2 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Where has this come from ? If we lose him like Phillips, actually in worse circumstances, it needs to be looked at by the authorities as the whole situation is stacked against clubs trying to do the right thing in academy football.

I'm pretty sure something went to vote for the whole of the EFL about compensation being reduced a few years ago. Most clubs in the EFL don't have CAT 1 academies so jumped at a "cash now bonus". Clubs like us are being strung up by the gonads due to it. The caveats being placed on the EFL clubs for the solidarity payments is beyond a joke.

6 minutes ago, Tom said:

Abject failure this year for him rewarded with that, bonkers.

Wonder who Burnley will go for now, they’ve annoyingly got more right that wrong in the last few manager changes, is Brian Laws still available?

Bayern must have really enjoyed the documentary of the championship season, this season was a calamity.

13 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Not really, it's more the fact he's one of the worst strikers ever to pull on the blue and white halves.

The decision to turn down £2m from Ipswich for him and now trigger his contract extension must rank amongst the very worst decisions Venkys have made.

Unless of course we've only done the latter to claw some money back on him. I doubt we'll be so lucky though. You can't succeed carrying passengers like Gallagher. If that's not obvious to the powers that be by now it never will be. It's as if they do these things to deliberately spite us.

I don't rate Gallagher at all and wouldn't have renewed his contract but can we park this "should have sold to Ipswich" stuff. We literally finished a huge chunk of the season with him as our only striker.

We sold a player for £20m and invested zero back into the team, I have no confidence Gallagher's exit would have benefitted the team in any way whatsoever.

Gallagher's January exit would have just gone into the bills jar.

7 minutes ago, arbitro said:

He thanks lots of people but omits the likes of Waggott, Suhail and the owners. To me that speaks volumes and indicates who the real problems at the club are.

I thought exactly the same, as we all very much know. The nameless are the stumbling blocks to our growth.

To be honest whilst Venkys remain, Broughton, Waggott, et al are just distractions to the core of the problem. 

15 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

It’s not entirely true that he doesn’t care, in fact he’s mentioned the additional income at the Newcastle game quite often. When I heard the average spend per head it seemed quite low to me (I can’t remember the exact figure off the top of my head). We’d no doubt do better if we got people in Ewood at half one instead of ten to three, and of course got more fans through the gates.

Most clubs now outsource it. Some of the other clubs with Sodexo are PNE, Wigan, Newcastle, Brighton, Fulham and Celtic. While you lose a percentage of the revenue, you save on the cost. 

Thanks for the info Miller, I appreciate it. This may seem like a low ball question, but do you think Steve Waggott is doing a reasonable job?

I'm not asking to trip you up, but I ultimately feel Steve Waggotts targets come ahead of the benefits to the team. Season tickets being the main one, him losing a few hundred grand off his target but gaining 3000/5000 fans would be better for the team but ultimately I get the feeling he would prefer the cash to hit his own numbers?

Their season literally couldn't have gone any better in my eyes.

The hope at the start, then they got smashed all over. Brilliant. 

They spent a fortune, yet finished the season with literally no player standing out, or gaining value. Brilliant.

Kompany getting humbled. Brilliant!

Their fans pretending they prefer to be in the Championship "for the derbies". Brilliant.

Alan Pace wondering how the hell he going to refinance the club. Brilliant!!!!

16 minutes ago, RV Blue said:

We need some serious pace. 5 or 6 players who can actually run, I wouldn’t sign any that can’t.

Completely agree, unless Sammie got the wrong side of the defence I don't think we broke on any team after Hedges got injured. It's quite frightening that Hedges is about the only player who can travel with the ball.

I do like the under the cosh stuff, but sometimes find Chris Brown gets a bit anti Rovers fans due to him being absolutely shite when he played here. In the Tim Sherwood interview, he mentions that Rovers fans still have expectations of being Premier League Champions. I always find that a huge insult.

BRFCS whip around for a Sammie statue?? 

