It'll be the same as this season only a few thousand less will be sold. Those in office don't care a jot they get paid the same money regardless, the 9th highest paid directors in the league remember. Yet it isn't a board of directors it's just 2 or 3 box ticking skeleton staff taking instructions from elsewhere and don't forget the club now needs to pay lease money for the training ground. We are going around in circles whilst these people inch towards retirement with their pockets full. Won't be long before they are quietly trying to sell another fixed asset.

What about Stoke i thought he was going there as well ? Not beyond the realms of possibility that Venus was advising holding off signing. Because IF him and his partner got a gig elsewhere they'd take them and give them more money. Not beyond the realms certain people weren't pushing them for the WBA gig either and maybe not getting blanked at the other end. Also the more i hear about Venus the more suspicious it becomes. If Mowbray stays it might be better all round if he gets a new number 2 and new first team coach to freshen things up. Just what is Venus doing being assistant manager, coach and some kind of alleged DOF and WTF is he doing at meetings regarding the training ground ?

I'm sure if the roles were reversed they'd be jumping through hoops and ramming the stadium, knobs. In fact weren't they in contention a few years ago then dropped out and first thing they did was call for the managers head ? Hmmm...... Also bring almost a full end to their big days out at Ewood then first crap form they are in, don't bring a full end ? Well there you go, case closed.

They genuinely want to punch above their weight all through the club. Imagine a manager saying some of the stuff Mowbray has when Dean Hoyle was there ? Imagine saying it when working for Gibson ? His feet wouldn't touch the floor on the way out but here bull shitters prosper in the void between Blackburn and India. That will never change until they get someone proper in to run it or get one of their own here to keep an eye on it all, not some self interested messenger boy.

Huddersfield still at the cheap end of the market. They slashed prices years ago in league 1 i think, crowds shot up and have mainly stayed as they kept the prices down. Look at them now, how do they do it.

Grayson would be no different than Mowbray just another bland safe pair of hands. A different voice though and at the very least that is what is needed down there. The absolute only way to consider keeping Mowbray is a shorter contract and some guaranteed backing.

Fury didn't quite know what to do when Whyte was having non of his antics. Never seen Whyte looking so relaxed i hope he keeps it together on the night and makes a fight of it. I love the guy even though he isn't on Fury's level he reminds of guys i grew up watching like Dokes, Tate etc. Fury is coming in lighter so he'll be looking to move around a lot and tire him out i suspect. I'd love it to be different but i see Fury getting to him midway and getting the stoppage. Dillian is dangerous but hes been iced badly by uppercuts from AJ and Povetkin and more telling perhaps he struggled with the long awkward Fury dimension Helanous.

The product on offer the first half of the season was worth it for the first time in years. Mainly down to graft and the refreshing change of seeing a load of young players fighting for the shirt. Instead of passengers just turning up for a wage and the team being rotated/changed nearly every week. A bad run is a bad run we'll always have them but the revert to type despite the big sea change for a few months was sickening and predictable.. That was a driver for the fall off in recent seasons even though no one down there will admit it. So unless there are changes or some kind of statement of intent to build on it there'll be another drop off. Somewhere in the bowels of Ewood there'll be a statement scribbled on the back of a coffee cup coaster. Awaiting authorization from Pune.

Like a few of us have said on here before it just fits in with some people down there and their own agendas. Middling midtable club squeezing the budget down every season and cutting costs. Sole aim is to tread water, develop players, sell, let go before they want pay rises and supplement with loans. Meanwhile small crowds, squeeze matchday buyers and away fans to the hilt, cut staff, ignore the ground condition and easily manage the zero expectations. Stay in the job, draw your wages and keep telling the ownership this is the way to 'build'.

Well every pre season they have a full house for Liverpool or Everton and seem to deem it great support. Then first home game in league a week later and about 9k turn up, kind of sums them up.

They don't need to come up with any stupid ides they just need to price them with the aim of shifting 12k. The loss in price cut being tempered by the increase in volume and extra sales in and around the ground. Otherwise no point with this stuff every other club does an early bird at a discount. Of course now these lot do it we are supposed to be grateful. All they are doing now is preparing for another drop in sales balanced by another price hike it's been the trademark of Waggots tenure. Just wait till Mowbrays extension gets announced and the negative transfer budget of about 15 million or whatever they get for BBD. Shite !!!!

