I'm guessing you've never seen this lad play, I certainly haven't, one of those who could be great or could be absolutely terrible I'd assume. Edit: That's assuming we're even genuinely interested in him which we won't be if there's much of a fee involved I don't suppose.

That's because realistically, the chances of us bringing in a younger player who's better than Batth on a longer contract are slim to none and Slim left town some time ago

Didn't his side finish rock bottom of their League?

Come off it, bottom line is seemingly we can't or won't even compete with Derby for two thirty somethings in Batth and Weimann. Weimann would be no great loss imo but failing to secure Batth would be a major blow no matter what some are saying about his age. If we were trying to scrimp about on these two to save money to bring in more expensive signings as well then that would be fine but I think we can pretty much guarantee that won't be the case.

Extremely late to the party, but better late than never I suppose.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this point as always. I've no idea why you have always dismissed Waggott's contribution as completely irrelevant. If that's the case when we might as well not bother having a CEO.

From the story I heard on the radio I'm not sure Chelsea sought the investment as such, some Celebrity or other expressed an interest in buying a stake in their women's side and a rather arbitrary valuation of £200m was placed on the womens side of the Club by Chelsea. Even for a team that has dominated the WSL that sounds a fairly optimistic figure to me. And much lower down the food chain I'm not sure it's possible to assign much of a monetary value to Rovers women's side at all. Still entirely the wrong decision to downgrade in the prevailing climate though. The communication aspect whilst displaying our customary lack of class is entirely secondary and of course the decision begs the question of what will be the next thing we've previously taken for granted to face the axe.

For me they don't come into the same category as the Red Scum along the M62 but how many times are they actually going to celebrate winning the title?. Sky made us sit through a couple of hours of cringeworthy celebration, including Slot singing, after the match where they clinched the title (Was it Spurs?) so I assumed that was it. Then, seemingly, same again after yesterday's game. THEN an open air parade today. Talk about overkill.

His thousands of subscribers must lap it up though.

"Short bursts of doing ok" describes Hyam to a tee. Ironically alongside Wharton and later Batth.

Hmm.... definitely wouldn't call him lazy. Hopefully irrelevant now but by no means a given that the Club will ever recover from the position he left us in, stripped to the bone at a point where the owners have lost interest.

Aye, he's so thick, he allegedly conned money out of Andy Cole and somehow commandeered salaries of several hundreds of thousands of pounds for running his respective Clubs into the ground everywhere he went.

Best defender we have when he's fit and playing well. If someone had to go would be far better off shipping out the massively over-rated Hyam.

Jackson needs to avoid becoming the PR man for the Regime again. Why would merely re- signing one of our players up on a new deal represent a major statement of intent? We can't even get 34 year old Batth over the line for another season. As others have said - just announce signings after they're made. Otherwise it's a complete non story.

Be careful not to be used as the PR mouthpiece for Waggott. His camp have obviously leaked the alleged story about him previously being receptive to the idea of external investment in the women's team as if true it tends to paint him in a positive light. However I'd say it's doubtful at this stage whether the women's side has any real intrinsic value as an investment vehicle and unfortunately for him (probably fortunately for us) he was not at liberty to be selling off chunks of equity in any part of the Club ( or the training ground). He's not the owner. I'd tend to take the massive hike in his own personal remuneration as a more reliable guide to his character.

Yes, he's the undertaker all right.

Complaining about Tuchel's squads now is a bit like complaining about who Ismael selects in the pre season friendlies. All that matters is what happens at the World Cup. I still have a lot more confidence of Tuchel bringing success than I ever would have under wet lettuce Southgate.

Mark Brfc beat me to it but - No, just cheaper inferior ones to replace the ones we've already got.

The suggestion that Pasha has been telling the owners that all is well and they don't need to spend has been doing the rounds for a few seasons now from a variety of "inside" sources. I didn't give it any credence at first, it's just too ludicrous for words, who apart from their right mind (apart from Mowbray) would be discouraging the owners from spending? Anyone normal on the ground would be doing their utmost to persuade the owners to spend as much on players as they possibly could. Does seem to be an increasingly common suggestion though - not least from one of our former managers" "Ask Suhail".

Question not directed at me but I've always thought it was those on the ground at Ewood whose cushy little number with minimum hassle would be affected - Suhail, Waggott, Mowbray, Venus, Lowe, Caley etc etc. Gestede has now come in and seemingly bought quickly into the "Play offs weren't the target this season it was building for next year" line. Can't see why the owners wouldn't want promotion if only to recoup some losses.

Exactly. Conversely if they'd gone the other way and suddenly decided to fully fund the women's side for good PR, bearing in mind it's not PSR related, but not communicated the decision miles in advance, that would have been absolutely fine. In general terms there genuinely isn't any impediment to them funding the women's side if they wanted to, they obviously just don't want to. It does make me continue to worry if funding has now been completely cut off all round , no matter what the situation, but we haven't quite got to crisis point yet.

Somebody who holds a stake? Beyond that I'm no wiser than you are. Trendy buzzword for something or other I presume.

Just seen a decent article online alleging Waggott and the owners clashed over the women's team. Apparently a meeting was held last season at which a firm which invests in women's football by taking an equity share offered external investment into the Rovers women's side. The article alleges that Waggott would have been up for such investment but the owners refused because they thought the optics of accepting investment for the women but not the men's team looked bad. Interesting if true. Edit: It might be this Company have done us a massive favour by hastening Waggott's long overdue departure even if they didn't get their investment.

What if we lose the first six or seven last season? Will you change your mind again and concede you were right in the first place and wrong to change your mind when we won a few? 🙂

Because a better CEO might have the mindset that he or she can achieve similar results by attempting to increase revenues or at least bums on seats rather than just shrinking the Club and merely cutting costs.