Sammie you legend!!!

It's all on us now, Norwich ain't doing us a favour watching them pass it around the back.

FFS

Duffy playing for Norwich FFS

I assumed this would be on the red button, am I wrong?

6 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers have said the case in the Indian court will not effect the Rovers summer transfer business we are told. Lets see what happens in the summer

It affected the January window, the court case still hasn't been heard but it won't affect the summer window. Something doesn't seem to ring true, surely you must see that.

2 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

Recent Income
Phillips - £2m
Kaminski - £2.5m
A. Wharton - £18m

Summer Income
Szmodics - £10m (almost certain to go, price a rough guess)
Raya (sell-on) - £4m

In total, that right there would be just over £36m from selling assets since last summer... THIRTY-SIX-MILLION-POUNDS.

As a result of the above sales, our team is absolutely dogshit and currently on the brink of relegation.

If we don't reinvest at the very least 25% of that income into the playing squad, then i'll honestly give up. I won't buy my family season tickets as planned, and won't set foot in Ewood again until they're all gone.

This is a very similar thought of me and my family too. There is absolutely no point in carrying on if we are not going to reinvest at least 25% of sales back into the playing squad. At most clubs the sale of your top assets is a blow, but creates some excitement with the possibilities of who will be coming in and what direction we will go. Selling top assets to pay bills is suicide, we after the names above have gone, we have no assets of value left.

40 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I haven't mentioned Waggott once in my post Abbey. 

of course the Sheffield Wednesday player would say that, 

So if it affect them yesterday then how do you explaining winning at Leeds in front of 37k fans or Sunderland then if they aren't play in front of 7k sheff wed fans FFS? 

I've seen numerous people state the games we won at places with big attendances, so I'm not digging you out here Chaddy.

The games you and others mentioned are games we didn't fall behind in. We have a weak underbelly, you are loyal to the core and I commend that but its a fact even the most diehard fan has to accept we often collapse when behind. With this weakness in mind, giving the opposition a lift (note I'm not saying the bigger crowd was detrimental to our players) by having a huge following in what was always going to be a close game was a terrible idea.  

I just read Rich Sharpe's article, 18 points from the last 19 games is our home record. That is absolutely abhorrent!! The sweethearts must really dislike being challenged by the crowd.

10 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Please don’t shout at the players! It upsets them, especially the captain.

It's a built in behaviour with these players. I've lost count of how many pre match press conferences I've heard whilst under Eustace, when the players come out with this bile about the fans needing to back them.

It's actually offensive, as I genuinely believe the players are well backed in relation to have much shite the fans have to chomp on regarding the running of the club. It's an easy excuse, a cowardly excuse.

9 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I've just seen the goals on tv and I'm staggered that Pears tries to blame Hyam for his aberration for the third goal. He is compounding his embarrassment. And for their second Brittain looks like he is towing a caravan trying to keep up with the Wednesday full back who scored. Under normal circumstances there would be wholesale changes for the Coventry game but I'm beginning to fear that Eustace isn't comfortable making big decisions that might upset players. His all too cosying up to the players just doesn't sit right with me. 

I thought he shanked the ball in for the third. Watching it back on the reply I realised he actually knee'd it in when turning around, then half arsed went after it. Awful!

This group cannot handle pressure. Simply they cannot handle the pressure of being behind. The current and previous manager have been categorically unable to turn games around. 

Recently we played very well against Leeds and Southampton, we never went behind. Equally we were absolutely atrocious against Sheff Wed and Bristol City, both teams that are equal if not of a lower standard but could find no way to turn up. Very, very worrying.

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

as GB said in his interview that there is a contract offer on the table for Dolan to re-sign here. Dolan has been waiting to see what division we would be in before committed his future here but I expect he will re-sign here

I know what has been said, my point is he knew very well what division we would be in last July when the talks started. He may well sign, I hope he does but it has taken a very long time.