1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Oh dear, lets hope this is more likely than your other tip from the last 24 hours!

Win some, lose some!  As long as the former is bigger than the latter!  Rovers have done me proud on this super run and long may it continue!

26 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Rule number 1 - never ever follow Merce’s betting tips. 

Hopefully he can get you a pint at Ewood sometime to compensate.

Hey, now come on be fair - there have been 2 or 3 racing tips that have romped home and made money for some on here who made a flutter!

Others have also made money on managerial appointments I flagged!

3 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Looks like it's already done and it's Steve Bruce @Merceryou've cost me a £10

Might be bookies' favourite at the moment but generally, WBA fans seem to hate him (anyone but Bruce).

Don't give up yet lad!

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

As mentioned, Alex Neil has been waiting to be announced here for months and months.

Lets hope this isnt one of your twice a day as a stopped clock!

Would think Alex Neill is sat in his Longridge home rubbing his hands!

Just now, roversfan99 said:

When is he signing a new deal here then?

90% just about leaves scope for it to go either way.

Nothing certain as we know from Rothwell!

Given where this has come from, stuck £50 on.  TBH, tempted to go bigger.

Understand Mowbray's departure to WBA is 90% certain.

Stuck £50 on at 10/1.

Swansea have 5 points from their last 5 games and have lost the last 2.

Absolutely nothing to fear and a nailed on Rovers' win for me

Unbelievably, you can get 2/1 for a Rovers' win.  This is superb value all things considered.  Just fill your boots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone please post the link to tonight's 8.30 session with Sharpe, Crook and co.

36 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

He doesn’t start games and won’t be in the near future. It was a dreadful move for his career IMO. It never works out for Rovers players that leave for big money.

IMO, he's not a PL player.

Think he has poor technique and lacks football intelligence.

We did well to get what we did for him.

10 minutes ago, Gav said:

Jesus wept, not bean counting,  back to transfer news anyone?

Who is replacing Rothwell?

Bean counting is important when you have a situation where it leads to your better players thinking they are having the p1ss taken out of them.  If a talented and established  Championship player can get a six fold increase in his wage merely by moving to another club in the same league then that would suggest to me that his existing club has taken him for granted and taken the p1ss. 

5 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Excuse my probable naivety about NI, but how come when I'm paying it, it gets taken off my wage, but when wealthy footballers are contributing it, it's apparently on top of their wage?

You personally pay employEES' NI as do footballers - this is deducted from your gross wage / salary.

What employing organisations pay (including football clubs) is employERS' NI.

19 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Its a random website, so it clearly untrustworthy. But how on earth would Poveda have managed to get such a high wage when he has never been a proper first teamer at Leeds? 

A wage structure would depend on many factors anyway, no club would have it whereby the sole factor is ability. It depends on how long ago they signed their contract, their age, how influential they were at that time assuming it was a renewal for an existing players or where (and if there was a fee) they have been signed from.

I don't know but I was told by someone connected to Rovers what the lad's wage at Leeds was and I'm pretty sure he would know.

I've worked with a number of organisations on both remuneration scale / structures and pricing structures / strategies and in my professional opinion, if that is a 'structured' approach to wages then it is indefensible and you could drive a horse and cart through it. 

16 minutes ago, alcd said:

 Those figures are simply wrong because the total wage bill is at least double the £9m quoted. 

Don't think they are!

Those stats show about 65 players (less than 30% of those employed by Rovers) and excluded Mowbray, coaches, analysts, scouts, medics, directors (directors remuneration £0.5million+ for starters) etc 

Last filed Rovers' accounts show:

• 145 players and management employed across football
• 80 employed across Commercial, Admin and Building / Ground maintenance

Also bear in mind, that employers' NI comes in at a whopping 14% with every £100,000 of wages costing an additional £14,000!

Indicatively, I would suggest that file is pretty close to the mark.

20 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

He does a decent job.  

A matter of opinion!

You want your local journalist to be knowledgeable, decisive, inquisitive, brave and honest.  If he is, will command the respect of both club and fans.

IMO, Sharpe has no real sources, is nearly always behind the curve, sits on the fence and in the main gives Mowbray an easy ride.

2 hours ago, Tugayisgod said:

And this is Rovers

https://salarysport.com/football/sky-bet-championship/blackburn-rovers/

If this is even remotely indicative then Rovers have big, big problems to come.

Little wonder Rothwell seems to be offski.

How the feck can you have Davenport earning twice as much as Rothwell, Travis and Buckley and more than Nyambe - relatively, for established Championship players, IMO, the wages of these four with so much potential are ridiculously low.

