Venky's are a disgrace

[Conroy92]

If Venky's are such fantastic and generous owners...how many of you would genuinely have them as owners of the Clarets?

Something tells me the India flags would be nowhere to be seen in the face of such a scenario.

Finally the mask has slipped.

[ksrclaret]

Always entertaining when a horse botherer infiltrates the message board.

The 'stards really ought to be grateful to the Venky's for keeping the stable doors open.

Long live the Venky's and their ultra-processed slop.

[Stonehouse]

Hutchy why do you bore us with the bombardment about “ they” when it’s all you really mean is “us”and your morbid attempt to be a Burnley fan,just **** off back to your feeble little club and your feeble little fan base,you had your day in the sun when Uncle Jack ruined football ,you are now a non entity.

[steve1264b]

If Venky's are such fantastic and generous owners...how many of you would genuinely have them as owners of the Clarets?

Something tells me the India flags would be nowhere to be seen in the face of such a scenario.

I tell you what, i wish someone had been putting in 10m a year for the last 15 years at Burnley.

[Durban]

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.

Never won anything without a benefactor, and never will.

Their natural level without Walker is somewhere between Blackpool and Port Vale.

Keep going Hutchy lad, keep the dream alive

[Bosscat]

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.

You were f**ked over by Uncle Jacks family who sold you out ... Karma's a b*tch innit

[Greenmile]

I'm sorry to say, Greenmile, but you and many on here and thousands of others out there, have been hoodwinked by the "funding" propaganda surrounding Venky's.

EVERY owner in the Championship is funding their respective clubs. Yet it is only Venky's that a fuss is made about, which everybody here gladly jumps on to say "ah, benefactor, bastards". How much of that "funding" have they put towards transfers since 2010? They are covering losses that they (Venky's) have caused via a catalogue of terrible decisions from day one of the takeover.

Relegating a stable Premier League club and doing nothing in 12 years to return the club to where they found it. Treating manager after manager like crap. Not giving a damn about sitting in the top 6, botched transfers and so. You think any that's of that's worthy of praise and gratitude? Ruining a top flight club and not giving a damn about it means they deserve all the hate they get.

Craig Hemmings and the Lady Revitt are putting in around £10m a year into PNE every year to cover their losses. Nobody says a word about it. Nobody says "why are the Nobbers wanting Hemmings out, they would be bust without Hemmings' money".

This argument about "who's going to fund them if Venky's go" is a nonsense. Who's going to fund Stoke if the Coates Family leave? Who's going to fund Boro if Steve Gibson leaves? Owning a club is the game of the very, very rich.

There are a number of parties interested in buying Rovers. All have been knocked back. Only two months ago Venky's turned an interested party away. You make it sound as though nobody but Venky's could ever cover these losses. Wrong. There are many that could. They are waiting for Venky's to put the 'for sale' sign up.

What makes you think you’re entitled to anybody covering your losses? Just because some other clubs have actual fans doing it for them (Boro, Stoke etc)? None of them are entitled to wealthy benefactors either; they just got lucky like you did in the 90s, or Chelsea did after you - just not to the same extent where they can buy league titles and distort the financial structures of the game for everyone else.

I’d say the same about PNE and Hemings if they made half the amount of noise about how hard-done to they are every time they lost a couple of games. I don’t hear it though - they may think they’re “superior” (lol) but they don’t go about claiming they should be a Premier League club, to my knowledge.

Without the Venkys, or a similar benefactor, you’d simply drop to a level where you’re self-sustainable (probably non-league, given the loyalty of your fan base).

You should be grateful that the Venkys are putting millions of pounds of their own money into your club and getting absolutely nothing in return but a load of grief from a bunch of inbred horse-molesters.

That’s not propaganda - it’s just the truth.

[Greenmile]

…There are a number of parties interested in buying Rovers…

Name them, and show your evidence, or that’s just a complete fantasy.

[Bosscat]

Name them, and show your evidence, or that’s just a complete fantasy.

Do we think Hutchy is the authour of this website

https://ewoodpark.jimdofree.com/ewood-p ... 20bollocks.

Quite a lot of "Venkys reign of error" on there

[Spike]

Rovers fans can’t grumble about Venkys when a great percentage of them have deserted them

[gawthorpe_view]

'Relegating a stable Premier League club'

Stable my ar$e, built on sand the whole rotten, stinking edifice.

