Blackburn, Darwen, Accy...

Always been tea cakes here, brain must be playing tricks on you. Ask any owd timer still residing here.

What about the 80 minutes when they had 11 men?

You aren’t a Blackburner then, I take it...

Mowbray - “At the moment we don't get time to do set-pieces really. ” https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/blackburn-rovers-mowbray-williams-championship-19430873.amp

Not in east Lancs, it wouldn’t....

Teacakes, end of discussion.

TM can’t say he’s had a rough ride with fans at all in in his time here. Currently he’s getting some stick (but even that ‘stick’ is often prefixed with “he’s been great for us, but it’s probably time for a change”... not exactly pitchfork stuff), as he would everywhere, that’s football and that’s football fans - he knows that but he’s just not used to it, and so he isn’t taking kindly, as until recently he’s had a very comfortable time with both fans and local media...

As Stuart says, we had this exact thing with Bowyer. Though it was soon ‘Gary who?’ after we won at PNE with Lambert...

And we ‘need something new’ because?

As I’ve said before the lack of fans in grounds is amplifying the always bipolar world of social media, couple that with the trolls purely on the wind up and it’s getting a prominence it doesn’t deserve. We are all talking about idiots on Facebook, Twitter etc far more than we would’ve this time last year. The match day crowd is always the key barometer, patient and pretty fair bunch at Ewood, and when they turn it’s normally a pretty clear sign that a manager has lost his way and it’s time for a change. Alas without them we are all bouncing from game to game getting increasingly wound up.

Because the plans have been published that shows reduced pitches, no floodlights, classrooms etc - putting at risk Cat 1. If you haven’t bothered to look, fair enough, but blind optimism on the word of Steve fecking Waggott?

Still sounds like he’s in fear of his job. You know it’s bad when we start hearing about the hours put in, the kids and missus, how it’s up to the owners, ‘if it doesn’t work, no problem’ etc etc. But it all depends if he’s actually heard he’s vulnerable or he just assumes he is, as he would be everywhere else...

Been very active on the presser re-tweets has Dunn...

Don’t fall for the spin. a) They are not 30 years old, the academy is only 20 for a start. b) We have indoor pitches at Brockhall especially built for winter weather -that TM refused to use, ‘I don’t like artificial surfaces’ (so ripped up Ewood instead)- though nicely builds up a view that Brockhall is an antiquated place that needs modernising, doesn’t it? Come on South, you seem a smart enough fella, wake up a bit and read between the lines in what you are being spun and why.

Because it’s a change for the worse. The Academy and Brockhall generally is certainly not the iceberg that’s melting at BRFC...

Hate change? You’ll find we’d love things to change Southside, as we’ve watched the same shite on and off the pitch for a decade now...

So just so the manager can ‘wander across to a youth team pitch’, we need to; reduce our footprint significantly, knock down the STC, remove pitches, have to build 170 houses, remove the Cat 1 required classrooms and apply once again for already rejected floodlights on the JTC - again risking Cat 1 academy status. Explain to me again how it’s tangibly improving what we already have?

Why is he constantly apologising? What does that do? He doesn’t manage the team, his job is to offer solutions for parts of the enterprise that are failing, a Chief Exec usually has the actual authority to stop the rot, not be a mere hostage to fortune with his hands in the air. Probably a module in his MBA that suggests ‘open and honest communication with customers, take responsibility etc.’ ‘I don’t want to make excuses, but... pitch, Covid, locked training ground, takeaway food, injuries, weather ‘ Best bit, ‘started with great football, the weather was mild, pitches slick’... obviously new to the meteorological phenomenon called ‘seasons’.

He mentioned combining sites ‘like Everton’, ‘a manager being able to walk across to a youth team pitch’ and ‘state of the art’ All it takes, obviously, is a few sentences to get the gullible on board. Obviously negated to say how the footprint of Everton’s Finch Farm is far bigger than the JTC, or how Cat 1 required floodlights have been previously turned down or how there isn’t space for Cat 1 required classrooms, but you know, ‘state of the art’, Waggott said, so let’s get those bulldozers ordered.

He doesn’t seem particularly excited or optimistic about it here either, pretty much asking for the residents, parish council to object and then everybody just moves on and we carry on as we are All very odd...

The only positive was he didn’t sound particularly bullish that it will actually get anywhere...

You get time, freedom from a hands on owner and board, no DofF/Sporting Director to report to and good wages. Attracting managers would not be a problem, who the bloody hell does the recruiting is the issue.

He never refers to the club as ‘we’, always ‘Blackburn’. Very odd for the Chief Exec...

‘Consultations with fans groups are beginning’ Is there a chance that brfcs gets its own session? @Herbie6590 @J*B As I just do not trust that the holding to account Waggott needs will take place with the FF etc, whereas the quality of some of the forensic posts on here has been top notch.