Tomphil2

Just like for years we were calling for an early bird discount then when they knock 30 quid off it's on the back of the worst season in years to a backdrop of more budget cuts and player sales. Then they look around in bewilderment because sales don't fly. Complete idiots.

Those kind of keepers are gone its been a dying art to command the box for a few years now. One after another we'll say the same things but i'm encouraged by what iv'e seen from Toth so far, he's certainly better than Leo.

Considering he came as a kid off the scrap heap i'd assume he was on peanuts and any wage rise since won't have seen him anywhere near double figures. We've no idea the figures but when becoming not only an established first teamer but an important one he'd be entitled to want parity with some others. I think the chances of him being low balled a few years ago and another stand off developing with the contract dept are better odds than him asking for 25k a week.

He'll only really be appreciated by some when he's finally gone and Markandy or some skinny kid on loan is trying to fill his place. A player like him is absolutely integral to how we allegedly want to play but he's another walking for nothing or next to it and this isn't 'just football' it's been going on for 2 years. More than enough time to sort it or sell. There is something very very wrong inside this football club.

So 3 clubs since he was here and sacked from 2 of them but might have made a fist of it at Brum will a bit of money although i'd wager they'd been a classic mid table Mogga team. Always has and always will be a bang average solid safe Championship level manager and his dreams of steering a big tanker to promotion were always just that, a dream. Hope he stays in football but is a bit more honest and realistic with himself he'll still do a good job for someone lower down.

Can they afford his wages though ? I reckon it'll be a straight shootout between him and Mowbray for Ty, if TM is still in a job of course. WBA will pay him more than Derby.

They've been saying he should stand down for weeks, sentiment rarely works in football it was a daft appointment by them.

They don't see that as 'investment' their idea now is get someone for 4/500k on 5 grand a week and pray he turns into a player.

Their Monaco residency all sorted once that deal was done.

Cringe worthy 'we are the gentry' except when they come to Ewood and they are the apes.

A whiff of lets have a look at him and let him earn a contract here.

A good reminder of the instant mess they made of it, how the team was weakened and how agents and consultants began to bleed their money out of it.

It did cross my mind maybe the reluctance to give decent new contracts at an earlier appropriate time, so they actually get signed, might be down to preventing someone somewhere getting a contractually obliged cut of the action. Or the players and their agents prefer to eye up the so called loyalty bonus they get here instead of signing on fees. Then get a new contract, maybe bigger wages and a signing on fee elsewhere. Whatever it is it's pathetic it keeps happening and us getting told oh that's just football. The only thing covering that policy from financial disaster is the knee jerk sale of the jewel in the crown.

Soon to be 5 with Dolan. Beginning to think it's club policy for some reason.

So it seems no qualifications are needed but experience and some sort business degree and/or a sporting degree is kind of an unwriiten rule. No wonder it's such a crazy reckless wasteful world that attracts hustlers and parasites by the truckload. Crazily enough Gestede on paper in now probably more qualified than many others in those roles.

It's a public limited company.

Surely there has to be some type of qualification criteria to be a Chief Executive of a Championship club ?

Still running the club via proxy (swaghail) would not surprise me in the slightest. 10% of all ins and outs over a decade and a half is some serious money.

About ten thousand home fans actually turned yesterday so it's probably a couple of thousand have signed up for next season already.

People could see the good sense in the appointment of Allardyce even if they didn't like his football or even him. A lot have struggled with the word salad attempts to justify this appointment given his track record, he's every bit the mercenary going from pay off to pay off. Better to be honest and say well we won't pay a serious coaches wages nor back him so we had to look in a specific market to fit our non budget. He applied and agreed to the terms etc, Rudy likes him, Suhail likes his low wages so we rolled the dice.

We've got to go for the win might as well lose 4-2 than sit deep and lose anyway.

I reckon it's nailed on there is. Consider the same agents allegedly got 4 managers on the bounce through the door, one of them being Mowbray i'd figure they also brought in Waggot.

I suspect whoever gets them their foot in the door's word is more important than cv's. These lot must have a hell of a staff turnover in India if they operate the same way.

Puppets installed throughout the club. Saying yes when you should say yes, being told no shut up and be quiet and promising never to rock the boat or stray from the 'owners are great' line all more important than team progress. Only experience needed at Ewood is arse kissing.

I don't know how they managed to come up with that crowd figure yesterday as even allowing for thousands of season tickets counted not turning up it means c4k home fans bought match tickets. I find that very hard to believe.