Tomphil2

Odd odd club Brum are they had to drop into league 1, spend record amounts of money and wages for that div in order to become a 'big club' and fill their ground. Averaging similar to us a while ago in the Championship but as pointed out they have hundreds of thousands on their doorstep to draw from every time there is a sniff of success in some form. Brum hardcore fans are sound enough apart from the coin chucking scum but the fly by nights jumping on and off their bandwagon are clowns. Must be the most hated team of all time in league 1 but i suppose Wrexham are grateful for that but i think it's incredibly sad to spend so much in that league and it does the state of the game no favours at all.

It doesn't face the cameras these days otherwise Suhail would be up there himself scrubbing away.

If they've any ounce of sense left they'd be announcing a months extension to the early bird price.

Buckley would be a good league 1 player in a decent team otherwise he's never anything more than a squad man back up player at this level. That won't change i don't think.

I'm happy for Eustace in a way but by the same token he did bail out and a lot of Derby fans have shown themselves to be delusional so i'm half hoping they drop. However if Preston dropped instead i'd chip in for a bus parade around Derby for Eustace. One thing you can guarantee with the knobbers is they do second half of the season combustion's better than even Rovers ever do and they argue they are the best run club in Lancs 🤔

Has to have a clean slate going into next season now it's only fair whatever happens in Sheffield. I know we say this regularly these days at this circus run club but this really is the most important summer for many years and a bad one you could stick Slott or Klopp in that dugout and it wouldn't end well. Seems to me now the players have bought into him which clearly they didn't for a while, blame for that can be put in various areas the main one being upstairs for allowing another season wrecking situation to develop. I'd keep Ismael and boot those above him !

They;ve both been involved recently and haven;t really pulled up any trees in fact they've been pretty poor so no miss whatsoever today.

But you'll be paid 600k a year and never be sacked no matter what.......

Gestede is naive and ill informed of the true facts his interviews smack of a desperation to look good in the owners eyes not the fans. I still see them at some point sticking in 5/6 mill or so to underwrite the losses when needed in fact they've little choice but to do so. If that's in 6 months they've still saved tens of millions in recent times due to player sales so they'll be reasonably happy about that and not having to match a 20 million injection with a matching bond or pay 20% tax on it. How it goes in future when there are no Whartons to sell is anybody's guess.

Has there ever been a gimme where Blackburn Rovers are concerned 🤣

He said the owners a putting money in now when asked are they putting money in now He said STs are the same as pre covid when asked have they put season tickets up. He said 'what is down' when it was pointed out to him the slide since Venkys took over. Need i go on ? As iv'e said repeatedly we all already know the clubs plans re development and sell the rather obvious examples in the last 2 years that have ruined a real promotion chance pre dated Gestedes sideshow. Waggot told us all this in the bus interview a couple of summers ago.

Thing is when games are shown around the world their logo is flashed around and no doubt the odd comment dropped in about very wealthy family invested 300 million etc. I doubt much foreign and edited highlights around the world touch much on fan sentiment and the language barrier will cover over anything emitting from the stands. Ok it isn't the Prem but the Championship is a well known and growing brand and if advertising wasn't still part of their ideology in owning the club the logo wouldn't be splashed everywhere. They personally keep an invisible profile but their Venky brand doesn't, it's everywhere and how else would you flash it across the world.

Grow up it was you who started the replies to me you're welcome to your opinion i don't need to ignore anyone but untwist your underwear when people don't agree and say so. We don't know what will happen in summer perhaps hes been told there'll be investment hence his cocksure attitude then he can turn around a give us the middle finger 'i told you so'. Time will tell if he's just another patsy swallowing the line hes fed from upstairs or they'll actually let him invest. Either way the 2 stooges have sat back and let him become a new target due to his lack of diplomatic skills and they could have stopped that at any moment.

