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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Skybet or Betway both offer 11/2 - snap their hands off. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We are singing off the same hymm sheet! This lad is I think 32 and, though no world beater, is competent with perhaps his best years to come (didn't Brad play until he was close to 40?) and certainly far better than Pears. @Gavsays Ipswich offered him a 1 year deal. Surely, a 'normal' Championship club could have got him with a 2 or 3 year deal. No one can tell me Rovers would not know about his availability. It is just sad and pitiful that we aren't even at the races for such players. Seems players of the ilk of Jack Barrett are the height of both our ambition and financial capability. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You aren't wrong, however, Burnley have only moved NOW - clearly the lad's been available for weeks, weeks where we've been unable to do anything. Surely, Hladky was available at a cost within the budget of most teams with no parachute payments given he moved from Salford to join Ipswich as a Division 1 club. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We need a proven experienced number one goalie and yet another opportunity gone with Hladky signing for Burnley on a 2 year deal. Again, underlines what a complete and utter mess structurally and financially we are in. The lad would not have been on big bucks given he joined Ipswich as a Division 1 club. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Rhodes, Battersby and investors and Ferguson to name but three - surely not as I only post made up sh1t! -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I responded to a previous post of yours addressing all the points you raised and now you have nowhere to go with those points you have now resorted to a broad brush dissing of me. Please do me a huge favour and put me on ignore and extend me the courtesy of not responding to any of my posts instead of merely trying to make yourself feel better by projecting your own insecurities on to me. -
Rovers kits 24/25 season
Mercer replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Stunning kits. How ironic should we get relegated in them. Have I missed something but isn't Sammie missing from the promotional stuff? Very, very strange or perhaps not! -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
As have others on here, as has Nixon, as has the media football press and as have the bookies! In my last post, outlined two 'bigger things' where I was right and there have been others. What have you ever posted of interest? It's easy to knock some contributors but unless you can bring something to the party yourself then perhaps best to stay quiet! -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I would suggest you put me on ignore if you think all I do is make up sh1t. As for Rhodes, I posted on here the Rhodes' deal was done hours before it was reported in ANY media including this MB. That is information I got from someone at the Huddersfield end. If you have nothing better to do and you can access the MB's archives then take a look and it will be quite evident. Similarly, a few years ago, I posted about a group of investors approaching Venky's about a deal not dissimilar to the one Ratcliffe has done with United. Just a few days later, it emerged in the local media that Battersby and his investors wanted to take a stake and assume some operational control. Sadly, we know Venky's rejected. I don't need to justify myself to anyone on this MB but I do not "make up shit". If you had even a modicum of understanding about the football industry you would know just how volatile it is and how so very, very few of the things muted in the media come to fruition. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
After decades as a practising accountant, it should hardly be surprising that I have built up a wide range of colleagues, clients and contacts across many walks of life. Is that too difficult for you to understand? -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
This is a message board where members post their views and opinions. If you don't like mine then put me on ignore. You clearly have an agenda about me as a poster but if you want to challenge my posts then I would suggest you firstly read my posts properly and ensure you both understand the content and you have your facts right before you start to throw your shite around. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Think I was proven right about Broughton and you hate it! Seems like he was in limbo / effectively on garden leave from late Jan onwards and I would suggest the reason he didn't go through the exit door then was because we didn't have the money to do it! I posted my views about 'Insider' and I think they will be proven right. You don't half talk some sh1te. What am I taking credit for? You say I "haven't actually said anything" - well that's feckin nonsense as I've posted my views! Assuming I have an idea of whom the person may be - are you so naive to think I would openly post it on this MB given all the obvious sensitivities!? -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
There is no way this person will be sacked. Sack the person and end up at an employment tribunal where the whole alleged crock of sh1te will be revealed! -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
