A net spend isn’t a matter of opinion. Which of our other recent managers have spent more?

The Rao family were responsible for relegation.

‘Close to challenging for a play off place’. Great turn of phrase for mid table

Vinjay? Can you help?

Football at this level cannot be about ‘loyalty’. Can’t afford it. There’s an understanding in football. The players and manager will be off like a shot with a better offer, and by the same premise we expect our players and managers to be replaced by better operatives as they come available/are affordable. The only ‘loyalty’ is to the well-being of the club itself, the powers that be ensuring the best possible side on the pitch. That model has gone awry this past decade, with obvious results.

The ‘other Birdy’ became a Rangers fan (!) and was running a pub in Blackpool before he died. I went in it with Ewood Blues before a Blackpool away game and it was wall to wall Rangers memorabilia, which obviously went down well with the Scottish hordes that come down every summer...

Sounds about right, the original 1875 scheme has been a flop, so may as well platinum coat it.

I know, I suggest he just reads chaddy’s complete reading list before commenting in future.

End of the day if a footballer posts the usual ‘we go again’ after a stinker of a performance they are going to get pelters. Not nice, and of course would anyone say anything to his face? But unfortunately that’s the nature of the beast. It’s a cesspit of cranks and trolls, what does he think will happen? He knew it, but posted the platitude anyway, but he also knew he’d get the ‘I apologise for all the scumbags, love you Benno’, ‘you’ve been a major part of our transformation back into that mid table Championship club we’ve been for a decade’. All a bit of a pathetic spectacle all round, but people need those serotonin inducing ‘likes’... Oh and as for Myers, his ongoing doling out of patronising advice to fans of little old Rovers is wearing very thin.

I know how the club operates, I also know the club is a dysfunctional mess. Perhaps the two are linked?

‘We’d have got top 6 if one of our players wasn’t injured’. Total conjecture that nobody could ever prove. We weren’t close with Dack, we ain’t close now. There’s a chance we could finish 10 points away. We will only slightly improve on last years middling side’s points return (if we do at all). Last season’s side wasn’t a promotion team, the points tally says this one isn’t either, and it is sheer delusion to think otherwise.

You have 92 mates chadster?

Why can’t the Chief Executive let go a subordinate employee? Who sacked managers in the past? John Williams or the Walker Trust? Maybe I answered my own question, who’s subordinate to who in this most odd set-up?

None of this has made sense since day 1. But I’m pretty sure you said the exact same thing two years ago, you certainly did around 2013. No point judging this bizarre lot by most norms of business.

To be fair Mercer you’ve been saying this since the day you joined.

Alas the vast majority haven’t...

Lenihan has a bit of gravitas, presence about him. And some real bravery and aggression. Ideal captain material. Bennett is Jason Lowe without the bleep test records.

25% capacity is just under 8,000 at Ewood, so around our current ST numbers. With a fair few not renewing, we’ll be one of the few clubs that will have no real issue accommodating those that want to go, notwithstanding the need to sort out social distancing within relatively busy areas like the BBEnd lower.

Element of truth in those observations of social media. However, in ‘real life’, at Ewood, TM has always been highly popular, I can only compare the adulation he receives to that of Mark Hughes (!), no one else since Sparky comes close for blind support. It all leaves me a bit bemused, not withstanding the overall decent job he’s done, but shows what ‘success’ can do to the mindset of fans of a much diminished club, even if that success is second in the third division with a Championship budget. But there’s certainly no groundswell of pitch forkers after his head, though it was building in that Barnsley home game. A poor start to next season and that could well change, but Waggott would be well in his rights currently to tell the owners he has the fans onside.

From memory Raya had two years left.

But with letting his contract run down, we’ll get very little for him with only 12 months left.

Is it the second season in a row in which we are the first side to know we will be in the Championship? PROGRESS.

Unfortunately a lot of people have forgotten what good, forensic journalism should be. Remember the grief Sharpe got earlier in the season for a perfectly fair (and mild) critique?

He’s been playing well, still a lot of work to do on end product, but he certainly wasn’t an area of the pitch anybody was worried about. But he’s obviously not the most demonstrative of characters... just imagine how good he could be if he had a manager that believed in him.

As always with Rolo! And he touches on why I just don’t bother getting wound up over managers with this regime. Nobody at the club is striving for it to be the best it can be, so why will anything change? We are a zombie club, from time immemorial we have been run by what I saw as ‘Rovers people’, even if they weren’t local. From John Williams, Jack, of course, and before that decades of the butcher, baker and candle stick makers of east Lancashire. All understood the club, the town, the fanbase (debacles like 1960 aside), making the very best of what we had, even if the club was that skint it had the manager himself fishing balls out of the River Darwen. Yet now, with the richest owners we’ve ever had, I look at it and the club feels something like a forgotten bowling alley franchise, a neglected part of some big corporation’s portfolio left to slowly rot away (quite literally when you look at Ewood). I see no drive, no vision, no passion for Blackburn Rovers. Club management akin to the brewery appointed ‘pub manager’ who ticks things over until he goes somewhere else as punters drift away and the landlord down the road sees his pub boom with his innovations and passion. This pandemic is an existential threat for this club, a club that had already lost half of its match going supporters in recent times is now pretty much the only club in the league going into August with 0 season ticket holders on the back of a poor season end as we enter a once in three centuries recession. We are in a big hole yet who in the club even realises, never mind is going to get us out of it? To paraphrase... ‘I’M committed, but are they?’