Mattyblue

Who wanted to manage a club trying to stay out of League 1 with a poor Championship budget in February 2017?

Injures are part of football, and losing your talisman will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the team. However, that’s why you have a squad, and a budget. £12 million on forwards should have given us the depth to cope with his absence, but with that enormous amount of money (for a club like us) wasted, then the buck stops with the manager for the poor form post January.

I thought we were always ‘way down their list of priorities’, if the pandemic has pushed us even further down their list, then god help us next season.

So our minimum amount of ST holders next season will be more than we have now? After a damp squib ending to the campaign, 6 months out of the ground, a small sales window, an ongoing pandemic and a massive recession? Well, it’s a view...

Bravo ?

It’s going to be a bloodbath sales wise. I’ve lost count of the folk I’ve come across in recent months, fans that have spent decades at Ewood, real dye in the wool Blues, that won’t be renewing. The only other time the mood music was similar was the summer of 2012, when Kean was inexplicably kept on and person after person was telling me they wouldn’t be back - and so it proved as our gates halved the following season.

We can’t do anything Chaddy, but as we are in 2020, it still needs to be called out for the ridiculous set up it is and is why we won’t achieve anything under this regime.

My feelings JH. The ‘project’, ‘slow build’ unfortunately goes nowhere in a league as relentless and competitive as the Championship with the added pressure of the FFP sword of damocles over your head. Pragmatists win the day, unless your ‘project’ is a total root and branch ground-breaking one as Brentford’s.

‘It’s their dressing room’

To be fair Mark Robins has resurrected them, two promotions (without a ground). Now that’s management.

Bloody hell Chaddy, players are ‘linked’ through agents leaking stories to the Nixon’s of this world, nothing to do with Stuart Harvey’s spreadsheets...

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.