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Does this look like the act of billionaires to you, folks?

This is step one, of the end of Venky's horrendous reign at Blackburn Rovers.

Well done, Suhail and Steve. Bravo.

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All time top division points won. For anybody that says little old Burnley this one puts them right. https://www.myfootballfacts.com/england_footy/football-league/all-time_top_flight_points_table/ Here’s the top 30. IMG_3460.jpeg Good work, Trevor and all. The evidence backs up what I have been say...

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From our point of view it's brilliant. However, it's a bit sad when looking at it from a general football point of view, that the six time FA Cup winners, the 10th most successful club in England and a founding member of the Football League and the Premier League has never played at the new Wembley....

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From that list, it would have to be Harwood-Bellis for me. A class defender. I know he's not on the list, fidel, but if it was an all time thing, there's only one player for me. A legend of the Premier League. I couldn't believe it when he signed for the Clarets. That hat-trick at QPR. Oh yes. "Andy...

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Same, Terrier. Not despondent. Nobody in the wider world gives a toss about the Championship title, to be honest. Winning promotion is what matters at the end of the day. 100 points and missing out on goal difference is some effort. Imagine how the Sheffield public is feeling tonight. They have been...

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Has anyone the heart to tell Hutchy that even if it did play out that way, that they’d still have three more games to play, which they’d inevitably lose? True that they would still have three to play. However them getting into the play offs in that manner, despite all the upheaval there, the points...

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From Twittler ... Screenshot_20250428_170129_Chrome.jpg I like it, but there's always another way of looking at things, Bosscat. Imagine if: Burnley beat Millwall PNE draw against or beat Bristol City Blackburn beat Sheffield United. It would be clear as day and never to be lived down by either set...

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Anomaly or not, ""But so has every other club to have won anything" You are using pedantry to cling on to the view that Blackburn bought their title. Conveniently ignoring all the other examples that go against the Leicester argument. Everton spent the most in 1994/95 and won the FA Cup. Did they '...

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"But so has every other club to have won anything" No more questions your honour! The anomaly does not alter the point I was making. What do you think the intention of the Leicester ownership was at the start of the 2015/16 season? They had just avoided relegation months before, don't forget. No wa...

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Were Leicester the biggest spenders when they won the league in 2016? Has that ever that happened before or since? They were an anomaly. Imagine for a second FFP no longer exists and Pace wakes up tomorrow genuinely thinking 'I want to win the Premier League'. How do you think he goes about achievi...

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Not quite, I'd say. The two seasons where they spent the most I.e 1992/93 and 1993/94, did they win the League in either of those seasons? No. The club that spent the most in the 1994/95 season was Everton, not Blackburn. Everton won the FA Cup that year in 1995. That is Everton's last trophy win to...

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So how's the mood in Blackburn? Are the protests still on or has a sniff of the play offs suddenly seen you sell out your allocation next week? And what if you somehow get to Wembley? Would be weird seeing one half of the ground empty while a couple of dozen simpletons stand outside Ewood with poor...

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Well that was an apology wrapped in an attack with a serious dose of condescension. Why did you even bother apologising when you then went on to repeat the same old bullshite? He wants Venkys out but realises that that is a major difficulty given the debt Rovers owe to them. And do you think he is ...

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There is no dilemma. Let's have Blackburn back in the Premier League alongside the Clarets. Imagine, Burnley v Blackburn as a Premier League fixture. That would bring plenty of spice for the neutrals. Just think how much happiness there would be around East Lancashire if both made it up. I'm all for...

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They have had some big names linked with them over the years. Going back to Stapleton, Ardiles, Lineker, Hughes, Zidane, Dugarry, Salgado and more recently Lewandowski, Maradona, Ronaldinho, Beckham and Jon Dahl Tomasson. With that in mind, Rooney to Blackburn makes sense on paper. The shame for the...

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What are you talking about. How can you even begin to know what others think or feel? How arrogant. Just because he is a Rovers fan you assume he is making some false statement? He is a great guy who loves football with a passion and just because he is a Rover you make accusations like that. He act...

