So the STC which was sold to a 3rd party affiliated with the ownership and which the club pays lease money on is now going to have a portion of the Wharton money spent on it ?

Surely that should be done by whoever now owns it.

Those forum mins are amongst the most depressing iv'e read they just don't give a #### do they, wage thieves and clowns. This is either entirely about Maggot making him and his pal look good asking for no money in order to keep his own job and bonuses.

Or the finances remain in a perilous state and he really hasn't the first clue what will actually happen with funding but knows there's enough transfer income to keep the bills paid over summer.

Everyone now prepped for signing only kids and getting an ST price rise in return ?

3 hours ago, Andy said:

When their GK blatantly handled the ball into our net in injury time, ultimately costing us a play off place.

The same reason why I was laughing my arse off when their extra time goal against Man U was wiped off.

Coventry can fuck right off.
And their fans are weird.

Stumbled across something on social media today in regards to their fans and actually started by a North Ender.

Fair to say their fanbase were getting pelters from various other clubs fans for running around giving it large about their crowds etc.  

They are a deluded bunch over the last couple of years for sure it seems instead of enjoying it after all the tough years they'd rather make empty boasts about being the best fans in the land when actually for a one club city of 400,000 their support numbers wise is poor and always has been.

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Or y'know just don't play Pears.

Cheaper shutting stands than buying and paying a good keeper.

Waggot should be all over it.

27 minutes ago, rigger said:

To the purse-string holders at Ewood, there is no such thing as a must.

First port of call is do we have anyone ready to throw in ?

Second port of call is another young Prem club loanee.

3rd, resign 37 yr old Mcfadz.

Is it me or do we go through medical and conditioning staff quite quickly these days ?

Anyway it's a real blow for Wharton and us he was looking like his old self again under Eustace.

Hopefully fit and well again soon as possible, another decent centre back is a must now for next season and by that i mean one with some Championship experience.

Just the same when Mowbray took over and even often in league 1.

Eustace is cut from the same cloth, standard coaching manual British coach.

4 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Bonkers, isn't it?

I'd let every single away team have as much of the Darwen End as they can sell. We clearly need every penny we can get. 

I'd limit every team to 4,500 spilt over the two tiers and empty some brain cells finding a way to charge them as much as possible in the process.

That could be worth 6 points a season - to cover for the 6 Pears throws away.

The striker pool below Gallagher now consists of Telalovic, Vale and Leonard.

That says everything you need to know about operation downgrade.

I don't think Merce has been around the away travel scene much in the last decade.

Wasn't he one of the lads that had the same agent as JDT ?

Now he's getting even less of a sniff than before, make of that what you will.

I don't agree with flexi tickets etc as good as they might sound to some it's self inflicting even lower turn outs actually in the ground for a lot of games.

Only way it works is a good discount on full ST early birds, some kind of attractive offer for lapsed / newbies and kids then sell as many as you can.  Then you can look the database and perhaps come up with something to try and get the irregulars to be more regular.

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

A few Rovers supporters said it was a big mistake giving Sheffield Wednesday 7,000 tickets. I haven't heard the Blackburn End so quite in a long time, They were outsung till the refs whistle. Maybe if the brains upstairs had made last Sundays game £10 a ticket, we might have outsung them, and got something out the game.

That's the argument against Waggot though maximising the guaranteed cash grab before trying to maximise as much home advantage as possible. Neither end was very vocal until they went 3-1 up then it was loud understandably whilst the rest were in stunned silence at the shit they were witnessing.

If he thought for 1 min Coventry would guarantee 6 or 7k at full price then full price it would be.

The 'timing' of all those court hearings has been just perfect enough to impede the football club.

Another monumental Venky coincidence.

The latter definitely as at cheap tickets they'll not want to go to any extra expense of stewards and police etc.

If it was full price they'd be given as many as they wanted.

If someone is paying you 300k a year plus perks for a part time gig you'll tend to portray they are wonderful because to you they are.

To most others they are to running this illustrious old club what Eddie Edwards was to Olympic Ski jumping.

Hide in the shadows and give the impression it's nothing to do with you when it's exactly the opposite.

This guy is the 'Operations Manager' that is on the official site so what is he operating. the whole club ?

Time for answers is long overdue.

Phillips was happy to trade becoming an established first teamer here in a side that finished 7th with the prospect of getting many games/experience and a big money move down the line. Instead it was double or treble the wages, a London penthouse and a loan to Plymouth.

Forget him, he'll still be plodding around the loan market in the Championship next season and probably the season after.

It was all on him and his agent.

I'd like to think the only way he's dodgy is in the eyeballs but that lowlight reel is grim.

If you're going to purposely let one in though there are less obvious ways than Sundays howler.

57 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

Gally, that's his level.

Him and his 15k pwk will be long gone whether he wants to stay or not.

We've already blow 800k plus add ons probably on Leo so the chances of any keeper changes are virtually zero i'm afraid.

The only chance was when Pears was doing ok earlier under Eustace he might have caught the attention of another Champ club who want an English keeper in their squad for a modest fee.

That would've freed up a wage and position but i dread t think who Broughton would've foisted on us next, most likely Leo !!!

We continue the Waggot Venky express train to be the new Crewe of League 1.

Income targets reduced and easier to hit.

Wage budget and matchday expense reduced and easier to manage with less from India.

Academy downgrade and merged with first team on one site - cheaper and easier to manage.

Pathway to first team squad easier for more players.

Less big money sales but more quicker cheaper ones with add ons to Championship clubs.

Ta ta DoF in cost saving measure but CEO and Shadow remain in well paid part time work running it all.

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

No, they’ve been given the whole of the lower tier.

Because he’s a twat. 

A brainless one seeing as Coventry are likely to be pushing a result or at least just celebrating another good season and having a party in their last away fixture.

Roll up roll up to the Ewood red carpet Sky Blues, if you're lucky you might get gifted a goal or two as well.

1 hour ago, AspRover said:

I think a better question might be who do we expect to still be here if we go down - I think in spite of how they've looked this year a fair number of our players would attract interest from championship clubs and let be honest Swag isn't exactly going to be turning down bids is he. Teams will look at last season and missing the playoffs on goal difference as much as this season. 

 

Pears

JRC - Wharton - O'Riordan - Gent

Garret - Buckley

  Hedges - Markanday - Gilsenan

Leonard

 

Bench of Barnes, Batty, Vale, Telalovic and some children? Something like that?

 

That team might be enough to see midtable in league 1 and bugger all else.

Brittain, Hedges, JRC, Markandy, Garrett, Pickering, Wharton should all be above average in league 1 consistently.

Pears will still be Pears and Leo will shit bricks at the amount of hoofs and set pieces coming at him in that league.

All the other pros will be gone and the rest of the youngsters have it all to prove, it will be a long hard winter for sure.