Venky’s own 99.9% of Blackburn Rovers. Those shares equate to a value of £180 million on their books. £20 million a year is chicken feed, pun intended, to them. Putting in this money presents no problem whatsoever. Their core business interests are doing very nicely, their wealth is growing. If they throw another 20 million a year at it for the next ten years, all that means is their club is now valued at £280 million. It’s not like they need the cash for anything else. Balaji will still be able to buy loads of flash motors, and Madame can have all her taps done out in solid gold. Liquidating the club and writing off the “investment” can’t be a viable option at the moment. They’d wipe the best part of £200 million off their net worth overnight. They don’t need to worry about money, they are concerned with their massive wealth. Obviously it’s not sustainable indefinitely. But I don’t think we are anywhere near that point. Promotion would give them one exit strategy. The other option I suppose is the very very long game, which they seem totally ill equipped for, and would be miserable for us. Cutting their losses would be a very drastic last resort. I don’t think even they have the slightest inkling into what their long term plan for the club is.

Really good result that. QPR are a very decent side, but by and large we handled them really well. Poor goal to give away from our point of view, but I expect they will be equally if not more annoyed with themselves for leaving Lenihan free for his goal. Nyambe v their number 20 was a proper battle. And whoever gave Travis the best of Robbie Savage DVD for Christmas, well done! I’ve slated Armstrong in the past, but I’m really liking the look of him centrally rather than wide. He seems to work hard instead of appearing lazy, and he’s reaping the rewards. Hopefully we can keep the momentum going and find some consistency. The playoffs isn’t beyond the realms of possibility. The big worry would be another injury to a key player. We can’t take another, so hopefully we’ve had more than our fair share of bad luck on that front.

Royal Rumble was fantastic. Best PPV in years. Don't understand the complaints about Charlotte winning. She is head and shoulders above any other female wrestler on the planet, not showcasing her at Wrestlemania would be ridiculous. The men’s Rumble was perfect. I’d go as far as to say it’s the second best ever, after 92.

Add to the minutes? Don’t be silly Chaddy! “Who controls the minutes controls the future. Who controls the present controls the pies.” S. Waggott, January 2020

That’s what they do anyway. It’s the losses that are the issue.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/contentassets/397cfa67d2c44384a0c159ed2ab47774/ff-minutes-13.1.20.pdf Its mostly pie talk.

The minutes have landed. Very vague.

We look an infinitely better side with him in the team. This proves it.

Brilliant result. Shows we have that quality, just woefully inconsistent. Brilliant to see Rankin- Costello in the first team. Nyambe, Downing and Holtby getting 90 mins each too is very pleasing - them 3 will be key for the remainder of the season.

Because he is dreadful.

Venky’s have continually only appointed managers from a very small pool that share one essential criteria.

As I said, I wasn’t there, just reporting what I’ve heard. I don’t think there’s anything wrong in that. I fully accept that I might not have got absolutely everything Waggott stated as it was intended due to it being second hand. For me, the salient point is that there was consideration of a sale and buy/lease back of Ewood due to FFP concerns. I wasn’t overly concerned about the hypothetical sale of a now injured player. Rich Sharpe also being cautious about reporting anything until the minutes of the meeting are published. I really don’t see any problem, unless it is expected that the minutes aren’t going to constitute an accurate record of what was discussed.

Brilliant post.

I wasn’t there. I’m relaying the information I got from people who were. My first thoughts were not about questioning the Dack transfer, they were concerns for Ewood Park. Thank god for the ACV and well done to Paul!

Steve Waggott. At the fans forum.

And I expect that they need the money quicker than within 6 months so it’s back to the drawing board

Apparently there has been a lot of talk about this at the fans forum tonight. I wasn’t at the meeting, but apparently the big news was this: We are right on the cusp of breaching FFP rules The plan was to sell Dack this window to remain compliant Since his injury they have looked into a sale and lease/buy back of Ewood. They decided against this due to the ACV on the ground. Other avenues are being explored. So I wouldn’t expect any signings this window.

What do Mowbray and Brereton have in common? The same agent!

Sent to The Hague to answer for his crimes against football.

The referee yesterday got loads of stick. He’s continuing to get loads of abuse on Twitter. No denying he did a really poor job, but I’m sure he tried his best and did his job honestly and with integrity. Where is the consistency? I’ve seen no outcry and concern for his mental health and general wellbeing? Ps. Brereton didn’t cry. Load of bollocks.

Invites are sent to various supporter groups and they have to respond with the names of those attending and any questions they wish to submit. BRFCS are one of those groups.

I’m definitely one of those that lost patience with Pedersen during the latter half of his spell here. I would agree entirely that his form dropped off massively and he was lucky to play as frequently as he did for a good couple of seasons. However, even at his worst he is far and away better than 99% of the dross we have had since, and as frustrating as I found him I don’t think his commitment to the club can be questioned. Accusing him of milking the club is incredibly unfair. Rather than blue and white tinted spectacles, I’d say it’s more a case of don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. That said, I don’t agree with all this “legend” stuff flying about, or calls for him to have a testimonial. Particularly when better servants to the club, who earned for less and actually qualified for one never got one.

Traditionally you’d get one for 10 years at a club, with the purpose being to give the player some financial reward when wages were a lot more modest. In this day and age, where Leon Best got far more money out of us than Simon Garner ever did, they tend to be charity events at higher levels. If a top flight player today fancied buying a pub he could just save up for a couple of weeks. Still a thing in lower leagues and different countries.

If we are going for a Pedersen 11, I think we should remember there is a left winger who actually qualified for a testimonial but never got one. Therefore I’d make it a joint venture. Pedersen 11 . Friedel Neill Samba Nelsen Warnock Bentley Savage Tugay Pedersen McCarthy Santa Cruz Subs: Robinson, Zurab, Emerton, Johansson, Gray, Mokoena, Reid, Thompson, Bentley, Roberts, Derbyshire Wilcox 11 . Flowers Kenna Hendry Moran Le Saux Ripley Cowans Atkins Wilcox Garner Shearer Subs: Mimms, Brown, Wright, Morrison, Pearce, Marker, Batty, Carsley, McKinlay, Skinner, Richardson, Sellars, Gallacher, Newell, Speedie, Baah, Hill, Dobson, Marcolin, Davidson Lots of subs required for the second team! Raise funds for the Len Johnrose trust. Bellamy used to pick on Pedersen. Berg would get an invite, but can’t see him coming!

Downing, by a mile. Nyambe is the only other player with a chance of being in the conversation if he plays regularly for the remainder of the season. If he’d have got any sort of look in for the first quarter of games instead of inexplicably playing second fiddle to Bennett it would be between him and Downing.