Fantastic work from Glen and all involved. Now is the time to get Suhail Pasha into the spotlight. If any journalists are reading this thread...home in on Suhail Pasha, also known as Suhail Shaikh. A man who was heavily involved in Venky's acquisition of the club in 2010, who acted as a fixer between Venky's and the wretched Kentaro. A man whose working background involves pet food and juice. He has zero knowledge of English football and Blackburn Rovers. Why then, is he the Chief Operating Officer of one of English Football's most historic clubs? What right or footballing expertise does he have to be making strategic decisions at Blackburn Rovers? These are the questions that need answering for the fans.

31 year old. Will be cheap. Learning on the job. Biggest club he will have worked at. Exactly how this lot like it. Note the Barnet link too. A similar appointment a couple of years ago saw somebody come in as 'head of emerging talent' or some bullshit like that. He also had a previous role at Barnet.

I suspect this might be close to reality. One of their finance guys, it's either Gupta or Sreenivasa Rao, is based in London. I think that was the reason for the recent trips to London by the clueless duo when looking to hold talks with the prospective new manager. Gupta or Rao, sitting in a London office, with season ticket pricing being put in their laps wouldn't have a clue. No interest, care or knowledge of Rovers, our fanbase, or football in general. Similar to Pasha in that sense. It would just be a cold, out of touch decision, much like how the club has been ran for the last 15 years. At best, the finance guy would be given a heads up about making the Riverside cheaper as WATR, the fans forum and others have been on Waggott's case for years about having entry level season tickets in there. They then use the £50 reduction in the Riverside as the headline to make it look like they care about and have listened, to the fans. 'We've done all we can'. Some will be taken in by this headline and will blame fellow fans for not taking up the Riverside offer. The £50 increase in the more 'popular' stands and the prospect of futher increases after 'phase 1' shows us what the hierarchy is really about though. Don't mind us deliberately ignoring being in the top 6, driving away ambitious managers, not being arsed about keeping our better players, not being arsed about signing better players, not being arsed about promotion...but please do be a "part of the family and part of the story" by buying a season ticket. Piss off. They won't be getting a penny from me.

That's interesting because if it is SBI money that this is happening with, it brings a whole different perspective to the "but, but, they put in £20m a year" cries that we hear from those who try to protect them. It feels like this could be a bit like the Glazer situation at Utd to me, whereby they aren't putting in a penny of their own money. Difference being the Glazers are openly taking dividends out every year. Now that these lot have to provide a personal guarantee in order to send funds over, they suddenly don't fancy it. Hmm. Nobody should be feeling sorry for these bastards or feeling grateful towards them for keeping the lights on. They have wrecked a Premier League club. The car salesman has tried his best to win sympathy for them. The friends of Kentaro have tried their best to win sympathy for them. However, bullshit only lasts for so long before the truth starts showing itself. The tide is starting to turn with the fans.

Very interesting. I hadn't thought about the Owners and Directors Test coming in to play again should we go up. Imagine the shame (for them) before a global audience, if we were to go up and then the news was to break. That they had failed the Owners and Directors Test and as a consequence the Club was being taken off their hands. That's what I call spotlight. As for face... Such a scenario is something that couldn't be ignored by the press, even if Rovers aren't seen as big news for the Nationals. Currently, none of them are touching on these being under investigation. They would in the Prem, though.

Me and my dad couldn't go to Anfield, but we watched it on Sky at his mate's house. A rollercoaster game. Sutton's shot that didn't have enough power on it...off the line. Shearer blazing one over in front of the Kop. It could have been comfortable, but that's not the Rovers way. Those legendary words from Martin Tyler at full time have never left me: "Let me say it once again...Blackburn Rovers are the Champions!" I was young at the time and thought it was normal for us to have the best striker in the world 😁. Can still see the scenes from later that evening in Blackburn town centre. Church St through to Darwen Street was accessible by car back then. I remember waving my Rovers shirt through the sun roof as we drove up that road. There were plenty of fans left and right, on both sides of Church St, running up and down delirious, chanting, horns blaring, waving flags. "Champions, Champions, Champions". I was at the trophy presentation night too. Unreal. Queen - We are the Champions = Blackburn Rovers and Ewood Park for me. We've seen things they'll never see. Venky's Out!

