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Are you expecting or fearing racist chants? Is that what you are getting at? Because that's the only conclusion that can be drawn from you randomly mentioning Laurie Cunningham. If that is your concern, you're probably the only one thinking that might happen. To my knowledge, in all the years of anti Venky chants (not that they have happened often) there has never been racism involved. Their race has never been the issue. You don't need any of us to tell you that. Just remember who planted that particular seed before the media...about Rovers fans having a 'dark agenda' or whatever term that scumbag used.

In addition to that and even worse. There are some fans out there genuinely saying the following and using these points to protect said hierarchy: 1) The period 1990-2010 was a fantasy time for the fans, brought about by Uncle Jack's money. It wasn't real. 2) We didn't deserve the success we experienced during that time. We didn't deserve to be the most successful town Football Club. We got lucky because of money. 3) This now, under Venky's is actually normal and our real level, because it was like this in the 80's. I.e mid table, second tier, little money to spend. Venky's are actually doing a brilliant job propping us up by putting in £20m a year. 4) Nobody else will ever put in what Venky's put in. Nobody out there wants to buy the club. Without Venky's, the club is finished. 5) Rovers are like a charity case receiving charity from Venky's. I am grateful for everything Venky's put in. They don't have to give us a penny but they do and I'm glad they have kept us competitive in the Championship for all these years. 6) Ah, I know. I hate what happened in the early days. I really do. The blame and anger should go towards that agent and that manager at the time. Venky's were badly advised. 7) Our relegation from the Premier League was inevitable. We would have gone down anyway at some stage. None of the above are my thoughts and we've all probably seen/heard all of the above nonsense online or when out and about. Those points are from actual older Rovers fans that attend games, not plants, not Dingles. Actual fans that have seen it all. Unbelievable. Number 5 takes some beating, it really does. That is the definition of "head's gone" and you wonder what such people think football is about.

Not sure he'd want to work for these idiots. He has stated a couple of times, about how sad he is to see where Rovers are now. He'll know what the score is here. It's quite something that a few of our former players, including Nelsen, Bentley, Shearer, Sutton etc have all expressed similar sadness, yet absolute lemmings in our fanbase make excuses for Venky's because "it was like this in the 80s". IMO, a pathetic, seriously pathetic, mindset and approach to following a football club. Their mindset aligns with that of Venky's, Pasha, Waggott and the rest, which is why they defend them. Back to Duffer...I've always been of the view that we need to keep all of our former favourites from before 2010 far away from this shower. Nobody is ever likely to succeed under this disgraceful setup. Anybody that turns up here with any ambition is soon left to fend for themselves and it always ends the same way. It's why I never agree with the suggestions to bring Tugay in as DOF or as an ambassador. No, no, no. We have fantastic memories of most of our former players, back when the air was clean and the club was alive. Let's not ruin any of that by giving this lot a chance to mess them about. I still hate that Henning had to experience what he did here as manager. He'll always be remembered as a winner in a Rovers shirt, but I hate that these clowns had the opportunity to mess him about. If we were a normal club with normal owners, trying to go up, and Duff was a possibility, I would be buzzing about the idea. Imagine Tugay returning here under decent, new owners to work upstairs. That would be a massive move and feels like a dream right now. Under these shameless morons though? No. Never. Don't want that at all, personally.

Elliott Jackson gets a bit of stick, fairly at times, but credit has to go to him for managing to bring Chaddy back into the real world. One podcast is all it takes. Who knew? 'Leave it to the experts' @roversfan99

This Kimpioka link...sounds like an exotic sounding signing where some out of the box thinking may have happened...but look at his playing history and you see he is former Sunderland. There might be something in it, let's see. Remember a post I made the other day about possible targets being ex Boro, Sunderland, Birmingham, Coventry or Hibs? If true, this is unlikely to be a gem find by our recruitment team. It would signal the same old, same old, to me.

