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Also baffling that according to Nixon we bid £3m for Smit, yet we're lowballing Cleary and Cadamatari with bids of 750k-1.5m. Something not adding up as per.

Boggles my mind how we'd pay 1 mil on Cadametrri and not 2 on Pululu (or equivalent) Even accounting for wages, the resale and staying in the league must be worth it

Growing up watching Rovers in the 90s, it felt like we always had at least a few players in each team who made you think: “Yeah… I wouldn’t want to mess with them!” Players like Batty come to mind, and of course Shearer, Hendry, and even Newell looked like they could certainly handle themselves. Fast‑forward to the 00s and… well… Andy Todd arrived. A man who seemed to specialise in elbows and the occasional bit of diplomacy delivered via the boot. The famous moment he turned round and kicked Christophe Dugarry up the derrière is still one of those classic memories that feels impossible to forget. We also had players like Bellamy, big Chris Samba, and Admiral Ryan Nelsen - lads who were always up for a scrap on the pitch but gentlemen off it (well, Samba and Nelsen anyway!). You could even say that Robbie Savage would always back up a teammate, even if he wouldn’t quite make the “hardman of Ewood” shortlist. But looking at the most recent Rovers squads… I don’t really see a proper “don’t mess with him” figure anymore. Perhaps football has changed. Maybe that edge gets coached out of them. They all seem nice. Friendly. Media‑trained. Professional. But not exactly the type to put the fear of Ewood into anyone. Am I being fair? Who would you say has that bit of bite in today’s team? I’d love to know who you’ve watched over the years, in particular from those who watched pre-Premier League football. I bet there are some tough players back in the day! Maybe there are some players who may not be the absolute hardman but deserve a mention. The main question is this: Who deserves the crown as the ultimate Hardman of Ewood Park? 🦾

750k rejected - tick tock Rudy

Crosby, Stills And Nash - Wooden Ships

If you hope for something or think something is happening, think the opposite that's your answer

How much would ya pay for szmodics now? See derby have had a bid rejected but aren’t near the valuation.

Our ambitions and budget deserve League One.

It will be the usual at Ewood, our lightweight fairies, being bullied, and shoved off the ball far to easily.

Probably won't even be him.

It's what happens when you support Blackburn.

You've just lost him £2. blocked. fud.

Even if this is all family wealth funding it rather than company wealth, and assuming the family are worth billions and the family members are all content to keep on funding this, if they have a net worth of say £2-3 billion, which includes all their land, properties, shares, companies, cash the lot, circa 10% of that has gone down the drain over the last 10-15 years. Now that might not make a difference to them, as they can still afford to do everything else they want in life, but I know any businessman that loses 10% of his wealth on a still failing venture doesn't just carry on with it indefinitely for 'pride' or face saving. Their advisors would surely be telling them to stop the leak of cash and instead redirect it to investments in property, land, shares and grow value. Then there's the question as to their actual wealth - very little information available but seems unlikely that it is going up beyond £10 billion as that would put them into the Forbes rich list territory which they aren't. Infact they aren't anywhere to be seen in the top rankings of Indian families. It has long been believed that a lot of their wealth is in land and their shares, so not liquid cash they can easily just send to the UK to fund Rovers every year. No, I think this must be hurting them financially and that stacks up with what we have seen going on here over the last 3-4-5 years. I suppose the only question is whether there is a tipping point.

If we are succumbing to that notion, is it one we can bounce back up with, is probably how we will be thinking in a few weeks time...

There is something at the heart of it all and i'm not sure the 'balance sheet' is the main driving factor in it. A company worth say 2 billion dumps its financial black hole on the cheap, writes off the loans but saves itself 15 million a year is still worth 1.8 billion. Nobody would blink at that back in India.

Cleary and Cadamarteri would've been nice...and the only place we are 'nice' at the moment is towards the opponent, defending our own box on set pieces.

Oh it can be

It shouldn't be But Venky Rovers rarely do what they should do

It can't be just Cadamarteri in and that's it...

If the current situation is indeed purely down to them not wanting to admit their mistakes, saving face, not being too much of a burden on their overall finances it still doesn't add up. We are still costing them upwards of £10 million each and every year. According to their henchman that is more towards £20 million a year. That isn't going to stop unless we get to the Premier League. We aren't going to get to the Premier League because of their cost cutting attempts and running good managers out of the door every year. We aren't going to be self-sufficient in this league, or League One, unless we get very lucky with our player development/trading. They may think they can be after the deals for Wharton and Szmodics but that isn't an annual occurrence and their pocketing of the money for running costs is now going to cost us big time. Even if we can be self-sufficient - to what end? Who gains / benefits? As above, it comes at the expense of getting promoted, which they have proven is not their priority. Now if this was a passion for them - they enjoyed football, wanted to win, basked in the glory of owning us, came to games and enjoyed lording it over everyone, or had ties to the town etc. then I could maybe understand the enjoyment of all that might be worth sucking up that sort of loss every year. But they clearly get zero - or close to zero - benefit from this at their end. At best Balaji enjoys telling people he has a football club. And then when those people realise it is a failing 2nd or soon to be 3rd division club those people probably won't be impressed - if anything that would be a source of embarrassment as you'd want a PL club to really boast about it. Especially then when anyone who looks into it would see that they are the ones responsible for putting us here. I assume that they are surrounded by an army of lawyers, accountants, advisors, many of whom they trust to advise them on all aspects of their wealth and businesses. I can't believe that those people are happy with the drain and hassle of keeping this going. I presume that competent advisors would be regularly raising this arm of their empire and strongly suggesting that they get rid of it asap. £10-20 million a year is still a lot of money. Even to someone worth £1 billion it is still 1-2% of your whole wealth in liquid cash each and every year going into a black hole for which you get no pleasure/enjoyment/benefit. A £200million+ 'investment' and growing is one hell of a dint in people even with a net worth of £1,2,3 billion. There must be something somewhere along the line - be that financial advantages to their other businesses, or activities they don't want people from finding out about upon a sale, that make it worth keeping. Not wanting to admit failure or defeat just doesn't cut it. You'd get rid and just ignore it and start spending the cash on some other more rewarding venture and just keep quiet about it if your mates ask rather than carry on stumping up that sort of money to rattle around the bottom end of the Championship.

I'll never understand how the substantial section of supporters suffering from sheer denialism could read something like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn82p32ng5vo and still think the absolute crumbs that get spent on the club on transfers/stadium/anything by our supposed billionaire owners is something to be thankful for.

That's probably closer to the truth 😉

An assault on mid-table in League One you mean?

That’s exactly what it looks like at this stage - I resigned myself to this outcome once hyam was sold

We certainly seem to be building the squad for an assault on league one next season, don’t we.