Venky's deny Blackburn Rovers sale (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Oh yessssssssss it was because of the letter. Go on Paul spill the beans.

More lies.

Of course it makes super sense to start cost cutting with the head of the local organization. Eeerrh, not.

This makes the Muppet Show look like a board meeting at IBM...

STRIKE, STRIKE, STRIKE. Withdraw your support. One out all out.

You just dont get it do you @venkysindia , how can you blatantly lie live on TV?, you and #keanout are destroying #rovers #brfc PATHETIC

at least we now know where #keanout gets it from....shambles

Maybe they should finish all the players too, then it would be really cheap to run.

We will make you sell it you silly people!

I OWN you!!!

Do you know who I am?

Now sell or there's trouble

Why does Kean and Venky's promises not to run away from Rovers sound more like a threat than a promise. I think the fact that they view Rovers as merely a "company" just about reveals their true intentions - to asset strip the club to the carcass and later dispose of. Kean is basically saying....myself and Venky's aren't going anywhere until we've completely stripped your club of all financial worth. The Jack Walker Trust MUST get involved to preserve the great man's legacy. Surely there must have been some agreements in the contract of sale that have been broken.

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got to here it to believe it....i still can`t !!!!!!!!!!

I"ve just heard that one of the most famous names in hairdressing has passed away.
Poor old Vidal, I didn't expect him to go Sassoon.

Breaking news? Breaking wind, more like!!!
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If only they would sell ... maybe we'd get an owner at least half-competent.

Oh yes I believe every word of that! They don't get it. Over here we don't swallow everything they say.
Kean stating most fans are behind him-well the 1% were very noisy on Monday oh sorry that was 99% shouting Kean out.

Unbelievable and sorry scenes for Rovers fans. Why do you think Kean hasn't gone, let alone the Venkys?

Is there some sort of conspiracy? See here: http://bit.ly/K1Ldxh

Best cost cutting measure they can employ: get rid of Kean, or is the plan that he plays next season? Plan, what am I talking about?......

Conscience-concept unknown in venky towers.

There is no doubt that these liars would like to get rid of the club, they have probably never been so transparent,they must almost feel naked. Their normal businesses will have lots of downtrodden employees, doing all they are told and daring not to complain.
They own a club that has only one person in the Uk with all the clout in Kean, and all other staff just follow and thank him for giving them their chance. Unless they have another twist that no one has thought of yet, they have had the best of this club, but have been exposed somewhat, which they probably haven't experienced before, and that's got to hurt. If they took a normal large business and pillaged it, very few people would take note, but because they have done it with a football club, it has caused a lot of attention for the wrong reasons, which they clearly could do without.

Golf.

The only time it's acceptable for a man to hold an iron.

So the first person to leave when cutting costs is the guy who tries to run things proerly, just gets worse by the day

Venkys india shares have plummeted yet again since we were relegated hopefully its going to drop even more before the fans have finished, hope venkys india share drop right through the floor now just like has happened to BRFC whilst venkys took over rovers. KEAN YOU WILL BE GOING AND YOU NO IT. we the fans will be here long after you have been kicked out of this club we have all the time in the world bye bye kean.

Cost-cut!!??!!

So your puppet spends £20M on duds, gets your 'company' relegated - and with that, a big slash in TV and gate income, drags what little reputation you have to derision that will hit your core business.....

And U sack Hunt.....

FFS, just get on and transfer-list everyone U pathetic caaaaants

What type of name is Venkatesh?

"Over here we don't swallow", re: vicn. Really ?. The Indian press displays on this site have shown some of the press "over there" is quite savvy about Venkys.
The LET has been extremely naive "over here" and much of the TV punditry still presents Keano as a "dignified" manager.
But it's all unravelling rapidly and more more rapid the better - the nightmare is this sorry saga dragging on into next season.

The government have advised people to watch out that they're not being sold fake 2012 Olympic tickets.

I think I'll be alright though. My tickets for the men's wheelchair triple jump seem genuine enough.

carlmc wrote:
Oh yessssssssss it was because of the letter. Go on Paul spill the beans.

Surely its redundancy if its a cost cutting measure ? Hunt should've come out earlier.

"Bringing the budget down" My as$$s
What do you suppose Hunt was making to effectively bring the budget down to acceptable levels and who is going to replace him and at what cost? Most pub teams are run more efficiently
This is just becoming a total joke but not funny

Tweedle Dumb confirms that the club is not for sale and paul hunt was fired to meet budgetary cuts.
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in a separate statement Tweedle Dumb issued a declaration that the world is flat.
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Dumb then tells us that he looks forward to visiting blackburn in the summer and meeting the fans along with his good (and quite brilliant) friend lord haw haw.

Of course, if it was a cost-cutting exercise to get rid of Paul Hunt, then we all know a certain person who's on far more than he was. Why don't they try cutting that cost?

If they deny it then it must be true! Happy days! I think the people from India (They don't deserve their name if they are going to call The Rovers a 'company') will strip us to the bones and sell. Cost cutting - yeah right, the only sense to come out of Ewood this season is sacked. What does make sense is;
'OWNERS' OUT
KEAN OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody who knows anything about football wants you here! You are both now hated locally, nationally and globally!

If Rao has spoken with Times Now,why don't you Andy Cryer get in touch with them and see how they get to speak to her ,they must have the right approach and then interview her ASAP.Do it NOW and let us know how you get on as thousands of us would be interested to know if you have any sucess .PS Kean OUT. Also just wondering if his family still love him for what he is putting them through!Sums up the sad deluded clown.

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got to here it to believe it....i still can`t !!!!!!!!!!

I have just seen this and cannot believe that they say 'no-one is to blame for relegation'!!!

Says it all in my book.

Liar liar pants on fire!

smellthecoffee wrote:
Why does Kean and Venky's promises not to run away from Rovers sound more like a threat than a promise. I think the fact that they view Rovers as merely a "company" just about reveals their true intentions - to asset strip the club to the carcass and later dispose of. Kean is basically saying....myself and Venky's aren't going anywhere until we've completely stripped your club of all financial worth. The Jack Walker Trust MUST get involved to preserve the great man's legacy. Surely there must have been some agreements in the contract of sale that have been broken.

The thought of having to take back the club that they were so eager to get rid of to ANYBODY with the cash would give them nightmares,so it's no use looking to them for help.The rumours in the Indian media are that wankys have been touting the club around the Far East for a while now,the only problem being that they want £10 million more than they "paid" for it,and now that wankys have come out with a denial of intent to sell,i'm convinced the touting is true, on the basis that these lying odius sc#m have lied about just everything that they have stated thus far .The only plan of action for us supporters, in my humble opinion, is firstly to starve them of every penny of the income that derives from us,if you've allready bought your season ticket; return it for a full refund quoting that it was sold under false pretences, ; namely that the "manager" stated publically that we would not be relegated,if you have it on standing order,even easier,just cancel it immediately and inform the club of the reasons, both these courses are fully within the law. Spend no money whatsoever in the club shop or anywhere connected with the club.Lastly send e-mails etc. to every Indian politician you can find on the internet and also to every Indian Embassy you can,as well as The Times of India,The Pune Times etc. etc.. On the home front bombard all our media outlets,newspapers especially , Your local Mp's,The minister for sport,trade etc. If we can make a massive nuisance of ourselves with these e-mails by of our grievences ,we have a very good chance of them reaching the people who CAN find the truth out once and for all,and maybe,just maybe we have an opportunity of saving at least enough of our Club to start again with,because ,once again in my opinion, these parasites will not stop untill we are unable to operate as a football club again for possibly decades... R.T.I.D....... PROUD BLACKBURN ENDER SINCE 1969 !!!!!

