Hooray Matty you re right they don’t even have a clue as to funds available in the football operations 😅

The two new sets of lights purchased as a result of the height of the JW stand cost £75k apiece on their own - rovers now have 4 of those to use - if you’ve ever stayed inside Ewood after a game you will have seen only 2 of them. The new pitch weave has been done by a very highly reputable company again not done on the cheap! It really does pay for one to do a bit of research before going to challenge the powers that be in order to dispel rumour and myth. The increased costs for fertiliser have been astronomical by comparison to previous years as a result of the upgrade pitch surface.

Waggot is not retiring nor is he leaving - he has a contract until 2025 and will stay unless removed by the owners

I don’t call a full weave upgrade, new lighting, new sensors, new boiler systems for the under soil heating and new energy systems standard maintenance oh yes additional work to address the drainage in the riverside area of the pitch as well!

Marty it sounded negative from where I read it whilst on my sunbed! How about I will wait and see all 3 shirts in their entirety and then offer an opinion as to whether they are better or worse than last season as good as traditional away shirt colours may be a change is always good

And your negative rationale is because?

You are so wrong - way off the mark. The money remains unspent as Mowbray refused to spend it in January

The answer is yes we could afford him, all the signs were there he was going to sign however something has changed his mind, it’s not monetary or so we are told but ambition!

There is a theme of finance issues here. I am currently out in Turkey and have just enjoyed a short chat with a relative of the hull city owner. He expected to invest heavily until he was brought to take by the current ffp and associated regs. He promises big signings and better wages however has not been able to deliver despite hull being relatively debt free. They themselves have lost a number of player through expiry of contracts and are in a similar position to Rovers. Relatively poor tickets sales haven’t helped them either as they continue to come out of covid related problems. So this is not an issue confined to BRFC and waggot. Huge wage payouts in the championship are never coming back to the levels of 2 years ago unless of course the PL change the structure and devolvement of cash gets better truth is they are looking to lessen payments and that in itself will be a major issue.

Because it was believed 2/3 were about to sign the deals put in front of them

Your starting point in getting an answer is simple the players declined to take up deals offered to them Thas a pretty simple fact to get your head around. DL and RN had offers on the table over 2 years ago and have mulled over them renegotiated and yet failed to sign them despite allegedly agreeing deals i principle. Rothwell was never going to stay he wanted out 2 yrs ago and that is straight from the wags mouths In mankchester having had a fall out with two others at the midland!

Read the full article he was outlying underlying costs to the club!

Pray tell then are they better than us ? No they are not they screwed up a chance of promotion worse than Mowbray did for us last season and flatter to deceive. Its no good relying on bookies odds they don’t get it right a lot of the time do they ?

Boro are no more favourites for promotion than Rovers and imo it’s not an ambitious move for a Lenihan and if Nyambe knobs off to Stoke again it’s not a club with serious ambition anymore

There’s a freebie right back at Derby who is out of contract who is head and shoulders better than Nyambe

If you read DLs own words it is very clear that he wanted out for some time and had no intention of staying - especially after the derby game at Ewood!

He also sold the club to Jordan Rhodes and they didn’t end well for either of them !

If Nyambe is or was as good as some claim he would be a wanted player and rovers would have received bid after bid as with Lenihan they haven’t !

You’ve worked it out cost wise? There are more than enough free players out there who would snap the wages up in a heartbeat

Rubbish when a player is in the last year of his contract he holds the cards - rovers offered him a deal he declined it he came scuttling back for talks and again declined the offer !

What a load of tripe the big money of the past is where it will stay Rovers offer a decent wage look at turnover ratio to wages - Nyambe has backpedaled a bit indicating a willingness to sign but then rowing back! Agent clearly at work

It was Mowbray and the fuck up he constructed that cost us any chance of promotion

If I were you I would never mention he ADMIN word again, it will never happen not even under these owners!

Not necessarily so for example they might just be moaning 👍

Absolutely not its about getting some stats on the issue so no one should be frightened of saying otherwise !