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Ah! So the drainage specialist might be the one to blame. I had a feeling people were being harsh and unnecessarily blaming Suhail. It appears Suhail did all he could. He got a drainage specialist to look into it. Thanks, Alan.

This lot think they are smart and clever but they are actually thick and are exposing themselves. Let them carry on, it's only a matter of time. The truth always wins in the end and I think that's what we are seeing taking place now.

I'm glad. Really glad. It's embarrassing, but this kind of thing is needed to bring the spotlight on to the issues here. The bigger picture and aim is getting the club out of this lot's clutches. I hate the regime, not my club. Understand this, Rudy. This is a 15 year problem. You and Yasir are not the problem, for me. This isn't about either of you. This club does not recover nor succeed, until Pasha and Venky's have gone. The sporting media needs to ask a simple question tonight: "Why were Blackburn Rovers able to play in torrential rain at Ewood Park for many years during the Premier League era, without a problem, but now have to call games off?". Utterly embarrassing, but a fitting summary of this 15 year circus.

I wouldn't mind us signing Gardner-Hickman on a cheap deal. He has been better than I expected him to be. A decent player in the middle who works well alongside Tronstad. I'm probably in the minority on this, but I like the player and think he is more effective than Travis.

Yeah it was a bad 'un. I can understand why Carbone was so incensed by it. What a goal by Carbone, by the way. One of the best opposition goals seen at Ewood for sure. Just to add on the weather front...it is storm like wind and rain out there in Blackburn right now. I've just been drenched getting back home from town. If this carries on throughout the evening, I think the game is at risk of being called off.

I think tomorrow's the day we finally see out a 1-0 win, accompanied with frustration about why we couldn't do that in the previous two games. There's enough about our first 11 and recent performances to suggest things are going to pick up soon, IMO. A nostalgic look back on this fixture from 1997. 20 minute highlights:

He's more Bolton, I know. However, it's easy to forget a French world cup winner played for us for a short while too. Six minute highlights of this game:

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From an account called 'Peter of Preston'. Go figure. Almost certainly a WUM account and a supporter of the most boring club in England. A club more famous for a spud van sponsorship than actual football. As much as there are Venky sympathisers in our fanbase, I'm yet to see or hear any of them suggest they should have a statue outside Ewood. That's too far, even for them. The rest of that quote is along the lines of what the lost and the bots come out with quite often, though.

I wasn't aware that they were there last night but I know they attended the Burnley game at Ewood last season. The backstory, from what I hear is...a group of Zwolle ultras have formed a friendship with a group of Rovers fans who call themselves "Blackburn Youth". The latter have been over to Holland to watch Zwolle with their new Dutch pals and vice versa. It seems like the Zwolle fans might be picking the Burnley and Preston games to attend as they expect things to 'get tasty'. It's not like that in reality though, which is obviously a good thing. Below is footage from this linkup at Ewood last season, when the Zwolle fans were in the corner of the Riverside near the Darwen End. I can see why the police were wary last night:

Yeah, Sherwood was absolute gold on Sky tonight. He's rattled them big time with his comments. He wasn't wrong in anything he said either. My Captain! 😄

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A big hello to the lovely folk reading on from PNE Online. I hope you all had an enjoyable evening out at the football. A damp squib in your cup final, but at least you got to see some good football from the boys in gold. Will you be promoting any more of my posts on your Twitter account this evening? Let me know, John. We could all do with a laugh. Oh and just watch what happens when the bastards have left this club. It's only a matter of time. Regards, Super.

I think this has got a Rovers win written all over it tonight. We've been decent on the road and have got results at Leicester and Bristol City when most expected us to get battered. We were comfortable at Coventry for 60 odd minutes and were only undone by two long range goals. We have shown we can be organised and tough to break down away from home. I don't see why we can't be again tonight. This lot are getting carried away and are being lulled by our League position and after hearing about a couple of injuries. You'd think Dobbin is Benzema listening to them. They have better players than us all over the park, apparently. We'll see about that. Fancy us to do a job on them. Blackpool's rivals 1-2 Rovers.

