Venky's are a disgrace

[Hutchy]

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

[criminalclaret]

...... Nah! Long may it continue

[beddie]

Not bad that write up for a Blackburn fan.

[Conroy92]

**** em.

[BurnleyFC]

Nice cast.

Long live the Venky’s.

[Conroy92]

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

I completely disagree and think Venkys are doing an absolutely stirling job. My only irritation is that they keep pumping enough money in that you avoid total oblivion. Once you've had your Orient game I'll be satisfied.

[Jakubclaret]

Things are just fine the way they are.

[Shaggy]

I don’t have a bad word to say about Venkys. They have brought us much laughter and joy over the years.

[ClaretPete001]

I think Venky's have put over £200 million in to Rovers and up to the point they were stopped by the Indian gov't invested over £20 million season - doubling the turnover and allowing them to compete.

They maybe inept at running a football club but they have certainly invested in it.

[claret wizard]

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact…..blah blah blah ……. club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

Jog on *******.

[fatboy47]

Big admirer of Venkys.

Be an even bigger one if they cut their losses and allow Blackburn to assume their true level alongside the likes of Oldham, Rochdale, Bradford and Accy.

[Claretnick]

Looks like you are on the wrong message board. Majority of Blackburn fans welcomed Venkys with open arms thinking they were getting billionaire owners. Most of you lot wanted us to lose to Orient in 1987 and disappear into bankruptcy. Karma is a good thing.........

[jrgbfc]

Is that you DA?

[criminalclaret]

In all seriousness, there is a time when an established club and fans always want a bit more and overreach the entitlement. Rovers had won the PL and then relegated a few years later, promoted a d basically just become a lower tier PL club and then the carrot of money, fame, players are teased in front of them. There was an attitude of "we are better than present, we can be the best". 2 years later relegated and have been a meandering, loss making club ever since. File under Portsmouth, Everton, Stoke, Bolton etc.

A feel sorry for genuine football fans who get f**ked over by horrific owners. But honestly, Venkys are best of a bad bunch. They make enough money to keep the club going but don't invest to move it further. They just see it as a business investment gone wrong and waiting on that hopeful PL promotion to sell for something.

It could be worse for Ricers, Venkeys could have deliberately gone into admin, points docked and relegation but have stuck to tick things over.

[Claretitus]

Nah. Venkys? You just gotta love’em. Long may they reign, and misery abounds down at Deadwood.

[claret54]

Complete Rubbish. As others have said Venkys have put millions into the club. Kept it competitive in the Championship.
ALK will not act like this. They have no money to invest. They have bought the club to make money. Hopefully they will be successful. Because that will mean the football team has been successful. Two very different situations. But Venkys cannot be described as a disgrace.

[ElectroClaret]

The V's are wonderful owners...and don't let anyone tell you any different.

[Clarets4me]

They've pumped £195m into the Club over the last 13 years to end up in the League below, with no immediate prospect of a Premier League return. Their involvement has " queered their pitch " with the tax-authorities in India and led them to be a laughing stock in the UK.

How different might it have been if they had left the existing Chairman, John Williams and his board in place, and backed " Big Sam " as Manager, pumping in £10m each season. If they'd have done a " young Mr Grace " ie: popping over from India 3 times a year, waved from the Director's Box, whilst issuing a Press Statement saying, " You're all doing very well ! ", then they'd be feted all over town ...

[Anonymous Claret]

The OP is surely a Blackburn fan.

How any Burnley fan can have a negative opinion of The Venkys is insane. The Venkys have been sent from heaven.

I notice it was his/her first post on here. But if it really was a Burnley fan taking all that time to rant about the clown owners of his own club's bitter rivals please make sure someone carries out a welfare check.

[GetIntoEm]

Best owners in football

[steve1264b]

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

[NottsClaret]

They’re not even bad owners now. Blackburn are where they were before Walker, an average 2nd division side.

Made loads of mistakes early but keep the whole thing afloat now. If it wasn’t for our recent success, they’d probably be more thankful to their Indian overlords.

[Stayingup]

The OP is surely a Blackburn fan.

How any Burnley fan can have a negative opinion of The Venkys is insane. The Venkys have been sent from heaven.

