There is a real possibility that this is venkys throwing the shadow man under the bus in an attempt to distance themselves from this latest disaster. Say Suhail is removed, then what? Suhail is no doubt the biggest issue we face on the ground in Ewood but that is because he is venkys personal errands boy. He's running the club under direct instruction from them. We keep seeing this tactic over and over again from them. Things turn to shit and they trot out someone who will take the flak for them. Kean, Anderson, Shaw, Coyle, Waggot and now their own man Suhail. As per usual venkys are portrayed as an innocent party in all of this. I don't believe that for one second. The removal of venkys is the only thing that will bring any kind of normalcy back to this football club. It is they that are the problem, nobody else.

This is a bit like the can't send, won't send debate. The answer is both. Are they completely brain-dead cretins? Yes. Are they deliberately taking actions to ensure that things happen to their advantage? Yes. There's so many things that have happened, and repeatedly keep happening here over the years, that just do not happen anywhere else. The repeated botched transfers, which mysteriously only happened to incoming transfers, paying out players 80% of their contracts to leave, instructing managers to not play certain players to avoid triggering contract extensions, having the club run by agents, running misinformation campaigns and using divide and rule tactics against supporters.... I could go on. All of the above and much much more cannot be simply attributed to simple incompetence alone. As for their phobia of promotion to the Premier League, just look at how they've reacted to having the media attention turned in their direction over the last two weeks. They've gone into complete meltdown, do you really think they'd be able to handle the scrutiny that would be coming their way from the club being in the top flight? They couldn't handle it 15 years ago and it's exploded in the time since. They're currently under investigation for financial misconduct by their own government, do you think they'd want the world media digging through their affairs to build a story? Do you think they can handle the pressure of having attention drawn to things like this: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-04-05/indian-poultry-giant-selling-antibiotics-for-growth-promotion-on-farms They have a lot to hide. I've never once bought the idea of them being totally disinterested either, they've got their men on the ground reporting back to them and I suspect that nothing goes on here without their consent. Whatever it is they've been up to has been rumbled by the ED investigation and they're in full protection mode. The last thing they want is a global media circus unearthing all their dirty secrets. There's a lot that goes on here that can be chalked up to just brainless stupidity for sure, but be under no illusion there's more going on than meets the eye.

Agreed. The old one just used to post transfer twaddle and then some vague shit about venkys possibly selling up every now and again. This incarnation is posting some pretty damning accusations, some of which has been corroborated by other people's bits and pieces of information. Once again, venkys are shown to be involved with the day to day goings on. They always have been.

Not been on for a bit and just catching up so a chaddyesque multi quote to summarise some of the numerous pages in this thread. It's such a disgrace that fans such as yourself have reached this point. We constantly get accused of being entitled, like we expect to win the champions league every year and we only just turned up when Jack Walker appeared on the scene. It's all complete and utter bollocks. We're all Rovers through and through. We're there through thick and thin, but this? I know I certainly can't in good conscience support this in any way. The only option is to starve them out. One thing I ask to anyone criticising us is, would you accept this at your club? No? Then why the fuck should we? It's a complete non argument made by folk who haven't the gumption to spend five seconds actually thinking about what they're saying. They're just repeating complete bullshit on autopilot, it's pathetic. Well done for setting him right. What an absolute cretin. It really is a triumph of modern medicine and more importantly our social welfare system that folk like this can go on to live long lives. 200 years ago thick cunts like this absolute shitgibbon wouldn't have survived childhood. Speaking of smooth brained low level operators..... I was wondering how long it would take for the club/venky plants to start posting in this thread. The only person trying to sow division here is you. It won't work. I hear that Suhail has just stood in some dog shit and needs one of his pathetic urchin underlings to lick his boots clean. Off you pop now son, your master is calling. @glen9mullan Enjoy your holiday and hope you had a good curry. When we rid the club of this virus I will petition the next owners to install a bronze statue of you next to Jack's. Oh, and a Bob Crompton one as well. I'll look at setting up a filesharing link for the timeline and any other files so it's easily accessible. If one of the other folk who I've sent it to could sort this that would be much appreciated, I'm not the most computer savvy person. Over the last four years they have continued to dig their own grave deeper and deeper. This year, with them sabotaging our promotion prospects once again, the have handed us the shovel and climbed down into their hole. All we have to do is bury the fuckers. I can appreciate that not everyone is going to stop going but I think you really need to have a long hard think before renewing and ask yourself the questions "What am I actually getting out of this. Do I want to support this?". The club have repeatedly shown that they have nothing but absolute contempt towards us and continually take the paying supporters for mugs. It's a complete and utter disgrace. Whether you attend Ewood Park or not is irrelevant, we all love Rovers. We were here before these small time conmen and we'll be here long after they've gone. This is our club. It is not, nor will it ever be theirs.

