Venkys "silence"

[seventwo]

Don't we discuss this at this stage of every season and at the approach of all transfer windows?
They don't speak to anyone, never have since the silly early days, and probably never will.
I seem to recall that they put a manger at the head of each of their businesses and leave them to get on with it?

Would you have invested £100m plus in Blackburn Rovers, I wouldn't.
At this stage of continued decline would you continue to support the sinking ship or pull the plug? I'd pull the plug, no question. Even though it's their "fault" they can't be expected to pay for ever and Blackburn has rarely looked like it can support a decent football team in the modern age.

Surely they will just feck off at last?

[Despair]

Let's just muse for a moment in terms of : 'what if there had never been Venkys in control, or for that matter any other' ?
What position/state would each of us expect us to be in now ?
TF and JW still running the show?
SA still managing team affairs?
What league would we likely to be in?
What would the balance sheet look like?
What level of stadium support would we now be seeing?
In all honesty I do not think we would be all that far away from where we currently are.
I am non too sure over the continued assist by TF and JW, but you never know.
SA would have departed some time back (but even with that, no SK ever at the helm hopefully).
As for balance sheet, by now we would have exhausted the parachute incomes as in the intervening period they would have sustained us during our better managed running costs reductions drive year on year. This due to our dropping out of the Prem in prob. /poss all likely hood.
Let's assume the drip feed from the Walkers Trust had now also bec

[jordan12rhodes]

To be honest, the club were in 20m debt(and climbing without player sales) before venkys, and that was when operating in the premier league.

The club is unsustainable in its current form even at prem level.

Tin hat on.

[champs95]

Mines on and I'm ready for pelters ......they never earned the right on their own 2 feet, like Burnley are doing now. They used someone elses money, and as it was not earnt it was never valued. They got incredibly lucky, got to live the dream, and even stayed in a league they never actually belonged in, much longer than expected. Much like how luck evens itself out in football on the pitch, our incredible luck (that we flaunted to all and sundry) has now caught up with us. I look at Bolton and think we are no better run, and that will be us very shortly.

had they made it up in the right way, ie on their own, through asute managerial choices, boardroom choices, they would not be anywhere near this mess. The real nouse around our neck now is the debt, and the real killer, that god awful huge stadium the club really does not need or want.

They could do alot worse than looking to sell that, and try start again if things get even worse (which I think they will)

[jordan12rhodes]

Ewood park is actually jack walkers fault too. The original proposal was for a 22,000 seated that looked like a smaller version of middlesboro's stadium, but jack felt it was too small. He really had the idea rovers would become the man utd of Lancashire.

[champs95]

thats a good point Sax, and I agree. He did some wonderful things, and nobody can argue with that. Hismay aswell be on the Prem trophy, as thats his everlasting legacy.
But stuff like the stadium was not thought out. They went for the now, and never looked at tomorrow.
Its a good job the plans for the hotel and further increase to the capacity never happened.

One story I always recall, the Big Man once told Ray Hartford (who wanted to sign Zidane from Bordeaux) why do we need him? when we have Garry Flickcroft? We had lost the hunger after 95 .......

[jordan12rhodes]

Tim Sherwood.

[champs95]

as in?? you want him back? or he said it ....throw me a frickking bone here??

[jordan12rhodes]

Not Gary flitcroft..

[champs95]

I have been wrong before (I have loads today alone) but I'm pretty sure it was, as my mate was in the reserves at the time? It was the 96/97 season and we had just signed Flitcroft from City and Hartford was in charge when we had the chance of signing Zidane. As we had just signed him, that what prompted the soundbite. As our idea of stregthening a title winning side was buying Flitcroft and Matty Holmes from West Ham on a free?? I was just talking to his brother (Dave) at a Bury match a few weeks back! As they still take the p*** out of him about it.

Then again I could be wrong??