Old Codger

Nope. The RAO family and their pernicious and calculated campaign to kill our club through systematic withdrawal of financial support are 100% to blame. Everything else is a side-show to make us think we still have a chance. We don't ! Not under this lot. VENKYS OUT!

I'm beginning to get it now. The Raos think that they can save face by running the club down to a point where from a business point of view they can say it is no longer a going concern. Therefore it can be shut down as such, without it troubling their tiny conscience. The alternative, to sell the club to someone interested in making it work, would involve too much scrutiny of the wrong-doing, the ineptitude, the facts and (crucially) the figures, potentially bringing issues to light in public that they would rather not be faced up with. So, what we are seeing is the further deliberate undermining of the football club, to salve the pathetic egos of people who long ago realised that they were in over their heads, had been duped and shown to be commercially incompetent, and who now (for a long time indeed) want nothing more than the embarrassment to go away. Fuck the consequences for the true 'owners' and 'stakeholders' of the club (i.e. US the supporters). Tell you what - the FA should introduce annual 'fit and proper' tests for owners, that actually require realistic and real benchmarks to be surpassed, and commitments to be made and honoured by those claiming to own the 'business assets'. Wankers. The lot of them. VENKYS OUT!

Now 11 minutes of stoppage time. Hmmm 😞

What a joke. Ref. Their player just threw himself to the floor.

30% possession so far this half. It IS being played at Ewood, isn't it? Riveting stuff.

Well, it's probably not for the excitement. He's alongside a Rovers stalwart and ex-Chairman of the PFA, Gordon Taylor. Neither of them look very interested. (or excited, for that matter)

..Or balls, or any actual influence, or anything other than a nominal role that involves doing what he is told in return for free hospitality at Rovers games (and what a fabulous incentive that must be these days). Let's face it. The bridge is deserted, and we are the Marie Celeste of the footballing world.

When you put it so succinctly like that, it is hard to see anything except an embarrassing and damaging reverse for Rovers here, simply because what you have identified is the heart (or is it the 'backbone'?) of a functioning and competitive side that has been wilfully ripped out. So far, the evidence appears to be that this has been replaced with nothing of any real substance. There will be match-day excitement indeed, although perhaps not the kind that we, as long suffering fans either wish for or deserve. VENKYS OUT!

We might as well plant hedges down the side of the pitch, as field this fella in his present low impact incarnation. Not sure why VI doesn't clock how ineffective and therefore damaging to our prospects it is to insist on playing individuals whose contribution is nothing other than to frustrate and undermine our attacking capability. If anyone was to be let go from the current squad, it should be the Welsh wunderboy, Hyam Wedges. Anyway, back to the game. Brum likely to be fired up in front of their maurauding hordes and benefitting from the momentum of a record-breaking promotion from the porridge for breakfast league. The nasal sound of 7.5K brummie drongoes shouting, "Coom on yow Blues' (how ironic at Ewood!) echoing deeply around the sparsely populated and relatively empty concourses on three of four sides of the ground... chastening stuff! Broomay Drongoes on fire - Rovers 0 Burmingerum 4 Rovers somehow stem the tide in a hapless borefest - Rovers 0 Drongoes 0 Well there's a surprise - Rovers 3 Nasal Twats sent packing 0 My money isn't on the need for tampons up the nose, by the way. However, COYB! VENKY MORONS SAY HELLO BUT WAVE GOODBYE! PASHA / RUDY / PRESS CONFERENCE SABOTAGING KNOBHEADS OUT!

The fuckwits don't have memories going back further than the last cheque they signed (or the first) and so hold a bastardised concept of what history means for Blackburn Rovers. Expect even more public humiliation and shame as they haplessly and shamelessly scrabble around for anything to deflect attention from their complete and utter disrespecting of our club and community. I challenge anyone to come up with a single example of anything that the Rao family have done that has brought anything of positive impact in the 5000 plus days they have held the keys to Ewood Park. They are the football equivalent of long Covid - unpleasant, unwanted, unseen (except for horrible symptoms) and difficult to dislodge. Time to go, Venkys. The experiment failed long ago, and your continued ownership is the biggest single threat to the future of Blackburn Rovers. VENKYS OUT! WORK EXPERIENCE MAGPIE MEGALOMANIACS OUT! HIDING IN THE SHADOWS INDIAN HENCHMEN OUT!

Err no. Wankers steering it.

Trouble is, we can't rely on other clubs' over-confidence to work in our favour for 45 more games this season. Imagine being able to survive simply on the incompetence and ineptitude of your competition...Ain't happening in the 'eat you up and spit you out' Championship, that's for sure. Cheers Venksters. DESPICABLE VENKYS OUT!

Dennis was a waste of space when here last season - couldn't pass, wouldn't tackle, didn't know where the goals were, ambled around without actually contributing anything except conceding possession to the opposition, carefree and care-less attitude, no attempt to bond with the fans, showed little or no interest in any of the games he came on for... THAT waste of space can go rot in Forest's reserves forever and we will be no worse off. Listen up, VENKWANKERS, there is precious little going for Blackburn at the best of times, and only a bunch of cynical morons would deliberately dismantle something with the history and pedigree of Blackburn Rovers simply because they can. I rest my case. Moronic scummy wankers. VENKYS OUT! VENKY HENCHMEN OUT!

