@Biggish Dave gonna be happy.

 

https://twitter.com/mirrorfootball/status/1680651607359324161?s=46&t=b1KQqqXsT2sa7pbd9QWkiw

4 hours ago, fishbulb said:

As I was saying…

On his way.

Anyone think it's a different project now !!

2 hours ago, W.cramp said:

Anyone think it's a different project now !!

😂😂😂

I know it's a second language but that's a guy feeling intense stress.

I'd missed Diaz walking on a free. That's got to hurt.

It goes without saying that I've no great regard for Blackburn Rovers but at least they're a proper football club unlike the tinpot dross in pie land. 

However - they're another local side to have had unwarranted and irritating fortune with ownership. Jack Walker and (despite the opprobrium heaped on them by the yokels) the Venky's  have inflated the general impression of the size of the club. On a level playing field they're not as a big a club as Bolton or their arch-rivals Burnley. There's not a vast amount in it but they're the smaller in my opinion.

If their luck finally runs out and they have to be "sustainable" like Wigan then there'll be occasional spells in the lower divisions in the years ahead - something they've largely but not totally escaped in their history so far.

32 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

It goes without saying that I've no great regard for Blackburn Rovers but at least they're a proper football club unlike the tinpot dross in pie land. 

However - they're another local side to have had unwarranted and irritating fortune with ownership. Jack Walker and (despite the opprobrium heaped on them by the yokels) the Venky's  have inflated the general impression of the size of the club. On a level playing field they're not as a big a club as Bolton or their arch-rivals Burnley. There's not a vast amount in it but they're the smaller in my opinion.

If their luck finally runs out and they have to be "sustainable" like Wigan then there'll be occasional spells in the lower divisions in the years ahead - something they've largely but not totally escaped in their history so far.

Venkys been brilliant for rovers, as have the Hemmings family for PNE. 

Edited July 29, 20232 yr by Mounts Kipper

30 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Venkys been brilliant for rovers

And they can't stand them!

I’m not sure the Venkys would want to persevere with Rovers in the lower divisions, probably too much losing of face back at home but then the debt they’re in they probably wouldn’t have much option.

Edited July 29, 20232 yr by Whitesince63

On 29/07/2023 at 13:20, paulhanley said:

It goes without saying that I've no great regard for Blackburn Rovers but at least they're a proper football club unlike the tinpot dross in pie land. 

However - they're another local side to have had unwarranted and irritating fortune with ownership. Jack Walker and (despite the opprobrium heaped on them by the yokels) the Venky's  have inflated the general impression of the size of the club. On a level playing field they're not as a big a club as Bolton or their arch-rivals Burnley. There's not a vast amount in it but they're the smaller in my opinion.

If their luck finally runs out and they have to be "sustainable" like Wigan then there'll be occasional spells in the lower divisions in the years ahead - something they've largely but not totally escaped in their history so far.

Please let it happen

On 29/07/2023 at 12:20, paulhanley said:

It goes without saying that I've no great regard for Blackburn Rovers but at least they're a proper football club unlike the tinpot dross in pie land. 

However - they're another local side to have had unwarranted and irritating fortune with ownership. Jack Walker and (despite the opprobrium heaped on them by the yokels) the Venky's  have inflated the general impression of the size of the club. On a level playing field they're not as a big a club as Bolton or their arch-rivals Burnley. There's not a vast amount in it but they're the smaller in my opinion.

If their luck finally runs out and they have to be "sustainable" like Wigan then there'll be occasional spells in the lower divisions in the years ahead - something they've largely but not totally escaped in their history so far.

So nothing like Bolton who enjoyed many millions of pounds from the wallet of Eddie Davies?

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

So nothing like Bolton who enjoyed many millions of pounds from the wallet of Eddie Davies?

As grateful as we are for what Eddie did it wasn't quite to the extent of what Jack Walker did at Blackburn. Big Sam wheeled and dealed and he was excellent at it. Eddie provided a stable platform for him to do that. We were never going to out and spend millions on deals like Shearer/Sutton/Hendry/Ripley et al . We eventually spent big on Elmander and Anelka but by then (2006-09) the cash we were spending was not out of the ordinary. What Blackburn did in the mid-90s with Jack Walker was. 