I notice it was his/her first post on here. But if it really was a Burnley fan taking all that time to rant about the clown owners of his own club's bitter rivals please make sure someone carries out a welfare check.

Yes it's the Chicken Syndrome. Spatchcocked and gutted

[Buxtonclaret]

The untold millions they've pumped into your club have saved you from relegation fights in league 1 or 2.
Any way ...... they just do it so we can keep beating you, year on, year out.
Happy New Year.

[Superjohnnyfrancis]

Hopefully man city follow a similar trajectory once their pay masters get found out. At least Jack Walker put his own money in to financially dope them and not a nation state.

[bfcjg]

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

F[_]ck off.

[billyhamilton82]

Having realised that Jack had cheated to win the Premier League the Walker family did the right thing in order to rectify the situation and gave the Venkys a call.

Normal service has resumed, although Rovers are still currently punching above their weight for a League One club.

[expoultryboy]

When you look at the money they've pumped into their club compared to ours , it makes you wonder which you'd prefer . If we don't go up in the next couple of years , what happens then ?

[Pickles]

Beating them is hollow?

Here's something. If Rovers were playing on a park in Darwen against the Dog & Duck and somehow miraculously got to the FA Cup Third round and were drawn against us... then I'd still get a buzz about beating them.

For what it's worth, what goes around comes around and it's a nice serendipitous moment that Rovers fans have experienced both sides of the football finance coin.

[FCBurnley]

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

You cannot put aside the rivalry or even think you can what a stupid post

[Spike]

Long Live The Venkys
Wasted a stupid amount of money on a horrible club whilst all around them their countrymen suffer
Venkys and Rovers are a union made in hell

[KlyBfc]

I was bored second sentence in and stopped reading. Mention Zian tonight or im out

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Genuine views?

They came in and tried
They got a lot wrong
They were badly advised
They've made some bizarre managerial choices, both sacking and hiring
They've put huge amounts of money into the club to keep it going
They still keep on putting huge amounts in, because they're over paying in wages and the clubs still losing money

They need to appoint a proper football/business person and let them get on with it, with the remit of reducing the wage bill whilst bringing in good young talent to rejuvenate the squad and club

The millions being poured into the club isn't going where it's needed, like the training facilties in need of modernisation and that potato field they call a pitch at Ewood
No Dessos at rovers anywhere

They should just sell up tbh but rovers aren't an attractive proposition anymore
They were a financial black hole due to walkers poor running of the club, which the foundation just carried on with and venkys just never got a grip on that

[Hutchy]

I think Venky's have put over £200 million in to Rovers and up to the point they were stopped by the Indian gov't invested over £20 million season - doubling the turnover and allowing them to compete.

They maybe inept at running a football club but they have certainly invested in it.

There's a difference between truly investing and covering the bills/losses. How much of that £200m figure has been spent by Rovers in the transfer market over the past 14 years? A large bulk of that figure is Venky's covering losses that they have played a big part in causing. However, people just hear £200m and think "wow, I wish we had that, be grateful, who else would do that?".

That's what clever PR does. Why is it PR? Well, if we were to calculate what somebody like the Hemmings family has put into PNE over the past 10 years to cover the bills I.e £10m per season, it would come out at around £100m. Yet there is no narrative out there saying "but Hemmings has invested £100m into PNE". That would be a false narrative, as the PNE ownership has made no serious attempt at promotion. The £100m figure could be used by some fans to try and silence any dissenting PNE fan voices though. That's what people are doing with unhappy Rovers fans, who are dismayed at seeing their Premier League club dismantled by these inept owners.

Also, the Indian Gov issue has nothing to do with tax as another poster suggested. They are being investigated by the Directorate of Enforcement, an arm of the Indian Gov tasked with looking into cases of...?

As it stands, Venky's can't send funds to Rovers without Indian court permission and without putting an equivalent amount into a bond with the court over there. Say they want to send £10m to Rovers, it's going to cost them £20m in total. They also have to provide a full breakdown of what exactly the money is going towards. This is why the Rovers transfer windows have been even cheaper shambles than normal recently where they scrimp around for frees and loans. Venky's are choosing not to send funds.

