It looks stupid now but it didn't at the time lets be brutally honest about this. Most would have gone mad at selling one of our key players from first half of the season whilst in 2nd place or so. It made no sense at all unless there was a cast iron guarantee the money would have gone on a striker. It wouldn't have everyone knew including i suspect Mowbray himself it was just another easy excuse to make. I think he was more miffed because he didn't want to be seen to be standing in Joe's way he was a players manager first and foremost, that' how he worked. End of the day the owners were over a barrel with this one but they should have backed him with extra instead, however would he have invested in a good striker ? Very unlikely given the things he was saying and did with what he was allowed to bring in.

Now when i suggested this might be Dacks best role now coming on the back of his 2 years injured, the need to manage him in the future. And of course at the time assuming Uncle Tony would still be looking after him i got rounded on and told to get off his back. Better luck with your post, which i'm 100% in agreement with as we've seen in the past to get the best out of Dack you have to tailor your game to him. If he was as fit as he was then he'd be able to do the false 9 better than anyone we had but that might be redundant now. Interesting what happens now, hopefully JDT fits him in somewhere that suits.

Another school of thought here is the pathways into the team Broughton talked about. Well now there are 3 spots up for grabs vacated in 2 cases by former academy graduates. I don't for one min think the club through all this have been as serious as they could be about getting these 3 back on board. The only one i think was a serious contender to leave all along was Rothwell. He'll be the one who gets a lot more money than the others if Bournemouth take up their long time interest. The other two i reckon just wanted some serious commitment from the club and probably knew a long time ago it wasn't going to happen. All part o the fat controllers efforts to keep the wage bill down whilst spaffing money elsewhere on other overpaid Mowbray signings.

Good effort by them.

I think they just have certain modest targets to hit and the best way of guaranteeing it is the easiest lazy option. Put prices up and squeeze every drop out of what they can. That way even though crowds go down the same income is raked in whereas calculated gambles or speculate to accumulate carries more risk. They can't be arsed with that and protect their position, some might say it's solid business thinking. It's only a short term sticking plaster though. Every time there is an opportunity to try and drive things forward they pass it up in favour of the squeeze.

Pretty sure that relatively small shortfall is made up in other ways as well around the ground. Also the more you have attending league games the better the chance of drawing a few more of those back for cup games. Therefore taking a bit more money in those all paying for one match type games.

They like to confuse the prices for some reason i suppose someone is being paid a lot to sit there and think of these brain dead strategies. At points last season it was like every game is a different price it's bonkers they are all the same level opposition in the same league. To be fair though most of the night games were at the lowest price point i think, the rest of it was plain daft.

I absolutely dread to think what stupidity will reign when it comes to matchday prices. One game at the beginning of last season was £25 where i sit the next was £32 if i remember correct. A full 7 quid dearer for the same seat in the same league against bog standard Championship opposition. The difference ? Oh yes that was because WBA would bring 1500+ but Swansea wouldn't ! Alienating your own non season ticket fans is a great way to boost crowds obviously.

Buy low, use them, sell high, Bring through youth, polish them, use them, sell them. Academy or no academy that's the dynamics of it we were supposed to be basing our model on, although granted this Brentford talk a while back was being used as an excuse to sell the land and downgrade again. All amounts to the same thing, bringing players through then letting them go for nothing isn't sustainable in the long term.

Our model is now producing championship standard players for other clubs to snap up for free. Supported by the occasional big money Prem move ( for guys we paid millions for anyway ) Great, i'm sure Brentford are flattered we are doing so well in following their model. Meanwhile another fixed asset is probably being eyed up for 'transfer'.

We don't want to keep asking the owners for more the muppet says when pushing up prices. Then around 10 million worth of mostly home grown championship talent all probably on less than ten grand a week walk for nothing. On top of another poor season ticket uptake these are sackable offences for any CEO in any industry never mind this one. No doubt he'll be desperately trying to cover it by selling BBD behind the scenes.

