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18 hours ago, DeeCee said:

Hasn't he gone?

Not yet…

21 hours ago, Tom said:

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Macron certainly delivering the hits more than misses!

Just to ensure credit gets distributed fairly - Macron are very receptive to suggestions from the club re design. But the impetus comes from the club to drive the design - although Macron will offer various suggestions re template, material, design cues etc.

The credit for these kits needs to be pointed in the direction of Fraser Read who I have found to be uniformly receptive to feedback about what might sell & why. 

The 'What Now?' Show returns for season 24/25 with a summer review of activities so far...including :-

• Rovers Women's team - what's going on?
• Venky's - is it Can't Fund or Won't Fund? 
• Shiny new kits
• The current squad strength
• The new Rovers Inc. show

Roger Whiteside is your host as usual as Ian Herbert & Linz Lewis join to try to explain current events at & around Ewood Park. 

Click HERE for the episode

Just giving this a bump…the special offer lasts till 31/7 👍

18 minutes ago, JHRover said:

I agree with this. It is clear that the main argument Venky lawyers put forward to the Court was that the transfer of funds was essential to ensure the club remained a going concern. 

If the club brings in income from elsewhere that negates the need for a transfer from India then that argument disappears. So if there's enough left from the Adam Wharton cash, Raya cash or a Szmodics sale then the club won't need immediate cash from India, and won't be able to argue it is essential.

So I can see this being put back to a later date when the money runs out again. This will happen, sooner rather than later, because we are somehow still losing £15 million a year and are running out of assets to sell to cover that. Szmodics, maybe Carter, then that's about it. 

It seems to me that their only plan down at Ewood is to get through month by month and hope that either the investigation in India gets dropped or that we have enough assets to sell to keep it going. 

Strong agree…👍

6 hours ago, damo100 said:

You missed out the bit regarding it was only a friendly. 

Waggot is a disgrace...

Sorry to pour cold water on this but the programme on Saturday was Seamus Conneely’s Testimonial brochure. There was a folded A4 glossy wraparound with squad listings that made it look like a programme. 
Stanley also no longer produce printed programmes but Andy Holt is on record as saying he’d love to bring them back at some point. 

11 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

The new kit looks really good. I bought one of the shirts for the first time in ages.

The best thing about yesterday TBH…you could half close your eyes & be transported back to 1992…😆

Some photos from today…

3 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

How was that Spanish handball any different to some of the ones that have resulted in penalties being given/goals disallowed?

I don’t think it should have been given but the inconsistency is baffling. 

It was judged by an English referee…

45 minutes ago, damo100 said:

Hi all, does anyone about this game and the supposed thousands we took to the Turf that day?

I was there…the Keith Fear game. 
Murdered ‘em 1st half, 3-0 up, Fear missed a penalty, almost gave it away at the death. 
 

Faz talks about it on here 👍
 

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

The owners would invest in a promotion drive if it wasn't for......

FFP

Indian Tax levy

Tax Fraud Investigation

Family Squabbles

A Snowball

They couldn't care less

..... which one are we up to now this season ?

Cost Control

Efficiency Drive 

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

they don't? 

1 time only Andy bayes played into them .. sacked as a result

 

I’m not referencing local media for absolute clarity. The local reporters have a very fine line to tread in not burning bridges whilst writing something objective. 
Don’t envy them. 

1 hour ago, Upside Down said:

Is that because whenever they interview you the bullshit that gets peddled gets put right?

Maybe not all media but generally when they get mentioned their absolute destruction of this club is glossed over at best. The majority of the stuff I see is from the like of that cretin McGuire telling us how fantastic they are.

I do my bit 😉

Selling it as 94/95 retro is curious isn’t it? 😆

Shorts & socks…

3 hours ago, lraC said:

Just done this and can highly recommend it. 

Thank you…hope you will enjoy your badges 😁

11 hours ago, Upside Down said:

The thing here is that just like with our relegation from the premier league, the things they're doing will obviously only lead to one outcome. So just like that relegation, this year's relegation will be 100% deliberate.

