16 hours ago, LDRover said:

I wonder if we'll ever have a manager poached from us under Venky rule?

Most folk in the know wouldn't even stomach an egg poached from Venkys, let alone a manager.

Get thee gone, thou gurning cream faced loon.

15 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

For our new friends from Chile 🇨🇱 

 

The Queen smiling as she watches her loyal subject, Ben Brereton-Diaz in the Copa... that'll be the day :)

7 hours ago, JoeH said:

It's completely relevant to a summer transfer window where the club will be using all sorts of data for its recruitment.

7 hours ago, rigger said:

What recruitment ?

You don't need any other data than:

1) Is there a Middlesboro connection?

2) Have you given up any ambition of developing your own career as a footballer?

1+2= come on down and sign for the TM gurning car crash show that it looks like next season will be for the once proud club that WE only want the best for.

15 hours ago, CambridgeRover said:

We get a bit of extra cash for Raya's promotion (assuming they dont cock it up) ?

Chortle!

What a pity it will be pished up against the wall of chumps, cronies and journeymen we are supposed to believe are playing for the badge.

Having a manager with a track record of dismal failure, a reputation for being asleep at the wheel whilst not giving a fook, and demonstrable skills only in gurning and spouting shite doesn't sound to me like a recipe for anything other than another season of having our heads rammed firmly down the bog.

Get the cash for Raya in, but....

Mowbray Out!, Waggot Out!, Cheating Guring Liars OUT!

8 minutes ago, martonrover said:

I see the set up very differently.

They have no intention of appointing and empowering a competent and fully functioning CEO / MD.

They merely ensure a box is ticked to observe Football League regulations by appointing a stooge, who has slightly more authority than the cleaning staff.

The invisible Pasha and Babu have slightly more authority, but are evidently clueless.

Begs the question what the fook they are doing here though, doesn't it.

What a shambles, what a fustercluck,

What a way to run a club into the ground.

What a difference we were used to

Till the Venkys came to our town.

What I'm wondering, in the meantime

Is it always stuck like this?

What a shambles, what a fustercluck

Why on earth do they take the piss?

2 hours ago, gumboots said:

By Teesside standards, its not bad

He is a slumdog millionaire alright..

33 minutes ago, Dolly blue said:

When you look at Rovers’ retained list it fully illustrates Mowbray’s inability to plan , to think, to develop. I’m not sure where we on “ this journey “...but we are currently without leaders, without hungry young men, without players with the ability to play out from the back ( his idea of progress ) , without structure ....

...we continue to sink..and eagerly  wait for return of Ayala ...and maybe Bennett running the dressing room....so much to look forward to ....😳

 

Stop! You're depressing me ! Don't you know we are already on course for the wettest May on record?  😳 

3 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

Wasn't his point about the club never being normal since Venky's arrived?

Yes, it was - I missed that in my haste to post something. I agree we've not been a normal club since the Venkmachine rolled into town, though you could argue that the rot had set in some considerable time before they rocked up. I mean, doesn't anyone else remember the dark noises coming from the Walker Trust about the sustainability of the model that Jack had implemented..sloping shoulders that lot!

1 hour ago, TheRoversReturn said:

Why? Because Venky's Rovers ain't a normal club and never has been...

I'd beg to differ - we were a normal club when we had a conventional management set up, and a footballing side that punched above its weight, rather than this bunch of weirdos who consistently belie their status as professionals (and I include the management as well as the players in that).

We can (and should) be 'normal' again, but it is going to take the departure of the headless faceless chicken chokers to precipitate any major change from our 'new normal' (the backwards facing / upside down mentality that has ruined our club for many of us long suffering supporters).

Bring on the revolution!

8 hours ago, perthblue02 said:

Interesting comparison Leicester v Rovers with regards to foreign ownership takeovers 3 months apart

Here are the highlights

Takeover August 2010                                                                           Nov 2010

Champ Play off Qual                   2012/13

Championship winners               2013/14                                            Relegation Premier League  2011/12
Premier League winners            2015/16                                            Relegation Championship     2015/16 
FA Cup Winners                         2020/21                                             Runners Up  League 1           2016/17
UEFA Champ League Qual       2016/2017
UEFA Europa League Qual        2020/21 

That makes very sobering reading 😞

Oh, for a club set up like Leicester City... who if memory serves me correctly, we 'bested' to gain our own entry into the Premier League. Watch it if you dare!

When I was talking to Stuart Caley (Head of Safety at Ewood) at last Saturday's 'protest' I got the distinct impression staff have been told to avoid any comment on what is happening behind the scenes at the Rovers. 'Tight Lipped' is how I'd describe it.. Now, read into that what you will, but clearly 'someone' is pulling the strings down at the club, and it doesn't appear to be anyone from India, in any meaningful operational sense.

