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One floor too many Salgado. Amen Corner - Gin House Blues

The minutes of the early meetings only came to light when someone showed me the 1909 programme which contained them. I've never seen any reference to shirts during that first season apart from those contained in the minutes. That's the beauty of history, it continues to evolve as more and more primary source material comes to light.

No, not a lackey at all.

There you go, recent boycott "increased the financial pressure on the club". This is probably the only way Venky's ever leave, without administration. The clubs hierarchy are desperate to relieve the financial burden off the owners. For Rovers, it sems unlikely we'd manage to get a full boycott like Wednesday did other night but fans are clearly voting with their feet anyway as crowds are down.

Deary me… When quizzed about pressure on his role, the Blackburn Rovers head coach gave a prickly response to BBC Radio Lancashire. "Listen, can we speak about the game tomorrow, or I'll stop now. I can see everything, I can read everything. “No, I don't admit the squad is not as good as last season. It's a stupid analysis," Ismael said when asked if the squad had regressed in terms of quality.

Mike Jackman,Blackburn Rovers : The complete Record published 2009.. " The choice of club colours also had its roots in the public School background which so many of its members shared. Both of the Hargreaves brothers and Doc Greenwood were old Malvernians,and it was decided to copy their quartered shirt design,but to replace the traditional green with Cambridge blue." There is no reference in any of Mikes fantastic Books to this fictitious White Jersey. Total Hearsay and nothing more imo.

i just want the club to be run properly again with a modicum of ambition

This weekends games for our loanees 3pm Saturday O'Riordan - score/update Barrett - score/update Olson & O'Grady-Macken - score/update Edmondson - score/update Pratt - score/update Wood - score/update Farkas - score/update Play on Monday Duru - score/update

Well, after a doctor transfers the system goes quiet for a month 🙄 I've just returned from Deriford where I've just had the results from the end of August scan (should be within 2 weeks!) despite my phone calls trying to get through to the right department. (Got to say this is the first anomaly in the excellent care I've had there for 2 years). Anyway, after the 2 tears of immunotherapy my tumour shrank from 27mm to 23mm to 8mm to 7mm. 🏆 However, it's now back at 11mm so after my next scan, hopefully November! depending on results I will then have to start radio or chemotherapy. Hey ho 🙄

"Entering administration was the inevitable outcome of years of financial mismanagement, a lack of accountability, and repeated failures to engage credible buyers. Administration is not something to be celebrated. It needn't have ended this way. But we are overjoyed to have Dejphon Chansiri out of our club for good. "Administration represents a necessary turning point. With the club now totally out of Chansiri's hands, this may be the first step to getting our Wednesday back. It closes an era defined by poor decisions and deep divisions, both on and off the pitch. Once Hillsborough is recovered from his ownership, Chansiri's influence will finally be consigned to history, a regrettable chapter in Sheffield Wednesday's long and storied history. "We understand that this news will bring uncertainty and anxiety about what lies ahead. Yet there is every reason for calm optimism. "The appointed administrators are highly experienced professionals, including one who has been a Sheffield Wednesday season ticket holder for decades. The Trust has already opened dialogue with them and will play a full part in safeguarding the long-term survival and sustainable future of our club. Anyone else feeling a little bit jealous of them?

Another good article. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11688/13456407/sheffield-wednesday-championship-club-file-for-administration

"Like many football clubs, it has been trading at a significant loss for many years, with those losses historically funded by the owner. Mr Chansiri is no longer willing to provide that financial support. "While the recent fan boycott has not directly caused the insolvency, it has increased financial pressure on the club. As a result, the owner has chosen to place the club into administration. "Supporters are the backbone of any football club. The money they spend at the gate and in the ground is vital. I've been a season ticket holder since 1984 and know first-hand the passion of this fanbase. "Now, more than ever, we need fans back in the ground - buying tickets, merchandise, pies and pints. Every penny spent will go directly to supporting the day-to-day running of this club, not to the former owner or professional costs. This will help stabilise the club while we secure a suitable buyer." More to get behind and support there and more understanding, transparency and faith in those running the club than we've had in 15 years here.

Within hours of going into administration workers were at Hillsborough ripping out the 'Chansiri' letters from the North Stand to expunge traces of his regime. Oh for that to happen at Ewood. What I would give to see photographs and videos of people at Ewood dismantling the 'Venkys' advertising boards and removing all visible traces of their wicked regime.

A rally cry from the administrators. In a perverse way this will galvanise the whole club. Why would any Rovers fan not settle for something like this to help exorcise the club. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1lqmmml533o

Contrary to popular belief you don't need to be a billionaire to own and run a steady championship club. A lot of owners in this league are in the few hundred millions but they run their clubs properly either hands on or via good staff. The total these lot have spaffed here mostly straight into other pockets could sustain a club like Rovers perfectly comfortably without it all disappearing. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the cutbacks are due to the main companies finance people taking the reigns off the 4 loons due to pressure from their lenders. Unfortunately they don't have the power to sell though.

Gav...if Wednesday can do it why cant we? This waiting around for them to leave bollox will probably see most of us on here in out Graves ffs!

When does River watch start?

If it is gardening leave he will be on full pay and bonus eligible!

I think when it comes to club history Parsonblue is the go to source!

These look like proposed motions but no evidence that they were carried. Trousers optional - I wonder if anyone decided not to bother ??

I'm not against a petition but I don't know whether we should centre it around financial club losses, because I think you can count on both hands the number of English clubs who don't run at a loss. I think if anything that would give ammunition to the people who defend the Venkys, who say the must be great owners to give us £73k per day to keep us running (whether they actually do give us £73k a day is a different argument) I think protests need to be centred on mismanagement, lack of ambition, falling attendances, lack of direction, the 'strategy' and everything else. I appreciate it isn't as headline grabbing or as effective a strap line as "£73k per day", but again I just worry how some would use that against protestors to say that the Venkys are great owners.

Two points on Wednesday. Apparently Chansiri net worth was 500m in 2020. 1/4 of Venkys purported worth. I know they're up to their eyeballs in debt but I think that's due to the petulant way he's reacted to protests - happy to be corrected wrong. Secondly, very early days, but post administration and giving it 5 years - it'll be interesting to see who's in a better position

Just a thought, but given what has happened today with SWFC what about getting a petition going to be delivered to the club and to Venky's HQ. This could also be made public by way of the press and maybe the timing could be such that it hits the headlines on the same day as the Derby. A Vote of no confidence We the understand, being a supporter and past or current attendee at Blackburn Rovers fixtures, call for owners to either sell the club, or put the club into administration. Given that the club are reputedly losing in the region of £73,000 per day, we see the club as being no longer financially viable and call upon the owners to acknowledge this and do the right thing. As a 150 year institution, we as fans deserve better and cannot support this regime any longer and given that the club is nothing without the fans, we implore you to do the right thing.

Could you let me have the primary source that states the colour of the shirts against Church? Genuine question as I would love to read it. None of the primary sources I have read mention the shirts so I'm fascinated with you've found and, as I say, would love to read it.

All this is making me wonder why we aren’t doing an official boycott. I think one big push would get them out the door. Attendances are pretty close to that level already. If those attending realised that we could move Venky’s on, I’m sure they’d stop going. For the love of God, someone please call a boycott and force our owners to go.