He deserves hounding out for that comment alone, nevermind the decade of disaster he has presided over

This was my thought as well. What a stupid comment if that is what he said. There was about 23-24000 home fans on for the B*rnley match. There is no question some of them would love to come back more regularly if they thought there was some ounce of hope and pride in their club.

Not bothered by any of that? Remarkable, maybe you could get a place on the board at Rovers too then

More absolute lunacy on the latest LT article about the sale of the club. Again, just one post in support of the club being sold about about 20 in favour of the owners.

Why do you think Ismael did not get another club before getting the Rovers job? Do you think he applied for other Championship jobs? There have been plenty about. He still obviously wanted to be back managing at this level, so let's assume he did. If he did, I wonder why he didn't get them. Even if he didn't actively apply for any Championship jobs, I wonder whether he was actively approached by any clubs when there was a vacancy. I wonder what actually attracted him to the role at Rovers? Do you think he did any research on the last 15 years at the club (especially the last two seasons)? If he did, why was he still attracted to the role? If he didn't, is he that bothered about the club and the job? It seems to me like we were the only club who would take him on and we look like an easy ride / free lunch for him.

That is a good idea, take some short clips from the long video where they say/promise something and then ask why we would believe this given the last 14/15 years e.g. all our players being out of contract being "exciting times"...

For me personally, the end game would be a statement from the club confirming that we are for sale and that they will consider any sensible approaches. Anything less than that for me is unacceptable at this point and a waste of time. Rearranging deckchairs. Issues about season tickets, playing staff, coaching staff and the rest can all be addressed by a new regime and just distract from the main goal of new owners. Some might say there is a compromise position where we agree to support the current regime subject to certain guarantees, but I'm afraid I could not accept this, given the last 15 years, that track record of failure is too substantial. On how you guys have worked in the last few months, I would have to say well done, it has been very effective. It's jolted the directors out of their smug lull and forced a response and seems to have played out how you hoped and expected, keep going 👌 On the interviews yesterday, there isn't much I can say other than that it was empty platitudes, false promises and highly unconvincing. On a side note, I still cannot understand why so many people still back/trust/ignore the ownership regime and bite back at those who want a fresh start. I don't know what it would take for those people to turn? For us to be in league two? Worse?

Thanks for that 👍 So he was head of international sales in the chicken farming industry, now he's deciding how a professional football club is run...

So, so infuriating. Even if we had maintained 'midtable' type form when we were fifth, that still would have gotten us enough points per game to finish 6th or higher. The drop-off has been mind-blowingly bad

What do we know about Suhail's career/background? There seems to be very little online for someone who is COO of a large organisation. Is it likely he had any interest in football or had ever attended a football match before becoming COO here? Maybe he was successful elsewhere in another industry, but that doesn't guarantee success in this one, just look at Jim Ratcliffe.

Just had to come out of it due to other commitments but I just listened to the Twitter/X space fan forum for the best part of half an hour and we have some brilliant, passionate, articulate fans involved on there that gives me some hope 🤞🔵🌹

I agree that the most focus of discontent must be on Venkys & Suhail Pasha at this point, everything else is rearranging deckchairs on the proverbial. Waggott - incompetent but probably on the way to retirement, whether he goes makes no difference at this point, he probably doesn't care what people say about him or the owners, we've paid him millions of pounds to achieve mediocrity at best in the last few years. Gestede - useless and under qualified, but makes no difference whether he goes at this point Ismael - quickly looking like a dud, but makes no difference whether he stays or goes. The last 15 years has shown that it doesn't really matter who the manager is, we will not win promotion from this division under Venkys. There is too much incompetence and chaos and the financial approach and playing side have been "bargain basement" for several years now.

This season's second half the worst so far, and may get even worse, given that the last 4 of those games have been against the complete guff of the division. Much more difficult fixtures to come. 0.88ppg, stinking. Would be really good if someone could print that table onto an A4 and share it with them at the next fans forum and ask them why they think those starts are the way they are. (If there is ever another forum, which there may not be at this point).

