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]

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.

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

To me this = the bare minimum. 

Edited 4 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[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.

[simongarnerisgod]

it`s pretty much a miracle we are still in the championship imo,how such a poorly run club is still functioning at a fairly high level

[Leonard Venkhater]

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

it`s pretty much a miracle we are still in the championship imo,how such a poorly run club is still functioning at a fairly high level

Wait...

[Tomphil2]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

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

To me this = the bare minimum. 

And that's exactly what i mean i think they decided years ago to reduce funding when their profit margins were reduced so without any court case i still think we'd have been down a similar path.

It was evident when they let Mowbray go and switched to the DoF / Head Coach model in order to maximise academy involvement in the first team and source cheap foreign players via Broughton.

The money exchange tax hike probably partly prompted that and then of course they were hit with all the court shit prompting another emergency cut, although maybe they knew that was coming anyway.

[wilsdenrover]

4 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

And that's exactly what i mean i think they decided years ago to reduce funding when their profit margins were reduced so without any court case i still think we'd have been down a similar path.

It was evident when they let Mowbray go and switched to the DoF / Head Coach model in order to maximise academy involvement in the first team and source cheap foreign players via Broughton.

The money exchange tax hike probably partly prompted that and then of course they were hit with all the court shit prompting another emergency cut, although maybe they knew that was coming anyway.

The Directorate of Enforcement investigation started in 2021, I wonder how soon into this Venkys became aware of it.

Edited 2 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[Tomphil2]

3 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

The Directorate of Enforcement investigation started in 2021, I wonder how soon into this Venkys became aware of it.

I do remember Mowbray saying something along the lines of the owners are dealing with their own problems in India when being questioned on their lack of involvement.

I think that might have been pre covid or maybe just after but i thought at the time he was just covering himself and swerving questions but we also had Waggot saying things like we have to help them sometimes and that was way back.

Seems they may have known all wasn't well way before it became public.