and there you have it! Pretty sure there is a lot more to come when the time is right. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Excluding current ownership, I have backed the club for over 60 years through good times and bad including when we were down at the bottom of the old Third Division (before you were even a twinkle in your dad's eye) which came with standing in sh1t houses like Tranmere (on cold Friday nights) and Halifax and driving to places like Chesterfield with several inches of snow on the passes making them almost impassable and then standing on open terracing when it was cold enough to freeze your nuts, so don't need any grandstanding from you. However, I will not tolerate our owners and executive management, IMO, trying to p1ss all over me as a supporter because that's what it feels like. I feel like we have been hugely betrayed as supporters and treated with utter contempt. If you want to lie there saying more, more, more please then that is your prerogative. The likes of you just prolong the tenure of, IMO, these imbeciles who don't really give a toss about Rovers. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
What a wonderful fantasy world you live in Chaddy! However, I live in the real world and all the ups, downs, joys and disappointments that come with it. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I think your post is very true (deleted all put your last point to prevent repitition). Some speculating Insider is either Broughton or Kimberley but I think that speculation is well wide of the mark. As I have posted before, I think you will find it's a disaffected individual who has had enough of the shenanigans and couldn't give a toss about potential consequences simply because they know too much and if they really open up......!!!!!! I believe this is a very genuine source and if the club goes t1ts up, expect this person to sing like the proverbial canary. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I wonder how the the 8,500 who have bought season tickets are now feeling? A handful of folk I know are wishing they hadn't and are vowing it will be their last until an ownership change. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Trouble is Chaddy we can't find them and even if we do, they would only come to Rovers if no other club wanted them. Why would any player want to join, IMO, the shambles Rovers are if they have other options? If I was an agent, and I do know a couple having come across them in my line of work, I would advise my client to avoid Rovers like the plague. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I assume Scott Wharton visited Lourdes and his dip in the magic waters worked! -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
IMO, the best way the fans can back our club is to STAY AWAY and stop buying merchandise as this would expedite the exit of our owners and Waggott. If we have to start again then we start again whether it be League 1 or 2. I will back my club with purchase of season tickets and all that goes with it BUT ONLY with ambitious new owners and a new excecutive management, both personifying integrity, trust and understanding. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Illustrates just how far as a club we've fallen - a miracle needed to get has beens and journeymen over the line. We are now light years away from where we were when our owners bought the club in 2010 whilst galaxies away from the halcyon times and era of Uncle Jack, Shearer, Sutton et al. So sad and feckin depressing. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I couldn't give a shite how 'nice' our kits are, it's what the 11 wearing them do on the field of play that worries me. New signings ? Keep dreaming Chaddy. There will be more like Barrett from Everton who is probably the next Hilton! A realist!!! Take a look at our last filed accounts for tear ending 30 June 2023. Creditors due payment within 12 months amounted to £31million (excludes the £123 million owed to our parent). Without player sales, we are hemorrhaging money. Seemingly, with our owners unable, or not wanting, to fund us, this is a battle to keep our heads above water - it's an existential crisis. Your £7million transfer fund was always pie in the sky. -
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Mercer replied to RoversClitheroe's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
For £6million / £8million, some club will take a chance - yes there might be a limited sale value in 2/3 years time but when only half decent strikers are costing £35million+, Sammie is a snip at that price Gestede - on appointment, said he was going to communicate with the fans. Over 4 weeks since his appointment and as far as I can see / hear, he's said NOTHING. IMO, shambolic hypocrisy. Szmodics - I know of 2 persons with credible backgrounds (and one works in football) who understand Sammie has a release clause in his contract which is sub £10million but relates to PL clubs only; their information may or may not be right but the chances of it being right I would put at 90%. If Sammie has such a clause, IMO, he will be gone and probably before the PL season starts - his agent should not have a difficult job finding a PL club to take a punt. If there is no such clause, Rovers could kill the speculation at a stroke - 'Sammie is contracted to Blackburn Rovers until June 2027 and we value him extremely highly and it would take a huge offer before we would even consider letting him leave the club'. That is what Gesteded should be saying to kill the speculation and allay the fans' fears unless of course.................................!!! Think you will find the up front fee was well shy of £22.5m and add-ons HAVE TO BE EARNED. IMO, he was given away. Contrast with Alex Scott, not half the player Wharton is, who last summer went from Bristol City to Bournemouth for £25million with a serious injury which meant he missed the first three months of the season. Contrast the £40million Leeds received from Spurs for Gray - again, a player nowhere near Wharton's abilities. Wee Dougie pulled our pants down. We were well and truly had and it's time you stopped trying to defend the indefensible.