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Up in the Lake District. Our lad says Rovers are two up. For a millisecond we were elated, then both said, but you know what that means. Got 2-2 written all over it. In the car when Preston pulled one back, we said Preston have more than enough time to win it 3-2. We all know there’s no plan b. We can’t defend for feckin toffee. All an opposition manager needs to say against us is, keep at ‘em for ninety minutes and they’ll cave in. Time for change.
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Rovers win the Premier League and we’ve bought it. Man City, Chelsea, United etc win the PL and they’ve won it. They’ve never spent money on a new player. Never. Ever. I worked in both Preston and Chorley pre the Walker years and always came across Rovers fans that lived over that way. I used to drive in to Preston via Walton-Le-Dale and remember kids going into a school there wearing Rovers scarves. It just happens. Conversely, there are more Burnley fans in areas like Ossy, Rishton and Clayton-Le-Moors than there should be given those towns’ proximity to Blackburn. It just happens. There’s no particular reason for it. Preston fans just can’t get over it. Preston’s last home game versus Barnsley, their highest league position for years and years and they can barely pull in 12k. Their fans need to get real, get down to Dumpdale, make their way to the club’s trophy cabinet and have a sken at their four (yes four) major trophies. Big. City. Club.
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Blackpool FC - 1 Major Preston North End - 4 Majors Burnley FC - 3 Majors Bolton Wanderers - 4 Majors Blackburn Rovers - 10 (ten) Majors That’s all you need to know
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Nottingham Forest Home
Claytons Left Boot replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Oh, very nice. I’ve been trying for my licence for a few years but seem to have trouble getting the joystick to go all the way back. Salmesbury won’t know what’s hit them when I eventually get it. -
Ben Brereton Diaz
Claytons Left Boot replied to Stuart's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I’ve always defended Super Atko. He was one of our most under rated players for many a year and was instrumental in our winning at Wembley against Leicester on that blistering hot day. I’d like to see his mileage figures against those of other players in that game. What’s more he had the intelligence to choose Darwen as a home instead of those tips you call the Ribble Valley and Formby. Top man. -
I think the current badge is superb and one of the best in the entire four divisions. It has everything you would want - our name, year of formation, Latin motto and the red rose of Lancashire. Tweaking it a little with the blue and white halved background would be good and, as EiT says, perhaps changing the yellow lettering and also changing the shade of blue to royal blue on the circular part of the badge. A very marginal update, for me.
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No, but it’s what should happen. Our own fans hadn’t the balls to get on the pitch during the Venky’s saga, so to ask any to do it for Bury, is way out of the question. Just seen on the BBC website that the Football Supporters’ Association have asked fans at this week’s matches for a minutes applause on the 27th minute. Bury were expelled on the 27th August and they’re the first team for 27 years to lose their league status. Words fail me.
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Signed and shared on Facebook. I’ve a feeling this will grow and grow. Marches, demonstrations, strike action, pitch invasions should be the order of the day. A bit of solidarity to show the EFL that they can’t treat ‘smaller’ clubs in this way. Wan*ers.
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If they don’t reconsider and revoke, I would be inclined to get a legal team together to sue the incompetent bar stuards at the EFL seeing as they should have carried out a Fit and a Proper test in the first place. They kept allowing extensions in Bolton’s case but seemed like they wanted to simply stick the boot into Bury. May be a show of solidarity by football fans from up and down the country to support Bury’s position. Marches and demonstrations etc. Even if it takes a couple of months for a potential takeover to be approved and go through, they could simply be relegated to League 3 and go again next season, rather than have their registration withdrawn. All seems rather sudden when they are trying their hardest for the situation to be resolved. A hundred and thirty odd years of history being brushed under the carpet.
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Simple answer is no. However, the council could be savvy here. Rather than stumping up the amount in full, in practice they could effectively borrow the money from the government at low interest rates and then tailor their lease with Bury FC accordingly. One payment in, one payment out. No real need to increase council tax. That’s rather simplistic, I know but Leeds and their council managed it. It surely wouldn’t work if Bury were to definitely lose their league status as they then wouldn’t be able to fund such a scheme. However, if they were to successfully appeal the EFL’s decision and win, who knows?
