Such a lack of class.

We must be in a unique position. Most ownerships take these forms - - Local businessman who no longer can fund/sick of taking grief from fans so will sell up. - US venture capitalist types who will give it up as a bad job or flip for a profit. - ‘moneyball’ style ‘data led’ owners who would also be happy enough to sell up if it goes sour or for a profit. - fan owned club, who again will look to sell if there is someone out there that can take it to the next level. But there surely can’t be an equivalent club in which they are a long forgotten impulse purchase for an unwieldy conglomerate based half way round the world. Where the owners will put enough in to keep it going, but certainly have no footballing ambitions for it… yet won’t even entertain selling to those that do have said ambition either. I rue the day we somehow ended up with this ridiculous set up, a set up that does not and cannot work in professional football.

To ‘real’ turnout wasn’t close to 11,500 home fans. 7k max. Yes, it was a night game, but Saturday ST holder turnouts are dwindling too. Next season’s sales, Christ, they’ll be some sell for L1 football at £400-£500 a pop.

Blaming JDT for Travis 🤦‍♂️

Its nothing personal, but he’s a symptom of a football club that has completely lost the plot. We had a ‘DoF’ model, we had a ‘model’ to ‘develop’ players and sell on for profit. We had a ‘model’ to play a certain style of football from the under 8s to the first team… then we didn’t and we are now playing ‘prosaic’ football with 37 year olds and a bloke with a metal leg. Where does this ‘confused’ club to turn a phrase end up? The third division.

Get all that, but you aren’t losing every home game to all kinds of opposition 5-0, 6-0, 8-0 if you are putting a shift in.

‘Who could have foreseen that?’ Every fecker bar one on here for a start.

It’s very hard when you don’t bother tracking your runners or marking. You aren’t 5-0 down at home after 30 minutes if you are putting a shift in, regardless of opposition. Look at Luton for evidence of that. (And getting spanked 5-0, 6-0, even 8-0 every home game).

Getting in behind and cutting back to unmarked, untracked players in the box is standard Sunday league/kids stuff when one side is a million miles away from the other. I wouldn’t look too deeply into the wider tactical implications on this occasion.

‘But he wanted to leave’. Presumably Buckley did to, nothing at all to do with them staggering from week to week trying to save a few grand here and there. Laughable thing was they knew JDT was half way out the door by January and they were obviously open to offers for Wharton, so even if it was a ‘football decision as he wanted to play’ it was a bloody stupid one… and look at us now. The ‘club’ deserves League 1. Yet those that do deserve it, couldn’t give a fuck about it.

Strutting around the lounges with a Rovers tie on, nice three courser then ambling up to his padded seat, looking at the sparse turnout whilst telling his opposite CEO number what shit support we have, ‘I mean, we’ve done all we can’.

So he only wanted to stay in his bunker for six weeks, not eight. Apologies, Steve.

Yep every credit to Luton. 9/10k gates in a dilapidated old ground, load of journeyman and they’ve given it a real go (as they did for the two previous years in this league). No excuses culture, unlike the pathetic shower that run/own this club.

So two months in his bunker instead then. Leadership 👏 👏

Why does it matter if a few dozen folk on a message board ‘put them down’? When don’t the fans cheer them on?

Pro footballer runs around. Fair enough.

Get that ‘99. Him and Leonard would be elsewhere right now at a normal club. But we aren’t one, he’s here and he’ll be playing a fair few minutes. And you know what I’d have him in over the likes of Moran so not sure he deserves the daily ‘nowhere near’, ‘not up to it’, as neither are most of them - it’s why we are heading back to the third division.

Comes out of his bunker six weeks later to talk about the temperature of the pies as the club goes down the plughole. What a leader 👏

You’ve really got a bee in your bonnet about Garrett, ‘99 😄

The south Wales games are always our lowest followings of the season, an absolute trek but you don’t have the London based Rovers fans turning out like you do for the south east games. Couple that with £30 and our form and it’s no surprise. A non story.

The half time boo boys certainly didn’t like the ‘pissing about at the back’, so they should be delighted with this ‘pragmatic’ football.

But, but he’s the next Pep https://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?style=2&f=2&t=74747&start=100

Never mind. Can’t be arsed ending up in a rabbit hole today.

‘First division’, but then I suppose the ‘first division’ meant something else then, if only we knew the further depths these owners would sink us to.

It’s a much tougher league now than it was then. The fact we only had to worry about bloody Shrewsbury tells you that… and we certainly won’t be buying another Dack.