The classic 80s yellow and blue Perspex as ‘awful’? Sacrilege!

Just the four right backs...

They may notice them, but will anyone be held responsible? Nobody usually is for failure at this club.

Interesting, that’ll be the first time they aren’t running the club’s media output since before Radio Rovers, so nearly 30 years.

Good. So who’s running it, The Yardley’s CREATV?

Oh many of the ‘badly advised’ crew will, my point is of the ones that don’t, the vast majority won’t see it as any kind of protest against the owners, as away from here I just don’t see any anti-Venky sentiment, in fact the very opposite. Its all very odd, most can see the club is a shadow of itself, but woe betide you point the finger at those holding the reins for a decade.

Bit odd that we received an email from the EFL, about what is to them another organisation’s platform, but Rovers haven’t accounted anything themselves?

There are a plethora of reasons they won’t come back; it’s because they are out of the habit, its boring down Ewood, sick of the manager’s tactics, ‘we’re crap’, ‘too dear’... of course, a lot of that comes back to the owners, but they don’t see it that way and many will go out of their way to absolve Venky’s (and inexplicably TM himself) from any responsibility.

Tip offs from the club on transfer gossip is right up Sharpe and the LTs street, easy copy to fill the sports section in the close season and keeps the relationship between the two parties warm... ... but proper journalism to get to the bottom of a potentially enormous plan with long lasting implications to sell the training ground? Wouldn’t touch it with a barge poll. ‘Local, campaigning journalism for 125 years’, ay?

And for me it’s why the club is facing an existential threat. With a fanbase that just doesn’t realise/accept the club is in peril, coupled with the nefarious characters running the place and the big demographic change in the town since the PL days, I’m currently struggling to see a Blackpool-esque renaissance if we did fall down the leagues.

Those numbers certainly aren’t dwindling. I rarely come across a Rovers fan away from here that thinks anything but ‘badly advised’ and how they are now the best thing for the club. Almost a Pavlovian response to their name being brought up.

Indeed. ‘The club’ talks of ‘increasing revenue’, something you would think is more vital than ever right now, of course, they tinker round the edges; like having a half dozen folk in Blues Bar on a Friday afternoon. Yet, the real revenue drivers, like ST sales, they instead put up two fingers and circle the wagons to keep their cosy set up in place, ‘they’ know full well that keeping the status quo this summer could well lead to a 1960/2012 esque collapse in crowds, but they obviously couldn’t care less as the betterment of BRFC is seemingly not the priority. Just like in 2012, actually caring about the feelings of supporters, and the increase (or at least steady stream) of revenue that comes with engaging them and respecting their views is never the plan here, neither is reacting to, you know, results on the pitch. Summer 2012, after 18 months of farce, appalling results, and the throwing away of PL prestige and riches, when the club was warned that not changing manager would see thousands walk away, they inexplicably kept Ke*n in position. That showed me that this club is not normal, it is run against the principles of professional sport at first team level, I.e putting a management team and squad together to win as many matches as you can, and a decade on nothing has changed (well the administration of it hasn’t, the club as a whole sure has and what a sorry state it’s in).

He was never going anywhere whilst under contract... operation new deals all round will the Coventrio’s priority now.

According to Paul Hirst in the Sunday Times, City lost because Gundogan was the ‘sole pivot’. You idiot, Pep!

Waggott is right, they aren’t inexperienced. They choose to run the club in this dysfunctional way, why? is the question.

The fantastic campaign of Rev et al, should only be put on a shelf for now, not dissolved. We need to be ever vigilant with these spivs.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/siteassets/fans/fans-forum/ff-zoom-minutes-18.5.21.pdf Usual few minutes of head in hands when reading the minutes. I’ll put the worlds worst kept secret re TM aside, I was more worried by... ‘MK repeated the point he made at the March meeting that it would be very positive if the club’s training ground could be brought back into Blackburn with Darwen.’ Very worrying intervention from Mushtaq Khan, let’s hope he has no links to BwD or the club hierarchy And had to just laugh at this, no rush, ay! ‘He noted that 2025 would be the 150th anniversary of the founding of the club and that it would be very positive if some proper fan engagement could be in place by then.’

Do they now have a bigger budget to do a few more Teesside favours, more like...

Listening to Alex Neil on Sky. Refreshing to hear simple, pragmatic, football manager talk instead of the head in the clouds cod-Guardiola tripe we are subjected to...

Are the Yardley’s CREATV not going to be simply handed the gig?

Sheff Wed asked their players to go on furlough over the summer (they’ve rejected the request). Another basket case of a club, what a mess the game is in. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/chansiri-furlough-players-sheffield-wednesday-20702849.amp

Of course we’ve taken decent followings from time to time for friendlies when there’s a buzz. Look at Rangers the other year. But even if allowed in, a game at Middlebrook Retail Park the way things are currently?

Or the cop out of ‘well, it’s just Indian business culture’. Is it? Is this how Reliance or Infosys or the booming Bangalore IT industry are run? I sincerely doubt it.

Of course, a good move, daft that a club should outsource their media output to their league - especially a club that was once so innovative with Radio Rovers, RoverVision etc. However, considering we were selling less streams than some non league clubs last season, how lucrative it will be whilst the club is at such a low ebb is debatable.

Think I’ve said it before, but the club tried to market the orange shirt as our ‘continental style’ new kit. With us being semi-regulars in European football and that cosmopolitan fella Hodgson as manager... I obviously bought it immediately 😁