He's layering in the excuses ahead of the disappointment that is to come. At best, expect a couple of squad fillers to come in to add the "strength and depth" he mentions in the last paragraph. The sad thing is, many in the wider fanbase and across social media are going to fall for it and parrott the very words that he has put out in that statement, when we don't get the players we need. I can just see it now. Window goes as we expect it to and the reaction from some of the fans, based on that statement, will be along the lines of: Paragraph 1 - "They have to be the right fit ffs. We can't just buy anybody, they have to be the right character. Do you want bad apples spoiling the dressing room? I don't (moral high ground) and Eustace doesn't either. I trust Eustace (even though it wasn't his call). Player x is a t&£! anyway, I'm glad we didn't get him. Happy to wait until the summer where better deals will turn up. Be patient ffs". Paragraph 2 - "Injuries ruined all our plans. What don't you understand, ffs! How is Waggott/Gestede at fault? We were trying to sign attackers, but nobody could have foreseen the injury situation. Eustace told us we were looking at improving the attack, Waggott told us too, but a freak run of injuries stopped us from being able to make those signings. We had to address other areas. It's purely bad luck. Nobody is to blame". "Our budget couldn't stretch to all areas, you know? We aren't Man City. Do you want a centre mid or a striker? I'd rather see Leonard get a run of games and I'm pleased we have signed Robbie Mustoe as cover for Adam Forshaw". "On a positive note, Travis and Tronstad coming back soon along with Brittain and Batth will be like new signings. We will actually be finishing the season with a stronger squad. This squad won six in a row earlier this season, they could do that again. Why can't you be positive? We're only 6 points off the top 6. We'll bring in the quality we need in the summer window, just get behind the team". Paragraph 3 - "FFS, we weren't the only club looking for new signings you know. January is always a limited window. Other clubs with more money were competing with us for player x, y and z. What do you expect? We can't compete with them". "It's not the club's fault, it's FFP and parachute payments that have done us over again. We tried, but I'm happy with the honest bunch of players we already have. I don't want bad eggs to ruin the togetherness, tbh. Anyway, Gestede and the recruitment team will have more time to prepare for the summer window and I'm fine with that". Some have already started placing the whole blame and their focus towards our injury situation, forgetting what the real problem is here. Venky's out. Pasha out. Waggott out.

He offered his resignation last summer, before they pacified him with a few incomings. If they make a mess of this window and that is looking more and more likely, he's almost certainly gone in the summer. This is looking like the JDT scenario all over again. Only, Eustace is managing to keep his cool before the press and isn't calling anybody out. His words though, are saying what JDT was saying. He's telling us repeatedly that he, his staff and the players want quality additions to come in. If they don't, it's not down to him or his staff. Just like under JDT, it's another case of us vs them. 'Us' consisting of Eustace, his staff, the players and the fans. 'Them' being the shameless hierarchy. Only one party in this equation is interested in the club truly succeeding and kicking on. The reason for the division is ALL down to the hierarchy. A hierarchy that is never on the same page with their managers or the fans of the club. I think Eustace will now be starting to understand why many of us can't stand these owners and their lapdogs. Anybody out there that is still defending 'them' or sympathising with 'them' is truly lost. I've seen some even go as far as trying to blame Uncle Jack for Rovers fans being unhappy and for calling this crap out. I find that truly disgusting. Such people cannot call themselves Rovers fans, IMO. One of the worst examples, IMO, of lost fans was last season when sporadic "Venky's out" chants broke out and some in the Riverside turned in bafflement towards others and said "eh, what's that all about?" and "eh, where's that come from?". WTF do you think it's about? What have you been watching for the last 15 years? Anybody still asking those questions deserves everything they are seeing right now.

Suhail Pasha, former Kentaro, an associate of Anderson's, appears to have been a prominent figure here behind the scenes from day one of the takeover. His own words on his Linkedin were that he helped Venky's to purchase the club in 2010. It is known that Kentaro had a contract in place in the early days basically running the club on behalf of the owners and providing them with 'expertise and advice'. Why is a former Kentaro man sat in such an important role at Rovers 15 years on in 2025? A former biscuit man, who knows eff all about football. Why is he in this role? What advice can he offer to anybody on footballing matters? This is where the questions need to be directed, IMO. I will always respect JDT for saying it as it is. He said the following for a reason: 'Ask Suhail'.

Keep an eye out for the pattern over the next few days. Some of the rumoured targets are likely to be ex Boro, Sunderland, Birmingham, Coventry or Hibs. This pattern has been there for a while. It doesn't apply to every rumoured link, but it does show itself at least once every season. Those targets also tend to be linked with a couple of those clubs in the same piece of hack gossip/transfer 'news' as us. If anybody wants to check this out, go back over some of the players we have been linked with over the last 10 or so years and you'll likely notice it.

