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Our friend ... seems fo be getting particularly worked up about this fixture - I really hope the team put in a performance for those in attendance tomorrow. At the start of the week I was quite excited about it but the nearer we get to the match the more my gut is telling me to expect the soggiest of damp squibs and that we wont turn up, or at least not until results elsewhere make our own result irrelevant. For those who think like me and want to help drown their sorrows a Bristol City/ Burnley/Coventry/Sheffield United acca pays about 12/1. For those who want to crack open the champagne to celebrate being half way there, a Bristol City/Burnley/ Middlesbrough/ Rovers acca pays about 26/1. The draw in the Coventry game makes it about 31/1. Ill be putting a fiver on each.

Ill predict we'll get none of the first 3. We've needed more quality up front since Adam Armstrong left but (decent) strikers cost money. On the CH positions, hopefully Scott Wharton will be back and somewhere near his best. I hope we give Batth a new deal. Carter should be back but will he be sold? I certainly wouldnt be averse to selling Hyam if we can get our money back on him as I dont rate him at all. He's only any use with someone like Batth or Wharton playing particularly well alongside him.

You dont deny we had c4k adult season ticket holders last year though?

My mate and his son after much soul searching have decided not to give up their ST's but to switch from the BBE to the Riverside on account of the price increase. If a lot of people do that, the atmosphere will be horrific next year with the BBE more than half empty. Not sure how it'll help them hit Revenue targets either. But hey, who needs atmosphere and passion when the main aim is not to win football matches but develop and sell a few players?

I must admit, if the aim of the Coalition is to remove the owners then I cant see a great deal of value in sitting down with the Club. Once you've sat down with them and asked "Will you sell the Club?" and they say "No". - where do you go after that? It's only if you've got a Plan B and are prepared to try and encourage them to fund the Club properly whilst they're here that there's much room for discussion. On the Yasir front, of all the things you could complain about I think this is pretty small beer in the general scheme of things. It would appear he's lived in Blackburn all his life but has been an Arsenal fan since errrr.......around the time Venky's took us over and we went shit. It seems he's guilty of doing the usual sort of thing players do when transferring to a new Club and claiming they've supported the Club all their lives but so what? It doesnt matter who he supports it only matters whether he's any good at his job. It might also be that he didn't mean his comments exactly in the way in which they were construed by WATR but by the same token I dont think he should be making such a thing about being a victim in all of this, if anything he should be apologising for not making what he meant clear enough. Either way it shouldnt be a big deal for either side imo. Far more important stuff to worry about. Final point about results, in many ways they've been the enemy of your protest efforts recently, but unless everything falls miraculously into place yet again for the umpteenth successive round of fixtures tomorrow, they will suddenly be your friend again. If we dont make the play offs that will still be a pretty poor effort from where we were when VI took over and then we'll be stuck with him for another 3 years. Alternatively if the minor miracle happens tomorrow and then he takes us up through the play offs you can sit down with the Club and discuss where the statue of him is going to be situated! Keep up the good work.

Im genuinely surprised you're surprised. In the early days at least the owners were funding the Club. That stopped a couple of years ago and two top managers have walked out in the space of twelve months on the back of it. One of them to join a Club in the bottom 3. Since the early days we've also had prices being raised by up to 25% for a season where no one could attend during Covid, the aborted attempt to sell off Brockhall, and high profile transfers collapsing at the last minute on two successive January windows allegedly due to "administrative" errors. What's so difficult to understand? They finished me off even before all the recent shenanigans three seasons ago by failing to secure a play off place when it seemed inpossible not to.

If you do have any sort of line through to the owners can you make them fully aware of Pasha's comments from the Fans Forum along the lines that they always request the maximum possible funding from the owners but its up to them how much they actually provide. I must admit I always assumed the opposite and Waggott and Paaha discouraged requests to the owners for money to make themselves look bettwr and protect any performance related bonuses.

It always baffles me how we dont deem certain youngsters worthy of any minutes in our first team yet Premier League Clubs obviously think they're worth a punt.

We can but hope.

Agree on the first paragraph, he should be asked at some point to substantiate that alleged £35m figure with dates and exactly what it was spent on. As far as the second para goes, most importantly for our purposes going forward, if you're correct it's £0 over the last 13 month! Should be asked of SW whether this is a permanent state of affairs or whether there is any intention that this will change.

Fair enough to an extent, but if there indeed was substantial resistance to certain things the Club said that needs to be recorded in the minutes otherwise the minutes put a completely different slant on the meeting to what actually happened.

