Mattyblue

Because they are ‘the club’ so plenty are happy to bow and scrape to them.

‘Derby Rovers’. Like a 12 year old.

Come on now ‘99, he was ‘King Eustace’ to you as you had his pic as your avatar all last season… of wait, don’t think that was you actually.

Hasn’t the league position always been irrelevant under these owners? Difference being some managers still railed against that, as well, after all it’s supposed be to competitive first team football with a place in the Premier League at stake, not ‘development football’… however they seem to have a pliant one this time.

Home fan turnout c1,000 down on what we had for the second home game of last season.

Don’t worry about it! But then there’s the issue with TM, he ends up getting played like a fiddle by very disingenuous people.

You don’t know my ‘standards’ one iota, Parson, so less of that please. I’m talking about a good bloke but ultimately a very naive one, he took those people at their self-proclaimed ‘humble’ and ‘honourable’ word but they showed by their actions at the end of his reign when he shuffled off none the wiser if he was actually staying or going after five years of very public support to them what ‘standards’ and ‘honour’ they really operate to.

Sorry, but this is 21st century pro football, not something out of a chivalric medieval fairy tale. ’My word is my bond’, do me a favour, his job was to achieve the very best for Blackburn Rovers not trying to score good guy points with those ‘honourable people’ in Pune… remind me how ‘honourable’ where they with him at the end of his tenure?

Not quite sure how a young team manager is particularly comparable to Jack in the first place, but Vinner gonna Vinner.

Coming second to Celtic wouldn’t have been too surprising and as long as they were competitive enough in the cups and Europe he would easily have waffled himself to another decent gig… though the way he is completely tanking in a matter of weeks may see him run out of road.

How these players actually perform through a season will be the judge. I can’t judge one way or another right now as I don’t know enough about them. I believe he’s a bit of a prick around the place, obviously a Suhail man, but it is what it is. He wouldn’t be near the club under a normal regime… but we aren’t one so you have to expect under qualified/inexperienced individuals to be employed here and all you can do is they quickly learn on the job and hope for the best.

I don’t abuse him, good luck to him in his career - I just use him as a neat symbol of the Pep-isation of the game and how football is all the poorer for it.

I’d say the po faced, ‘we are different’ mentality of LFC fans, plus just as many glory hunters (though they always seem to avoid the ‘they all come from London’ tag) has them just as high on my list as Man Utd.

End of the day those that were ‘pro’ Dolan on here merely said he was no world beater but just a decent Championship player and would have no problem getting a decent move. The ‘anti’ Dolan posters said he was crap, a few said he would end up in League 1. The ‘pros’ were always right, not because they were a set of sages, but because it should’ve been blatantly obvious to anybody they watches a fair amount of Championship level football.

English League 1 standard, obviously.

He’s on a rolling contract too, so not exactly a financial issue either to pot him if necessary.

We’ve no idea if their owners are loyal as they’ve strolled up from non league on huge budgets, so they haven’t had to make those decisions. They struggle this season and that’s a different conversation.

Only four parachute clubs in the league this season and even putting Sheff Utd aside and it’s early days, but initial thoughts, the relegated three look like they might not be as strong as some years. Owners across the Championship will be thinking we’ve a decent sniff this year … of course, the owners of Blackburn Rovers won’t be thinking said thing.

Time will tell, won’t it. If it’s the making of him then fantastic.. but there’s a reason why a quality footballer (in his peak years) like him is here as he’s had a few false dawns in his career.

Posters that can’t debate.

Do you agree with Mani, Chaddy, that the club is now set up for managed decline?

To me Cantwell is unsuited to being in a leadership position at a Championship club, BRFC has a lot of such individuals … so of course he gets to be captain, not exactly a difficult prediction

Yeah it’s me that’s dug myself into a hole over the Wharton fee.

He has two under 21 caps though…

Obviously the bar/pub pricing is not cheap enough for Suhail’s liking.