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…

New manager pique of excitement, imagine it would’ve been c1k with Toure.

Dyche is a top quality manager. At the same age DF is finally getting a manager gig at Forest Green Rovers…

Being all fire and brimstone will only get you so far with modern players if there’s not much else behind it…

Cheers Jamie, and good piece Rich (though obviously you’ve nicked some of those lines of attack from here, but that’s ok!).

But that was never going to happen. And it certainly wouldn’t happen now as the majority of remaining match going fans don’t particularly have much issue with the owners. Ask a selection of fans at Ewood why we don’t have any cash, and see how many blame the Rao family, and how many blame ‘shit support’.

The Academy seems to struggle to get any striker cabs moving off said rank….

Of course they’ll get a massive allocation. Swag’s ‘stretch bonus’ will be relying on those £30 Darwen End tickets.

… until they hound him out next season for his ‘shit football’.

‘His move into space at Bristol City’ is the new ‘Hirst just needs a run of games’ by the looks of it…

Not a lot of alternatives up top, so let’s hope he does come good, but for a striker to be nearly 22 and never have scored a goal in League football… it surely has to be soon if he wants a career at this level?