Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

[Penwortham Blue]

6 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

That's the answer I was fearing but not the one I was hoping for.

The cost of a few signs must be absolutely minimal. Would it not have been a better idea to get your ducks in a row and establish a bit of a fighting fund before organising a call for a boycott?

Surely a lot of people would be willing to donate a small amount (myself included).

It is too late now and I don’t think we need worry about banners. If enough people, out of the few who continue to attend Ewood, show some gumption and observe the call to boycott, it will at least send a message and if nowt else, make one feel that they have done what they could. I have had a ST for well over 40 years and attend, whatever the weather and league position, but I won’t be there on Saturday and I can only hope, that the majority feel the same way.

[speedies gonna get ya.]

3 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

It is too late now and I don’t think we need worry about banners. If enough people, out of the few who continue to attend Ewood, show some gumption and observe the call to boycott, it will at least send a message and if nowt else, make one feel that they have done what they could. I have had a ST for well over 40 years and attend, whatever the weather and league position, but I won’t be there on Saturday and I can only hope, that the majority feel the same way.

100%. No other tool we can use. We hold the power.

[Leonard Venkhater]

7 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

I'm extremely disappointed by Alan Myers personally.

Whys he released a statement at that time, the timing is extremely off with me.

What's his angle? I don't understand.

OMG..What has Myers done now?

Long ago, I decided he was a just fly in the ointment, stepping in at key times with unhelpful, patronising comments, undermining supporters.

What I would like to ask him is how he would respond if his own beloved Everton was being trashed like this?

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

It is too late now and I don’t think we need worry about banners. If enough people, out of the few who continue to attend Ewood, show some gumption and observe the call to boycott, it will at least send a message and if nowt else, make one feel that they have done what they could. I have had a ST for well over 40 years and attend, whatever the weather and league position, but I won’t be there on Saturday and I can only hope, that the majority feel the same way.

Well, it's too late money wise for Saturday but it would be sensible to ask for a bit of help going forward.

[RevidgeBlue]

30 minutes ago, speedies gonna get ya. said:

It needs someone to be in charge of the fund. 

Glen mentioned that a while back.

Are you not overthinking that a bit? Surely all it needs is a dedicated Bank account to be opened and some sort of record kept of moneys in and out?

You're not regulated by the FCA. If I donate my £25 or whatever, Im taking it entirely on trust that it's going to be legitimately used for protest purposes and not going to be spent down the pub. If it is, there's nothing I can do about it.

What do other people think? Anyone able to assist or offer any better ideas?

Edited 7 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[SuperBrfc]

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

I'm a bit baffled by Alan Myers and his story with Rovers. I read his statement last night and that is the most 'extreme' he has been with his views on Venkys, going as far as to say that he thinks they need to sell the club and clear off (who doesn't?) but even still he's quite 'on the fence' with them, insisting that they mean well and want the club to succeed. 

I'm sorry but I simply cannot accept that. Granted I've never met the owners but actions speak louder than words and there is no evidence going back well over a decade that they genuinely do want success for the club. They might well give that impression in their private discussions and meetings, but anyone can say such things, it is what you actually do that matters. 

Again, I'm sure he would be a lot more vocal about things if it was Everton being run into the ground. I also find it odd how he was just 'invited' onto the board of directors back in 2014. Why? By Whom?

The bit in bold is explained by Myers in the interview below, at 1:58:20. Myers had just left Everton and was out of work, when he received a call from Venkatesh Rao in India telling him how much they wanted him to work for Rovers. He told Myers to get himself down to Ewood and that they would sort it all out for him.

Derek Shaw met Myers the following day and told him he had been given instructions from India to appoint Myers as a Director. Myers explains how he found this bizarre because he thought he was coming to Rovers as a Press Officer, not as a Director. This was a call made in India.

