No Richie on current leg of the tour

He might be missing the tour, great, but when someone sits there and tweets and tells his fans and the world "he doing just fine" that is a slap in the face to every single Bon Jovi fan and his own fans.

You can think whatever you want to, and I can do exactly the same but to me as a massive Richie fan he is an absolute arrogant twat that is holed up in whatever it is and he has shown his true colours that he does not give a shit about anyone but himself. For any person to do that, yes to me they are a twat.... This is my opinion. I am for one done with the whole thing and if he ever comes back to the band, great.. I will not be there to see it.

Not to mention when he toured with a broken arm, he was going through a divorce, custody battle and his father dying of cancer. How quickly some forget.

So if he managed to tour during all that personal strife, what is so damn important now that he just bails on a tour in progress?

Silence is golden

Unless he's missing the tour for family or health reasons (which is looking completely and totally unlikely) ditching a tour in the middle of it's run when hundreds of thousands of tickets have been sold is a Twat move.

We don't know... that's the point. That makes the "blame game" beyond stupid.

Exactly.
It is Jons greed, dragging them back on the road, new album (which is essentially a Jon solo album), that started the demise, and I think Richie just realized he had had enough of it. I am sure the band members told Jon they wanted a bigger break, but he refused to listen and he just assumed they would all tag along as they always have.

Unlike the end of the NJ era, this time it is not the record companies/promoters etc pulling the strings,it's CEO Jon.

Apparently, this personal reason for missing the tour is damn more important than his broken arm, his divorce, his father dying???? Whatever this "Personal Reason" is is must be a hell of a reason!

And don't say a fight with Jon, I can't believe that they haven't had fights before. In 30 years, this is their biggest fight? A fight to walk away from the tour?

Just read through like the last 12 or so pages at work, and I must say that last Tweet killed whatever amount of respect I had for Richie, which is a shame as he was always my favorite member of the band. But between the cancelled shows, the BS excuse for the cancelled shows, the fact that the M&G trip to said show still happened, and now this, punctuated by a ****ing Tweet that says I'm very aware of everything you guys are saying.