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As ever evrything in the garden is lovely. We will start next season without key players like Dolan and Travis. There can only be one reason to allow their contracts to run down----admin wants them out to get the wage bill down because there will be little money from Pune. The replacements will be cheaper. I'm happy when we win but behind it all is the hand of Venkys which will make future wins so much more unlikely.

He does a lovely dink!

Absolutely agree. The Luton player going down like he'd been shot didn't help. He was more worthy of a yellow than Montgomery (or an oscar!)

We have great fans. Deserve so much more than Venkys. Good to see so many youngsters there.

Well we clearly have 2 keepers we can't rely on so that's an imperative for next season. But Gestade didn't mention it as a priority so I guess we won't go that way! That's a few points lost already.

Beck was a loan, the rest have hardly set the world on fire. Weimann will always be remembered for that equaliser v Burnley but not much else. Look where we are in the League Table----you were always keen to point it out when we were in the top 6, not so much now eh? That tells you whether we had successful transfer windows or not-----results.

Well they've fooled Chaddy!

You see the danger there? We cull the squad and bring in players "who will fit into the managers style of play", it then emerges that its not the players we've got rid of that were the problem but he simply isn't a good manager? Lost good players, recruited more crap, have to pay off his long contract and have to find a new manager who might have a different "style of play" ( whatever that means). Brilliant!!

He rarely played King!

Yes but we don't have good ownership do we? So, irrelevant?

It doesn't matter how much in a way because we'll not see much of it , if any. But I'd guess that Brittain, Travis and Dolan would bring in over £6M, possibly 8M. However we wouldn't get 3 better players for that and we won't be spending it anyway.

To make out that our fans are entitled and unrealistic?

FAN Groups seeking meetings with the 3 Stooges are pissing in the wind. We want Venkys to sell but these guys depend on Venkys for a cushy living which they'd never get anywhere else and they know it. If Venkys go they go so their only modem operandus is to stall, deny, lie, divide the fans and continue to encourage Venkys that everything is in order. Its a complete disconnect. (Season ticket sales could be the deal-breaker.)

So reduce the price of season tickets!

What do you suggest then? That we carry on as we are? Because that's all the will ever happen while Venkys own the club. What ever talk comes from the club' surely you know by now that all we get is lies and attempts to divide the fans and carry on ruling? Rebuilding, bringing through youth players---we've heard it all before. Rebuilding won't work while contracts are allowed to expire and the young players are off before we've seen the best of them. There is literally nothing to be optimistic about.

The gap between us and them is unbridgeable. They will just string us along.

I'm not trying to defend them! I just think that must be the plan. Desperate for the next Wharton! Thinking about the electricity bill in 3 years time!

Reading this is really depressing, like banging your head against brick wall. Its impossible to think how those who run the club could be farther away from our point of view. Under Jack we all pushed the same way. Now fans are treated as the enemy yet they want more of us!

Because we intend to sell him for more? 1st team not really the priority anymore.

The only fans who don't look forward to Christmas!

Let's not be hard on JRC. He looked the real deal at one point but injuries have just about ruined his career. He's been unlucky (or the treatment centre at Ewood isn't up to it).

Well we won't have him much longer and do you really think he'll be replaced by somebody better?

True but is seems far away right now.

What's left to strip?

There is an incentive to invade the pitch--you'll be banned for life!