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Was this morning I believe

That interview could’ve come straight from the dry lips of Steve Kean.

I’m pretty sure that this generation of pampered players are given loads of media training throughout their early careers, and surely social media comes into this. Examples of footballers using social media for good are far outweighed by those where it causes problems. For every Marcus Rashford there are 100 Andre Greys. I’d make them all delete their accounts, or as a minimum make them private. The exceptions to this in the current squad would be Dolan, who has proven despite his young years, and probably due to his more humble route into the game, that he can be trusted. Brereton too, for obvious reasons.

@rog of the roversplease don’t leave it so long til you do another preview… this is brilliant!

Just read through all the posts on here last night and this morning. Thought I’d wait til I made a post. Well, I’m getting more and more pissed off as the day goes on. For a manager who spends so much time worrying about other teams, how can anyone possibly explain how isolated our fullbacks were for the entirety of last nights game? They were both doubled or trebled up on every single attack. How has Johnson played 90 minutes? The entire midfield were disgusting last night, while Travis seems to have got a bit of a pass for getting a bit petulant for 5 minutes, they were all woeful, but Johnson really stood out. Van Hecke is brainless. He has shown this from day one and has been an accident waiting to happen. It’s only down to some abysmally bad officiating he didn’t cost us all the points and see a red on his debut. He’s a donkey who can only head a ball, gets far too tight every time and wrestles his opponents but still gets turned. I left after about 75 minutes last night, but the players had turned it in well before then. Disgraceful night where nobody comes away with any credit, and Mowbray should pay with his job. However, the fact he won’t should wake a few people up to our current reality. We have dreadful, dreadful owners who do not give a shit. I’m not going to be grateful for the fact they are as rich as they are stubborn.

Relief!!

Derby will present a different proposition than Reading last week earlier this week. Score draw.

Believing there are not two Saturdays in a week is not being pedantic.

We do not.

Stop saying we have three games in a week. The Gregorian calendar has been good enough for almost the entire world for about 500 years, so I don’t know why you and Tony Mowbray have such an issue with it.

I don’t think any of those clubs had produced plans to sell their training grounds to housing developers in the months leading up to their sales though. I don’t think that threat has gone away.

Just to add, I think you are absolutely right about the training ground, and Waggott’s comments. The ACV would’ve been an attempt to prevent anything like the housing development they proposed. I have no doubt they will revisit that at some point.

1) That’s a big assumption. You clearly have more faith in Venky’s making decisions that benefit the club in the long term than I do. 2) I’d rather the clubs fixed assets remain so instead of being sold off to satisfy short term needs. With hindsight, if the entire purpose was to satisfy FFP requirements the whole escapade may not have been necessary anyway as we sold Armstrong a few weeks later. And black hole would be more appropriate than bank. My stance… it’s typically short sighted. And it’s concerning, given the way the club has been mismanaged for over a decade. I have questions about whether this will impact our Cat one status too. This is only out there as the Trust were looking into the possibility of reapplying for ACV status to be granted again. After the previous attempts to sell we thought it sensible, and with Waggott stating as part of his pitch that in the future it would provide facilities for community use, we felt there was a chance.

Don’t know about banging your head against a brick wall Rev, but you seem determined to pin absolutely everything wrong with the club on Mowbray and Waggott and absolve Venky’s of any blame at all. It’s very odd. The training ground is no longer an asset of BRFC. There are some serious potential long term implications to this.

It has been transferred from Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited to a different company. It’s exactly what has happened.

Ownership of the Senior Training centre passed from Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited to a newly formed company - Venkateshwara London Limited on the 24th June 2021, for a fee of £16.6 million

The main reason I’d be more than happy with Ainsworth isn’t simply that he’s from Blackburn, it’s that he actually gives a shit about the club. It wouldn’t just be a job to him. He wouldn’t need to make stupid and untrue claims about walking away if he became a burden, he’d actually just do it. He’s one person who would attempt to tell Venky’s a few home truth instead of being all servile and subservient. It’s been us v them since day one. It’d be nice to have one of us in a position of influence. However, our overlords would not like this and would probably bin him within a fortnight.

With the squad as it stands, I think we stay up fairly comfortably. An injury to Ayala, and/or losing one or more of Brereton, Lenihan or Nyambe in the window and we would be bang in trouble.

