Cash will play a part plus Mowbrays steady hand but we'll have paid bigger loan fees or wage contributions back then. Now though we have Waggot unchecked by any manager controlling him just picking up the phone and committing 6 month 20k a week deal for a player with a 9 out of 10 chance of getting re-injured.

Waggot and Suhails deflection tactics are really being ramped up now. You can't hide behind Tugay lads.

Well i did say Sunderland had nowt to play for and their crowd wouldn't be putting the usual pressure on them. Nice of them to switch off completely on the pitch and bugger off home out of the stands nice and early. We still had to be on the money we've found ways to cock up situations like that in the recent past. Saints are feeling the pressure so if we can actually follow that performance up there's no reason we can't get a result.

Between the two of them they've gifted several points directly to the opposition this season it's quite ridiculous for a club of this stature to be so weak in that position. We are right back to the Steele, Jake Kean level of a decade ago and that's pathetic given how much time it took to get the keeper dept decent again. Jake didn't cost 800k either and a Simon Eastwood would be number 1 in this set up.

It's happening a lot this season bot Cardiff and Brum resembled Ewood there was thousands less in there than the stated gates. It's making us look normal with stated crowd figures and i think at some clubs it goes beyond just a bunch of ST holders not pitching up. Sunderland seem to have a lot of empty seats and sparse areas going off tv but gates are usually late 30s early 40s thousand. Odd, must be a lot o complis issued at these clubs but why ?

Every time i speak to a Bolton fan they say you lot need to do what we've done with the tickets it's one of the single best decisions the new regime made. My reply ? Well first we need a new regime because all this one will do is keep it at current levels at best and long term we'll go the other way.

Always gets written off every time his form dips but that lad for nothing on a modest wage has been one of the best finds this club has made. Yes he is inconsistent but most of them are and as long as his running stats stay high we know he's at least trying.

Not been able to hide the usual 20 million in them this time so more number crunching needed to give the appearance we aren't going bust. By the way how can they sign them off with guaranteed loss covering for the next year if they can't provide the funds ????/

Make yourselves hard to beat boys, hard to beat then build from there.....😃

That's not really going to happen (Mowbray) so it's a pointless debate however i'd say no because we are in a far worse position this time.

We are away at Sunderland and their crowd won't be nervy they've nowt to play for therefore no pressure.

One of the most refreshing things about JDTs time was more often than not we'd be attacking from the off and looking for an early goal. Not always the case obviously but even then you knew we could move the ball from back to front in the blink of an eye and create something of score against the run of play. Of course it had its flaws and drawbacks but now we are back to square one as the mostly tepid dour stuff under TM and Bowyer before that. We had bigger better squads then but if you want nay need to win games you have to show intent especially at home to the Plymouths and Millwalls. That in turn gets the crowd up and gives it something to get behind and a little expectancy is healthy after it was drummed out of us over the years. I can understand some of it now and the just don't lose mentality and if we stay up Eustace can point to it being justified and it was the right way. To go into next season whatever division we are in and know that's going to be served up every week it will be very hard to convince fans there is any intent to do anything.

And it's written off as shit fans instead of a display of desperate angst against the never ending nonsense.

We've been known to actively try and sell players before. I think the truth with BBD was we were being too nice again with the player just like the others who left for nowt because no one at Ewood really gives a toss and the owners only seem to become involved or made aware at the last min. If he was made available at that point someone would have bought him, where did the 8 mill talk come from ? Anyway as i said way too nice they knew the Spanish club wanted him and he wanted to go there so no boat rocking just let him run the contract down and go for free. I often wonder if these issues are the real reason they decided to ignore Mowbray and let him walk as he seemed to have a job for life here. Waggot should have been booted straight through the door after him i'd lay my last fiver we'd be in a better position now even if only slightly.

I think it's quite possible Waggot was brought in by the same people who brought in TM and several managers before him. That in itself should say something and also there was talk years ago of the shadowman being involved with a certain agency at some point in the past. For me it's quite simple those two have a cushy number here and did for years under Mowbray but because of forces higher up that came to an end. A new model and way of doing things was implemented that way alien to them and took away their total grip on things in Blackburn. They ended up with a DoF and head coach who were telling everyone how things really should be done if we want success. That signalled a potential end to the cushy just give us our budget we'll cut costs and hit modest targets and plod on and not bother you gravy train. Now they've helped stick a knife in all that they are desperate to get back to what they were doing before.