I dont know if it would make people think Dolan was leaving before weekend necessarily but it's a totally unnecessary distraction leading into a vital game. Some fans might not be as behind Dolan as they otherwise would have been, Dolan's been forced into a sort of half hearted rebuttal and when he does leave, any words he does utter about his time at the Club wont sound as sincere as a result Cantwell would be furious if someone did the same to him.

Unless a large proportion of what was actually said in the meeting wasnt recorded it seems there was very little pushback on anything that the Club said. So much for not letting them off the hook and the tough line of questioning that was promised. Nothing whatsover made if you believe the minutes of the fact that two top Coaches have walked out on the Club in a space of 12 months. Nothing made of the fact the second one left a Club in the play offs to join one in the relegation zone which is unprecedented. Nothing asked about what steps if any the Club took to try and persuade Eustace to stay. It the Club had admitted there werent any, we needed to know their reasons why not. Nothing much made of the lack of contract offers made to players leaving either at the end of this season or the next. Nothing about Waggott's whopping increase in remuneration. Credit to K Hod for the one searching question about the lack of transfer investment. Does anyone actually believe that crap in response about us allegedly missing out on a mystery striker who became unavailable due to injuries at his Club? How convenient. A surprising amount of throwing the owners under the bus from SS - "we always request the maximum amount but its up to them how much they want to provide etc" Certainly no more pretence from him that "They never refuse to write a cheque" etc Is this right or is it him just trying to cover his own back and deflect criticism off him and Waggott? It doesnt really tie up with either Waggott claiming he was making a specific request for funding in advance of the January window at the last FF meeting, or Gestede saying in recent interviews that he knew what his budget was for the year and that wouldnt change no matter where we found ourselves in the table. I personally think all 3 are lying and none of them can get their story straight. In summary, the usual depressing read, the Club's default position being that they're never in the wrong and nothing is ever their fault. And no-one really ever takes them to task on it. Again unless the minutes are not a true reflection of what was actually said by and large the Club just come out with any old nonsense and no-one says anything in response. I'll exempt KHod from that as it would appear from the minutes he does his best.

Cantwell really is a tosser isnt he. It's not up to him to hint at Dolan's departure when Dolan himself hasnt publicly committed himself at this stage. If Dolan wants to go Public about his intentions then that's up to him and vice versa if he wants to stay tight lipped. Cantwell should have respected that. Any gushing crocodile tear tributes should have been saved until after Dolan's departure had been announced.

Souness wouldn't have put up with that, I remember Ken Beamish telling me years ago that he wouldn't let the players do hardly anything in terms of charitable activities etc because he viewed the players rest time as paramount.

Didn't this person say Waggott was being replaced by Gestede at the end of the season? Which isn't happening if Nixon is to be believed.

I'd imagine he thinks he can screw another half a mill out of the Club for maybe one more year then that will be about his lot.

Suspected as much. Cheers. I'd rather play Sunderland (If we get to that stage at all.)

Discounting Cantwell who is reportedly on £25 k p.w. and Dennis who is reportedly on £20k p.w. and who have both imo been massive disappointments, I think Dolan should be put roughly in line with the rest of our other top earners like Brittain, Travis, Tronstad and Hyam. He won't be of course, we'll be offering him thruppence ha'penny but at Championship level I doubt we'll get anyone any better or even as good. If the very unlikely event we did go up, he's not Premier League standard and that would be the only reason I'd be showing reticense in getting him tied down to a new deal but of course that won't be the real reason.

Back to the actual football I've seen it suggested we'll play Sheff Utd three times in quick succession if we make the play offs. In the even more unlikely event we finished 5th ahead of Bristol City, would that still be the case or would we play Sunderland?

I keep mentioning this, everyone is automatically assuming they'll always put in the bare minimum to keep us afloat if required - that MIGHT well be the case, but I'm assuming that's yet to be tested as we're probably still surviving on the proceeds of recent sales. The day of reckoning is likely to be pushed back a bit further as well if there's a fire sale of higher earners in the summer and/or a sell on bonus from Adam Wharton in the next 18 months or so. How much rosier the outlook would be if there was a minor miracle Saturday and in the play offs.

Id imagine we'll lose Dolan who has scored seven goals this season and renew the contract of Hedges who's scored seven in four seasons at the Club. The wrong decision in both instances. To the oft repeated tune of "We did all we could".

Come off it John, If the numbers sold at that point weren't discussed at the meeting then you're not breaching any confidences or etiquette by saying that. As posted above, KHod said some time ago the number sold at that point WAS revealed to the Forum. Which is it?

So that's directly contrary to what 02g is now saying. I tend to believe you rather than him on this, would you care to elaborate on what was said?

Why not say that then as opposed to deliberately keeping everyone hanging in suspense?