Eustace…GONE

[ageoftherover]

I think being embarassed/disgusted by our ownership (small o) and management, while simultaneously being disappointed in Eustace for the timing in which this has happened is pretty natural.

Whatever you want to say about the club and its brass, the players don't deserve this given the way they've performed against the odds this year. Yes, the club wouldn't have shown loyalty to JE, hes been let down, this is a business etc etc, but it wouldnt feel like that to the players, it would feel like they're being abandoned on the battlefield by their general. Travis' alleged reaction speaks volumes and while we can't know what's really happened (not yet anyway), I'd be disappointed if the playing group weren't fired up in a whole bunch of directions. The only hope I have in this mess is that it galvanises them instead of deflates them, and somehow they pull off what would be a miracle promotion that triggers a sell off by the scum in India. Statues for the lot of them if they pull it off.

[Dan]

9 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

Very well said. It means so much to all of us which is why we are so angry. It's why most of us are on here everyday, it's why we are so fiercely against the hierarchy. They do not share our desire for the club to succeed.

They do not share the desire of their managers to succeed and are absolutely ruining the experience of watching Rovers for everybody. Therefore, they are the enemy of the football club. Anybody defending these people has nothing where their heart should be. Their hearts have gone.

These rotten owners and their yes men have ruined and wasted the last 15 years of our lives when it comes to Rovers. That's the truth of the matter. Before anybody tries it...I know nobody has a right or entitlement to see their club win all the time or to be in the top flight. That's not what I'm saying.

What we are entitled to expect is for the owners to treat our club with the respect it deserves, to recognise what they own and to at least TRY to be successful.

These scumbags couldn't care less and are driving away manager after manager and in the process, fan after fan. They are ruining this for all of us and it is particularly bad for the little 'uns like your son and many others who know nothing but this manufactured mess.

At least us older fans saw the real Rovers before these bastards hijacked it. I feel for the younger fans who have never seen what real football and ambition looks like.

I just hope that somebody is about to happen to crush this lot and we can get back to being normal fans again. That feeling is very much missed.

This lot will pay for what we have been through, no doubt. That's not a threat, but they will feel it down the line.

❤️ 

Great post.

I'm just thankful for my memories. I really want to fuck it off altogether, but I don't think I can. but I wish I could ;-'( 

[Dan]

3 minutes ago, ageoftherover said:

I think being embarassed/disgusted by our ownership (small o) and management, while simultaneously being disappointed in Eustace for the timing in which this has happened is pretty natural.

Whatever you want to say about the club and its brass, the players don't deserve this given the way they've performed against the odds this year. Yes, the club wouldn't have shown loyalty to JE, hes been let down, this is a business etc etc, but it wouldnt feel like that to the players, it would feel like they're being abandoned on the battlefield by their general. Travis' alleged reaction speaks volumes and while we can't know what's really happened (not yet anyway), I'd be disappointed if the playing group weren't fired up in a whole bunch of directions. The only hope I have in this mess is that it galvanises them instead of deflates them, and somehow they pull off what would be a miracle promotion that triggers a sell off by the scum in India. Statues for the lot of them if they pull it off.

Sorry, I've ignored social media and the internet all day as I knew what was coming; what is the alleged Travis reaction please?

[Doogs]

37 minutes ago, Tom said:

For the first time I’m seeing patient and blue and white tinted specs types on social media have real anger towards the club 

Please keep that in mind and don’t be swayed by a PR stunt in terms of the next manager.

The rot is far deeper set than any appointment, there’s only one cure now and it needs to be treated at source.

First Waggott and Pasha and then the overlords in India need ousting, there’s no other long term recovery here

Please explain in more detail how you get rid of the owners?

[Herbie6590]

38 minutes ago, Dan said:

I just watched 5 minutes of The Blackburn End podcast on YouTube.  OMG, no one gets it.  So many happy clappers. 

 

Today feels as bad as relegation.

 

FUCK YOU WAGGOT, SUHAIL AND VENKYS, FUCK YOU!

 

What's the point anymore?? I just want to cry 😞

Listen to the 4000 Holes one tomorrow morning...🙂

[onlyonejackwalker]

1 hour ago, 47er said:

You'll find plenty of mates on the LT site!

Ouch. Not your normal style 47er. I'll stay here if that's ok with you.

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Let's hope we get a new manager bounce. Let's hope this unites and galvanises the players. Let's hope we start scoring some goals. 

