He can only truly (& fairly) be judged after a proper pre-season…we’ve picked him out of necessity & the poor bloke is carrying the weight of our hopes.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-rovers-and-the-potters/117

Yes…👍🏻

It’s why I make a beeline to your charts..😁 Loads of things colour your judgement - watching from behind a goal (not halfway, on high per TV), recency bias (last 15 more memorable than 1st 15), halo effect of a win (forget poor play)…or horn effect of a defeat & so on… My overwhelming view was that we were running on empty (not entirely surprisingly) & the basics eluded us & as such finding a hero to laud was difficult. Your charts provide intriguing insight 👍🏻

On the way home, the four of us in the car discussed MOTM & how difficult it was to land on someone who had been vaguely competent. I was waiting for this analysis with bated breath and fully expected a top score of about 6 being awarded… Lenihan’s score is really surprising but it serves to show that in the fog of battle it’s possible to miss significant contributions. interesting to see how it compares to this… https://brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/717294/peterborough-blackburn?tab=voting

Rovers “entertain” the Potters at Ewood…please feel free to add observations, thoughts & predictions here…

Northampton…surely nailed on to go back to Watford 🤔

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/if-i-hadn't-seen-such-riches.../225

Check this site out... https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/by-w-h-talbot-archivepopperfoto

It's November 1989. Middlesbrough visit Ewood without an away win all season. Rovers are unbeaten at home. Middlesbrough are playing a centre back up front who only ever scored 16 goals in over 200 games in the league for Boro. Tony Mowbray is in the Middlesbrough defence. Strap yourselves in...

The evidence of my eyes borne out with Pickering & Rothwell…didn’t think Wharton had had such a poor game…

I don’t get that the need to chase sponsorship precludes it from also being dedicated to Tony. The Tony Parkes Riverside supported by BigCo Ltd. Any sponsor associating themselves with TP will benefit from the link IMO.

It did for me TBH…the final insult…

Interest payable isn’t the issue…

@RoverCanada No major surprises...we knew what they were doing to address Covid & they duly did it. The key for me is the revenue. Unless & until we can grow that we are pushing water uphill...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1511593262636752897.html

It’s rapidly reaching the point where nothing but consecutive victories will suffice if the play-off dream is to sustain… Blackpool up next in one of those old-fashioned Lancashire derbies the used to feature on Granada…like this one in 1978 https://pyroonthepitch.com/2018/02/28/people-on-the-pitch-5-blackpool-v-blackburn-rovers-football-league-division-two-04-02-1978/ A reversal of that scoreline would do nicely…

https://www.prestigevenuesandevents.sodexo.com/venues/blackburn-rovers-football-club https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/june/rovers-link-up-with-sodexo

The staff will be all those on the BRFC payroll. So if any service is outsourced (e.g. catering to Sodexo) they won’t be included. Re-playing staff - we have two full squads beside the seniors… So that will multiply the numbers of support staff I guess - coaching, medical, scouting, admin, welfare, educational….🤷‍♂️

It times out…but links to this companies_house_document.pdf

Well the directors are paid c.£0.5m so I think it’s safe to say the 1st team wage bill accounts for more than £10m…or the folks in the ticket office are on £10k per week…😉

The wage bill isn’t £10m…

Well BRFC has to see *some* cash....from somewhere...cash comes from 3 sources; shares, loans or trading. BRFC needs cash from somewhere to pay the bills. Trading doesn't generate enough. Currently, Venky's make up the shortfall in working capital. How they do it is accounting detail (loans, share issue...etc). When they stop providing the cash that plugs the gap, the lights go out. Leasing is an additional revenue burden on the club, far from ideal. What happens after a sale ? Well, that depends - a bit like when you buy & house & negotiate on the fixtures & fittings. "How much rent for us to continue to use the STC then ?" What happens after an administration ? Assuming only BRFC is placed in admin, the STC would not be included. If someone buys BRFC from the admin, the purchaser would have to separately negotiate the rent on the STC if they wanted continued use, far from ideal.

Less than ideal but in reality, it makes little practical difference. If the STC was owned by BRFC it could have been sold at any time…