I recall us turning up at WBA one Sat afternoon without tickets after deciding to go at lunch time and there was no pay on the day turnstile of away ticket office. So we spoke to a steward there and he just said go into the ticket office to the far window and they'll sort you out, they did, no aggro no problems. Of course that was a few years ago and now it would be way too much bother in the post covid digital reset world, what a load of bollocks.

Why are clubs so set against pay on the day these days ? Not like it'll be a sell out in either end and what is so difficult about making tickets available for a handful who might turn up on the night ? Another sad state of affairs in the present era and there must be some nonsenical driving factor as usual like many other things.

I rarely listen now whoever is boss i find it keeps me a bit more sane in regards to what's going on and less knee jerky. Bowyer did it for me i liked the guy but couldn't listen to his right good go nonsense after the latest 1-1 at home where we'd only attacked with any conviction for all of 10 mins at the end. So i virtually stopped listening pre/post match since then barring the odd occasion. Ironically i'd started listening a bit more when JDT rocked up because he was fresh and a bit different but haven't listened to one Eustace one yet and that's no disrespect to him but most managers it's just platitudes and cliques. Interviews away from matches are a different matter.

I'd be trying to win this and have that mentality going into it. One more win should see us safe and the sooner it comes the better so lets have a big push and get the job done.

It's a long old haul from Southampton to Ewood to be fair and they are an entitled bunch these days so no surprise they were quiet.

Yet constantly questioned and belittled in some quarters ..'Euesless' etc Fact is we are suffering constantly from the lightness of the squad and lack of a genuine central over 5'5" goal threat. Of course this more solid style takes away from the attacking fluidity but that's going to happen whoever is in charge and it was the same when Hughes took over from Souness years ago. Big change in tactics but there is method there and to improve it then it will need adding to in the right areas and until that happens ( or likely doesn't ) we wee with this willy and stay in this league, just. We haven't had the quality or set piece ability to nick games for years and years and that is something that costs us year in year out.

Harwood Bellend wouldn't be where he is if Rovers hadn't given him a chance on loan although sweet irony that the lad he got selected in front of stock is now higher. So it would be nice if Gallagher or someone could serve him a reducer at some point. Too nice though our lot.

Never change a winning formula unless you have to. (Even though its only won 1 in 10) 😂

You have to resign on there when you are retiring.

We'll probably clear about 5 million profit on him that will keeps the lights on for 2 months.

Nice move so the faceache and LT deluded mob assume he was the problem and hes taken the hit. A head has rolled, stop moaning and get behind the V's FFS, 20 million a year or we Bury !

I'd assume a contract being terminated comes with an obligation of some financial compensation unless hes volunteered to cull it himself. Either way stupid signing and money straight down the bog whether it's a hundred grand or 3 times that.

Well if he has that'll be his contract paid up then !

We got 16k home fans on for Watford when there'd have been 11/12k max and they brought 1500 when there'd have been about 700 so i'm sure they didn't lose much. Waggot and Broughton have wasted several hundred thousand to maybe half a million taking over Flecks contract for 6 months presumably out of the Wharton first instalment. That money would have been better suited put towards subsidising season tickets in a significant early bird discount. Keep selling the good players, leave the team struggling and can't sign any decent new ones then the least they can do is give a bit back to fans by encouraging more to commit. No agents commission in that though.

Time will tell.

Probably just a new ambitious commercial manager who is trying a few things the old farts can't be bothered with.

A gimmick, Waggots version of Rwanda.

JDT got this one all wrong when we went down there trying to play an open game against that lot signed our own defeat before we'd kicked off. Lucky to get away with only 4 so hopefully Eustace will offer something a lot more organised and if we can get a goal up anything can happen.

Whilst most would welcome Tugay with open arms t a role like this everything under this lot is tainted. Why now and why him ? Biggest name they could find who they'll throw a fortune we haven't got and he'll pitch up for a while then quietly disappear after the window dressing has been done. Why haven't we had one of these before ?

The trouble if or when the budget is cut again and more sales follow with little to no reinvestment we simply have to have a guy like Eustace. If you need to tow a horsebox you won't buy a sports car even if you'd prefer one you have to have something that plods through the shite mundanely everyday. So in many ways he's the ideal man for that job just grinding enough points to stay in this league whilst using about 40% youth/young loans and hoping one improves enough to be worth something. All that isn't his fault he's just going to apply substance instead of style to minimise risk, it isn't our fault for baulking at the prospect either. We know whose fault it is and collectively they continue to take any ambition or hope away on purpose by the looks of it. The dumbing down process, as predicted a while ago, is now in phase 3. Selling it to anything other than the hardest of the remaining hardcore will be nigh on impossible. Changing gaffer without improving the budget though is also rather pointless.

That's why some of us called out all this journey talk bollocks right from the beginning despite TM doing his pied piper job with 2/3rds of the fanbase. Reason being we knew it would never work under this ownership and something always comes along to throw a spanner in the works. Just like talk of 'models' was time buying pie in the sky, unfortunate Dack got injured as he might have kicked off the trading model but we all knew deep down anyway that money would disappear quicker than Tony could say ' bag of revels'. The signing, handling and subsequent losing of Brereton sums up this ownership better than anything, complete farce.

Cash will play a part plus Mowbrays steady hand but we'll have paid bigger loan fees or wage contributions back then. Now though we have Waggot unchecked by any manager controlling him just picking up the phone and committing 6 month 20k a week deal for a player with a 9 out of 10 chance of getting re-injured.

Waggot and Suhails deflection tactics are really being ramped up now. You can't hide behind Tugay lads.

Well i did say Sunderland had nowt to play for and their crowd wouldn't be putting the usual pressure on them. Nice of them to switch off completely on the pitch and bugger off home out of the stands nice and early. We still had to be on the money we've found ways to cock up situations like that in the recent past. Saints are feeling the pressure so if we can actually follow that performance up there's no reason we can't get a result.

Between the two of them they've gifted several points directly to the opposition this season it's quite ridiculous for a club of this stature to be so weak in that position. We are right back to the Steele, Jake Kean level of a decade ago and that's pathetic given how much time it took to get the keeper dept decent again. Jake didn't cost 800k either and a Simon Eastwood would be number 1 in this set up.