The biggest game of PNE's season. So much excitement round their end ahead of this one. They're rushing to get their tickets bought. Fans flying in from America and Sweden, the spud vans are stocking up, the whole shebang. It's quite flattering. We're just a 'crap, insignificant, plastic club' though, apparently. Can somebody remind them about that? I like how many of them are getting overconfident with their predictions for this one. We know how that ends, usually. It will make it all the sweeter when we do a job on them and leave with the points. Nobbers need reminding as they always get away with themselves when it comes to Rovers. No matter how crap this shit regime has made things for the club over the last 15 years. This is still Blackburn Rovers. The name still carries weight. We are capable of beating anybody in this Division and we are coming for you.

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Welcome, The Dutch Couch. Pleased to see you here. I've been watching your channel for a while and enjoy the range of football topics you cover. Keep up the good work. Thanks for making this video on our situation. The more the football community brings the spotlight onto those who run clubs abysmally, the better, in my view. It's exactly as you have said in your video regarding this hideous ownership. They have dragged an established Premier League Club down, they have lowered the standards, they have killed fan expectation, they have shown no remorse and not made one attempt in the past 12 years to return Blackburn Rovers to the Premier League. Even to this very day, they are displaying that they have learnt nothing. You may be aware...that we finished 7th last season, only just missing out on the play offs. You'd think we'd be in a good position to kick on from that, bring in a few additions to strengthen that side and try to go up, right? Well, they have only gone and ok'd the dismantling of that side, which has seen a load of experience from that team leave the building and be replaced by cheap, foreign punts instead. Why would anybody take such a risk? All overseen by their chief yes man on the ground here, who has been a constant presence throughout the decline, making key decisions at the club when he has zero footballing background and knowledge. Mention him in the press though and you're out, just like Jon Dahl Tomasson did (he was too good for these bastards anyway, he could walk away though...we can't) They've got their latest mouthpiece now telling the local press that "we're in transition, it's going to take time, we need to build foundations to reach the Premier League" and that those who are being negative are just a small group of fans trying to cause division. Are they having a f£$king laugh or what? We've been waiting 13 years mate, 10,000 fans walked away in disgust at the way relegation occurred in 2012 and due to the people the owners had advising them. Fan protests were ignored despite on pitch events showing the world we were right to complain. We were made out to be the villains as a fanbase by the press and an attempt was made to paint us out as being racist by a scum element. Many more fans have walked away in the years since due to how the club is ran. As you have displayed, it is no surprise to proper football fans and football people as to why Rovers fans want these owners gone. Anything other than us wanting our club back and wanting to see people who care about it in charge of it, is nothing but agenda driven garbage. We had Tony Mowbray in 2018 tell us "we need to slowly build towards promotion and put the foundations in place first". We had a Director of Football, Gregg Broughton, tell us in 2022 that we "need to put foundations in place for promotion and that it takes time". We've now got Rudy Gestede saying the same in 2025! You couldn't make this shit up. I'm reminded of Thierry Henry's response when he was asked about Arteta building something at Arsenal, just a few weeks back on The Overlap. He said "Whoa whoa, hang on, that must be a pretty big building by now, it must be pretty big, right?". Same applies here. This 'building' lark is, IMO, claptrap to buy time and just like Thierry, just like yourself, me and a lot of Rovers fans on here...we see through the crap. It's arse covering for shit owners and managers in reality. We were supposed to be building in 2018 as per Mowbray, so why now in 2025 are we still needing to put foundations in place for promotion? It's a load of hogwash, in my view. It has been an awful last 15 years for many of us seeing this unfold at our club. We have watched our club become a shell of what it once was, an impostor. This is Blackburn Rovers in name only and has been for a long time. The likes of Rudy Gestede have no idea about the true Blackburn Rovers. He played here during the Venky shit show and thinks we are unhappy with the owners because we want to see a repeat of 1995 and want massive money being spent! He had the nerve to say being mid table in the Championship is "not that down", when a journalist asked him about how far down Blackburn had fallen under Venky's. From being mid table in the Premier League in 2010 to mid table in the Championship today and being a right state. All under Venky's watch and it's "not that down" apparently. Piss off. Talk about clueless. Talk about naive. These are the people running our club. You're spot on in saying that the heart and soul of the club has gone. We are hoping something can turn around, but we know deep down it is a forlorn hope under this lot...nothing is changing for the better until we are rid of Venky's and their minions. Sad to say though, there are plenty in the fanbase suffering from Stockholm Syndrome...who say nonsense like "where would we be without Venky's" (Ha, I'll let you answer that one) and "be grateful they pay the bills, it could be a lot worse, look at Bury, Wigan and Bolton". They have forgotten who they support and what this club was before Venky's. The club's identity has been lost. Just as you put it. Very sad to witness and hear. A change of ownership here would be massive for anybody who has any feeling for the club, for the whole town, for the surrounding local areas. We desperately need it as a club. We have been numb for a very long time as followers of this football club, with plenty putting on a brave face and trying to find positivity wherever they can. That positivity has never been rewarded, but I don't blame those fans for that. It's not their fault what has happened since 2010. Oh and just on Eustace...spot on again. You, as a neutral, can see that him leaving for relegation zone Derby speaks volumes as to the issues here. Unfortunately, said fans above have turned on Eustace for leaving, labelling him a 'snake' a 'greedy bastard' and more. They even took inflatable snakes to Derby to goad him and will be doing so again this season when Derby come to Ewood and we play them at their place. I don't like to say it, but for me, the game has gone for now at this club, mate. Acting like a development club and being happy to let players move on is not what football is about. The game is about winning. We should be doing everything possible to go up. This club and our fanbase sparks back into life the minute Venky's and their hangers on depart. I cannot wait for that day. Thanks, once again.

