I keep seeing Rovers fans anticipating a multi-million windfall in the event Adam Wharton is sold by Palace this summer. Lessons still haven't been learned. Such a windfall is not going anywhere near the club be that facilities or new players/contracts. It is going to one place and that is covering Venkys losses and by extension meeting Waggott's targets. Why anyone would want those two to benefit whilst Rovers continue on the current path is beyond me.

Grass seed BBE lift repairs Deposit on the new coach lease Powerwashing the metalwork on the BBE Fixing the leaky roof Deals for Adam Forshaw, Cauley Woodrow and Augustus Kargbo (significant investment....)

Tie over in Bristol. I think the lesson is that securing a top 6 position is not the holy grail as some seem to think it is. Getting through the play-offs is the successful part. Within a matter of 4-5 days of finishing the regular season it can be effectively over.

End of the day despite all the criticism Watford's owners have proven themselves to at least be trustworthy, competent and interested custodians of their club, and they've enjoyed a significant degree of success during their time in charge. Not only that but they've refurbished their stadium, built a new stand and improved the club. You might not personally be a fan of their hire and fire culture but you can't argue that on the whole they have had good times by their standards over the last decade. To me it seems a pretty flimsy stick to try and beat them with all things considered. Their biggest fault being they don't give their managers much time. You compare to the absolute disgrace and shame our owners have delivered in a similar time period, dragging the club downwards and backwards in just about every department you can think of, give me their approach any day of the week.

Changing managers with regularity has not done Watford too much harm over the years. They've been an established Premier League club for much of the last decade which for a club of their size and resources is impressive. When they've been out of the PL they've been either pushing for or getting promotion from the Championship, mid-table being the worst. Changing managers regularly has worked perfectly well for Forest - in the last decade they worked their way through Warburton, Karanka, O'Neill, Lamouchi, Hughton, Cooper and now Santo and they've shot up the leagues under a ruthless owner who wants success quickly. I could also add clubs like B*rnley, Sheffield United, Leeds, Leicester, Southampton to that mix - gone through a high turnover in managers in recent seasons, yet continued to be relatively successful getting promotion to the Premier League. 'Stability' is basically another word for 'jam tomorrow'. Don't expect results today, but we've got a plan and it will come to fruition at some point in the distant future. For now lets 'build' on a road to nowhere. It all sounds good and in theory it is good but we have negligent unfit owners who will never allow any construction to be finished because they'll pull the rug out from under the staff's feet. We saw it under JDT - he came in late, and in his first season in England had us in the top 6. If he'd have been backed he probably would have got us into the top 6 and possibly promoted. We saw it under Eustace - he came into a terrible situation, stabilised it and in his first full season had us in the top 6. He was undermined and forced elsewhere. The reasons those two did well was nothing to do with them having 3-4 years to 'build' or being given time to settle in. They had an immediate impact and could have taken the club somewhere if it had wanted to go. Shame it doesn't. We will get another round of 'build' and 'stability' talk this summer which is basically telling fans to shut up, expect little and wait for tomorrow to never come whilst people like Waggott and Gestede continue to profit from the dismantling of the squad and occupy jobs they shouldn't have. Give me a ruthless decisive owner who wants his club to get somewhere and quick over this gang of charlatans.

Great offence and upset taken by another club / owner dispensing with their manager (and paying them off handsomely in doing so) to appoint someone else in their quest to advance and progress. Might work, might not, at least they are trying. I wish some of that offence and upset would be channelled against our owners genuinely disgracing the name of the club, including but not limited to tangling it up in an Indian Court battle, investigation, dragging it through the English civil courts, taking out pay-day loans to pay bills and just the general shame and humiliation of episodes like the Duncan McGuire/Lewis O'Brien transfers which must have caused unprecedented damage to the club's reputation.

Hull will be in the PL/Play-Offs before we are. That's all that really matters. Yes their owner is a bit of a hothead and chops and changes but he'll get it right eventually, whilst we rot away

