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    Season Tickets 2025/26

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:

    What still puzzles me and many others. Is  after 15 years of gross mismanagement and basically no interest in the club. 

    Why are the Venkys still the owners??? 

    Sell the club and cut your ' so called losses' ?? 

    That is the question, that really needs answering. 

     

    I have always thought, that there is something buried deep that would cause huge issues if it came out and therefore, the owners and the people involved in the takeover, did not want any deep dive or scrutiny. It is the only thing that makes sense and I have spent hours trying to think of another reason, but never can.

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    Season Tickets 2025/26

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    I guess the Gestede interview, probably put a few more off buying a season ticket. Can there have been a bigger own goal, since Shane Duffy was at the club? 

    I know the question about the numbers sold, was asked at the fans forum and from a post on here, the answer to that question, will be made public in the minutes, due to be published this week.

    Assuming those figures are as embarrassing, as already stated and not much improvement is made, before the early bird discount, at the end of next week, someone could have a lot of explaining to do.

    Now that we know the club have no intention, of investing, to push for a return to the top flight, maybe another announcement, like the one made prior to the 23/24 season will be made, stating once again, that avoiding relegation, is the seasons ambition. How truly dire this situation, especially given the 150th anniversary of the forming of the club, is looming large. 

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    Rudy Gestede

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    41 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

    Said I'd do a summary for those who don't want to watch it but might be interested in knowing, so here goes:

    10:15 - Rudy is asked why Eustace left. He said he doesn't know the exact reason why, but was told it was for personal reasons, to be closer to home. He then says he heard it was for some other reason, but that he believes it was for personal reasons.

    He doesn't seem to be in the loop, does he?

    27:25 - Natalie asks him where the money is from Wharton and Szmodics and how was it reinvested into the squad. He says we spent around £5m across the summer and January and that was our budget almost done.

    He says the club could have communicated better their plans for next season with the fans, and that the fans may have then understood that the club did not plan to spend in January to push for a play off place.

    He states that the plan was to build step by step, to lay the foundations for next season. If we made the play offs this season, he said this would be fantastic but that it was not the main aim at the start of the season.

    Jam tomorrow? Just think...there we all are getting excited about us sitting 5th place in January. Eustace appears reasonably excited, the players reasonably excited. Eustace publicly states that he and the players want quality to come in. Plenty of us are thinking 'maybe, just maybe this time'. Yet this lot upstairs appear to have had no thought about promotion. An insult to all of us.

    They let Eustace go and brought in a manager with NEXT season's championship 'rebuild' in mind, whilst sitting 5th!

    Next season, folks. Don't worry. Actually, make it two seasons. We're building. Foundations, guys. Foundations. Bollocks.

    Mowbray was also building seven years ago. That's not on Gestede, but we have heard this for many years. This is going to be some mega project when it's complete. A project to rival all projects. Tossers.

    31:50 - Natalie states that there is a disconnect between the £30m bought in and the £5m spent on new signings. The fans want that money reinvested, but you're (Rudy) saying Blackburn need that money to sustain:

    Rudy: 

    It's not the plan at the start of the season that we are going to reinvest the money coming in straight into transfers. That's not the plan. We want to develop our own players, to buy cheaper players that have resale value, like we did with Szmodics.

    That's the model of the club. The plan of the club is not to spend money to go back to the Premier League and to win the Premier League again. Step by step we're developing the club again. We've got good foundations. We need the fans onboard".

    Firstly, if somebody has told you that we are unhappy because we want Venky's to win us a second Premier League title, Rudy, know that they are lying and have an agenda. No Rovers fan is asking for that.

    That aside, the ambition of this hierarchy is clear to see. Sell players, stay in the Division. What else can be said? Nobody mention the Brighton or Brentford model again. There appears to be no intent to do what those clubs have done here.

    The Academy route, IMO, is nothing but a cheap, money saving exercise, as Big Sam subtly suggests at one stage of this interview.

    32:43 - Rudy reiterates the need to better communicate plans for the club with the fans so that we can understand:

    "If we are in the play offs next season, or even this season, that is fantastic. But that's not the first aim. We want to develop the club and make sure when we bring in a player that he's got resale value. That's how we're going to operate going forward.

    Then, when we've got more money coming in the business and we break even with the revenue and everything, then we can start to go higher and higher".

    Ah. A few more years, folks. I'm sorry, but everybody needs to relax and be patient.

    40:38 - Rudy on minutes for Academy players:

    "Last season we only gave 142 minutes to Academy players under John Eustace. The plan for our squad is to give as much as we can. The year before that it was 2,000 minutes for our Academy players and almost 3,000 minutes the year before that. So, now we want to go back to those numbers".

    Seriously? Who gives a toss about that? It means nothing. The cream will always make it. Win us football matches. Win us promotion. Again, Big Sam says something like the Academy players should be a supplementary element, not the main focus of building a team. Sam knows the score and he knows you don't get anywhere by just focusing on kids.

