TimmyJimmy

We've all run out of fresh ways to say the same stuff mate, but as you're away from it all in another country I'll take your question as genuine and answer in as few words as possible. My opinion is that Venkys never purchased Rovers for footballing reasons, the true reason I'll leave you to speculate on. The club is like Neo in the first Matrix film, it is being kept alive but comatose so that others can feed off it. Some supporters believe we are really alive and in a real world, but we aren't. We will never be revived and no red pill is forthcoming. Warm words about the owners caring is simply that, warm words to give comfort and illusion so that the feeding can continue. There is not one single reason that anyone can give me to explain their continued ownership that would persuade me away from my view that nefarious practices are going on behind the scenes. As said I have zero understanding of what that is but interest in football is not it. It will not end under any circumstances in my opinion. I have some exposure with others on here of investigating a purchase of the club and categorically they are not for selling. Personally I made the decision some time ago to withdraw all financial support and I follow only from a distance on TV when screened, newspapers and of course on here. And that is my recommendation, withdraw life support, Liverpool Pathway watch the club die and pray for the Resurrection. Horrendous.

I think the tried and tested method is to ADD new blood and test it out, then, either move it on or trust it and incorporate it into the EXISTING team structure. I'm not sure that selling the whole team and starting from scratch by signing a bus load of unknowns from second tier foreign leagues is the best approach. The majority of our signings aren't at the required level and yet they now make up almost the whole team. We bought well at RWB. We did well previously with Toth, Cantwell and Tronstad it's true but every other one has failed. ADEQUATE is the very best that can be claimed for SOME of the purchases the majority just don't have it. The selling of the 'family silver' last year was utter hubris and was essentially betting the house on the flip of a coin. It hasn't worked. We are in deep do-do and the best we can hope for is survival. If the players weren't good enough this year they won't be the next. Project after project after project! When will they ever produce anything worth getting excited about. I repeat, in answer to your challenge, who will sign for us in January and who is at the required level and is uninjured and ready to go. Answer: nobody. We don't even have enough cash to bribe someone with high wages. Time to smell the coffee dude.

100%. Little extra needs saying except I'd add this, if VI was a party to the sale of the players in close season and had input into the purchase of the current dross then he fully deserves to be condemned with Gestede, the board and the owners. If he didn't then I'm not on his case because any manager being asked to compete with this line up is doomed to fail. Even Fergie couldn't pull it off. These players are absolutely nowhere near Championship standard. Chuck in a couple postponement replays, a whole team of 'first on the list' players injured and too many games in too short a time on a shit heavy hamstring tearing pitch, chuck in some 'unfortunate' refereeing displays and we are where I think we'd expect to be. There can be no argument whatsoever that we have been poisoned by the ownership and it's impossible to know why. They employ the board, fire good people and hire bad, they starve us of funds, they sell our good players, they run down contracts and force people out. If VI was party to any of the above then he deserves all the anger that's come his way. If he was a desperate unemployed manager who was grasping for any straw and thought 'how bad could it be' well now he knows. Cantwell is an excellent player surrounded by average (at best) players, he cannot shine, he has to be frustrated. If I were him I'd be off like a shot. Who the heck is going to sign for a club like this in January? 100% agree with you mate, our only hope is a sale and clear out. How likely is that? 0%. The club is done.

As bad as it gets. I so do not recognise this club. I was going to say my club but who am I kidding. Refused to attend home games a long time back but the way I feel right now I'm not watching any match again full stop. I'll be back when it's Blackburn Rovers again. Final answer.

Exciting season ahead. Who said that? mmm

We are not pressing at all. Wrexham players given time to do anything they want. Standing and watching. When we get possession they swarm around us like angry wasps. Powder puff players. How does this get any worse.

Can we just not buy back the ones who got sold?

I have no words. How does it get worse than this.

Yes we're toothless up front.

We're not scoring. Rubbish attack. Only hope is an own goal. Smell a Wednesday smash and grab. So depressing.

I think my misreading of: "The Aynsley Pears depreciation thread" as: "The Aynsley Pears deprecation thread" roughly sums up my opinion. To save you looking it up if you're not into software development its the term used for something that is still available, but it’s no longer recommended and will be removed in the future. Happy with him as #2 but given we're cash strapped and have to save the pennies his wages probably mean he needs to move one with VI getting his end of year bonus for bringing another Academy grad through to the bench. So yes, “It’s old, it still works for now, but please stop using it because it’s going away soon.”

Hate the club under this Gestede/Pasha stewardship but strangely encouraged by some of the new players. A team with Cantwell, Baradji, Gudjohnsen, Mori, Ohashi and Tronstad is a team should be exciting - yet it's not ('ish). The problem as I see it is that we have made a wall of good bricks but no cement, we're far too easy to push over. Yet getting these guys on the ball fills me with more optimism than say the Gallaghers and Dolans of this world that we had in previous seasons (yes I know Dolans doing OK this year). Things clearly haven't clicked and I'm getting tired of "mañana, mañana, always mañana". The cement was thrown out in the close season (now doing its work in Derby and Wrexham) to be replaced by flour and water paste. Stupid, hubristic, amateurish arrogance by you know who. Keeping the likes of Travis, Baath and Hyam and ADDING the new guys - I think we'd be in a totally different place by now. After 15 years I shouldn't be surprised by the arrogant incompetence but I still am. What could have been. We're going to be lucky to stay up.

Got my wish, black screen again. Goodnight all.

Skys back. Prefer the black screen to be honest.

Obviously some water got into the Sky TV circuitry. Silence is golden here staring at a black screen. Things just keep on getting better.