So they can't hide behind it being a PL move for Dolan (it was never going to be anyway) They can't hide behind it being one of the 'trampoline' clubs throwing their cash around. Instead it is a run of the mill mid-table side snapping up another one of our important players on a free transfer. You can bet they move quickly to get the deal done and recruit, whereas we will be scratching around waiting for demands to drop and loans to become available. I'm old enough to remember when I was being assured on here that thanks to our sensible approach compared to reckless spending by clubs like Middlesbrough, Stoke and Bristol that we'd reap the benefits of it when they had to make substantial cutbacks and face the consequences of FFP trouble. That, of course, never happened and never was going to happen. I'm sure there will be people on explaining how Middlesbrough can offer him far more than we can because they're getting bigger gates. I'd like anyone who is thinking that to first calculate how many extra tickets they would have to sell to put a dint in the £30 million+ in cash we've received in the last 18 months from selling assets and why a small fraction of that can't be used to ensure our key players are under competitive long term contracts. Good news for the slimeball stooges though, another contract avoided. We really haven't changed at all from the days of losing Rothwell, Lenihan and Nyambe have we? Despite all the talk, especially under Broughton, of ensuring such things never happen again we are right back at it under the stooges.

All so the regime can turn around and say that they've reduced prices and made efforts to try and increase numbers. But in reality it won't, it will just break up the support more as a few move from the BBE to the Riverside creating gaps in what has tended to be a well populated and noisy BBE lower.

If my views on his managerial capabilities are accurate I'd say it is more likely to be a help than a hindrance.

Because other clubs have used some of the millions extra they have had from Sky to try and mitigate damage to attendances by cutting prices. They've seen the potential issue ahead and taken steps to address it before it has an impact on crowds Here however with disengaged owners and a board rewarded for saving money there was never any prospect of that happening because the extra Sky money was to them a bonus to help Venkys and Waggott, not the fans. Once again they attempt to spin it as though they are doing their bit - price reduction in the Riverside (nearly empty some games) but at the same time a price increase in the BBE (almost full some games) and anyone tempted to move still has to pay extra to get a new season ticket card anyway, wiping out most of the benefit. It's just a game being played, they aren't serious about this and are just trying to create an illusion whilst ensuring their bottom line is met so they keep the Indians off their backs for another year.

I'm not sure we are operating the same as we have done for a while. The last couple of years we've taken another turn for the worse hence two good managers very quickly getting the hell out of here, no contract renewals and just about every player of value being run out of the club in one form or another. When you reach a stage where you won't even try to keep your better players, won't reinvest any money and Derby County/unemployment are considered preferable to a play-off position here then you know you are in the end game and I think a lot of people can see that.

People are primarily interested in results and the first team. As long as there's a team and manager on that pitch at Ewood every fortnight that they feel they can get behind and delivers a certain minimum then they will be happy, and will be able to close their mind to and ignore ownership, board, decay of the club as though they aren't there/aren't happening. It felt like things were at breaking point in March because there was a perfect combination of off the pitch fiasco combined with the worst run of results imaginable just as Ismael arrived, and then the stooges did their interviews and everyone, even those who try to pretend all is well with the world, could see for themselves just what we have here, whereas previously with the radio silence they could just trot down to Ewood once a fortnight and all appears fine. Obviously the decision of Eustace to walk out on the club in February to join a relegation battle doesn't quite fit in with the 'hunky dory' image some want to believe in and made quite a few wake up to what is going on. Just in the nick of time both for this season and for renewals Ismael has managed to arrest the situation. The stooges must be counting their blessings big time because it could so easily have gone out with a whimper, instead the run and taking it to the last day has whetted appetites and persuaded many to cave in before the deadline. We know from experience that if something is going well this regime will find a way to put a stop to it - either by forcing the manager out or by dismantling the team - so another round of chaos and anger is never going to be far away.

The stooges have obviously had a get-together recently to prepare their scripts and to ensure they sing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to the excuse making. Someone has decided it is a good idea to compare us to Leeds, because these minutes and Yasir's twitter ramblings both attempt to directly compare situations. I suppose when you are clueless and desperate and with less and less genuine excuses to fall back on you go to the extreme end of the spectrum as they have here. In the end just an excuse laden load of rubbish delivered by people who should be nowhere near the positions they have ended up occupying. Those with capability have rapidly moved on leaving us with the incapable and desperate. I'm still confused as to why it is they claim it is difficult/impossible to resolve the critically important contract situations before the end of the season. This was never a problem or issue until a few years ago. Just complete and utter charlatans, liars and not to be trusted.

When you are expecting people to give up their precious money and time no amount of talking or excuses are going to cut it. People will judge on actions (or rather lack of) at the club and decide whether they can tolerate more of the same again. Going on twitter and regurgitating the same old 'can't do' tired excuses including ludicrous attempts to compare our income to Leeds' are just going to end up digging a deeper hole. At the end of the day there will be another drop off in people buying. Proof will be in the pudding and no amount of talking or excuses will get around that.