We need a direct link to venkys to let these clowns know what we really think, then maybe after a few thousand emails the penny may drop. venkys out kran out.

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

smellthecoffee wrote: Why does Kean and Venky's promises not to run away from Rovers sound more like a threat than a promise. I think the fact that they view Rovers as merely a "company" just about reveals their true intentions - to asset strip the club to the carcass and later dispose of. Kean is basically saying....myself and Venky's aren't going anywhere until we've completely stripped your club of all financial worth. The Jack Walker Trust MUST get involved to preserve the great man's legacy. Surely there must have been some agreements in the contract of sale that have been broken.

The thought of having to take back the club that they were so eager to get rid of to ANYBODY with the cash would give them nightmares,so it's no use looking to them for help.The rumours in the Indian media are that wankys have been touting the club around the Far East for a while now,the only problem being that they want £10 million more than they "paid" for it,and now that wankys have come out with a denial of intent to sell,i'm convinced the touting is true, on the basis that these lying odius sc#m have lied about just everything that they have stated thus far .The only plan of action for us supporters, in my humble opinion, is firstly to starve them of every penny of the income that derives from us,if you've allready bought your season ticket; return it for a full refund quoting that it was sold under false pretences, ; namely that the "manager" stated publically that we would not be relegated,if you have it on standing order,even easier,just cancel it immediately and inform the club of the reasons, both these courses are fully within the law. Spend no money whatsoever in the club shop or anywhere connected with the club.Lastly send e-mails etc. to every Indian politician you can find on the internet and also to every Indian Embassy you can,as well as The Times of India,The Pune Times etc. etc.. On the home front bombard all our media outlets,newspapers especially , Your local Mp's,The minister for sport,trade etc. If we can make a massive nuisance of ourselves with these e-mails by of our grievences ,we have a very good chance of them reaching the people who CAN find the truth out once and for all,and maybe,just maybe we have an opportunity of saving at least enough of our Club to start again with,because ,once again in my opinion, these parasites will not stop untill we are unable to operate as a football club again for possibly decades... R.T.I.D....... PROUD BLACKBURN ENDER SINCE 1969 !!!!!

Delete!

What a load of nonsense. If you're going to lie, at least make it credible.

The only person who knows anything about football in the management at Ewood Park now is Steve Kean.

Enough said.

The plan is for the family to come over to Lancashire, have their meetings in Brockall and then Kean has arranged for Burnley SU to arrange a ticker tape parade through the streets of Burnley. He will then pass that off as a show of support from the "fans".

i seem to recall that many years ago under similar circumstances fulham fans once staged a mock funeral for fulham football club and set a coffin down the thames.
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perhaps we could arrange a ritualistic hindi funeral for our club....that would surely get some damaging media coverage back in pune and the wider indian market.
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i also think they still burn effigies as an act of protest in india as a protest (i am sure they did it in that jade goody/shilpa shetty celebrity big brother racist row).....again just an idea. what's good for the goose.....

alfa111 wrote:
Venkys india shares have plummeted yet again since we were relegated hopefully its going to drop even more before the fans have finished, hope venkys india share drop right through the floor now just like has happened to BRFC whilst venkys took over rovers. KEAN YOU WILL BE GOING AND YOU NO IT. we the fans will be here long after you have been kicked out of this club we have all the time in the world bye bye kean.

Plummet is the right word. October 2010 Venkys India Limited 980 (rupees I guess). Today 355. Approaching 2/3 of value lost in 18 months. Justice!

The chickens have come home to roost

Madari the snake charmer says:

THE END IS NIGH!!!

IN VENKYS WE TRUST!!!!!

LONG LIVE THE CLARETS!!!!

Just starve them of revenue - KEEP THE STADIUM EMPTY
KEEP THE CLUB SHOP EMPTY
DO NOT ADVERTISE AT EWOOD
DO NOT USE THE CORPORATE FACILITIES
Lets see if their appetite for a quick sale speeds up!!!!

Hunt laid off just one day after the 'leak'. WHAT A COINCIDENCE....!!!

Jack Straw on talk sport any minute now....

There has been a lot of talk about the Walker Trust on here.

They sold up because they don't have the same interest in Rovers as Jack did. They didn't want to bankroll spoilt millionaire footballers any more and took the money. Who can blame them? Jack wanted the best for the club, but he would never have wanted Rovers to become a millstone around the neck of his family, which is what would have happened if they continued to bankroll the club.

It's a crying shame that the club Jack built is being seemingly dismantled from afar, and we know that Jack Walker's family, very obviously, wanted to get the best deal for themselves.

However, it is unfair of Rovers fans to question their integrity and call for them to become involved again - Post-Jack, the family continued to pour millions into the club. They didn't have to do that.

Like it or not, it's not their business any more.

happiness wrote:
Hunt laid off just one day after the 'leak'. WHAT A COINCIDENCE....!!! Jack Straw on talk sport any minute now....

I hope he says "shoot the lot of them"!

So he's sacked immediately after the release of the letter. A letter which showed he could read the signs and foresee what was happening to the club. A letter that showed he could have attempted to avert the crisis we are in now and save the money lost by dropping a league and dropping sales...but instead of thinking, "This guy knows what he's on about" and deciding to listen to him, they "Cut costs" by axing him.

Lies, deceit and ineptitude.

hasslem hasslem wrote:
i seem to recall that many years ago under similar circumstances fulham fans once staged a mock funeral for fulham football club and set a coffin down the thames.
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perhaps we could arrange a ritualistic hindi funeral for our club....that would surely get some damaging media coverage back in pune and the wider indian market.
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i also think they still burn effigies as an act of protest in india as a protest (i am sure they did it in that jade goody/shilpa shetty celebrity big brother racist row).....again just an idea. what's good for the goose.....

Sounds brilliant Mate,sure we can come up with many more,i,ve sent e-mails to 4 indian Embassy's so far and the 2 Indian Newspapers i mentioned above,gonna start on the Indian MPs tonight,at least it feels like i,m trying something,best i've felt for months ... K/A/V/ ParasiTes OUT !!! ....... R.T.I.D.!!!

Simple choice...renew to support a continuation of Kean and Venkys dismembering our club. Or take the only course of action to end this nightmare ASAP, even if this means first division footy, AND BOYCOTT. It's the only way....

