Mattyblue

Four years? Try twelve. Yet, there were those on here, who frankly, should know much better trying to make out that things were changing for the better at the club. Nothing will, or can, change when owned by a far away family that have zero interest themselves, yet still don’t empower (or employ competent) people on the ground. Completely dysfunctional and success will not and cannot occur with such a set up.

We heard all this about TM being on the way out last season. Though of course, he now actually has to sign a new offered deal instead of the owners shrugging their shoulders and letting him crack on for another 12 months. But until I see the infamous corner flag tweet, I’ll be remaining dubious of such gossip.

Unlikely, they don’t have any.

Oh I agree with you, difference being we never made out that we were some Uber-passionate unique fanbase back in the 2000s, they certainly always did and would prove it if they ever became the big boys in east Lancs…

The novelty has worn off for the fans of a small PL club to go away from home in big numbers year after year… though, of course, when we took followings in the hundreds to some PL games it was because of our ‘pathetic support’ and ‘lack of passion’ (unlike them, obviously).

I would wager the percentage of Rovers ST holders with a Blackburn postcode is far, far lower than it was 25 years ago, yet we do far, far less engagement outside that area than we did back then, go figure.

I’m all for ticket deals, as I’m sure you lot are all aware of! However, £15 or £25 won’t make a massive difference when on such a horrendous run. And we’ll see evidence of that with a pitiful take up of £10 tickets in a couple of weeks if we’ve mathematically fallen away by then…

I sit in NO1, and a lot of fans in that section don’t stand, so I can imagine there would be a lot of annoyance if they suddenly turned it into a standing area, though fan feeling didn’t stop them when it came to shutting down parts of the ground. …all moot this discussion anyway as there’s not a chance the club will invest in it anytime soon.

To be fair, there aren’t many leggies that don’t offer up a fair few boundary balls, you won’t get the control that an off break bowler will generally provide…

Of course there’s a market for a hotel just off the M65, as the proliferation of them over the last few years makes clear. As Chaddy personally wouldn’t stay in a hotel around here, because it’s obviously where he already resides, he, as usual, struggles to realise others will…

Dyche was actually not one of the worst paid, his last deal had him up with the top half of earners as they realised he was the only thing keeping them on the gravy train…

End of the day Lambert didn’t work out, but that’s football, however his appointment, his staff, all pointed to a club and owners finally getting a grip, we seemed fairly normal again… they then brought in Coyle.

Have to agree 1864, if he wants to stay, he’ll stay, is the way it looks to me…

8-10 signings needed? Sounds like the club is in a bit of a mess…

Is it obvious? His apathetic demeanour is no different than last season… but of course a month left on his contract is the big difference.

Presumably because the document to sign it off, sent by fax (or telegram or carrier pigeon?), hasn’t yet been in Venky Towers…

My WhatsApp Rovers group that is staunchly pro-TM certainly wasn’t last night… though it was the same in the horror run last season and they all did a reverse ferret over the summer….

Typical Rovers to finally get STs on sale pre the close season… but in the midst of the most consequential prolonged on pitch collapse in decades. Roll up, roll up…

They’ll have played two of their fast running out games by Thursday night, crackers to sack someone of Dyche’s stature (who had just beaten their biggest relegation rival, by the way, and have a fair few winnable home games coming up) if there was nobody being parachuted straight in and you are relying on youth coaches short term…

Definitely right, the club realised that he was the whole reason they were on the gravy train and paid him accordingly, he received a cut of player sales too, I believe…

If he does stay, and there’s nothing in his comments that strikes me as any different than his usual late season shoulder shrugging, then it’s obviously not ‘certain’ we go down next season. Yes, some fairly average and not arsed players will go, but some loans will come in and back to the usual grind we go. Every chance of more of the same form, I.e pattern of decent runs and disastrous death spirals, but probably without the bizarre November/December surge, so we’ll be more like 2020/21 and fall from 7th to 18th instead of 2nd to 10th. If he was under contract for next season, he’d be here in August, regardless of results, simple as that - the complicating factor is the fact his deal is about to expire, but I still foresee a rolling contract of sorts being signed.

‘Dyche, whose £7 million-a-season contract with Burnley was due to run until 2025, was the Premier League’s longest-serving manager. The assistant manager Ian Woan, the first-team coach Steve Stone and the goalkeeping coach Billy Mercer have also left.’ Well there’s a big chunk of the first year of parachutes accounted for.

Numerous posts putting Kean, yes *Ke*n*(!) above the present incumbent, you know the scumbag that played a major role in destroying this football club, and even now we are still seeing the rubble of his nefarious period at the club… think it’s time for bed for a few on here.

Low blow? Behave 😄 He obviously wasn’t a well known manager generally, I mean if you asked a PL fan this time last year it would’ve been ‘Steve Who?’ But at this level? Of course it would’ve been a progressive move if he’d have arrived here, but of course, we just limped on…