Populated by what looks like three men and a dog 😁😁. Perhaps an ominous sign for next season.

To add credence to your information I heard similar about it although the figure I was told was £30k. I'm not splitting hairs but merely supporting your point that they are scrimping once again on an important area of the football side of the club despite what Waggott said in February. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19124191.rovers-ceo-outlines-2m-ewood-park-pitch-renovations-plans/

There is far too much emphasis on pace in the modern game. Being quick is undoubtedly an asset but all the best players I have seen have an uncanny knack of being in the right places despite not having great pace. Probably the best example of this, Bobby Moore once said that the first few yards were in your head. Maybe it's more of a natural trait rather than being coached but I agree entirely with your assertion.

Johnson and Downing not involved at all. I wonder if these are two of the players not getting a new deal after Mowbray said all the out of contract players know now. The bad news is that Bell and Evans start so applying the same logic they might be getting new deals. Who knows in this madhouse of a club.

Fits the bill. Ex Middlesbrough, can still live on Teeside and join the car share club from Yarm. I feel a three year deal coming.

Hence the word should. That blind loyalty will be rewarded in a near empty stadium next season, a God awful manager and coaching staff, a self serving parasitic Chief Exec and a relegation bound team. And that's before any mention of idiotic, arrogant owners.

And that, my friend should resonate with every Rovers supporter. The people who have been up in arms since Sunday with regard to awful owners have endured for a few days what we have for a decade. We are only little Blackburn Rovers so we hardly merited any national media coverage apart from being criticised for protesting. We were let down every organisation we turned to. Football is a horrible business and mirrors society where the rich and powerful are protected and the lesser mortals are left by the wayside.

They are losing 2-1 now. If it stays that way they will be four points behind Derby with two games in hand although out of their five remaining games only one is at home.

I can't ever remember such a disconnect between clubs and fans in football. Clearly Rovers is uppermost in most of our minds but this latest farce will be the final straw for many supporters of other clubs. The insatiable greed shown by the 'big six' will hopefully hit them hard in terms of their income streams despite their groveling, condescending apologies.

Last night proved to me that several players are going through the motions and playing by instinct rather than to any plan Mowbray might have. The team looked disjointed, disinterested and most likely disillusioned just like many of us fans and it's entirely down to one man. We are entering one of the most critical summers of our recent history and the club is treading water and showing no urgency or, dare I say interest. Waggott, Mowbray and his coaching staff are getting away with murder as our club continues to rot from the inside.

Is the pitch Feniscowles Rec?

Seven of his starting eleven might not even be Rovers players in a few weeks. He's a strange man

I think you are right Den. I think one of the real irritants for the 'big six' is that they can't control the Premier League due to the democratic voting process. Had it not been for this they would have already been taking the lions share of broadcasting revenue and leaving the other clubs in their slipstream. Greed has been prevalent since the inception of the Premier League but now it's gone to a different level. When I read that Pogba wants £500k a week I feel disgusted particularly as the world is going through a crisis.

I read that prospective EPL members would have to resign from the PL so it might be a case of who blinks first if this goes ahead. The sneaky, underhanded way this has been done makes me think Waggott could get a job with one of them clubs 😂.

This is going to get dirty a and make some lawyers rich as it sounds like the clubs involved are determined to push ahead with it. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/man-united-vs-burnley-highlights-20412822

There would be a real irony in this as Sky created the monster that football has become. My personal view is to let them go ahead with their own league and then take the opportunity to reset football in this country and get back to the real world we had before money and greed took over.

Thanks John. What is the next step in the process? Will another meeting be convened to discuss these matters further? Was there any suggestion of a kind of working party to look at ways of actually getting people to buy them?

Thanks. Will there be some minutes available of the meeting?

I have given you all the information I was given apart from a question about season tickets. Allegedly it was said that they were waiting to see what league we are in before they are advertised. If there was a meeting somebody from the various fan groups should know. I got the story second hand but I was told who the originator was and I have no reason to disbelieve him.

I was told last night that a Supporters Consultation Meeting took place on Thursday but this is unsubstantiated. According to the friend who told me neither of Waggott, Cheston or Silvester were there with Greg Coar and Lyndsey Talbot taking the questions. Has anybody else heard anything?

Does he realise how stupid he sounds? Development of players and the team? How many players have actually developed in his four years compared to how many have stagnated or regressed? And we are on course to finish marginally above the league position we were in when he joined us. He is beginning to sound like he has serious issues.

I honestly can't see any value in selling Brockhall and moving to a new site, it's pointless in my view. In terms of the value of Brockhall it isn't worth nearly as much as they thought with the bottom site not available for housing. Again it's a back of a fag packet job which would probably cost the owners money should we sell Brockhall and relocate. If Waggott was in the job for the right reasons he would be asking the owners for money to develop the Riverside rather than potentially selling Brockhall and moving elsewhere.

All this innovations would be far more palatable if they improved the product and helped to win matches. In 2000 the Select Group of referees came into being with the advent of full time, professional referees followed by Select Group 2 in 2017 who mainly operate on the Championship. They have access to sports psychologists, fitness coaches, referee coaches and pretty much the best of everything. Has anybody noticed a discernable difference in the standard of refereeing to justify the huge expenditure? If anything I believe the standard is worse. That's just how I view all these new fangled ideas which cost a fortune just as (I believe) the standard of entertainment is regressing as we are insulted by managers who have an excuse for everything.

For me personally it's another big lump of the block that used to be my love of football but the idiots have chipped away at it so much there's not much left. I honestly have not read so much bollocks on football related topics in my life. Expected goals, what does it mean, what does it prove, who actually believes in this shite. Winning football matches is all that matters, that is what success is built on but some have lost sight of that in the statistic driven world. It's simple, couldn't be simpler really - score more than your opponents and win the game. Still it keeps some people in a job.

I'm amazed that afer a decade of these owners the same tired old excuse for them is still trotted out. There is a letter in circulation signed by Messrs Williams, Finn and Goodman advising them that what was happening was against the rules and potentially could get us in trouble. They were still in situ when the letter was sent so had the owners not been so arrogant and listened to the people that knew and understood the potential pitfalls then all this could have been avoided. They didn't and within months all three were toast. It was all so avoidable.