I was really looking forward to seeing this kit and I'm really underwhelmed. Last season's shirt is miles better. I might be tempted if they somehow pull a rabbit out of the hat for a one-off shirt like they did in 2000, but I ain't buying this one. Port Vale are also celebrating 150 years. A small but proud club, this is their anniversary shirt. Much better than ours.

Does it really matter who the next CEO is? Will it change anything in the long run? I'm not sure it will. We should be focusing on pressuring the owners to remove Pasha and then announce that the club is for sale.

I think the next step to that will be to get Pasha on his bike because while we don't know for sure, it seems very likely that he is the one keeping us from letting them know our views and is the one giving his version of events as opposed to everyone else's. Maybe they think we've forgiven them and think they're great for putting bare minimum in, they might not realise how much we want them to sell

People will be in for the job, no question. From the outside it's a prestigious, high paying role. Everyone thinks they can be the one to turn things round. Once they get in post and are hamstrung at every turn is where the problems will start (again). Same as with the last two head coaches.

There will be no shortage of takers for the new post because it's a high profile, high paying job. I hope they know what they're letting themselves in for when they start though because the club is a basket case. Ewood is going to end up a bear pit this season for anyone in the board room imo. Their name is just gonna end up added on to chants and banners about the owners, Pasha, et al

Just addressing the couple of people responding to my post above to iterate that I am also very pleased he has gone, my wildest dream is that he is the first domino in a chain that somehow results in Venkys selling the club in the next 12 months. Like others have also mentioned however, I'm a little worried about who is left on charge right now and who might be appointed. I hope they don't think him going will be some kind of sacrifice to appease us, coz it won't!

Hopefully Mr Pasha is next. I wonder what has triggered this. Just speculation, but I wonder whether SW was against what has happened with Rovers WFC and this has cause a significant rift, or a straw that broke camel's back? Maybe we'll never know. Maybe he'll be on a podcast with big Sam next week telling all 😄

Some of our fans defending this decision on social media are thick beyond comprehension. They are an absolute dream for the owners and directors.

Thanks Glen, you are one source online I do trust 👍👍

Sad that after 15 years of Venkys the only thing I can be positive about is who might be designing a football kit, but the Macron kits have been good quality and nice designs.

There has been a few strange rumours about the club and being leaked on to social media in the last couple of months e.g. Rooney coming in for Ismael. I'm getting very sceptical as a result. I wonder whether they are putting certain untrue stuff out to see who is leaking, or maybe to try and divide supporters, cause confusion and undermine the reliability of protestors. E.g. "you all accused us of doing X, this was never happening and we don't know where this baseless rumour came from". People need to be so careful with sticking to facts. There is always so much rubbish on social media. It almost goes without saying that we all hope this isn't true, we don't want longstanding servants who have given decades for this club to be sacked. If it is, more fuel on the fire.

Subscribed through Spotify recently and listened to this walking the dog yesterday, great episode. Keel up the good work 👍👍

I don't get why some people (here and elsewhere) don't think we should have a viable womens' team unless it generates revenue. The mens' team play in a division where a large number of the clubs, including ours, lose tens of millions per year.

Some of the Womens' players are speaking out on X/Twitter about how badly and unprofessionally the feel their side has been run for the last few years. It is not a good look for the club and I have to feel sorry for the players. https://x.com/Kayleigh_Mcx/status/1922274911042572769?t=5bDIqNkz_2hnPllet_w2yQ&s=19

They should probably scrap our academy then by that logic as no one goes to watch that either. I've been several times to watch the Womens' side, at Ewood and at Leyland in the last couple of years. Not that it makes any difference as to whether the club should fund them or not. Maybe more people would go and watch the Womens' side if it wasn't being run like a Sunday league team with the players getting the equivalent of minimum wage in the second tier of WSL and being told the team is gonna fold over WhatsApp. That team has been on a hiding to nothing the last two seasons and seems to have stayed up by miracle this season with a tiny budget. Our owners are billionaires by the way.

If this ends up being true about the womens' side then the temperature needs to be be turned up to scorching on these absolute tossers running the club. How absolutely embarrassing would that be for a club entering it's 150th anniversary and a club that has fostered generational talent in the womens' game. I really hope it's not true, it would be sickening

Our official attendances are skewed by the fact that we have the largest away stand in the entire country. Leeds, Preston, Boro, B*rnley, Derby, Sunderland, Wednesday, Sheff Utd all brought very large followings to Ewood Park which drags up the average substantially compared with other grounds where those teams are sometimes capped at taking 1-2k fans. Anyone who goes to Ewood Park and has done for years knows that our home fan attendances have stagnated and this year is no different. The official attendance that gets reported for some of the night games in particular is quite obviously not the real attendance. If you know the ground has 31,000 seats and how many seats there are in each stand, you can easily work out that the ground is at most 1/3 full for some of the games but then the announcement is 14k or whatever. The general trend across the 92 in the last decade is that attendances have risen pretty much everywhere, but not at Ewood Park. Saying that we have fans that delight in showing our club in a bad light is disingenuous and not reflective of what is posted on here. No one is happy about the fact Ewood Park is the currently biggest white elephant in the top 4 divisions.

