Is anyone else completely underwhelmed by the sense of purpose emanating from our hamstrung, chicken-shit, dried up old excuse of a management team? I can't speak for anyone else, but normally by this point in a pre-season, I'd be starting to look forward to games, thinking about what the coming campaign might bring, and certainly gearing up for some excitement down the road... This summer though, feels more like... Dry as a fooking bone, and bouncing around like a tumbleweed disaster waiting to happen. VENKYS OUT!

It's another slo-mo car crash, neatly staged to paper over the obvious cracks, but designed ultimately with the INTENTION of driving our club downhill into the ground. Get ready Bamber Bridge, for another burial. MMW. VENKYS OUT!

Yes, but like Rovers under current conditions, she wasn't competitive..

I should think there would be great guffaws as we see the reality behind the keyboard warriorship! There's an interim stage we could adopt, which would be a virtual meet, using Zoom, Teams or similar, although I'd wager not many would attend as themselves and there'd be a lot of avatars in the room! I'm going to get an 'Old Codger' badge made, and wear it in the Moorgate before games next season a few times, to see if I can smoke out some of you other curmudgeonly keyboard combatants 🙂 Let's just say, my 'residual self image' (how I think I look to others in reality or in a virtual sense) is definitely well at odds with the physical reality of who and what I actually am 😉 And for the avoidance of doubt, I'm more akin to one of the chairs in the above, than either of the actors! (i.e. a bit battered, comfortably upholstered, lacking in hair, somewhat old-fashioned, but occasionally useful)

He'd be lucky to get a sniff at MHSP! Proper football club!

there was a story in the telewag that players who hadn't signed new contracts weren't expected to return to training on Monday. That would include Trav, Dolan etc wouldn't it. We shall see - I wonder if the club marketing department will release a video of the boys getting back in harness?? Matters not. All that matters is that we are on the approach to another campaign, and yet again the omens are less than favourable. Getting a bit sick of starting every season with low expectations. Whatever happened to giving it a right good go? BASTARDS! PASHA THE STOOGE OUT! VENKYS OUT!

As are the players, ground staff, marketing and HR folks. And as we know, in this life, if you pay peanuts.... This is a very f'ed up world, where Orange Buffoons play puppet to crazed and blood-thirsty lunatics and Horse-riding psychopaths speak in snake-eyes from the end of ridiculous long tables. Football should be a welcome diversion for the masses, and should allow us escape from the awful realities of human suffering. Instead, we are treated like idiots and expected to swallow relentless shit dressed up as a football club. Stop the ride. I want to get off. VENKYS OUT!

I believe the phrase is, "Champagne tastes, Brown-Ale pockets" Also known as 'Deluded as fuck' / 'In need of a good kicking' / 'Waste of space' About time we started Rovers 1875 between us, as a consortium of ex-players and using a fan subscription basis for funding, and applied for entry into as high a league as we could (hell we could even apply for Blackburn Combination if it meant we could eventually overtake the wastrels and restore the reputation of our town as a footballing tour de force. VENKYS OUT!

Under this lot, never, obs. However, many of us can remember the days right back to the 70s when there was a plan, much less money to go round, far less ego, and much more of a focus on doing the best for the club and the town. The venksters don't even pretend to be interested in the club anymore, and are a blight on the name of football in this country. VENKSTERS OUT!

Travis is history from a Rovers perspective, imo, and we will next see his value on the pitch when we experience it in opposition colours in the coming season. Hopefully he will have some consideration for the long-suffering fans who have had to endure such a long and painful downgrading of expectations on and off the pitch. Not sure why you'd be gobsmacked, when the writing has been on the wall since the end of last season. Look, if we are having a clear out, so that IV has a clean slate for next season, then so be it. But just get the fook on with it, and start a proper rebuild with bona-fide recruitment to a plan, rather than piecemeal hand to mouth getting by on a hope and ham sandwich. Now, personally I'd be gobsmacked if there was a plan 😉 VENKYS OUT!!

Aye, John the Flapper Butcher liked his ale too much, and was often seen staggering along Livesey Branch road after a session at Charlies Disco.. 😉

What a crock this thread is. Transfer thread? My arse. It should be renamed A&E ffs.

The question is, what do the Venkys actually get from owning a league one club? I can't for the life of me see any logic in their association with something so relatively trivial. Premier League yes, Championship not so much, but anything less than that surely just tarnishes their brand and marks them as useless. Simples for me. VENKYS OUT!

Travis has been an important player for Rovers in recent seasons, able to break up attacks, engage in much needed shithousery and galvanising those around him to make better contributions. You only need do the sums on the points tally with him in and him out of the side to see that there is something about the lad that other midfielders just don't bring to the party. I appreciate he isn't technically gifted, a crowd-pleaser or a clear match winner, but mark my words, if he goes we will lose steel and leadership in the middle of the pitch and we will start to concede more frequently than when Travis is playing (for us). That is, of course, unless there is a cunning plan to replace him with someone able to do what he does for a fraction of the cost... But Professor Cunning, whose cunning is more devious than the most cunning of cunning foxes from the university of cunning, sadly no longer goes to Rovers, as he got fed up with being taken for a jessie. Whatever that is. VENKYS OUT!

Bites... go on...