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Well its turned out that the storming first half of a few seasons we've had is absolutely vital to our relegation scrap. Play offs have never even come into it but they put little soundbites in towards India like 'depending what division we are in' when talking future transfers and ticket prices. Everyone knows damn well because if you don't recruit for promotion you will never ever get it no matter who is in the dugout !

The gaslighting they've already done with Ismael is off the scale telling everyone he surpassed every bar they'd set. That really is insulting fans. So to sit there and justify appointing Rooney would be new territory of piss taking even for this lot, a word or warning though our Wayne works cheap. That means he's a shoe in.

Why don't they just be honest and say 'come and wing it with us for another year, nobody knows what they are doing and anything could happen, that's the exciting bit'. Next chapter is stay up, stay solvent.

Nothing more than fear mongering they genuinely think everyone is too dumb to see past it. Absolute rank amateurs in charge of the PR down there you can absolutely tell straight away that COO is a corner shop operator and he's right next door to a small time snake oil salesman in Waggot. They will do anything to cover their own hides now it's right back to Shagnew but they'll have some job on explaining next seasons ST sales if the mood around the hardcore fanbase is anything to go by.

Wouldn't surprise me if there's various staff names on the payroll who nobody knows what they actually do. An 'adviser' on ten grand a week, that sort of thing.

The game is bent beyond repair, parasites everywhere.

Both Badu and the other fella are directors and are financial people on behalf of Venkys, please point me to what else they are if they aren't that ? I'll reiterate, just how many financial people does one football club need, way too many layers at this club that leads to constant confusion as we've seen.

How many financial directors does a club need ? There was Charlie Cheston also before he left so that's 3 finance men plus the Chief Operating bean counter Suhail and Waggot himself. Plus i presume club accountants and payroll officers.

Possibly, i think they took a 30% wage deferral but don't forget Rovers were still paying off some previously sacked people back then. I just remember him banging on and 4 million sticks in the mind and there was also talk of a weekly wage budget for first team starters that meant players oddly left out occasionally. Either way they weren't paying first team wages of 16.8 million to that squad in league 1.

The FIRST TEAM FOOTBALL WAGE BILL not the entire club. Mowbray himself said they'd reduced it to something like 4 million in league 1, presumably taking into account the senior pros wage deferrals.

Yep iv'e long said a glance at the true Blackburn Rovers payroll would be quite interesting.

And we'd have been looking at a damn sight more than 18 million before add ons by now if he'd stayed. Absolute clown show running and owning this club and to think poor old Gregg the Egg thought he would be getting some spends from it as well. Instead he got his p45.

How much does the actual first team wage bill cost ? Think it was as low as 4 million when we hit league one.

Well it cost them a couple of million to replace him anyway with Hyam so they didn't save a bean. Looked a better player at first but defensively i don't think there's much between them, both good on their day but both with regular flaws.

Disagree Whilst i wouldn't have been chucking silly money at him he's another who could have been tied down earlier for a more sensible offer, people have heard that from his own mouth. For an academy grad who cost nowt he was a rugged enough defender who might have commanded a modest fee at some point. I don't think anyone we've had since has been much better tbh.

He'll turn out to be another one who they could've tied down on reasonable terms that might have given him a big pay hike but in the grand scheme of things wouldn't be much more than an average Championship contract. It'll come out way down the line after he's gone because he was low balled and his agent scoured around and found he could earn double figures sat on the bench at Stoke or somewhere. Straight out of the Lenihen playbook this one but no doubt Waggot will tell the gullible he was offered a bumper deal at the last min but his head was in the departure lounge.

The number of players we've been linked to in the last 48 hrs is interesting it's almost like there's an effort being made to portray some effort. Wonder why that could be.... Meanwhile Nixon doing the usual dirty work advertising as many kids as he can for sale.

I'd disagree about Darwen that's probably the strongest stronghold of Rovers support these days.

In terms of adult fans they don't even want to make an effort with people on their own doorstep. I'd wager the majority of match by match adult buyers over a season come from the borough so what over the years has been done to try and get these people buying ST's ? Nowt, because Waggot prefers a decent number paying full whack rather than guarantee their money and attendance at a cheaper rate. I suspect the years of neglect and 'come if you want to' attitude will come back to bite next season especially if the summer business and form are bad. Short term planning only ever delivers brief gains but long term it backfires when luck runs out.

Classic Rovers when all hope is lost and the last train has left the station. A very welcome result and performance all the same although it's just a bit of paper for the cracks. How long before the 'we'd have ripped someone's arm off for a 9th placed finish at the beginning of the season' style comments come pouring in 😂

Might as well make the change this summer and flog him if there is interest then see how Toth goes. We ain't going anywhere so might as well have another keeper learning on the job in the hope he turns out better.

As i speculated a while ago someone will buy Pears for a modest fee and this lot are desperate for brass this summer. 750k plus add on's goes some way towards a lack of ST income headache.

If you're a kid in Chorley you need an adult to take you to Blackburn Rovers 12 miles away and they will have to pay full price. That's an issue. The Ewood Express should extend from Blackburn right across the Brinscall, Chorley, Euxton. Whittle, Bamber Bridge and even Leyland areas.

'Attend if you want to, we aren't arsed £££' is the motto on the Swaghail crest.

Chorley has been lost to Bolton Wanderers and PNE now sadly due to lack of effort on the clubs behalf over the last decade. Plenty Rovers fans still in the area and lapsed fans but youngsters are leaning towards the other two now because they've been in schools over the last decade and guess what, they both reduced season ticket early birds at least 100 quid cheaper for adults than Rovers. Followed up by leaflet drops and adverts in local papers and it worked. When Rovers did good ST offers pre Venkys there were adverts on the sides of buses and taxis across the Preston and Chorley areas but under Waggots 'leadership' these areas are now ignored. He should have been all over it after promotion from league 1 and 25k home fans in v Oxford, that was the time to strike but no, nothing.