Look back over the last.number of years, who have we signed of real value? We got very lucky with Szmodics, outside of that, when was the last time we took a chance on a player that would genuinely create value? Where is the conveyor belt of young stars capable of generating funds? The first one of real potential we under valued & cashed in. Transfer deadline day used to be exciting for Rovers but those days are long long gone. The club has no ambition, no belief, no plan. There is nothing left. We have debated the intention of the owners for many years but look around, look at what we have become.

I give them little to no credit from a football perspective but in business, they have a track record. When it comes to rovers, they have previously shown that they are willing (albeit slowly & with limited impact) to make wholesale changes at the top. SW knows the writing is on the wall & will want to get out on his own terms. Just a theory from me but the number of changes & ruthless way it is being performed sounds like something being directed from the very top & outside the day to day running of the club.

Completely agree but they are still here & are clearly making changes. I am just wondering (or guessing) if SW is part of the clear out? After everyone is replaced, we may continue as we did during the Mowbray years, we may plummet or they may finally get things right! I suspect Venkys main goal is to keep the club quiet & out of the gossip columns.

A complete guess & some wishful thinking but could it be possible that Venkys are undertaking a full overhaul of club management, including Waggot? The ship was steadied after the initial rocky tenure under Venkys but in the last couple of years, the clubs reputation has continued to nose dive. From leaks about the Indian tax issues, to botched transfers and managers voicing their discontent to the press. Could it be that Steve Waggot has been forced into retirement but before doing so, he must build an entire new structure for the club? Getting everything ready for the new season before being allowed to bow out gracefully with his reputation in tact? Was steve the first to learn his fate back when the JDT saga was reaching a crescendo? But with football & other large businesses, you can't just take your figure head out of the club mid season without a plan in place!?! I'm giving Venkys alot of credit for business acumen but they do have successful businesses elsewhere! Who knows!?!

The level of success achieved by GBs is difficult to quantity but his arrival & JDT represented the most exciting & optimistic period of the last 10 years. The departure of both within 2 years is a major blow to my confidence in Blackburn rovers ability to turn the corner & make it back to the Premier league. We are back to mediocrity (or worse) & a lack of ambition. That has all gone away with GB & JDT. Waggot never appeared to be part of thier recruitment but very much behind thier respective exits. In my book, that makes Waggot the villain. Another cretin sucking the life out of Blackburn rovers.. Venkys are ultimately at fault but until we can rid the club of those individuals who are only at the club to line their own pockets, nobody will tell Venkys what they need to be told! Sell the club!

If we can't see the writing on the wall, we are blind! Venkys have never sacked anyone for results, maybe coyle but gave him too long. So the first sign of a competent management team & they dumped them, why? Because the cretins around the club want to save themselves. I think I am at my lowest as a rovers fan. I really struggle to see how this turns into anything other than lower league obscurity!

I'm not convinced GB or JDT can be blamed for the mess we find ourselves in. It really appears to me like the incompetency comes from the top down. GB does not strike me as the type to allow the same mistake 2 years in a row. He wasn't even selected by Waggot, who faffed around for months looking Mowbrays successor. JDT was GBs idea and was tied down within days of GB starting. This feels like a major disjoint between the old guard & the new upstarts. I could imagine that the GB & JDTs ambition is seen as naive to the incumbents. I imagine they have not been happy with the new ideas & just want to maintain the status quo. After all, if the new idea's are successful, then thier tenure has been proven a failure. Meanwhile the owners are so detached, this in fighting goes unchecked. Just my take, no knowledge of the inner workings whatsoever. .....one piece of info I did hear is from someone I met on holidays last year, had ties to the club which I checked up on, told me that venkys wanted out. I know he is very well connected but i couldn't figure out why they wouldn't just put the club on the market, so I just brushed it off.

One thing I have noticed through Venkys tenure is that I have become less & less drawn to the football. The drama sucks you in & takes over your interests, be that at the expense of football or other things in your life. Does anyone else find their focus on Blackburn rover wain after a transfer window shuts? Summer & winter windows have become filled with anxiety that trickles into the fabric of your life, once the window closes & you think you can breathe, the drama spills out to the subsequent days, weeks & months. We are facing an excruciating 4 months until season end & only for the next installment to begin. I want to know what is happening to my club but it is painfully apparent that it drags my mood down. So, I had an idea today, would it be worth creating a thread that tracks events as they happen, facts, timelines, quotes & the occasional plausible rumour. No comments or discussion, just to try to piece together how this mess plays out? Whatever comes of this thread, be it a book, an unlikely Netflix documentary or simply a place to point any fan who believes venkys are competent owners who have the best interests of Blackburn rovers at heart. At the very least, we would have something to look at in generations to come & remember, "never again!" Is this something that the moderators would think is possible or could facilitate?

Even if we sign Ronaldinho & resurrect Maradona from the grave, it should be very clear when reading the orlando city fan post. We are a shell of a club & will never achieve under these owners! Remember when Transfer deadline day was exciting? ......for all the right reasons

THIS!!!!! This is the best insight to the last 14 years i have seen. Concisely explaining the farcical nature of how the club has been run in a single breath. This needs to trend by any means necessary!

If GB feels that the fault does not lie with him, he should offer an ultimatum to the club. Sack whoever is responsible or I walk. Allows him to maintain dignity. JDT should ditch the "project" & do everything in his power to reach the play offs. That would appear as a minor miracle given the circumstances he had to work under & should be enough to get him a good club!

JPVH would mean so much more than a bolstering the squad with competition at centre half, it would lift the players as they know him & (hopefully) respecthis effortsfrom last year! It would galvanise support just when it's needed. If ever there was a special case...

4 competitive wins on the bounce turns sour very quickly, doesn't it? I guess its true that you are only as good as your last game! It really appears that the delays & indecisiveness in recruitment has carried on from the Mowbray era! Suggests that neither Mowbray, Broughton or JDT have any control over improving the team other than using the academy!

Imagine what a fit & committed BBD could do this year? It would be great if we could keep him! from the signs of the first 2 games this team has the ability to challenge for play offs. The biggest problem is strength in depth which will be our downfall if we don't add to the ranks! Van hecke feels like a no brainer, we clearly need something new at left back but I have no idea who we should go for. After that, a couple to pad out the squad & I'll be very happy with this summer.