Sacked due to cost cutting? I have an idea that will save far more than Paul Hunt's salary:
SACK THE USELESS MANAGER
and save £1.3 million a year.....

happiness wrote:
Simple choice...renew to support a continuation of Kean and Venkys dismembering our club. Or take the only course of action to end this nightmare ASAP, even if this means first division footy, AND BOYCOTT. It's the only way....

Agreed, now is the time for us to stand together on this

If all of this doesn't convince those people who have renewed or intend to, WTF will!
Before the match on Monday night I had this discussion with someone who had renewed at the early bird (oh what a saving..) You are not supporting the club, you are working with the enemy. The club is us, the fans, can't you see that. Cancel your renewal now!!

Joe Morrison
@joefooty

TenSports and TenAction TV Anchor for Live Football to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Asia, DUBAI.

http://twitter.com/#
!/joefooty

Some very interesting tweets.

Joe Morrison ‏ @joefooty

Blackburn fans must accept SEM and Jerome Anderson are really running your club - that is where the true problem lies!

Comrades when the 'management' is so inept then we have only one course of action to take.

One out, all out.

We have to be united... aagghhh bitter taste in using that word.

Under the current dictatorship then the proletariat has a duty to future Rovers fans to fight this malignancy.

We cannot let future generations say that it was our cowardice that destroyed the mighty Blackburn Rovers...

Come on now....

We shall overcome....
We'll Keep the Blue flag flying
and
Lets fight them on the terraces..

Jack Walker is dead but we cannot let his great work be undone
God bless him.

Joe Morrison ‏ @joefooty

do you really think that the guy who introduced the Venkys to Blackburn and architect of transfer policy just walked away?

Joe Morrison ‏ @joefooty

as u know SK is a JA client so I will believe no further involvement of SEM when non of their clients r there

Joe Morrison ‏ @joefooty

Those asking for evidence: everything in football is contractual so turn it around and someone show me a termination of SEM involvement

Joe Morrison ‏ @joefooty

An Agency involved in purchase of a club representation of the manager and transfer of owners son is like Mr Fox in charge of the chickens!

The Venkys never ever tell the truth, even when someone with the intelligence of a retarded 3 year old could tell that they are lieing.

What mahes them think they will have a choice?

UEFA, FSA, INTERPOL,
SPECIAL BRANCH, The Royal Society For The Protection Of Chickens, Alcoholics Anonymous,
THE ANTI NOWHERE LEAGUE, NATO, THE EEC, the entire cast of it ain't half hot mum, RONNIE CORBET, Margaret Thatcher, Ken Dodd, SKIPPY THE BUSH KANGAROO, The Women's Institute, a man who has an allotment in Accrington, THE HAIR BEAR BUNCH, and a few other luminaries might have something to say about it.

STEP DOWN KEANO

Arte et Labore
ps skippy the bush kangaroo is dead.....sorry

Exactly who decided that Myles Anderson was good enough to be handed a pro contract? At the time the club were in the premier league and recruiting players who they thought could keep us there.

Steve Kean described Myles as another Chris Smalling. A question needs to be put to him. Did me make the decision, what wage and contract is he on and did any agent make any money out of this?

I know the BRAG are meeting with the premier league soon, honest answers to these questions may start the ball rolling to getting to the bottom of all this.

ladysal wrote:
Sacked due to cost cutting? I have an idea that will save far more than Paul Hunt's salary:
SACK THE USELESS MANAGER
and save £1.3 million a year.....

Exactly!

Vermin out! Kean out!

some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

Jerome and her son wrote:
Joe Morrison ‏ @joefooty An Agency involved in purchase of a club representation of the manager and transfer of owners son is like Mr Fox in charge of the chickens!

I wouldn't mind if he was even one of us......

get them out

More blatant lies, its about time Venkys realised that the customers of this business are the fans, and if they don't keep them happy there will be no business !!!!!! If all the customers of their chicken business stopped buying their chicken because it was crap, would they do something about it ? or still continue selling crap ? would they still trust and employ the person that had decided that selling crap chicken was a good decision ? Venkys out, Kean out

SimonGarner wrote:
There has been a lot of talk about the Walker Trust on here.

They sold up because they don't have the same interest in Rovers as Jack did. They didn't want to bankroll spoilt millionaire footballers any more and took the money. Who can blame them? Jack wanted the best for the club, but he would never have wanted Rovers to become a millstone around the neck of his family, which is what would have happened if they continued to bankroll the club.

It's a crying shame that the club Jack built is being seemingly dismantled from afar, and we know that Jack Walker's family, very obviously, wanted to get the best deal for themselves.

However, it is unfair of Rovers fans to question their integrity and call for them to become involved again - Post-Jack, the family continued to pour millions into the club. They didn't have to do that.

Like it or not, it's not their business any more.

All very true but, and please someone correct me if I'm wrong, didn't the Walker Trust make the Venky's agree to certain conditions when they took over, such as NOT changing the management team? If so, it's a breach of contract and they should have taken the club back to preserve Jack Walker's legacy and found a different buyer.

All of us are stupid; Lord Haw Haw is doing a fantastic job in the Indians eyes, why would they sack him? Relegation or promotion is insignificant to them……The big sell to the Indians was stick with us (K & A) a we’ll guarantee to make you millions, you can’t lose. The Indians outlay has been paid back now with the sale of players, TV monies the wage bill has been drastically cut saving millions. From now on everything is just profit. They’ve still got future parachute payments, assets ie club, players, training ground etc etc………..the idea sold to them by K & A was they’d replace all the star players with younger players from the academy and cheaper transfer option who’ll just be happy to get a club ie that OPR reject. (Hence the scoucers mis-guided loyalty) any dissenting voices will be shown the door ie Nelsen, Hunt etc…..Lord Haw Haw is so confident of his job because the overall master plan depends on him being manager. This is financial agreement and the 3 parties involved need one another in situ for it to reap the rewards………….
Lord Haw Haw is UNSACKABLE…..one goes they all go…one stays they all stay.

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

The circus continues at ewood, I give up, how can you cost cut anymore than you have you idiots?I had a dream Rovers won the prem title last night then realised it was true!!!!Art et labore, we want our rovers back,....Tomorrows news today...'Venkys have announced First day of the championship next year the only ewood employees will be 15 Indian youth team players managed by an "experienced coach" in Steve Kean and the premier league is their destiny,'....how everything has went it could happen. Venkys out

Bombard the Indian media with e-mails. Let them hear the truth

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

Err I think anyway of getting this scum out of the club is a good thing.They are as near to billionaires as we are likely to see, and they don't give a jot. Whatever it takes to rid these pirates, is worth doing.

Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Now all the Cowboys are crying because there has been been a follow up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Indians won.

This is the second victory BRFC down the pan.

Tell me how does it feel now that your club will be playing in what all your fans derisory call the "Chumpionship"

Does it hurt? The pain will get bigger with your set up.

