tomphil

Well yes what happens if a big bid comes in for a player at the last min or one we might have been chasing falls through and the agent phones up and says he's yours if you get the document through now ? Many many scenarios but whatever the case HE is the Chief Executive of Blackburn Rovers the public face of the company on the ground. So he has ultimate responsibility for this wherever his arse was on Tuesday night, if someone has badly ballsed up he needs to sack them. If it's an honest mistake then explain it and make damn sure it never happens again and if the plug was pulled on purpose then say so and say why. Do your job in other words.

You'll do well when you eventually pitch up at Ewood if you haven't already. If a club has players in the building to sign and the CEO might be needed there is nothing unusual whatsoever about him missing a game a hundred miles away. No matter how many times you try and pretend otherwise won't make it true we've seen managers missing games to scout or sign players. We've seen a Rovers directors box empty more than once under Venkys, thank god those days are gone obviously. They could have sent somebody else if there were obligations or politely offered their excuses which would have been accepted under the circumstances. It was an FA cup replay infront of barely 7 thousand people 100 miles away at short notice so all things considered it wouldn't have been hard to miss. Your attempts at trying to absolve anybody of blame are admirable but rather silly.

Maybe not though as i'm led to believe they can use what they have in the budget however they see fit. Last season Mowbray chose to spread it around 4 players, two of them being small fees, instead of pushing the boat out on a luxury loan or two big wages. So if there was money in the pot to cover those wages till May it was probably up to them....or so they thought !

Like i said there'd be nothing unusual about a CEO missing a game when there are transfers to be done. Football has been around a long time there's been all sorts of scenarios thrown up and trying to maker out Waggot just had to be there at Brum because of some unwritten rule is complete BS. You were probably still at school whilst some of us were observing the comings and goings in directors boxes around the country and at Ewood in the early Venky era.

Although it wouldn't have been unusual in the slightest if he wasn't there given it was deadline night.

Oh aye i know that i got told by a former director he was promised big funds then all the Rhodes money. All he got was a few million to play with in wages and Rhodes wages freed up. There was obviously a reason he inserted that clause though and like i said he wouldn't have walked away from his remainder of his contract without it.

Lambert didn't exactly resign in protest he waited until his clause was exercised then left, he was also heavily vested in trying to get another big job that was available. Without that clause he wasn't resigning and walking away from his wedge.

Sw4gg0tt@rovers.co.uk See if it's buffered...

That's wishful thinking even if they are remotely aware of it or give a stuff we also know if it's someone they like they will do nothing.

Yes pillocks like that still walk amongst us, i mean its BRFC isn't it we should all be grateful anyone actually turns up to work for it and do the jobs they are actually paid for. They obviously do it for free when they really have better things to be doing with their time.

He has to accept that though and mix it up more which i think to be fair he has recently, however we know how these guys work. Often revert to type very quickly.

WTF are you on about again it's sod all to do with the players.

There'll be plenty speculation on this but does make you wonder if GB etc have wanted this guy and set it all up whilst Waggot and the shadow man having not really fancied the numbers on it.

Absolutely but they wouldn't be yes men and wouldn't have the right connections so wouldn't get through the door.

Whoever is the ultimate power broker at Ewood should have been in that office on deadline day with two players in the building, no excuses. If however they've left people in charge who had the go ahead and authority to sign and send relevant documents in time then they need to man up and sack them. Nothing whatsoever will happen just a set of excuses and buck passing to cover each others backs in the cosy gravy train. Sickening but they'll all get paid whilst fans, team and the players miss out.

Will the BBE voice it's disapproval alongside getting behind the boys of course ? Will it feck !

Convenient that.

This is the equivilant of them turning up all suited and booted at Thwaites.....in the town centre, only to be told it's been knocked down they moved years ago ! It would be nobody's fault but Thwaites though.

How in gods name do you forget to send the most important documents ? This stinks a very familiar stink.

Again i'll say for the millionth time that the shadow middleman needs to be sat there and he needs to answer questions. Otherwise there's isn't much point because the one's sent there are just ticking boxes because they have to.

Lets face it us having a player like that primed and ready to go was way to good to be true under the current climate. It was a huge surprise and now it's zero surprise it's fallen through that just sums up how people view Rovers and the dozy state of the club. F###K the lot of them yet i still see clowns running around on social media blaming everything except those responsible. At least they can't blame this one on the crowds !

Ok probably poor use of words there by me i get what your saying but the way you come across at times gets my hackles up 😎 I was just pointing out the reasons for the dip in gates in the middle of the Hughes era which doesn't make anything 'awkward' when we look at the actual facts.

You'll find in the Hughes era a season ticket hike that didn't go down well as well as match day ticket increase which impacted the crowds. Then there was a better deal and reduced walk on prices, all this can be fact checked if it doesn't fit your agenda of course but often it's a case of basic economics. As we've seen with cheap deals at Preston, Bolton and good early birds at the other lot.

Exactly. Never gets called out, never shows his face and to this day people still don't actually know what he does and who pays him and how much. He's the one constant in the going nowhere of Blackburn Rovers apart from the owners themselves. Just what is he up to and how is he making, sorry, earning his money ?

Doesn't the man in the shadows as well ?