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Classic Jim throwing this in after weeks of discussion.

No performative ‘refusing to celebrate against their old club’ there.

Players don’t give a toss. ‘Is the package decent/am I going to get a game?’ Is the start and end of it. Do you think Leicester will be getting turned down by players because large numbers of their fans boycotted their West Brom game?

End of the Swag was a General Manager type figure. Senior face around the place, been in the game a long time, could placate fans with some anecdotes or merely just nodding along. He had no power, CEO-INO but he was a deflection, especially when Cuddly Tone and uber-charismatic JDT (before he went after the regime) were here to deflect too. Now with this motley crew who have the worst traits combined - unprofessional and out of their depth, but arrogant and un-charismatic with it.

Obviously we knew anyway, but it does lift the curtain to what an unprofessional/out of its depth set-up it is.

Give it Lowey to the end of the season (did Suhail ever get to the bottom of if he’s still employed or not?)

Yes, not feasible. Everyone turning out for the first game in administration etc after a rallying cry or a potential buyer has gone public. Yes, can see that.

ST holders not sitting in a seat they’ve paid for will end the academy and the whole club. Interesting take.

A consortium in the wings, different issue. But if its ’right we’ve done the boycott, next part of the campaign is a reverse boycott for Portsmouth on the 7th March’ . No chance.

We have less than 9k ST holders (I.e you would need 10,000+ walk-ons shelling out £30 to make even a remotely full Ewood) and our form has fallen off a cliff. A ‘reverse boycott’ would never happen whilst struggling in the second division.

For a Saturday 3pm, there’s usually 2/3k walk ons. Presumably then the projections for this weekend is that’s it’s going to be substantially lower than that? Ergo that text? ‘Tickets sales’ being the relevant bit, as yes, they’ve no idea on how many paid up ST Holders will actually be attending, though even without a boycott plenty haven’t been for a couple of months now. So put low match ticket sales , plus they’ll know the ‘real’ numbers of ST holders that haven’t been coming for a while, plus a boycott, plus Watford won’t be fetching many, and well, let’s see.

File making a Sky Sports News reporter a Director of the club because they did a soft focus piece on their Aston Martin collection with all the other so bat shit crazy it must be true stories emanating from this regime.

Well, there was certainly no uptick in results since it was announced (which I imagine the regime would have been counting on). Suppose they could drop the dead cat of sacking VI (I know, I know!)

‘Nice people’, though.

Look at his track record of tenure lengths. He’s got the smug look of a bloke who’s stumbled across the one club in world football where results don’t matter and just ‘giving minutes’ to young lads and waifs and strays from god knows where whilst mouthing platitudes about ‘projects’ and ‘transitions’ gets you to see out a three year deal.

‘Happier times’ when Van Hecke was here and the owners declined to go for promotion despite being up the top at Christmas. ’Happier times’ when Hill was here and JDT would rather walk out on his contract than stay a minute longer.

People forget just how successful Everton were. Their fans rue the day Shankly got hold of their rivals.

No rush. Takes a while to get up to speed with the sideways passing moves. Aim for giving him a start after the international break.

Of course, no red flags there and at least a load got satisfaction in waving inflatables in his general direction.

I was just about to post something similar. When non-Rovers fans now come to speak to me at work or wherever, ‘poor result at the weekend’ etc, I just cannot summon the enthusiasm to even discuss it - whereas even a year ago I’d be ranting away.

’We had crap gates in 1986 too’ ’*insert any other club name here* is a bigger club’ ‘*insert any other club name here* is from a bigger/richer town than Blackburn’

Lowest away following for many a year coming, you’d expect.

‘It’s a season of transition’ is Venky-poligist bingo up there with ‘’oo else is gonna buy us?’, ‘twenty million’… and the old classic ‘they were badly advised’.

Exactly right. How many years of this and folk are still coming out with ‘why’s he not been sacked?’ ‘Why’s he still playing him in that position?’ ‘Why so many young lads on the bench?’ Because winning matches, I.e the whole point of professional football, is not the point here.

‘You suggest someone then’ is such a pathetic comeback, what you’d expect from a ten year old.