General George Armstrong Kean "What a guy!" How many of the so called fans could keep the same stance and brave front in all the abuse that has been aimed at him.

Time there was an age limit put on posters because a lot of them seem to come from immature, low IQ morons who cannot be classed as true fans.

It is the latter I feel sorry for because unfortunately everyone gets tarred with the same brush under the banner of "Fans"

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

If we had any say we wouldn't be in such a mess, there is no we in Blackburn at the moment.

Nero Wolfe wrote:

alfa111 wrote:
Venkys india shares have plummeted yet again since we were relegated hopefully its going to drop even more before the fans have finished, hope venkys india share drop right through the floor now just like has happened to BRFC whilst venkys took over rovers. KEAN YOU WILL BE GOING AND YOU NO IT. we the fans will be here long after you have been kicked out of this club we have all the time in the world bye bye kean.

Plummet is the right word. October 2010 Venkys India Limited 980 (rupees I guess). Today 355. Approaching 2/3 of value lost in 18 months. Justice!

Yep lets hope it keeps going that way,not one rupee left,it will serve them right,BRFC may be a fast sinking ship now,but there is a fookin big ice berg ready to hit venkys india company and with the might of god pray it will strike every venky chicken farm and takeaway an out break of a verminous chicken virus to you venkys.

Do not renew your season tickets , the smelly scum from india will sack more staff and there might be a chance the drunken scotch clown will be next .

KEAN OUT
SMELLY VENKYS OUT

Why has this newspaper totally ingnored the fact that there was a Youth FA Cup Final at Ewood last night.
We won the Tie But Lost the Cup in case your wondering

Well done to the Kids, you will all in the first team next year, just don`t expect to be paid much!!!!!!!

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote:
Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

gleechy wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

If we had any say we wouldn't be in such a mess, there is no we in Blackburn at the moment.

constuctive critism never were your strong point,don't go then and give up,i know we don't have a say that is the point

If this is how Venkys treat the football clib, the fans and the employees, god help the poor chickens!

Im very happy that the L.T has removed that picture of the current chairman/manger. Thankyou, he does not represent Blackburn Rovers.

He represents failure, deceit, over promotion, failure, relegation, chicken farms, failure, myles, poor speech, failure and most importantly failure.

*football club

Here again is you link to express how you feel about the shonkey chicken farmers www.venkys.com/ - India
let em have it

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Venk india company is in no way tied financially to Venkys London BRFC two different companies unlikely it would hit BRFC London, venkys have not invested any of there own india company or there own money other than the big sales money gathered by player sales, most of which went to pay off the debt left by walkers if venkys had any cash why did they not invest this wisely this season and why after all they have done should they change now?

Kean said: "I don't know to what extent we will have to cut costs. The budget is still be agreed. That will be a process that happens as quickly as possible.

"I think what we have got to do is assemble a squad and keep the players we can keep. Certainly the young players that are coming through, there is going to be lots of interest because they have done so well.

"We have established players like Paul Robinson and Morten Pedersen that have only played at a high level. I don't know if there will be other interest, but in conversation with them they are just as devastated as everyone else.

"I have spoken at great length with the owners and that will continue over the next six or seven days. The only objective for the owners and myself is to build a squad, it is as simple as that."

The only reason that you have to build a squad Mr Kean is because you have systematically dismantled the team and bought mainly rubbish to replace. It is a rebuilding of your own destruction. And "keep the players we can keep " is a tautology you numpty!

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Givet82 you are dead wrong on this.
The club is being dismantled and stripped as we sit typing.
Venkys will not go broke through anything happening in Blackburn. Anderson, Kean, Venkys have nothing at stake here, they are taking everything they can out. Its in a downward spiral and when the parachute payments are gone they will simply put the club in administration. Anything comig through the shop or the turnstiles as just a bonus.

greenscreener wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Givet82 you are dead wrong on this.
The club is being dismantled and stripped as we sit typing.
Venkys will not go broke through anything happening in Blackburn. Anderson, Kean, Venkys have nothing at stake here, they are taking everything they can out. Its in a downward spiral and when the parachute payments are gone they will simply put the club in administration. Anything comig through the shop or the turnstiles as just a bonus.

hang on my friend,the so called theories that all rover's fans are throwing about are the three you just mentioned have shares in the club(obviously venky's) so what you think is the parachute payment's about 50mil over 3 years or about that are more than staying in the premier league?Why do you think there share prices have plummeted over the past 12 month's?The one thing about indian's are they are tight and can balance books!You look at the likes of bolton and wigan they have lost tens and tens of millions.I just feel if we got a half decent manager in we could be back.Im not resigning our club to league 1.The likes of pourtsmouth,coventry
's and sheffield's had no way a better set up than rover's,look at our youth team.

100%rovers0%kean0%ve
nkys wrote:
http://www.timesnow.

tv/Venkys-deny-selli

ng-Blackburn/videosh

ow/4401844.cms

got to here it to believe it....i still can`t !!!!!!!!!!

Go to Times of India and leave your comments.

I do not believe a word they say anymore, 'cost cutting', no! Saying we won't have a deputy chief exec is like saying, lets stop using toilet paper to cut costs. There is no sense in it. Got to say it, TOTAL RUBBISH! Do they think we are stupid!

givet82 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Givet82 you are dead wrong on this.
The club is being dismantled and stripped as we sit typing.
Venkys will not go broke through anything happening in Blackburn. Anderson, Kean, Venkys have nothing at stake here, they are taking everything they can out. Its in a downward spiral and when the parachute payments are gone they will simply put the club in administration. Anything comig through the shop or the turnstiles as just a bonus.

hang on my friend,the so called theories that all rover's fans are throwing about are the three you just mentioned have shares in the club(obviously venky's) so what you think is the parachute payment's about 50mil over 3 years or about that are more than staying in the premier league?Why do you think there share prices have plummeted over the past 12 month's?The one thing about indian's are they are tight and can balance books!You look at the likes of bolton and wigan they have lost tens and tens of millions.I just feel if we got a half decent manager in we could be back.Im not resigning our club to league 1.The likes of pourtsmouth,coventry

's and sheffield's had no way a better set up than rover's,look at our youth team.

Sorry to point out the obvious but whilst the Venky's own the club Kean will be the 'manager'.

Iiii1111 wrote:
All of us are stupid; Lord Haw Haw is doing a fantastic job in the Indians eyes, why would they sack him? Relegation or promotion is insignificant to them……The big sell to the Indians was stick with us (K & A) a we’ll guarantee to make you millions, you can’t lose. The Indians outlay has been paid back now with the sale of players, TV monies the wage bill has been drastically cut saving millions. From now on everything is just profit. They’ve still got future parachute payments, assets ie club, players, training ground etc etc………..the idea sold to them by K & A was they’d replace all the star players with younger players from the academy and cheaper transfer option who’ll just be happy to get a club ie that OPR reject. (Hence the scoucers mis-guided loyalty) any dissenting voices will be shown the door ie Nelsen, Hunt etc…..Lord Haw Haw is so confident of his job because the overall master plan depends on him being manager. This is financial agreement and the 3 parties involved need one another in situ for it to reap the rewards………….

