Nothing worse than a shite game of attritional football and then not even getting the point.

Fair play if that’s a case.

What the hell has he got on his head?

Ta. I think Mowbray has him doing that long before coronavirus though.

Has Dolan been told to not beat the last man anymore? What happened to Rothwell, is he injured?

Much better cut out of Jack next to a happy Bala. COYB

They backed Kean AGAINST the fans, and took away our top flight status and our pride while we watched our arch rivals take our place. We are now in nearly £200m of debt and utterly reliant on them. The only people who are happy with Venkys are either under 25 or live at the cobbled end of the M65. They need to take us back to PL midtable to break even and before we start talking about a clean slate.

If we don’t sell anyone (Fisher aside) then that’s a pretty Carlsberg window.

I’m not sure he’s done a lot wrong. The turnover in our goalkeeping department is quite high lately. Benson continues unaffected. Bit of a theme at the club really.

That’s a big contract. Must be on low wages.

Your attitude towards other people’s opinions sticks.

It’s a valid point. Mowbray has always faired best when he has had fewer options. With so many options now at Tombola Tony’s disposal we need to break the mould and operate a squad rotation policy that generates momentum. Can’t argue with his choices, Venkys have backed him once again. He now has to deliver. All in all a very good window. The irony being that nobody is there to see it.

Football in 2020 summed up in four words. (And this is during a pandemic!)

Having to put their hand in their pocket to cover a failed season ticket strategy (rolled up into CV-19 and ‘the fans’). This must be the worst CEO-to-fan relationship we’ve had in a long time. You cannot demand loyalty, it has to be earned and rewarded. Heads should roll and people shouldn’t be surprised. It would happen at any other club. Yet fans (and there is already a post about this in a Facebook group) are eulogising about our benefactors. If these people really believed that and weren’t playing superfans they should be saying that Venkys are STILL being taken for a ride. As it is, they only have themselves to blame for the entire situation. Lest we all forget, there is a theme of the type of person Venkys like to have around. ‘Nice men’ who ‘toe the line’.

If Mowbray buys Pears now, it will cement the fact that his recruitment is random rather than shrewd. We need a left back. Hopefully we will get some further update from the Oracle (Nixon) about how things have ‘moved on’.

“Yes, it looks like shit and it reflects badly on the club because of its location but it’s not our problem”. Nice one Gary. It makes no difference whose land it is, for the pittance it would cost to remove it should just be taken care of. Everything... and I mean everything... under this lot is about cost and not about attracting new business. If this were a community club, without rich owners, fans would rally round and help. But with an attitude from the club like this and no inclination to work with fans other than guilt, who would we be doing it for? In any case, they’d probably clamp the people doing it once they’ve parked up. Get it cleaned and add the tiny sum to the bill for Venkys to make up. Even a corner shop owner with any pride would sweep the public footpath on their doorstep.

Well it’s definitely not the money. Chaddy is throwing around £6 notes like they are going out of fashion.

Sounds like Project The-Good-Old-Days.

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You think cancelling Sky Sports is crazy? Sky Sports allowed me to pause while there was zero live sport being shown worldwide. How very decent of them. Aren’t you the bloke who said they’d pay £100 for a match ticket if that was the price? Given the restrictions, the nose-thumbing price hike and not even being able to go, no, I haven’t renewed. My renewal very much depends on what Waggott does next. Some things are about more than money. I’m glad to hear that your job worries haven’t meant you have had to stop forking out all that money to Sky. Long may you continue to have that choice.

Interesting debate point and not one I agree with but... What would a £7.99 per month subscription model look like that showed every PL game and repeats of full matches and highlights? Would it be a huge global money spinner? Or would it pay clubs the kind of pittance, relatively speaking, that Spotify pays artists? The PL is worth more that Netflix I’d suggest? At that price point it would be very tempting - even though I’ve lost my appetite for non-Rovers games. I would certainly pay £7.99 a month for every Rovers game - even when I’m allowed back to buy a normal season ticket - as I’d watch away games but would it attract enough Rovers fans and provide enough value to the club? Would the usual rules apply that prevent global audiences due to copyright rules in different countries? Right now clubs know their own fans will pay £10 but do we know the viewing figures?

Do you remember that time when I said clubs will be more than happy with BCD as the future of football... their fans are probably paying more now that when they bought a season ticket. I’m falling out of love with football right now. Cancelled Sky Sports in March and have no desire to reinstate it. This pandemic and the need for the football gravy train to run on in spite of it is a sad indictment and yet a perfect summary as to how far removed clubs are from humanity. The whole thing needs to implode for anything to change. Any neutral fan paying £15 per game is an accessory to this whole fucked up mess.

Finishing fourth, fifth or sixth, and no longer having any chance of promotion though. I just think this new model is a fissure opening up in football. The top teams should never have this much control. United have a vested interest in sustaining their own income. If Liverpool are crawling into bed with them then the beautiful game is gone.

Especially that bit about the EFL digging their own football graves.

A compromise deal to stave off a breakaway franchise (no relegation) division? Trouble is these rules try to operate alongside a competition and they don’t work because the money gap stops it being competitive. TV money (and clubs’ reliance on it, first for greed and now for survival), coupled with the exclusion of the working man’s game, have destroyed football. An 18 club top flight has been mooted for a while - wasn’t there also an 18 club second tier too? That leaves 56 clubs fighting for survival. That’s the real bigger picture here. What happens to them? The top teams can blame the pandemic and a form of natural selection but many of them are only propped up by TV money themselves. Meanwhile TV execs see the smaller teams as collateral damage in their need to shrink football to make the money go far enough. In parallel the predicted end to obscene transfer fees hasn’t yet materialised, which should have been the biggest change but is instead being protected to maintain the gravy train. Football is broken. The 72 clubs should be voting to end ties with the other 20. No access to relegation to their league. No FA Cup access. The England team should ban PL players from being involved. Watch the PL product eat itself. FIFA should only be dealing with the FA so Champions League places would go to EFL Champions. The FA and EFL have more power than they think but seem to be happy to sell out themselves and wind up their members rather than take on the PL. All part of the globalisation model that has resulted in this pandemic in the first place. Brexit and Trump are/were the fight back by conservatives who want their toys back. A valiant last stand that will die out with the baby boomer generation. Sadly football doesn’t have anyone standing up for it so it is becoming extinct. The next evolution will be unlikely to have anywhere near 92 professional teams. Will Rovers survive? Waggott would certainly blame the fans if we don’t but you only have to look at how well Burnley have done, with less resources, to see who the real villains are. (Clue: it’s the people we should be grateful to over on the Facebook groups).