25 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Folk would rather see their club in the third division just so they could get one over some anonymous accounts on an obscure messsge board?

I'm sure the Facebook mob would love it.

Get to pretend they're even more suuuuper duuuuuuuper fans then.

Get behind the lads FFS!!

2 hours ago, ABBEY said:

Was hoping life ban

Haha gold.

30 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

Strange move for him to leave Brighton to join us. It must be a good pay rise for him.

Brighton are the best run club in the country so it looks like a very good appointment. But there's only so much you can do when Venky's are your employer.

He's in for a big shock that's for sure. 

1 hour ago, Mercer said:

 

IMO, all rather convenient given Sylvester must be 60+.

In any normal organisation, if a senior manager made a hash of a significant business transaction he would almost certainly be dismissed quickly.  Seemingly, Sylvester's department fouled-up twice last Jan. window and also this Jan. window.

IMO, Sylvester should have been fired in February last year.

One wonders what really happened over the last two Jan transfer windows!?!?  

Sylvester, IMO, made to look the scapegoat and perhaps toddles off into the sunset with a nice retirement package.

I have been around business for a very long time and, IMO, none of this 'smells right'. 

 

 

He did exactly what he was told to do.

Funny how these sorts of 'mistakes' don't happen when selling our top players off on the cheap.

Let's just wait and see what the Fat Cunt-Roller has in store eh.

As per usual I'm expecting lower than nothing.

I'm not going to lie, I did give Pears a joke 10/10 after the Wednesday game. That might have skewed the results a bit.

Obviously it was always going to be Sammie Szmodics at number one. I can't remember a season where we literally only had one player doing anything of substance for us.

On 07/05/2024 at 19:39, Mattyblue said:

The fact that he is already running PL games and the debate is when he’ll be playing for England shows how Palace had our pants down and no mistake.

The problem is that we pulled them down ourselves.

10 hours ago, Groundhog said:

My worst fear is the owners get involved with the transfer, slap an unrealistic figure on him and refuse offers a la Diaz, thus scuppering a dream move for the lad who's give his all for the club and it all turns sour. We end up with a pissed off Sammie on our hands until January and another disrupted squad. 

On the plus side, they meddle in the transfer, we don't get the money needed and we end up in administration. Happy days 🎉 🎉 🎉

17 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

So they'll face competition from Everton and Coventry then.

Anyone with any shred of self respect will want absolutely nothing to do with this club.

On 07/05/2024 at 19:12, ABBEY said:

Sounds like Wycombe the next foreign takeover. Khasistan billionaire,  now if that don't sound dodgy I don't know what does.

Who would buy a club like rovers?

So they've made Sylvester the fall guy. No doubt given a nice payout and signed a NDA.

Happy clappers appeased.

Operation relegation 24/25 is still in full swing.

This happened THREE TIMES in a year. Every single one was deliberate.

Blackburn Rovers will never be a real football club as long as it is still stricken with the venkys virus.

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12 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

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

Exactly. Fit and proper testing should be like a MOT for owners.

Why should the club have to suffer because of their issues?

52 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That was before they ballsed everything up.

Deliberately.

14 hours ago, J*B said:

Might be true but Waggott has told me face to face that Fleck was his recruitment, they had known each other for a long time and once it looked like Adam was going Waggott personally rung “Flecky” and Sheff Utd to do a deal - which was essentially “you’ve 6 months left on your contract and aren’t playing for Sheff Utd, we will take over your deal”.

It came out of waggots mouth so the chances of it being a lie are incredibly high.

But he's also that thick that he'd be strutting about like he was the man after making that deal.

I'm sure he'll have picked up a nice bit of comission as well

1 minute ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

They don’t want Blackburn Rovers putting their head above the parapet. The don’t want the Premier league spotlight shining on them. Once you get that in your head you’ll sleep much more soundly.

Exactly what I've been saying for years.

It's a 'conspiracy theory' apparently, despite every single action they take supporting this argument.

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1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Rosenior had far better conditions and backing than JDT had in his first season and has delivered the same league position.

Done reasonably well and realistically looking at the 6 above them in the table couldn't have expected much higher.

Why it was even more important to get top 6 last season when competing with the likes of Luton, Coventry and Sunderland rather than Southampton, Leeds, West Brom.

But had huge backing by Championship standards and missed out.

For an ambitious owner rather than one on autopilot that isn't enough.

All about getting to the PL asap, unless you are Venkys of course

 

If we had have qualified for the playoffs and even won them I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd have sacked JDT and caused as much mayhem as possible to make sure we were relegated back down.

Let's not forget this season they once again deliberately tried to relegate the club.

37 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Why can't we then?

Because this is Blackburn Rovers and the laws of logic and reality do not apply here.

Also, the club is nothing more than a financial tool for the owners to do.... Whatever it is they're doing.

3 hours ago, RTM08 said:

He fits in the negative but often effective category with the likes of Big Sam, Warnock etc.

At the end of the day, I couldn't give a damn if JE or whoever ends up playing ugly football if it picks up enough points. It's when it doesn't work that it all falls apart.

Exactly, I don't give a fuck about the 'style of play' I want to see us win games.

7 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He played in more games than the play off final.

That was the one that mattered though.

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

More or less. I can’t recall a player doing more on his own to pull the team through. David Speedie is the nearest one I can think of but he had a lot of support from his team mates.

Speedie had Newell to convert the penalty for him.

Who does Szmodics have?

12 hours ago, Mercer said:

If we even spend £2million on transfer fees then I will be amazed.

Feel sure the Raos will see the monies from the Wharton sale, the Raya clause and the almost certain sale of Sammie as an opportunity to claw back some of their £200million and to save on further funding.

I also think it's pretty certain the Indian court case will sabotage the dreams of some of our lofty dreamers on this MB.  Despite the noise from Waggott and Broughton, which I think is bullsh1t, I think this pending court case is  going to be a high hurdle to clear and will hit hard any player trading plans Broughton thinks he might have. 

As for Sammie's fee - the lad will be going on 29 when the new season kicks off and has never played in the PL and I think £15million is as much as we can expect and it does sound as though some of that will end up with Posh.  Like Armstrong, Sammie scores goals for fun in the Championship but as Armstrong found out, the PL is a totally different level. 

Like many on here think, until we have both new owners and a new CEO then Championship survival is I think the best we can hope for and my goodness, even that will be one helluva challenge next season.

 

New owners would automatically mean a new CEO. Nobody with any shred of nouse, ambition or self respect would employ a bottom feeding retard like maggot.

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14 hours ago, Adam C said:

Seconded. I’m really going to miss him. Great professional and a very good player at this level. Saving us from League 1 isn’t the most exciting achievement but in effect it’s like winning a cup final imo. 

He did it entirely on his own.