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You need to stop reading the lies Glen Mullan (and his dossier) spouts and believing them. He is a fantasist and a liar who had you all hyping him up as a saviour. You talk about people wanting to buy the club, they only offer put forward was the group with people like Wayne Wild in and the offer w...

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If you are actually and genuinely putting yourself in a group with Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton (never been out of the top flight) you are either a terrible troll or are genuinely very unwell. You can not be being serious? You are finished, and the mere fact of the Venkys leavi...

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And there we have it...the central plank of the entire entitled debate. ""We should be given massive subsidies because our owners are rich"" Over £6k spunked for every STH and still they squeal for more like four thousand Oliver Twists. Have some class and dignity ffs. I don't know which world you ...

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According to my Rover son-in-law he has heard that they actually want promotion badly in order to sell the club as a PL outfit, which makes sense I suppose. This nonsense about not wanting promotion is a fallacy made up by the moaners (of which there are many). He has actually said to me yesterday ...

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Morning Hutchy. Can you lend me £3million, please? After all, it’s not a stupid level of money I’m asking you for, is it? I’ll probably be able to pay you back at some point. How about if I told you that, 20-odd years ago, some other mug gave me £300m, no questions asked? That surely means I’m enti...

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Are we just going to pretend you didn' p*** your parachute money on the likes on Leon Best, Danny Murphy and Dixon Etuhu, all for substantial fees/wages? Not to mention the record signing of Rhodes during the same window for c£8m. I'm pretty sure that can be classed as an attempt to go back up. On ...

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Let us just assume for a minute that your hare-brained theory that the owners do not want promotion - with the Premier League riches for one season - makes sense, why sabotage a play-off place? A home semi-final gives them a great opportunity to fleece you suckers more, plus possibly a lucrative We...

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 'a prized piece that is recognised worldwide and missed' This has got to be the funniest thing written anywhere, ever since humans learnt to communicate. I don't even know where to start with this one. I used to think hut...

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Do you actually believe that a club in 6th place can guarantee promotion by spending an extra £3m-£4m? Does that apply to the teams in all the top 6 places - if they all spend £3m-£4m, they will all go up? If Venky's pushed their annual giving from £20m to £24m, it would guarantee nothing, and it w...

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Venkys holding Rovers back ? From what ? Since the end of the second world war until Walker's money Rovers have spent 10 seasons in the top division, THIRTY in the second tier and 5 in the third tier. The season before Walker bought the club Rovers finished 19th in the second tier. Venky's are keep...

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And there we have it: the only issue at Blackburn is your expectations. Almost twenty years they spent as a Premier League club. Firmly established as such when Venky's bought the club in November 2010. Why is it wrong for their fans to have Premier League football as an expectation based on the ab...

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Please tell me this is true. I really hope it is true. This is the kind of situation where the Authorities and the player's unions step in to ask wtf is going on. This could be the beginning of the end for Venky's, if true. In any sport you always want a fair match up and at present, Burnley will b...

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Every championship has been in the PL and are struggling to get back Add Oldham Bradford Charlton Barnsley Bury Bolton And many other clubs You are a rovers fan and you are acting extremely entitled Some fan bases are just better equipped at dealing with the lows Rovers are nowhere near suffering a...

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True or not, why are you telling us though? Are you expecting sympathy? No sympathy. Just providing context as to why they are in such a mess and why those owners are a disgrace. It is not something to particularly take delight in, IMO. Owners taking the **** and destroying a club is not funny. Of ...

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That doesn't answer my question. Why give ambitious, talented managers a go when they could just appoint the youth team coach or the next Steve Kean? Your problem is you will never believe the manager has been adequately backed because you have a totally unrealistic view of where your club is and s...

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Has it occurred to you that the owners may have set limits on the amount they're now prepared to spunk on this rotting hulk? That maybe £230m on a club with 3,700 adult STH's may be enough to flush down the bog? This is where your original question comes into play, fb. Why would you limit spending ...

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If the owners are so desperate to avoid promotion, how come they're always in the top 6 at Christmas in the first place? Surely they'd just stop appointing good managers or signing/developing good players and aim for 19th like last season. I'll answer that, but just consider the following first, Mi...

