The hope is that the lad is into football and wants to win football matches. But yes it's a poor do when we're hoping that a young lad can come in and do a better job than people 2 and 3 times his age.

Venky's motto - onwards and downwards.

The more I read about the trio of Waggot, Mowbray & Venus the more it smacks of Shaw, Kean and Agnew. https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/blackburn-selling-off-training-ground.129388/

Reply to JoeH (wouldn't let me directly quote), Jack Walker wouldn't have Mowbray as manager and Waggott as CEO. Arguably both failures in their previous positions. His motto was "think big".

Let's face it chaps, we're waiting to play a team that have a right stinker and make a load of mistakes. A tombola followed by a lottery.

Humans are not infallible. Some learn some don't. Some care some don't. Right now the Bristol board/owners are the opposite of ours.

I reckon they anticipated a flirt with the play offs could have offset some bad will but Mowbray cocked that up and that's why it was hush hush. I still think there's something in Mowbray saying he won't have them training on an artificial pitch (four years later!)

Or it could just be the same people who supported Kean. In the Riverside I witnessed a guy try to initiate a fist fight with the two blokes behind him, with his wife and small child watching, all because one of them shouted Kean out. Nothing more, no swearing or anything offensive. Infact there had been swearing in that section but not from them. The guy with the wife and kid just went mental, accused him of being a Burnley fan then started squaring up. The two guys, I'd say around their early forties told him to calm down and didn't take him on. Another bloke who he didn't seem to know had to hold him back from hitting them. Stewards came, saw the guy was with his family and moved the two guys who had done nothing wrong on despite other fans explaining it wasn't them. Had the two blokes felt like it they could have broken the guy in half but I guess Kean was much more important to this guy, more important than scaring the life out of his kid and his wife. Some people are just gullible, brainwashed or just don't want to face the reality.

Venus the penis.

I bet they don't even know he's called Steve.

Proactive and ambitious. The opposite of our lot.

Amazing as just under a week ago I saw lots of people saying he wouldn't come to a smaller club in the Championship. It's almost as if they know fuck all and just wanted to run Rovers down.

Agreed but it's their club and they should know what's going on with it. You'd think after what happened with the spiv and his Scottish sidekick they'd have at least kept an eye on proceedings and boned up on the rights and wrongs of football clubs. If rumours are true the only time they exert any sort of energy towards the club is if someone questions whether the manager is doing well or not, which ends in an angry sacking. The average pound shop has a more logical management structure. Their management structure seems to have been adopted from Queenie in Blackadder 2.

I still have no idea why Venkys bought Blackburn Rovers FC if their plan was to basically run up loads of debt and sell off its assets. Have they benefited from it in any way?

Over the years there's plenty of footage of him being interviewed with players playing on those training pitches. Another statement to feather his own nest rather than better the club.

I'm not and haven't been for a long time. We've got owners who don't take even the slightest interest in the club, a chief executive who was brought in at the suggestion of the manager, huge debts created by the owners and a manager who changes his tune depending on whether his job depends on it - and he's supposedly the best one they've appointed! Arguably the worst aspect to Venkys ownership is that their management recruitment policy only appears to benefit a certain sporting agency. This gives us a very small amount of choice and very little chance of picking the correct man for the job. After over ten years of the above it's very difficult to take any developments in a positive light. If someone told me they were maintaining the floodlights I'd be convinced they were going to replace them with a couple of lamps from homebase. What can they do to change this perception? Show some interest, watch the matches, appoint a manager we can get excited about, perhaps employ a chairman who can oversee matches and not be afraid to voice concerns should the manager be failing. It's not rocket science, I mean if I went and purchased a basketball club (I wouldn't) I'd try to understand how the business worked, who the top managers were, who the best players in the leagues were. (edit - not because I'd want to tell the manager his job, but because I'd want to be able to have a fair idea of what makes a football club work). Push the manager to buy some decent defenders... Jack Walker would have done. (edit) What did Jack Walker do when he appointed Kidd and it all went wrong? He sacked Kidd then bollocked the players for getting him sacked. Not because he was some tyrant but because he had something Venky's will never have - PASSION. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-blackburn-sack-kidd-as-pounds-30m-investment-fails-1129338.html Then he went on the pitch and apologised to the fans. He didn't need to with what he'd given to us, but he felt he needed to. Then he appointed a proper manager.

There are people on social media who think so!

So another slimy opportunistic parasite in charge of the club.

Very similar to Rovers. What's the difference in spending between the two clubs?

I can't see them bringing in Hughes. Robins or Pulis maybe.

Whether it is or isn't, Mowbray is damned if it is, damned if it isn't. He's either managing good players badly, or they are bad players who he has assembled.

Unfortunately he started badly by saying he expected Rovers to be promoted this season. I didn't, but I expected us to be in and around the top 6 places and an improvement in the defence. An improvement all round really. We seem to have a better squad and the same results which can only point to the only constant which is Mowbray. The only thing going up is the club debt. Savage and Sutton admitted they hadn't seen much of Rovers but started mentioning facts like we've scored a lot of goals. You'd have thought the caller would have mentioned the lack of improvement in the defence being the problem - for over 2 years. Spending a lot of money on ineffective forward signings (that he continually played out of position) whilst neglecting a woeful defence. Perhaps then they'd have understood where he was coming from. To just say I expected promotion doesn't tell the full story.

Take that in a heart beat but you have to wonder if Hughes is still up to it as apart from City and Stoke he failed miserably. Has a lot to prove though and still relatively young.

More sound bites for the owners.