Why? I presume it is because Myers went out to meet them in Pune in the early days of the takeover when working for Sky. Remember the puff piece Sky did on the owners back then, when covering the 'Pune 9' trip etc? I seem to recall there was footage of their mansions, a brief couple of words from one or two of the family about Rovers and something about one of the brothers having a collection of 70 vintage cars or something. Anyway, I'm sure Myers was a part of that trip, leading the coverage and he was somebody that they struck up a friendship with.

In the interview below, Myers reveals that he was asked several times to join Rovers before he actually did, when working for Sky, but he didn't want to leave Sky for Rovers. This suggests he made quite an impression on Venkatesh and Co who were eager to have him on board ever since that initial meeting.

He says in yesterday's statement, that Venky's are lovely, respectful people who had ambitions for Rovers. This is almost certainly based on what he experienced when in their company in Pune. They might well be respectful people, they might be fantastic hosts, but they are not fantastic football club owners. To be fair, Myers acknowledges this in the statement, when he notes that saying something and actually achieving it are two different things. He has called for them to sell up and leave in a respectful way and we can't really expect him to do more than that. He's never going to lay into them or criticise them and I wouldn't expect him to.

IMO, Myers is a genuine guy who shouldn't be copping stick for anything in that statement. I don't think there is an agenda behind it. He states in the interview below that he wanted to bring a divided fanbase together at Rovers, he wanted to try and fix a fractured club and fanbase. You can see these same sentiments in last night's statement where he says he understands both sides of the argument. He wants the fans to back the players and staff, hence he doesn't want fans to boycott, but he also understands the 15 years of frustration and that change needs to happen. Him calling for the owners to sell up, in a respectful way, should be enough to tell us how he feels. He's not a Rovers fan, but he understands how we feel and why we want them out. It's just that he, personally, has a respectful relationship with them so he can't go all out like we can.

Incidentally, Myers reveals that he left Rovers out of principle because he didn't like the way the club was being ran and the direction things were heading in. Does that sound familiar? I suspect he, JDT and Eustace would have a lot of things in common to talk about. All these years on from Myers leaving Rovers and we're in the same position again as a club. We can all see where this is heading, including Myers. He's not the bad guy here. He's one of the very few genuine people that we have had here in 15 years of chancers, snakes and bullshitters.

I recommend everybody to listen to this from 1 hour 58 onwards for context. His statement will make more sense after doing so. Myers spends a good 15 minutes or so talking about Rovers and Venky's, the running of the club etc. He was the man responsible for putting the historic timeline around the ground, the mural. Myers wanted to showcase the club's history and was trying to get the fans to reconnect with the club. The timeline was discarded not long after he left Rovers, which says it all about the bastards who remained in place after he left.

 

[RevidgeBlue]

49 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

The bit in bold is explained by Myers in the interview below, at 1:58:20. Myers had just left Everton and was out of work, when he received a call from Venkatesh Rao in India telling him how much they wanted him to work for Rovers. He told Myers to get himself down to Ewood and that they would sort it all out for him.

Derek Shaw met Myers the following day and told him he had been given instructions from India to appoint Myers as a Director. Myers explains how he found this bizarre because he thought he was coming to Rovers as a Press Officer, not as a Director. This was a call made in India.

Why? I presume it is because Myers went out to meet them in Pune in the early days of the takeover when working for Sky. Remember the puff piece Sky did on the owners back then, when covering the 'Pune 9' trip etc? I seem to recall there was footage of their mansions, a brief couple of words from one or two of the family about Rovers and something about one of the brothers having a collection of 70 vintage cars or something. Anyway, I'm sure Myers was a part of that trip, leading the coverage and he was somebody that they struck up a friendship with.

In the interview below, Myers reveals that he was asked several times to join Rovers before he actually did, when working for Sky, but he didn't want to leave Sky for Rovers. This suggests he made quite an impression on Venkatesh and Co who were eager to have him on board ever since that initial meeting.

He says in yesterday's statement, that Venky's are lovely, respectful people who had ambitions for Rovers. This is almost certainly based on what he experienced when in their company in Pune. They might well be respectful people, they might be fantastic hosts, but they are not fantastic football club owners. To be fair, Myers acknowledges this in the statement, when he notes that saying something and actually achieving it are two different things. He has called for them to sell up and leave in a respectful way and we can't really expect him to do more than that. He's never going to lay into them or criticise them and I wouldn't expect him to.