They have another Hearing due in India middle of this month where they are trying to get the bond requirement removed. How can a club try to go for promotion when there's all this going on? In no way are they good for Rovers, as amusing as their running may be from our point of view.

[Wile E Coyote]

I want nothing but calamity for Rovers, yesterday was bliss, however their owners are not exceptional.
there are numerous horrendous examples of fat walleted owners poisoning the game.
Venkys shouldnt be singled out as bad owners.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

You're gonna get naff all sympathy on here

Rovers were badly ran by walker and then the trust
They were losing money at an horrendous rate, walker and the trust wrote off £100 million of debt in the years running up to the sale of the club
Blame venkys all you like but it didn't start with them

Same as Boltons issues started with Eddie Davies, not the owners since then

[DCWat]

There's a difference between truly investing and covering the bills/losses. How much of that £200m figure has been spent by Rovers in the transfer market over the past 14 years? A large bulk of that figure is Venky's covering losses that they have played a big part in causing. However, people just hear £200m and think "wow, I wish we had that, be grateful, who else would do that?".

That's what clever PR does. Why is it PR? Well, if we were to calculate what somebody like the Hemmings family has put into PNE over the past 10 years to cover the bills I.e £10m per season, it would come out at around £100m. Yet there is no narrative out there saying "but Hemmings has invested £100m into PNE". That would be a false narrative, as the PNE ownership has made no serious attempt at promotion. The £100m figure could be used by some fans to try and silence any dissenting PNE fan voices though. That's what people are doing with unhappy Rovers fans, who are dismayed at seeing their Premier League club dismantled by these inept owners.

Also, the Indian Gov issue has nothing to do with tax as another poster suggested. They are being investigated by the Directorate of Enforcement, an arm of the Indian Gov tasked with looking into cases of...?

As it stands, Venky's can't send funds to Rovers without Indian court permission and without putting an equivalent amount into a bond with the court over there. Say they want to send £10m to Rovers, it's going to cost them £20m in total. They also have to provide a full breakdown of what exactly the money is going towards. This is why the Rovers transfer windows have been even cheaper shambles than normal recently where they scrimp around for frees and loans. Venky's are choosing not to send funds.

They have another Hearing due in India middle of this month where they are trying to get the bond requirement removed. How can a club try to go for promotion when there's all this going on? In no way are they good for Rovers, as amusing as their running may be from our point of view.

Oh, I know, I’ll add a quick “from our point of view” on to the end of my rant about Venky’s, that’ll throw them!

[prettygreenclaret]

God is pretty much spot on there. I have it on good authority from people close to BRFC that they were indeed losing fortunes and they couldn't wait to get shut. No surprise that they are now where they are tbh.

[ClaretLoup]

Whenever you feel the remotest twinge of pity for Rovers, just remember that plane they flew over the Turf with the message “ Staying Down 4 Eva - Luv Rovers”

Venkys have provided some great comedy moments Shebby Singh, signing a clapped out Danny Murphy on a four year deal, hiring Henning Berg, Owen Coyle & Paul Lambert etc.

[Wile E Coyote]

anywhere you care to stick a pin in the leagues there is corruption, its just a matter of who and why we want to scr.utinise. We never had the colossal cash injection rovers had. Its laughable that their dim witted fans even refer to us in terms of finance. That said, the entire structure of modern football can be described as rotten. Venkys dont have a monopoly on being unscrupulous

[Hutchy]

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

Consider the following context, Steve, and then tell me you still feel the same way:

Imagine for a moment it was Burnley that was an established Premier League club for nigh on 20 years. Burnley had won the Prem in 1995 and following promotion back to the Prem in 2001 had become a very solid mid table Prem side and had some unbelievable players like Duff, Tugay, Jansen, Cole and so on play for the club. Then, imagine in 2010 Burnley had players like Michel Salgado in the side and were on the verge of signing Robert Lewandowski. Burnley finish the 2009/10 Season 10th in the Prem and reach the League Cup semi finals. Six months later Venky's take over Burnley and proceed to wreck everything starting with relegation. Burnley today in 2025, is unrecognisable due to Venky's and has lost in pathetic fashion to Blackburn since Venky's came in.

The above is exactly what has happened to Rovers, not Burnley. I just used Burnley as an example to make the point.

