Venky’s v Indian Government (a) - 5/8/2025 - Post-Season Friendly (s/t late postponements)

[roverblue]

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

I’m not worried.

I’m more concerned as to whether the chap from the last case is going to get his bananas back before they go off.

Ha ha ha, this whole thing is just a complete circus. How can anything to do with the Venkys ownership be considered fit and proper?

[Tomphil2]

Well they are going to have to sort something soon because Blackburn Rovers has just sold virtually the last decent saleable asset it has left.

[wilsdenrover]

Judge has finished for the day (nothing more to be said…)

 

 

[Tomphil2]

So no doubt the next one is after the window shuts in Feb !

[wilsdenrover]

4 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

So no doubt the next one is after the window shuts in Feb !

Maybe.

The good news is they don’t need a court case to be able to send money across.

The bad news is they don’t want to meet the conditions which allow them to do so.

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

If the case is ever heard again, do we think me turning my mic on and chanting Venkys out would count as contempt of court?? 🤔🧐

You can pipe up in proceedings? Now that seems like something we could exploit...50 fans all coordinated sort of thing, that would have to garner some attention. 

[wilsdenrover]

39 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

You can pipe up in proceedings? Now that seems like something we could exploit...50 fans all coordinated sort of thing, that would have to garner some attention. 

I’ve never tried it so don’t know if the court has a ‘block’ but there are certainly buttons to allow me to unmute my mic or enable my camera.

[lraC]

47 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

I’ve never tried it so don’t know if the court has a ‘block’ but there are certainly buttons to allow me to unmute my mic or enable my camera.

Imagine that. A chorus of Venky’s out, during the next one. 

[RevidgeBlue]

4 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

Maybe.

The good news is they don’t need a court case to be able to send money across.

The bad news is they don’t want to meet the conditions which allow them to do so.

I was going to say, it will be an awkward day for them when the Case does eventually get heard and the remaining restrictions are lifted because the expectation will then be they should send a lot more money across.

What excuse not to will they be able to come up with at that point I wonder?

[wilsdenrover]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I was going to say, it will be an awkward day for them when the Case does eventually get heard and the remaining restrictions are lifted because the expectation will then be they should send a lot more money across.

What excuse not to will they be able to come up with at that point I wonder?

They will think of something. 

[Tomphil2]

I think the truth of the matter is the owners decided a good few years ago, before this farce, that they were reducing funding but this reared up out of nowhere.

Hence there's never really appeared to be much rush to resolve it or bite the bullet and adhere to the conditions that were set out.

[wilsdenrover]

51 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

I think the truth of the matter is the owners decided a good few years ago, before this farce, that they were reducing funding but this reared up out of nowhere.

Hence there's never really appeared to be much rush to resolve it or bite the bullet and adhere to the conditions that were set out.

The first court case made clear they were wanting to send money to ‘protect their investment’.

To be this = the bare minimum. 

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, Tomphil2 said:

I think the truth of the matter is the owners decided a good few years ago, before this farce, that they were reducing funding but this reared up out of nowhere.

Hence there's never really appeared to be much rush to resolve it or bite the bullet and adhere to the conditions that were set out.

They did that back in 2015 and it relegated us. It was only after relegation in 2017 and sitting down with Mowbray they were persuaded to change track and have a spend again to get us back up. By COVID and 2021 they'd got fed up again and cut Mowbray's funding. Since then it has been cut after cut after cut with a noticeable further cut in summer 2023 after their legal issues emerged.