For Boxing i think the 02 is just perfect.

Let's not present Fury as some bastian of all that's right either he's one of the biggest tits on the planet. Both are over rated greed driven lanky gits who've benefited from such a weak era. Yet whoever wins this will then get tagged with being one of the all time greats. Nothing could be further from the truth.

He took to pissing in fans pockets and telling them it's raining 18 months ago. Unless the summer is unexpectedly kind we are going down next season unless there are 3 worse teams. He managed to win about 3 out of 20 or something second half of this season with the strongest squad hes had. Weaken it and well what can we really expect, alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear in VH group HQ. Having seen it with Kean then Coyle are they really still that stupid and ignorant to think history doesn't repeat itself as many times as you let it.

All he's doing now is preparing the ground for a rough summer and fans back in next season. He'll self combust before October if things aren't going well believe me.

This guy is just as sly as anything that's gone before him he just has a more humble frontage. The club these days is all about him, Movenk Rovers FC. I wish the ground would just swallow the tosser up.

They've already done it, it's called 'nothing' it's what they are especially good at. Apart from signing cheques for losers to waste of course.

Travis has been hampered with numerous knocks this season, or so we are told, so it's bound to have an impact. However i'm not altogether keen on what they seem to be trying to turn him into. Yet another though whose more suited to a quicker tempo more in your face style instead of what we try and play. So it's hard to tell if he's stalled or is just going through the motions being told what to do. Either way a player like him should be having his good points encouraged not shackled.

He'll not change the habit of a lifetime it's what he does and how hes always worked. These are the things that define Tony Mowbray as bang average to poor at everywhere hes been in the last decade. If he was a results driven manager he wouldn't do the things he does but he isn't hes admitted as much. I think if he did resort to that it would be because there is virtually no brass available for any kind of Arma replacement. Back on BB even though he's a few years older and a bit more experienced now. Would anyone even go anywhere near 7 million to sign him ?

If a guy who's suppose to have a bit of clout and is the direct line to the owners constantly hides in the shadows it's for good reason. Another who doesn't want to be held accountable for anything. We have a manager who sidesteps everything, a CEO who is almost invisible. Owners who we don't even know if they are all actually still breathing it's been that long since anything was heard from the horses mouth. The food chain at Ewood provides great shields to all in passing the blame. Yet quite possibly one of the main reasons for this is often here in Blackburn. Old school journalism would have dug him out years ago, a genuine board of directors would've held him to account as well. It's time he stepped forwards and showed a pair.

Are they walking into it willingly though ? It looked suspiciously like they did last time, even Shaw warned it was coming 6 months earlier. Nobody did anything though then once it was upon us it triggered the start of the sales. Taps off, cost cutting, unable to re-invest allegedly, Owen Coyle, Tony Mowbray, relegation. All the hallmarks are here again but like last time those in the middle of it all still draw their wages and bonuses.

And a keeper we probably didn't need. And extend players contracts we weren't even going to use last season. And carry players till they are fit to go and further their careers elsewhere. Oh and Stuart Downing.

That's where a quick sale of the training ground land would've pulled them out the do do.

Echoes of the Mahonney thing here as well, don't forget that started a long time before Bournemouth stepped in. Something i mentioned a while back that getting compen and add ons for these lads might appeal when money is tight. Cheaper than doffing out pay rises.

Everything points to it.

The root and branch that a few heard about in an alleged reset is happening as i predicted. Mowbray & Waggot are the conductors of it not the casualties. A pruning back of everything to their level of capability after wasting the last few years. Covid gives them the shield they all need, they are preparing the ground for low gates and even lower income imo. The just keep our heads above water in this league model is the new target. If they miss that one as well we really are fooked.

I have a really bad feeling ...

It's the latest convenient excuse - 'Oh we didn't really connect with the last one, the recruitment was all wrong for what we're trying to do here' 'Now if we bring in so and so that'll be the missing piece for us next season, top 6 here we come Mrs'

It's currently sitting in the void between Blackburn and Pune and being orbited and held back by a team of excuse makers.

Yes there's a clear pattern.

I'd wager he's already got a pal lined up for that gig, this is just going through the motions stuff. Would be interesting if the owners pick someone and give them 90% control on transfers. Doubt that'd go down very well with the Coventrio. More likely to be another appointment that strengthens Mowbrays hand though.

They'd have to do that it's pretty much standard practice these days, unless they are selling it for a quid but keeping the debt for repayment. Davies wrote off 100 million or similar at Bolton before he sold because basically it's money you will never ever recoup.

We've had a couple of versions of Buccles here that's for sure. Play dumb, shrug the shoulders, pass the responsibility and cock ups written off as just incompetence.

At least 3 years ago maybe more i posted something on here that had come from a chance conversation. Guy who told me knows next to nothing about Rovers but found himself talking to a guy who said he worked for a firm who did some work at Rovers ( PR i think it was 😏) Anyway it went along the lines of someone wanted to buy one of the brothers shares because they'd had enough. The problem was the head V, whoever it is, Madame presumably was having non of it. This person wanted to invest heavily to try for promotion. That was the gist of it and the only reason i gave it any air time was the lad who told me wouldn't bother making anything up and wouldn't know some of the stuff he relayed unless he'd been told it. It's possibly a similar thing to this and seems to pop up every few years. When it comes after a bad season and where now people are demanding big changes i think i'd write it off as just a stealthy PR stunt. The Luca Toni / Ray Wilkins regular rumours probably had more legs. Expect the usual back of a fag packet statement late summer that the owners are not looking to sell, remain in it for the long term. And are committed to returning the club to the Prem. Bullshit all around basically.

I doubt we'd ever have gone down under Mowbray or even Coyle had the club - whoever that actually is - not sold Cairney / Hanley and even Duffy. That was the crux of it along with Rudy and Rhodes of course but they were inevitable. Sadly though despite them not being perfect you just cannot replace two 24 year old international defenders with a young converted mid, an injury prone loan, a 36 yr old and a 37 yr old whose legs went 4 years before. That's what Coyle did although Mulgrew came in as well he struggled to adjust until we dropped into lge 1. Coyle was only here 5 mins and did enough damage to last a long time and talked a decades worth of shit. Mowbray to his credit cleared that damage up and often talked sense in his own humble way. However for the past 12 months at least he's been firmly in self preservation mode and has veered from outright nonsense to weekly contradictions. Basically he's been in say anything mode for a long time now. Anyone who can't see that doesn't want to. Coyle was an outright con job whose somehow winged his way through the last decade. I think there is more substance to Mowbray he's steady to Coyles erratic but he breached his capability ceiling here 2 years ago. It's also become clear he's a very crafty operator off the pitch in terms of making his words cover his failings. Once you've been sussed you've been sussed it's very rare that gets turned around. That's another reason he needs to be gone before crowds come back.

Stuart Downings wages for the last few seasons would probably have paid for a new pitch. That's where we are at with this lot though, expect more wages to find their way to some ex Boro/Coventry in the near future. Clampits the lot of them.