Brilliant. That is a result.

I'm guessing it is GB who has resigned, if the info is accurate. He held his hands up last time, even though it may not have been his fault, and promised steps would be taken to ensure this never happens again. If the McGuire deal has gone the same way as O'Brien, I imagine it would be quite difficult for him to front up to the fans and explain this time round. It could be somebody else though, so let's see if anything becomes official.

I know, it's staggering isn't it? I don't think anybody can claim the project hasn't changed and maintain a straight face. Hang on. There was one person who did exactly that in an interview. Publicly disputing JDT's view of the project. There will be genuine fans posting too, but a lot of the comments on the LT look sus to me.

According to one of them the 15 percent budget cut isn't a big amount, it doesn't affect the project, so why is JDT complaining. The same person also says that the project was always about developing players and selling them on, so this means the project hasn't changed at all. Oh and the 'Head of Football' (GB, I'm guessing) is incompetent and a disgrace for what has happened during the past two January windows. Hmm.

The crazy and sad thing is, underneath all of the piss taking, the jibes and the bitterness, a lot of Dingles and North End fans know and acknowledge that these owners are shit and have ruined our club. I know from discussing with them. I have seen it on their forums too. Fans of both clubs, once they have had their laugh for the day, acknowledge how Venky's have ruined us and how we are right to be angry. It's not all of them expressing that view, no. Bitterness is the order of the day for most and I wouldn't expect anything else from them. However, there are fans of theirs who see that Venky's have taken a Premier League club and reduced it to a shell and a laughing stock. They are laughing about O'Brien and McGuire, but at the same time saying that Rovers fans are being taken for mugs by the owners. I saw Dingles the other day discussing about how they would have booted Venky's out long ago, whilst having a pop at passive Rovers fans. What the heck does all of the above say about the "no problem with the ownership, be grateful, without Venky's the club would be finished" crew? When rivals can see the truth and they can't? Forget us lot on brfcs. Rivals, who hate Rovers are seeing the truth but these lot can't or refuse to acknowledge it. There's only one reason Dingles say "long live Venky's" and display Indian flags at Ewood. It is the same reason that almost every football fan in the country says "long live the Glazers".

Is the TV Studio in the far corner of the Jack Walker lower towards the Darwen End, still used by Sky, BBC etc when it comes to showing Rovers games? If so, I think that may be the best place to direct any banners towards. In that corner. Live on BBC, banners held up facing the pundits in the studio, before kick off or at half time when the pundits are on air. Message put across before a large TV audience. Big Al is likely to be in the studio too and may be asked for his views on the club/owners by Lineker or whoever is hosting. Ideally, we could do with Sutton being in the studio that evening as he won't hold back, but he seems to be more on radio duty.

I'm glad he has done that. The omission of Broughton is quite important and suggests he isn't to blame. I have given Broughton stick due to his philosophy on the game, his suitability as a DOF, imo, and his eye for a player. I still have those concerns. However, I do believe that he has been acting in good faith and trying to meet the 'project', only for the clueless above him to kibosh things that he had lined up. The O'Brien saga wasn't his fault and if anything has gone similarly wrong with McGuire it's probably the same people to blame. As JDT's comments suggest. When JDT and GB were talking about the 'project' early doors and talking about being a "sustainable Premier League club", I think they genuinely meant it and were working towards that. Both have been sold a pup by charlatans.

Appointed in June 2012, Rev. We know who was advising or even making the appointments back then.

No creativity in the team without Adam Wharton. No goals without Szmodics, who went off injured today. If that's in any way a lengthy period of time out for him, it's over, imo. Not to have a go at him, but Tronstad looked no different to Danny Guthrie or Corry Evans out there today, to me. He is the one they are looking to, to make something happen, he's getting the most time on the ball, but it's not his game to be the creative link! Everything is pointing towards relegation. The only way it doesn't happen is if QPR have a stinking run from now until the end of the season. The only way this club ever recovers is by removing the poison. Venky's out. Waggott out. Silvester out. Lowe out. Anybody who is connected to the agency, out! JDT needs to walk. No manager can succeed here under this shitbag environment.

Szmodics going off injured. He has signalled to the bench. Everything that could go wrong, is going wrong.

He doesn't. Not one bit. But the cursed words came out of his mouth.