There's absolutely no way that an Indian woman with no knowledge of or interest in football is demanding Rovers play "good football". I refuse to believe that. If we think back to what Andy Cole told us, about him hearing months in advance of the takeover, that an Indian Company was going to buy Rovers, sack Big Sam and give the job to the rat, it suggests that this bullshit was pre-planned and could be being stage managed by somebody else. Those words from Desai back then, IMO, served as a public justification for sacking Big Sam. "We want good football". Some may hear that and think "ah, fair enough", as Big Sam had a reputation for playing not so pretty football. Which, IMO, is the reaction the string pullers wanted. What does good football look like, Mrs Desai? Please do tell us. Don't look around, tell us in your own words. Not one of Desai, Venkatesh, Balaji, Jagdish or Suhail know what English football is about. Not one of them knows what good football looks like or the history and pedigree of Blackburn Rovers. Not one of them knows what Premier League football means for this club, the town and everybody connected. This has been a shambles from the start. Anybody defending this or making excuses for the last 15 years has been taken for a ride. Now, they expect people to believe that another 'project' will be underway in the summer. They expect people to believe that they want "good football" from Ismael, a manager who is known to play the opposite of "good football". I would laugh, but this is no laughing matter. If they truly wanted "good football" they would have realised that they had the best man for it at their disposal. JDT. The man told their stooge he could win them promotion. Why would you let him leave? Why would you not back him, if you truly wanted "good football" and promotion? It's because this "project" and "good football" spiel is utter bollocks. A time buying exercise, where somebody is hoping we can stay in the Championship for a few more seasons. Ismael might genuinely think he can achieve something, but most of us can see another Coyle situation unfolding. It needs promotion to the Prem, despite these tossers, to end this charade once and for all. The Premier League spotlight will force them out. The galling thing is, they have appointed a manager and have created an environment where relegation to L1 next season looks the more likely to occur. An absolute shitshow. They are taking the piss. "Where would we be without Venky's". That question to me, is like a red rag to a bull. How any Rovers fan over the age of 25 can utter those words...f£&king ridiculous.

It was either on this forum or elsewhere that I saw it...but a poster with contacts close to the club shared that four consortiums have tried to make an offer to buy Rovers within the last 18 months. Two of those are American consortiums, one from the Middle East and one UK based. All have been turned away. Somebody on the EFL 72 podcast revealed that he knows somebody who tried to make an enquiry to buy Rovers two months ago but was turned down. If those two pieces of info above are to be believed, that's FIVE different parties that want to buy the club. "But who else will buy us?". Said by people who, IMO, have a low opinion of the club and who apply our (generally speaking) working class lives, outlooks and normal daily business rules to the world of football. £20m is astronomical to most 'normal' people, but those seriously looking at buying football clubs are in a different world financially. Look at this lot in Pune not blinking at putting in that much for a decade plus, until the Court in India started asking questions. These aren't the last wealthy people on the planet. Everybody else around us and in the Leagues below can find new owners, yet Rovers, with more pedigree than many, can't find better than this? Give over. Those are the words of the defeated and the lost. When we have new owners, these same people will be rejoicing and saying "I always knew Venky's had to go". Right now, they are playing the safety game and trying be the 'wise' fan. "I dislike Venky's but...". Jonty, being one of many of that school of thought. In any case, new owners wouldn't be intent on covering £20m per season for long. They will have a plan to bring that figure down and then a plan to best eliminate those losses and turn the whole thing on its head. Something that terrifies this hierarchy. Promotion to the Premier League. Just because these tossers have tried to find a comfort zone in this Division, in order to avoid the spotlight and expectation in the League above, it does not mean other owners will behave in the same way and that this is now 'our level'. There was a podcast recently where one of these 'experts' was saying that the Americans want to have a heavy presence in the Premier League in regards club ownership. The American guy Foley, as an example, has gone into Bournemouth and done an excellent job so far. We are, technically, one step away from the Prem and with our history in that League, I can see us being appealing to potential American investors. Getting these bastards out is the issue though. Them leaving Rovers will be like poison leaving the body. We will be back as a club under new owners. It's just, that change needs to happen ASAP, for all of us. This bullshit has gone on for long enough.

