Ask and you shall receive!!

If we take care of our own results it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

I'm not watching it - what has Pears done wrong?

Spot on, that's roughly my position as well.

Have to disagree - selecting Hedges and Gallagher is like playing with nine men. I'm not sure why Ayari hasn't had more game time, he looks a pretty decent player.

OK I'll believe you, it just sounded like you wouldn't. And that a lot of others were even more entrenched in their opposition to him than you!

I made comparisons to the start Eustace has made here to Iley's record. I wasn't comparing them directly, Whilst Eustace hasn't impressed at all thus far I think it's far too early to write him off completely and at this stage I think the players are still playing for him as such.

But let's face it, even if he does his job and keeps us up you still won't be having him will you?

Yes, as I've clearly said.

That's my worry as well. The mentality at the Club is such that we always seem to do just enough to fail whether it be throwing away a play off place from a seemingly unassailable position two seasons running or winning games when it's too late to avoid the drop. I expect the same scenario followed no doubt by much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how unlucky we've been like when we won the last two under Mowbray when it was too late and went down on 52 points. The fact we'd gone I think seven without a win before that didn't seem to count.

Mowbray admitted in a jumpers for goalposts type interview that was reproduced on here that it was his decision not to renew certain contracts during Covid as it wasnt his money he was spending and so as not to upset the rest of the group. Other than that don't disagree with anything you say.

I really liked John Pickering. I remember the fans going on the Ewood pitch to chant his mame after we got relegated as well!

You keep talking with the benefit of hindsight. I don't suppose you'd have been complaining too much about not selling Rothwell and Brereton if we'd been promoted during either of the last two seasons. Something which seems a million miles away now.

Quality stuff from someone who knows the history of the Club inside out. That should wipe the insincere cheesy grin off his smug face for a while. We could do with a similarly well researched list of questions for Waggott and get them all into the public domain somehow. Need to ramp up the pressure on these chancers. And yes the pressure needs to be turned up on the owners as well before anyone starts. If there are any legitimate ways of embarrassing them back at home then that would have more impact than chucking a handful of tennis balls on the pitch at Ewood I'd have thought. (Although if the latter is to be done again it needs organising properly and about a thousand people throwing them so it doesn't look to the outside world like the work of a couple of cranks)

We've been over this time and time again and we will never agree on it but no, if Waggott and Mowbray had done their jobs and tied them all down when they should have done the issue would never have arisen in the first place. We could have kept them temporarily for a promotion push AND sold them for sizeable fees after if we'd so wished.

I'd rather play Mcfadzean up front than Gallagher. At least he might ruffle a few feathers.

Maybe it's me being old fashioned but I was irritated by the supporters in the JW Stand who were sat near the players fist bumping Chrisene as he made his way back to his seat after being substituted. If he'd scored a goal or we were 3 up maybe. But at 1-0 down? Are they that desperate to catch the attention of someone who isn't even our player? I'd have been looking steadfastly the other way. Bah Humbug!

Odd considering Waggott was going around telling people privately the owners had granted him and Mowbray a very considerable one off war chest. Of course we'll never know if there was any truth to that but part of the alleged potential windfall was the promotion bonuses which were actually subsequently widely publicised in the LT.

IF all the hypothetical conditions I listed were met and they kept out of it I could tolerate them staying but imo they won't ever be, therefore they need to go. I don't have any affinity towards them as owners whatsoever but imo you don't turn away billionaires lightly. It's a bit like like the question Caroline Aherne famously asked Debbie Mcgee "So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels then? ".

Understandable. Just checked Jim Iley's record. 14th of April 1978 to the end of September 1978. P 12 W 1 D 4 L 7. Come on Mr. Eustace. You REALLY don't want to be inviting those sort of comparisons!

You're doing it again. I've specifically said I do not hold out any hope under these owners. And detailed the reasons why. And people wonder why I get irritated.

I can't believe more wasn't made of the fact that after initially negotiating a reasonable sounding permanent fee of £2.5 m for Mcguire GB then agreed to an option to purchase of around £7m Euros as part of the proposed loan deal. Which obviously would never be exercised. (Was it not £5m for Hirst as well?) Proving that far from being an innocent victim in all this Broughton is fully compliant and up to his neck in the whole charade.

You probably won't like this answer but like J*B I think IF the Court Proceedings were not pertaining and IF they were once again able and willing to fund the Club up to the maximum permitted by FFP and IF they kept their beaks out and IF they appointed a competent CEO /Manager/ Coach and DOF then that would lead to a greater chance of successt than being completely skint. That is never going to happen. Various people were led to believe that this sort of situation might finally come about a couple of seasons or so ago but instead things have gone completely in the opposite direction and even further South than before if that were possible. Too much water has flowed under the bridge and I don't think we'd ever get to that optimum hypothetical situation under these owners therefore they need to go. It's always been either the wrong people squandering money or no money when the right people comes along under this ownership. If we end up with a succession of people who are the wrong person with no money we really are screwed.

I agree the time for protests has probably come. The current situation on and particularly off the pitch can not endure. Unfortunately however whether the fan base as a whole will share your appetite looks somewhat doubtful. Maybe the match going crowd are starting to turn though? Don't worry, I don't have any problem with coarse language whatsoever but tend to find it has more impact used a little more sparingly. Enjoy your Easter.

Have to agree to disagree on Broughton but otherwise spot on. Great post.