Exiled_Rover

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.

This was my concern with the #expressyourself idea. The fans need direction - a few chants and a 3/4 empty stadium does not make a protest. The rest of the work so far has been great, but tonight has fallen flat.

I was desperate to sign their GK on loan in the summer - he's made two really good saves today. Alas we stuck with Pears.

To be fair he's not a LB either. Can't defend for toffee.

They keep on trying to convince us that the atmosphere is more positive too. It's just a stony silence.

Ah yes, let's bring Woodrow on. That'll make a difference. Woeful football player.

I though it and the Tarkowski one were good tackles - I'm just saying by the rules they're both red cards these days.

A GK taking up a good position and making a good save. What's that like?

SKY could have made a massive thing about the protests - this random Friday game couldn't have landed better for them really. Alas, as we're not one of their chosen few they couldn't give a toss and are just going through the motions with their coverage.

I mean technically it's a red - slide tackle from behind and the follow through has cleaned out the man. We saw loads of column inches for the Tarkowski tackle in the Merseyside derby, that one was no different (in terms of the ball being won, but the follow through being dangerous).