No surprise. We're gutted Kean didn't out to be a "wee gem", Alan. Oh and we're still gutted that we didn't get that £50m 'warchest'. Ah well. I'm sure you can understand us being toxic, what with us being so excited back then? Rat. Was pro Kean from day one and is always first in to defend the owners. I wonder if he sees United, Newcastle, Everton and West Ham fans as being "toxic" too for wanting their owners out. All these tossers praising Venky's would make a sharp u-turn if faced with the prospect of Venky's owning the clubs they support. Honeyman, how about swapping Gibson for Venky's? No? Doesn't sound so appealing now, does it? Fantastic, loyal owners though that the ungrateful Blackburn fans should respect and cherish. Piss off.

Couldn't have made a more dull, uninspiring, emotionless appointment if they tried. Not the right fit and not good enough. He has finished off any play off hopes. The clowns tried to dispel Eustace's claims of there being no long term plan, by giving this guy a three and a half year deal. Nice try. It's going to backfire on them this time. It already is doing, as more are turning their sights towards the hapless duo, the worse that results get. Either Ismael walks at some point, which will lead to more questions and scrutiny from the outside, as that would be three consecutive managers to have had enough. Or, results continue as they are and fans start to unite against the enemy when we are towards the bottom three next season. Well done on appointing, Ismael. This one might just be the catalyst for us fans.

The fact is, this club is too big for the likes of Venky's, Waggott, Pasha and Gestede to handle. Which is why they have spent years trying to bring it down to their level. Even now, in this state, it is too much for them to handle. Yet those of us who call this crap out are the bad guys. Piss off. Some of us have never lowered our standards for this club and never will. Meet them or piss off. This is elite football where the aim is to do the best you can. If you don't know what you are doing or if you don't want to spend, that's not our fault. Again, piss off and sell the club. You are not doing us a favour by being here. If any of the hierarchy has been taken by surprise by some of the fan anger and discontent today and over recent weeks, then it shows just how out of touch and out of their depths they all really are. Small minded, small time operators sat incharge of a big club and driving it backwards. A travesty of a situation. This lot see the attendances and fool themselves into thinking they are at a small club. The attendances are as they are for a reason. Take a look in the mirror and at your bosses. Suhail Pasha wouldn't know what a big club looked like if it smacked him in the face. He has been sat inside one for all these years, but doesn't know it. What he could tell me or anybody else about football wouldn't even fill a postage stamp. Rival fans baffled at why some of us want Ismael out already. He's in above his head. He looks shocked for a reason. Just like the idiots above him, he thought this was a small club where there's no pressure. He's now realised that's not the case and that the fans will speak up and let you know. We just need the majority to turn now. Not necessarily against the manager, but against the real culprits. It has been a long time coming. A few more bad results should see this grow naturally.

This club has been poisoned, tainted and cursed ever since November 2010. Look at some of the rotten individuals that have walked through the doors over the last 15 years. Like attracts like. Our wonderful club, hijacked by utter losers and pretenders. £200m down the drain to turn a Premier League club into this. 15 years of this garbage. No other fans in the country know what this feels like. There has been no other situation like this in English football, where careless owners have remained for this long without any aim. These bastards are under investigation in India, but not one British press source is touching it. No mention of it. Why the f£@k not!? We have been watching and following a shell of a club for years, enduring all kinds of pain, embarrassment and humiliation, hoping that maybe, just maybe, the real Rovers, OUR Rovers might return. But no, the club is dead for as long as these tossers remain in situ. There is no chance for us to recover until new owners and Directors are in place. Ismael is a dud and needs to go, but he isn't the main issue. The players are a joke for losing their heads completely. All the talk from Travis and Co means nothing. Just look at the results and performances. That's all we need to do. This rabble is taking us down next season. The minute this lot sell up, is the moment I will start caring again. They can f&£k off and lay on the buffet of sabotage for the gullible year after year. That's not for me, nor I suspect the majority of this forum. We aren't going to stay quiet though. Somebody out there needs to step forward and publicly state their interest in buying the club.

He's just a greedy b*stard that Stoddart. He was only ever in it for himself, he's not a Rovers fan. (*That's me joking by the way, for anybody who thinks I'm being serious)

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I think you're right. That's the only way the majority will turn. If results take a serious nosedive. The fact there were a couple of banners tonight aimed in the right direction is a good start. No surprise to hear that they were taken down, but they were seen and will have got to certain people in the Director's Box. Good.