Glen, I recall there being an important point revealed at number two on the first letter. Could you please put that part on here too? I think it would be helpful to remind people. It mentioned there being a contract between Venky's and Crescendo Sports Ltd of Brunei, as well as the contract with Kentaro in point 1. Crescendo would also provide "consultancy services" on the takeover, not too dissimilar to Kentaro. There was a comment in there about the Venky's-Crescendo agreement coming to an end as soon as the takeover completed. However, there is nothing solid to say this agreement has ended in reality. I don't know if anybody has ever chased this up or if the Authorities ever had confirmation of the Crescendo agreement ending. I think this could be a key part in the whole sorry tale. To summarise, we are supposed to believe that: 1) Venky's-Kentaro fell out with one another, settled out of court and that arrangement subsequently came to an end. 2) The Venky's-Crescendo agreement came to an end as soon as the takeover was completed in November 2010. I am not so sure on both counts, but that's just my opinion. Kean leaves the club in 2012 and immediately heads for Brunei? Some coincidence, that. We could do with those two points being put to the shadow man for clarification. Now that's the kind of transparency I want to see from those at the club.

I think what the past month has shown me/us, is that Waggott was the last senior person in the building who could make a normal footballing decision. He brought in those experienced players for Eustace. He was the one trying to appease managers when the other knobhead had some other agenda or plan in mind. Waggott had his faults and was a part of the problem. I feel no sadness about his departure, but what he has left behind is far worse. This is more about the latter than it is the former. This lot are an absolute joke. If you wanted to buy relegation for yourself, this is how you would go about it.

An unrelated side note...Hickman shares the same agency as our manager, Val. A couple of agents within that agency have also represented a number of our former players over the last decade. Such as Alex Baptiste, Bennett, Dack, Graham and Ryan Giles. If he can perform anywhere near as well as any of those players, I'll be pleased.