[daveisaclaret]

If Venky's are such fantastic and generous owners...how many of you would genuinely have them as owners of the Clarets?

I will give £20 the poster who can answer this.

It's odd for this fella to be pretending to be claret, but it's a decent point.

[mybloodisclaret]

Finally the mask has slipped.

I think the mask slipped quite a while ago.

Clearly a silly blue and white. He's on here but I don't know what his aim is. He will be telling his mates it's all banterrrrrrrrrr and that he has Burnley fans in knots. It's really weird. Denies being a rovers fan when he so clearly is.

I don't particularly mind rovers fans being on here tbh.

Go on that brfcs and it's next level..... Some absolute whopper on admin showing off when he bans a Claret. That site is full of absolute melts. I read it before the Derby at theirs, to see how they were feeling. I then read it a lot after we beat them to cheer me up.

Keep looking up Hutch. You are in the play offs, God knows how. Plymouth and Pompey played better at ours than you did.

[Vegas Claret]

He's just horsing around

[claretonthecoast1882]

Hutchy is probably on their forum telling everyone how he is posting on here and nobody has realised he/she isn't a Burnley fan.

I couldn't care less if a Rovers fan posted on here or not the only purpose they serve these days is a source of ridicule, but imagine going on another clubs forum and pretending to be a fan of a team you obsessively dislike, it is just a sad existence.

[fatboy47]

There are a number of parties interested in buying Rovers. All have been knocked back.

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 entertained by some, that other billionaire sugar daddys are waiting in the wings to buy this corpse is frankly risible.
Venky's are stuck with the whole sh1tshow now...they've clearly decided not to flush more cash down the Ewood bog and are rightly keeping a distance from the nasty stench of their embarrassing white elephant.

[Claretitus]

“ Venkys out “, We want our Roverrrs back “. The 2 often repeated lines of drivel from the Shadsworth bed wetters. They are all too thick to realise that the latter, is EXACTLY what they’ve got. If any of them were around in the 80’s when Don Mackay was manager, the whole stinking cess pit is identical. Poor crowds, and a flirt with getting promotion, but ultimately failing when it really matters. All summed up by Eustace legging it down the M1 as soon as he could. Obviously he couldn’t stand another week of being associated with the blue n white turd that is BRFC.

LONG LIVE THE VENKYS.

[Falcon]

Mate, everyone knows you're a Rovers fan. Time to just own it now - I find your posts interesting but stop the pretence.

There's no rule against fans of other teams posting on the forum, so long as they don't go against the forum rules that every poster has to follow.

[Goodclaret]

Mate, everyone knows you're a Rovers fan. Time to just own it now - I find your posts interesting but stop the pretence.

There's no rule against fans of other teams posting on the forum, so long as they don't go against the forum rules that every poster has to follow.

I agree with this. Hutchy is clearly an articulate person. Not abusing any of our posters and doesn't retaliate to the slightly raw replies. However, it's just weird to pretend you are a Burnley fan but then display the most detailed information and knowledge of our rivals.

My main understanding of the goings on down at Venky Park is that we won the league there and haven't lost against them for 15 years

[bfcjg]

EVERY owner in the Championship is funding their respective clubs. Yet it is only Venky's that a fuss is made about, which everybody here gladly jumps on to say "ah, benefactor, bastards". How much of that "funding" have they put towards transfers since 2010? They are covering losses that they (Venky's) have caused via a catalogue of terrible decisions from day one of the takeover.


There are a number of parties interested in buying Rovers. All have been knocked back. Only two months ago Venky's turned an interested party away. You make it sound as though nobody but Venky's could ever cover these losses. Wrong. There are many that could. They are waiting for Venky's to put the 'for sale' sign up.

