Mike Graham

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?

No. It is about ensuring it does not happen again.

It is Hoghton not Houghton. Hoghton ends 150m after Hoghton Post Office. Gregson Lane is in South Ribble.

Gregson Lane is not and has never been in Hoghton

No dingles near me, just Bolton. Surprisingly the next best supported team to Rovers in Hoghton* is Bolton. * Gregson Lane and Coupe Green are not in Hoghton despite the best efforts of some local residents and estate agents trying to inflate house prices.

I would have bought a couple for the side of my garage to piss the neighbours off.

I could not agree more re the timeline murals on the walkways. They looked brilliant.

No, far from it. Rovers get a % of the profits, and have to pay a % if there are any losses. There have a clear commercial interest.

1. No idea. It will be raised tomorrow 2. No idea. However they were replaced with a wide range of Rovers action photographs across all the wall panels.

Exactly. They could have had a far wider audience displayed in various areas of the stadium.

Sodexho have the Blues Bar contract and hire it out rather than the Club. It is similar to the contracts Sodexho have at Preston, Wigan and Newcastle United.

As far as I know the murals were taken down about 4 years ago, not for the Liverpool event. I am not defending it just trying to deal with facts.

Which are the additional murals that have been removed for the Liverpool event please? As far as I can see, I could be incorrect, the murals stuffed into the back of the Riverside were removed pre lockdown and no more have been removed; a better use would be to have relocated them on the concourses. The DE has numerous murals stored in the office space and I have previously asked for them to go on permanent display various home concourses. The issue of the Liverpool Legends embarrassment will be raised this Wednesday evening.