It's becoming clearer by the game to me as to why Todd Cantwell ended up signing for Venky's poisoned Rovers, with nobody else vying for his signature. Forget the ridiculous price tag back at that time for a minute, the Norwich version of Cantwell wouldn't have even glanced in this direction. Venky's and quality don't go hand in hand. An absolute embarrassment to football in this country and an embarrassment to football fans in India and to those of Indian descent around the world. F#ck off Balaji, same for you Jagdesh and you Pasha.

This shit is all too predictable. Asante was always scoring tonight. The injuries are piling up too. What a surprise. Another season is about to fall away. No blame on the manager or the players. Said it many times before, the club is cursed under these bastards and has been since November 2010. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be justice for all Rovers fans who have had to endure this charade.

An Italian striker from Juventus. Hahaha. Somebody tell Balaji that Ravanelli left Juventus in 1996, please. A lazy link to O'Brien and now a mention of Juventus in the wake of increasing fan unrest at the lack of transfer activity. They must think we were born yesterday.

I get the sentiment of 'wait and see' or that 'the better deals normally turn up at the end of the window'. That would be a reasonable outlook from supporters of any normally ran club. That kind of expectation/hope reasonably applies to most normal clubs. We are anything but normal under this lot though. Apart from Eustace, I have zero confidence in any of Owen, Gestede or this fabled recruitment team to come up with what we need. It's becoming clearer to me that John Park was the man we needed to be there to find us those bargains. His departure is a blow and speaks volumes about the joke setup. I am already at the point of 'let Eustace decide who he wants, stfu Pasha/Swag/Gestede/Owen, sit down, and let the manager bring his targets in'. Eustace is the only one I trust in this setup. Adam Owen, what effing pedigree does he have to be picking out players for Blackburn Rovers? He's lucky to be in this position, IMO. Same goes for Gestede, who is wet behind the ears and learning on the job. Then you have the absurd situation where Pasha is giving thumbs up or down on important footballing matters. He knows nothing about football so who is he getting his advice from? We're expecting this lot to come up with the goods? Really? It's not a surprise our windows have generally been a joke for ages. All of us fans, the club, the town, we all deserve better than this shit. Think back over the past two years on this forum...the very same points stated in my opening paragraph were being made by posters towards me and others here I.e 'just wait until the end of the window, be patient, the best deals are at the end of the window, we will bring in quality, I trust Broughton'. Chaddy was one of those people and he is saying the exact same again this afternoon and evening. Positivity? Delusion? Wishful thinking? Call it whatever you want, but some people never learn. The 'quality' that we were told to wait for contained the likes of Mola, Ennis, Telalovic, Hirst, Fleck, Wahlstedt. There were a couple of good 'uns in Hyam, Brittain fair enough, but we almost always end up with disappointment late on under this regime. Surely, people can understand why there is some anger/unrest about our current lack of transfer activity? We've seen this play out so many times before. The same set of chancers are still sat at the top. If this post is made to look stupid come the end of the window and they bring in some proper signings, I'll happily own up to that and give them credit. It's looking like more of the same now though, unless Eustace can keep the pressure on and get what he wants. He is the only professional in that upper corridor that I trust. The man wants to win, we are seeing it on the pitch and I seriously like that.

I like the look of Asante and think he could be the next 'main man' for us in the way that Armstrong and Sammie became. His numbers might not look impressive or his time at Coventry, but the eye test suggests to me that Asante is a player. He has looked dangerous whenever I have seen him, he's quick and he scored a cracker against us. Would bring something totally different to our frontline. I get the 'why is x club getting rid of him if he's that good' argument, but every club has those cases in their history, where they don't see what they have. Extreme examples, as Asante isn't anywhere near their levels, but Chelsea let Salah and De Bruyne leave once upon a time. Pep let Cole Palmer leave just recently. I just think Asante has that explosive look about his game based on watching him and it could click in a Rovers shirt. I'm not against it, but a side issue is that he is another former target which again questions what the recruitment team is doing.