Nobody has ever said it's Gestede dictating that policy so cut your 'common sense' arrogance. We are going around in circles when the main point trying to be made is why they are allowing him to run around having constant barbed digs at the fanbase, or in fact the businesses main customers. It's either by design or hes gone rogue but your point about they won't be happy about it doesn't make any sense, common ounces or otherwise, because he'd have been gagged or told tone it down immediately. Unless of course in his own arrogance he doesn't care because he just wants to protect his paymasters. But i'll say again in any event someone feels a head needs to serving it will be his and hes been allowed the rope.

Anyone with an ounce of nous would happily serve someone else up to protect their own position. I'm not sure what point is being missed here but for the benefit of doubt we've had Paul Agnew, Paul Senior, Gregg Broughton and now Gestede in similar fancy named positions yet the henchmen survives and he has a willing partner these days in Waggot. If a head rolls it won't be theirs it'll be the latest installed crash test dummy.

We know the model now we've known it for 2 years hes told nothing everyone didn't already know. We know ultimately who is to blame why do you think the recent protests surfaced directed towards the two and the owners. It wasn't directed towards the HoF but now he's been placed or positioned himself there in front of house and has stopped the other two being rooted out briefly because he's doing the interview rounds, answering the questions and speaking on behalf of the whole club. I'm sure the gruesome twosome are quite happy about that.

Of course he's taking the heat off the other two he's now been shunted into the spotlight when they had nowhere else to hide. He's becoming the target for the questions and shielding them from the anger just the same as fans were beginning to turn on the new coach and even some players after starting off hurling abuse towards the directors box and India.

I think and board of directors, club execs or even their PR people would watch one interview in this scenario and then say pull him quick, no more. Then politely say Rudy Gestede is now concentrating on contracts and the summer recruitment so he won't be available to speak for a while so any communication will come from the CEO and COO. Not these lot though it seems they are sitting back watching car crash after car crash. 2 scenarios for me.... he's taking the heat right off them useful idiot style or perhaps worse because he's an arrogant clever dick he's saying out loud what they say behind closed doors but are too scared to say in public. In which case he'll probably get a pay rise.

There are examples all over the Championship but here they suddenly think they've stumbled on a radical plan that will miraculously work despite never working anywhere for more than a season or two at most. It's a sure fire path to disaster without extra significant financial backing.

That could be part of the plan.

Oh it's ok Gestede has been telling everyone - courtesy of Suhail - that ST's have been pegged back to pre covid prices and the owners are still putting money. He's either an idiot or he's gaslighting on purpose.

It's costing them less over the last few years and maybe nothing in coming years yet their logo is still flashed across tv screens twice a week. They still get an incredible amount of exposure even from Championship Rovers so that counts for something and they still own a historic piece of English sporting heritage. I'm sure if one or more wanted to move here - maybe they already have lower down the family rankings - then it might help. To them it's just like owning an old vintage classic you only get out and drive once in a while, rest of the time it's just parked in the company accounts garage but you can still show it off to your mates.

Yes Broughton wanted the youth pathway, to find players to develop AND invest in quality were we could with the project being build for a Prem push over a few seasons. Debatable whether he was capable but the money invested when he was here was good, the players to develop were terrible however those he wanted to invest a bit more in, that got pulled, where decent on paper. Think he signed his own p45 once he laid out what they should do with the Wharton money.

Yep Rudy is just a cheaper yes man version of GB and his job title is a bit of a farce as pointed out on that podcast. 'Your role is too big' he should be concentrating only on the football with the head coach and those above him but it's a jack of all trades master of non role. A typical Venky money saving crackpot appointment and he'll find he isn't head of anything when he is constantly overruled or sent to inspect the kitchens and sign off the pie delivery whilst Swaghail ring around looking for 1 year deals of injury prone players.

Might get one or two more of the foreign former players speaking up but only those based back abroad with no intention of seeking work over here. Otherwise English football is a closed shop. Big Sam has had numerous digs but declined opportunity to go both barrels and he was shafted by them. By far the most vocal have been Sutton and Shearer but they don't go the whole hog because at the end of the day we aren't Newcastle or Norwich, their clubs.