Thanks for this. Corruption and deceitful business dealings are easily possible for these thoroughly dishonourable and totally dysfunctional family. However, I agree completely that it does not actually make it the most likely explanation for the decade long limbo we find ourselves in. The most likely explanation for the current situation at the club, IMO, remains the same as it has been since Paul Lambert was sold a pack of false promises to take over the club. That is - Mr & Mrs D probably want to sell, but the Fat One constantly vetoes this decision. The Fat One would probably like to spend/borrow a little, when he occasionally remembers about us, but his sister and brother in law constantly veto these decisions. Hence we are stuck in perpetual purgatory. Unreliable promises for £ and commitment come from the Fat One, refusal for £ to ever be spent, and instructions for sabotage, come from the D’s. (The other one I doubt remembers his own name, let alone ours). We’re caught in a sibling feud, I think, both sides too stubborn to give in. Neither side interested enough to make a killer move. I suspect SP (and thus SW too) see the D’s as the real bosses and probably try to humour and occasionally pretend to respond to the Fat One whilst knowing full well they take their real orders from the D’s. Pashwag (SP & SW) realise that to maintain their own positions they have to prevent managers having direct access to the family. Hence, post-Mowbray, JDT & JE have been kept well away from them. The instruction from the D’s to Pashwag may well be, as a priority, don’t let the coaches get access to the Fat One. Getting rid of Pashwag won’t change anything, but still, it would be fun to see them fall. We also shouldn’t talk of the owners as a single entity, they are a divided camp with different intentions. Our dysfunctionality as club merely reflects our owner’s dysfunctionality as a family.

Will BRFCS be eligible for compensation?

Thanks and appreciated. Personally, it makes me less likely to subscribe though. I wouldn’t give the man 1p a month of my cash - even though I accept he knows more about comings and goings than lots of other journalists. Maybe I am just stubborn. Thanks for being so open and transparent about it though. I wish Jeff Bezos was so open about what is going on at the Washington Post!

Thanks so much to yourself and the rest of the team for all the work you do on the site. It is hugely appreciated. Just one quick question though, please. Why does Alan Nixon get articles published on this site? All of us with memories remember the stance he took against us when we had a nameless charlatan as manager and another nameless entity ‘sleeping’ at the club. His presence disturbs me. I am all for forgiveness, I don’t wish him any harm, but I am absolutely not for forgetting. I just wonder what he’s doing here. Thank you.

Somebody might be on the way out then … …

That would explain a hell of a lot!

No Commentary up here either. Pay a subscription, ten minutes in and all we can hear is crowd noise. Amateurs!

Eustace clearly has more about him away from a microphone. In front of one, it seems to me, that his objective is to say very, very little at all and to just get through the minutes without revealing anything. I really struggle to pay attention to him speaking in interviews, he comes across, imo, as someone making white noise. He can not be like this in the dressing room or he wouldn’t have the players on board - largely (Siggy, Buckley and maybe JRC aside) - in the way he does and he wouldn’t have this side so well drilled if he was that dull all the time. Perhaps in a similar way, I used to think Kenny was deliberately indecipherable in front of a microphone. I don’t think he cared for being interviewed and that was his way of getting his own back on having to do all that bollocks. I will always love JDT for being so open about what an absolute tool Waggot was to work with. However, Eustace is cautious, pragmatic, professional and experienced in seemingly everything he does. Fair play to him for that. I’m not convinced he’s staying, not convinced he’s committed to working with these clowns and ultimately, if he goes, that is as damming on the Waggot/Pasha regime as any of JDT’s brutal honesty. I just hope WBA do not see sense and that we can get a chance at a top six finish and some end of season excitement/inevitable heartbreak before we have to roll the dice again.

Just got our tickets 😅 Five of us on our way down from Inverness; Me, the wife, two of our three boys (15 & 18) and a friend whose never seen an English match live before. Very excited! BBEnd - N06 - perhaps not the best being up in the corner, but you never know it might be brilliant up there.

No it isn’t! The Championship is a big league, with big clubs, big stadiums and big crowds. The quality of football is pretty decent and it is exciting and unpredictable. It is won by different clubs every year. Although parachute payments are currently having an adverse affect on the level of competition, one club without parachute payments will usually have the chance of a transformative promotion via the play offs (Luton) or even better (Ipswich). I will defend the Old Firm clubs against English people who ignorantly deny how enormous those two clubs are. There are also several other Scottish clubs who could be half decent IF they got a chance to play in a real league, like the championship. However, the SPL is an absolutely dire league, I assure you. My family and I would love to be able to watch Championship football every week. Some of the SPL football is way below Championship standard and as a competition I’d rather be watching League One, League Two or just about any other league in the world!

If Watford beat Sunderland we go second - unless Burnley & Sheff Utd both win (with Sheff Utd winning by 3). Or at least I think so!

I can’t see where to pay to watch? Listening to the audio.

If we could start the JDT way, but then go Eustace for the last 60 - then we would be on to something. Or even start Eustace, and then hit them with twenty minutes of JDT ball at some point in the second half. If we could manage both styles in the same 90 minutes I feel we would really be getting the best out of what we have available. If we stay up I sincerely hope the players don’t forget how to play JDT ball as next season progresses. Being able to go between both styles could make us a strong championship side.

Swag has many, many failings both as a CEO of a world famous football club and as a human being. Broughton isn’t perfect, he lacks experience and his signings have been mixed. The root cause of all our problems are the dysfunctional and contradictory family that own us. However, Broughton and the family member who appointed him at least have one thing - AMBITION. Swag, Silvester and maybe Suhail - and the family members who are controlling these malignant entities and their sabotage - not only have zero ambition they clearly appear to be actively ensuring we can never ever have the ambition to leave this league. People attacking Broughton are backing the wrong side in this power struggle - unless your only ambition is that we fail so badly that the Raos sell us. IMO this is flawed thinking though: The club will only be sold when ALL the squabbling siblings agree to sell. That may happen because of court proceedings in India, but it will never ever happen because of anything that occurs in Lancashire or in the championship - be that protests, relegation or managers or personnel coming or going. SWAG OUT should be the aim of the fan base right now IMO. He is not immovable and his experience of attending football matches and dealing with fans should not be a pleasant one that he wishes to persist with. I also wonder if the slimy maggot is responsible for turning some players against JDT. Hyam, for example. They were being made to train very hard, run their assess off in games, senior and popular players like Travis were deemed not skilful enough and when things started going wrong there is Swag to sway them towards dreams of the old days when they didn’t have to bust a gut just to let Szomdics and Wharton get all the plaudits. It’s a conspiracy theory, but we know the man is such a self interested asshole he would do anything to cling on to power at the club. SWAG OUT - it is achievable.

I wish Eustace all the best. However, my dislike of Waggott is now becoming almost irrationally intense. I mean, I really, really can’t stand the guy. Everything about the guy gives me the creeps. I haven’t disliked someone at the club like this since the days of Anderson and Kean. I hope he gets his comeuppance sooner or later. Hopefully he gets stabbed in the back just as coldly, messily and publicly as he has stabbed JDT and GB in the back.