RevidgeBlue

To the extent there are any skeletons, not sure why the LT would be aware of any of them. They could have a field day highlighting instead of ignoring as previously some of the stuff that's in the public domain though. Investment turned down for the ladies team, deliberately relegated, now losing anything from 5 or 6 nil to 13 nil every week. The Court Case. Wharton offloaded for a pitiful amount to keep the lights on. Sky Sports removed from Blues Bar. The dispute with the kit manufacturers. CEO left and not replaced. The allegedly toxic atmosphere within the Club and the very high turnover of both playing and non playing staff. And that's all relatively recent stuff without even examining the transfer deadline day debacles or before that events from years ago.

Why would Venky's allow £250m worth of debt to be secured against their assets if they weren't the actual owners?

Possibly......and hope so!

Only 4 weeks behind.......bless.

Excellent statement from the LT. Not gone down well with the Club plants in the comments section.

Yep. Trying for £50m. Finance expert Stefan Borson expects the case to settle at some point for around £10m. The PL aren't keen on the litigation as it's a bad look for the League. Roll on Rovers plus team denied promotion by Ipswich v the EFL.

He's been in charge now for 18 games - only five short of half a season - and has amassed a grand total of twenty one points. (Plus a home defeat to Bradford in the League Cup we aren't allowed to mention.) I dont expect that ratio to improve.

Bit unfair to say JDT and Eustace weren't successful. Thought they did exceptionally well to do what they did given the "project" had changed.

Id say we were that last season. However blessed with an excellent manager who managed to turn muddy water into a palatable house wine. This season .........God only knows.

Yeah, we're transitioning into an exhilarating high tempo, high pressing game with a team of athletic players. Oooh errrr..... hang on.....

Well he learnt from the best albeit Waggott was more Arthur Daley than narcissist.

Errrrmmmmm............. Four defeats out of six. Horrendous stuff. Picking fights with the local press, likely to get sued by the kit supplier, staff both playing and non playing who can't wait to get away and leaving in droves. No replacement for Waggott as bad as he was. The Club is in its death throes. I'll be astounded if we dont go down this season.

Read the Club's latest statement.

Bit harsh on Wharton! Lol.

Wrexham/Derby 1-1 with 10 mins to go Brereton just equalised for Derby. O Brien scored for Wrexham, thats his 3rd this season apparently. Wonder what would have happened if he'd joined us when he should have done?

He probably hasnt had time to read it.

Someone from a West Ham podcast just said on Talksport that West Ham told Potter he'd be being replaced but wanted him to stay in charge for two tricky away games to give Nuno an easier start. Unsurprisingly Potter said no and opted to leave straightaway.

What on earth makes them think they have the right to pick the LT's reporters for them? Personally Im not a fan of Jackson's reporting myself, but this is totally unfair, his liveliehood is at risk. I really hope the LT dont cave in and tell the Club where to stick it and that they will choose their own staff thank you very much.

Can't really remember anything vaguely controversial from the Club's point of view that Jackson has ever written. Perhaps they didnt like his recent article about Friedel, the headline of which insinuated one of the reasons he left was that he foresaw future problems with the ownership of the Club. If the headline accurately represented what Friedel said, he certainly wasn't wrong!

Completely nonplussed by this news, I thought Jackson wrote the most sycophantic drivel imaginable anyway so God only knows what the Club were expecting. Don't like all this LT going on tour as guests of the Club type stuff - it's the job of the Club's PR department to provide the stuff about how wonderful they all are. It's the LT's job to remain independent and provide an objective and balanced view. I know the LT need the Rovers coverage but I hope they stick to their guns and don't cave in to blackmail from the Club. In the short term I imagine they'll gain a lot more goodwill and subscriptions if they take a step back and report fairly but impartially

Yep, ridiculous decision, and even more scandalous that 3 members of the panel were allowed to abstain. I hope we appeal on a point of principle, it might not make any difference to the actual outcome but the situation is completely untenable. As for any replay as Sir Alf said at the end of 90 mins in 1966 "You've beaten them once, just go out and do it again."

There you go trying to defend the indefensible again. Surely we should be judging our infrastructure against sides at a comparable level not bloody Fylde and Southport?

No, obviously any team is always going to lobby for whichever outcome suits them best. You can't blame Ipswich for that. However you'd hope the EFL blessed by absolute discretion within their guidelines would take on board the representations from each Club, but ultimately arrive at the fairest overall solution in any given case. Which obviously hasn't happened here. I bet if you sent a survey out to the 72 Championship Clubs asking a neutral question about what should happen in a hypothetical situation similar to Saturday's, not one would say there should be a full replay under completely different conditions to the remainder of the original game.

Exactly so. Despite the inherent unfairness of the ruling I was expecting it - what I wasn't expecting was for that unfairness to be compounded by the possibility the vote only went against us due to several panel members abstaining! Ludicrous! Given the owners seem to love a good Court case and their previous predilection for throwing away obscene amounts of money in legal fees on seemingly lost causes, now we have an arguable case I hope they go full frontal and appeal and as you say preface it with the threat of legal action as above. The EFL deserve for us to lose the replay and go down by less than three points and for Ipswich to be promoted by less than three points and for them to have the arse sued off them by both us and any other aggrieved Club.

I saw Herbie's reply before and was going to post exactly the same thing but you've beaten me to it! 🙂