Funny isn't it that all three of those clubs you name were taken over within the last few years despite all being in worse positions than us. Wrexham were a non-league outfit, Birmingham perennial Championship relegation strugglers with a collapsing stadium and Swansea the epitome of an average 2nd/3rd division club with a small fanbase. Yet there remains a significant portion of Rovers' fanbase who have convinced themselves that for one reason or another there is no other viable option other than Venkys. No other people in a world of 7 billion with the clout or know-how to replace and do better than the architects of our demise. All these other clubs have managed it, but for some reason old Rovers wouldn't manage it. It's baffling, it's bizarre, and I'm convinced it is totally wrong, yet the belief continues. Until we get over that particular issue it's little wonder there's hardly any noise about Venkys apart from when another one of their self-inflicted debacles comes along e.g. Eustace walking out They've had it so easy here over the years because so many are convinced they are necessary.

Frightening yes, but completely inevitable as a direct result of decisions and steps taken by the ownership and their regime. There are consequences to everything in life. Yet I still get the impression there are people employed down there who genuinely don't understand this and think that they can just rely on and take for granted that people will just hand over their hard earned cash without question every year whilst this lot take the piss out of them. A look at the Ewood seat planner suggests breaking point has been passed for quite a few.

We'll just be getting some arse covering from the club being fed to Nixon and the Venkygraph over the next few weeks. The club, or the stooges running it, will want to get the last word out. They won't be happy at all that the trio of Tronstad, Travis and Brittain have publicly confirmed the truth - that the club hasn't even made the effort to speak to them about new deals - this disrupts the club's spin that they are hard at work and trying to sort it out but the greedy players are holding out for something better. They succeeded on that con job with Lenihan, Nyambe, even Dolan. It isn't working on the others. So we will get bits in the press about this with the club trying to convince supporters they are trying, when most of us know they aren't.

I really think that it needed to be something unique that shouts '150th anniversary Blackburn Rovers' If they want to use the Maltese Cross.....ok......but it really needs something above/below/around it as well to tell people the point behind it Not many people outside of our support base are going to have the foggiest why we have a cross on our shirts or what the relevance of it is. Now put it in a gold circle/shield with a ribbon beneath saying 'Blackburn Rovers 150 Years' and that does the trick.

At one stage, when we were a club with pride and self-respect, I would tend to agree. I think we are way past that stage here. Pride and self-respect went a long time ago. We'd sell the trophies in the cabinet if the offer was tempting. I've no doubt Eustace will be after linking up again with Travis but would be surprised if Derby were able to come up with the cash needed, then again if they are backing their manager they might well find it, unlike here.

I'm so glad that we've got Venkys, if not we'd definitely have gone the same way financially as Derby and ended up in a similar mess.

Travis won't be moving to Wrexham or anywhere else because it is a shorter or easier commute. He will be moving elsewhere because Rovers have made it as clear as they possibly can that they have no intention of keeping him here beyond 2026 and probably sooner than that if the money on offer tempts or our financial crisis is such that they want to free up the wages. He's soon 28 and needs to know where his medium term future lies and needs a contract to take him into his 30s. Probably his last 'big' opportunity. Rovers don't want him so he needs to look elsewhere, and that will be to whoever offers Rovers/him the best deal. Alternatively he can sit tight for another 12 months working his socks off for a club that doesn't want him and has no intention of getting anywhere, walk away on the expiry of his deal and probably command a signing on fee elsewhere, but there's a lot of risk with that e.g. injury or not the same offer available.

I remain convinced that the stooges have had Travis on the list for sales for the last couple of years. Despite attempts to suggest that his plan to Ipswich was all the fault of big bad JDT I think this is too good and convenient to be true. I suspect he was instructed to offload the bigger earners and go younger and cheaper. Unfortunately the Ipswich plan only worked temporarily by getting his wages off the books for 5 months, with their promotion they dropped any interest in signing him permanently. Then Eustace obviously wanted him back to build his team around him and other senior pros like Batth, Weimann etc. Not good. Anyhow fast forward a year and they can return to plan A with a more compliant and willing manager who won't threaten to walk out. Cash in, wages off the books and cheaper replacement the only name of this game.

How will anyone sign new contracts? They haven't been offered them. The club hasn't even started to talk to them. We aren't even capable of sorting Batth and Weimann out, also Hedges. 2 years ago we missed out on Batth because we wouldn't give him a 2 year deal. He went to Norwich for a year, then came here on a 1 year deal, and now despite his efforts last year we are looking like losing him again because someone else is offering longer. Just totally ridiculous.

Hopefully they are about to be tested on this. No big sales coming. At best perhaps £5 million or so from selling our last few assets at an undervalue due to a weak contractual position they have created. They'll be hoping and praying for an Adam Wharton sell on lottery win. Hopefully they don't get it. I hope this investigation drags on for as long as it takes to break them and their grip on this club.

The whole basis of Venkys' argument seeking permission from the authorities in India to send money to Rovers via their holding company is that without this money Rovers goes into administration and the tax man and wages / suppliers are unpaid. A judge will be sympathetic to that. They will not want to be the person responsible for a business failing and all the fall out that comes with it. They can see that money is required. Totally different story to wanting to spend non-essential sums on a few new players because we fancy signing someone. Nobody can reasonably argue that this is essential expenditure. So those thinking that we are spending a few million this summer whilst all this is going on perhaps need to sit down and have more of a think about the financial crisis these owners have put us into due to their investigation in India. A crisis that has been running now for several years yet they've done nothing to resolve e.g. by selling/giving the club to someone who has the ability to fund it. Any money being paid out for players will have to be found from the club's own resources - either a portion of funds brought in from sales/sponsorship/receipts, perhaps borrowing or even some crafty working with the instalments.

I have little faith or expectation that the kits are going to involve anything that resembles a tribute to our 150th anniversary. The training gear certainly has no link to it. Fair enough if you like what they've produced but it really is just along similar sorts of lines to what they've churned out every year. I would have expected something there at least as a nod to the anniversary. I will be disappointed myself if the 'tribute' to the 150th involves an attempt at replicating the 1995 shirt or includes the Premier League trophy/Wainwright bridge. All too recent - the 150th is much bigger than just the PL win or a bridge they built nearby 10 years ago. I do find it really poor that at the very least they aren't rolling out a new club crest for this season. Even if they just added a '150 years' ribbon to the current badge, or used the coat of arms crest. Just something as a nod to the occasion. Shame but I suppose it just confirms the suspicion that any sort of effort or expense really is too much for them,

We will be losing both as long as cash offers land on the table. We want shut.

Probably one of Silva, Araola or Frank to go there next. Can't see any of them being the saviour either.

I'm surprised/concerned that the training gear appears to be standard generic stuff that gives absolutely no suggestion of a club about to celebrate a momentous anniversary in a few months. So I'm not expecting the kit to do much. The least I would have expected is one or both of a limited edition club crest / retro crest or a colour scheme/design that has some sort of reference to past glories or history. But no, too much effort all that, lets just go for standard stuff they churn out every year.