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It was mentioned on here earlier today that there is a covenant on the Gigg Lane site that it has to be used for sports purposes, so that would rule out a sale to a housing developer. Could the council not take over the debt, have ownership of the stadium transferred to it and then lease it back to the club? Obviously, C & N (or some other buyer) could then step in with a completely clean slate. The lease back arrangement happened with Leeds and Elland Road a few years back.
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This. To get back to the Premier League, you need a plan. You need a figurehead as a Manager, a first rate Chief Executive and a proper ‘behind the scenes’ structure. You need to start buying considerably better players than you currently have. If you can’t do that through normal revenues, you have to inject further cash. We have none of this and, as you quite rightly say, they have no idea what to do and don’t seem to be particularly interested. Very sad day indeed for Bury and football in general.
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The biggest cost to any business is it’s staff. In footballs’ case, the players. At the last company I worked for, wages were around 20% of turnover and we were a realatively small but well run, profitable business. Looking at 2018 figure work for the PL clubs, that percentage ranged from around 50% to 80%. Rewind a few years before the ‘mega’ tv deals came in and those percentages would have been even higher. There has been a knock on effect to the rest of the leagues and an unfair distribution of tv monies plus stupidly high wages has put a strain on most clubs’ finances. It’s not hard to see why Bury have suffered more than most. Unfashionable, northern club from a small town with gates of around 5k on a good day. Behind the scenes, run by total shysters who have mortgaged the ground at interest rates of 138% and appear to have been bleeding the club dry. The EFL, who should have been there to protect this sort of thing have done sweet FA, if you’ll pardon the pun.
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It’s not a case of what I want to hear, I’m simply trying to work out what you’re trying to say lol. I understand your comments re the countdown clocks at Sky. I too think they’re deplorable. You said earlier, “what they should do at Bolton/Bury is go after those figures who the media eulogise and don’t deserve any of it. Get revenge that way.” What exactly do you mean here, in plain English?
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Sheffield united away- League cup
Claytons Left Boot replied to Bigdoggsteel's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
With the exception of Graham and Downing, who I would have on the bench to bring on if required, I would start with our strongest eleven. We’re a mid table team who will finish in mid table. We need something to cheer about and two good cup runs this year would do just that. -
The fit and proper test is all well and good (if implemented) but isn’t fool proof. Take the Leeds example from 20 years ago. There wasn’t a fit and proper test then because it was introduced in 2004. Ridsdale was a relatively successful local businessman and Leeds supporter, if I remember correctly and, safe to say, he and his fellow directors would have passed any test. They were a Premier League club, rolling along nicely and had won the old First Division in 1992. Fast forward to 1999 and they then get delusions of grandeur and start on a borrowing campaign, away from the mainstream banks, to attempt to bring them further success. Interest rates, dodgy types of borrowing (see my previous post) finally bring them to their knees, they suffer relegation and have the ownership of Elland Road transferred to the local council before being leased back to the club. In situations like this and, in any other form of business away from football, you wouldn’t expect a third party organisation (in this case the PL) to continually have to monitor how a club is being run and in particular keep looking at its level of debt. In the majority of cases, football clubs are being run by honest, hard working, respectable enough individuals and you have just got to let them get on with it. As we all know though, at the top end, where the real money is made, there are always unscrupulous individuals wanting to take advantage and get their snouts in the trough and they’ll attempt to get there by any means they can.
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Thanks for that. I sort of proof read the David Conn article previously but have now read it in more detail. Yes, the interest rates etc are staggering. Makes Leeds’ horrendous borrowings of two decades ago seem simplistic in comparison! Both Day and Dale should be running some dodgy, back street second hand car business. That’s about their limit.
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What do you mean by this Phil? Most clubs’ bankers will have taken a fixed charge over the land and buildings at and around the stadia, usually in the form of a mortgage debenture. Do you mean the amount of the mortgage in pounds, shillings and pence or are there complications with that particular mortgage?