ON THE SPOT: Put your Rovers questions to Andy Cryer (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Hi Andy,
I do not know how you gather your information but like many others on here we trek through every available source on the internet.My question is do you have to await official BRFC releases before you can issue a story as in the case of O.G.S joining us which you wrote the other day plus his photo the guy states he has not had any communication with Rovers so where did your story come from? was it the the Mirror making it up again?

Hi andy! Who do you personally think blackburn will go for as their new manager?

Not a question I know but...

Was listening to Keys & Grey this morning who had a journalist on with them (can't remember the name unfortunately) who said he knew for a 'fact' that the owners had phoned a manager to get the phone numbers of other managers they wanted to speak to about the Rovers job! They then finished the call by asking if the manager they were speaking to was interested!!!

Talk about amateurs. The journalist didn't mention any names. I know its Talksport, but still....

hi andy do you think the next manager should be someone who is young hungry with fresh ideas who travells around learning how other teams work across europe? or go for someone who is set in there ways with lots of experiernce in getting teams out of the championship then gets nowere in the prem ?

Hi Andy

Do you think Jordan Rhodes will score again this season ?

Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.

FCBurnley wrote:
Hi Andy

Do you think Jordan Rhodes will score again this season ?

Hi Andy, do you think Burnley fans will ever stop being bitter and twisted in their relentless obsession of hating Rovers 1st and supporting their team 2nd? Do you think they will ever accept they are nothing but an unimportant zit in the footballing world? How likely is Charlie Austin going to sign for Rovers in January, or is it more likely to be the summer transfer window once we have returned to the Premiership?

Hi Andy, what is your feeling you are getting from the club as to how likely they are to appoint Black full time. Are they strongly up for it?

Hello Andy,

What is your shoe size?

You recently tweeted @ venkys_advisors : 'apologies, you of course know better....'. What was that in relation to? Your managerial speculations?

My choice for the next rovers manager would be Rafa Benitez with Jamie Carragher as his assitant /player/defence coach

Nuttall Street wrote:
Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.

I'll answer that one for you.
1 They wanted out ASAP.
2 Venky's, sadly as it quickly turned out, were the only interested buyers. God only knows why!

Have you heard if the Rovers are actively searching for shirt and/or ground sponsorship for the rest of this season now that the protests have stopped?

andy do you realy think that mrs d realy does have the last word on what happens at ewood

andy do you think that making eric black manager would sit right with the fans when a lot of them think he is guilty by association whether that be right or wrong and would put him on the back foot from the off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

Also Camelot for the Arc on Sunday?

It s not answers from Andy we want it's answers from the Venkys on when this Bloody nightmare is going to end.

Wockneys wrote:
Not a question I know but... Was listening to Keys & Grey this morning who had a journalist on with them (can't remember the name unfortunately) who said he knew for a 'fact' that the owners had phoned a manager to get the phone numbers of other managers they wanted to speak to about the Rovers job! They then finished the call by asking if the manager they were speaking to was interested!!! Talk about amateurs. The journalist didn't mention any names. I know its Talksport, but still....

take it you have never had a company ask you if you knew of any good people as they were currently recruiting. its called sounding people out , without getting sued.

Andy - do you think that Rovers will still have money to invest on shaping the team for the new manager - after all the money that has been wasted on Agents and Rabble

makaveli96 wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

Also Camelot for the Arc on Sunday?

Rovers are a Global outfit not like Burnley who are a parochial team on the borders of Yorkshire. :-)

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

I disagree. I live in London and am from South Africa but have supported Blackburn Rovers ever since I was about 6 years old. My father played rugby for Blackburn back in the 60s and used to go watch them when we were in division 2.

The fact that I don't live, or ever have lived in Blackburn, is neither here nor there. Rovers is my number sporting team, above the Springboks, and have been just as passionate about the clubs recent issues as someone who lives in Blackburn.

andy how much wages are keans summer signings on, mainly murphy.
paul from clayton le moors.

hi Andy, what do you estimate the attendance to be against wolves and do you think their would be even more if venkys sold up.

who did Kean actually resign to?
Agnew......... said he didnt know that he had resigned
Shaw........... said he didnt know that he had resigned
venkies........ were tucked up in bed

So who did he actually resign to?

