Mattyblue

I suppose it’s because we’ve had a lot of 19/20 year old slight midfielders come in over the past few years. I’ll ’give him a chance FFS!’ because what choice do I have, but it’s not what this side is crying out for.

Of course, no sell on value at his age.

‘All’ on Broughton? No other guilty parties we can think of for this mess?

Tom Brady and Swag, now that’s a combination.

‘First name on the team sheet’?! Now don’t get me wrong I think he should have stayed as an experienced player in a small, young squad, but some very short memories, he’s been pretty average for a good while.

This is football, players want to play, they can get stale at a club and want a change of scenery, and yes he isn’t a world beater - of course he’s replaceable with another experienced player… problem here, as always, is he won’t be and the downgrade continues.

Every first teamer that can’t get in the side gets loaned out. ‘Competition for places’ is the norm at most clubs, but that’s a financial luxury we can’t afford here - as shown by the fact we are spending months with one left back and one right back.

‘All future requests’ ’Please Mr Judge can our football club in England be funded for another three months please?’

This club no longer has any aspirations other than being a development academy, it just happens that one of the development teams plays in the senior leagues.… but they have the brass neck to charge £400-£500+ for a ST to watch them.

He’s leaving ‘because he doesn’t fit JDT’s style’? Was that why Buckley randomly went on loan in a tiny squad too? His presser will be interesting.

Of course, but many of those stopped going 5, 10, 12 years ago. Many are lost, for good, as obviously they are well, well out of the habit. And even if they are keeping an eye on results they won’t be manning the barricades if there was a protest next week. I was more referring to the ‘active’ fanbase, I.e those that have a ST or buy a match ticket regularly or from time to time, that is your potential pool of protesters and as as a collective, anti-Venky’s, they ain’t.

‘Showing balls’ would’ve been consulting with fans before they went on sale, ‘balls’ would’ve been listening to the feedback in the first couple of days and offering an alternative, ‘balls’ isn’t head in the sand arrogance stonewalling impassioned fans who had contacted them, ‘balls’ isn’t a panicked u-turn with less than 48 hours to go when they are looking down the barrel of the club’s worst ever FA Cup crowd. They have embarrassed themselves and the club once again, but yet once again not an ounce of contrition in that statement.

Mogga’s got to go all the way to Birmingham?! Take it Brady is going to lend him his private jet for a few months? (Until he’s sacked and they bring in Lamps).

That meeting the Trust had with him last night just summed him up, a Liverpool FC event going on at the ground of the club he runs and he hasn’t heard a thing about it. Then to top it off nodding sagely that it’s a disgrace that a load of club murals had been just lobbed at the back of a stand (when they should actually have been unceremoniously lobbed in a skip, of course), less than 24 hours later they’d been put on display on the Riverside as planned - he was non the wiser either way. Absolute clown show down there, you’d laugh if it wasn’t so depressing to have that cretin as the club figurehead.

Without even touching on the debacle of the budget and resulting squad this season, off the pitch we’ve seen the fiasco of the closed Blackburn End, the shambles of ‘Digital Day’ and the embarrassment of Liverpool FC nights at the home of Blackburn Rovers. I’d say this has to be the nadir with the club making ridiculous decisions on a seemingly weekly basis, but there’s probably going to be some other nonsense announced in the near future. Where’s the common sense, where’s the accountability? Where’s the humility?

Exactly that. The other day a lad I’m friends with on Facebook shared a memory from NYD 2017 (relegated to L1 five months later) of him on Sky at the Newcastle game that afternoon. I spotted two ‘Venky’s Out’ flags in the screenshot. Imagine unfurling those now and see what reaction you’d get.

It’s not being against protests, go for it. But in reality the fanbase has never been more pro Venky’s than it is right now (as preposterous as that sounds). Try telling the folk around you at Ewood that we need them to sell and see what reaction you get. They’ve long won the hearts and minds of the fanbase, so a big protest just ain’t happening… well maybe against JDT if we lose a few more.

‘NNN UTC’ banners in the suites for the next Dingle game… That’s a joke BTW Swag/Read if you are reading!

When I saw that they’d even crossed out the Mackem ‘Ha’way the Lads’ for the Geordie ‘Howay’, I first thought it must be photoshopped… but no, genuine. Christ 🤦‍♂️

Right where’s that readytogo forum 🍿

I do not for a second rate Pears, not good enough for this level. However, he does have some neat and tidy games, whereas over the past month Leo’s head/confidence has gone. You are fearing the worst from every cross or shot, no matter how weak. Obviously we need an actual number one goalkeeper, we won’t be getting one of those, but Leo still needs taking out the firing line.

I’m with you arbito, it’s a tough one, do those running the club deserve our support? Not in the slightest, they are a disgrace and I hold them in contempt. No issue with anyone swerving this game, they bloody well deserve it the arrogant fools. However, more broadly, once you ‘vote with your feet’ you can very quickly get out of the habit as thousands upon thousands have and getting them back becomes very, very difficult in 5, 10, 20 years time when this lot finally feck off. We need the 10-12k core to remain so we have something to build from when the liberation day finally arrives.

If we’d have had a good month of results and were around the play off places they may have got away with it (not that they deserved to), but piss poor form on the pitch coupled with this shambles off it and it’s a perfect storm and the seat map is for all to see.

We have fairly unique (ain’t that the truth) owners and for me it makes a sale seem unlikely in even the medium term (legal problems forcing one aside). One type of owner seem to be your old school local businessman, he’ll sell up when he realises he can’t take it any further or he’s sick of the abuse from ungrateful fans or he’s been given an offer he can’t refuse. Others are the US venture capitalist types, they just want to flip it for a profit at some point down the line or they lose their shirt, either way they’ll come and go. Others idealistic young-ish types like your fella at Sunderland, ‘data analysis’ and all that, they seem to soon get bored and get shut. Obviously not an exhaustive list, but you get my point, these owners have a finite lifespan. Here? Just another business in an unwieldy conglomerate that gets involved in everything from poultry and food production to vaccines to medicine to property. The overseas football club they own that was randomly bought a decade plus ago is losing money? Just tell the CEO to cut costs and we’ll speak in six months. I doubt a sale is even remotely on the horizon.

‘Online resources to guide you through’ they will come in handy for fans with no internet/smart phone.