I suspect that what other posters have suggested is likely the case - that Waggot and Mowbray have stitched up the situation at Blackburn Rovers such that there neither is nor can be any serious challenge to their control. What we would have to ask in that case would be, what precipitated their exit from Coventry (and previous clubs where they learned their trade and perfected the formula for blustering on without an apparent care whilst the walls come tumbling down). Unlock that, and maybe we have a means of effecting change..

Now we don't have to roll back literally to 1985, but the opening words of the ModFather in this mid 80s classic (here at LiveAid) are a good reminder of a mindset that it might be worth adopting...

7 hours ago, tomphil said:

I have a really bad feeling ...

Now that would be class, if the gurning fool and his shady sidekick would feck off back to Coventry.

Am prepared to send them there myself. More than happy like.

31 minutes ago, USABlue said:

It was a marketing venture which backfired worse than my old Harley with the timing off.

Ho hum, it's just another Marie Antionette let them eat cake scenario for the inordinately stupid billionaires of Pune to wrestle with. I'm sure they've had other fingers burned if they are gullible enough to let £200 million slip through their clucking grasp just on our little vanity project. I mean, when was the last time you dropped £200 million without any acknowledgement that there might be something seriously wrong with your decision making, or someone seeking redress? Baffling, but at the end of the day it is the Loons we are dealing with.

What a pity they knew nothing about the meaning of football when they took Rovers on.

What a damning indictment that 11 years on, they still seem to have learned fook all.

Oh, and a sale? Actions speak a lot louder than words.

5 minutes ago, JHRover said:

I was in the pub at Stoke away in 2019 when we won 2-1. I spoke to multiple well connected Rovers fans in there who were adamant that Venkys were selling to Eurogarages and that Gareth Ainsworth was lined up to take over as manager. 18 months on and here we are.

Venkys won't sell, or share.

...especially to the Issa brothers 😉

27 minutes ago, Mercer said:

We are in peril!!!

We have cost them close on £200million - not met anyone in any walk of life who is 'relaxed'/'happy' about losing money.

There will come a time when they say enough is enough - sadly, when that happens, it will be curtains for Rovers.

Ah yes, that old chestnut. I can imagine the conversation around the chicken chokers' barbecue; Balaji "Ye know we still have that loss making branch in the UK"

Venkatash, "Oh shit, I'd been hoping I just dreamed that... so go on, when you say loss making, what are you really saying?".

Balaji, "£200 million at last count, and since taking it over, the only thing we've won is....erm, er...we got the Lancashire Telegraph award for Lemon Drizzle cake for the last 4 years, since we took on an ex resident of Brockhall from the old days as manager - he talks shite,  but his missus is a beast with a Kenwood".

Madame Desai, "Whhhaaaatttt? No fooking frruuitcake?" Balaji, "oh yes, ma'am, plenty of fruit cake, we've even got one in as chief executive."

Madame Desai, "Well, I guess I can live with that, since our beloved football child cannot be relegate from the bladdy Premiere League. How is Ronaldo doing there? Did you say £20 million a year? That cant be, I said we would lavish at least £5mill a year on them to keep them at the top of the tree." 

Balaji, "Pass the fruitcake, ma'am"

On the back of yet another season of having our heads held under the bog water by the various nepharious forces controlling the set up at Ewood, I was thinking about the £20 million or so per annum it seems to cost to keep going. This got me wondering, are there any clubs that are set up to make a profit, at this level? Is it even possible to contemplate such a thing whilst still maintaining any kind of competitive pedigree on the pitch? If it is possible to be profitable and competitive, what does the model look like, and how far away are we from being able to deploy it?

Any ideas?

Who, exactly, do we owe '£200 million' to? If it is just the Rao family then no, we are not in peril - they are 😉

6 minutes added time at Derby. C'mon Wednesday!!

Arna!

Wycombe beating Boro 2-0 at Boro! 🙂

He didn't appear to be under any pressure, to be fair. Just a waltoneseque fubar

Chelsea take the lead. Disappointing goal to conceded in an even game so far.

1 hour ago, DuffsLeftPeg said:

As above - meet at corner of Jack Walker Stand & Darwen End at 10AM if you would like to join a protest against Mowbray, the Coventrio and the clear mis-management at our club this season 👍🏼

Bring your brolly and wet weather gear though - there will be rain on the parade 😞

A proper game of football from 20 years back

Andy Todd at 8.40 🙂 lol !!

Oh for such passion, excitement, commitment and (dare I say it..) ENTERTAINMENT tomorrow.. NOT holding out much hope!

23 hours ago, tomphil said:

Groundhog summer.

Yup., complete with Gurnsutony Phil....