IMO, Myers is a genuine guy who shouldn't be copping stick for anything in that statement. I don't think there is an agenda behind it. He states in the interview below that he wanted to bring a divided fanbase together at Rovers, he wanted to try and fix a fractured club and fanbase. You can see these same sentiments in last night's statement where he says he understands both sides of the argument. He wants the fans to back the players and staff, hence he doesn't want fans to boycott, but he also understands the 15 years of frustration and that change needs to happen. Him calling for the owners to sell up, in a respectful way, should be enough to tell us how he feels. He's not a Rovers fan, but he understands how we feel and why we want them out. It's just that he, personally, has a respectful relationship with them so he can't go all out like we can.

Incidentally, Myers reveals that he left Rovers out of principle because he didn't like the way the club was being ran and the direction things were heading in. Does that sound familiar? I suspect he, JDT and Eustace would have a lot of things in common to talk about. All these years on from Myers leaving Rovers and we're in the same position again as a club. We can all see where this is heading, including Myers. He's not the bad guy here. He's one of the very few genuine people that we have had here in 15 years of chancers, snakes and bullshitters.

I recommend everybody to listen to this from 1 hour 58 onwards for context. His statement will make more sense after doing so. Myers spends a good 15 minutes or so talking about Rovers and Venky's, the running of the club etc. He was the man responsible for putting the historic timeline around the ground, the mural. Myers wanted to showcase the club's history and was trying to get the fans to reconnect with the club. The timeline was discarded not long after he left Rovers, which says it all about the bastards who remained in place after he left.

 

I've always regarded Myers' views as a bit of an irrelevance. Sort of an official/unofficial PR guy for the regime.

Id take more notice of anything he said about Everton where he'd no doubt be speaking from the heart.

By the same token I'm not particularly offended by anything he's said here. Everyone is free to make their own mind up on whether a boycott is a good idea or not.

I would however question his .motivation for piping up now after years of silence and at whose behest his comments are made.

My guess would be management.

Edited 6 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Mattyblue]

File making a Sky Sports News reporter a Director of the club because they did a  soft focus piece on their Aston Martin collection with all the other so bat shit crazy it must be true stories emanating from this regime.

[Dreams of 1995]

@Mercer posted about the potential offer on the table for the club. Can anyone else corroborate this story?

[Upside Down]

3 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

OMG..What has Myers done now?

Long ago, I decided he was a just fly in the ointment, stepping in at key times with unhelpful, patronising comments, undermining supporters.

What I would like to ask him is how he would respond if his own beloved Everton was being trashed like this?

The agents and 'journalists' are all in one big circle jerk with each other. That's why we've never been given a fair look by the media. This club is just a vehicle for agents to line their pockets. Always has been since day one. I've always had the suspicion that venkys were in it for some kind of financial scam that appears to have been rumbled by the Indian government and hence they have now drastically scaled back their 'input'.

 

[Norbert Rassragr]

2 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

@Mercer posted about the potential offer on the table for the club. Can anyone else corroborate this story?

Don't do it to yourself. 

[Lancaster Rover]

I couldn’t really care less what a man who has no real connection to rovers other than a historical paycheque has to say. He’s not a supporter, current member of staff or a shot caller of any description. So he’s just another bloke with an opinion 

[Tomphil2]

3 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

The bit in bold is explained by Myers in the interview below, at 1:58:20. Myers had just left Everton and was out of work, when he received a call from Venkatesh Rao in India telling him how much they wanted him to work for Rovers. He told Myers to get himself down to Ewood and that they would sort it all out for him.

Derek Shaw met Myers the following day and told him he had been given instructions from India to appoint Myers as a Director. Myers explains how he found this bizarre because he thought he was coming to Rovers as a Press Officer, not as a Director. This was a call made in India.