If ever we needed any more proof xG is a right load of old bollocks

Kaminski - gets too much appreciation for not being Christian Walton. Overrated. Nyambe - would be mad to sign a new deal with us I’m afraid. Go on and fulfil your potential. Good performance. Lenihan - Bang average. Van Hecke - Donkey. Ayala - Good. Pickering - out of his depth Edun - Tidy player. Few iffy moments but was massively isolated for large spells. Will be a good signing. Travis - regressing. Clarkson - Totally unsuited to playing in this division. Brereton - tried hard but service was non-existent Butterworth - failed to take his chance Johnson - off the pace Rothwell - we expect miracles. Didn’t get the opportunity to do what he does best Gallagher - nothing of note barring a stupid tackle Mowbray - out

You’ve been staring at that bright new scoreboard too long. It’s fried your brains

Another very fortunate decision not to award a penalty against us

Pickering will have his work cut out with Adomah. And with Chair in midfield I’d be a lot happier with Johnson in there than Clarkson… although I noticed after Cov, Mowbray was on about taking Buckley off and he said he had a choice of bringing on either Davenport to sure things up, or Clarkson who is a passer. No mention of Johnson - he has clearly decided that he is now a centre back in his twilight years after an average 45 mins there in an emergency! I hope to god Van Hecke isn’t left to look after Dykes. It’ll be interesting to see how Dozzell does, as he was rubbished by a lot of our fans when we were briefly linked with him. Glad to see Butterworth get a start!

“Contract rebels”. Jesus Christ. Hardly surprising there have been no bids for players who are free to sign pre-contract agreements in 74 days. I notice in your earlier post you inserted a little caveat to remove two thirds of the division from the equation when you state we are one of the leagues best payers. Its still not true though. The only table we are close to the top of is wages as a percentage of turnover. We are obviously way too high here, but instead of increasing turnover we are slashing the wage bill. A lazy, shortsighted tactic from incompetent people. You state that nobody has a clue what players earn, or have been offered - but it’s possible to make an educated guess. Our total wage bill is public record. it’s also not too difficult to get a fair idea of what individual players earn, especially if you like investigating. Nyambe is on about 4.5 grand per week, and his initial new deal was described as “a joke” by a prominent local reporter. Neglecting to enter into discussions earlier, despite him becoming a vital part of the team has probably annoyed him. Halting all discussions for a year, blaming it on COVID, and automatically activating the year option when he likely feels severely undervalued won’t help either. Besides, even if everything you say is true, surely it’s rank incompetence by those at the club to not have sold them by now. 10 million + worth of players have no sell on value in 10 weeks.

For Gods sake Chaddy. Has this only just dawned on you? Because it’s been apparent to anyone with half a brain for a decade. Why are you making out this is an emerging problem that only you are smart enough to identify? Almost as soon as Venky’s took over we began paying more in wages than we brought in. It’s never stopped and has got progressively worse. Our finances as horrendous, it’s not news to anybody. The club are being completely disingenuous blaming it on the pandemic, and anyone falling for it needs to have a long hard think. We are now told that the COVID situation has created “unprecedented circumstances” for the club. Aside from the fact that EVERY CLUB IN THE WORLD has been hit to almost the same extent, having low revenues and high costs is hardly anything unprecedented for Rovers is it? In fact we are far better placed to deal with it than most clubs, being that we are “fortunate” enough to have owners who are wealthy, stubborn, and quite frankly daft enough to pour money into the bottomless pit they have created to the tune of £15-20 million a year. And for all the whingeing that people now like to do about parachute payments, what about the financial doping that Venky’s have to do? Besides, it’s nobody else’s fault we pissed ours up the wall after relegation. While I’m at it, where on earth has this new notion that the only thing standing in the way of BRFC and promotion is those pesky FFP rules? What precedent have Venky’s set? What ambition have they ever shown to return Rovers to anywhere near the state we were in before they took over? And there’s loads of ways they could do this. Appointing decent managers and sacking underperforming ones would be a start. @JHRoverhas nailed the current contract situation in the above post. If we paid Nyambe, Rothwell and Lenihan an extra 7k per week each it might mean we lose £18 million a year instead of £17 million, so what?? We’ve shed Evans, Holtby and Armstrong from last years wage bill that you seem so keen on talking about. All three of them would’ve been on more that those three out of contract players. Bennett and Downing will also have been on a significantly more than Nyambe and Rothwell currently earn or are being offered. Then there’s the money from Armstrong’s sale - which will put us clear of FFP sanctions, with change. Stop trying to dress up what is going on as financial prudence, it’s nothing of the sort. It’s cost cutting, and it’s so unbelievably short-sighted and damaging in the long term.