superniko

It should be nothing but a full boycott now - or at least a statement like Sheffield Wednesday the other day when they stayed in the turnstiles

Yeah this is it 100% - the constant statements these days just shows how out of touch they are and how bad they are at their jobs. The one about Eustace just before he left was a classic - like you say they all read like a 6 year old having a tantrum

I'd bet my last dollar that when the next yearly financial statements roll around we'll still have wages around ~£25m, a wage to turnover ratio of ~130% and a magical yearly loss of "£20m". Could have our under 5s as our starting 11 and the above wouldn't budge.

Can he play upfront or right wing?

He’s probably on £15k ish isn’t he. JDT said we had to save his wage as a high earner when he went to Ipswich.

If we were a normal run club, then I’d have absolutely no qualms selling Travis at all, knowing that a normal club would reinvest that money properly. He is the epitome of the Rovers rubber dinghy boys, goes hiding in any crucial match, praised for being a ‘shithouse’ but lacking in the basics (see the goal on Saturday). People will say we can’t sell as he’s an academy lad (so was Jason Lowe) He’s a solid Championship midfielder, but he’s not dragging you over the line to promotion (he barely played at Ipswich). That said, the money just goes into the black hole so what on earth would be the point of selling him at all. We’ve already shown that Rudy, Suhail and co aren’t up to the task of replacing players properly. Given we’re looking like relegation fodder right now, I’d much rather keep hold of him!

This squad is miles off it. Desperate for a striker and creativity yet we’ve not even had a sniff of that in the transfer window. Run by absolute clowns at every angle

It’s depressing that either of these two would have any say in our transfer dealings. Mental set up at our club

About 10 goals across the season in that 11. 8 defensive players and nobody to lead the line

Agree, Travis is clearly off, but looked like he was running through quick sand at times. Hedges shouldn’t even be in our squad let alone starting, he just isn’t a footballer

Grow up - he might as well have been as he was horrific out there - far from a captain. To think he usually only starts a season well and regresses - would hate to see how he performs in a few months time if that’s the case

We signed players from a relegated Belgian team…..the Belgian league is the equivalent of the Championship, with a steeper regression as you go down it, so if you’re getting relegated from it, you’re probably league 1 level at best. Ditto signing Telalovic from the actual German 4th division, which is what, national league north level. Weirdos on social media love this shit as players are unknown, but anyone with half a brain cell can see this is risky, and has rarely paid off for us (Tronstad the exception that stands out) I said a while back throw enough shit and some will stick - well, I don’t think we’ve thrown enough shit, because this team looks utter dross. We haven’t improved in any areas we actually need to. Hedges and DeNeve as starting wingers, would that even be up to Bolton’s level in League 1?

It’s pretty easy to do as well Bazza, you just have to put your hand in your pocket and reinvest some of the £40m you recoup over the last few years.

A suspected we have zero attacking threat in this team. Solid enough, but no creativity at all. We need more quality not quantity up front

Absolutely shocking from Trav for their goal too. It’s textbook from him though. Too busy wanting to pull an arm or a shirt than actually be goalside of his man

English refereeing strikes again

Holy moly how bad is Ryan Hedges, the bloke can barely pass a football. How on earth is he still starting for Blackburn Rovers. 113 appearances

Out of curiosity Glen, and feel free to completely ignore this (probably not one for match day)….but do you ever get much in the form of replies from Balaji? I.e. could you turn the screw? Does he properly know that supporters (some not all) are disgruntled? Seperately, wondering if you’ve had any contact with Waggot since his departure? (I suspect not as he’s likely on gardening leave)

It’s just a scrape of the betting odds on the Betfair Exchange 22.2% = 7/2 in betting money - doesn’t seem crazy for us away from home to a decent enough team. I think we have a decent chance though, their team doesn’t look scary on paper and I’m not expecting Ryan Mason to do much as a manager

Well done all, great numbers. Been a while since I went to The Hawthorns, but WBA fans were always a nice bunch. Seem to remember a good pub (think it was neutral rather than away) which did a lovely curry, tikka on a charcoal bbq and kebabs. Think it was called The Vine

Cheers Duncan, Glen et al. The time and effort put in to what must be an incredibly frustrating situation doesn’t go un-noticed by the majority here.

Perhaps, but the whole Anderson thing was pretty high profile at a time when almost everyone was angry at our ownership (time and maybe the young ‘social media’ fan base has swayed that). But if it came to light that Anderson is still involved, and has been throughout I think that would cause waves. (I doubt it is true otherwise we’d surely hear more about it, but just after quoting Mike who said there are rumours)

If that came to light then I think even the ‘happy clappers’ (for want of a better phrase) would turn

Without sounding like a JDT fanboy (albeit that 1st season was the first bit of optimism I'd had for Rovers in a long time), when it all went sour in the 2nd season, he was the first person within the club to start name-dropping Suhail.

And looking at the minutes, part of this blokes remit is meant to be the academy. Absolute car crash stuff, they're so far out of their depth they're probably just laughing at us.