Assume it would have to be a step back to being an academy director though and that's why he'll cling on here a bit longer. Come summer when he sees no budget and all Raya and Wharton money being liquidised in running costs with the Sammie fee next in line i suspect he'll bail. If he is being paid really well then probably not.

He speaks well as always but can't help get away from it sounding like a bit of an ideology rather than the early stages of a cold hard plan. He can recommend wise words all he wants about how to reinvest and all these other clubs in the early stages of their models but he is fooling no one only himself on the chances of that happening here. His model is a non starter if all they are really doing is producing and cashing in to pay the bills. It will go the opposite way to the scenario he is promoting.

'Our squad is small enough, PURPOSEFULLY' FFS there you have it, nothing more than a development club.

Yeah hes trotted off elsewhere to purr about the academy and avoid direct questioning from local media. It's great championing the youth development and pathway but is it really justified if we get relegated ?

I think it's just the same as any other position in the club under these lot. A new guy with a decent track record will want bigger wages/expenses/perks and will have his own ideas and direction he wants to push in. So they'll hire someone cheaper who's overjoyed and grateful to be in a job like that and they'll be working for the minimum directors pay and be toeing the line and dancing to their tune. That's why we never progress.

I wonder why so many Americans are now looking to get into English football at smaller clubs ? Maybe we missed our calling years ago with Daniel Williams !

The most proactive CEO in the Championship. How these feckers manage to get into these positions and earn 250k per year is quite astonishing.

He'll be hoping only 500 bother going across that'll be the basis of his thinking and if we were doing well and 1500+ were expected there'd be no chance of a contribution. We need all the support we can get so the twohat should be putting on a few free coaches as well !

It's really sickening watching these clubs rise back up from the depths and stroll past Rovers whilst we remained shackled to these lunatics who employ bozos and ignore the club yet expect the royal treatment fir their '20 mill a year' accounting exercise. No one else think that the only sell if we go back to the Prem line was a bit iffy, i mean it's as if they'd have no use for a non heavy loss making entity.

We need all hands to the pump obviously but i'm struggling to see what Siggy offers other than a body hes been a real disappointment imo.

Sylvester = Bronn A hatchet man who kills things stone dead with one click ( or not )

Varys and Littlefinger = Waggot and Shadowman

Well hes got some higher standard players now and i think they'll paste a lot of lesser and maybe even similar other teams but i'd expect quite a few mullerings against the strong countries. Be interesting to see how it unfolds. Maybe he'l blame the Swedish bus !

JDT's style at International level will either turn out to be a roaring success or complete disaster there'll be no middle ground. He'll achieve things or be sacked pretty quick.

We should have been like Ipswich after Lge 1 promotion when we had a decent budget and were rebuilding but we had the wrong manager and wrong people upstairs. Now we very much resemble them before they went to league 1 for a number of years and we still have the same wrong people upstairs.

The first mantra at Ewood is don't rock the boat just do as you're told even if you don't agree it's right. Second one is keep it buttoned and don't let anything get back to India that might disrupt or end the gravy train comfort zone even it it is detrimental to progress.

I think all 3 scenarios come in to play at various times. Especially point 3 when there are enquiries about buying the club or requests to cut ST prices and fill the place up.

All this 'needs approval from India' stuff that gets blamed for everything i'm thinking now it's just a smoke screen. Shadowman and Waggot get the budget then run the club their way whilst trying to bother the owners as little as poss in order to get their own brownie points. A real comfortable number as long as .. lights are kept on. Costs are cut. You don't bother the owners unless you have to. It's probably been these two all along that have zero ambition for anything other than their own wages. Take no risks, push for nothing unless asked or told and just exist in the twilight zone, getting to close to the spotlight then draw your horns in again.

Why had they set this alleged deal up anyway ? Which agents where they using and were they just cutting the wage bill or did they have a nice drink to gain out of it ? Seems these two operate on a basis soley to try and impress the owners with their cost cutting and keep themselves in several hundred grand a year each. The more time goes on the more this double act is resembling the new Shagnew there are remarkable similarities to that era unfolding. It's time to oust them ! By the way i'm presuming this loan out involved our next opponents and their quest for a big lad.

Feeding the pigeons though.

Shows that whilst we've been ruined the remaining fanbase is very solid and that's why Waggot and co think they can take the piss. Patience is about to run out though.

Luton and Brentford got promoted on those gates, Burnley used to get those gates, PNE get similar and there are other examples. Yet 230 million down the shitter, two top 2 positions blown because of not even a million quids worth of backing. Every decent player being cashed to pay the bills and Rovers fans have to be grateful to their billionaire overlords because we have a good community trust. If that hooray attitude comes from the inner sanctum of the club and i suspect it does then no wonder we are in a mess - again.

Imagine if a decent crowd rocked up with that 'get into em' attitude then non of the bottlers can deflect it.

That one has always been on the payroll.

There was also an update on the Venkys Overseas company house listing a few weeks ago.