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Tony Mowbray
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goozburger.
Senior Member
I've tried having second teams in places where I've benefitted or have had an important part of my life, and it doesn't work. It has to be love. The moment Blackburn Rovers dies, it's game over for me and, I suspect, the majority of Rovers supporters.
Please put this idea in a chest, lock it, throw away the key, then chuck it in the ocean.
We would lumber off to die somewhere gooz but the kids would love it. 30-40k in the stadium, the games big names playing in our teams, going toe to toe with some of the game's heavyweights (except for those owned by Septics or camel jockeys).
As I've said time and again over the years if professional football was invented today then no way would there ever have been 92 clubs formed. We cannot live in the past we can only go forward from here, or as they say "change is the only constant in life".
We've all heard opposing football fans sing loudly enough that 'Blackburn's a shit hole, I wanna go home', and who could argue with that? Dunno if you disagree or not but take a look around and you'll find that there are fewer and fewer Rovers Fans in the borough these days, ditto with just about all of our neighbours too. The support base is shrinking and the clubs will obviously shrink with it.
Don't think next 5 or 10 years think more 50 or 100 years.
If you or anyone else has a better plan for the future I'd love to hear it.
As I've said time and again over the years if professional football was invented today then no way would there ever have been 92 clubs formed. We cannot live in the past we can only go forward from here, or as they say "change is the only constant in life".
We've all heard opposing football fans sing loudly enough that 'Blackburn's a shit hole, I wanna go home', and who could argue with that? Dunno if you disagree or not but take a look around and you'll find that there are fewer and fewer Rovers Fans in the borough these days, ditto with just about all of our neighbours too. The support base is shrinking and the clubs will obviously shrink with it.
Don't think next 5 or 10 years think more 50 or 100 years.
If you or anyone else has a better plan for the future I'd love to hear it.
steve w
Senior Member
Every away game I have ever been too - Rovers fans have struck up " ******is a shit hole I wanna go home!! "
The day the team ceases to be Blackburn Rovers is the day I give up on football an switch my interest to Rugby League.
goozburger.
Senior Member
I'm just a supporter with little to no knowledge of how it all works behind the scenes. I can't offer you an alternative. Perhaps you have a valid point from a raw business viewpoint, but all I can say is that if the Rovers go, so do I.
blueandwhitehalves
Senior Member
Drog is right though on his premise. Painfully aware I sound like a broken record but the facts are the facts and reality is reality.
I checked every Championship wage bill on Companies House for 2021/22 and we were 13th. With the fire sale of our high earners over the summer, we are undoubtedly now 16th-18th. We have one of the smallest catchment areas in all 4 divisions and about a third of it is Asians with virtually no desire to regularly go to games.
We're a financial minnow. 90s Jack Walker is 100% gone, 00s PL TV money is 100% gone. Our paltry fanbase revenue is supplemented by Venkys to even keep us in this division. But there's no logical argument for us being in the top half of it.
If you accept that, then 8th under Mowbray was excellent work and 8th under JDT was. Fans are arguing that neither can do a good job, when the reality is we can, and in all likelihood will at some point, do a lot worse than both.
I checked every Championship wage bill on Companies House for 2021/22 and we were 13th. With the fire sale of our high earners over the summer, we are undoubtedly now 16th-18th. We have one of the smallest catchment areas in all 4 divisions and about a third of it is Asians with virtually no desire to regularly go to games.
We're a financial minnow. 90s Jack Walker is 100% gone, 00s PL TV money is 100% gone. Our paltry fanbase revenue is supplemented by Venkys to even keep us in this division. But there's no logical argument for us being in the top half of it.
If you accept that, then 8th under Mowbray was excellent work and 8th under JDT was. Fans are arguing that neither can do a good job, when the reality is we can, and in all likelihood will at some point, do a lot worse than both.
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Now you'll be for it! However the biter bit with the threats of Gooz and Al is that they have just backed up my opening sentence.
goozburger.
Senior Member
It's not a threat, it's just some beef I have with your idea which I don't relish. Perhaps Rovers will never financially ketchup to the top dogs and the greasy buggers that run them. But hopefully on Fryday we'll have a hearty performance with something to take away.However the biter bit with the threats of Gooz and Al is that they have just backed up my opening sentence.
It's not a threat. It's just an empty feeling in my heart. I couldn't bring myself to support another team so better to forget the game altogether.
However the biter bit with the threats of Gooz and Al is that they have just backed up my opening sentence.
Knob End mean little to me Burnley are my hate club
Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021 & 2022
I think he only took the Sunderland job because it was relatively local to his family.
Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021 & 2022
I thought he was planning retirement and only took the Sunderland job as it was relatively nearby. Clearly the new owners at big club must be paying him a lot of money. Either that or his wife doesn’t want him around too much. 
blueandwhitehalves
Senior Member
After 40 years in professional football, as a player and manager, I seriously doubt he's short on money.
He does it for the same reason all the other managers do it. Being away from their family is just one of many drawbacks in the profession. The stress ages you like no other job in society, you almost never get a day off, you get grief off the media, grief of your supporters, the players can turn on you, the Board can make things hard work.
You don't carry on doing a job like that for money when you already have plenty of money. If that's your motivation then you'd exit stage left like David Batty did the moment he retired. They do it because they love football so much they're pretty much addicted to it.
Anyway good luck to the guy. He did a great job at Rovers, leaving us in 8th when we're now 17th. He did a good job at Sunderland getting them into the play-offs. And it'll be interesting to see the situation and what happens when we play them at St. Andrews on the 13th Feb, he's already comprehensively beaten us with 1 club this season.
He does it for the same reason all the other managers do it. Being away from their family is just one of many drawbacks in the profession. The stress ages you like no other job in society, you almost never get a day off, you get grief off the media, grief of your supporters, the players can turn on you, the Board can make things hard work.
You don't carry on doing a job like that for money when you already have plenty of money. If that's your motivation then you'd exit stage left like David Batty did the moment he retired. They do it because they love football so much they're pretty much addicted to it.
Anyway good luck to the guy. He did a great job at Rovers, leaving us in 8th when we're now 17th. He did a good job at Sunderland getting them into the play-offs. And it'll be interesting to see the situation and what happens when we play them at St. Andrews on the 13th Feb, he's already comprehensively beaten us with 1 club this season.
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