We're done and it is exactly what the hierarchy deserves. That bastard Waggott coming out with "avoiding relegation". Here's your relegation. Slimy bastard.

We've got away with one there. QPR forward racing through on goal. Heavy touch from him though, gathered by Pears. That should be 1-0 to them.

A drab first half. We need to do something about the midfield for the second half. The options aren't all that, but Moran has to come off. I would bring Ayari on. From what I saw against Wrexham he looked a tidy enough passer and might offer something different to this crap that has been served up so far.

Adam Wharton is a big loss. We're really missing him. So much of our play used to go through him. There is just nothing in our midfield here. Tronstad getting the ball, going mostly sideways. He isn't in the side to be the creative link though, so it's not on him. The 'Irish Foden'? Please. The guy who coined that phrase was having a laugh. Either that or a relative of his.

I can understand what Groundhog is saying to some extent about him losing respect for the manager, in that it could be seen as a "shitty" thing for JDT to walk away now and 'leave the lads in the lurch', so to speak. I respect the opinion, even though I disagree. I'm looking at it completely the opposite way though and not necessarily from a team point of view. JDT will always have my respect because he tried to raise the standards of this football club. An ambitious man, a winner, who was not given the tools to get Rovers back to where we belong. He wanted promotion, while the CEO was telling him it's alright just to avoid the drop. JDT is the only manager under this regime, imo, who had real ambition for the club, had genuine respect for the fans and is on our wavelength in terms of how many of us view the club. He has batted for the fans time and again and shares our frustration. We want Rovers to win, JDT wants Rovers to win, but the clowns above him are not arsed. 'Win' does not mean individual games of football. It's more than that. The hierarchy he is working under has treated us like a tinpot outfit for years on end. Lowering the standards every year, lowering the expectation every year, to such a pitiful state, that random kids on loan are now being celebrated as good business. Anybody who questions any of this is a "hater" and "not a real fan" according to the wider support. This is the state that a top 10 Premier League club and it's fanbase has been reduced to by these dickhead owners and their stream of yes men. JDT has seen through them, like a lot of us, which is why I will always respect the man. Him walking away now only increases that respect for me. This shell today is not Blackburn Rovers. It is not the Rovers that JDT knows from his playing days and beyond. It is not the Rovers that many of us know. I do not see people like Waggott, Silvester, and the rest above them as being Rovers. Never! They work for the club, yeah, but that's where it ends. I think this is where most of us differ with the "just back the club" crew. The latter think that criticising the above named is an attack on the club and makes us "dingles" or "haters" or whatever. They can think what they like, but those people are not Rovers people. What have they done to warrant our respect and support? What are they doing to push the club on? Look at what JDT's call for ambition has been met with. Cutback after cutback, woefully inadequate transfer windows, an Indian High Court case against the owners, and finally his star midfielder being swiftly moved on to pay the bills! There can be no blame on JDT for walking. He's not the best manager in the world, that's not what I'm saying. He has had certain howlers which are hard to forget such as the Burnley, Preston, Rotherham and a few other embarrassing defeats. His in game management is questionable at times, but he is a real one. That's why I will be gutted when he does go. One of very few real ones, in 13 years of fakes.

I suspect JDT is feeling similar to how some of us on here are feeling and could be about to let loose. The charlatans know that it isn't a wise move to have him before a mic today. We're apparently 'negative' for complaining and highlighting this shit show. I would love to see what these people have to say when their own manager echoes the same sentiments. Is JDT a wannabe protester too? I personally want him to walk and expose the charade. Him walking would be enough of a message in itself. It would also come as a dose of reality for those who are saying things like "credit to the club, JDT can't complain, they've given him the players he wanted", this morning.

Yeah, that is exactly what it looks and feels like. History appears to be repeating itself. We are currently at the Lambert stage, where a manager who arrived here under the illusion that the end goal was to go up and that he would be backed with funds from player sales, has realised he has been sold a dud. It didn't take Lambert long to work that out after the money from the sales of Rhodes and others disappeared and he had to make do with frees and loans. Ditto JDT and the situation now. It seems very unlikely that JDT will be here beyond the summer. The squad is going to need massively rebuilding (again) but there is no appetite or money for that from the top. Kicking the can down the road over and over is more their thing. "We will lease players". The Wharton money? "Scott is still here, so we are confused by your question". Promotion won't be on the agenda either (when has it ever?) as is obvious from Swag's aim being to avoid relegation, so is JDT sticking around for more of this? I doubt it. Got to hope that the 'next Coyle' doesn't arrive. An agency friendly desperado coming in, who can't believe he is here, would likely replicate what Coyle did and send us down. I know some may argue that the DOF being here should prevent this, and they could be right, but there have already been indications of GB lining up deals in good faith only for something to happen above him leading to a change in plan. I've often shared the opinion that the shortlist for our next manager will be telling and who we actually appoint, possibly even more so.

