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Just wonderful memories those.

Very good that. Little story about Mark. Probably around 2000 maybe 2001, my lad was doing a bit of weekly football training in Farnworth, near Bolton. He would have been about 11 years old. All the Dads who stayed to watch, used to have a chat, about various things. Most of them were Bolton fans and all knew, I was a Rovers fan. One week when I arrived, one of the Dads saw me getting out of the car and said, the usual coach, isn’t here today, we have an ex Bolton player, so you won’t be happy will you? I got into the changing room and who should the coach, be but Mark. I used to play in the same side, up to being about 14 so know Mark pretty well. All the Dads wondered what was going on, when we renewed acquaintances and swapped numbers. Not one of them knew, he was ex Rovers too and a Rovers fan. I go along with his terrier story too by the way.

You are pretty much spot on with that. I think certain people at the club takes fans for mugs and we are not the only club that do it. I went to a La Liga game yesterday Elche V Real Madrid. Crowd were buzzing and it was almost a full house, Granted the mighty Real Madrid were the visitors, but it was great to see and hear so many passionate fans. Due to going there, I had a closer look at La Liga yesterday and noticed the attendance at the Nou camp, was unbelievably low for Barcelona. It seems even their fans will not take the miss management that is going on and just carry on going regardless. They are voting with their feet and their ground was less than a third full.

To highlight that, Liverpool of all teams surrendered a two goal lead yesterday and as for Stoke, they were 3 - 0 up against Cardiff, who then scored 3 in 5 minutes to earn a point. Thanks goodness that wasn't us, but it shows it happens to other teams too.

It may well have been used to pay them back some of the debt. Gives them the funds for their next music project, or Bollywood scheme, or even for a few more injections.

Eleven years is a long time, to keep on employing the wrong people. Time will tell, but they don’t seem to be too interested in that option, for some strange reason.

I find it remarkable that anyone can consider, the journey under Venkys, can be anything other than negative. From being a premier league club, with manageable debts, to a season in league one and not the nearest sniff of promotion back to the premier League. Add to that, the current debt levels, decline in attendances, decline in the quality of the football and neglect of the stadium and it becomes very hard to see any positives. The latest trend seems to be let player contracts run down and sell them cheap, or for free. A large part of the fan base have understandably become disillusioned with the owners and this latest, significant transaction, carried out under the radar, does not help matters. If you look at the boycotting and demonstrations carried out by Blackpool fans, who eventually drove their suspect owner out, then assuming we follow suit, the people staying away, due to the owners miss management, are highly likely to return at levels higher than the 10% you suggest. Time will obviously tell, but whilst these people own the club, negativity thinly disguised as paranoia, will remain.

I was paranoid, when they once appointed a manager with no experience, who excelled is spouting bull shit. I was so paranoid, I thought this could end in us being relegated and perhaps mean, we never get back to the premier league in my lifetime. I guess I could just be a paranoid person, or maybe I can spot villains at work, when it is right in front of my nose.

It’s a worry. Imagine someone buying the club out of administration, who are cobbling the money together to save the club. Option 1 is to pay a rent to the people who ruined the club, to use a training facility. Option 2 is to go back to using the playing fields, in the local park.

Venky’s London Limited, trading as Blackburn Rovers, football and athletic club.

I will give you that, but I’m not buying my next house for 1000% of its value.

Any future administrator might have a bigger problem finding a buyer than they otherwise might have.

A training ground worth £17 million, after throwing £150 million at it, is hardly anything to write home about.

All it takes is a statement from someone at the club. A pre - emptive one, would have stopped the speculation, but perhaps, the owners, don’t consider the fans are worthy of that. After all, we didn’t buy enough season tickets did we?

1884 Roverite I think. He had a meeting with the club and is due to meet them again, before the end of the year.

If it’s a peppercorn rent as suggested above, then they will have a problem on their hands. A long lease charges at one peppercorn per annum, will essentially bring them 10 peppercorns per decade.

Looks like they also have control of the newly formed company, who now own the STC. There are three directors, all based in India, who I have never heard of, but Madame and Balaji are listed at companies house, as people with significant control.

I think Derby did try that, maybe even with the ground. I don’t know what they have bought exactly, so no idea about what can and can’t be done. I guess this is the real point, why not tell the fans what’s happening, as otherwise we will jump to our own conclusions, whether or not there is something sinister happening.

A bit like when Venky’s stunned the football world, with a story about signing Ronaldiniho, but switched their attentions to Myles Anderson.

It’s very easy to clarify and perhaps, put a positive spin on it, after the event. The new company that have bought it was formed in June, so why the radio silence and why does it yet again, take a fine to find out, to get the message out to the supporters?

That’s the key thing here. The fans forum would surely have been told, if this was a positive. Imagine when the questions were put forward about January sales and FFP etc. if there was a solution in place, why not say so. Without wanting to have a dig, was this mentioned to Roverite during the meeting, where positive changes were mentioned?

It goes to show how other clubs are finding things very difficult. I can’t help but wonder, how the foreign ownership and lack of real interest by such owners, can only be bad for the future of clubs like Rovers and Cardiff. Unlike us, Cardiff have had a promotion to the premier league under their current owners, yet they appear to be in a perilous position. Rovers supporters seem to think, promotion to the premier league, solves all of our problems, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I was happy to see the back of Allardyce, as I hate his style of football. Like the rest of us, I didn’t know what was coming with Kean to follow, or the debacle that is the owners, ever since. If ever anyone needs lessons in how to go from one of the best run football clubs, to one of the worst, in a decade, look no further.

Is this on Rovers TV?