Lord Haw Haw is UNSACKABLE…..one goes they all go…one stays they all stay.

I agree the man's unsackable because, as you say, he's a key player in the master plan.
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Not sure if parachute payments apply if we go straight into Leagu 1.
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Kean's contract until June 2013 I believe.
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I’ve heard of managers taking clubs up through the leagues,
but never a manager taking a club down through the leagues. We’ve got an unique manager let’s all rejoice.

alfa111 wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Venk india company is in no way tied financially to Venkys London BRFC two different companies unlikely it would hit BRFC London, venkys have not invested any of there own india company or there own money other than the big sales money gathered by player sales, most of which went to pay off the debt left by walkers if venkys had any cash why did they not invest this wisely this season and why after all they have done should they change now?

very true alfa but they have shares in the brfc ones then that would be worthless if the worst does happen which is no good to anyone and they did invest cash just kean didn't invest it wisely

100%rovers0%kean0%ve
nkys wrote:
http://www.timesnow.

tv/Venkys-deny-selli

ng-Blackburn/videosh

ow/4401844.cms

got to here it to believe it....i still can`t !!!!!!!!!!

Go to Times of India and leave your comments.

Cost Cutting? I thought every club in the land has a CEO, we only had a deputy CEO. So who is now the most senior official at the club, Karen the accounts clerk?
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Who is making the decisions at the club now? You cannot tell me that they are allowing Kean to?

givet82 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Givet82 you are dead wrong on this. The club is being dismantled and stripped as we sit typing. Venkys will not go broke through anything happening in Blackburn. Anderson, Kean, Venkys have nothing at stake here, they are taking everything they can out. Its in a downward spiral and when the parachute payments are gone they will simply put the club in administration. Anything comig through the shop or the turnstiles as just a bonus.

hang on my friend,the so called theories that all rover's fans are throwing about are the three you just mentioned have shares in the club(obviously venky's) so what you think is the parachute payment's about 50mil over 3 years or about that are more than staying in the premier league?Why do you think there share prices have plummeted over the past 12 month's?The one thing about indian's are they are tight and can balance books!You look at the likes of bolton and wigan they have lost tens and tens of millions.I just feel if we got a half decent manager in we could be back.Im not resigning our club to league 1.The likes of pourtsmouth,coventry 's and sheffield's had no way a better set up than rover's,look at our youth team.

Sorry, but you are missing the point.

Its precisely because they can balance the books that they got us into this.

The clubs sky revenues, plus player value, plus minimal debt made it a no brainer to buy BRFC. It was very low risk because you can get your money back on trading players. Then if you succeed everybodys happy, if you fail you can walk away.
When Andersons crap 'advice'.... appoint my man Kean, buy these players, sell these players etc.
turned the mid table club into relegation fodder the only course of action they have is to sell, sack and cut until the revenue dries up.

It says alot when now the most senior official at the club, is an accounts clerk named Karen who was taken from a league one club doesnt it?
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There is absolutely no management structure left at the club now! Unless you count Karen and her daily cash spreadsheet!! What a farce!!! What an absolute farce!!!!!!!!!
VENKYS SCAMMERS, FRAUDSTERS AND LIARS

Nice to see the LET have finally replaced that picture of the vile man himself and replaced it with fans' favourite, David 'get real, nobody cares more than the players and manager' Dunn. WE GOT REAL AND WE WERE RIGHT!!!!

madari wrote:
Madari the snake charmer says:

THE END IS NIGH!!!

IN VENKYS WE TRUST!!!!!

LONG LIVE THE CLARETS!!!!

Madari the snake charmer says:
I play daily with my one-eyed snake. In other words, I'm a w@nker!

givet82 wrote:

alfa111 wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Venk india company is in no way tied financially to Venkys London BRFC two different companies unlikely it would hit BRFC London, venkys have not invested any of there own india company or there own money other than the big sales money gathered by player sales, most of which went to pay off the debt left by walkers if venkys had any cash why did they not invest this wisely this season and why after all they have done should they change now?

very true alfa but they have shares in the brfc ones then that would be worthless if the worst does happen which is no good to anyone and they did invest cash just kean didn't invest it wisely

Exactly what did they invest ?


If you bought a briefcase for £50 and found £250 inside it would you really care what happened to the briefcase ?

I'm still waiting for my apology

mr smooth wrote:
I'm still waiting for my apology

Give it up you wont get one.

i have sent a letter to Venkys outlining whats gone wrong and what need to be done to restore our faith...probably end up oin the street like the rest of the rubbish in India and no this is not racist it is FACT as i spent 6 weeks in Pune 4 yeras ago.

i wouldnt trust venkys if they said it was raining and i was getting wet....

what ever venkys touch goes down yhe pan, i had some venkys chicken last night, guess where that ended up this morning, you guessed it down the pan....

greenscreener wrote:

givet82 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Givet82 you are dead wrong on this. The club is being dismantled and stripped as we sit typing. Venkys will not go broke through anything happening in Blackburn. Anderson, Kean, Venkys have nothing at stake here, they are taking everything they can out. Its in a downward spiral and when the parachute payments are gone they will simply put the club in administration. Anything comig through the shop or the turnstiles as just a bonus.

hang on my friend,the so called theories that all rover's fans are throwing about are the three you just mentioned have shares in the club(obviously venky's) so what you think is the parachute payment's about 50mil over 3 years or about that are more than staying in the premier league?Why do you think there share prices have plummeted over the past 12 month's?The one thing about indian's are they are tight and can balance books!You look at the likes of bolton and wigan they have lost tens and tens of millions.I just feel if we got a half decent manager in we could be back.Im not resigning our club to league 1.The likes of pourtsmouth,coventry 's and sheffield's had no way a better set up than rover's,look at our youth team.

Sorry, but you are missing the point.

Its precisely because they can balance the books that they got us into this.

The clubs sky revenues, plus player value, plus minimal debt made it a no brainer to buy BRFC. It was very low risk because you can get your money back on trading players. Then if you succeed everybodys happy, if you fail you can walk away.
When Andersons crap 'advice'.... appoint my man Kean, buy these players, sell these players etc.
turned the mid table club into relegation fodder the only course of action they have is to sell, sack and cut until the revenue dries up.

Top of my list of sackings is firstly the one and only (fortunately) the rather daft Steve Kean and secondly (not too far behind), the slimey Jerome Anderson. Both of them deserve everything they are going to get- good riddance to bad rubbish

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote:
Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

givet82 wrote:

gleechy wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

If we had any say we wouldn't be in such a mess, there is no we in Blackburn at the moment.

constuctive critism never were your strong point,don't go then and give up,i know we don't have a say that is the point

Givet, are you called Greg?

Andrew Cryer‏@CryerRovers


All that Venkys video has done, which has now been taken down, is worried staff at Ewood. Ridiculous


can you believe that ..they have taken the video of their website....i WONDER why?????????????

