Reality check. Last season the squad was nowhere near good enough to get out of this league. Hence the result. Good to see the back of players like Rothwell and Lenihan who just didn't do enough, often enough. We need to spend around £45 million on better quality players all over the park. We won't of course. We think we can compete by promoting a few kids and hiring a DOF. We won't compete. It will be a right load of shit but lets watch it all play out and kid ourselves it's a new dawn.

Before Waggott we had the slimy used car salesman Paul Senior. When asked directly about the same topic (ticket prices and attendances) he said they couldn't and wouldn't devalue the product. Different bloke, different style, same direction, same tasks. And after Waggott under the same owners we will get.... the same.

Oh thats bleeding obvious. It's because he is doing exactly what the owners have tasked him with.

The first words from the new messiah, Gregg Broughton, told us everything. "It is my job to implement the vision of the owners". That is it. The role. The exact same applies to Steve Waggott. Us fans can comment all day long about what we think they should be doing but it means jack shit. They will be doing exactly what is expected of them and that (unfortunately) is entirely different from what we (fans) expect for our club WHICH WE LOVE. There is only one way it can possibly end. Venky's Out.

I see Ronny has gone to Leige. No surprise there. I hope he isn't in the short list submitted to India.

Last season they went on sale 18th June. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19382231.blackburn-rovers-season-ticket-details-2021-22-season/ At a comparable stage (after a month) the sales were 3001 https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19455550.blackburn-rovers-reveal-first-month-season-ticket-sales-figure/ Maybe they better start hiring a proven top class manager and bringing in some marquee signings.

This marketing strategy is a disgrace. Buy a ST or you ain't a fan. And making a fuss about Dunny better not be a 5 minute warning.

You don't have a clue who is in the frame. Since Mowbray left we have already had 6 guaranteed appointments on here. It is far more likely to be the "usual suspects". And when the owners weigh up all the costs and risks it is more than likely going to be Damien Johnson being promoted for an extra tenner a week. FFS wake up and realise what has happened to our club.

Oh so exciting. This is the stage where Venkys said no no no to Warnock and picked Coyle from the shadows.

Looking more and more like all potentials are too expensive for our budget so they are going to promote Johnson.

So right now, Tony Mowbray is still being paid to be the manager of our football club.... Meanwhile the tumbleweeds blow across the fields of Brockhall.... a lonely surveyor with his tripod thingy quietly re-valuing the land... Nyambe wakes up Monday morning and isn't sure what to do.... Ben Benson arrives early and finds the gate is still locked, waits in the carpark nervously checking his watch.... It starts to rain....

I imagine they are bog standard full time employees so will stay until they either leave or the club offers them a severance package (which they won't).

The deadline is guaranteed to be extended. Just a silly game of brinksmanship which will only piss off another portion of ST holders.

It seems the "not this week"ers have it. I will stick my neck out and say not next week either. 100% predictable.

I am sticking with they ain't got a clue yet and think any announcement will be the week after next.

All pointless. Until Venkys have left a good 10,000 won't be bothering even raising an eyebrow.

Monday morning.... "OK Ben, I will put the cones out and you make the brews." "Righteo Dave.... then what?"

Well 2 days gone and nothing. Maybe we have to wait to see who Blackpool hire and then we can have the other one, discount rate.

Wasn't it Bjork who said.... "It's all so quiet"

So when he comes to work for pennies at Rovers we can expect the same results. WE SHOULD NOT BE ASPIRING TO BE OR COMPARING OURSELVES TO FUCKING ROTHERHAM....EVER.

If we really are chasing pound shop 3rd Division managers, Please can nobody start talking crap about promotion. Please can we not waste anymore time talking to these 4 walls about poor attendances and awful ST sales. They will have answered this question emphatically with the quality of their appointment. Please can we not discuss and argue endlessly, if the new man is better or worse than Mowbray or Coyle or Bowyer. Mowbray was utter dog shit. We deserve and expect much better.

So basically no new manager this week. Next we will be waiting for work permits.

Players return to training in one week. Where are you hanging your hat on this question ?

There is literally nothing for them to keep under wraps.

Just to be clear. I don't expect a single thing to happen this week. The DOF came from Nixon. Walsh was just mentioned and has grown legs. Nobody knows anything about the manager. Previous dead certs have all gone elsewhere so were not dead certs. It's a right old typical Venky Shitshow. If it's Dunny and Shorty then I am going to give up.