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Bturds forum is comedy gold. There's one joker on there saying no fanbase anywhere has had to put with or been through a worse situation than what they currently are ... Erm, I think we did you fckn spoilt brat and many more have been through it. 'We've gone from English champions in the early 90s ...

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Is it realistic to suspect any club would sabotage their own promotion?.. I know plenty of the bestial 4,000 keep bleating this idea but under what scenario could this possibly be the case? Free money plus the chance to recoup most of their £230m before getting the whole sh1tshow off their backs?. ...

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They weren't far off being a top 6 side this year, weirdly just gave up again once they looked top 6, almost like the board don't want the risk of going up Three consecutive times this has happened, not just this season. Happened under Mowbray in his final season, JDT and Eustace where they were sa...

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To misquote an ex- Burnley manager, It’s Blackburn not Barcelona. He managed Watford with a much stronger recent history of being in the Premier league than Blackburn. Watford have been in the Prem a few times these past 10 years, but let's be honest, they aren't a patch on Blackburn. The size of t...

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He is a crap appointment, so I understand those posts. They were in 5th place when Eustace left. Perfectly placed to bring in a serious manager with the brief being promotion. They could have tempted a few with a £1m promotion bonus for effectively six months work. This kind of job doesn't come up v...

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From a family friend of Mr Eustace I heard that he wanted to stay at Rovers and push on for promotion from the play offs. In his time there, despite asking for a meeting with the directors he never met them. The main reason he left was when he asked for money and commitment if they went up the mess...

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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:26 pm
Think your right there, Sid.
It's become tedious.

No worries, Buxton. I only came on to reply to a couple of posts. I'll leave it there, as we are only going to go round in circles.

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blatherwickstattoos wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:17 pm
Have a day off. It’s getting boring now.

Posters are quoting me and asking questions. You can understand that I might respond to a few.

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what if one of these consortiums buys the club and run it as a business to make money (not all millionaires/billionaires are willing to throw their wealth away) and do enough to keep the lights and on make a profit but nothing more, Roverrrs become a team that bounce around the championship/league ...

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If that is the case then bad ownership of a championship club must be not covering losses. It could be worse for you Iif this was the case. I also think your extremely thick. While trying to make out Venkys are the worst basket case out there, you've then gone on to admit that all championship club...

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They finished 10th in the Premier League ther season before Venky's took over, and were in a much better position than we are in now. Exactly this, Dave. They were on the verge of signing Robert Lewandowski and had Christian Vieri in for a trial the season before Venky's bought the club. They had p...

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Give it a rest. You were nobodies before uncle Jack came along and you’re back to being nobodies now. Man Utd failed to win a League title for 26 years from 1967-1993. They are now 12 years without a title. Are they back at their 'natural level' now? Did they just get 'lucky' with Fergie? Chelsea w...

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You really are quite thick for somebody who must be such a high flyer in the world of commercial finance knowing all about these takeovers unless, of course you work in one their fast food outlets and someone asks for a bargain bucket and scraps you assume they are making an offer for t'ruwvers? Ca...

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There really aren't....that's just a bit of wishfull thinking. There are maybe a handful of no-marks who'd like to buy the club for next to nothing and you'll always find someone organising a circle jerk around the whole fan ownership type deal...but it's really not going to happen. The fantasy ent...

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This idea that there is a line of wealthy oligarchs lining up to take over a crumbling tin pot club is the part that I do enjoy. Venky’s have turned so many offers down, yet not one person has come forward to state that they have made an offer and have proven funds to plug the black hole. 😂 Four co...

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I tell you what, i wish someone had been putting in 10m a year for the last 15 years at Burnley. Not a chance, Steve. There's no way you or anybody else here would swap the last 15 years that Burnley have experienced for the last 15 years Blackburn have had. Regardless of Venky's putting in £10m-15...

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fidelcastro wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:52 pm
As a die hard Claret, I'm sure you'll be hoping they never do, right?

Of course, because I know as soon as Venky's leave it spells trouble for the rest of us. Despite the animosity and rivalry, it is true that their club has been poisoned and held back for the last 15 years.

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