    47:00 - Fantastic point from Natalie. She says, Venky's bought a club in the Premier League with incredible history and during their tenure the club has just gone down and down.

    "What is down?" Rudy asks sharply. "Because we are in Championship fighting for play offs. I'm not sure it's that 'down'."

    Tell me you know nothing about the the last 15 years, or the stature and standards of Blackburn Rovers, without telling me you don't know about the last 15 years, or the stature and standards of Blackburn Rovers.

    Finally, Big Sam makes an important point to him:

    47:45 - "if you get in the play offs this year or next, you have to win it. If you don't do that, you won't get there again".

    If this lot think they can wing a promotion somehow whilst just being bothered with player development and saving the owners money, then they have to be the most deluded set of individuals in European football.

    Despite everything Rudy has said here, my issue isn't really with him. He's the one facing the flak, when it should be Pasha out there answering questions.

    There are similarities here between Gestede and Broughton for me. The issues back then with Broughton and now with Gestede are the same, in my view. Those further up the chain.

    Thanks for posting this, as I can’t watch it, as I love the club far too much, to listen to someone talk about us, in this way. It has been hard enough finding out what he said, by reading the posts on here.

    From what I have read, the bit about without Venkys there would be no football at Ewood, is frankly insulting. I have been a supporter of the club for 53 years and now some chancer tells us, that we somehow survived and prospered for all these years without them. The one and only reason our beloved club is in so much danger of not existing anymore, is due to the owners miss management, appointing greedy bastards like Kean, Anderson, Waggott and Gestede himself and just neglecting the whole core of the club. 


    Pay day loans, selling our most prized young academy player and Rovers fan, Adam Wharton and other players, like Raya, Armstrong, Szmodics etc, to keep us afloat, is quite frankly disgusting and the sooner we rid ourselves of this vermin the better. 

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    Rudy Gestede

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    1 minute ago, Groundhog said:

    He doesn't give a fuck about the fans - never credits the fanbase at once, not even as a throwaway remark to placate listeners.

    When the presenter pressed him on the fact the Venky's have took a Premier League team down he interrupted with "what is down".

    He's incredibly obtuse and fronts up too quickly.

    Very, very uncomfortable watch.

    I daren't watch it, for fear of it upsetting me too much.

    Perhaps someone needs to send the 3 Rory videos to Rudy and ask him for some feedback.

    Muppet.

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    Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    56 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

    There definitely needs to be a language change. Whenever a happy clapper says they've invested £300m it needs called out. Its not been invested its been lost. I didn't invested £60 in my car when I filled it up at the weekend. 

    The owners used that for their court case. They needed permission to send funds, to protect their investment. If spending circa £300m to produce an asset worth £50m at best, then the definition of investment needs changing.

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    Championship 24/25

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    2 hours ago, arbitro said:

    I'm not clever enough to come up with something like that but does the fact Coventry play Middlesbrough in the last game have a bearing on it?

    We have to hope Coventry don't win either game, as if they do, we can't catch them. If Boro won on Saturday though, it would need to be a draw, come what may, as a won for either side, means, we can't catch one of them and then, we would be relying on Bristol City losing both or losing and drawing.

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    Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    13 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

    If anyone watches rorys videos and doesn't 

    A ) Feel immediately soothed

    B )  Understand why we're annoyed and what our beef is

     

    Then they are a lost cause and can't be educated on the matter. 

    Fact based and backed up with source articles. No emotive arguments, no speculation, pure facts and contradictions. Fantastic videos. 

    There is a response to one of his videos that is so obviously a club plant it’s cringeworthy.

    I will post it later. 

    Contracts

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

    I believe some negotiation goes on about triggered clause in contract. Someone mentioned it on here

    Yes I know Mark thanks how many contracts renewals have been done. I think we will get a couple of those on new contracts 

    Which ones do you think are most likely to be extended?

    Championship 24/25

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    59 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

    Remember doing Orient as the first game of the 75-76 season.  Rovers ran a train direct from Blackburn to a Station near the ground.  Can't believe it's 50 years ago!

    First game, after promotion in centenary season, off memory and without checking 1-1 but could be wrong. 

    Contracts

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

    I see the club have gone all quiet on this front now. After everything kicked off and they came out and gave all those interviews, Gestede mentioned that there would be news on contracts over the next couple of weeks. 

    Signed Yuri up to a new contract but nothing else.

    They might be having a long meeting, about how to answer the questions that Rory, has asked.

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    Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

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    10 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

    All been swept under the Carpet Rory,stuff gone on here that nobody would believe if truth be known.

    Nest of Vipers from day one.

    I think this is why, plenty have the opinion that paying for season tickets and generally spending money on the club, feels wrong.

    These people have wrecked the club and stuck two fingers up to us and have tried to bury the truth.

    No doubt the coalition will be speaking with Rory and pushing for Suhail to answer some of the points, he has raised and asked him to answer.

    Interestingly the anonymous booklet produced a few years ago, seems to have quite a lot of the quotes in it, then Rory used.

     

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