ROVERS Trust chairman John Murray believes the club are in a ‘crisis position’ and is ‘not safe’ in the hands of the club’s Indian owners.

Murray wants Venky’s to walk away from the club after six and a half years at the Ewood helm. Rovers’ five year Championship stay came to an end on Sunday at Brentford, the club’s second relegation under the Rao family after they dropped out of the Premier League in 2012.

And Murray admits he doesn’t know why the owners haven’t walked away with their loans to the club currently standing at more than £110m.

“If we knew this was the lowest point we would be able to build from that,” he said.

“If they haven’t put money in, and taken transfer fees out, then clearly they are trying to recoup some of their money at the moment. We are now at another crisis point.

“Clearly we would like the owners to give up.

“The club is not safe in their hands, that must be proven to every Rovers supporter now.”

There have been loud calls for the Venky’s to end their Rovers reign ahead of the club’s first season in the third tier for 37 years.

The club have recouped £12million in transfer fees within the last season, but spent just £250,000 on bringing in player of the year Derrick Williams last August.

But Murray says he cannot understand how the club’s Indian owners are benefitting from staying in charge, with the club likely to need more significant funding in the coming months.

“I think even if I was a supreme psychologist I couldn’t work that out – it’s what everyone asks me,” said Murray who took over as chairman of the Trust earlier this month.

“If we knew what the answer was then we might be able to press the right buttons.

“It seems to be that they have lost interest in the toy, the toy they bought six-and-a-half years ago and it’s only on their radar every so often.

“Because it’s not doing so well they push it away quickly.

“Clearly they have turned the tap off but unless they turn it on a bit then we will be in a crisis position all next season.”

Venky’s released a statement 24 hours after relegation was confirmed at Brentford on Sunday in which they gave their backing to Rovers head coach Tony Mowbray.

And having collected 22 points from his 15 games in charge, Murray says he would like to see Mowbray stay on, but wouldn’t be surprised if he walked away.

Rovers are likely to face a busy summer with seven players out of contract and a number of others on high wages.

Murray added: “He’s had the experience at Coventry so I don’t know what’s going through his mind at the moment.

“But clearly we need a little bit of stability.

“Who’s going to conduct these transfer transactions that we need this year? We will know within two weeks if he’s not been out to India.

“Of course we want him to stay, but we wouldn’t be surprised if he walked away.”

A Blackburn Rovers spokesman said: “A lot of hard work is going on behind the scenes and we hope to be able to comment further in due course.”