WATR (The Rovers Trust)

[Mattyblue]

…it was twenty pounds.

[lraC]

Here is a video of last nights AGM for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZIZ7Xgick

[Browjd]

Could you confirm what type of buyers enquired as mentioned by Mike in his speech? Were they individuals, corporates or consortiums? 

[MarkBRFC]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

…it was twenty pounds.

£30 for the 30 year anniversary wasn't it?

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/may/21/season-ticket-prices-reduced-for-2024-25/

But yes hardly a reduction that was going to move the needle.

Thick as mince they are.

[Upside Down]

11 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

£30 for the 30 year anniversary wasn't it?

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/may/21/season-ticket-prices-reduced-for-2024-25/

But yes hardly a reduction that was going to move the needle.

Thick as mince they are.

It was £30 but there was a £10 penalty fee for those that bought a ticket in person, so really it was only £20.

[BlackburnEnd75]

1 hour ago, Browjd said:

Could you confirm what type of buyers enquired as mentioned by Mike in his speech? Were they individuals, corporates or consortiums? 

I would like to know this also. 

Please could someone explain in more detail how suhail has been here from the start. It needs clarifying.

[Browjd]

1 minute ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

I would like to know this also. 

Please could someone explain in more detail how suhail has been here from the start. It needs clarifying.

I feel this is absolutely crucial. We need to push this hard. Pasha and Waggot said in their media video (when asked by Andy Bayes) that any credible offers would be presented to Venkys. Therefore, it is imperative that we are told what happened to these offers. If rejected, why. Wrong price? Wrong buyer? Silence will again provide fans with yet more ammo. 

[Penwortham Blue]

1 hour ago, lraC said:

Here is a video of last nights AGM for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZIZ7Xgick

I would urge every supporter to invest the time to watch the AGM video. If anyone needs any further evidence of the death spiral of this once proud club, listen to Mike, Steve and Duncan’s passionate, yet hopeless, first hand experiences of trying to deal with the stooge custodians of our club. There is only one route to bring the corpse of our club back to live, hound Suhail Pasha out and rid ourselves of the Venkys plague.

[AvRover]

The question needs answering as to why the owners don't bail...

1. Can't admit they failed - well, they've dug themselves a deeper hole and the shame grows daily.

2. Recoup investment - seems poor business sense when they're clearly competent with the chicken business. They've poured money in for over a decade. Would £100m from a promotion to the PL really make up for it?

3. Fun - they're absentee so I doubt they're just enjoying the football!

If they really wanted to wash their hands of Rovers, there'd be someone willing to buy. Even if the new owners were worse than the current regime.

You do have to remember, too, that even after the best part of 10 years in the PL culminating from over a decade of exceptionally competent management, Burnley only managed to sell a bit of equity to some exciting American investors.

I want good owners for Rovers as much as the next fan. But chances are, we'd end up like Hull, Cardiff, Sheffield Wednesday or Reading.

Rovers aren't investable. No parachute money, relatively small fanbase, infrastructure in need of an overhaul, small declined town in a saturated region 100s and miles from the South East. There's a reason Palace, Brentford and Brighton have been able to do it yet we haven't! The proposition isn't there for Rovers.

 

[glen9mullan]

1 hour ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

I would like to know this also. 

Please could someone explain in more detail how suhail has been here from the start. It needs clarifying.

I'm aware of 3 enquiries , one American, one Austrian and one Brazilian.

All 3 approaches were sent to India and the response was.

"Stop sending these approaches, we are not selling the club"

To add some further info, 2 went on to buy other clubs but have been as bad if not worse than Venkys.

I can't share who these bidders were due to breaking a significant confidence.

These may be different to the ones the trust refer to, but these are 100% factual 

Edited 5 hours ago by glen9mullan

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

3 hours ago, lraC said:

Here is a video of last nights AGM for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZIZ7Xgick

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS LINK.

EVERY ROVERS FAN WHO GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THIS GREAT CLUB PLEASE WATCH IT AND TAKE IN WHAT IS BEING SAID BY PASSIONATE SUPPORTERS....THE GRAVITY OF WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST WITH VENKYS IS BEYOND BELIEF,THEIR ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE ASTOUNDING.

IT BEGS THE QUESTION JUST HOW THE HELL WERE THIS LOT GIVEN THE KEYS TO EWOOD?

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Edited 5 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Mattyblue]

…because of the idiotic, passionless Walkers.

[mhead]

I am aware of 5 Consortia, plus the Qataris from way back.

The approaches start very tentatively with a " we are looking to buy a UK Football Club"

Its all VERY confidential and not for this forum, sorry.

I remember Pasha arriving as an invisble man around the time of the Shelfy Shaw/Henning Berg Court case, but he may have been making Ewood trips before that.

[GHR]

3 hours ago, lraC said:

Here is a video of last nights AGM for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZIZ7Xgick

The two comments beneath that video... 😑

The biggest conflict I have in all this is that the vast majority of Rovers fans deserve the club we were between 1875 and 2010, but a minority deserve all the utter shite that has come our way this past 15 years. They'd arrive home to find their partners shagging someone else and apologise for disturbing them.

[AvRover]

3 minutes ago, GHR said:

The two comments beneath that video... 😑

The biggest conflict I have in all this is that the vast majority of Rovers fans deserve the club we were between 1875 and 2010, but a minority deserve all the utter shite that has come our way this past 15 years. They'd arrive home to find their partners shagging someone else and apologise for disturbing them.

Agreed. Imagine if what had happened to Rovers happened to Newcastle! The decline of Rovers was allowed to happen 'salami slice style', surrendering an inch at a time. The frog has now well and truly been boiled, yet many still have their heads in the sand.

[GHR]

7 minutes ago, AvRover said:

Agreed. Imagine if what had happened to Rovers happened to Newcastle! The decline of Rovers was allowed to happen 'salami slice style', surrendering an inch at a time. The frog has now well and truly been boiled, yet many still have their heads in the sand.

Two excellent analogies there. Exactly how it feels!

[J*B]

4 hours ago, lraC said:

Here is a video of last nights AGM for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZIZ7Xgick

I thought Mike and Duncan especially where fantastic on this. It should be released as a podcast (via BRFCS? @Miller11 @Mike Graham) and used as an X Spaces pre-record for viewership.