He just hasn't got the bright goal capable options here that he had at Brum after tightening them up, tight games you need people to nick them or options on the bench to chuck on. Here he has one good spell a season Dolan, one goal every blue moon and always crying off Gallagher, always trying to get fit again JRC and a bench of Telalovic and Markandy who couldn't hit a barn door. That's the difference.

Selling BBD that summer would've been the wisest thing to do when there was time to bring in others, that's not really hindsight it would just have been the right trading thing to do. Wouldn't have been popular in some parts but sales of good players never are but it's nothing new. Selling him for c8 mill when in a great position in the league was a no no for me and that wouldn't have made sense at the time unless it was forced. People are paid hundreds of thousands in high up positions inside the club to make these decisions for the good of the club not the player or his agent, can hardly put Brereton in the good servant category and when push comes to shove it was an awfully misquided signing. The model and the ultimate aim, supposedly trading and growing our way to promotion, must always come first. However you must never sabotage a promotion chance you MUST strengthen it and by the same token you must never weaken a relegation battle especially if you can't strengthen it. Shocking shocking club this is under these current clowns.

The BOARD of directors should have been pushing the owners to back the previous head coach. We don't have a real,board of directors and the ones we have do the opposite.

We need a CEO and board of directors who are not only capable and trustworthy but will sweat blood for the club and go that extra mile for the benefit of the club not themselves. Waggot is the polar opposite of that he remains here just because no one has told him to go so he carries on just going through the motions. We're selling Wharton and they've loaned out the captain to save a few quid and the best he can do is casually pick up the phone push the old boys network button and bring in a lad whose had career ending injury problems and hardly played fr 18 months. In doing so he commits to wasting c4/500k of the Wharton money straight off for someone who the odds on contributing anything for 5 moths were wafer thin to start wth. You tell me he isn't doing others favours there and getting a drink himself, nothing at all in that scenario is for the benefit of BRFC.

I'm not even going to listen to the useless prick his words mean absolutely nothing.

Before we even start of the corrupt useless bent Atwell if we had any kind of normal goal keeper we walk away from that with a point. How many points have that pair directly cost us this season ? Never known such a bad keeper dept in all mu time going it's just ridiculous it's like having Matt dickens and Darren collier as 1 and 2. Both those lads proved decent lower level keeper and neither had the coaching and facililities this pair have grown up with.

Gally missing 'ill' against the club who wanted to sign him and probably will in summer 😬

There needs to be an open line directly between the Rovers chief decision maker in Blackburn and the head Rao in Pune. Iv'e long thought these things fail because of that and whoever is over there needs telling stay on the line no matter what time it is over there otherwise it's all a waste of time. Months worth of work, negotiation and sometimes money down the pan because they can't get a direct nod from someone over there who doesn't want their daily duties interrupting, because that's how they operate. Will anyone in Blackburn tell them that ? Will they balls.

A lot of similarities to Hodgsons time with JDT. Fresh continental approach, different coaching, harder work more demanding on the pitch and in training, asked to play a style unacustomed to. At first when bedded in it worked well but impossible to keep it up with such a small quality devoid squad. When it went wrong the stubborn approach wouldn't change it when needed and tactically caught out by other teams who's sussed us out 2nd half of the season. In Roys case a guy not used to finding his own players made some awful signings and wasted millions. JDTs case no backing at all when needed, budget cut resulting it being given a string of mostly duds by a rookie DoF. In the midst of all this a lot of players fed up, poor atmosphere and tools being downed resulting in bad results and a yearning to go back to the comfort zone of something a bit more British. That didn't work out so lets pray this does.

Goes without saying i wish TM well and hope he gets better and back into football. Problem was he spent that much time dumbing down expectation, bigging up ALL opposition and generally running the club down to ease the pressure off himself that we almost forgot who we were. Then when we unexpectedly found ourselves up there it was a feeling of we are not worthy and just waiting for it to implode. When it did, a shrug of the shoulders we'd no right to be there anyway.