SaffaRover wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

I disagree. I live in London and am from South Africa but have supported Blackburn Rovers ever since I was about 6 years old. My father played rugby for Blackburn back in the 60s and used to go watch them when we were in division 2.

The fact that I don't live, or ever have lived in Blackburn, is neither here nor there. Rovers is my number sporting team, above the Springboks, and have been just as passionate about the clubs recent issues as someone who lives in Blackburn.

Take no notice mate. Makeveli is as giddy as a kipper. I don't think he really means it. He makes up for it with his gags.
Andy do you think that the people who have been criticizing rovers fans are suggesting that fans from other clubs from different parts of the country would react differently to the same set of circumstances and are therefore guilty of some kind of prejudice against east lancastrians?

Andy
Do you think that the Burnley fans will get the incest laws repealed in your lifetime?

Nuttall Street wrote:
Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.

The trustees have a duty to the Walker Trust, not to Rovers. None of the remaining Walkers cared about football and it is just the same as when you sell your car and pocket the readies - you don't care who buys it or what happens to it once its sold.
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Some people think the WT is guilt-ridden by seeling to the Venky's. They're not.

Just want to air some concerns regarding the rovers,First point is the back four,,its leaking far too many goals, I know we kept a clean sheet against forest,,,but that was purely the ineptitude of the forest forward line rather than good defending,,whoever comes in needs to address this problem quickly,, before we get a real trouncing,,because we have been very fortunate upto now,,by the way Black went to forest to get a point instead of three,,how negative is that,,apart from our back 4 we have such a creative midfield and forward line and we should be taking it to the opposition,,,if we concede 3 then we must score 4,,,,,simple

Nuttall Street wrote:
Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.

While you're at it Andy,can you find out why there were not enough lifeboats on the Titantic?Why Hitler really invaded Poland?Who shot JFK?
Move on!! It's ancient history now and we are stuck with them!
Let's look forward. With the right managerial appointment the good times could be on the way back! Questionning why the Walker's Trust sold to them is immaterial now!
COYB!

Hi Andy, question from a Rovers die hard in creepy Crawley West Sussex, have you applied for the job ???

Hi Andy, its time for the kings got no clothes on moment. Can you tell Eric Black that Murphy is rubbish please? He has brought nothing to the table and needs dropping sharpish. How long are we going to keep taking to the field a man down.
RUinsane Darwen

Nuttall Street wrote:
Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.

What qualifications do you need to own a club? A 1:1 in History? From what I can see the only qualification you need is plenty of spondulicks. I think they qualify in that department

careoak wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

Also Camelot for the Arc on Sunday?

Rovers are a Global outfit not like Burnley who are a parochial team on the borders of Yorkshire. :-)

For "global" read "cowboy"

RUinsane wrote:
Hi Andy, its time for the kings got no clothes on moment. Can you tell Eric Black that Murphy is rubbish please? He has brought nothing to the table and needs dropping sharpish. How long are we going to keep taking to the field a man down.
RUinsane Darwen

I think you should be directing that to Shaggy. I reckon the Malaysian tactical genius is picking the team

god Im bored wrote:
who did Kean actually resign to?
Agnew......... said he didnt know that he had resigned
Shaw........... said he didnt know that he had resigned
venkies........ were tucked up in bed

So who did he actually resign to?

Fantastic question :) Good stuff

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

And eat potato pie at least once a week !

makaveli96 wrote:
Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

And eat potato pie at least once a week !

SaffaRover wrote:

makaveli96 wrote: Andy, wouldnt you agee that all true Blackburn Fans would live in the town, and ideally be born in he town?

I disagree. I live in London and am from South Africa but have supported Blackburn Rovers ever since I was about 6 years old. My father played rugby for Blackburn back in the 60s and used to go watch them when we were in division 2. The fact that I don't live, or ever have lived in Blackburn, is neither here nor there. Rovers is my number sporting team, above the Springboks, and have been just as passionate about the clubs recent issues as someone who lives in Blackburn.

Don't rise to him. He drinks Belgian lager for Chr!$ts sake.

