Exhibit A - The past 10yrs of Venkys control, if you can't join those dots you're not looking hard enough.

I read what you wrote and now you're rowing back faster than Redgrave and Pinsent. When Blackburn Rovers 2011 was sold, its was a club sat 11th in Premiership, punching well above its weight, with a boardroom full of footballing people and an experienced manager and very good players. 2yrs later we had no boardroom structure, we sat firmly in league 1 having sacked many good people that worked day to day at the club, we had crooks filling deep pockets and a visit to the old bailey under our belts. Are you telling me that was setup for success? I'm telling you that was setup to fail and it did just that.

My original point was getting rid of Mowbray and Waggott fixes nothing, the bigger picture must be to get rid of Venkys. We've changed the manager 9 times in 10yrs, we've changed the CEO probably 5 times, it doesn't work, especially when we're using a small gene pool of washed up dregs owned by 1 agency. The longer these owners are here, the more damage they do.

They could play on Pleasington playing fields for all I care, if these inept owners sod off I'll have 4 season tickets immediately. As long as we are being run by proper footballing people who give a toss about the club, the town and its supporters, thats good enough for me, at the moment we are dying by a thousand cuts and changing the manager and CEO won't change that, as the last 10yrs have shown us.

I'll ask you again. How many clubs of the stature of say, a Blackburn Rovers, have folded and 'become history' as you put it? The reason why I ask is its the difference between putting up with the continued downgrading of the club or striving for something better. If you truly believe Venkys are our only option thats an acceptable position to hold.

I'll take that as a No then, which is the right answer, we have nobody at the club who could make a decent appointment, the last 10yrs proves that. How many clubs of the stature of say, a Blackburn Rovers, have folded and 'become history' as you put it?

Can you name me one person in the current setup that can achieve that goal? Bringing in that calibre of appointment?

Think bigger picture, unless you want more of the same for the next 10yrs+ Venkys out

Not true, but that wasn't my point. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32512704

When new owners come into the club on a ticket to get Champions league football with a budget of £5m a season, the argument could be made that they deliberately relegated the cub in pursuit of that aim. They replaced the current manager with a coach, replaced the best chairman in the country with nobody, sold off all the clubs assets, or put them in the stands so as not to pay win bonuses and loyalty bonuses. Those are all very deliberate acts which resulted in relegation and the demise of this football club.

I'll be honest with you ojf, the scramble to paint Rafiq as the bad guy is unsavoury to say the least and its often from a position of not even knowing the facts relating to the claims. It may not be the intention of posters on this board to do that, but thats the way its coming across. As Jim said yesterday, being racially abused 7 days a week by your work mates, which isn't in dispute by the way, is a far different proposition than sharing private whatsapp messages with a mate, but both are racist. Throw the book at them all.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19729241.tony-mowbray-blackburn-rovers-have-included-top-six-mix/ Very good interview with Mowbray, talking common sense.

Lets get this back to cricket. The first Test is in Brisbane on 8 December, before a day-night match in Adelaide on 16 December. BT Sports have bought the Tv rights, but won't be sending any commentators down under, we'll be getting the local commentary from Fox and channel 7 by all accounts. I think we'll get thumped, I don't like the side which should have included Mahmood at a minimum, I'd have also taken Parkinson and Livingston, who I know has very little test match experience, but we need fearless players in the team, not blockers. I think 4-1 is the best we can hope for, but we'll probably lose 5-0.

I hope you have Muslim friends and colleagues Silas, maybe you don't from the comments above. Would you ever get the lads together and pour red wine down an Asian colleagues throat? Of course we're heavily focussing on the Muslim aspect, Jesus wept. Rafiq turned to drinking alcohol to try and fit in with the drinking culture at Yorkshire, by his own admission, I hope that clears things up for you.

Are you trying to be Ali G?

Azeem Rafiq was pinned down as a 15yr old Muslim kid at his local cricket club and had a bottle of red wine poured down his throat. Can you draw me the comparison above that you're trying to make ojf?

That could well be true in the modern era..... But that wasn't the case before Jack came, we were far less accepting of shite on the pitch and in the boardroom and let them know about it. #Venkys out (Think bigger picture)

The Wurzels 1 Rovers 3

I remember Andrews, Chris Brown and Ward all being booed before the games even kicked off which is pathetic, shows a distinct lack of intelligence.

Whataboutery ojf with respect and no I don't agree. But what we do agree on is racism in any form is abhorrent, which they're all guilty of.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to drag up my condemnation of Ollie Robinson, my views on anti-Semitism and racism are well versed LD, abhorrent in whatever context. I do agree with Jim though, those texts are a million miles away from the abuse Azeem has received, which was on an industrial scale in comparison.

Booked this for next year, local to us, decent lineup. Working men’s club are a decent listen, local band, for local people.

I was a firm believer, being ever the optimist, that racism on this scale was a thing of the past. We are a much more tolerant and liberal society than we were back in 70's and 80's, then this rears its ugly head, at the top of one of our national sports, a sport we gave to the world. Some of the testimony from Azeem this week about being verbally and physically abused because of the colour of his skin, at work, in 2021......just disgusting. A 15yr old Asian lad being force fed red wine at his local club by another cricketer? He'd be first on the list for assault and prosecution charges. I'd sack the lot of them, they should also be cautioned by the police, send a message that this will not be tolerated in any shape way or form.

I’ve just watched season 2 of The Tiger King - The story just gets even more bizarre.

Why are we £140m in debt if wages are under control?