We're 40/1 to finish in the top 6 as of a few minutes ago: https://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/championship/top-6-finish Bookies can be wrong of course, feel free to make your own mind up. The run of Derby, Stoke & Cardiff did for us. If we had won even two of those matches against absolute fodder we would be right in there. As it stands, not a hope in hell imo. Edit - some bookies have us as low as 25/1, my mistake. Think the point still stands, that's a 4% chance in their opinion.

Football just seems broken wherever you look. Just read on BBC that Chelsea have been able to post a profit of £128m, mainly from selling it's women's team from itself, to itself.. for £75m.. (to another company owned by Boehly)

Look how quick the comments have appeared and all but one supporting the Venks... Almost as if people were on standby for it...

Does anyone have an inkling of what they're expecting Pasha to say tomorrow, if he's speaking to media? Unless he's announcing the club is for sale, does anyone care too much? I'm not that interested in hearing him trying to apologise for, justify or explain any of the awful decisions and situations he is responsible for, if that is his approach.

As much as I can't stand the owners and am tired and fed up of Steve Waggott, there is no way that Rudy Gestede will be the club's next CEO. Don't let talk of it distract anyone from the current issues at hand. I'm not pretending to be ITK or anything like that, the idea itself is just bonkers for a hundred reasons and not even the Venkys for all their other failings are going to do something like that.

This is the time people do need to be careful on spreading rumours because as others have said, if they are untrue they will massively backfire and play into the club's hands: "Yes half the things they're posting about online and protesting about simply aren't true, we can't take them seriously, they're creating problems that aren't there, they're affecting the team negatively, we all need to be united" etc

If there really is the level of chaos behind the scenes that is being alleged in some posts on here, it will go some way to explaining (not 100% excusing) the recent results. Footballers aren't Einsteins but not usually idiots either. They are paid professionals but it must be pretty hard to do any job when everything going around with other colleagues, senior management etc is just bonkers. If things turn sour on Friday I hope the fanbase doesn't turn on the players themselves - boos, groans and screaming at the individuals on the pitch won't help, but I fear it will be the go-to response for many in the stands. I imagine the players are privately really pissed off too, they're as powerless as we are in many regards. You can be really good at your job but if your line manager, middle manager, CEO, owner etc is bonkers then you're not gonna achieve your potential.

Potentially the most exciting end to a championship season in years with half the league having something to play for on the final day (except us obviously, thanks to the players, manager and especially the owners)

Christ that stinks. When you consider the opposition we've played it's laughable. The players need to take some blame for that as well, VI might be picking them and setting them up awkwardly, but they shouldn't have forgotten how to play the game they've played since they were about five.

It's the longevity of it that's so depressing isn't it? Pompey, Coventry, Bolton, Birmingham, many others have had horrendous owners who took the club off a cliff and humiliated the fan bases, but they're all clubs who eventually got through it and are now on the up. We've had this over us for 10% of our entire existence, as one of the oldest football clubs around. When you consider that length of time it's galling. There hasn't even been any 'good times' of note, unless you count pipping Shrewsbury Town to 3rd division promotion. We've bottled every big occasion and had nothing to be proud of. What I wouldn't give for our 150th year to be the one we had their curse lifted!

It's so close at the top of the division that it is likely to go down to the final day now. If we need to, we absolutely better chuck that game at Bramall Lane. I can see it now, I can see our stinking run continuing until that that game and then us somehow accidentally winning 1-0 against Sheff Utd to send the Clampetts up, our players coming over thumping the badge and clapping us while getting pelted with allsorts.

Dreading Friday now. Boro will be salivating at the prospect of this game. The playoffs have opened right back up for them and they get to strike first by playing on the Friday, against statistically the current worst team in the division. They'll have done their homework and worked out our confidence is shot and that we don't even look awake until we concede and will come flying out at us. If we concede early it's gonna get nasty.