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote:
Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:

gleechy wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote:
some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

If we had any say we wouldn't be in such a mess, there is no we in Blackburn at the moment.

constuctive critism never were your strong point,don't go then and give up,i know we don't have a say that is the point

Givet, are you called Greg?

no he is called steve

Unless KEANO does the honourable thing ( as if...he's a Glaswegian )

My friend Simon Niper will buy a house in Brockhall.

Arte et Labore
Ps. he's a lunatic crackshot

Right, I've renewed my ST and paid for it. I've decided that's not the thing I should have done under the circumstances, if we are to influence events in some way, however small that may be.
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Can I get my money back?
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Money for me is not an issue, the cost of the ST is irrelevant.
.
If it's not possible to be done, then I'll still attend but continue to verbally assault the complicit Mr. Kean.
.
Advice please.

Did you pay cash?

There's a way to legitimately return your ST....it depends how you paid for it.

S T E P D O W N K E A N O

Arte et Labore

BlueSkies wrote:
Right, I've renewed my ST and paid for it. I've decided that's not the thing I should have done under the circumstances, if we are to influence events in some way, however small that may be.
.
Can I get my money back?
.
Money for me is not an issue, the cost of the ST is irrelevant.
.
If it's not possible to be done, then I'll still attend but continue to verbally assault the complicit Mr. Kean.
.
Advice please.

I bet Kean's losing sleep over you.

happycyclist wrote:

BlueSkies wrote:
Right, I've renewed my ST and paid for it. I've decided that's not the thing I should have done under the circumstances, if we are to influence events in some way, however small that may be.
.
Can I get my money back?
.
Money for me is not an issue, the cost of the ST is irrelevant.
.
If it's not possible to be done, then I'll still attend but continue to verbally assault the complicit Mr. Kean.
.
Advice please.

I bet Kean's losing sleep over you.

And your point is what exactly?

07761879107 keans number
check out elhadji sioux diouf tweets.
he said he hates kean to and gave this number

Who the f@ck would want to buy us now? Kean + Venkys = W@NKERS. Do yer own maths, always get the same answer.

Anyone tried ordering venkys London company data from the companies house website. There accounts are due to be published on there soon....

Venkys the best cost cutting exercise you could do would be to get rid of the Manager - I know a man who could do the job as well as him for a 100th of his salary and unlike Agents I dont want commission just our club back please

If your so called bodyguard can read this Keanie, its time for him to look for another job, this one ain't worth it.

discussion and phone-in re Rovers on danny kelly 9pm tonight talkspurs

greenscreener wrote:

givet82 wrote:

alfa111 wrote:

givet82 wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

givet82 wrote: some of the above posts are absolute nonsense,firstly you want venky's shares to go broke do you? that would be the end of brfc and i do not want that they still have a bit of cash we just need to invest it wisely and yes everyone not going will hurt there pocket's but the point is we would go into administration and get relegated AGAIN,just beware people and think want you wish for.Ideally a multi billionaire would buy rovers and apoint jose mourinho but get real,this is a awful situation we need a new stategy because i fear kean and venky's are very stubborn proud people and going nowhere

It is already the end of BRFC. Why can you not see that? Do you seriously think we are going to bob around in the championship next season? It will be league one next if we are lucky. Kean and Venkys proud? You must not be very perceptive. They are ruthless and couldnt care less

you my friend are the exact opposite of kean and so miserably and negative,what i think is if we keep 80% of the team and get roberts back off loan then we can go back up,your right they are ruthless but you are wrong they can care because it's cash!Why is it over you think they want to go broke?It will be league 1 if everyone gives up. For the record i havn't renewed because i wanted to make them think about sales and hopefully sack kean but it's not going to happen is it. I hope your wrong anyway!

Venk india company is in no way tied financially to Venkys London BRFC two different companies unlikely it would hit BRFC London, venkys have not invested any of there own india company or there own money other than the big sales money gathered by player sales, most of which went to pay off the debt left by walkers if venkys had any cash why did they not invest this wisely this season and why after all they have done should they change now?

very true alfa but they have shares in the brfc ones then that would be worthless if the worst does happen which is no good to anyone and they did invest cash just kean didn't invest it wisely

Exactly what did they invest ?


If you bought a briefcase for £50 and found £250 inside it would you really care what happened to the briefcase ?

Ha ha, briefcase w@nker!

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote:
Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

Venkys you are a joke and a laughing stock for the worlds media

Race....you are havin a laff....Blackburn is a hotspot.

Some of our 'followers' are members of the LED and worse.

Ignorant isn't innit.......it's not their fault really.

I have great friends who refuse to go to Ewood because of it.

S T E P DOWN K E A N O

Arte et Labore
ps. John Lewis and India are well connected 5th Nov 1875....well before J Walker.

BlueSkies wrote:
Right, I've renewed my ST and paid for it. I've decided that's not the thing I should have done under the circumstances, if we are to influence events in some way, however small that may be.
.
Can I get my money back?
.
Money for me is not an issue, the cost of the ST is irrelevant.
.
If it's not possible to be done, then I'll still attend but continue to verbally assault the complicit Mr. Kean.
.
Advice please.

Hi BlueSkies - Don't do it pal.

39 years in the main I've attended Ewood and never felt the need ever to question the wisdom of those running OUR club but, my friend, this is a whole different ball game and under no circumstances should supporter's, of conscience, support what is so blatantly obvious. The absolute destruction of a stable grand old club bequeathed on to us by J. Walker.

Never in a million years do I believe for a moment that J. Walker would accept or condone that which is happening down at HIS football club after his input. That I'm quite sure of.

His memory is being besmirched not just by these who have bought the club but, more damning the TRUST.

People walking all over his legacy as though he didn't exist ? WTF is that all about - Business ?

No mate, Greed, ego and a total lack of respect for us, the club and most of all the town. That alone will keep me away.

I couldn't enjoy watching my team running around with such a odious, lying cretin as Kean and, I supported this utter c--- in the most practical of ways along with getting shat of my fellow supporters, and he carries on with absolute disdain hiding behind an aligned media outlet courting support whilst demonizing us, the supporter's.

The guy is patently not up to the job and, I'll bet my house he comes up worse in the Championship ?

Whence these lunatics have left I will return. They have destroyed our club and until it is put back in the hands of owners who care for it they can do the deed without me.

Hope this helps mate ?

Arte et labore

makaveli96 wrote:

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote: Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

If they want to make it a race issue they will - whatever anyone else says. The race card is played to suit circumstances. It was the fear of being branded racist which hampered the recent "grooming" case, remember.
Makaveli is no racist. He is nuts!

It is still not too late for an apology Steve.I'm not leaving till you do,I was born in Blackburn and this is my club

ee is justt from burnlieee

Unbelievable these so called owners - No one is to blame for being relegated.

I dont know what they put in their tea but it obviously takes them out of the real world and into fantasyland.

