A4E - from what I heard from the Rotherham fans on twitter/bbc etc the first half was a non-event and it was their substitutions and changing from a 4-4-2 to a 5-3-2 that let us back in. Of course that includes their own bias after losing the lead.

$6M man - you make a fair point about us being run badly at a strategic level (to my mind this is just a matter of the DTB being blinded by fan-ownership ideology and not open to new ideas on this). It's a classic case of a problem being so big that the only solution is to ignore it. My point below was that we are not run that badly on a day-to-day operational level, but I agree that on a strategic level we have ignored a looming problem for years.

Does anyone who was at the game yesterday feel that the subs came on at about the right time (72-ish minutes), given that the equaliser was 10 minutes later, or might we have won it if the subs were made around the 60 minutes mark…?

Our ambitions, including us fans, does not match our pay check. We are desiring expensive cars on budget cars wages. And even if we get a decent owner some fans will still be disgruntled we are not higher which is why fun is more important than progression for me as if you base it on progression you will always be disappointed

RK - that is the frustrating thing about Browne he will disappear for large parts of the game but is currently our top scorer which says a lot about us. I feel we can only play one of Stevens and Browne and at the moment maybe it is Stevens who needs to be dropped. Which was blasphemy before he came back from injury. Maybe the new midfielders will create more. Browne for me is someone who moves the ball along and gets on the end of chances. Somewhere between an Earle and a Holdsworth but he will not create much. Which is why him and Stevens as a front two is not a good idea.

Is it possible to be a good club in a bad world?

Wouldn't be surprised if ST for next season are for sell early, get some money in immediately

I don't know how anybody thinks we are not badly run. The powers that be have known for years what our financial situation is and yet they continued to bury their heads in the sand and allow us to keep making losses, take hand outs for January transfers and have put the club on the brink. They've had years to sort this out and chose not to. Even now nothing tangible is being done. We might not make as big a loss as other clubs but their losses get covered so they live within their means. We don't.

Trigg - that’s hilarious… 😂 Do you reckon “CockCam” was a fake one just for giggles or a genuine attempt to stop people from stealing those little freshener blocks they put in the urinals…? 🤔🤪

Reading back, sounds like we owe yesterday's point to Silk, who as Wup master tactician, was urging Jackson to take Marcus Browne off!

The update I would like, is not the £1m board member funding, but how we are progressing the preferred DTB strategy around partnerships (no sniggering at the back). That would be more telling

*yesterday not tester

One of the pubs I went in before the game tester had a CCTV camera directly above the urinals. Wasn’t hidden or anything it was quite obvious.

LD - I think that what you say is entirely correct - in my view we are not particularly badly run as a business (not good but no worse than other clubs). As you say, though, for us and other clubs, player wages are unsustainable without an owner to fund the ongoing losses. The problem is that, with our ownership model, we don't have that owner, so we cannot survive in the longer term. Given that the overall way that the industry works won't change, it's a fundamental flaw with our structure and why we have to either find an owner or go out of business. As Spit says, I doubt that the option of "finding our level" at which we would be sustainable (likely National League South or lower) even exists, due to the cost base that we have with the ground).

For me the division we play in is largely immaterial as long as (a) we can survive and (b) it is fun. I have seen some of the Championship matches on Now and they are mostly boring and soulless where any fun has been tacticed away by robot managers. Give me someone like Mkeng who will blow hot and cold and will not always be properly defensively positioned over someone who just fills a hole in a tactic and creates nothing all season. I am an old git now who remembers wingers were for attacking not defending. And the game was football not chess and won by players not systems.

Sadly that's professional football nowdays! We can try living in our means,but that would probably take us back to below national league and with the costs of plough lane we will be in administration before then.

Yawn

From the figures I've found the average loss of clubs in League 1 was about £5m and in L2 £2.9m in 2023/24. In L1 this was covered by owners putting in a total of £120m. We made a loss of £638k over the same period. So if we're badly run most other clubs are run even worse.

Decent away trip, Rotherham. The town still has some soul and a good selection and range of boozers. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea but I like it.

I can see us sinking back into national league/ league south the way things are going. We’re not well run. We’re not structured correctly and we have people on the DTB who are not good enough to be in positions of power

KT2- very well put - totally agree with you.

KT2, You'd think so wouldn't you. There's much credit to be gained by recognising that a ceiling has been reached.

Anyone going to Barnsley on the train try and avoid going via Sheffield as Burton v West Ham and Sheff Weds v Millwall on the same day, luckily not at the same time

More of a struggle every season. Tide's flowing hard and we can't swim against it much longer. Gwarn the WHAD boys for spelling out the fact that 'fan owned in any league' is an option that simply no longer exists.

That's the fiercest looking Ian Cooke I've ever seen😁😁