There's a number of things they could do. They could sort out their legal issues, which I believe are related to something far bigger than the unpaid tax on a house, they could find a way to get funding to the club or they could sell up and fuck off.

They choose to do none of these things and instead choose to downgrade the club and get us relegated.

I believe that whatever financial scam they were running, using the club as a vehicle for this, has been rumbled by the Indian government. They were deliberately downgrading things here from day one. They were also involved with this crowd back then as well:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/swiss-authorities-say-seized-documents-from-sports-agency-in-fifa-probe/bb951slsq

Don't you think it's a bit suspicious that the media take every chance they can to bend over backwards telling us how wonderful our glorious owners are and how we're oh so lucky to have them?

It’s not my experience that V’s get a universal easy ride in the media BTW. 

In a season that is pointing towards ignominy this shirt is possibly going to be a rare positive. 
I agree that it’s closer to the 92-94 than the 94-95 but it’s still very nice.

Hats off to Fraser Read for listening 👍

1 hour ago, cesus said:

Maybe you can answer a question I've long wondered about our ownership and the "debt", do the owners just service the debt like an overdraft? I mean say the "overdraft" is £200m, do they for the ease of maths just pay 5% annually/£10m of the total debt or have they literally handed over the whole £200m of their own money.

The parent lends to its subsidiaries interest-free. Rovers aren’t paying for that debt (compared to Man Utd/Burnley for instance).

Separately & in parallel the V’s in India will fund their group working capital requirements holistically. If they don’t generate enough cash from their core operations &/or there are timing differences then they will borrow from their bankers. 
It’s also possible that they borrow to fund capital projects - this borrowing attracts interest clearly - but chargeable to the borrower (the Indian parent). 
 

It’s like parents lending money to kids FOC but having to take out an overdraft to fund the loan..!

@J*B  @tomphil  @IraC    

I think we are all saying broadly very similar things. 

The appetite has diminished. The mandate is "keep it ticking over with minimal parental support".  

By NOT selling they are avoiding having to write off value through the parent company accounts. It's like buying a stately home for £50m, spending £200m on it but at the end of that spending somehow not increasing the capital value of the property or visitor numbers. 

You still own the asset, but you may have in your head that it should be worth £250m but nobody will give you anything like that. As long as you carry on owning it, you don't have to confront the awful truth that you've just wasted >£200m of your money. 

Now if you have billions, you don't notice a loss of that scale perhaps ? 

I get the sense that they don't want to admit that they've cocked up - so they keep it, run it on a threadbare budget & never have to publicly swallow their pride ? 

The strongest correlation is usually argued to be wage bill v league position. 
 

Given what’s happening to our funding, we can only presume that managing the wage bill carefully is a crucial metric for SW. On that basis, our league position is moving only in one direction. 

14 hours ago, tomphil said:

End game or just another downscale ?

The theory of some that they are nudging us towards relegation on purpose is getting harder to ignore.

I doubt the objective is to “achieve” relegation. That makes zero sense for anyone. 
However, I firmly believe the principal objective now is “reduce the costs”.

It’s a side effect that the 2nd almost inevitably leads to the first if it becomes a sustained, repeated requirement season after season. 

I think that’s where we are.

9 hours ago, Jonas AGF said:

Hi everyone.

 

I'm fan of AGF - Aarhus, and it looks like we have brought Leopold Wahlstedt in.

 

I'm also chief editor of the fanmedia KSDH.dk, and we want to make an interview with someone around Blackburn who can tell a bit about his season in Championship and why the club wants to let him go.

 

Can anyone set me up with someone?

 

Best regards, Jonas Roulund, Chief Editor, KSDH.dk

Hi Jonas - happy to help… email media@brfcs.com if you want to set up an interview. The comments on here I think sum up Leo’s Rovers career…it wasn’t a success let’s put it like that 😆