressing under community center ben.
  11. I said heading for relegation, not actually being relegated. There was time for Mowbray to save us on coming in for Coyle, but he failed. he won't stop us dropping like a stone this year. No player assets don't win games. The players we do sell won't bring in £35m. I'd like to know whom you think would fetch that sum, 'cos I don't see it right now.
  12. Kaminski was on the radar before we had the european scout, wasn't he?
  13. We're heading to league 1 with an unmotivated load players in the squad. Who says there are players worth £35m in assets? Oh yes our european scout has been really instrumental ...
  14. No we aren't in better shape -all the loanees we don't own and all the injuries. There are managers out there who are much better and would, I believe, take the job.
  15. Playing 4 loanees and Bennett, Mowbray's treating our Academy as gone already. Then you're looking at value from 6 starters.
  16. Armstrong's not in the £20m bracket, yet and Newcastle are rumoured to be getting 40% of any sell-on and we wouldn't see the sum in just one year, either. Most I think we'd get for him upfront this year would be £10m, which could only be £6m to us less anything owed to the player and his agent. That wouldn't be as significant as I'd like.
  17. Leicester City's training ground was 185 acre redevelopment of a former golf course and cost £100m. I don't think the STC and JTC combined are 185 acres and we've certainly not got a spare £100m, but building something like that would be respecting Jack's Legacy and build one for themselves. I was looking for information on Venkys share price and came across a hint to potential investors (8 weaknesses) that Venkys are inefficient in the use of Capital. Translation for everyday plebs like me = Venkys waste money. Fans of this club don't need to be high flying investors to know that. Since all money raised would go straight to India, we'd be dependent on Venkys releasing funds. If Venkys are in cut-and-run mode that's not going to happen. @MercerThat'll be Nyambe @BigdoggsteelUnder another manager it probably would
  18. Otium the subsidiary of SISU that bought Coventry City out of the administration SISU put the club into. Proper checks and balances? Pity the EFL can't stop the Coventry Three from doing the same here.
  19. @Herbie6590 The rule is for £13m of new share capital over a rolling 3 year period and £39m of losses over the rolling 3 year period, assuming club is in the Championship for each of those years. With coronavirus the rolling period was increased to 4 years though I don't know if the club gets to pick the best 3 years out of 4. I think it means that the next assessment for FFP is at the end of next season and we're in breach of the Championship rules, but not of those in League 1, which are different.
  20. Bristol City sacked their manager after a 6-0 drubbing by Watford. If we're going to get beaten, it may as well result in something positive by losing to the same margin. Watford don't score too many goals away. It's got the feel of a game Mowbray would try to play for a draw, anyway and try to nick one. Mowbray will just look to win the possession battle and dominate the ball. I've still no idea what dominate the ball means. If any other commentator knows, please let me know. I don't know how Davenport starts ahead of Rothwell .I'm half convinced Mowbray will play 3-4-1-2 with Johnson thrown right in as part of the back 3 , but [play more as a sweeper. It doesn't make sense for Dack to play handholding with the 2 CB loanees. I think that if Bennett plays, we'll concede. As usual, we depend on whether Armstrong is wearing his shooting boots or not.
  21. Thanks for the answers. How does it benefit the club for our first team to train in facilities that aren't to the current STC standard forythe years it will take to build the new facilties? How does it help our club, if we lose Cat A status for the academy? We'll be without the facilities that currently secure that status and will be without until the new facilities are built and there's no guarantee the new facilities will qualify. I'm pretty sure there will be another review before the new facilities will be finished.
  22. I wonder, if when the permission for 400 homes to built that was the maximum number of homes that could be built on the old hospital site. I don't know of a way to check. Short of wading through the applications and approval from back then.
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