Ask the Venkys whether they think it was a good idea to still keep Kean as manager after the Bolton game last year in the premiership? Has it harmed their relationship with the fans and reputation in the media, that they could stand by such a manager, who is hated and clearly out of his depth and incompetent in his job.
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Ask them and plead with them, to appoint a manager with experience this time, at championship level of above!
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Do not appoint the guy who puts out the cones for the training sessions that a lesson to learn!

icannotrace wrote:

Nuttall Street wrote:
Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.

What qualifications do you need to own a club? A 1:1 in History? From what I can see the only qualification you need is plenty of spondulicks. I think they qualify in that department

Well, icannotrace, a few qualifications that I could think of, none of which Venky's meet, are as follows:
1. Knowledge or experience in football.
2. Prior achievement in sports management or ownership.
3. A connection with Blackburn or East Lancashire.
4. Experience in dealing in the media.
5. Achievement in business administration in the UK.
6. Being fit and proper people with a reputation for integrity.
7. Commitment to invest in the club with access to the necessary funds.
8. Having a strategy for conducting ownership.
9. Being committed to devoting substantial personal attention to developing the club.

I am sure that fans could add to the list, but the point is that there is a wide chasm between Venkys and the owners the Walker Trust should have been looking for. This is very relevant to the present as it raises the questions of how Venkys represented themselves to the WT and what commitments, if any, Venkys gave about their future conduct of the club. Whatever undertakings Venkys gave they are surely in breach of them.

Andy, if you were made caretaker manager for the next few games what would be your starting XI, and in what formation? More specifically, would there be players who were frozen out/underused by Kean that you'd bring back into the fold?

Scott, working away in Pembrokeshire (commuting for every game!)

Andy-Do you ever deem to answer any of the logical questions printed on here? Branted there are only about 3 realistic questions.

What is wrong with the guy with the foreign name asking if fans should live in Blackburn only a few fans live in Blackburn we all move around the country with jobs families etc etc how can he have a problem with that?I lived in the Queens Park area for 16 years and then moved away but I am now in Whalley so its only 12 miles each way to watch a game and I can breath fresh air so my mind is clear and I dont write rubbish telling everyone else where they should live.

noddy57 wrote:
Just want to air some concerns regarding the rovers,First point is the back four,,its leaking far too many goals, I know we kept a clean sheet against forest,,,but that was purely the ineptitude of the forest forward line rather than good defending,,whoever comes in needs to address this problem quickly,, before we get a real trouncing,,because we have been very fortunate upto now,,by the way Black went to forest to get a point instead of three,,how negative is that,,apart from our back 4 we have such a creative midfield and forward line and we should be taking it to the opposition,,,if we concede 3 then we must score 4,,,,,simple

thats what sk thought!

Andy could you find out who does own Blackburn Rovers. With statments from kean saying he would be surprised if he was sacked it makes you think just who ownes the club.

Nuttall Street wrote:
Andy, I would like to know why the Walker Trust chose the Venky's to sell Rovers to. They were trusted to act in the interests of the club and they chose the worst possible people to sell to. Not only do Venky's not have any apparent qualifications to own the club, but upon closer experience of them they have many serious contra indicators.
I'll answer that one for you.
1 They wanted out ASAP.
2 Venky's, sadly as it quickly turned out, were the only interested buyers. God only knows why!

What qualifications do you need to own a club? A 1:1 in History? From what I can see the only qualification you need is plenty of spondulicks. I think they qualify in that department
Well, icannotrace, a few qualifications that I could think of, none of which Venky's meet, are as follows:
1. Knowledge or experience in football.
2. Prior achievement in sports management or ownership.
3. A connection with Blackburn or East Lancashire.
4. Experience in dealing in the media.
5. Achievement in business administration in the UK.
6. Being fit and proper people with a reputation for integrity.
7. Commitment to invest in the club with access to the necessary funds.
8. Having a strategy for conducting ownership.
9. Being committed to devoting substantial personal attention to developing the club.

