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Well done guys.....you are the 'bloodstream' of our great(but declining) Club. Only one question " Is Lee Grooby still a Rovers Supporter?"

They picked one of the players with no sense of the change over the last 15 years and wrote him a script. We have seen this a few times over the years(that scum fullback etc) including Dunny. They are running out of wiggle room....the CABAL must have had a meeting and thought of ways to deflect the blame WITHOUT too much getting to Pune. There is no such thing as a Board of Directors just Sohail and his quislings. The kitchen table in Pune HAS to hear more about our 'deathfall' . How can we get in personal difficulty if all we are doing is challenging them?

Seems an adequate summing up. Its December 7th and I still have not seen us win a match!

This is very helpful for the 135 + 15 campaign (where is it?). I clearly remember Steve Waggott's failed attempts to get Pasha(and thru to Venkys) to agree to a completely new pitch rather than minor patching up.....but it was one of the battles he kept losing. There are 4 Water Guzzlers at Old Trafford Cricket Club that could have been hired for 3 months. File all this under short-termism and under-powered Management.

Cantwell, Pickering, Pears are above the Pasha line for wages so they will try to sell them if anyone wants them. O'Riordan and Pratt into the squad means we do not need to spend money - plus bank any fees plus Adam Wharton's £2mn and they have fulfilled their role. Simples.

E-mailing. My 1956 to now life/torture with the Rovers is too scarring/exhilirating not to over-communicate about. I encourage all members of the Rossendale Branch(c.1975) and later the Trust to take part!!

As long as the next generation had a hand on the levers of power within the Venky Empire. Pasha runs the subsidiary.....who will turn it from a Subsidiary to a Community Enterprise?

The only reason we were losing £20mn per year on average was because of stupid deals and stupid pay offs that had to be cleared from the Accounts after each Financial Year. Not at home at moment(or in UK) but at home I have a list of the major cock-ups over 15 years. The ones I can remember to give some indication of a badly-run Club are things like: - Reuben Rochina's real cost incl Agents etc; Leon Best fee and pay off; Kean's Contract; Etuhu/Murphy 5 year Contracts and pay offs; Henning Berg's 6 week odyssey and Court Case; the 5 Portugese players; the list goes on and I got it to £148mn. The above is without Brereton, Rothwell, Lenihan and others(now Dolan,Travis, Tronstad) getting away because of poor direction and handling. This list would go with a Rovers Prospectus to sell the Club, to show that good management, vision and direction could attract the supporters back and re-launch our Club up the Leagues (assuming League 1 is beckoning).

I am aware of 5 Consortia, plus the Qataris from way back. The approaches start very tentatively with a " we are looking to buy a UK Football Club" Its all VERY confidential and not for this forum, sorry. I remember Pasha arriving as an invisble man around the time of the Shelfy Shaw/Henning Berg Court case, but he may have been making Ewood trips before that.

Next round, Herbster?

If we are trying to impose a £10k per week maximum for ALL players, then by definition older, more loyal players will not be offered enough for them to sign. The only exception is Dolan , who has been on nowhere near that maximum. So please no-one hold your breath on the existing players re-negotiating their Contracts. The Accountants are in charge. Simples.

No Board of Directors No Chief Executive No Business Plan No Commercial income No Vision No effin Idea how to run a Limited Company serving its Community.....end of oh.....no surprise

They are having talks on a Contract extension, as reported by Eliot Jackson. Just hope they dont feature on the 2026 Christmas/New Year Calendar.

Well done Herbster (and Scott)!! A very close run thing..... We Are The Rovers team would like to play you in the Champion of Champions challenge match, after our recent victory at The Rising Sun ( a fabulous Rovers Boozer).

Dont do that.....just send your CV to them. Clog the works. Lets see how many are sent. Low Egos only, mind.

Its over 2 years ago since I relinquished being Chair of the rebranded WATR...... before which we were trying hard to see if the newly stabilised Rovers(under Waggott and Mowbray) had any hope of being salvageable. Steve Waggott is the scapegoat for not only the Womens Team but also the dwindling support(Adult Season-Tickets) It is clear that the MoU needs suspending; the fight is as ever to get the Owners to sell their forgotten Subsidiary in the small Northern town. It is clear the replacement for Waggott will probably be a new structure with promotions for Pasha, the Apprentice and the Ewood Express bus driver. Then the proverbial will hit the fan - and probably things will have to get worse before they get better. There have been two instances in just the last 6 months when exciting Investors would and could have taken a lead on the many Commercial opportunities at the "most successful Town Club in the World" - both vetoed by Pasha on referral to India. We now know why the January signings were held up by the unwieldy "final permissions" process. It is clear , like we suspected in the early days of Kean, that was added to by the era of Shelfy Shaw etc etc, that only a sale will regenerate OUR Club. I welcome the WATR committee decision and statement.

After he was removed/signed by Palace, he turned up one Saturday at an Event in Wilpshire/Salesbury that my Grandsons went to. My daughter took a picture of Adam with them in their Rovers tops. She sent copies of the photos to the Senior Training Centre for Scott to get Adam to sign. I got a phone call the NEXT day to say they were signed and waiting for collection. JW Upper season ticket holders will confirm how many times Adam was at a Rovers game in the last 15 months. The Wilpshire Pirlo is one of our own.....in a long line stretching past David Dunn, Bryan Douglas all the way thru Bob Crompton to the Club Founders. In our low key(!)150th Year we should be celebrating them all much more.

Before people attack WATR, notice they have 344 paying members and this would be higher if they could improve their systems of reminders, checks when Debit cards expire etc etc. I have voted(of course YES).... whilst the WATR email and sections far too big and cumbersome. My check-back on 26/04/25 will be on how many on brfcs have voted....cos this vote is admirably simple!

Adam Catterall on friday night after the match was absolutely brilliant. Please Mods have it featured somewhere, please.

Lots of police for a friday night match, werent there? They are rattled, with no interest or concern from Pune.

Am I on the wrong thread?

ONeill was this times choice, but as people have said, Warnock and Jepson were ready to start pre-Coyle. A fish rots from the head. Most Clubs with bad owners at least see the Owners. SW has not been driving the bus for at least 4 years now. This is about the principle of buying a plaything,on a whim, and losing rapid interest.....sell it on E-Bay.

In the present circumstances, this is an impossible topic to engage with. Yes we were in the Anfield Road on Liverpool Season Tickets. After the lose/win we got back and then I cried for ten hours as the corkscrew of the tension released itself....missed work in London and drove back to West London after the Ewood celebrations. And 30 years later we have fallen right down the snake......read Harry Berry (1975: A Century of Soccer) on X

You all ask these questions. As the ex-Chair of the Trust for 5 years, I ask about Comms, decisions ,changing approach, membership numbers, how often meeting and why WATR is not coming to the same conclusions as the 'engaged' supporters who attend and see the 'un-managed' decline. Without hope there is little point of supporting our Club....but in its 150th Season; 30 years since the PL title it is just plain vandalism. SURELY WE CAN UNITE BEHIND THE NEED FOR CHANGE? I will retain my membership of WATR and re-new my Season Ticket because they will never stop my love for the Club

Lots of comments, but Steve Waggott is not the one holding the steering wheel.