That much was clear. I think he was trying to be as professional as he could but his dummy had come out. In truth he was just another self serving gravy train rider by the end. Only really interested in keeping his own nest feathered. True he could have walked but tbh it might have been a blessing at that stage.

Waggot has lost thousands of ST holders on his watch and now 3 read it again THREE of our graduate players. All for nothing, zero, zilch. This of course can be dressed up as part of the great reset but it isn't is it, it leaves the new manager instantly needing 3 key players with likely no money to bring them in. In short it's pathetic. Mowbray is gone now carry on the great reset and get rid of this bum who has done nothing in his time here except try and downgrade everything whilst pushing prices up.

High fee, low wages was the word put out on the street by Waggot at the time. Also i'm sure 'no clauses' was also chucked about on here as a defense for the club paying so much.

Another point that seems lost on these people is Preston or Burnley with 12k fans in never mind 15k are half full or over. That creates the atmosphere yet we have 10k more seats available than those two but seem to only want to fill the first ten thousand. It's ridiculous, the new Ewood worked for us in the Jack days but the Venky championship induced era it's been difficult. Waggots mantra is squeeze what you have but why not spin it to USE what you have. That's the feeling with the academy so why not Ewood ? Why not get as many in there are regular as possible and use the bloody place and its great facilities instead of letting them rot and closing bits down. This club even as a mid sized championship outfit is capable of selling 12k plus season tickets and getting 15k plus crowds with away fans. It will never happen without being priced to do so though. Use the stadium, make it work for us instead of against, there's a huge whopping advantage there that no one seems to want to take.

Yet again it needs pointing out Preston and others sold the majority of theirs on vastly reduced prices compared to Rovers. Doesn't really matter what the comparisons are right now the ship has sailed. The denial on this is embarrassing to say the least but company men are company men i suppose.

Spent the last few windows spending modest sums on the likes of Pickering, Edun and Markandy so i don't see that altering. The trick is hopefully to do better than some of those within similar means i expect. Also they've taken on guys in the recruitment dept from Oxford etc so obviously looking for their experience of the lower league markets. We'll be linked via the lazy journos to players from clubs GB and JDT have been involved with obviously but i wouldn't get to carried away about that.

I look forwards to your similar comments when the next one pops up, then the next. Legends yes, forget the rest.

Bowyer left years ago i'm not sure why we have to be headlining birthday greetings on twitter to every ex manage and player. I want to see current club news on there. It's nice to be nice but sometimes you have to just let go and move on leave the OTT virtue signalling to Lineker and the like.

Yes it just about goes against everything that is supposed to be fit and proper in terms of protecting the club from going bust. No sign of an Anderson/SEM/Kentaro/Vineeth/Shebby and other assorted chancers and loons yet though.

It seems anyone on here who has got a foot under the table - or so they think - at the club suddenly assumes their stance on pricing. Same old story 'it doesn't bother me so..' which totally reflects the noises coming out of the club. Buy or don't buy it's up to you we still get our wages. Shockingly bad i'm alright Jack attitudes which no doubt will be followed by more digs at the public when the evidence is on show inside Ewood next season.

Welcome to our world Dingles, it's been a long time coming but you are now looking like getting a dose of what we had. Although i doubt it'll be anything like as crazy or dodgy.

Doesn't really have any effect on who we sign or don't under this ownership model. Might affect how much is spent on stadium maintenance or level of pitch investment under cutback Steve though.

We've gone way past thousands walking away because of lack of success i wish that would sink in. Better way to put that is thousands haven't come back regularly due to continuing lack of Prem or regularly challenging. Our real issue is and has been for the last 3 years now the hardcore who've been happy to turn up with mid table mediocrity falling away badly. The ones for who home matches at Ewood were a given whatever was going on either through habit, just something to do or in most cases plain loyalty. A combination of price combined with disillusion in most cases i'd wager. That's the real issue we have not the glory hunters or casuals, we had them types in the 80's, all clubs around here do.

Watch comedy instead it does a fellow good to laugh once in a while.