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.

Can't even get Batth or Weimann to sign despite both playing big parts last season and having decent seasons. It really is tragic.

Agreed, though Rovers' approach has basically taken any decision out of Travis' hands anyway. All of what you say is probably true, but assumes there is a decision to be made between Rovers and Wrexham as both want him. Both don't want him - Rovers have made it quite clear by their conduct that they have no interest in keeping Travis, Tronstad, Brittain etc. So there's not really a choice to be made. If Rovers don't want him then he'll have to go elsewhere.

Cook left Birmingham in January

Ribeiro cannot be treated as a contract extension in the normal sense of the word. He came into the club in January, bizarrely on a 6 months permanent deal, and then given his good contributions to the team deservedly had that extended. It was a very strange and almost unheard of situation to join a club on a permanent 6 month contract. I've never seen such a thing before. Most normal organisations would have simply given him a multi-year deal at the point of joining, so we can't really then claim credit for 'extending' it when through our own strange approach an extension became necessary after only a few months of him being here. Therefore no senior player has had a contract extension in 18 months. Invoking a 12 month option in the club's favour is not a contract extension, it is triggering a clause in an existing deal.

2015 Cairney 2025 Travis Both totally illogical and stupid concepts to most people but at Venky Rovers we need a quick injection of cash so there we go. A decade on and nothing has changed.

We've seen this before. First up he will be assured that he will get a good chunk of cash from sales to reinvest. Then it won't appear due to admin errors etc. Textbook Venky Rovers.

Remember that the real headline here is that Rovers want to sell their captain (and indeed anyone else they can get money for). If they didn't want to sell them they would have tried to keep them beyond next summer. They haven't tried, so they want them to go. Who they go to and how much we get are secondary.

I remain convinced that even though they aren't looking for a CEO (they are looking for a public face and a box-ticker) they still won't even be able to get that over the line and instead will muddle on with Pasha-Sufi-Gestede-Talbot basically managing between them, and a charade that they are actively seeking a CEO. They will only actually get one if the heat on Venkys and Pasha gets too high or if that gang can't cope with the demands of the job between them. Truly frightening stuff considering where this club has been and should be. I wouldn't trust any one of them to run a bath. I keep on saying it but this is a club in complete and utter crisis, once again imposed by unfit wretched owners, and the only thing covering for that up to press has been the remnants of a solid squad and good management from JDT and Eustace. The party is inevitably going to come to a shuddering and horrific end, that is an inevitable consequence of choices made by these owners and their minions. Unfortunately too many supporters are deluded that because results have kept on coming things are fine, or because the local media won't report on the very serious issues in India (because they can't be arsed and don't understand it) people can just ignore it and pretend these owners are necessary to our future. A ridiculous opinion in my view but hey ho I think they call it stockholm syndrome. Bring it on I say. Appoint a complete buffoon as CEO or even better let the stooges already in place pick up the slack. All it will do is bring the shambles into clearer focus and wake a few up.

Given what is going on in India right now with the owners, even if strictly it isn't the Club under investigation, I'd think you'd be brave to suggest that nothing at all untoward has gone on during the last 15 years. It is so suspicious that I wouldn't rule anything in or out. I am struggling to think of a comparable regime whereby the ownership have zero interest in football, zero interest in the town, zero interest in getting bigger or better, haven't so much as attended in well over a decade, yet appear no closer to wanting to leave than the day they darkened our doors. Just about every other rotten regime in English football, and there have been a few, have either come and gone quickly, or been people who at least enjoy the game or the involvement of running a club, or have given up when the money has run out. None of it with this lot. Which inevitably leads to suspicions of other motives.

Chalk and cheese - a 'can do' attitude compared to an endless stream of excuses under successive executives at Rovers. These owners are the main reason we can't do very much, never have and never will, and will be left behind by any club with even a modicum of ambition.

March 2025 - https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25026507.travis-contract-latest-blackburn-landscape-new-deals/ 'Travis nor his agent has not held any discussions with the Blackburn Rovers board about extending his stay. He is relaxed about the situation though and remains focused on the final eight games of the campaign' "Yeah, of course I would like to stay. I've been here most of my footballing career. But yeah, like I said, no one's said anything to me. "That's football. It is what it is. I think football is football and if it's not here, it'll be elsewhere but I'm not focused on that. April 2025 - https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25098586.sondre-tronstad-makes-blackburn-rovers-contract-admission/ Sondre Tronstad has not held talks over extending his stay at Blackburn Rovers but would be happy to sign a new contract. Tronstad is focused on finishing the season strongly but reiterated that he would be happy to renew his terms at Ewood Park. "Yes, I'd really like to be here. I'd really like to play here in the future and years to come," Tronstad said. "I like the players and fans, the club in general and the league. I would like to stay. I haven't had any talks about a new deal. I'm open for it, really. Can't find the Brittain one, maybe I've imagined that but suspect he's in the same boat despite certain claims suggesting he's close to a new deal here.

Middlesbrough just sacked Carrick, no big surprise I wonder if Steve Cooper or Rob Edwards are the most likely options there. That leaves Boro, Bristol City and QPR(?) on the look out for new managers.

He'll likely leave this window because the club want rid of him. He's at an age we don't want to be giving contracts out, he's on a wage that we are looking to cut, we have allowed his contract to run down without renewing it and we want to get our hands on the hard cash that only he and a few others will be able to command from other clubs. The fact he has had a good season merely means even more of a desire to cash in from Rovers and potentially more interest from rivals. We don't want to renew his contract, or anyone else's, hence no talks, as confirmed by Travis, Tronstad and Brittain in recent interviews. In a normal world he would be under contract for another 3 years already, that's what a normal football club would have done by now and there's absolutely no reason why we couldn't have done that and he would have signed, had we really wanted to.