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?
Can't you get it into your head that you are running at a loss because you cannot fund the quality of players you have because you don't get enough people through the turnstiles, it's really quite simple to understand to most fanbases but not you lot who were cosseted by Walker's cash to subsidise quality players , did you want him out for subsidising your tinpot club ? He avoided UK tax, they are avoiding Indian tax. Even Walker ( the shy retiring millionaire who shunned publicity) went on the pitch with his microphone addressed the crowd and he said" I've done my bit it's up to you now " and how did you thank him ? That's right not turning up in the numbers required to fund the lifestyle the players had become accustomed to, even his family could see the writing on the wall and dumped you.
As for takeovers, this toe cringing video of you window lickers begging a fourth rate American celebrity to buy your club is quite possibly the most embarrassing thing to happen at a British football ground.

https://youtube.com/shorts/napC_VQmGZM?feature=shared

[blatherwickstattoos]

Finally the mask has slipped.

Slipped in the opening post mate

[Bosscat]

I wish we had an owner who put in 10m a year, kept a cat.

Just not this one

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[Conroy92]

I will give £20 the poster who can answer this.

It's odd for this fella to be pretending to be claret, but it's a decent point.

I'll answer it in two ways.

In our clubs position. No.
In *******'s position. Yes.

Wether it's due to their ownership or not. Blackburn require owners that continue to provide the money to "keep the lights on". If the club were in that position I would take an entity that continued to fund us rather than pull out and see oblivion happen.

I suppose to flip the question back to most Rovers supporters. In the clubs current position, Would you want the Venkys to leave, knowing there is no other way to provide the running costs required and happy to turn out in the bottom leagues as AFC Blackburn?

Stick my 20 quid in the youth donations.

[jrgbfc]

Still not sure what Hutchy is trying to get out of all this

[daveisaclaret]

I'll answer it in two ways.

In our clubs position. No.
In *******'s position. Yes.

Wether it's due to their ownership or not. Blackburn require owners that continue to provide the money to "keep the lights on". If the club were in that position I would take an entity that continued to fund us rather than pull out and see oblivion happen.

I suppose to flip the question back to most Rovers supporters. In the clubs current position, Would you want the Venkys to leave, knowing there is no other way to provide the running costs required and happy to turn out in the bottom leagues as AFC Blackburn?

Stick my 20 quid in the youth donations.

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.

[Buxtonclaret]

Still not sure what Hutchy is trying to get out of all this

A bit of attention.
Bless him.

[Conroy92]

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.

The question wasn't "if you can turn the clock back 20 years".
In the right here and now, rovers require the Venkys.
The alternative is a winding up order.

[Somethingfishy]

What makes you think you’re entitled to anybody covering your losses? Just because some other clubs have actual fans doing it for them (Boro, Stoke etc)? None of them are entitled to wealthy benefactors either; they just got lucky like you did in the 90s, or Chelsea did after you - just not to the same extent where they can buy league titles and distort the financial structures of the game for everyone else.

I’d say the same about PNE and Hemings if they made half the amount of noise about how hard-done to they are every time they lost a couple of games. I don’t hear it though - they may think they’re “superior” (lol) but they don’t go about claiming they should be a Premier League club, to my knowledge.

Without the Venkys, or a similar benefactor, you’d simply drop to a level where you’re self-sustainable (probably non-league, given the loyalty of your fan base).

You should be grateful that the Venkys are putting millions of pounds of their own money into your club and getting absolutely nothing in return but a load of grief from a bunch of inbred horse-molesters.

That’s not propaganda - it’s just the truth.

An absolutely spot on summing up of their entitled attitude. In fact it is not just entitled it is snotty and condescending. Their entire existence has been one of literally doing anything to gain an advantage so they can lord it over not just us but anybody.
Their most used comeback to the bought the league accusation is pathetic and disingenuous too. "Well Man Utd spent more than us that season" Is that the Man Utd that is one of the largest commerical entities of a football club in the world? Where do Blackburn fit in that even under Walker? Absolutely deluded.
When Walker decided to sack Don Mackay they were struggling in the depths of what is now the Championship after being perennial play off losers. They were at risk of a slide beginning. He acted and installed Dalglish..then the spending began. Lifted them to a position way above their natural level and rebuilt an absolutely crumbling Ewood. They totally refute that..and that in itself is astonishing. They shouldn't and wouldn't have made the Prem never mind win it.
Would we have taken it? Too right we would but to then say it was a major feat consistently even 30 years later and to believe we belong there? Certainly not me.
They have achieved very little through genuine hard work. They don't care. We can see that by them wanting another billionaire to bail them out and fund them again. It's all they know.
It's this attitude that I despise them for. When they can stand on their own two feet without being bailed out and compete better than us then I'll hold my hands up..but that day isn't going to come anytime soon.

