6 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

They have a massive catchment area. East Anglia is devoid of football clubs - so is the East of England, tbf, which is why people from Kent support Spurs.

I always thought the reverse was true. People who support Spurs are Kents. I’m deaf, so maybe I misheard the last word…

11 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I also read he will going around the far East trying to find a buyer. 

Ali Syed

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/8396019.ali-syed-remains-committed-efforts-buy-blackburn-rovers/

https://www.sportingintelligence.com/2010/11/01/ahsan-ali-syed-withdraws-blackburn-rovers-interest-after-‘insufficient-cooperation’-from-club-011101/

Plus Saurin Shah

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/8215605.indian-businessman-want-buy-blackburn-rovers/

 

YES I knew I wasn’t going mad! I think Shah was the fellow who brought Benkys in as backers, and possibly a certain agent persuaded Venkys to go it alone. Something along those lines, anyway.

I think I might be mixing up because there was another Indian buyer. Ali Syad?

18 minutes ago, tomphil said:

There was a lot seemed to have a hand in it and don't forget they'd already let a conman in the door to look at the books before that.

So the process wasn't exactly watertight i think desperation was taking over and clouding some judgement.

Yeah, now feel like I remember someone insisting Venkys were meant to be the capital behind a buyer, but were persuaded to buy for themselves?

I might be making that up entirely though…

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Anderson was already well in at Ewood for some reason and it was the other fella who went on the fact finding mission in India checking out the Vs.

Can't remember his name but he was on the Trust board i think.

 

 

I seem to remember Rothschilds had a hand in our sale somehow?

The S*n once nicknamed Nixon ‘the boss of goss’ 🤮 a nickname that suits him as he peddles gossip rather than breaking stories.

8 minutes ago, islander200 said:

No I wasn't waiting it wouldn't have been mentioned at all but to be frank im sick of the pathetic comments you make regarding people who discuss Nixon's articles.The way you write your posts and respond to people specifically Chaddy you think your always right.It wasn't just a case of disagreeing with Chaddy you were practically laughing at his suggestion that we could sell Gallagher in this window 

Directly after I wrote my message you are going on with nonsense such as "Nixon love in"

Now I do not believe everything I read from Nixon, and yeah he gets plenty wrong but he also every single window gets stuff right.Like only 3 or 4 days ago he broke the Wharton bid.Like he broke the interest in Ennis.The interest in O'Riordan.

So his articles are clearly worth discussing and doesn't need you putting posters down when they  do.

 

With respect (I agree with you mainly), he didn’t break any of those three stories. He may have been the first person you read mentioning them, but he didn’t break any.

It has been alleged (and it’s believable given the timeframes) that Shane has known about this kind of behaviour from his father the whole time, and it is the main reason he left the company in the mid00s.

Apparently he ‘didn’t want to be like, or endorse’ his father.

6 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Apparently only good with someone up top with him.

View from the swans fans.

I think Szmodics would count as ‘with him’ in the roles they each play.

43 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

It’s a shame these interested parties weren't actually interested when the Walker family were selling the club. 

Some were teenagers or didn’t have the money at the time. Some WERE interested and Venkys were favoured (some rightly, some wrongly).

27 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Yep, Mike, and like I said earlier that would nowhere near have been the case post one of their previous banal statements.

So I’m more than heartened that the fanbase is waking up from its post 2017 slumber, so something to work with - yes not everyone, not even particularly close to being everyone, but it never was going to be, some are far too gone, but there’s a groundswell again and it’s been a long time coming.

Absolutely. That statement (on Facebook and Instagram) is littered with anti-Venky sentiment.

Hopefully materialises vs Wrexham!

In fairness, most replies on the official Rovers facebook page are anti-Venkys.

33 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Im sure if this club was put up for sale, there would be interest. But how could you possibly have "had confirmation" on that?!

In my time with RT (around 7 years) I knew concretely of 5 interested parties at various points. I knew of around 20 speculated interested parties.

34 minutes ago, Eddie said:

All of that is conjecture. Don't frame it as fact. 

The words ‘if’, ‘suspect’, and ‘I’d wager’ ensure he isn’t.

Jesus wept…

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/grant-v-wwe.pdf

‘We have finally fulfilled our first promise to Blackburn Rovers! Welcome your new manager, Ronaldinho!’

7 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Scan the QR 👍

Open image in new tab. Hold press. ‘Google image search’ (searches for the QR code), open website.

8 hours ago, phili said:

In the past 12 months there have been 4 enquiries for the club, 2 from American Consortiums, 1 from a Middle Eastern consortium and 1 from a UK based consortium. On each occasion Venky's haven't bothered even responding. There is interest in buying us, unfortunately we have Venky's as owners and they aren't interested in selling.

The only way this purgatory is going to end is if Venky's are forced to put the club into administration other than that there is no chance of them selling their baby sadly.

 

I seriously hope I’m not pissing on anyone’s chips, but did you mean 12 years? Because that would tally with my understanding, rather than just the last year.

If true, that’s even better than I thought!

8 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

How about a bloke called Jizz? 😁

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_Hornkamp

Heard he knows how to beat ‘em off, then spread the play. 

3 hours ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Care to explain what you mean by this? The MoU is exactly what we will be bashing him around the head with. The club has clearly breached the agreement by not disclosing the financial situation.

Seems there are a handful of posters on here determined to constantly stick the boot in on the Trust for some reason. A couple of points:

1. The Trust is the wrong target and isn’t the enemy here, we all have the best interests of the club at heart.

2. The Trust is manned by volunteers, and certainly in my case I am massively out of pocket in the process.

I’ve always said it is very easy to snipe from the sidelines - anybody who thinks they can do better please put yourself forward and let’s share the burden.

 

Q: Given that the MoU was signed a couple of months after the tax issue, will the club argue they had no obligation to disclose?

15 minutes ago, bazza said:

I'm sure she played the Salvation Army soldier who stopped Phineas Fogg  from getting to his club in time to win the "wager" in "Around the World in Eighty Days" starring David Niven.

Wiki has her down as ‘Sporting lady’s companion’ 🤷‍♂️

On 02/01/2024 at 19:51, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

There should be people getting some jail time over this scandal. The managers who oversaw the false prosecutions knowing that the computer system was faulty.

I still can’t get my head around them bluffing that they had evidence of theft, and therefore got people to ‘plea bargain’ false accounting.

Without any right to charge for any crime! What cunts!

The only possible reasons for any of it is cruelty.

Is there an argument for corporate manslaughter (or similar) to be levelled after the 4 suicides as a direct result of this bullshit? Although I guess the deceased aren’t owed a duty of care post-termination, the clear determination to pin the blame of innocent subpostmasters certainly is a breach.

“Section1. The offence

1. An organisation to which this section applies is guilty of an offence if the way in which its activities are managed or organised—

1. causes a person's death, and
2. amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed by the organisation to the deceased.

3. An organisation is guilty of an offence under this section only if the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its senior management is a substantial element in the breach referred to in subsection (1).

6. An organisation that is guilty of corporate manslaughter or corporate homicide is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine.”

Missed this a couple of days ago, but Glynis Johns has died, aged 100. Famously the suffragette mother in the Mary Poppins film, and the singer for whom ‘Send in the Clowns’ was written.