Despite the fact every team of our size has these type of fans when any success comes along it's the only insult they can come up with. And factually very incorrect seeing as all our glory hunting types disappeared a long time ago and are unlikely to come back. It was a phrase, if you want to call it that. first coined for Liverpool fans who sprouted up all over the country off the back of their success in the 80's. Preston you see is a very bitter little place for North End supporters as half the City, if you can call it that, actually follows Man U, Liverpool and Man C. So it was too much to bear when the rovers following in those parts grew rapidly in the early 90's, scares they still clearly bear to this day. They also hold the unfortunate tag of being the only club around here to never have set foot in the Prem. It's very hard for them to handle being in the shadow of Blackburn, Blackpool, B#####, Wigan, Bolton ...and even Oldham. So rather than get angry Rovers fans just tend to sympathize and pat them on the head as you would to a very small cousin who wishes he was you. Doesn't do much for their blood pressure mind.

That's a novel idea 2nd half ticket bundles. Stay in the pub for the first 45 as nowt will happen unless you want to marvel at the opposition time and space of course. Do join us though for the 'right good go' second half ** disclaimer - please be aware we'll probably be a goal behind when you enter but you'll get the added bonus of the bizarre 65 min onwards substitution rituals. Where even if it's still crap you can spend the rest of the game trying to work out wtf is supposed to be going on.

Does anyone actually know what Hedges real position is ? The one he allegedly got some compliments from at Aberdeen. Where are the posters who told us they'd seen him and we were pinching their best player ? Because it's clear those who signed him and manage him haven't got a damn clue why they did.

Never seen any bother at Ewood with them but going to Goodison has been an experience at times although the worst offenders there were the stewards and police !

Maybe he needs to just grow a pair and start BBD, Dack and Gallagher his 13 million pound forward line.

Liverpool will pound Everton no doubts at all. Everton at home next season ? That'll be a 36 quider at least, i can see Waggots eyes light up from here.

The infrastructure for John to take over was a bit different then though it probably ran itself and he did take a while to get it. I remember plenty things that raised a few eyebrows but an intelligent chap with charisma will always adapt.

I wonder what he knows about running a football club !

They are daft enough to keep someone on whilst they put their kids through Uni i'm sure of it. That kind of thing along with the integrity, teetotal, nice guy stuff probably resonates more with them than football results.

I've been famous on there before 🤣 They've managed to spin it onto away followings in impressive fashion even for them. 'With what's at stake' , like yeah probably 6 points out of it by then. I remember watching them on a Sat evening live game away at Burnley in the Championship, there was about 800 there.

It goes against any talk of the Brentford model and proves that to be another fable. If they seriously wanted that they'd have got these lads or some of them at least tied down. Way before they got to a position to be hawked around by agents to see what might be on offer. There's very little excuse after 5 years of slow build this model that model BS. A good CEO sniffs this out early and any indication they weren't in it for the long haul or their agents where bang at it they could have been sold for good money and replaced. Everybody at this club in key positions just wings it from season to season, CEO, manager and owners.

Yep when they lose their way there is always the same pattern, bad luck, bad refs, losing to budgets instead of a team, motionless and motivationless on the touchline then clapping an 89th min ball into touch. The final coupe de grace - fans fault, expect too much etc etc It's the long goodbye.

They had over a million left in the budget when covid struck it was well documented and Waggot told everybody anyway. Where did that go ? Probably no further than retaining guys who were never playing on the extra 3 month deals, just in case. Very handy eh. Regardless of that though it was money in the pot they could have used but didn't. They've never had any intention of pushing the limits to try and go for it the proof is endless. No more so than this season when unexpectedly finding ourselves in that position the only interest was getting in a few squaddies and rushing through a mate of a mate signing.

The players were running through brick walls for him and the club and each other even in the early days of the bad run beginning. Since that Derby first half (yes that again) there was a noticeable foot off the gas. Second half the real Rpvers turned up for the last time this season. Why ? We could handle a slide away when it's clear we are trying both tactically and physically but blindingly obvious that hasn't been the case recently. That's why people are angry and why this is now being treated like a dead rubber. If he is doing one then i'd feel better with one of the players in charge for this last 3 starting here. At least someone who can fire them up and salvage a bit of pride.