I doubt anyone who had pesided over 18 months of sheer lunacy gross mismanagement in their job would have complained if they had been sacked.

If they do sack Kean he will probably take them to a tribunal for unfair dismissal

Wake me when the nightmare is over please it just gets worse

W O N G A W O N G A W O N GA

S T E P D O W N K N * B H E A D

Arte et Labore
ps it's scary.......wooooooo
ohhhh

The BBC have announced that they are not showing Vidal Sassoons funeral in full, only the highlights.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because my wife cooked me dinner and I was 3 hours late back from the pub.

from Venkys website...it must be a joke.....,.
Anuradha J Desai, the Chairperson of Venky’s, said:

“We are delighted, proud and humbled to be associated with Blackburn Rovers, a team with whom we share many values and ambitions. Going forward we plan to focus on leveraging the global influence in establishing Blackburn Rovers as a truly global brand. We will absolutely respect the Jack Walker legacy and will be actively supporting the organisation to ensure that Blackburn Rovers remains one of the best run Clubs within the Premier League

My wife was shocked when she found out the massive twist in the film we were watching last night.

I'd taped match of the day over our wedding video.

who the f*ck spiked his drink?

S T E P D O W N K N * B HEED

Arte et Labore
ps have you seen him with a wig on.... he looks normal

As I sat on the sofa eating some cereal in my underpants, I realised my laziness was becoming a serious issue.

Still though, washing up a bowl would have been such an effort

can he even read?

STEP DOWN NOW KN*B HEED

Arte et Labore
ps you can pay back what you owe us too.......familly man.

I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching... my car into reverse and driving away from the accident.

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Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

e howe as just been seen w*nking outside ewood.

Arte et Labore
ps John Bond was filming him

I've just read that Vidal Sassoon's son will receive nothing from his father's will.

I can't believe that he's cut off his own Heir.

I'm hearing Rangers have been offered a place in the Blue Square premier league.

They have declined the offer however ,as they won't do Woking away .

Cost cutting my ar5e. I've said before these idiots need a good PR person (I even think Hunt recommended this in his letter).

It's business as usual lies, lies and more lies. Venkys and Kean have told so many lies they really don't know what the truth is anymore. This is the only explanation I have for such incompetence.

These morons are really making BRFC the laughing stock of English football never mind the PL.

Melanie :-) wrote:
Visit this web site.

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Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

Spot on, wish this was in the national papers, but that will never happen, worse luck.

Melanie :-) wrote:
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Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

Quality Melanie :)

And also very true down to the last word.

We must arm ourselves with quality of facts and strong argument to counter for our club. It must be seen that this is not some rabble that is moaning and groaning, as some would suggest.

I read the broadsheets(not the red tops - ever) online and there is strong support for Blackburn up and down the country, along with the negatives, of course. This will not help that which as come to pass but, the end game is what we have to achieve and prevent, through strong and loud dignified facts. It must be shown that the destruction of our national game linking local community's, by people of greed, through the already administrated clubs, and those that could follow is not acceptable and, blow the myth that only Premier League football is what supporters wish for.

Scudamore as today come out with utter drivel and the lax framework that is in place for the prevention of such acts. It just is not good enough.

We can save our club from administration only by keeping the pressure on at all levels. I urge all BRFC supporters to begin to take part on a daily basis through various outlets with constructive argument thus keeping the plight of Rovers in the media limelight before it reaches the worst possible scenario. If our plight at least prevents another club from going to the wall with unscrupulous owners then I think we can at least be in the knowledge we have helped, if only in a small way ?

I see a BRSIT meeting is taking place 26 May at KGH. I'm looking forward to that.

The passion, dedication and loyalty is still in me for Blackburn Rovers. More so now for totally different reasons. I believe a difference can be made and these shysters can be, at least, slowed down in what very many can now see.

We have to keep the spotlight on them and counter that which is evidently not true as regards BRFC.

'All is fair in love and war"

See you on your pages. My email address as become spammed to death so have had to change it !

Arte et labore

In the present financial climate cutting back cost is a very prudent thing to do and something many clubs will be forced to do.
However it is something that needs to be done by people with knowledge of football on and off the field.To allow rank amateurs to try and complete the process in twelve months is down right criminal.To allow it to contiue is beyond words,but it will continue because it is now unstoppable.
I will not renew and to be honest will probably never enter Ewood again but I will never forget Rovers and I will never forgive Kean,Iknow there are others to blame but his lies have made their wrong doings possible.
The Rovers I have supported for 60+ years is gone.

eddie the eagle wrote:
In the present financial climate cutting back cost is a very prudent thing to do and something many clubs will be forced to do.
However it is something that needs to be done by people with knowledge of football on and off the field.To allow rank amateurs to try and complete the process in twelve months is down right criminal.To allow it to contiue is beyond words,but it will continue because it is now unstoppable.
I will not renew and to be honest will probably never enter Ewood again but I will never forget Rovers and I will never forgive Kean,Iknow there are others to blame but his lies have made their wrong doings possible.
The Rovers I have supported for 60+ years is gone.

Your right Eddie.
Streamlining is not a bad thing one iota and you put well the argument.

Let them come out and say it and, they will be supported by many with attendance.

Will they ever learn ?

Arte et labore

Melanie :-) wrote:
Visit this web site.

http://ewoodpark.jim


do.com

Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

Excellent, well measured argument explaining in a balanced manner the plight of Blackburn Rovers. Well done.

riversidefan wrote:

SimonGarner wrote:
There has been a lot of talk about the Walker Trust on here.

They sold up because they don't have the same interest in Rovers as Jack did. They didn't want to bankroll spoilt millionaire footballers any more and took the money. Who can blame them? Jack wanted the best for the club, but he would never have wanted Rovers to become a millstone around the neck of his family, which is what would have happened if they continued to bankroll the club.

It's a crying shame that the club Jack built is being seemingly dismantled from afar, and we know that Jack Walker's family, very obviously, wanted to get the best deal for themselves.

However, it is unfair of Rovers fans to question their integrity and call for them to become involved again - Post-Jack, the family continued to pour millions into the club. They didn't have to do that.

Like it or not, it's not their business any more.

All very true but, and please someone correct me if I'm wrong, didn't the Walker Trust make the Venky's agree to certain conditions when they took over, such as NOT changing the management team? If so, it's a breach of contract and they should have taken the club back to preserve Jack Walker's legacy and found a different buyer.

Why would they?

Even if they did ask for that, It would have been a very hard request to maintain.

They wanted out, and understandably so.

