They really are filth these people. It breaks my heart, it really does. How the takeover was ever allowed, I have no idea.

I don't want to think of all the things that's happened that's hacked me off. But yeah, this hurts.

They just do not give a fuck, do they? It's just so brazen. 

11 minutes ago, booth said:

To whoever was defending Venkys on this thread (site crashes if I try to click on quotes so I can't reply). Fair enough if Venkys want to cut our cloth accordingly.  They are pumping money in but have FFP and whatever their issue with the Indian government is. It sounds like excuses to me but I'll suspend my disbelief for arguments sake.

However if they wanted to do it efficiently and sensibly why have Steve Waggott as our CEO who has made terrible decision after terrible decision in his time here? A man who hasn't prepped for the lack of money and instead allowed the appointment of staff more suited to a team vying for promotion?

Because they are terrible terrible owners and it's always been the case. Venkys out.

Yes the VenkyMeter is showing thirteen years, and the ride isn't over yet. They've totally worn me out. Defeats make no impact on me any more. Venkys on the hoardings plastered all round the ground, Venkys on the shirts even now. Thirteen years of humiliation, frustration and decay, playthings of dark lords and the third rate. 

Why they don't just put us up for sale I don't know. I don't think I can do another thirteen years of this. 

"I want to go and cry
It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die"

Boo-um, who he, red Indian chief?

51 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Furthest one back I can find is this chap (not spent ages looking though!)

https://www.lfchistory.net/players/player/profile/805/

Wow, good find!

Yeah that's who I was thinking of, was he the first?

But then foreign could also include players from the Republic of Ireland?

Just a bit of fun and I don't know the answer to this.

But who was Blackburn rovers' first foreign signing?

Think it was some Danish fella in the seventies but I forget him name 

Thanks mate.

Found this also

https://youtu.be/WCZ_8HbuvIk?si=F7t9zsWgEKkFjheY

Hi guys, I've tried to get a cigarette card collection together of rovers players of yesteryear. Thought it would be nice to have on the wall, I wouldn't have seen any of these play, but it's just something nice that is pre venkys.

What do you reckon, any good? There's only some players you can get, done that I wanted don't even exist at all. I really wanted Billy garbutt, he's revered in Italy because he managed there. But no doing sadly.

We're stuck with the bastards forever, aren't we?

Should've known better than to hope

15 minutes ago, Bethnal said:

 

Although we should all be careful about what we say definitely and what we speculate on, I would suggest that lazily using the incorrect vehicle for cross-border investment in your rent-a-mate, low-grade, faded pop star acquaintance’s doomed-from-the-off music startup is the kind of thing that a sophisticated investor tends not to do.

That made me laugh

Well hopefully they've had their chips, that's what really counts. They were utterly radish, so many times because of them, my heart, it choked. It was a caper they never should've embarked upon. They hired so many chancers and morons, there wasn't mushroom for talent

18 minutes ago, DE. said:

Indeed, people seem to forget sometimes he's a young and inexperienced manager. The way we play shows he has impressive coaching skills, but there's a lot more to management than coaching a team to play a certain style well. You only learn those things through experience, and one of the pitfalls of hiring rookie managers is that their growing pains will also be yours as a club. Occasionally it clicks immediately, as with McKenna at Ipswich. but more often than not time and patience are required. 

Goes without saying that the above becomes much harder when the owners are at best passively useless and at worst totally destructive.

Could I vote for passively destructive please?

I wouldn't want to call this one at all.

QPR I have it on reliable info are absolutely gash. Seems were not much better.

My crystal ball says there could be a red card, var controversy, an own goal and a dreadful miss.

And at full time, over team wins, by a goal.

Or did you don't like that I have other predictions

28 minutes ago, roverandout said:

I'll do my best 

Sorry to hear your news. Must be very difficult to really process the two things. Fingers crossed for you. I think the caller you can stay, the more that will help your mum

To think we started off by beating West brom and then best Watford away, back when Watford were rated. 

QPR is absolutely pivotal because if we do go into bottom three, I don't think we'll be getting out of it. Doesn't feel like there's any fight to the club any more.

In any case, I think eventually we're going to drop, it's the laws of physics. The uplift from venkys is getting more and more feeble, but gravity stays the same. 

And if we do go down, we won't be coming back up again, not without a change of ownership

2 minutes ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Grabbi has come for a little run around.

von Grabbi?

9 minutes ago, Andy said:

Moran was hit in the bollocks - not sure what’s that’s got to do with training 🤣

 

Iron egg ftw

7 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Let’s put it this way - if we’d have known he was going to be missing for the first 3 months of the season should we have still signed him ? Knowing all along that Gally is only a nose bleed away from going missing for a month or two at the same time.

Well yeah either the medical wasn't done properly, despite the what professor doctor Chadwick says. Or it was done properly and we signed him anyway, in which case, wtf?

Personally, I think it's 50/50 win or lose, with a 20% chance of a draw

👍

No one fully knows the the risks of vaping, because it's not been around that long

Feeling despondent about everything rovers, which is a word thing to say the day after we've won 5-2 in the cup.

I think Leicester could well hand out a reaming. It's away isn't it? I think a win for rovers is pretty unlikely

So... Scunthorpe United... Is this going to be is one day? Owner turns off the taps, fans banned, club kicked out of ground, fa belatedly investigates