[mickleoverclaret]

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.

We finished 10th in the Premier League the year before ALK took over. Is it supposed to be some guarantee of top flight football in perpetuity?

[IPAclaret]

Bturds, the most arrogant, deluded and entitled fan base

Hutchys just another in a long line of sympathy seeking weirdos

t'roverrrs, always happy spending vast amounts of other people's money and always whinging it's never enough

Fck em what goes around comes around

UTC

[bfcjg]

This is why t'ruwvers need Indian money to stop them going bankrupt.
A picture paints a thousand words.

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[mybloodisclaret]

This is why t'ruwvers need Indian money to stop them going bankrupt.
A picture paints a thousand words.
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Hutch will be able to tell you who the game was against the attendance, the score, the goal scorers and minutes the goals were scored. But he's a Burnley fan

[Ampth7]

I for one would like to personally thank Venky’s for the incredible work they are doing. The fact that their manager has now left to join a relegation battle instead of vying for promotion speaks volumes. Go Venkys!!!

[bfcjg]

Hutch will be able to tell you who the game was against the attendance, the score, the goal scorers and minutes the goals were scored. But he's a Burnley fan

That's him receiving his "special" medication

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[Jakubclaret]

I for one would like to personally thank Venky’s for the incredible work they are doing. The fact that their manager has now left to join a relegation battle instead of vying for promotion speaks volumes. Go Venkys!!!

It's not often I post on here due to the incessant barrage of complete nonsense. If tonights result is anything to go by perhaps he might be privately wishing he hadn't.

[ksrclaret]

It's not often I post on here

Only the 10,316 times.

[Jakubclaret]

Only the 10,316 times.

Small fry in the grand scheme with the same intact username some people pretty much eat & sleep on here I come & go. It's all old hat if it makes you feel superior carry on.

[ksrclaret]

Small fry in the grand scheme with the same intact username some people pretty much eat & sleep on here I come & go. It's all old hat if it makes you feel superior carry on.

More come than go.

[bfcmik]

... rebuilt an absolutely crumbling Ewood.

Didn't the insurance money after our visit a few years earlier help the rebuild fund?

[Jakubclaret]

More come than go.

If you say so. If you take into account the length of time registered divided by the days it's not that excessive & it's probably too much arguing the toss whether daylight brings light & darkness brings dark. Have a good evening I'm not adding to the count.

[Hutchy]

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-15m a season.

Look at where that money has got them. The facts are they have taken a solid Premier League club down and have had to shell out that much per year to cover losses they have caused. Not losses the Blackburn fans have caused, but Venky's have caused. Via relegation and everything else that has followed in terms of shocking mismanagement, neglect of the playing side and the treatment of ambitious managers such as Tomasson and Eustace.

[ElectroClaret]

Look at where that money has got them. The facts are they have taken a solid Premier League club down and have had to shell out that much per year to cover losses they have caused. Not losses the Blackburn fans have caused, but Venky's have caused. Via relegation and everything else that has followed in terms of shocking mismanagement, neglect of the playing side and the treatment of ambitious managers such as Tomasson and Eustace.

Yeah. Great innit?
Now all we need is for the c0cksuckers to collapse into season after season relegation
and end up in the Bananarama league and we'll all be happy

[Hutchy]

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 consortiums have approached Venky's within the last 18 months. Two American, one British, One Middle Eastern. All have been turned down. This is from somebody close to the club.

Aaron Paul on the EFL 72 Podcast revealed last night that he knows somebody who approached Venky's two months ago offering to buy Rovers. He was flatly refused. Not for sale. That's five different parties that are interested in buying Blackburn. All of them can afford to cover the losses.

I'm not sure where this idea is coming from on here that it's Venky's or bust for them. As if they are the only owners in world football that can do what they are doing losses wise and without them Blackburn are finished. This is nonsense. There are very wealthy people out there that want to own Blackburn Rovers. The 10th most successful club in England and you think it Venky's or bust? Give over. When new owners do come in over there and they are back in the Premier League I hope some of you think back to this post.

[shulgin]

Aaron Paul? Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad?