Sadly there is nothing left that they would actually want, as they are building a football team.

Aye, but they don't play in the famous blue and white shirts and aren't based at Ewood Park. Therefore they aren't Blackburn Rovers, and don't deserve your support. Isn't it horrible when a crime is perpetated right in front of your eyes, in graphic detail and in the light of day, yet you are powerless to do anything about it? As Rovers fans, we are the football equivalent of someone with Locked In syndrome. Yet there they are, plain as day and completely unchallenged - the Venky BASTARDS and their BASTARD STOOGES 😞 VENKYS OUT! VENKY HENCHMEN AND STOOGES OUT!

Would love to one day, but we are away this week. Another time,yah ☺️

Rovers don't feel ready for the long slog ahead, and more like an experiment / work in progress (oh, I remember, it's a project....)... Anyway, I have no idea who plays for the Bantams these days, but I anticipate they will be gunning for a Championship scalp here, and we are well placed to provide that on a plate. Not hearing anything positive coming from our camp, so the sad reality is we have already capitulated and are anticipating an early exit from the league cup (whatever it is called these days). Whatever the score, the faithful will trudge complacently up Livesey Branch Road muttering oaths and pining for the Fjords. Predictions? Buzzing Bantams Bulldoze Bewildered Blues - Rovers 0 (eh, where's the net?) Bratfurt 4 Rovers Resistance Rolled Rather Regretably - Rovers 1 Bradfud 1 - Bantams nick it on Penalties 4-5 Gulf in Class but Rovers win anyway... - Rovers 2 Bradfedup 1 - Tyon brace on 90 and 93 minutes after Bantams lead from 3rd minute.. COYB!

No, one bloke, just a bit schizo. Any news about comings or goings, amongst the intra-cranial bickering?

Another rude awakening coming up here. Bradford are no giant killers, but sadly we are not in that ball game anymore. Make no mistake through, to beat the mighty Blackburn Rovers at Ewood would be seen as a very good scalp for the Bantams, whereas we would (normally) be expected to win at a canter. I want Rovers to take this game seriously, field a competitive and coherent team, and to go for a win. Anything less will be a cause for concern. COYB!

All to save thruppence ha'penny. Baffling.. unless there is a cunning plan* *there isn't.

Yes, I think that was our game plan... hit and hope. But sadly there wasn't a single player in our team who made me feel that he was capable of hurting the opposition with the ball at his feet. Oh for a Garner, Shearer, Wegerle, Tugay, Bellamy, Roberts (haha!), Duff, Le Saux, Olssen, Hendry, Samba... you know what I'm saying - someone to take the game by the scruff of the neck, a game changer. As it stands it was all just a bit too kick and rush for me.. On the plus side, Toth looks like the real deal - good hands and positioning, dominant (punching) on crosses, some very sharp saves to keep the score down. I think Axel will adjust to the Championship and become a cult figure (it's a tallest dwarf contest at the moment) and stop his silly schoolboy kickabout nonsense once he understands the level. Someone needs to stand up and be a leader, or else we will be watching with our heads in our hands for a lot this season. Candidates??

We aren't scoring here if we play till the end of the season. No threat whatsoever.

Sadly I think a dose of reality bites us this afternoon. The Baggies are a well drilled, well supported side, very experienced in this league and will be well aware of Rovers' frailties and gaps. Raw optimism is always good to see, and a scoreline like that would be an amazing spectacle to behold. Having seek last week's picking apart however, it is more likely that we will be on the reverse end of a 3 goal deficit. Boring but bearable - Baggies 1 Rovers 1 Baggered and Battered - Baggie Boys 3 Rovers Ragbag 0 Bugger me you Beauties! - Baggie Bottoms 1 Rampant Rovers 3 However it goes, it is amazing that 2200 hardy souls are trogging to the Black Country for a day out. Fair play to you, you amazing madmen and women! COYB!

Well, that only ends one way, to be fair. And it isn't with a strong set of results on the pitch...Just when there was a glimmer that perhaps things were actually starting to turn around too - and then someone screeches past in their go-faster-stripes Ford Escort and side-swipes yer pride and joy as if it was a jalopy. Typical! VENKY ESCORT DRIVERS OUT!!

I'd rather both were available for selection this season, as we know it will be a long hard slog from Saturday til May next year. Without putting too fine a point on it, we might have changed the look and feel of our side, but the reality of the Championship remains brutally the same. So we need to gear up for the fight, for the hard knocks, for the incompetent refs, for the cynical challenges on our better players, for the inexplicable (haha) loss of form between December and end of January and the realisation that fucking Wrexham FC are viewed as a more realistic prospect for success than former Premier League Winners... VENKY SHEEP SHAGGERS OUT!