
Richard Oakley
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Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
@Stuart The nighmarish scenario I think we want to avoid 'Venkys sell Blackburn Rovers to Jerome Anderson'. To add to your list. -
Remember, it's When Mowbray goes ... If results don't go our way, next Sunday at 5pm, we could find ourselves involved in the scrap for the final relegation spot and Mowbray's already failed to do that once, so you'd think he'd have to go and Venkys bring forward their review. That assumes they don't want us in League 1, of course.
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The Relegation Thread
Richard Oakley replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Mowbray does. We've established that he's delusional. -
Rovers v Derby - 6pm, Friday 16th
Richard Oakley replied to Stuart's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I expect the games to moved to Sunday -
I should be concerned about more teams below us. Of the teams below us only Birmingham won. Rotherham ought to have - bad news for us. One more defeat for Wycombe and we can't finish bottom. 2 more defeats for Wednesday and the lowest we can finish is 22nd. Swansea could be bad news for both those teams this week.
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Of course, there is. Why are you trying to spin that there is no story? How would you react were another journalist to tell you there's no story behind a piece of information? I'm sure there are people on this board who have provided information to the journalist you tried to airbrush away - this story, that is. They will also have provided the LET with information. What Peacocks said and the material submitted to the committee is now a matter of public record. Will this scandal force the football league into action? It has already placed us under a transfer embargo, after all.
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Mick McCarthy said "Tony Mowbrays' team will be a good footballing side". Mick must tell us when, since he clearly knows something we don't. The current team won't be here next season; there's not too much time (6 games ) for this miracle to occur. McCarthy will be eager for Cardiff to hand out a 5-0 drubbing to another team, after experiencing one so recently. We do like to experience 1-0 defeats with Mowbray lamenting everything.
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Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Have yet to reach the shore. The water is a little bit choppy, we lack that little bit of quality and our cox is issuing contradictory orders and nobody will throw him overboard. -
Steve Pickup - Groundsman
Richard Oakley replied to whalleyrover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Your comprehension is truly woeful. You're being told to get a grip about BRFC and what it is, not about why the academy groundsman has jumped ship to Fleetwood or why out chief scout has also jumped ship (on the Talking Back podcast that was linked). The academy groundsmen could well have gone due to a lack of budget to maintain said grounds. When you fished up on this message board, you claimed you were researching a book. How is that coming? Don't let that keep you here. Of course, the reality is that you're part of the firm providing the Club with Analytics that Mowbray uses for his 'possession based style', not that Mowbray has a style. -
Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
@Bigdoggsteel You know it's all your fault, don't you? If only you'd agreed with my suggestion of Damien Johnson as caretaker, Mowbray and co would be gone. Not really. That would assume someone in Pune read this message board and took note of what is being said. Yeah, I know, fat chance. We're such a well run club, Woodgate, that we're under a transfer embargo, again. Speaking of LET, a poster Mumbai Rover got called a "troll". That particular response was to a post that was saying rumour in India has it that Venkys want to sell the club at the end of next season and are just looking to extract what value they can. It's a mite difficult to sell a club that has negative market value as per the Rovers Trust analysis. Liquidation is a more likely outcome and given the size of Trading creditors, sooner than than later. Only the advance payment of Sky TV revenue staved off administration in 2012 (I think that was the year) and unsubstantiated rumours that the HMRC has come after the club chasing tax payments. Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited is not being run as a 'going concern'. -
Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
And our fall through the table, now 4 points above 21st. -
Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Don't worry @CheshireRoverIt is just another Mercer rumour! Lol. -
Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
If Waggott was 'instructed to act', he's failed to so do. Do we move the 'clock' forward to 5pm or will we just look back on this moment as the one where we missed the opportunity to save our championship status. -
Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Very funny. Situations have been allowed to drag to the point where no-one expects any action to be taken and then Venkys take action. -
The Relegation Thread (15th edition)
Richard Oakley replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That's what Hull fans were thinking this time last year. -
Tony Mowbray Discussion
Richard Oakley replied to Neal's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Mowbray's defeat at Wycombe proves we won't finish with his target of 70 points. Another self-designated target missed. Of course Mowbray has to go. Venkys are not running this club as a going concern. Expecting the Football league to act is about as promising as expecting Venkys to clear out the managerial/executive dross. -
Mowbrays Successor
Richard Oakley replied to Darwen Rover 007's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Yes, I genuinely believe it is. -
Mowbrays Successor
Richard Oakley replied to Darwen Rover 007's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I would imagine they, like you, want to have a replacement or replacements lined up for immediately after Mowbray gets potted. They, like you, don't want to name Johnson as caretaker. The more extensive the planned changes, the longer it takes to arrange everything. If they are ditching HSH, that will cost money and take time, too. These changes are things Venkys can't mess up and so it's one time I don't really begrudge the time, though as a fan, I'd like it done faster. -
Championship Season 2020 - 2021
Richard Oakley replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
They may not. They may think there are better choices out there, now. Like you, I think they'll get up there, if they leave him be. We'll see, if there's a team in the playoff places collapses this year like Forest did last. I thin Reading are a result away from cracking and Barnsley may have peaked too soon. -
Championship Season 2020 - 2021
Richard Oakley replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Hughton's Forest haven't performed as well as I thought they would since his appointment. I don't know, if that puts his job under threat.