Was this taken from a talk that he delivered at a Primary School? Read the room, Gregg. Six year old kids might be excited, but the rest of have us have seen real players play for this football club. I hope you and the rest of the geeks alongside you knock yourselves out though over his xH, xT, and whatever other shite you use to kid yourselves with.

We've missed an opportunity there, I feel. He was one of the better loan signings we were linked with. Though not sure whether that was just paper talk or not. Ideally, we should have been asking about this lad and Rak-Sakyi when dealing with Palace for Wharton. Either one would have been fine as they both bring something that we don't have in the wide areas. Instead of pissing about with young defenders, we need to find some pace out wide.

That Koumetio interest is so damn predictable. I was one window out, when saying we'd be in for him last summer. Not what we need. No thanks. Also, that breakdown of the McGuire deal, if it is true, is just an American twist on the O'Brien deal. Not a chance we will be paying £6m-7m, potentially rising to £8m, to permanently sign McGuire. IMO, it's quite simply a loan and then goodbye, at the end of the season. No issue with seeing how he does on loan for us, the bigger issue is the morons keeping hold of the big transfer fee received and having us MAKE DO with loan signings. As is standard for them.

Fantastic stuff from the Orlando account. The ONLY positive from this mess is that it will hopefully shine a light on these clowns and their running of the club. It is this kind of spotlight and attention shown by the Orlando account, that we need in order to open a few more eyes.

"Insiders" trying to shift the blame on to the player via Nixon. Funny, that. The situation is certainly a farce, but the "insiders" feeding him this shit are just as big a farce. That's the PG way of describing them. I have other words more fitting for them. Within the last few hours we've had the following from two journalists on McGuire: Jackson - "It was always going to be a complicated deal" Nixon - "He was told not to travel because of doubts over the Rovers switch". Both of those quotes are helping to lay the blame on the player and taking the heat off the club. Which is why I don't believe them. Bollocks to the party line propaganda.

A clever way of framing the narrative according to the party line. Preparing the fans in advance. What does that quote say to me? It is: a) The Wharton money didn't arrive on time. b) As a result of the above, Rovers could not sign McGuire and other intended targets. Can almost guarantee that Wharton to Palace will be announced close to the deadline and the likes of Jackson, Nixon etc will jump on that as being the reason for a failed deadline day. Nothing to do with the owners. Oh no. All to do with the Wharton money arriving too late. The party line is clear to see.

Yep. Part one is already underway, you only need to look at the last few pages of this thread. That's before getting to the dream world of twitter. The fee for Wharton has just guaranteed six months of "the summer, we are going to spend in the summer, be patient!" type comments and six months of PR for the hierarchy, not necessarily on here, but among the wider fan base. The summer window will be billed as the big one on Friday morning, as we didn't have enough time to do what we would have liked in January. Like we haven't heard that before. Just like Broughton didn't have enough time in his first window. Just like the recruitment team didn't have enough time last summer. It feels like I've been watching this movie on loop for a decade plus. Gets to January, "no point rushing, don't want to overpay for dross, we'll make a proper go of it in the summer". Summer goes in typical fashion... "What do you expect?, you don't understand FFP, it's not his fault, if our 'fans' actually turned up to games we would..., we were priced out, he failed a medical, we were after x, y and z which shows we were ambitious, we've got the January window to come to fix things". January comes and goes and the script repeats itself. We are currently one Tronstad injury away from disaster in the centre of the park. If Garrett is the answer, then what is the question? He is not it and the remaining meagre options leave a lot to be desired too. This is beginning to resemble the Coyle days again for me. MacFadzean, a Brown/Greer type desperation move. The Villa lad not much different to the Stephen Hendrie signing from back then, where you're left wondering what's the point. It's desperate stuff all round, where the squad is only getting weaker. Unless something drastically changes in how this lot operate, a return to League One isn't far away.