In response to the many comments made about BRFC....
BRFC are a small town club who had been elevated to the premier league due to 'Jack Walker' and his money. Without him BRFC would be languishing in the lower leagues.
For the last 2 decades Blackburn have secured their status as a premier league club. They are an established club with premier written all over. They deserve to be up there. Their record speaks for itself over the last 20 years.
Unfortunately, a few teams have to go down every year and this time round it was BRFC.
Fortunately, BRFC will be head and shoulders better than the others in the championship and should come up sooner rather than later. With the playing staff at their disposal it should be a formality. All BRFC have not got is a fan base..dedicated supporters who will follow the club through all times. BRFC are losing the battle because their fan base is so small compared to other premier teams and also the supporters have been through difficult times with the many changes at BRFC.

Also..........
The problems did not start with Venkys taking over, rather the issues were that the Walker family & Trust did not want to back BRFC in the manner that 'Our Jack Walker' did.
The demise began from when the family of Jack walker were not prepared to back BRFC in the manner that OUR Jack Walker would have expected.
The family had been trying to sell BRFC secretly just after the death of Jack Walker....and only sold after such a long time.
There were simply no buyers for the club.
No one was prepared to part with their money for BRFC.
BRFC were extremely lucky to eventually find a buyer.
Thank God we found a buyer......!!!
Also, all the senior players were continually being told that as soon as new buyers would come in their salaries would be renegotiated so as to allow them big increases, which was a blatant lie.
The problems of BRFC started from that point on wards.
BRFC waited for many months / years to find some buyers but to no avail.
It seemed no one wanted to buy the club. Eventually Venkys bought the club.
Actually BRFC were fortunate that Venkeys did buy as there did not seem to be any other interest at all.
BRFC had no choice as the family of Jack Walker wanted to get rid of the (BRFC) family jewels.

We need to get used to the idea that foreigners own our football clubs,
If the people of Blackburn were so interested why did we not come up with a plan for the club together with the Jack Walker foundation and family.
Unfortunately, the Walker family were not interested in selling to the people as they would have not got much money from the people of Blackburn.... They would have had to give the club away for FREE
as no one in Blackburn has any money.......!!!
And the Walker family sold as they knew it was time to stop bank rolling BRFC and get as much as they possibly could , which they did and have now disappeared. away from BRFC.




Finally, Real football fans are those who stick through Good and bad times.
I ask ...you BRFC supporters...Are you a real BRFC fan...???
You can’t always be winners
And compared to some premier teams we are really small,....!!

Let’s be positive and get on with our job as supporters

Let’s get behind the team and playing staff and BRFC

And this should lead us to GLORY and the premiership.....SIMP
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What qualifications do you need to own a club? A 1:1 in History? From what I can see the only qualification you need is plenty of spondulicks. I think they qualify in that department
Well, icannotrace, a few qualifications that I could think of, none of which Venky's meet, are as follows:
1. Knowledge or experience in football.
2. Prior achievement in sports management or ownership.
3. A connection with Blackburn or East Lancashire.
4. Experience in dealing in the media.
5. Achievement in business administration in the UK.
6. Being fit and proper people with a reputation for integrity.
7. Commitment to invest in the club with access to the necessary funds.
8. Having a strategy for conducting ownership.
9. Being committed to devoting substantial personal attention to developing the club.

Actually Venkys arnt the only owners who are not local ....!!
You will find that virtually all owners in Premiership are similar,
they have no knowledge , no skills, no local relationship....NOTH
ING

Roman Abramovich Chelsea
Mohamed Al-Fayed Fulham
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Man city
Malcolm Glazer Man utd
Lakshmi Mittal / Tony Fernandes QPR
John Madejski Reading
Randy Lerner Villa

Stan Kroenke, Alisher Usmanov & Farhad Moshiri Arsenal

etc.....etc...etc...
.& the list continues....

all are simply rich by hook or crook
all are foriegners
all have no skills
none of them no anything about English football

WE at BRFC should be proud that we have real , honest owners who are not crooks or bank robbers but just simply Indian hard working people who have made it rich through the blood and sweat of their low paid employees.......!!!!

When are the club going to send the team out in a proper, traditional, correctly configured Blackburn Rovers kit of opposing blue and white halves and thereby fulfil part of the covenant that they accepted, which is to maintain the traditions of our famous football-founding club?