I'm not talking about FFP to be honest arbitro, I keep reading Mowbray has been well backed, every club pays wages, our wage structure comes from years of managed living beyond our means, its not a Mowbray thing at all. We have been under FFP transfer embargo before, 2015 springs to mind, these owners don't have the capacity to learn from past mistakes, thats the real crux of the matter. On transfers, we've spent very little over 5yrs and the money has has spent has been well spent in the main, but its nowhere near enough to get us into the Premiership, thats my main point really.

How much has Mowbray spent in 5yrs on transfer fees Islander? Serious questions. Every post I read of yours perpetuates this theory that he's been well backed, compared to the likes of Barnsley he has yes, Barnsley are a mid table championship club at best like us, but compared to the likes of West Brom, Fulham, Norwich, Leeds, Bournemouth and Brentford the playoff/promotion contenders, he's nowhere near.

Football also existed long before the Premiership. If the club was doing well, Gordon Lee, Jim Smith and Howard Kendall - Don Mackay back end of the 80's, the fans turned up. It had nothing to do with prices and everything to do what was on the pitch. This football club will survive long after these swine's have left, we'll have good times and we'll have bad, but one thing is for certain, if the product on the pitch is worth supporting, the fans will turn up.

As Herbie said yesterday, this is a sticking plaster for a broken leg and the lack of statement points towards it being underhanded in some way, no surprises there. The ground will be sold off next in the name of FFP, after then we have nothing left to sell.....

The highlighted part above isn't true I'm afraid blondie, certainly in Sheffield Wednesdays case they included the sale of the ground in the accounts for 2017/18 where they would have reported a pre-tax loss of £35.4m, following on from deficits of £9.8m and £20.8m in the previous two seasons, when in fact it was sold much later and couldn't be included in 17/18 accounts, cooking the books and incurring a points deduction and league 1 football. As for 90% not returning, history shows us quite clearly that if the product on the pitch is good, the Blackburn public will turn out in numbers, its been that way since 1875 and will continue to be that way forever. You put Blackburn Rovers back in the premiership right now and we'd see a massive spike in numbers coming to games, you take Venkys out of the equation and you'd see even more. History also tells us these owners don't listen to fans, don't listen to footballing authorities or good footballing people and think they're beyond reproach, our situation doesn't improve until they leave the club, that should be the focus for every Blackburn Rovers supporter across the country. Venkys Out.

They actually made a good fist of it in the end, but still lost to the mighty Namibia.

Can you blame the fans for being paranoid after 10yrs of lies, false promises and orchestrated decline? We are not poorly supported in normal times, we had phenomenal support in the Premiership when Venkys arrived and will have again when this lot sod off. Sheff Weds sold Hillsborough to themselves, they ended up with point deductions and league 1 and I’d wager Weds owner could run rings around our 3 stooges shared brain cell.

This board has been drip fed a steady stream of how things are changing for the better behind the scenes, posters have been asked to show patience. If that is the case, why does nobody know what the hell is going on here? Fans are speaking to club are they not? Did the club just forget to mention this little nugget? @1864roverite @Revidge Blue

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48964055 Sheffield Wednesday ended up in league 1 after a points deduction for selling the ground to the owner? sadly he got his accounting periods wrong and points were deducted for breaking FFP. Could be something similar going on here….

Scotland currently 2-3 off 4 balls against Namibia 😂

Good read WIR. This is what some of us have been saying for a while now, the clubs setup to fail and will continue to do so until the owners leave the club, doesn’t matter who the manager is. That said, Mowbray doesn’t have the ability to get this club promoted, nobody does in my opinion, so I have no problems with him being sacked if that’s the road the club wants to go down, until then he’s a safe pair of hands until new owners save us from this nightmare.

Milk turned faster than Ronnie Clayton in the game against Wednesday. Was he coming to the end in 1966 TS?

Another blast from the past, whats going on with the lush Ewood playing surface?

To say I wasn't Allardyce's biggest fan is probably an understatement........but to say the club was in decline after Hughes left is absolute bunkum. As you say toogs, Allardyce had us 10th/11th in the Prem when those muppets in Pune replaced him with that rat, then the decline started!

One for the older Rovers fans - Stoke City v Blackburn Rovers FA Cup 1961-2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozjp18be1us

I remember that skip SG, they dumped loads of copies, probably where it belong to be honest.

I'm with TS on this ojf, those Aussie bowlers will rip through our top order in no time, in nick or not. I hope I'm wrong, I'd have put my house on India beat Pakistan yesterday, so it has been know 😃

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I read it on here bluebruce during the transfer saga/thread, but nobody really knows.

The original point I made was Mowbray bought Armstrong for £2m and sold him for close to £20 million, which by anyone’s standards is a great bit of business regardless of the sell on fee.

I couldn't agree more with your first paragraph islander, spot on. I don't agree he's been backed enough to make a difference, he's certainly been backed more than some in this league yes, but the money invested isn't going to knock the likes of Norwich, West Brom, Fulham, Bournemouth, Brentford and Leeds from the promotion places over recent seasons in my opinion.

‘He’s’ not behind Mowbray….and make no mistake, he despises the owners with a passion. That doesn’t stop him pointing out that not everything TM does is bad, despite what the blinkered would have us to believe.

We bought Armstrong for £2m and sold for around £20m, I’m not interested in net. That’s a tremendous bit of business. Diaz and Gallagher have a long way to go, but if they keep up the current scoring rate they’ll be worth far more than we paid for them, IF. Kaminsky is a star in the making, he’ll be a £10m keeper. Dack was a £10-15m player before injury, great bit of business, you can’t blame Mowbray for his injuries. £50m is probably on the low side. Ps - He still needs sacking 👍

Spot on. Now that Diaz and Gallagher are starting to fire, players wages are the new stick to beat Mowbray with....😃 Dack (when fit), Gallagher, Diaz, Armstrong and Kaminsky are looking like being good bits of business, on todays market probably worth £50m+ would you say? 1 point off the playoffs and assets like these, no wonder he's being kept around.