‘Err think you’ll find he lived on the Wirral for 10 years so he’s English’

‘Best sales ever’ wasn’t it a month ago? Anybody would have thought it was just because the core were buying quick before a price hike four weeks later.

We did, shows how supine the LT has become this past decade, I suppose it’s understandable when you realise it’s entire business model now relies on Rovers online clicks (and ergo club access) but it also means there will be very little, you know, journalism.

Ownership, court cases, exec issues etc etc mean very little and go over the head of most match goers - we’ll only get dissent in the ground if results are poor… but as this window will lead to results being poor we’ll get dissent in the ground.

Lads behind me were smoking some *enormous* joints… from memory they didn’t offer them around which I thought was a poor do 😅

Yep, when faced with reality all they have left is to belittle folk and respond with ‘err, well, it’s only a game’.

Who knows folk may be slightly different in real life then what they post on a football message board.

Using the Euros as an example it had 8 teams in it until ‘96, then 16 until 2016. Now it has 24 teams (24 from just one continent) with some third place teams reaching the knock outs. Obviously you can only beat what’s put in front of you and generally I think GS has done a pretty good job, no doubt he’s transformed a piss poor culture around the England team. But that KO stat is a bit disingenuous, as merely qualifying, then getting out of the group and then ultimately winning KO games in earlier decades was much tougher.

If you were born in the early 80s, an odd season aside Rovers teams had been anything but ‘shit’ until this lot turned up (and it certainly wasn’t a shit club until 2010)

What positives are you seeing on the transfer front?

‘Adjourned to [enter day here] of [enter month here] 2025. Next.’

I see, but others having opinions about the managed decline is whinging, fair enough.

So what’s saying your club is ‘in managed decline’ if not a whinge?

I went on all four trips, Salzburg, Feyernoord, Krakow and Leverkusen. Just fantastic memories, especially when we were no longer a club with particularly large resources by 06/07, just a superbly run football club, I rue the day the Walkers sold us down the river.

Like that Big Sam line, ‘but the fans say you don’t understand the West Ham way!’ ’What’s that then? Not winning?’

When even Mani changed tack to say the club is now in ‘managed decline’, then I knew we were going down the plughole

May be wrong but it feels to me that the English playing pool is getting bigger again and we are seeing players coming through with improved techniques than in previous decades, but the manager pool looks very weak.

Sure O2G said it’s been moved. End of the day that forum will never take the club to task, not particularly a criticism but it was a group set up in the good old days by John Williams to discuss pies and the range of branded glassware in the club shop and the like as he serenely ran the club, it was never meant to drag execs over the coals. Whereas the twice yearly supporters consultation meetings (quietly dropped during Covid) and it’s ‘critical friend’ very much should be doing as we fall into an existential crisis … as should the local media.

Yep, some folk still seem to struggle to understand that a football club isn’t just the individuals that happen to own it/work for it at the present time. It’s that famous Bobby Robson quote. We, the fans are the only constants and we have a right to demand better and to call out these completely inappropriate people that have somehow got hold of/earn actual money by running (into the ground) Blackburn Rovers.

Guehi is Ivorian, he was born in Abidjan.

Exactly, clubs that are hell bent on promotion strengthen for the run in, indeed we did in 1992 and 2001, obviously no chance of that with Venky Rovers (of course we should’ve signed x, y and z - guess what? We didn’t) and we of course fell away.

Stayed out of this thread for a while, come back to see that … folk still don’t understand the concept of luck/chance. Never change brfcs 😅

Yep, a lot of fans aren’t interested in the off field stuff in isolation, it’s only when what they see on the pitch is suffering as a result is when they wake up, it’s why Ewood protests/chants etc in any decent number happen spontaneously (obviously plenty of others think you should just ‘get behind ‘em FFS).

I’ve been a member since day dot and I fully appreciate the balancing act. Indeed I think the marketing prospectus put together last year was excellent as was the Watford game. However, those are initiatives for gentler times, for a club that is listing a bit and just needs a push in the right direction, the ‘critical friend’. Yet as we sit here in July 2024 surely this club has gone beyond that, we look to be at the precipice of a collapse down the divisions, indeed if we can continue to trade at all - so where does the WATR board draw the line with tinkering at the edges and a campaign more akin to SOS can begin?

Comp ticket for the posh seats in hand, the life of the corporate grifter.