On the Mowbray topic, Firstly, it's good to see him back in the game and hopefully well enough to take on another managerial role. I don't wish ill on the guy. However, let's not forget the role Mowbray played in further lowering expectations at this club in order to save his own back. "The owners wanted a double promotion. I had to calm them down and I told them we need to build gradually". Why? I also think some of his comments have had a profound impact on large parts of our fanbase. The effects of which are still being felt/heard today. Talk about going for promotion under JDT and even today, and you are met with "be realistic, ffp, parachute clubs" etc by a lot of our fans. Some of it based on reason, but a lot of it IMO, due to Mowbray saying "you need £100m in order to go up", him talking about "doing it the right way" and labelling Luton and such similar promotions as 'miracles'. Our fanbase has lapped this up in the main and has taken to blaming other Rovers fans for "being negative" and "spoilt" for not accepting any of the above. Then we have another scenario whereby, any fan/poster who calls out this hierarchy and its lack of ambition is met with "you're stuck in the 90s, we don't have Shearer and Sutton anymore" yada yada. This is happening across social media (not so much on here) and in the real world. Somebody please point me towards one Rovers fan that is unhappy with Venky's because they are not seeing a repeat of 1995. It's nothing but a false, cheap shot, IMO, fuelled by Mowbray's "it's not 1995 anymore" comment. A comment that was made to save his own skin. Did anybody hear barbs about 1995 from some of our own fans towards unhappy fans under Bowyer, Lambert, Coyle? I don't remember hearing such back then. This 1995 nonsense has taken hold since Mowbray said it, IMO. Let's not even get on to him likening Rovers to a small car and Sunderland a huge tanker as he was departing. Good that he is back in the game and ok health wise, but I would never want him back at Rovers.

Couldn't have put it any better, especially the bit in bold. 15 years of Venky abuse has led to many in our fanbase forgetting who they support. Phrases like "I'm a realist" and "this is our natural level" are nothing but coping mechanisms. We will be back as a club once all the poison has been flushed out.

Still hurts seeing it now. We had a quality Chelsea side on the ropes that day:

Looking at the names being linked, I can't help but wonder what the point is of the recruitment team that the club made a song and dance about putting together not so long back. It's looking like a bit of a facade to me and it seems like John Park might have had a similar feeling too. Jed Wallace. A player that Mowbray is said to have lined up to sign with the Rothwell sale money (neither ended up happening). If true, that's another former target we are revisiting. Where's the imagination? Where's the recruitment team? Brereton Diaz. Wasn't all that the first time round IMO, though better than what we have now. Fell off badly when we needed him most. Would be a lazy move by the club to just try for somebody they know as a former player. Again, where is the imagination? What is the point of the recruitment team? Brereton being better than what we currently have is true, but it feels to me like some are eager to rush him back as the alternative signings could be total shit. In that case, again, what is the point of the recruitment team? Also, the argument from some that Brereton would be better than signing an unknown pacey player suggests a lack of faith in recruitment to find what we need. Bamford. Another ageing, former Boro player. Hmm. Hello? Recruitment team? Anybody home?

Gestede has openly stated his pride at us being a "development club". Waggott has openly said in interviews with Andy Bayes/Neil Yardley that he doesn't want to "put the club at risk" by trying to spend big. That LT poster is no Blackburn Rovers fan.

For those who haven't seen it, here is the episode where the bastard discusses Rovers with Myles. Spoiler: contains tearjerking stories about what a difficult time it was for him and his family, Myles having mental health issues due to what the fans were saying etc. I don't have an issue with Myles. He seems an alright guy and it wasn't his fault he was signed up. That tosser though...

Baker leaves, so we need an experienced replacement. What do you know? Here comes Adam Forshaw. Former Boro. Wake up, folks (those that are still sleeping). Nothing has changed. Pasha knows eff all about players. He couldn't tell you who is and who isn't a good player in a month of Sundays. There are people that will happily advise him though. Get the lot of these pricks out. Promotion has never been on the agenda here. Forshaw? F")£ off.

Once upon a time:

Forget the tippy tappy stuff, get it out wide and crossed in: (The player Cole beats to the header? Sean Dyche 😀)

Top class from Andy Cole:

The only positive memory of Grabbi in a Rovers shirt: