Lewis Mahoney

You are welcome. Seemed like we were getting somewhere at long last. You can’t expect an IT guy to work for minimum wage IMO. Maybe others think differently ?

Christ on a bike, I replied to someone who posted one of my very few tweets. Tell me, what do you see as being a positive from the time the new owner has taken over please as I’d be happy to know. It would be nice to give some praise 

If he would be happy doing that then why not. As I understand it, it’s updating the whole site and then being responsible for adding any updates that the club want added. Let him know. 

So you'd rather have stuck with Barton's boom or bust including crocked and out of form players and absolutely no financial accountability...? About as sustainable as Bury.

Ridden us of the Liverpool mob you apparently detested

Employed one of the better young managers at this level to replace him, retained the services of Kevin Bond and seem to have brought in a decent Assistant Manager.

Resolved all the planning issues with the new stand and, hopefully, nearly completed it's construction which when it's finished will be our first major new stand in 50 years.

Kicked Wael's idea of leasing the FM into touch and announced they'll be developing the Mem.

Funded the wages of Martin who's rumoured by Pirate to be on £5K p.w.

The team itself have got us within a game of what will be our biggest cup game since the Lambert era and potentially our biggest pay day ever.

That's all just off the top of my head.

What more did you expect in the 6 months or so they've been around?

Steve's always just wanted any Rovers manager to spend £100K's on players, whether that was sustainable or not seems irrelevant to him.

Have you seen that new big stand thing with lots of blue seats? It didn't pop out of the ground when aliens came don't and make contact. Oh no, someone spend a shed load of money to build it.

Whilst I am not “ overwhelmed “ , I do feel encouraged and have yet to see anything that has made me feel that the club is in anything other than good hands .

JB’s influence at the club was unhealthy and he felt able to say what he wanted and the negativity from his post match interviews showed itself in the lack of resilience on the pitch - we were going nowhere on a very bumpy road. You could argue that Wael was too trusting in allowing that situation to arise but the new owner stopped it and took his time to make sure that they got the man they thought was right for the job. The early signs are encouraging as we seem to be more resilient now and do not capitulate when we go a goal down. Norwich away and Barnsley are key examples .

He got rid of the Fruit Market as it was plainly not viable and the stand is nearing completion.

In this the first transfer market we have so far moved out a number of players who did not feature in the first team . It has been publicly stated since the Crewe game away that we were no longer interested in JCH as he was not the type of player that would suit the style of play that MT favoured. Whilst we have yet to sign anyone - I would rather us do that than waste budget on someone just to curry public favour.

The  reality is that there are some people who will look for negative in whatever the owners do and they will accept that as should we the fans who want to see our club succeed.

I am not overwhelmed and I would be suspicious if I was simply because I prefer the understated people who try to so things properly and are not fools with their money. Yes it’s nice when an owner flashes the cash but that doesn’t last unless you are a top Premier club and even they are now reaping the rewards as more points deductions are on the way. Most of us are sensible when it comes to spending our own money so why do we take issue when the owner refuses to get rippped off by agents. 

When I first started watching the Gas over 40 years ago we were in this League in roughly the same spot and so you could say that we have gone nowhere in that time. So forgive me if I don’t start to jump up and down in irritation if a new owner doesn’t transform the results on the pitch within 2 or 3 months of taking over. At the moment we have a lot of ground to make up and so it is folly to spend too much on poor value players now for a long shot. Why not wait until the summer and use the money wisely to build for a sustained promotion bid with a team of MT’s making.

For those of you who choose the route of negativity - let me ask you a serious questions - why do you think the owner purchased his controlling interest in the club? Why would someone invest millions in a project and then simply underfund it? What will that gain them? 

I am genuninely  curious as to what you think is going on because your interpretation makes absolutely no sense to me at all . 

Out of interest, has the loan for the stand been paid back as I seem to remember someone posting that the new owner would not take on debts ?