Mike Graham

Mike E, if you have any issues with the Trust please raise them with us direct. You have my mobile number and email address long with Duncan’s and others. We do get a lot of constructive and positive feedback. Thanks, Mike

It is 15% on any profit. It may also mean (this is guesswork) that the remaining £12m is paid to Rovers. In my opinion selling AW was the low point of last season.

No. Even GB confirmed that while conspiracy theories abound it was an error within the club. McGuires agent was advised before the player boarded the plane that we were not buying him outright; he was a rookie footballer 6 months out of college. It was not a last minute change of mind.

If you bothered to read my post rather than jump to conclusions I was informing people what happened rather than apportioning blame. I don’t do conspiracy theories thank you.

I can’t answer the bit about Billy Koumetio apart from maybe a loan signing is a different process but that is only guessing. With the McGuire transfer a secretarial member of staff did the inputting with IS checking over her shoulder.

The EFL now have a portal system and only one person per club is authorised to use it via a password. The Club Secretary, IS, informed colleagues at 9pm (a full two hours before the the deadline) that the transfer had been completed; it was only when they completed the transfer of Fleck immediately before 11pm that they realised something was wrong. Any system of such importance should have a fail safe checking process. It is called a telephone and someone should have made a follow up call to check all was in order. There is only one person to blame and he is the guy authorised to access the portal. He has now left.

From Rovers official website: https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/april/14/rovers-scoop-fan-engagement-award-/

100% correct. I could not agree with you more.

You asked the question. The original initiative was from We Are The Rovers the Supporters Trust; it is clearly within our remit and aims to build and rebuild lost support. We approached the Club who were supportive. We were actively supported by formal supporters organisations such as Proud Rovers, the South Asian Supporters. We also had the backing of a number of people from this messageboard including Ian Herbert who did some excellent work and his input cannot be underestimated. It was, to reiterate, an award for a specific We Are The Rovers initiative involving other groups and a lot of decent folk from brfcs.com I am proud of the award and hopefully it puts WATR in an even stronger position to influence the Club. Thank you to everyone on this board, particularly Ian Herbert, 4000 Holes and Roverschat. If I have missed anyone out I am happy to be chastised.

Yes. But only members can vote. AGM paperwork is sent to all members; we are expecting a good turn out so we may decide to use an on-line ticketing platform; there is no charge.

We chose the venue as we believed it would be attractive. It was a Board decision to ask for the Manager to speak.

Newsletter containing the meeting notes between Rovers and ‘WeAre The Rovers’: https://www.roverstrust.com/news/newsletter-april-2024

We send out an email newsletter most months. This includes the notes of MoU meetings and Trust Board meetings. Our next Board meeting is Tuesday next week.

Fair comment Tony.

There has been very little criticism on Twitter apart from someone saying this is old news and they could not understand why it was released now. It was not released because I am a lackey of the Club (I can assure you I am not) and it was not given to me to leak to deflect attention from the mess on the playing side. It is purely factual information. The ‘news’ is available openly and publicly, perhaps no one had spotted it. The HMRC letter was dated April 2023 and the Court case was July 2023; this must have been a nightmare of a time for those at Ewood trying to balance the books. I will explain the reason I put this out. Firstly I believe the fan base should have a better knowledge of the Club’s financial predicament; if it was something told to me in confidence it would not have been released, as I said above it is in a public document. Secondly the owners, whether fans like it or not, took the applications to the High Court at no doubt great expense. They secured payments to Rovers and the HMRC, VAT, staff etc have all been paid. Whether fans like it or not credit should be given to the owners for this. The role of the Trust is to try and engage as a critical friend with the owners and their representatives whether they be the Venky’s, the Walker family or the Nolan sisters. We will continue to try our very best to influence on behalf of our members. We do not have secret meetings with the Club; if I or other Board members meet with the Club then the whole Trust Board are aware. Clearly we may receive confidential information from time to time - this will never be divulged by any Trust Board member.

No idea. Sorry.

As Supporters Trust Board members we meet with the Club formally and informally on a regular basis. The meetings are an excellent opportunity for us to touch base albeit some debate will be confidential and we will never breech that confidentiality.

Duncan and I, on behalf of the Supporters Trust, have quietly been making representations on this on behalf of fans. We were aware of this yesterday but it was always up to the Club to announce. In my opinion digital is the way forward but not at the expense of losing fans. A carrot rather than stick approach was our preference. To be fair the Club has listened and acted.

Duncan and I were aware of this but it was always up to the Club to announce. Fair play to the Club for listening and having the balls to act.

I can back up Duncan’s comments.

Work is taking place to get direct dialogue with the owners. I cannot and will not say anymore.

We are trying to build an effective relationship with the Club. Walking out achieves absolutely nothing and would kybosh any future Fans Takeover and discussions we have agreed to have on the future structure of Season Ticket pricing.

Further discussion took place on the next ‘Fans Takeover’. More detail will be announced soon.

No, Duncan and I did not walk out, what would that achieve?

…..of what?