Exiled_Rover

They need a new manager, not a new owner. So many fans are ridiculously entitled.

There should be some 'poison pill' clauses that stop teams swooping in and stealing players i.e. £10m if they ever play a game of first team football in one of the top five leagues in Europe. Otherwise they're just going to continue to steal them from the crib for peanuts.

Why wait?

Evidently we can't afford anyone, so that point is moot. We clearly have different standards. He's simply not good enough - neither quick enough to play on the wing or clinical enough to play as a 10. I love his work rate, but I hate how wasteful he is with possession.

I'd happily drive him to his next destination if there's a transfer fee involved.

Imagine if the Execs were so diligent when it came to running the club, eh?

A three-window transfer embargo is a death sentence in this league.

I see your game here - you're trying to track his bowel movements.

This weekend has been a positive - we've made positive inroads into the regime. We need to keep the pressure up. What Burnley do is irrelevant - we're a much bigger club than them when we aren't being artificially supressed by spiteful / incompetent owners.

They gambled and went for it. I thought they were incredibly lucky last year - they weren't one of the better teams we played.

They both clearly are - what they don't get is any service. Hedges and Dolan are woeful football players. Buckley was a disgrace last night too.

Dunn? Have you heard him on BBC Radio Lancs? He's a Venky's apologist, he'd jump at the chance.

How many businesses have you been involved with where the seller appears to be happy to lose £20m a year, running on for over £200m in debt, and makes no effort to improve the situation or engage with buyers? This is not a normal situation. If it was we'd have been sold a decade ago.

I suspect we're in the bottom 3 in the Championship in terms of wage bill. As for bigger fan bases - we seemed to do ok 15 years ago. It's incredible what 15 years of owners strangling the life out of a club will do to attendances.

Ours appear to be all over the BBC and Talkshite - Sutton, Shearer, Savage, Warnock, Murphy...

The First XI was as good as teams Eustace fielded for most of the year. The bench was perhaps slightly weaker - but Eustace wasn't conceding goals within 3 minutes every week.

1990s John Williams I hope - he'd have to be in his 80s by now. A good CEO would be given a budget every year and work towards it - as far as I'm aware they're not hands-on enough to change the budget mid-season. The A. Wharton sale (for example - and a good CEO wouldn't have sold him in January to the first bidder!) would have been reinvested into the squad, with some held back for running costs and a rainy day. Suhail and Waggott are content to strip the club back to the bare bones then seem surprised when things fall apart.

Oh yes, he's clearly an odious individual. He'll only leave when every penny we owe him has been paid.

There's a feedback thread on here - they're crying out for volunteers...

It is about money though - not so much "why aren't the owners putting £20m in every year, the tight sods" and more "why do the owners employ absolute clowns who run the club into the ground - to the point where they had to take out a payday loan to stay solvent". When Mowbray was here I said it was literally the best job in football as a manager - zero pressure from above (they were deliriously happy with mid-table finishes) and a decent Championship budget to splurge on whatever you wanted (£12m on two wide CFs? Why not). With the right leadership in place we could almost be self sufficient - the Wharton / Szmodics / Raya / Kaminski money could have been used to reload the squad like Boro and Hull do (y'know, selling assets to acquire more saleable assets!). Instead it's all been put towards running costs, and then they wonder why the 31st Academy player to run out for us in 5 years and the freebie they picked up from a team in a relegation scrap in January isn't up to scratch. We're dead in the water now without new ownership - an A. Wharton doesn't come along every Academy cycle.

They've strangled the life out of the fan base over the last 15 years. The task now is rousing them again - the protest leaders have a job on their hands. They've definitely made an excellent start, but I hope they're in it for the long haul.

Lots of chants, lots of boos, but no direction. If you were sat in Ewood when Burnley came to town this season there's clearly still a lot of passion (and hatred) in the fan base. It just needs shaping.

I hope he's paying for that out of his own pocket. Oh who am I kidding, of course he's not.

What are the legalities around a sit in? Fans just not leaving the ground after a match (maybe the final home game of the season?)? Obviously I'm sure it's 'illegal', but 15k people staying in their seats to protest the regime would have some impact.

It's the worst chant in football - anyone that sings it is a tosser.