Why? I presume it is because Myers went out to meet them in Pune in the early days of the takeover when working for Sky. Remember the puff piece Sky did on the owners back then, when covering the 'Pune 9' trip etc? I seem to recall there was footage of their mansions, a brief couple of words from one or two of the family about Rovers and something about one of the brothers having a collection of 70 vintage cars or something. Anyway, I'm sure Myers was a part of that trip, leading the coverage and he was somebody that they struck up a friendship with.

In the interview below, Myers reveals that he was asked several times to join Rovers before he actually did, when working for Sky, but he didn't want to leave Sky for Rovers. This suggests he made quite an impression on Venkatesh and Co who were eager to have him on board ever since that initial meeting.

He says in yesterday's statement, that Venky's are lovely, respectful people who had ambitions for Rovers. This is almost certainly based on what he experienced when in their company in Pune. They might well be respectful people, they might be fantastic hosts, but they are not fantastic football club owners. To be fair, Myers acknowledges this in the statement, when he notes that saying something and actually achieving it are two different things. He has called for them to sell up and leave in a respectful way and we can't really expect him to do more than that. He's never going to lay into them or criticise them and I wouldn't expect him to.

IMO, Myers is a genuine guy who shouldn't be copping stick for anything in that statement. I don't think there is an agenda behind it. He states in the interview below that he wanted to bring a divided fanbase together at Rovers, he wanted to try and fix a fractured club and fanbase. You can see these same sentiments in last night's statement where he says he understands both sides of the argument. He wants the fans to back the players and staff, hence he doesn't want fans to boycott, but he also understands the 15 years of frustration and that change needs to happen. Him calling for the owners to sell up, in a respectful way, should be enough to tell us how he feels. He's not a Rovers fan, but he understands how we feel and why we want them out. It's just that he, personally, has a respectful relationship with them so he can't go all out like we can.

Incidentally, Myers reveals that he left Rovers out of principle because he didn't like the way the club was being ran and the direction things were heading in. Does that sound familiar? I suspect he, JDT and Eustace would have a lot of things in common to talk about. All these years on from Myers leaving Rovers and we're in the same position again as a club. We can all see where this is heading, including Myers. He's not the bad guy here. He's one of the very few genuine people that we have had here in 15 years of chancers, snakes and bullshitters.

I recommend everybody to listen to this from 1 hour 58 onwards for context. His statement will make more sense after doing so. Myers spends a good 15 minutes or so talking about Rovers and Venky's, the running of the club etc. He was the man responsible for putting the historic timeline around the ground, the mural. Myers wanted to showcase the club's history and was trying to get the fans to reconnect with the club. The timeline was discarded not long after he left Rovers, which says it all about the bastards who remained in place after he left.

 

Slowly erase history, culture and tradition in order to reset the bar lower so people get used to the new normal, straight out of the control freak divide and conquer playbook.

Hmmm... it's all rather obvious now when you look back at it.

[glen9mullan]

4 hours ago, Mercer said:

Genuine question @glen9mullan, and apologies if I have missed in the thread, do the Raos know about Saturday's boycott and have you been in touch with them 

Id imagine they are aware.

 

[Gav]

3 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

@Mercer posted about the potential offer on the table for the club. Can anyone else corroborate this story?

🤣

Mercer has been posting claptrap since he joined this site over a decade ago , with a 0% hit rate, but I know you know that. 

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, so fingers crossed mercer is that clock this time.

Ps - Hope you and the family are well Mercer 👍

Edited 3 hours ago by Gav

[SuperBrfc]

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I've always regarded Myers' views as a bit of an irrelevance. Sort of an official/unofficial PR guy for the regime.

Id take more notice of anything he said about Everton where he'd no doubt be speaking from the heart.

By the same token I'm not particularly offended by anything he's said here. Everyone is free to make their own mind up on whether a boycott is a good idea or not.

I would however question his .motivation for piping up now after years of silence and at whose behest his comments are made.

My guess would be management.