The club have just put out that 1,200 STs were sold today

I think when there is a fans forum update that a link to it should appear on the main home page of the Rovers website and that it should feature in the 'news' feed. There is a dedicated section where you can read all the previous minutes, but I wonder how many of the average match-going fans know that these exist and have ever read any of them. I think they're quite effectively hidden and played down.

I'd be very surprised if the club hasn't had someone keeping tabs on here (like they will across all social media) for many years. Most big clubs probably keep an eye on their main fan forums using their social media execs etc.

This is why I think people should be careful what they put online and not just post rumours as fact. It undermines genuine points/arguments and makes supporters look like they don't know what they're talking about.

I listened to the full interview, it's not bad IMO. He is not to blame for problems at the club in the same way that his bosses are, he isn't deserving of the level of vitriol I have for them. He clarifies that WATR comment at length, he is adamant that what they said was not a verbatim quote and that it has been badly paraphrased out of context. I do actually believe him. He said he has been asking them to take it down and can't understand why they haven't, because apparently they apologised. He is paid to do a job and so he is publicly accountable to the fans. I don't think he's a genius but I don't think he's a moron either. I genuinely think he cares. I wish he would think more carefully before engaging with fans on Twitter, he undermines himself. While he should always be accountable regarding his role at the club, I don't put him anywhere near the bracket of responsibility and therefore the ire reserved for Pasha and Waggott (and increasingly Gestede). Edit- one example I give him some credit for is that he does his best (whether people or agree or not) to go into detail on the ticket pricing and why it's very difficult to compare clubs in L1 and L2 (e.g. Bolton or Bradford) with large crowds and cheap tickets to a club in the championship. I didn't realise that their financial rules are slightly different than the championship so owners can charge less and offset this themselves without being penalised under the L1/L2 ffp rules, or that was sort of how it was explained. That had been a previous criticism of mine which I will need to think about again.

I despise the owners and the donkeys in the boardroom lying to them and to the fans, but I did renew last week. If someone could guarantee that by not renewing, the owners would leave. I would bite the bullet and not renew. However, i really don't think they care in Pune and that even if we were getting gates of 5-6k, as long as the snakes Pasha and Waggott were finding a way to ' balance the books' (spend nothing and cut everything) and report back that everything is hunky dory, that nothing would change. When were were relegated from the Prem the drop off in attendances was around 40%. I'd be shocked if there has ever been anything remotely similar that has happened in the modern era. I can't think of a similar drop off a cliff in terms of attendance. It didn't make any headlines and no one cares outside of East Lancashire. Leicester, Ipswich and Soton all play in front of packed grounds but won't be playing Infront of 14-15k next season, they'll still all be playing in front of fairly packed grounds I imagine. Partly down to having faith that they have owners who will want to get them back up (appreciate there is some discontent at Leicester but their owners are not like Venkys). Venkys didn't give a flying **** about a 40% drop in attendances then, so I don't see why they would care if some more didn't renew next year. Thousands at Ewood have voted with their feet for 15 years and it hasn't made a difference. I want to go out and watch 11 players in blue and white halves giving their best effort for our club and our town and as long as there are 11 players trying to do that I will go and support them, it's my club not Venkys'. I was here before them and will be here after them. I don't know what will make them eventually leave but my gut instinct is that it isn't ticket sales, based on last 15 years. I understand the "not giving them my money" argument, that's a principle and I can't really argue against that if people feel strongly about it, but I don't think it makes much difference in the grand scheme.

My heart is encouraging me to dream and that's why I'll be there on Sat like I have been at every final game of the last few seasons with blood pressure exploding. My head is telling me we'll be two down after 20 mins watching Sheff Utd knock it about while their fans laugh at us. Without points deductions they would have 91 points which most seasons would be winning the title or there abouts. I think they have more to play for than Leicester did last year as well. No way do they want to lose to a team they would then have to play away from home five days later. So sadly I think our chance is tiny! It's the hope that kills you (me)! I will give them my full throated backing on Saturday come what may.. COYB

I've seen some people on here talking about having to pay extra for a new physical season ticket card if they need one, I don't think it's just Rovers that are introducing these measures. Someone posted a link to the Sheff Utd forum in another thread. I had a quick poke round their threads about playoffs and their fans are complaining they had to pay £13.50 just to retain their existing physical season ticket card which is bizarre if true