In light of the above hypothetical scenario where you experienced it all at Pre Venky's Burnley, are you seriously telling me you're now going to be saying in 2025 after 14 years of crap:

"Oh, you know what, they put in £10m per year and keep the Academy running...I'm fine with that, it could be worse"?

Nobody in their right mind would, which is why the anger and discontent of the Rovers fans is fully justified and understandable.

[mybloodisclaret]

Hutchy - yes or no are you a rovers fan? Joined..... ooops 6 hours after Burnley beat rovers at deadwood? Yet pretends to be a Claret with the most bizarre post ever.

No, we don't feel any sympathy. I want to see them slide down and out of the league, just like they wanted for us.

[Hutchy]

Beating them is hollow?

Here's something. If Rovers were playing on a park in Darwen against the Dog & Duck and somehow miraculously got to the FA Cup Third round and were drawn against us... then I'd still get a buzz about beating them.

For what it's worth, what goes around comes around and it's a nice serendipitous moment that Rovers fans have experienced both sides of the football finance coin.

Yes, it feels hollow at present. Due to the state that Venky's have reduced the club to. Compare this **** Rovers side to the one that did the double over us in 2009/10. Ironically, that was the season before Venky's turned up. We can only beat what is infront of us of course, but it is akin to somebody like Carl Frampton knocking out a 56/57/58 year old Mike Tyson. I can't get too excited about it. It's Tyson in name only, just like this is Blackburn in name only. Rovers are in a really poor state on and off the pitch and have been for a long time under their wretched owners.

I don't want them to succeed or to do well...but I don't want ******* owners to finish clubs off either.

[mybloodisclaret]

- Now gone off line. Was online when I started typing.

[Jakubclaret]

anywhere you care to stick a pin in the leagues there is corruption, its just a matter of who and why we want to scr.utinise. We never had the colossal cash injection rovers had. Its laughable that their dim witted fans even refer to us in terms of finance. That said, the entire structure of modern football can be described as rotten. Venkys dont have a monopoly on being unscrupulous

Complete agree in lots of cases its luck of the draw whether you end up with up a broken leg, knee or arm or some other fracture with whoever presides over any said club. It only takes a few wrong decisions for the tide to turn & to stagnate or even deteriorate.

[Bfc]

My hatred for that lot is well known.
The opening poster states “ some absolute no marks turn up and buy the club”. No marks awww. They are billionaires and the fans were expecting them to have a pot of gold and would spend, spend, spend. They were dreaming of winning trophies and having the bragging rights against us for years to come and wouldn’t have any sympathy rubbing their horse muck in our faces.

While it’s still snowing, I think of the snowball treatment their loyal fans gave the Venky’s and what a good deed that turned out to be.
Beating them will never be hollow, because if they ever beat us, they will gloat and I for 1 will feel the pain.
“ This is not the real Blackburn Rovers”. Partly true, as they are in a Division, which hopefully, they won’t be much longer and I don’t mean them getting promoted.
The bullshit you mention is yours, spouting sympathy for a club who thought the Venky’s were a pot of gold, who in fact are a lead weight. Long may it last NNN.

[Colburn_Claret]

Got to love the Venkys
The fans were enthusiastic enough when they took over, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
It wouldn't be right to ignore the fantastic contribution of Shebby Singh.

[The Shire Claret]

Still time to sign Christiano Ronaldo ….

[Poulton-le-Claret]

They should be thankful that they are not worse than they currently are, it's only Venky's money that has kept them from going completely bust in recent years. They can spin the 'costs Venky's have caused' line all they want, it's rubbish and they know it, debts were being routinely written-off before Venky's took over the club. Not seen a huge queue of willing buyers to take them on, long may it continue.

I'll shed the same number of tears they shed for us when we were a shambles, zero.

[Burnley1989]

Oh, I know, I’ll add a quick “from our point of view” on to the end of my rant about Venky’s, that’ll throw them!

Its the fact he calls them 'Rovers' that gives it away

Imagine, just imagine, setting up a fake account to try and harvest some sympathy from a club that you laughed at when we nearly went out of the league... i think the responses from our fans speaks volumes and shows how deluded that lot are