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19 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

pickering was very steady today,would be an enormously stupid decision to offload him imo

Agreed but when does this club do logic?

De Neve won't be going anywhere

Gueye & Pickering the most likely only outgoings I'd say.

For all the talk of the squad overhaul in the summer, it's once again the academy that comes to the fore.

Pratt and Litherland were excellent, Atcheson also had a good game when he came on.

Cantwell, Tronstad, Ohashi all excellent also.

Probably the best corner routine we've had under Venky's 

That bright start has faded pretty quickly. 

Be a miracle if we don't concede soon. 

Andri!!!

10 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Litherland & Pickering start, Dlamini on the bench which seems a strange one as he is a winger

Looks like Miller & Pickering at wing back

 

 

Yikes.

Wtf is that?

----------------------Pears

-----Litherland---McLoughlin---Pratt

Miller----------------------------------Picks

------------Tronstad--Mori

--------------Cantwell

---------Gudjohnsen---Ohashi

0-3

Baffling lineup.

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

From reports it a committee of 4 who picked Ismael has the head coach. The 4 being Waggott, Gestede, Pasha and Owen. The final shortlist was Ismael or Wagner

 

Then they should all be leaving the club along with Waggott.

An absolutely dreadful appointment that could be seen from miles off.

14 minutes ago, Andy said:

I have a league match with my U11 side in the morning and, genuinely, I am more invested in that than the Rovers game.

I'll probably catch Rovers on (entirely legitimate, of course) telly when I get in, but my weekend mood will be defined by how my twelve 10-year-olds get on just before.

We're going for a 3rd consecutive league win and playing Dingles 🫡

Good luck! Hope you win!

9 minutes ago, DE. said:

Incredible that Coyle got until February. That disastrous lack of urgency essentially relegated us. 

Less than two years earlier Bowyer got binned in November, and we were 16th when he left. One can only speculate as to why Coyle in comparison got an extra four months to seal our fate in 16/17. 

One can also only speculate why ten years ago 16th in November wasn't acceptable, but now 20th in December is fine. 

It feels like Gestede has picked out VI for the "project" and he'll be backing him for the full 3 years of his contract.

I don't envisage any situation occurring for the rest of the season that would result in his dismissal, and I include relegation in that.

Only chance he's going if Pasha is stabbing everyone in the back right now in India (and he will be) and putting a case forward that he can salvage everything and turn it all around. That would probably be the end for both VI and RG.

15 minutes ago, G Somerset Rover said:

It'll be interesting to hear if VI comments on it today in his presser. A couple of weeks ago I'm sure it would have been a resounding "it's nothing but detrimental to the team" but he's clearly a bit pissed himself right now. I still expect a similar party line, but you never know. All depends how bad things really are behind the scenes between him, Rudy and Suhail the snake.

Really gotta hope BBC Lancs poses the question to him. Could get really spikey if pushed.

Results will play a part as well.

We have some tough and also some critical fixtures between now and the Watford game:

Millwall - Tough

Middlesbrough - Tough

Sheff Wed - Critical

Wrexham - Critical

Charlton - Critical

Ipswich - Tough

Swansea - Critical

Watford - Boycott

I don't see us picking up many points across those whole set of fixtures but there could be some devastating losses in there. If we're in the bottom 3 by the time Watford come to town, we might very well get a lot of fans boycotting.

Just now, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Pre-game media?

May offer to walk out if challenged.

 

Like Rudy and probably Pasha, he's pretty arrogant. 

1 win in 10 at home, 3 points off the drop, sat 20th in the league, genuinely not sure how he has the stones to have such arrogance that he can't be challenged.

Will Ismael be doing his pre-game press conferences today? 

Could get interesting with the external ones, BBC Lancashire must ask him about the fan dissent.

13 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

This goes to show how difficult it is to grow and achieve with a football club using the 'Brighton' model. You can keep selling players for more than you paid, but in our case the club has stagnated while that has happened. Clubs like Brighton. Brentford, the dingles, have bought cheap, sold high and progressed the league position of the club. To do that, you have to keep reinvesting the money wisely and appointing smart football people. We've done none of that. It's all on the owners and reason 358 that they need to go.

I always assumed, though could be wrong, that clubs like Brighton, Brentford etc. started off buying players for lower fee's, selling those for good money, using that money to buy more expensive players than the first lot cost, sell those, reinvest, rinse, repeat.

So like, you'd buy a player for £2m, sell for £10m, then buy a player for say £5m out of the profit, sell for £20m etc. etc.

