That brief stint in L1 coupled with Bury going bust. It seemingly spooked a lot of fans to massively lower their standards and expectations. So post that season the narrative became that we should just be grateful to TM for plodding around the second division and to Venky’s for just still existing.

The sage of brfcs strikes again. He assured us that dinosaurs like him would never get another Championship job…

He’s Mr January in the Rovers calendar… if that doesn’t say he’s off this month I don’t know what does.

… and BWFC are about to lay a new pitch, what happened to ours again?

Don’t you know developing said academy lads is going to re-establish ourselves as a PL club, somehow…

That’s a different issue, but right back aside it ain’t far away from as good as we have.

I’m giving GB the benefit of the doubt, good luck to him, but BBD has to be the last we see of the shambles of The Model mk1. Alas, with these unpredictable owners to report to then he’s going to need it.

Would I have sold him last January? No, though a half arsed Rothwell should have been let go, ridiculous meddling from the owners that one. But if a deal could’ve been done in the summer (all parties including BBD himself willing), then it should have been done.

Too right there would have been uproar. But it ultimately doesn’t matter if fans are upset over a sale. If that’s the model, that’s the model.

‘Siri, sum up the Venky reign in a sentence’.

£219 season tickets (our half STs cost more).

Kaminsky, Pickering, Ayala, Hyam and JRC is a ‘threadbare’ defence?

Plenty of the support says it too. Unfortunately the club’s narrative of ‘we’ve done all we can, unfortunately we’ve no fans, so FFP’ has pulled the wool over the eyes of many to the club’s incompetence over contracts and transfers.

*Given a load of support on the terraces.

‘We can’t spend owt because of our shit crowds’ etc

https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2023/january/update-wanderers-pitch-plan/ Third division club with not exactly loaded owners can do it. Our billionaires on the other hand…

‘The club’ has spoken about selling players on for profit for a good few years now. This wasn’t a brand new direction for it when it was flagged up in a podcast last week. You believe it has only been failure thus far because of Tony Mowbray, so with GB at the helm I’m looking forward to now finally becoming this fabled ‘ROI’/trading model club.

So the model’s the same, but difference now is we have this professional sounding and competent fella in charge, so he won’t allow these things to keep happening going forward? I’ll be delighted to see it as I don’t want any more FFP and ‘skint’ sob stories when there has been tens of millions of talent walking out the door for nowt…

So that’s Lenihan, Rothwell, Nyambe, BBD and (probably) Dack leaving for a total of £0. I’m sure I’ve been hearing about ‘the model’ for 2/3 years now so just a bit of a failure then thus far. But of course we all have to forget about all that and pretend that ‘the ROI model’ is only just kicking in now. Must think we came down in the last shower…

Why they after him then?

Tenner a ticket, fair enough. And they’ve closed the Riverside to start with, so at least no weeks of hand wringing à la the Forest game.

Buy cheap, sell give away cheaper. ‘The model’.

Would the brigade be incorrect to point that out?

That’s the talk of an Academy director whose job it is to improve and develop youngsters for onward progression into full pro squads, the results on the pitch of the development teams is not the be-all and end-all… however they kind of are in first team professional football.

So playing Vale and Garrett on a regular basis is undoubtedly the correct decision, and not playing Adam Wharton on a regular basis is also the correct decision… now I wonder why that could be? 🤷‍♂️