The Poveda wage doesn't surprise me - the only surprise is Rovers aren't paying more (as I was given to understand) of what I understand to be a £35k+ weekly wage with Leeds.  I posted about Poveda's wages when Rovers signed him and many on here couldn't believe it, now you know!

That wage 'structure' if anywhere near correct, and I use the word 'structure' loosely, is, IMO, indefensible and the height of incompetence and an indictment of the abilities of Waggott, Mowbray and Venus.

15 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Not straw clutching but My mate's son has pointed out that Sharpe's twitter feed is saying that the situation from Rovers end on Rothwell is that it is basically unchanged. I.e. no sale without replacents first.

Are we saying he's completely wrong?

I don't think Sharpe know his arse from his elbow - IMO, a hopeless journalist.

43 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Den, you mentioned Fred Pick before. 

It was slightly before my time but I'd imagine there's a huge difference. Back then I guess we needed to sell to survive. The difference here is Venky's don't need the relatively nominal fee we'll get for Rothwell.

Fortunate enough to see 'Pick' when we were leading Div 1 - didn't understand the 'politics' as only a young lad.

However, do remember my dad discussing with friends and fans were in uproar.  This followed on some 2/3 years after the abolition of football's maximum wage and the gripe was Rovers said they needed to average 20,000 to make a go of it and I think we were averaging circa 22,000 at the time.  Seemed like lunacy of the highest order and many fans never forgave Rovers.

13 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I'll drive the twat down to the Hawthorns free of charge..

Be too late to salvage the window now probably though unfortunately.

 

I'll pay for the petrol!

16 minutes ago, J*B said:

It’s done. Medical first thing in the morning. Transfer won’t be announced until we’ve signed replacements but there’s a verbal agreement and Joe will arrive in Bournemouth in a couple of hours. 

and if we don't sign replacements?

Presumably, egg on face for Mowbray and co!

Understand Luke Freeman on Rovers' radar with offer tabled around the £0.5million mark.

Not worked for the lad at SU, contract up in summer and Mowbray a previous admirer.

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Sam Gallagher was coughing up blood and will go for a scan, while Tayo Edun is in a protective boot after an injury to his ankle. Reda Khadra picked up a minor hamstring injury in training on Friday.

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Good on the owners if that's their stance.

We aren't going to be able to adequately replace Rothwell at such short notice and we can't afford another Armstrong scenario where he isn't replaced.

If Rothwell isn't sold he'll have to continue to perform if he still wants a move in summer.

One good performance from him and all this furore will be next week's chip paper.

Disagree - his stock is now too high and clubs will realise what's gone on.

IMO, there's no way back for Rothwell now.  Never one of Mowbray's favourite sons and the tenuous umbilical cord will be well and truly severed, IMO.  

1 minute ago, Vilesinner said:

Talented but was never consistent.

and you get consistency with a good run of games and you aint worried that if you miss a track back the manager will haul you off and consign you to the bench for the next six games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll say again, IMO, Rothwell has been grossly mismanaged by Mowbray since the day he arrived from Oxford.

4 minutes ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

Until this season, Rothwell hasn't played well enough, consistently enough to justify feeling messed about. We've seen that he was more than happy to run his contract down at his last club to join a club higher un the pyramid and earn more cash. All the evidence points to him just doing the same to Rovers, which notwithstanding how he's gone about asking for a move, is fair enough.

Agree that given where we are now though, we should take the £6million assuming we can spend that on replacement(s).

My argument would be, prior to this season, he's never been given a fair run to establish himself.  He was in and out, shunted here and shunted there.

It was clear to me from day one the lad had real talent and could excite the fans.  When you have a talent like that, you nurture and give lots of tlc and then you end up with something special and a player who recognises what you've done for them.

When you think of some of the nonentities who've curried favour with Mowbray and the way he's looked after them, it's a real sickener. 

6 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Always wanted to go to Kenilworth Rd with it being such a quaint little relic of the past and was watching from the home area today due to the unavailability of tickets in the away end.

Loved the ground, not so keen on the performance, which laid bare our lack of depth. Think we need a striker, right winger and central midfielder or it'll be a push to make the play offs playing so poorly.

Agree we improved a bit after HT when Butterworth came on for Gallagher. Thought the only player to do himself justice today was Buckley and the manager bizarrely took him off after which we went worse again.

Escaped with a point but will have to play much much better than that.

Glad you enjoyed your day.

Personally, I think it's a dump of a ground in a dump of a town.  No happy experiences for me there.