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He does seem to have been wheeled out this season in a far more prominent front of house role in his club tie.

They must think that adds some kind of sheen of respectability and normality to their dysfunctional set up.

2 minutes ago, JHRover said:

 

 

 

what on earth does he get out of this sordid arrangement to make it worth his while covering for, assisting and legitimising this disgraceful regime other than a title and his lunch and drinks paid for every other week? Surely at his age and with his history at the club there's more to life than carrying on with this charade?

Answered your own question there

The players (and manager) must think this is a right mad house… at least they get well paid to be part of it.

‘Passion’ and ‘standards’ at the club? Where?

Exactly, signings docs and the like as he’s a Companies House named Director.
 

Running the club, no chance, he’s nearly 80, he didn’t even run it back in the day once John Williams came ih.

We may know about TC on the 1st… but we’ll know he won’t he replaced on the 2nd.

End of the day we’ll know on the 1st Feb.

Because Suhail and Gestede are Muslim, perhaps?

So the opposite of what happens here then.

Good job we didn’t get a home FA Cup tie (and no potential replay these days, of course) as presumably we’d be scoping out playing at Chorley (or maybe Clitheroe?) for that extra fixture too?

Rob Coar is running the club?! Behave.

The Ultimate List should just end in November 2010 with a black page.

To be fair you can't expect to buy players and have decent drinks on offer.

The protest has happened and is continuing to happen. We had an average crowd of 25,000 when they arrived, how many people were *actually* in the ground last night? 5,000?

Any other club this would be leading to end game, the owners would know the jig us up. Here? Does anybody really think alarm bells are ringing? Or will it just be Suhail ordering more cut backs for next season and the next and the next until we are sharing facilities with Accrington Stanley.

‘Normally, it would be someone else here to explain what's happened. We have a lot of 'head of' in the club’

You’ve noticed too, Val!

As always, the manager has to front up for a load of senior people that earn big money but are accountable for nothing and to no one.

I’d rather have a Weston Super Mare, but if it is to be a PL away game, rather those two than a ground we saw regularly (you know from when we were a top football club pre November 2010)

This is what those scumbags have reduced me to, hoping for a ‘big day out’ somewhere as it’s obviously totally unrealistic to expect to move up one whole division.

It’s the ‘rainy season’, so very silly of the EFL to schedule matches at this time, bit like when the ICC try and arrange cricket in the middle of West Indies hurricanes or Bangladesh monsoon seasons. 

Everton or Tottenham away, as I doubt I’d ever see Rovers at those places otherwise.

We obviously are where we are as half way through the season and I expect, as always,  they’ll just try and muddle through (and hope that rare metrological phenomenon ‘rain’ holds off on match days).

But do they deserve all the opprobrium that comes their way in the meantime? Yes.

I attend and I’m happy to criticise ‘the club’ as those running and owning it deserve it, and there’s no issue in those that don’t go doing the same. Nothing unfortunate about it and it has got to the stage where it feels like they are embarrassing this grand old institution on what seems like a weekly basis.

Even the most liked comments on the LT articles have turned.

Where art thou, Reg?

10 minutes ago, Comfortably numb said:

‘The rainy season’, ah yes, that famous monsoon phenomenon that only impacts a slice of Lancashire between Preston and Accrington.