Of course, we'll never know for sure regards his motivation, Rev. We can only put forward our opinions.

I suppose it is theoretically possible that somebody might have asked him to put something out. If his statement had solely urged fans not to boycott and to support the team instead, I'd personally lean towards that theory.

However, I see this statement as being his genuine thoughts on the matter. Within the same statement he also tactfully calls out the leadership, he tells them to show some humility, to take the first step and to do something to unite the club and the fans.

He has also called for Venky's to sell the club and stated that they have wasted a lot of money and that their ownership of the club is doing nobody any good.

IMO, those are not the words of somebody who has been asked by whoever at the club to put a few words out to discredit the boycott. A PR man wouldn't act in such a way.

When he left the club in March 2016 he told the LT that the club needs unity in order to move forward:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/14390636.director-alan-myers-leaving-blackburn-rovers-accord/

In the interview I shared in my earlier post, from 2022, he mentions the club needing unity. Last night he said the same again. That's where he is coming from. He wants the club to be fixed and for the fans and the staff he knows at the club to be happy again. That's how I see it.

Why has he piped up now?

Well...I suspect he is exasperated that the same problems he faced in 2014-2016 are STILL occurring today, 10 years on! Current events are likely resonating with him. Remember, he left the club out of principle in 2016, unhappy at how the club was being ran ala JDT, Eustace.

He's a football man who has just heard/seen us put in a shambolic display at Swansea, with arguably the worst ragtag side ever seen in a Rovers shirt. The mood around the place is understandably low and we are three days away from a planned boycott.

If ever he was going to speak on the matter, I'd say now is the perfect time to do so. Nothing sus about it, IMO.

[glen9mullan]

The Rudy files are on clip 4 on X,

 

[ElTwis]

Has the background story to these clips appeared anywhere? A suggestion as to when recorded, who the other voice is and perhaps most pertinently why they're being released now?

[JBiz]

Mark from the Blackburn end podcast made a point about doing a reverse boycott as a one off advert to potential new owners.

Personally thought was a great idea, but sceptical on how you’d organise so thought I’d mention to see what others think.

Edited 1 hour ago by JBiz

[...]

3 minutes ago, JBiz said:

Mark from the Blackburn end podcast made a point about doing a reverse boycott as a one off advert to potential new owners.

Personally thought was a great idea, but sceptical on how you’d organise so thought I’d mention to see what others think.

No OnE tells Me WhAt tO dO

[Mattyblue]

We have less than 9k ST holders (I.e you would need 10,000+ walk-ons shelling out £30 to make even a remotely full Ewood) and our form has fallen off a cliff. A ‘reverse boycott’ would never happen whilst struggling in the second division. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Mattyblue

[JBiz]

4 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

We have less than 9k ST holders and our form has fallen off a cliff. A ‘reverse boycott’ would never happen whilst struggling in the second division. 

 

Sadly I agree hence the skepticism. Maybe if it’s last game of the season or something with lots of online presence it might get across to people as more important than this season, next or our current league position.

[TheKitGuy]

53 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

The Rudy files are on clip 4 on X,

 

Come to light that it was a player calling the club?

 

@GetThemGone1875 is the account on X claiming this

 

 

https://x.com/GetThemGone1875

Edited 1 hour ago by TheKitGuy

[...]

15 minutes ago, TheKitGuy said:

Come to light that it was a player calling the club?

 

@GetThemGone1875 is the account on X claiming this

 

 

https://x.com/GetThemGone1875

Anyone link these just says private 

[Gav]

33 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

We have less than 9k ST holders (I.e you would need 10,000+ walk-ons shelling out £30 to make even a remotely full Ewood) and our form has fallen off a cliff. A ‘reverse boycott’ would never happen whilst struggling in the second division. 

 

I disagree slightly, especially if a local consortium was on record to buy the club.

‘Show us you want change, how many fans will attend for the game against xxxx, is it worth our while’

But yes Matty, outside of that, no chance.

Edited 1 hour ago by Gav