Or a deliberately shit appointment to completely destroy our promotion chances, that they can bin off after 3 months and claim that they're taking action. Spend two months looking for a new appointment, not sign anyone in summer until some shit loans on the lat day, claiming that business couldn't get done until the new head coach was in. Operation plod along forever continues.

Complete bollocks

This defeat was absolutely inevitable. A Rovers win should have been 100:1 odds minimum and a boro win 1000:1 odds on. The only silver lining to all of this is that the fanbase seems to be finally turning and waking up to the charade that's been going on here for the last 15 years.

They've always counted sold tickets as the actual attendance. Also, fictitious ticket sales is a common money laundering tactic in football....

Hahaha gold

Express yourself by blowing a whistle throughout the whole match. If even a few hundred people did this it would cause absolute chaos and the game would be nigh on impossible to complete. Disruption to matches is the only protest that will get enough attention on the owners. If you're not prepared to do that then stop going.

National League North

Bollocks to her, get NWA.

Don't forget everybody

From what I've seen on the club's official accounts in various places, they're getting absolutely shredded by everyone.

Data is only any good as a check and balance to what you're seeing on the pitch. Some players flatter to deceive and they get found out once their data shows what they actually do. Some players appear to do very little but the data can prove otherwise. It's a tool, nothing more. Unfortunately, many talentless people are using this as a way to give themselves some false credibility in the football world by conning the many uninitiated into believing that these people know what they're on about. I'm certainly not naive enough to be fooled by some bullshit statistics when the team loses a game by playing shit or are sitting in the bottom three.

Get this stuff out everywhere. They can't hide, they've got nothing to come back at us with, all they can do is continue to dig themselves deeper into the hole they've been digging for the last 15 years. To quote the Ramones "We want the airwaves"

Top stuff. That needs putting up on YouTube so it's easy to see for everyone and easy to post on forums and the like. Actually that goes for all videos and media that we put out there to combat this. Not everyone has twitter and the number is continually decreasing since the platform has been owned by a card carrying nazi. We need to make sure our message is clear and easy to access for everybody across all platforms.

High Vis - Fever Dream Best band around today

Rory or something I think people are saying.

I would say you have to be in the premier league to be a premier league club but a small club, just like the two others you mentioned, we fucking ain't. We were a small club when compared to the likes of Liverpool and the red scum, but in comparison to most, if not all of the teams in this division we're either greater than or equal to.

What's the other video that everyone is on about? The fan response one. I haven't seen it.

one for all the "hoo wud biy uz wez a smol klub" lemmings

Getting absolutely rinsed in the comments. Hilarious.

In a nutshell that's it. They can't send whatever they want as they did previously. As @JHRover said previously, there's a difference between being allowed to send over moneys to cover running costs and being allowed to send over millions for 'investment'. That's how their initial request to send over £18 million got whittled down to £3.5 million. When they were allowed to send over the ~£11 million they had to provide a breakdown of where that money was going. As @miqaayil has said, the investigation was brought about by suspected misuse of funds and these restrictions are a part of that. It's going to be interesting to see what happens when the transfer money runs out. We must keep up the pressure and keep venkys in the media spotlight. The pressure reached a point where they sold the house, there's going to be a breaking point whereby the have to sell the club. We need to force this situation ourselves as nobody else is going to.

If Suhail said it then it must be true.... Either way, we need rid of the lot of them, anyone who doesn't think that needs to get their head examined ASAP.