Wheelton Blue

What school did you go to?

Of course the blame for financial mismanagement lies with Waggot. He's the Chief Executive Officer, for crying out loud! Venkys employ him to manage the club, both commercially and compliantly, on their behalf.

No. We have 3 games in 8 days, not 7.

There's no difference whatsoever. If the owners decide to sell the club, it's irrelevant if the STC is on the books of the club or the new company. In the case of the former, they could have excluded the STC from any sale anyway, and just kept it for themselves. Conversely, in the case of the latter, they could insist that the STC is part of a sale of the club. At the end of the day, the Venkys still own the STC, irrespective of whether it's an asset of BRFC or an asset of the new company. It's their's to do with as they please either way.

Our trajectory is downwards. 1 win in 5.

I agree. Chaddy has a point though. If either won't sign no matter what, then we should sell them in January to at least get some money back.

Totally.

Both Gallagher and Brereton are poor at holding the ball up. Neither of them have sufficient control to do this effectively, and it's something we've missed since Graham. It's a big reason why we invite pressure IMO

Tough game this, even more so if Ayalya & Nyambe are missing. A draw would be decent. 1-1

Price is definitley more of a factor now though. The cost of watching a match these days, is relatively far more expensive than what it was back in the day.

My thoughts are the same. On the face of it, the 'sale' of the STC from BRFC to the new business makes short term sense from a FFP angle; it allows the owners to inject additional cash into the business. Once a business starts to sell assets to raise cash though, that's never a good sign. This is effectively what they're doing.

Get a grip. You asked a question, so I gave a possible answer. That's not to say I believe it.

Possibly because it gives them the same opportunity in the next FFP cycle. ie 'sell' the STC to to beef up income in this cycle. Then 'sell' the Academy in the next cycle, if need be.

Presuambly then, if Mowbray was potted and the gig offered to McCarthy, he would dismiss the offer out of hand? Nah. Didn't think so.

It's very rare that I hear swearing around where I sit in the JWU. Mind you, we're lucky to get 6 people sat on our row these days, so that probably explains it!

Thinking ahead to the position the club will find themselves in at season end: We'll likely once again end up somewhere in the bottom half. Mowbray maybe gone, or maybe not. Who knows? It's possible that we'll have lost some, if not all, of Nyambe, Rothwell, Lenihan for next to nothing. It's possible that Brereton and Kaminski will be entering their final year, with a similar risk of losing them for nothing. If a new guy does come in to take over, he'll likely be in a position where the squad once again needs significant investment and a massive overhaul. Considering the fact that Mowbray will have been here for 5 years, but to be basically back where we started with him, is nothing short of pathetic. What a terrible legacy that would be.

Crikey. I merely requoted - in verbatim - from the newpaper article. Your unstinting defence of all things Mowbray has no boundraries, it would appear.

Wasn't Paulo Maldini a right footed left back?

'If we're brutally honest, he isn't good', is what Mowbray was quoted as saying in that newspaper article.

It's one thing Mowbray talking and coaching players behind the scenes in order to improve them. That's his job, after all. It's something completely different to then criticise them in public.

I don't see why Edun/Pickering/Nyame couldn't swap sides at a push. The principles of full back play are surely the same, irrespective of which side of the pitch is being defended. Argubly easier to do this, than ask a centre half to play at full back.

On our day we do have a pretty good team. The trouble we have is that our days only come around on average once every 4 games.

We never hear any words of ambition coming from either Mowbray or Waggot. It's all guff like 'journey', 'we'll see where we are...' wishy washy nonsense. A manager worth his salt would say something like 'I expect that in 2 seasons we'll be in the top 6' A CEO worth his salt would say something like 'The plan is to have 12k season ticket holders next season' Of course they never say anything of the sort, for the simple reason that they're on easy street. The worse bit about it though, is that they're allowed to get away with it.

Yeah, I suppose Brentford might be a good move. They tend to improve players. Bournemouth though. That shows just how far we've fallen.

I'm not so sure, Chaddy. He's not Premier League standard, so playing in front of 50k every other week with guaranteed european games is about as good as it will get for him.