Which direction?

[lifelongrover]

Is it the right direction or just another episode in the life of The Rovers?

[SilverTop60]

As I understand it Bramhall and Watson still have 32% each. Ryan sold his 32% to Sequentia Capital. So if Ryan and Tomlinson buy out Bramhall and Watson, the owning shares will be in the hands of Ryan, Tomlinson and Sequentia Capital.

That would be a good combination. Sequentia may still inject the £20m promised last year, and Ryan has the management ability, and Tomlinson the celebrity figurehead. I see it as good news for the club to have "believers" in charge who want to see Rovers achieve top flight status or at worse maintain a Championship position. What is the point in striving for promotion each year to get into the Championship if all we do is come back down the next year?

It has to be good to have Ryan back as Chairman and Sequentia able to continue their plans to inject cash into Rovers. A season without seeing photos of Ryan celebrating our wins is a season with something missing.

What a dream for a young lad of 22 to be co-chairman/owner of his local football club! The

[SilverTop60]

Here we go again!

Last year it was Sequentia Capital and all that came to nothing and was a distraction. And now it's Louis Tomlinson with talks that have gone on for several weeks and now stall due to image rights. We're a football club not a "pretty boy" club and it should all be about the football not a headline grabber figurehead. 1D are on a long tour so it's possible things won't be concluded before the start of next season. What a load of nonsense all over again.

How is PD supposed to invest in good players when this nonsense is going on?

Why can't we just find a genuine investor who won't mess us about. Nothing is ever simple in the boardroom at Donny. Without sufficient investment we will fail to regain a Championship slot at the end of the season, and Dickov will blame it all on budget constaints and the last club of the season that beats us for not losing. Duh!

The writing is on the wall yet again, last season all over again.

[Katchouro]

[quote="SilverTop60" club and it should all be about the football not a headline grabber figurehead.[/quote]


You're right. I actually feel embarrassed for you lads right now.

Will he still be part owner in 10 years time when he's doing ITV's 'The Big Reunion'.

[Marin]

Burnley fan here, gotta be a good thing having such a high profile Donny fanatic on board. Think of all the shirt sales with Tomlinson on the back, all the kids that want to be at The Keepmoat if he does the half time draw 4 or 5 times a season and not to mention most of these kids will have to be there with their mums and dads. I really think it's a great bit of news. Good luck next season.

[SilverTop60]

Burnley ... Burnley ... um, thanks Marin. Unfortunately, you don't know what it's like to follow a team that's always second rate and dreams of playing with the big boys (like the England team reaching the World Cup final, yeh, right!) but it never happens. It must be nice to live in a top city like the Manchester or Liverpool areas and be able to watch premiership football every week.

Last year the boardroom talks with Sequentia Capital dragged on into the season, and came to nothing and were a distraction. At least the boardroom talks are out the way early this season and we can look forward to preparing for the season in good time. So that's good news at least.

The numbers still don't add up. It doesn't take a lot of research to see that the really big-money boys Dick Watson and Terry Bramhall have walked away now and we have Louis Tomlinson and John Ryan (both with undeniable enthusiasm and ambition for the club) but without the financial clout to buy really good players a

[oscarhold]

Hopefully the new regime will bring a better level of communication between the fans and the Board. On the financial side, I do not envisage too much benefit. I believe that JR is in the process of rebuilding his business and will not have an undue amount of cash to invest in players, and Louis Tomlinson will be limited in his financial input but will raise awareness in the club. The troubling thing for me is the statement by JR that we are only in a position to offer half of last seasons Championship wages to players we wish to re - sign. This seems a bit Draconian to me given that Season Ticket sales are reportedly up on this time last year.Surely a reduction of no more than 30 per cent maximum would have been more likely to sustain a reasonably equipped squad for the coming season. Yes, we have been relegated, and the players are the ones who could not keep us in the Championship but, in any profession or job you do not expect your wages to drop by fifty percent if your employer suf

[madirishsupporter]

No Oscar, that is not what was said. Prior to take over ALL players were to lose 50% of last years salaries. NONE can expect to keep salary same , but reduction is not 50% anymore.

[oscarhold]

I am glad to hear that.
My source was a very recent newspaper article in which JR was reported as saying just that.

[SilverTop60]

Now that JR and LT have blown all their funds owning the club I don't see any mention of new signings, only some of our old players starting to jump ship. It will also be hard to recruit such good players to come to a League One side. Ignoring academy players, we barely have a team left and that's hoping we don't lose any more.

It will be interesting to see who we have left to field in the upcoming friendlies.