2 hours ago, Mercer said:

 

The name I was given had a wealth of experience from Academy through to 1st team and is widely respected and still employed in a football capacity.  I think we probably baulked at the cost of that experience / quality.

Now we have a DoF, care to name the one you were given or is it top secret 😉

19 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Yep. I’ve really tried to hold my tongue but this is now appearing farcical at best. We knew he was leaving for a while, yet we’re ‘hoping’ to speak to candidates for a second interview four weeks in. Jesus wept. We will NEVER advance as a club under this lot.

Shhh don't tell Rev as we were all gutter life protesting against these wonderful owners.

43 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

I have no confidence it will ever be right until they buggar off. 

Will people continue to suck on the teet? Absolutely!!!

Being a board member at Ewood is the easiest cash they will ever get, sit there collect a wage and be the face of nothing

 

Any owners with an ounce of sense would reflect on what went wrong, take clubs the structure back to way it was when it was bought, even use John Williams, Tom Finn ect (if willing) as advisers to recruit the write people they can trust.

I know it won't happen as common sense and the Venkys aren't good bed buddy's.

57 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Was Farke ever ‘here’?
Re - Carvalhal, it seems he is waiting on us to go through the rest of our list, but that is hardly going to help persuade him to join.

That is the problem with doing it this way.

It’s going to annoy the better candidates on the list.

This is what happens when you're own by wankers and employ wankers 🤮

8 minutes ago, 1864roverite said:

if you are serious about a lack of planning going on behind the scenes you really haven’t got a clue 

Can you honestly say that since the V's  rocked up any serious planning for the betterment of the club has gone on 🤮

13 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

The rumour and guesswork is all fine, its to be expected.

But it’s bad enough with the one prolific poster on here who always posts what he wants to happen as factual occurrences. Surely we don’t  need anyone else getting involved in that nonsense.

I wonder who you mean C😂

An old friend Seamus(Sham)Heffernan who was part of the original 4000 holes, applied for the rovers job in the late 70s and in his CV as a qualification for the job was he went to a Stuart Metcalf party.

So based on this I would think it's more than 60 applications😂

Bang on blue_n_white99 I don't trust Venkys to get one appointment right nevermind two.

Found this about him.

We can't half pick em 🥴

https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/interim-highland-council-education-boss-to-leave-role-207985/span widget

22 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

remember when they used to announce the attendance  and it was obvious that it was far higher than what was stated,sure bill fox used to fiddle the official number to hoodwink the tax office😃

He did what ever was needed because he and the board love the club just as much as the rest of us, not like is shower off shit!

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

remit of the club's strategy going forward. 

 Remit strategy Venkys 😂😂😂😂

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

From the January window , I drew that it was not one that you would expect from a Club with any genuine aspirations of promotion.

Far from it.

However IF they made an impressive appointment like Farke or Dyche and funded him properly I wouldn't draw any adverse conclusion from that. I'd be more inclined to think they'd learned from their mistake in January.

If however they give Mowbray a new deal or make a really disappointing appointment in the Woodgate ilk I'd be more inclined to start coming round to your point of view that we will never prosper under there ownership despite what might be promised to the contrary.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating at the end of the day.

"I'd be more inclined to start coming round to your point of view that we will never prosper under there ownership despite what might be promised to the contrary.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating at the end of the day"

F#@#ing hell Rev we've been served this shitty pudding and promises since 2010, how've you managed to breathe with your head in the sand this long.

This will keep going on until there's nothing left to salvage!!!

2 hours ago, glen9mullan said:

 

Sadly, like many before I fully expect disappointment as they only thing that has really changed is different people sat in the chairs.

On this basis the Venkys must have full knowledge and approve this, so the question is why?

High pressing, organized, great counter attacking and a manager that seems interested again, what's not to like.

6 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

His exact words were along the lines of "I want to make sure the Club's all right when I'm gone".

Once he had gone the Trust's Solicitor Paul Egerton Vernon announced in the LT that there was no specific pot for the Club but that it was hoped the profits from the other Companies would sustain Rovers. Whether this was Jack's actual intention who knows, but to play devil's advocate the amounts needed to remain competitive at the top end of the Premier League were rising all the time and the family had either no interest in football, or a passing interest but weren't willing to risk the family silver on the Club.

I know several of the family to say hello to and I would say they are exceptionally nice people in a social capacity. As owners however the last straw for me was when they announced they were withdrawing funding from the Club and then one of Jack's other Companies Fly Be subsequently appeared as sponsors on the front of Birmingham City's shirts.

As Rovers needed a net influx of funds of c £2m - £3m p.a. at the time and Fly Be presumably flew a large number of flights from East Midlands Airport I suppose the moves were sensible in a strictly commercial sense.

I bet Jack was spinning in his grave at that point though.

Ross owned FlyBe at the time and took umbrage at having to go to the trustees and for money for another business yet rovers had just spent 8 million on Andy Cole. Maybe (only my opinion) this was his way of sticking 2 fingers up to the club that he had no interest in.

18 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Hes basically trying to turn fans on fans. Like a certain kean did 

Exactly what I thought, deflection technic to shift the blame from a still completely disfunctional club onto the fans, and that blame falls at the Venkys  door every time.

I had a conversation with a friend who has a family member at the club. The jist of it was mowbary always goes on about " I could be at home with my family" when things get to him and he can't cope with criticism. On a Xmas night out with all the players, instead of engaging with them he sat on his own watching some lower tier Scottish game!

As a side note, in training players say Gallagher is frightening when running with the ball at players but can't control balls fizzed into feet, not that I needed telling that.🤪

3 hours ago, rigger said:

It's time for a good manager with fresh ideas.

I'd settle for just a good manager with Venkys track record

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56664180

Where are Britain's loneliest places in lockdown?

1 Blackburn

2 Middlesbrough

What an ironic coincidence

14 minutes ago, Roverall said:

response@venkys.com

Thanks, just messaged them

https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhail-shaikh-a626b210?originalSubdomain=uk

Suhail Shaikh3rd

O&M Consultant & Board Member at Blackburn Rovers Football Club

Bharti Vidyapeeth, College of Engineering and TechnologyBlackburn Rovers Football Club

Greater Blackburn with Darwen

 

I've found this on LinkedIn and asked to be connected maybe if others could do the same and we my find a way to get the message across via Venkys adviser

I don't think any fans have the Venkys ear (hope they do) so the only people they listed to are part of the coventrio sadly, again not fit to own the club!

6 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Depends what you're after.

If you want 10,000 people with pitchforks and torches causing mayhem outside Ewood Park it probably isn't going to happen.

If you want some of us to completely destroy the footballing arguments in favour of this proposed scheme I think that can be done.

Sorry rev but if fans couldn't see or have the appitite to have their voices heard even when it was and still is obvious that the Venkys aren't fit be be owners then the numbers objecting to Brockhall will be nominal.

As for pitchforks and torches not the people I know, just wanted our club back, but that horses has bolted.

30 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I don't think it will.

(Without a scene that is)

If it's anything like Venkys out which should have been supported by all Rovers fans then it will be without a scene bar the residents at Brockhall unfortunately