With every problem there is an opportunity.  There are some strong characters in the dressing room.  It remains all to play for and Eustace hasn't kicked a ball.all season.

I'd love it if we could somehow get promoted. And Derby go down.

Edited 17 hours ago by onlyonejackwalker
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[Gamst21]

12 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

Very well said. It means so much to all of us which is why we are so angry. It's why most of us are on here everyday, it's why we are so fiercely against the hierarchy. They do not share our desire for the club to succeed.

They do not share the desire of their managers to succeed and are absolutely ruining the experience of watching Rovers for everybody. Therefore, they are the enemy of the football club. Anybody defending these people has nothing where their heart should be. Their hearts have gone.

These rotten owners and their yes men have ruined and wasted the last 15 years of our lives when it comes to Rovers. That's the truth of the matter. Before anybody tries it...I know nobody has a right or entitlement to see their club win all the time or to be in the top flight. That's not what I'm saying.

What we are entitled to expect is for the owners to treat our club with the respect it deserves, to recognise what they own and to at least TRY to be successful.

These scumbags couldn't care less and are driving away manager after manager and in the process, fan after fan. They are ruining this for all of us and it is particularly bad for the little 'uns like your son and many others who know nothing but this manufactured mess.

At least us older fans saw the real Rovers before these bastards hijacked it. I feel for the younger fans who have never seen what real football and ambition looks like.

I just hope that something is about to happen to crush this lot and we can get back to being normal fans again. That feeling is very much missed.

This lot will pay for what we have been through, no doubt. That's not a threat, but they will feel it down the line.

Fantastic post mate, I was born in 97 and unfortunately missed the 95 title, however still had some magical moments growing up watching the UEFA Cup at Ewood and two FA Cup semi-finals at the Millennium & Old Trafford. I hope those days return and the anger I feel towards Venky’s today, it really does hurt. Let’s hope this is the start of the end of Venky’s.

[Tom]

7 minutes ago, Doogs said:

Please explain in more detail how you get rid of the owners?

I don’t know, but I know people need to stay angry 

[Dan]

7 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Listen to the 4000 Holes one tomorrow morning...🙂

Will do mate 🙂  if I'm not in a padded cell by then 😞 

[Exiled_Rover]

48 minutes ago, JBiz said:

Just to add my thoughts;

I agree with the most part of those angry at the owners (they’re ultimately responsible for the club) but I’d just like to add that John Eustace shouldn’t be coming out of this smelling like roses.

For all the togetherness and family quotes, he’s basically engineered this mid season. Can’t blame the man professionally but it’s hard to accept, as a member of that “family”, moving to a rival, and basically begging for it on live tv.

Professionally I understand, it’s a short career to some extent and I’d prefer the new commute. Personally I feel like he’s used us and dropped us at a moments notice.

Theres an obvious “groundhog day” feeling that we can’t ignore, but I’d rather any rovers manager had the personal values not to engineer this sort of decision mid season.

He gave them every opportunity to provide him with assurances - they refused to. It's painfully obvious he didn't want to go to Derby.

[JBiz]

22 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

I suppose it depends on what he was promised, and what promises by the club were reneged on. 
 

It’s easy to criticise Eustace, but we don’t know the full story. Each side has put forward their own narrative in the last 24 hours. I don’t believe the clubs narrative for one minute. 
 

Eustace isn’t a Rovers fan, he’s a paid professional trying to carve a career for himself. If he doesn’t feel supported at Rovers and another club comes in offering that support then it’s understandable he wants to move on. He owes Rovers nothing. Togetherness can only take you so far if the Owners and Board don’t play their part. 

The black and white of it is Eustace is moving to a club he probably prefers to work for, closer to his own pit, with a carte blanche expectation level and likely a long term contract to boot.

Thats the engineering of someone who understands the game from the point of view as an employee.

The unfortunate part that this ignores, he also was a custodian of a “public” establishment and if you’re preaching togetherness and family, you’ll look a cock if you can’t even see your own contract out.

27 minutes ago, 47er said:

If you're looking at the timing----surely its the transfer window that's the last straw.? Spending zilch while raking in money from transfer fees.

He won't be the last manager/coach to lose it with this crowd, unless we appoint Steve Keane again.

 

It’s not a coincidence we’re looking for a manager exactly 12 months on (after the transfer window). Anyone with any inkling of knowledge of football, specifically rovers, knows what’s holding us back and it’s not Mowbray, JDT or Eustace. All those three have their flaws, but I still think the position were currently in (insane after our recent form!) will attract a better level of appointment than previously. 

