arbitro

I agree Broughton should resign after this. It's his responsibility and after his promise to review the processes last February it's happened again. The buck stops with him. He actually said in his February 23 interview that he didn't think the O'Brien and Brierley appeals would be successful and so it proved but with what appears to be a much more flimsy case we are appealing again. I'll probably spark some real debate on here but I really think that the job is too big for him. Sadly he is surrounded by many others who are in a similar vein.

I don't really know the motives behind it if it's true but my guess would be that there was a real fear that Tomasson would discredit them and their minions. That I believe is their inherent fear.

Mowbray had a bad run pretty much every season and Bowyer did too. Prior to them we didn't have a manager in situ long enough for them to go on a bad run. How many managers have we appointed who we had to pay compensation for? I think none. The conclusion I draw from that the owners don't really consider the manager/head coach an important role.

One of the big issues is that pretty much everything has to be approved by the idiots in Pune. Nobody at Ewood has the autonomy to make decisions even though the idiots have their own man and highly paid executives at Ewood. Everything involving approval to spend money moves at a snails pace as they show utter disrespect to Rovers.

The truth is I honestly don't know. I was told this about twenty minutes before kick off on Saturday and again in a phone call in the evening. There have been lots of rumours about discontent and infighting amongst the Rao siblings and this kind of story kind of adds some credence to them. Of course there will be points made to counter this but right now it's difficult to disseminate the vast majority of stories we hear. The truth is out there somewhere.

Which aligns with what I was told by two different people on Saturday namely that one of the brothers (presumably the playboy) actually sacked (through his minions) Tomasson on Friday but big sis reinstated him within a short space of time. I believe there is real disharmony at Chez Rao and we are piggy in the middle.

For anybody in any doubt listen to this again from last January. Amazingly he says he didn't think they would win the appeal but went ahead with it anyway. Broughton has to go along with the others after this latest farce which is a carbon copy.

If the deal was done earlier the and the paperwork submitted earlier then the problem could have been corrected before the deadline.

It's really incredible that it's happened again and that they are appealing the decision. And had they not messed McGuire about by calling the transfer off and then dragging him from Sheffield then nothing would have been rushed. Amateur doesn't do this and last January's fiasco justice.

It's a strange phenomenon that the quotes I see copied on here from various sources mostly have a common theme. They praise the owners yet want Tomasson sacking. that speaks volumes to me.

3-2 Rovers. Gilsenan with his second.

Now 2-2

We are currently 2-1 up against Sheffield United. Nsangou and Gilsenan the scorers. Apparently a real bollock dropped by Michalski for their goal.

Was there a Sergei the Meerkat who I recall reading was one of their 'minders'. He used to have a lot to say about them.

The fact Jackson is claiming there are two separate issues from last year to this is even worse for me. It displays inherent weaknesses in another aspect of transfers, something Broughton was at pains to stress would be reviewed and corrected.

It says in red 'Annual statement overdue'. It was due by February 3rd. I haven't a clue what that really means but I trust one of our learned friends do.

Thanks Andy. I should have been clearer, I meant audio not written.

Cheers Andy. Will any meetings be recorded? I ask because I know somebody who had a meeting with Waggott recently and he was told it couldn't be recorded. That indicates to me that in case he accidentally said something incriminating he could deny it later.

I also think Brierley was the collateral damage to try and sell the O'Brien 'error' to us. That's three careers they have interfered with now without hardly and contrition for the players or their mental health. Surely the PFA should be looking at this too.

Sorry this is plagiarised from something I saw earlier but in the dark footballing days we are enduring it made me smile. Why don't all Rovers and Burnley fans swap season tickets from now until the end of the season. Then at least we'll all get to see a team we detest getting beat every week. 😂😂

Reading some posts about who can approve things it's almost like we are a normal club. Well we aren't. A financial commitment of the McGuire kind would have to have Indian approval and history tells us that they simply drag their heels and like to make people wait. If the McGuire deal has stalled then that's three that have gone the same way in a year which is unheard of (I think somebody found one previous case after an internet search). I don't know for sure but I do know Ian Silvester has done dozens of transfers over the years in his time at Leicester, Liverpool, Leeds and Rovers and every other one must have gone through on time and in full compliance. He might be the scapegoat here, the sacrificial lamb to save face and if he does go it will more likely be with an NDA to protect the owners reputation which is all they are bothered about. The real enemies of this club are the owners.

Even if McGuire is given clearance to sign and play the very fact talks are still going on three days after the window closed is enough for a full investigation particularly after Broughton's big talk about reviewing processes after the O'Brien farce. I wonder if there will be another expensive appeal like last time even though the fault for the debacle was entirely of Rovers own doing.

There are too many Indians involved at our club 😁.

It's difficult to fight an invisible enemy. If they were actually at the ground the vitriol could be aimed directly at them but I sincerely doubt they have watched a game for years. I suggested a few years ago that one sure fire way to get publicity would be to disrupt a match at Ewood. The easiest way it for a few hundred to sneak whistles into the ground and randomly blow them. The game would be stop/start and confusion would reign. It's cheap and would have the desired effect particularly if they were being blown in three different areas of the ground.

It was a strange one with Szmodics today. He seemed to indicate he had to come off to the bench before the physios got to him. Benson immediately gave the substitution card to the fourth official and Telalovic was getting ready. When Szmodics went to the touchline after brief treatment he saw Telalovic coming on and starting waving his arms angrily. His body language as he walked around the perimeter wasn't good but he didn't appear to go down the tunnel for further treatment but went and sat on the bench. He did have an exchange with Tomasson but that appeared convivial.