He only gets listed as a member on the minutes from October’s meeting onwards.

Since October by the looks of it.

With the rumours on the transfer topic, thought I’d resurrect the thread I started less than 6 months ago. There was a consensus that we’d only won the opening battle, though I’m sure we all didn’t expect it to rear its head this quickly (less than 4 months ago the plan was ‘withdrawn’). They should all hang said heads in shame, absolute disgrace.

So why does anybody ever make what is on paper a ‘sideways move’ then? Because there’s more to a job than just a title. You move for a better set up, more ambitious organisation, better working conditions, maybe more money, better pension, better bonuses, more job security. A million reasons.

Maybe, but it will all be a bit late for the penny to drop with third division football, 5,000 crowds, a team of kids and Brockhall gone. (Though I still expect ‘the fans’ to get most of the blame for ‘not getting behind the club’)

Yet, if you take a straw poll at Ewood on Saturday, I’d wager you’d find the owners have never been as popular. They’ll complete their 10 year wrecking job with fans eating out of their hands.

I made a vow to not watch or listen to anything related to the abomination that is ‘The Hundred’ and it has helped my rage levels immensely. By the same token I’ve not read or watched/listened to anything coming out of the mouth of this fella all pre season, here’s hoping I can keep it up until he finally departs.

It’s looking ominous. The fact when it was brought up in the Fans Forum, the response was just ‘no update’. No commitment to the site as it stands or a mea culpa of any sort.

I’d say it’s deeper than that. I’ll use my dad as an example, he’s always been a glass half empty type, saw Venky’s as an existential threat almost straight away. I can remember him post that West Ham game at Ewood in the snow very early on under Kean saying the ‘club is in danger here’. Walking up Bolton Road after Wigan saying ‘I’ll never see us in the PL again’. Post Brentford, ‘there won’t be a Rovers in a decade’s time’ So, you’d imagine such a fella would be aghast with what’s happened over the past couple of years? Not a bit of it, now he seems to just accepted that we are now a non event of a football club, he had a go at the fans for not buying STs, he won’t have a word said against Mowbray. He’s not alone, most of my away match crew are of the same mind. These owners have done far more harm than just driving thousands away, they’ve lowered expectations and standards across the board - and it’s why Brockhall will eventually be flogged off with minimal protest.

Without doubt Mark. For a club with our catchment area and rapidly changing demographics in the town we just couldn’t afford a decade like this. We’ll never get back to where we were in the late 2000s. They’ve wrecked the fanbase beyond repair.

That message from ‘Dack’ via email is so shoddy. Even the ‘handwriting style’ font can’t save it. Rushed out in panic with a week to go, shades of ‘the £10k raffle’. Such an embarrassingly poor operation down there these days.

Thought we were on ‘a journey’, ‘a slow build’, ‘the owners had to be told to slow down’ ?

‘Supporters need to welcome back The Venkeys’ Hmmm, I’m sensing a bit of WUM-ery here.

So is that fewer sold than Burnley, PNE, Blackpool, Bolton, Wigan and just a couple of thousand more than the mighty Accy and Morecambe? A disastrous decade nearly summed up.

IMO, the adverts on the forum are now less invasive, as they are stacked at the bottom of the page instead of those pop ups (seems to be less of those?).

‘Much screen-grabbed forum’.

‘Much-loved forum’ 😅

According to Birdy it’s re-opening in September.

Bit like when folk try and claim Stanley (third team to come out of Accrington as late as 1968) as being ‘Founder Members’

Unfair to who? Waggott? Well boo bloody hoo.

It’s a politicians answer. Kick the can down the road and everything that is to be ‘looked into’ will be forgotten by the next meeting as there will be a new agenda with the season underway. Just a sham of a ‘forum’.

Sure I read STs were late on sale and/or well down in numbers sold? Ergo, like us, ST sales drop, so do crowds.

Always nice to see new contributors. 😁

Ok, still, a bit ‘negative’, of you, no?

Weren’t you on the Mowbray thread the other day calling the set up ‘gutless and embarrassing’ ?