[JBiz]

2 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He gave them every opportunity to provide him with assurances - they refused to. It's painfully obvious he didn't want to go to Derby.

To me it seems painfully obvious he has engineered his way to derby, the culmination of this announcing it on IPlayer 

Edit - you don’t speak to a club you haven’t already spoken too, if that makes sense 

Edited 17 hours ago by JBiz

[Norbert Rassragr]

He's probably not patient with boardrooms after Birmingham City. 

[JBiz]

17 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Listen to the 4000 Holes one tomorrow morning...🙂

When am I guest starring on one of these podcasts anyway 😂 

[JBiz]

18 minutes ago, onlyonejackwalker said:

Ouch. Not your normal style 47er. I'll stay here if that's ok with you.

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Let's hope we get a new manager bounce. Let's hope this unites and galvanises the players. Let's hope we start scoring some goals. 

With every problem there is an opportunity.  There are some strong characters in the dressing room.  It remains all to play for and Eustace hasn't kicked a ball.all season.

I'd love it if we could somehow get promoted. And Derby go down.

Actually love this post - however @47er would be the first to admit he’s always been “spiky” 😂 

[Dan]

2 minutes ago, JBiz said:

When am I guest starring on one of these podcasts anyway 😂 

Are you and California Rover going to be on there with your Venky's hats on?

[JBiz]

Just now, Dan said:

Are you and California Rover going to be on there with your Venky's hats on?

Shots fired 😂 You know controversy gets hits?

Being serious though, can I unequivocally state that I regularly reflect and rue the day, that we ever ended up on the shelf of a billionaire conglomerate. Thank god I wasn’t born in 1997 (sorry @Gamst21)

[Ferrit]

They just did a segment on SSN about Eustace, apparently he met with Maggott and the other clowns and sought reassurances about the clubs ambition. He got none unsurprisingly and thus wants out.

We are a joke of a club.

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Ferrit

[Exiled_Rover]

3 minutes ago, JBiz said:

To me it seems painfully obvious he has engineered his way to derby, the culmination of this announcing it on IPlayer 

Edit - you don’t speak to a club you haven’t already spoken too, if that makes sense 

He's welcomed the approach, yes. I'm sure he's had feelers out for a while - he was simply not backed in January and he can see the writing on the wall in the summer. I'm sure any  manager would do the same after working under Steve and Suhail for any period of time.

Even today, he told them what it'd take to retain his services - absolute basic necessities and they've released that bitter, pathetic hit piece of a club statement in response. I would love a transcript from that meeting, I bet it was scathing.

 

You can see what's coming. Go and read some of Nixon's tweets (their chief propogandist) - he talks about how we're still top 6 and it's a huge 15 games coming up etc in response to people questioning the long term future of the club. The fact of the matter is there isn't a long term future for this club - contracts are being run down, 5 of the 6 January transfers have been brought in on a 6 month contract and multiple players are out of contract in the summer.

Eustace has lived this day to day. He's not asked for the world and they will not (or more likely cannot) provide him with anything so he's done the honest thing and left with his head held high and his reputation intact.

 

TLDR: he's left for a smaller, poorer club in a desperate relegation dogfight - that tells you everything you need to know.

[Ferrit]

Nixon is a twat.

[Forever Blue]

13 minutes ago, JBiz said:

The black and white of it is Eustace is moving to a club he probably prefers to work for, closer to his own pit, with a carte blanche expectation level and likely a long term contract to boot.

Thats the engineering of someone who understands the game from the point of view as an employee.

The unfortunate part that this ignores, he also was a custodian of a “public” establishment and if you’re preaching togetherness and family, you’ll look a cock if you can’t even see your own contract out.

 

Advocating ‘togetherness’ has nothing to do with seeing a contract out. ‘Togetherness’ was about getting results on the pitch.

It’s a bit naive to think it was meant in any meaningful way 🤣

[Forever Blue]

1 minute ago, Ferrit said:

Nixon is a twat.

Possibly the best 4 word sentence seen anywhere this week. 

[aletheia]

2 hours ago, Scoobydo said:

it not much to gain

Plenty. Not dealing with the shit show that is Rovers principally.

[aletheia]

2 hours ago, Torgeir said:

ustace, refused a meeting with him this morning before training supposedly

Travis would fume with himself if nobody else were available.

[aletheia]

Rovers lose another manager, battles to control the narrative continue. Who knew it might happen.