If people take a look at RoverCanada's latest post in the 'Under The Cosh Podcast' thread, that should give everybody a clue as to what to expect here. They stopped Mowbray from picking Bennett to avoid triggering a contract extension. Just like they did with Salgado, Roberts et al from day one. They tried to shaft Bennett into accepting a 50% pay cut and spread it out over two years, meaning they got two seasons out of him for the price of one. He effectively told them to get stuffed. That's the kind of thing these wasters see as 'wins'. Wage savings, cuts wherever they can make them. Stuff the football. If the players don't accept the derisory or lowball offers, then no problem. Friendly journos are on hand to tell everyone that the players were being unreasonable, too demanding, the club did everything they could, the players wanted to move down South, closer to home, to spend more time with pets, kids and whatever else. Never the club's fault though, remember. Every year we have people who fall for it and it will happen again. Whether these players are any good or not is a different debate, but watch how very soon the narrative from those sleeping in our fanbase becomes Brittain, Hyam, Dolan, Tronstad etc being snakes and 'ungrateful' because they didn't sign new deals. The wider fanbase needs to cotton on to what's going on pretty damn quick. This place is on the money and sees through the bullshit. If only large sections of the Ewood crowd could realise what is happening.

F£ck off Anderson, Kean, Crescendo, Kentaro, HSH, Waggott and Pasha. Venky's Out.

We would have been better off asking a random French man walking the streets of London if he fancied managing Rovers for 5 months instead of Ismael. This manager looks a complete dud and at this rate, will be taking us down next season. Usually, you see glimmers of something from a manager, a plan or something to be hopeful about. There's nothing here. In a way, I feel sorry for him. He has obviously come here hoping to do well, but has walked into a sea of scum who are not interested in the success of the football club. Ismael won't hang around for long, regardless of the three year deal, and despite not being much cop as a manager, he'll be another who was onto a loser from day one due to the enemy that is occupying the club. Nobody can succeed here until the whole place is cleansed. Whatever went on with Crescendo and the rest of the bastards involved at the outset of the takeover, has led to a curse hitting this club. Bollocks to the lot of them. Their time is coming.

Chants of "Ismael, sort it out, Ismael Ismael sort it out" from the Rovers fans. Exactly as Matty said would happen this afternoon. It's a start, but we all need to get after the real enemy.

"Is somebody going to tell these players they are 1-0 down?" Andy Bayes on Radio Lancs just a few minutes ago. The players' heads have gone. They've given up. Unacceptable, but this is all on the scum above who derailed another season and have driven the hope out of everybody connected in one foul swoop. Scum only interested in wage saving and getting pats on the back. Football isn't for you bastards. I'll tell you a way of saving money for free. You don't need Kentaro and their puppets to tell you this. Sell up and f£ck off.

Absolute crap. Hyam again. Looks a mess without Batth. A defender that needs guiding through a game is not a Blackburn Rovers centre back.

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Exactly how I feel. Under Eustace this season we could see a plan on the pitch. Be rigid, keep it tight, nick a goal. It didn't always come off, but it was going well enough. The general feeling was if we could get Tronstad back fit and add a couple of decent signings in January, maybe Eustace and the team could get that top 6 place by grinding out a few more wins. It was possible and it was on, despite the bastards above. Instead, they mess Eustace about, as they did with JDT, rendering him desperate to leave and the whole thing starts to fall apart. Feels very flat right now. They couldn't have picked a more dull and dreary manager. It's not just about his interviews, what he is showing us on the field is shit. That's the main issue. He looks totally the wrong fit and I have no confidence he will lead us to a top 6 finish in the games remaining.

This shirt was worn by Rovers in both the 2000/01 and the 2001/02 seasons. As other posters have mentioned, there is definitely a "Grabbi Ciccio" signature visible, which means the shirt is from the 2001/02 season. At the bottom right is Stig Inge Bjornebye's signature. Two spots above him is Alan Miller, the goal keeper. To the left of Alan Miller, the "H.B" is Henning Berg. I think the one next to Berg is Yordi, the Spanish striker we had on loan. Full name Yordi Gonzalez. Underneath the Time logo is Tony Parkes and it looks like Matt Jansen next to him. The one above "Ciccio", that looks like B.B.M, could be Marcus Bent or Marlon Broomes. To the right of that looks like Friedel. Above them and second from the top is John Curtis. It's difficult to make out the rest.

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