(they are example figures that i've just made up)

Rovers just wanna buy for £500k, sell for a profit and then buy more players for £500k.

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

far from perfect, but basically yes

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB2/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2010&saison_id_bis=2025&nat=&pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0

 

#	Club		Expenditure	Arrivals	Income	Departures	balance
1		Swansea City	€308.57m	345	€394.08m	351	€85.51m
2		Blackburn Rovers	€91.02m	376	€163.26m	388	€72.23m
3		Bristol City	€101.47m	384	€146.88m	381	€45.42m
4		Peterborough United	€26.28m	473	€67.42m	479	€41.14m
5		Wigan Athletic	€76.89m	445	€111.09m	439	€34.20m
6		Watford FC	€400.63m	467	€434.47m	466	€33.83m
7		Barnsley FC	€26.90m	469	€55.87m	466	€28.97m
8		Milton Keynes Dons	€4.04m	429	€21.43m	429	€17.39m
9		Blackpool FC	€13.39m	508	€28.42m	514	€15.03m
10		Oxford United	€5.92m	433	€19.48m	421	€13.56m
11		Portsmouth FC	€16.60m	478	€29.25m	479	€12.65m
12		Charlton Athletic	€29.80m	488	€42.26m	485	€12.46m
13		Reading FC	€71.14m	398	€81.90m	400	€10.76m
14		Plymouth Argyle	€11.11m	411	€20.29m	413	€9.18m
15		Rotherham United	€6.38m	476	€13.75m	471	€7.37m
16		Preston North End	€26.12m	396	€32.47m	392	€6.35m
17		Bolton Wanderers	€31.93m	429	€36.94m	438	€5.01m
18		Doncaster Rovers	€1.78m	467	€6.79m	465	€5.01m
19		Birmingham City	€136.20m	437	€140.90m	438	€4.70m
20		Wycombe Wanderers	€1.92m	405	€5.78m	403	€3.87m
21		Scunthorpe United	€2.11m	472	€5.88m	477	€3.78m
22		Coventry City	€71.33m	366	€74.41m	370	€3.09m
23		Burton Albion	€2.04m	482	€4.98m	477	€2.93m
24		Hull City	€228.74m	436	€231.53m	438	€2.79m
25		Yeovil Town	-	501	€760k	506	€760k

Ah that must have been what I saw. 

Thanks!

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Harry Berry nails it on Twitter

Sorry, just to be clear, is Harry Berry saying that we're £80m in profit from transfer sales across 15 years?

Thinking about it, i'm sure I saw a stat somewhere, maybe last year that had us and Swansea (?) at the top of a chart regarding profit made from transfers over the last few years.

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Id wager there'll be some sort of sly dig about it somewhere along the way.

"Those that would want to see us fail" or "Enemy within" type thing.

100% there will be.

Imagine if we actually win a fucking game for a change, there will be less of a sly dig and just a straight up insult to us.

19 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

And still we await a responce to the Coalition letter...do they think it will all go away if we win Saturday?

They won't respond, not a chance. 

They'll be a rallying cry from the manager, especially if he get's asked about it by BBC Lancashire. And they'll probably get a player to do the same in a pre-match interview.

Other than that, as you were for the last 15 years, radio silence.

36 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Did Sheffield Wednesday end up doing a boycott?

If so, does anyone know the actual (not published) attendance figure for that match?

Yeah, I watched the game on Sky.

Ignore whatever figure they pushed out because it was absolutely dead in the stadium. 

Here are the match highlights so you can see what it was like: 

0-2, easy as you like for Millwall.

Hopefully a low crowd to really put the wind up the owners.

2 hours ago, glen9mullan said:

Certainly making traction local and national news.

Interviews with Coalition members on Radio Lancs and Rock FM.

Various papers and websites run with it.

Been on tv on BBC

And of course picked up by SKY too.

We have to push push push now, ignore the background noise.

We've also had confirmation the letter has been read by the Raos, as it arrived through various channels.

They've no excuses, no hiding , the time to talk is gone, SELL THE CLUB

I don't suppose he was nice enough to give you a response?

13 minutes ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

I think some will get on board as this progresses when the current regime react poorly to it (which they will because it's suhail). 

Just got to hope that this gets the owners attention. Bare minimum we can get rid of suhail.

This regime are the absolute masters of shooting themselves in the foot.

They'll play straight into The Coalition's hands.

This is the 2nd video that Cantwell has been involved in and Big Mak was present both times. 

Both times Big Mak has not come out of this very well at all.