The Venky clowns have dishonoured their nation as a lot of people now would consider doing business with Indians as a dodgy venture.Trust and honour dont come into it with the Chuckle Bothers family as they dispicably bring their mothers death into the frame for nothing more than trying to get people on their side.These people are not good businessmen as they clearly think but simply asset strippers or carpetbaggers as they used to be known or theives as they were called before that.
Theres a long way to go yet, player sales, parachute payments, selling land, cutting staff, even ground sharing if they sell the ground who knows?
Maybe these are the changes V Rao is talking about.

makaveli96 wrote:

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote: Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

Mak, as someone born and bred in the town I've lived all my life with a BB post code. My familys roots are in Little Harwood, with the Walker family. I've also travelled widely for business and pleasure. I've been a season ticket holder for many years and before that played the game at a good amateur level.
I think I have a reasonable grasp of most aspects of whats happening here. If you know Blackburn you will appreciate I have strong feelings about the changes that have taken place in the town and the club and on the pitch at Ewood Park.
I don't mind your occasional comedy moments cheering up these pages but don't encourage people to make this about race, it isn't. To go down that route will invite more ill informed criticism from the media and turn a large body of public opinion against us for no reason. This is not the time or the place for that debate.

im really interested to know how many season tickets have been sold iv heard different rumours,
scum kean
scum venks
r i p b r f c

greenscreener wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote: Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

Mak, as someone born and bred in the town I've lived all my life with a BB post code. My familys roots are in Little Harwood, with the Walker family. I've also travelled widely for business and pleasure. I've been a season ticket holder for many years and before that played the game at a good amateur level. I think I have a reasonable grasp of most aspects of whats happening here. If you know Blackburn you will appreciate I have strong feelings about the changes that have taken place in the town and the club and on the pitch at Ewood Park. I don't mind your occasional comedy moments cheering up these pages but don't encourage people to make this about race, it isn't. To go down that route will invite more ill informed criticism from the media and turn a large body of public opinion against us for no reason. This is not the time or the place for that debate.

The "Daily News and Analysis" of India is getting a little defensive and sensitive.

Bazzer wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote: Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

Mak, as someone born and bred in the town I've lived all my life with a BB post code. My familys roots are in Little Harwood, with the Walker family. I've also travelled widely for business and pleasure. I've been a season ticket holder for many years and before that played the game at a good amateur level. I think I have a reasonable grasp of most aspects of whats happening here. If you know Blackburn you will appreciate I have strong feelings about the changes that have taken place in the town and the club and on the pitch at Ewood Park. I don't mind your occasional comedy moments cheering up these pages but don't encourage people to make this about race, it isn't. To go down that route will invite more ill informed criticism from the media and turn a large body of public opinion against us for no reason. This is not the time or the place for that debate.

The "Daily News and Analysis" of India is getting a little defensive and sensitive.

Bazzer, I thought you were with me on this, the race card is an easy out to distract people from the real issue. We don't need it here.

I'm certainly with you, Mak is nuts !

greenscreener wrote:

Bazzer wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote: Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

Mak, as someone born and bred in the town I've lived all my life with a BB post code. My familys roots are in Little Harwood, with the Walker family. I've also travelled widely for business and pleasure. I've been a season ticket holder for many years and before that played the game at a good amateur level. I think I have a reasonable grasp of most aspects of whats happening here. If you know Blackburn you will appreciate I have strong feelings about the changes that have taken place in the town and the club and on the pitch at Ewood Park. I don't mind your occasional comedy moments cheering up these pages but don't encourage people to make this about race, it isn't. To go down that route will invite more ill informed criticism from the media and turn a large body of public opinion against us for no reason. This is not the time or the place for that debate.

The "Daily News and Analysis" of India is getting a little defensive and sensitive.

Bazzer, I thought you were with me on this, the race card is an easy out to distract people from the real issue. We don't need it here. I'm certainly with you, Mak is nuts !

I AM with you on this. What I am trying to say is that the race card can be played notwithstanding apparent racist comments. I recall a few of us on this board examining the platitudes and decoding the utterings of one Ahsan Ali Syed. Accusations of racism flew about then. He is now on the run from Interpol.
I believe Makaveli is a student of Shakespeare. The role of the "fool" is a theme of his works from Feste in Twelfth Night to the Gravediggers in Hamlet.
It is time that Makaveli revealed himself as a sophisticated, urbane Professor of English literature - and NOT a born within the walls, insular Blackburnian.

Bazzer wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

Bazzer wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

greenscreener wrote:

MORTEN GAMST 84 wrote: Like the Blackburn Area in general, the football club ruined (atm and only temporary I hope) by people from a different continent not wanting to interact with the locals who shouldn't be here with that kind of attitude...the uk governments immigration policy is as useless as the premier leagues fit and proper persons test.

Please don't try to turn this into a race issue. It isn't. We don't need another excuse for Andersons media to demonise Blackburn fans.

Why is it wrong to look after our "OWN" anymore?

Totally wrong time for this,wind up or not, We have scum that are just begging for an excuse to make this about race,so for once,just shut the f#ck up

Do you even live in the town?

Mak, as someone born and bred in the town I've lived all my life with a BB post code. My familys roots are in Little Harwood, with the Walker family. I've also travelled widely for business and pleasure. I've been a season ticket holder for many years and before that played the game at a good amateur level. I think I have a reasonable grasp of most aspects of whats happening here. If you know Blackburn you will appreciate I have strong feelings about the changes that have taken place in the town and the club and on the pitch at Ewood Park. I don't mind your occasional comedy moments cheering up these pages but don't encourage people to make this about race, it isn't. To go down that route will invite more ill informed criticism from the media and turn a large body of public opinion against us for no reason. This is not the time or the place for that debate.

The "Daily News and Analysis" of India is getting a little defensive and sensitive.

Bazzer, I thought you were with me on this, the race card is an easy out to distract people from the real issue. We don't need it here. I'm certainly with you, Mak is nuts !

I AM with you on this. What I am trying to say is that the race card can be played notwithstanding apparent racist comments. I recall a few of us on this board examining the platitudes and decoding the utterings of one Ahsan Ali Syed. Accusations of racism flew about then. He is now on the run from Interpol. I believe Makaveli is a student of Shakespeare. The role of the "fool" is a theme of his works from Feste in Twelfth Night to the Gravediggers in Hamlet. It is time that Makaveli revealed himself as a sophisticated, urbane Professor of English literature - and NOT a born within the walls, insular Blackburnian.

then we are as one.

I now see why Mak has regularly been cast as Bottom in these pages.

With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,
Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro:
Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kings
While trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head;
No cries of misery she hears, no tears she heeds,
But steely hearted laughs at groans her deeds have wrung.
Such is a game she plays, and so she tests her strength;
Of mighty power she makes parade when one short hour
Sees happiness from utter desolation grow.
(Boethius).

I believe it was a cost cutting measure. the Venkys are cutting administrative costs so they can pave the way for big new signings on teh pitch, where it matters. I applaud this move. Besides, the disloyal Hunt wanted to sack Kean. And whatever you say about Steve Kean, he doesn't deserve this back biting. So he had to go.

There are lies, **** lies and Venky's.............
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Anybody with any sense will not put another penny into Rovers while Venkys are in charge. In doing so you are not supporting Rovers, you are supporting Venkys destruction of Rovers. Don’t be blind or stupid, STOP FUNDING VENKYS REGIME.