When the surrounds of the ground were a complete shit tip the other year, didn’t they come out with some flannel as to why it had got like that (and why nobody could wander around with a couple of bin bags) due to a ‘ten year maintenance plan’ or some other nonsense. So expect a new bulb for 2033…

So if they don’t want to go straight back up why were they demanding Dean Smith’s sacking when they fell out the top 6?

Birmingham was the highest home turnout for an early round tie for donkey’s years. It was a good turn out, ergo it did work. It’s called context, were they expecting an Oxford crowd or something for a January cup game against a fellow Championship team (obviously not as they didn’t even open the Riverside) ?! The lack of knowledge on display there, and these people get to run our football club? Jesus.

What’s the general vibe on the FF, K-Hod? Is it heads in the sand stuff re crowds etc? ‘We agree Steve, what else can you do?’ Or is there a robust exchange with him?

Birdy and crew will probably lobby for a disloyal fan like him to be removed from the FF instead…

Or if you want to wax lyrical unhindered on page after page of a Blackburn Rovers forum with like minded fans about what a great side Burnley are, do get involved.

Any paint left in that corner, Joe? 😁

‘Ei Ei Ei O, a soft reset in 12th we go…’

I take it they are happy when they lose games then? Don’t want to win too many matches and risk that goal of a ‘soft reset’ by going up…

End of the day only the best of the crop will make it into the first team anyway, so they will still get U21 starts when first teamers are involved. Surely better for said cream of the crop to play with the likes of Dolan and Brittain than some lad that will probably end up in non league…

Exactly! ‘Picking the ball out of his net’, ‘The striker finds the back of the net’… not ‘the ball hits the net and bounces straight back out the box’

Every manager I imagine will talk about ‘a project’ it’s just a synonym for ‘the job’, ‘the plan’, ‘the club’s ambition’. Their ‘project’ was to get back to the PL as quickly as possible. Ours, well, we will probably be on to Microsoft Project schedule version 26 when JDT does a Lambert…

You wouldn’t think it was much of a rivalry reading this thread…

Pretty transparent attempt at trying to pretend it’s all rosy behind the scenes.

Ask Swag, his new pitch plan is another thing to have been kicked into the long Ewood grass (metaphorically speaking, as there ain’t much grass left).

Another predictable end to another daft appointment. Such high stakes and money on offer in the PL and clubs keep making very strange decisions on the most important person at the club…

If you are spending the majority of two consecutive seasons in the top six of a division that contains promotion places you surely look to take one. That is the point of professional football in a pyramid system.

So you don’t want to be promoted but instead just butt against a glass ceiling indefinitely (with the odd bad season possibly leading to L1)? What would be the point then of any of this?

*But he doesn’t hold ultimate responsibility at this club.

Indeed, a right cushy little number for a football ‘CEO’ that only has to worry about the day to day commercial operation and has even failed with that…

But he isn’t the man in charge of the football side of the club and he doesn’t carry the can. GB is facing up and that’s fine by me, but if you want to hear platitudes and non-answers on topics that Swag has no power or influence over, then fair enough.

That’s what GB is here for. He’s a commercial director in reality and I’m happy enough to hear from him on commercial policies, I.e the annual ticket fiascos. But football matters, why, when he has zero influence?

He’s a CEO in name only, obviously helps to fulfil corporate governance obligations, but he is obviously not the head honcho at Venky owned BRFC.

Because he has nothing of any note to say. He obviously has zero authority on football matters.

Last time I saw Swag out from under his rock being interviewed he was trying to justify flogging off Brockhall. So keep him away from a microphone…