Guy N. Cognito

Over 15 years of this shite. It's an unusually long time for a dodgy foreign group to own a club. Most of them end up loading the club with debt, asset-stripping, and cutting their losses when the jig is up. I think this arrangement is unprecedented in football history. They clearly have no affinity with the club, the town, or the game itself. They’ve stripped the club of every ounce of dignity it once had, and undone all the years of hard work and success built up by their predecessors. We're in that awful position where they don't want to invest, but the club isn't enough of a money sink to force them to sell either. They are ostensibly happy to let the club gradually decline and rot away. Is it stubbornness? Is it maliciousness? Is it apathy? Or something more sinister? No one really knows. All we do know is that Venky’s haven’t run a football club, they’ve desecrated one.

And to be honest, "we" (as a corporate entity) deserve to be relegated. Mismanaged from the top, no CEO, stadium in a state of disrepair, washed-up manager, signings cobbled together from the bargain bucket, inadequate pitch facilities.... No one could argue it was an injustice if this club sank into League One.

Is he related to George Weah?

You can't run a club like we have and expect to defy gravity.

The club is in a managed decline. Pasha's remit is to run everything on the cheap and downsize the club into a "sustainable" package for his masters. Rudy has lucked into a role he's completely unfit for. They likely thought the fans were gullible enough to accept an ex-player in that role.... even one who went on strike. The infrastructure of the club operates without ambition and with no prospect of ever reaching anything resembling glory. We've witnessed that multiple times when the club was chasing promotion, only to be left hanging in January when reinforcements were badly needed. They want to keep the club running on the bare minimum, but can barely even manage that. It’s a business they're unwilling to grow, and too stubborn to let go.

The owners don't want to invest on the pitch, off the pitch, or in the pitch. So, why the fuck are they still here?

Just when you think the club can't plumb new depths.... (no pun intended?).

Gueye is an accident waiting to happen.

Damn right. The fact I distinctly remember him coming on and doing diddily squat tells me it isn't revisionism.

Carragher's lucky to even have a media career. People have been cancelled for much less.

Clumsy tackle. In the modern game, you should never give the opposition an excuse to go down, and that's what Hedges did.

Ismael knows his stock isn't high enough to take the high road. He won't have any decent offers like Tomasson or Eustace if he decided to walk right now, so he's toeing the line, just like Kean did when he said Nelsen's knee didn't feel right, then he miraculously started for Spurs a week later.

The most perplexing thing about Vale is he doesn't look like he wants to be a footballer. Whenever I saw him play for us, he lacked aggression and effort. No one can stop you running and chasing. Wasn't surprised at all when we binned him off.

Two averagely-crap teams play out a drab affair. One took their chance, the other didn't. Exciting times to be a Rovers fan...

Well said. Football is, for the most part, a meritocracy. No club (Rovers included) is entitled to be higher than anyone else based on former glories and historical significance. If we weren't a shitshow being held hostage by dark forces, perhaps we wouldn't be thumbing our noses at the likes of Wrexham, Bournemouth, Brighton, et al., but that's our problem.

Such a strange hill to die on.

Miller is gash. Can't pass for toffee.

Definitely. Gianluigi Buffoon can't be relied on.

For a lot of people, their identity is wrapped up in their chosen team. Any criticism or negativity feels like a personal attack. Challenging the club means challenging themselves, when the status quo is easier to support. Also, we Brits are an historically passive island of people. Keep calm & carry on, stiff upper lip, etc. We generally keep our heads down and hope someone else sorts out the mess.

We all know Pears has periods of being "okay" and then he'll drop an absolute bollock the following week. This game changes nowt.

We're a mediocre outfit. Take out a couple key players and we're goosed. How on earth can one expect any strength in depth on this bare-bones operation? Agyemang alone cost more than our summer business. Statistically, there wasn't a lot between us, but the game was won in the first-half. Eustace knew he could sit back and our feeble attack would have no reply, penalty notwithstanding.

Sounds like he was there for most of it!

All those years of pointless pointing on the pitch finally paying off. Not gonna lie, I'm sweating on that £500 I put on Brentford to go down....

I can't even work up the energy to get angry about Ismael's incompetence. He deserves to get potted, but what happens next? Let's say we hire someone who turns things around. Next summer we're bombarded with bullshit about the next dawn at the club, the new project blablabla... The usual bullshit from the spin machine to peddle season tickets and shirts before teeing us up for the inevitable disappointment It's all so tiresome.

The elephant in the room is WHY do they still own us? What have they got out of this arrangement for 15 years? Some fans speculate that Rovers are so insignificant in their portfolio that it doesn't matter to them, but why would you keep a business that haemorrhages money and constantly needs servicing when you have no emotional or operational interest? As far as we're aware, they've never once entertained selling the club either. The only explanation that makes sense is that we're a handy foreign asset for "moving" money around and dodging taxes.