 

2 hours ago, paulhanley said:

As grateful as we are for what Eddie did it wasn't quite to the extent of what Jack Walker did at Blackburn. Big Sam wheeled and dealed and he was excellent at it. Eddie provided a stable platform for him to do that. We were never going to out and spend millions on deals like Shearer/Sutton/Hendry/Ripley et al . We eventually spent big on Elmander and Anelka but by then (2006-09) the cash we were spending was not out of the ordinary. What Blackburn did in the mid-90s with Jack Walker was. 

 

Spot on. Nothing alike them ownerships.

3 hours ago, MickyD said:

So nothing like Bolton who enjoyed many millions of pounds from the wallet of Eddie Davies?

What was interesting in those early Jack Walker days was just how difficult it was for the 'project' to be taken seriously. Players approached would simply not sign up.

I especially recall their efforts to buy Steve Archibald. He did, eventually sign on loan, for half a season. There were many, until it eventually caught traction.

On 29/07/2023 at 12:20, paulhanley said:

It goes without saying that I've no great regard for Blackburn Rovers but at least they're a proper football club unlike the tinpot dross in pie land. 

On a level playing field they're not as a big a club as Bolton or their arch-rivals Burnley. There's not a vast amount in it but they're the smaller in my opinion

Is my take on them. Inherited from my Dad. He saw Rovers, PNE and Blackpool as our genuine rivals. Proper clubs with decent histories. He was offered a pro contract with Burnley and Accrington and his dad turned them down and told him to get a qualification as they weren’t big enough 

5 hours ago, paulhanley said:

As grateful as we are for what Eddie did it wasn't quite to the extent of what Jack Walker did at Blackburn. Big Sam wheeled and dealed and he was excellent at it. Eddie provided a stable platform for him to do that. We were never going to out and spend millions on deals like Shearer/Sutton/Hendry/Ripley et al . We eventually spent big on Elmander and Anelka but by then (2006-09) the cash we were spending was not out of the ordinary. What Blackburn did in the mid-90s with Jack Walker was. 

 

How much did Liverpool spend on Phil Babb around the same time?

12 hours ago, DirtySanchez said:

How much did Liverpool spend on Phil Babb around the same time?

About £3.5m?

Phil Babb moved to Liverpool 2 years after Rovers had bought Shearer.  They'd already bought a promotion, albeit via a very dodgy penalty in the play off final, and then bought a side capable of winning the league by the time the 'big clubs' woke up to what was going on.

4 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

Phil Babb moved to Liverpool 2 years after Rovers had bought Shearer.  They'd already bought a promotion, albeit via a very dodgy penalty in the play off final, and then bought a side capable of winning the league by the time the 'big clubs' woke up to what was going on.

How much did Henning Berg or David Batty cost? 

If Eddie had delivered us the league we'd be loving it 

23 hours ago, paulhanley said:

As grateful as we are for what Eddie did it wasn't quite to the extent of what Jack Walker did at Blackburn. Big Sam wheeled and dealed and he was excellent at it. Eddie provided a stable platform for him to do that. We were never going to out and spend millions on deals like Shearer/Sutton/Hendry/Ripley et al . We eventually spent big on Elmander and Anelka but by then (2006-09) the cash we were spending was not out of the ordinary. What Blackburn did in the mid-90s with Jack Walker was. 

Eddie wrote off debts of £175M when he decided to call it a day with us...

3 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Eddie wrote off debts of £175M when he decided to call it a day with us..

Local man, local fan puts his money into his hometown club and wins the prem

Whilst the same people probably moan about Saudi owners 

Their keeper has signed for Luton

 

on the eve of the season...nice

 

i remember first match of one season, had radio on, we were away somewhere and they went through our team and whatmore wasnt playing

oh dear, must've got injured

whatmore was sold to birmingham for 300k last night

 

such different times

They have a centre-half called Dom Hyam. Signed him from Coventry about 11m ago. I know his family a bit.

Dull fckr bit an impeccable centre-half. They'll lose him soon.

I’d love to swap division with these bumders like we did last time.

2 hours ago, tomski said:

I’d love to swap division with these bumders like we did last time.

Nah, I’d rather we stuff them twice and prove who the top team in Lancashire really is, leaving the Mancs and Scouses out obviously.

9 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Nah, I’d rather we stuff them twice and prove who the top team in Lancashire really is, leaving the Mancs and Scouses out obviously.

I’ll take a cup win at Ewood for that bragging right. Dingles.

Still rumbling on…

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23850894.blackburn-rovers-entangled-venkys-indian-government-row/