Catering is franchised out isn't it ?

Literally making it up as they go along.

In the latest edition of rocket science news.... Fulham to target Rovers right back spot on Weds night....

Lets get out there and get among them from the off and it could be a barnstormer of a game. They're a class team but they are a championship team in the same league as us. Don't show them too much respect on the park. Rovers 2 Fulham 2

I thought they'd agreed not to move the PNE game again after so many fans complaining ?

A good finish this season and it's all set up for a good imaginative pricing and marketing campaign next summer. Use that to hike prices again, say nothing, try and sell more fixed assets and players and we'll take another big hit at the ticket office.

100% on this they've missed yet another marketing trick like they did after promotion. Should have been all out come and back this young cheaper paid side on cheaper tickets. Like a reset after getting wage big wage stealers off the books finally and having a young hungry team with a fearless approach. Sadly they are only interested in the midtable plod and the comfort zone it creates. I personally can buy into things this season and much prefer the youth is the future approach. Compared to previous seasons recently, it's not perfect but you can forgive that as long as they all try. Even though i find a lot of the managers methods and words annoying iv'e enjoyed this season o far.

I think when you sign so many young players on loan it's always going to turn out to be a mixed bag. Odd thing is the ones we might expect something from turn out to be the weakest. Plus side though one or two look comfortable enough so far. The manager needs to be bold from here on in by leaving the weakest on the bench and not trying to just give them games. Their clubs might moan but just tell them to hand their keys back in and say thanks but no thanks. Be ruthless and see progress.

I think we all need to get off the Mowbray train for a bit. His methods after 5 years are well worn and obvious to everybody who looks at the bigger picture. Some just want to beat him all the time and others treat him like some football demi god. I'll admit he boils my pee but i'll also credit him where i feel he deserves it. Every defeat isn't down to him despite popular culture but neither are a lot of wins. It's just football and he just does what he does. We all know he isn't taking us anywhere money or no money but this season he might do his bit in a punching above our weight finish. Or he could be part of the problem if we, as expected, fall away with a one win in ten scenario. He's bang average lets just accept that and also accept we will need a change at some point.

Today kind of reinforces my points. Why oh why he messes about with it so much i'll never know as a similar effort at QPR would surely have got something more. Should have been out of sight first half but to be fair we aren't going top boss many games away for 90 mins. So that's a great result and credit to team and manager, nobody should be disappointed with that. I think they were forced back second half rather than sat back and the usual 60+ mins get some legs on for the sake of it was resisted today.

Do Premier league Burnley fill their own c18k seats in their tin shack ? If not then why not ?

Barry picks it one week, his lad the next, maybe even madame has a punt. Somewhere inbetween it's Tony's turn. Mini league pinned on the fridge door in Pune towers and if Mowbray wins more than the rest he gets a new contract.

But if they wanted or needed to sell it yet faced fierce opposition they'd perhaps do it this way instead. Get some money into the club, pacify fans, dampen suspicion in some quarters. Then punt it on.

Presumably the money for this went into VLL seeing as that owns and funds the club ? How do we know it all gets put into the club ? Is it even a cash transaction or just the owners taking it back as personal security for funds already spent on the club ? There are loads of scenarios that could apply here even if they aren't remotely dodgy.

I think part of the issue is the year on year hikes of STs despite the clear malaise around the club and manager. Not rocket science to know the numbers would more likely drop all things taken into account. Talked about it before but it's all about peoples perspection on it and as we know at Rovers it's pretty split. You can't embark on a downscale, lie to fans year on year, try and sell the training ground for building, advertise your best players for sale, keep a manager who wins 2 in 17 or whatever and publically states he's happy to keep losing 0-1 etc. And expect any other than season ticket sales to follow your own trend - downwards.

Set stupidly high prices and brass people off then panic and start coming up with a different price every game. The man is an utter berk and needs an old mill workers clog up his arse to help him on his way out of town. Is it really any wonder player contracts, wages and the finances are all over the place with him in charge. Just look at his messing around and misjudging with tickets.

Yep they'll turn into the best potential players hes ever managed and the greatest humans hes ever come across. Then if nobody buys them the pair will probably get dropped or thrown under the bus before the end of Feb. He's so transparent these days a man with no eyes can still see through him.

The money go round.

Ah ffs i don't get what's going on with this shenanigans at some clubs these days. Don't think i've ever bought in advance for Derby before and there'll be plenty room. Seems some clubs don't want a few extra travelers for some reason. Football is administrated by utter clowns.

It's a classic Mowbray sales pitch to interested parties.

Is this pay on the day and how much, anyone know ? One of those games this we'll either show up and have a go or they'll be under instruction to sit back, stop the opposition, pass sideways and create nothing. Probably the latter seeing as he was so pleased with the last away showing that yielded nowt. Just have a ###### go man. Derby 1 Rovers 2

Could be a crafty way of transferring ownership bit by bit to new investors. What if anything do we know about the new names on the new company ?

I wonder why this new company has 3 directors if it's just a vehicle to hold the asset for the Rao's on behalf of the club ?

It's all assumption, there was nothing to say we were on the brink of admin and i didn't say that. However the club obviously desperately needed this massive cash injection on the back of the pandemic etc. With the owners supposedly not being able to inject it, on the back of the colossal amount they already share issued, i'am not sure what other options there would have been. Fortunately we still had an asset to sell other than Armstrong, next time we won't have.

There is no 16 million why oh why do people fall for that just like there was no 15 million or % from Armstrong. Like virtually every other penny that comes into Rovers by owners or whatever it all goes to balancing the books. Money already spent and the huge back hole plugged again for a short time. The only good this has done is save the club from the owners possibly having to put it into admin. Even that will be debatable if it's good or not in some eyes.