[Hutchy]

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 entertained by some, that other billionaire sugar daddys are waiting in the wings to buy this corpse is frankly risible.
Venky's are stuck with the whole sh1tshow now...they've clearly decided not to flush more cash down the Ewood bog and are rightly keeping a distance from the nasty stench of their embarrassing white elephant.

See my previous post, Mr 47. There are at least five interested parties. What can they do if Venky's keep saying no? They are waiting though.

On your last line...they aren't putting more money in because they are under investigation in India. They can send money if they want to, but they have to put up a personal guarantee in order to do so. They don't fancy doing that.

[blatherwickstattoos]

Four consortiums have approached Venky's within the last 18 months. Two American, one British, One Middle Eastern. All have been turned down. This is from somebody close to the club.

Aaron Paul on the EFL 72 Podcast revealed last night that he knows somebody who approached Venky's two months ago offering to buy Rovers. He was flatly refused. Not for sale. That's five different parties that are interested in buying Blackburn. All of them can afford to cover the losses.

I'm not sure where this idea is coming from on here that it's Venky's or bust for them. As if they are the only owners in world football that can do what they are doing losses wise and without them Blackburn are finished. This is nonsense. There are very wealthy people out there that want to own Blackburn Rovers. The 10th most successful club in England and you think it Venky's or bust? Give over. When new owners do come in over there and they are back in the Premier League I hope some of you think back to this post.

Give it a rest. You were nobodies before uncle Jack came along and you’re back to being nobodies now.

[Hutchy]

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?
Can't you get it into your head that you are running at a loss because you cannot fund the quality of players you have because you don't get enough people through the turnstiles, it's really quite simple to understand to most fanbases but not you lot who were cosseted by Walker's cash to subsidise quality players , did you want him out for subsidising your tinpot club ?

Sunderland had an operating loss of £9m for the year end July 2023. Why aren't their 'massive' crowds helping them in this regard?

Middlesbrough's most recent accounts (July 2024) show an operating loss of £12.4m. Why aren't their 'massive' crowds' helping them in this regard?

Sheffield Wednesday's most recent accounts (July 2024) show an operating loss of £9m. Why aren't their 'massive' crowds helping them in this regard?

Blackburn are operating at a loss because their owners threw away their Premier League status and have done nothing to get it back. Even if Blackburn had regular crowds of 30k they would still require external funding because that's how it is for ALL outside of the Premier League.

The fact of the matter is that every club in the Championship requires funding from its owners to cover losses. This isn't exclusive to Blackburn. Look through the whole Division. They are all making losses.

As for those saying 'entitlement'...use your heads. It is the duty of EVERY club owner to cover the losses of their respective club. It is not charity work they are doing. It is not optional. If they don't pay the bills, they face the consequences. Every club owner knows this, they are wealthy enough to do so which is why they get involved in football. So why is there praise for Venky's paying the bills? It is their duty, not an 'entitlement' on behalf of 'spoilt fans'.

[Hutchy]

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 were a cup team before Roman Abramovic. They are now struggling and losing to all and sundry. Are they back at their 'natural level' now? Did they just get lucky with Abramovic?

If the answer to the above is no, then why is it a different standard for Blackburn? Their fans have every right to be ****** off about what Venky's have done to the club since 2010. It's not about the Premier League title, that was a one off for Blackburn. It's about their Premier League status being so callously thrown away.

If you mention the name Blackburn Rovers anywhere around the world, blather, people will tell you 'Premier League'. That's the recognition they have. That doesn't fit the description of 'nobodies' in the game. PNE, certainly. Blackburn, absolutely not.

[Hutchy]

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 players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen. Serious players that helped them reach the semi finals of the League Cup as well as a 10th place finish. It is from there that Venky's have dropped the club. No way can their fans seriously be expected to be grateful for the last 15 years.

If all of that had happened here and the Clarets were destroyed like this, there would be mobs of supporters flying to India looking for the bastards.

Yeah, it's a great laugh on this side of the divide, but in reality it is a disgrace what those owners have done to them and the height they have dropped them from. That's why this thread was made, to highlight it. I'll leave it there though.

[Rileybobs]

If you mention the name Blackburn Rovers anywhere around the world, blather, people will tell you 'Premier League'. That's the recognition they have.