Rovers Blog: We’re on the slide – and it’s down to Venky’s (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Rovers Blog: We’re on the slide – and it’s down to Venky’s
1:40pm Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Dan Clough
By Dan Clough, Reporter
LOOK on the bright side, at least the East Lancashire Derby could be back on the cards next season.
Apart from a reunion with our dear friends from down the motorway, I can’t see any positives on the Rovers horizon.
Nobody in the right mind would expected us to go to Arsenal and get anything, but you’d expect us to go down with a bit more of a fight. Pathetic is the only word that springs to mind.
In between all that were the severe words of a man treated very harshly by Rovers fans since being brought to the club by Paul Ince.
Keith Andrews’s Ewood Park nightmare finally came to an end as he sealed a move to West Brom.
I have argued with other Rovers fans about this until I’ve been blue in the face, but Andrews was not as bad as he was made out to be.
His comments are a cause for concern. Having left the club he has been able to lift the lid on the way he was treated. But his is just one situation.
What is going on with all the other players in our squad? And with Chris Samba so desperate to move, claiming he has been lied to, then there is no reason to believe the Andrews situation is an isolated incident.
We are going down, we have to just come to terms with that. And it is Venky’s fault we find ourselves in this position. They have taken the best-run club in the Premier League and turned it into a laughing stock in just one year. That’s quite an achievement.
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Comments (17)
2:58pm Tue 7 Feb 12
jackmetickler says...
Do we sit back and tootle down to ewood till the end of the season, further lining the pockets of the agent saboteurs or do we fight the chicken plucking leeches on the beaches ....
come on lets have a real go at getting rid of them
As for playing the dingles next year as being a positive; cant agree with you there.
Letting those half-wits anywhere near our beloved club is Sacrilegious
3:09pm Tue 7 Feb 12
MxMave says...
3:56pm Tue 7 Feb 12
BioBlueNWhite says...
Beyond caring anymore!
4:03pm Tue 7 Feb 12
dallydally says...
4:18pm Tue 7 Feb 12
French Rover says...
4:58pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Rovers til I cry says...
I'm sure we all hope you are proved right, but I just can't see it.
5:56pm Tue 7 Feb 12
MxMave says...
It would have totally kept me onside if they did that a few months ago, companies underestimate on takovers, it happens, just be honest with us.
6:51pm Tue 7 Feb 12
grrrzie says...
7:38pm Tue 7 Feb 12
god Im bored says...
I just dont care anymore!
Be relegated, loose money, I dont care.
You stupid arrogant Indian fools!!
The trouble is, you lot will move on, pehaps to ruin another sports venture with a proud past, but unfortunately, I was born and bread here and what you have done will never be forgotten!
Another nail in the coffin of a once proud industrial English town.
I will not comment anymore about BRFC, I really have given up.
The patient has now been pronounced DEAD!
9:49pm Tue 7 Feb 12
El Tel says...
9:16am Wed 8 Feb 12
Billypieman says...
9:59am Wed 8 Feb 12
parkinsonc says...
The problem is, the more you care, the more it hurts - every time we are lied to, every time a promise is broken, every time a newspaper criticises the fans, every time a good player is sold or let go, and yes, every time we lose.
Just cant go on spending large parts of the weeks and months feeling sh*tty because of what is after all only a football club.
I used to love going to Rovers, it was part of my life growing up - me, my dad and grandad going to every game, talking about it after and through the week in between games, friendly banter about footy with friends & colleagues. Very very happy memories, but thats all they are now unfortunately.
12:37pm Wed 8 Feb 12
smellthecoffee says...
12:41pm Wed 8 Feb 12
smellthecoffee says...
ELY CLUELESS!!
6:32pm Wed 8 Feb 12
Reg Rover says...
Venky’s purchase of Blackburn Rovers has left them with a global PR disaster.
If the Rao family (picture above) plan was to put Venky’s on the map using football it has worked beyond their wildest imagination. What they did not envisage however was that it would be such a total disaster. Venky’s did not realise the publicity power owning a Premiership club would bring, to leave a mess at Blackburn Rovers would be a global public relations disaster, it would destroy the credibility of an entire region in India and those at its helm.
They have to make a go of it. But are failing to do so as BLACKBURN ROVERS plummet into free fall and out of the BARCLAYS PREMIERSHIP and into oblivion.
As protests at their ownership are broadcast worldwide through television, radio and newspapers their brand name is associated with failure.
As VENKY’S look to open more fast food outlets throughout the UK,USA, Europe and the subcontinent the brand name is tainted.
Venky’s means Blackburn Rovers through the eyes of the consumer and Blackburn Rovers means failure, simple as.
Venky’s reluctance to invest with substantial finance in Blackburn Rovers by appointing an experienced and creditable manager and signing good players poses the question WHY DID THEY BUY THE CLUB?
It has done them nothing but harm.
Unlike Sheik Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nayhan, owner of Manchester City whose plan to put Abu Dhabi on the map using football has worked beyond all wildest imagination. What it means though is that those who smugly predict that one day Sheik Mansour will tire of his toy and depart, leaving City with an unsustainable business model and on the brink of collapse, could not be more wrong.
Abu Dhabi could not quit on City now even if it wanted to, its image and those of its worldwide business interests would destroy all their credibility. They have to make a go of it and Sheik Mansour knows it, unlike the Venky’s.
Reg
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3:45pm Thu 9 Feb 12
tugaycomeback says...
1:36pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Ianwhittam says...
And on your second point ,do you honestly think warnock would do worse than kean has. I'm no fan of warnock, but at least he knows about football management. There has been precious little honesty, with local mp's focussing on kean bad-mouthing supporters. Anderson has tried to besmirch the name of fans by making shrouded allegations on a tv interview, and it must be him behind the ridiculous situation of the weekly suppression of freedom of speech on this site. The LT has not even offered a rationale for this action or a statement justifying the need. Nothing is put on the forum on a weekend that different to postings during the rest of the week, therefore it has to be a pathetic attempt at flexing muscles and in actuality worsening the situation between long standing genuine supporters of the club, or,( because of there 'don't give a ****' attitude) the present owners.
I have just read about Wolves sacking there manager.... perhaps the venkys think that a manager is for life not just christmas!!!!