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I'm a bit sceptical towards Pululu. Some players look like world beaters in the highlight reels but there might be more to the picture.

Yeah they're playing silly beggars again.

I always thought Ooijer gave off this vibe, I loved him.

0-4 Hull city, Ismaels usual bullshit, it was a decent performance were getting there.

Mick Speight?

I mean, we're well versed in selling players for less than their value due to financial difficulties, so I suppose it was only going to be sooner, rather than later, that we tried to take advantage of someone else.

Nicky Reid, not Stephen? Or maybe Stephen? Maybe my memory is failing me, but I don't remember Batty being hard. How about John McNammee (probably spelt his name incorrectly)

Faz, Keeley, Moran, Batty, Todd, Mokoena. Next rung down would be players like Hendry, Shearer, Newell, Reid, Nelsen. Can't think of many in the venkys era that you would put in that list.

In my time following the club (start of the 90s), I’d probably go with Andy Todd. Not only was he tough as nails but he had the combination of that and being slightly unhinged at times. Enough to frighten his own teammates let alone the opposition! Oh for an Andy Todd in the side today.

Which shady dealings are you referring to? An agent was operating out of Brockhall and was bypassing the board on transfer dealings making sure certain agents profited. This is known through the JW letters and the authorities are aware, but have chosen to ignore it. However the agents fees paid are known. It's not new knowledge. The other dodgy dealings are we paid ridiculously high agents fees and only bought players from he same pot. But I'm not sure that's illegal, just badly run. The past rumours which could be unearthed in due diligence due to a a sale are Venkys didn't fully own the club, they were just a proxy (highly unlikely), match fixing / betting (highly unlikely and wouldn't show in due diligence) and any evidence of money laundering (highly unlikely). The most obvious answer now appears to be they are just plain stupid.

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.