The Venkys Fried Chicken thread of ridiculouness

[Wandering Willy]

Rumour going round that Kean is about to be sacked. Odds down to 4/9 on Paddy power today.

http://www.brfcs.co.uk/mb/index.php/top ... __st__1080

Long thread so go to the end (today's posts) if your're interested.

[Hoboh]

Most of the fans will NEVER, NEVER accept, IMO, this backstabbing, useless, **** of a manager who is clearly taking us down.
In the opinion of many, Venkys have destroyed the club and should do one along with their precious manager.
Most of the fans will NEVER, NEVER accept, IMO, this backstabbing, useless, **** of a manager who is clearly taking us down. In the opinion of many, Venkys have destroyed the club and should do one along with their precious manager.
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[ohjimmyjimmy]

This article is a bit harsh like...!

Why no one will shed a tear if Blackburn get relegated
By Michael Calvin



Myles Anderson is a Boy Named Sue.

Like the lost soul in the Johnny Cash song, he has nothing to thank his father for.

Dad Jerome is the agent ­reshaping Blackburn Rovers as a fried-chicken franchise.

It deserves to re-open for business in the ­Championship next season.


Myles, a left-sided ­defender, will be found guilty, by ­association.

Once an unheralded ­member of Leyton Orient’s youth team, he is by all ­accounts diligent and well educated.

He had an unsuccessful trial at Ewood Park last ­summer, playing 13 minutes in a pre-season friendly against Southport.

Now, on the strength of a two-minute substitute ­appearance for Aberdeen, Myles has signed a two-year ­pre-contract agreement with, you’ve guessed it... ­Blackburn – an institution losing its identity in a maze of ­conflicting interests.

At best, because of the ­strategic influence of his SEM agency, Anderson Sr is caught up in the complication of his son’s career.

Only he knows whether he’s blurring the margins between professional duties and ­parental compassion.

But the situation ­challenges anyone with an IQ beyond that of the day-old chicks sold by Venky’s, Blackburn’s new owners. They are being advised by SEM and the Kentaro Group.

It is a dangerous business model, opaque and open to manipulation.

Any sane system would ­involve independent scrutiny, but it’s easier for the Premier League not to open that ­particular can of worms.

Manager Steve Kean, an SEM client, is a Thunderbirds puppet who thinks we can’t see the strings.

He claims Myles is a late ­developer like Chris ­Smalling.

Anderson Jr would need to be a combination of Paolo Maldini and David Luiz to avoid systematic ­belittlement.

New boys in any dressing room feel as if they are tap-dancing on barbed wire.

Their personalities are ­dissected by strangers, who use scorn as a scalpel. There’s no mercy, no ­anaesthetic. The dim, distant, and desperate are dog meat. Myles is uniquely ­vulnerable.

Sir Alex Ferguson, Tony Pulis, Harry Redknapp and Gary Johnson have all ­managed their sons. And they have an innate ­understanding of their duty of care.

Rovers have slipped into a parallel universe in which legends supposedly dream of resurrecting the old mill town

But despite the PR drivel, ­Ronaldinho, David Beckham and other assorted A-listers didn’t get within a continent of the M65 corridor.

Even Nicklas Bendtner ­decided to stay in to wash his hair.

Phil Jones and Chris Samba have been given new ­contracts, which protect their re-sale value, but there is an air of impermanence about the place.

Other senior players are restless. The shabby treatment of John Williams, the former chairman, has gone down badly.

Sir Alex Ferguson, irked by the ­summary dismissal of his chum Sam Allardyce, suggests Jerome Anderson “can’t pick his nose”.

Blackburn’s transfer activity hardly offers a convincing counter-argument.

Mauro Formica cost ­£3.5million, top of the range for a 22-year-old trading on fast-fading memories of ­appearances for Argentina’s Under-17 team. He has yet to play.

Ruben Rochina was ­surplus to requirements in the Barcelona B team. He’s played once.

Jermaine Jones is an ­unremarkable American ­scuffler on loan from ­Schalke.

Meanwhile, Blackburn are haemorrhaging points and places. They have a daunting run-in, and the pallid look of losers.

In an ideal world Wolves, a proper club run by a proper football man, Mick ­McCarthy, will save themselves by sending Rovers down, on the last day of the season.

And no one will care a jot.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Wolves? A proper club?

[seanworth]

The article was doing so well until the last statement. A proper club? What the hell is that?

[ROVERS F.C.]

.......Not a 136 year old, founder member of the football league and Premierleague,3 times top flight champions,6 times FA cup winners,League cup winners,9th most successful club in England and THE most successful 'town club' in the U.K.


Well,so says a two-bob Mirror 'journalist' anyway!!

[William the White]

.......Not a 136 year old, founder member of the football league and Premierleague,3 times top flight champions,6 times FA cup winners,League cup winners,9th most successful club in England and THE most successful 'town club' in the U.K.


Well,so says a two-bob Mirror 'journalist' anyway!!

A well justified rebuke...

Now, tell us how it goes with the Venky Family (tiddly dum... tiddly dum etc)... Pleased with your progress?

[ROVERS F.C.]

Dont rub it in Mr White!

[jaffka]

.......Not a 136 year old, founder member of the football league and Premierleague,3 times top flight champions,6 times FA cup winners,League cup winners,9th most successful club in England and THE most successful 'town club' in the U.K.


Well,so says a two-bob Mirror 'journalist' anyway!!

are you nicko then?

[bw@bw]

In the short term I am delighted that Venkys have made such a hash of things.

But in the longer term it is worrying.

Williams (good guy methinks) spent years trying to find a buyer once the Walker Trusts had had enough- and in the end the only ones who would buy a Lancashire town Team -even in the PL - were Venkys - and that allegedly at a value of £40-odd million including debt.
I strongly suspect that the Walker trusts have lost a lot of money indulging Jack's hobby if that is all they ended up with.

Well- our debt is over double that - albeit mostly to Davies related entities - and so at some point we are sitting on a time bomb. I hope ED outlives me, and keeps his enthusiasm for the team.

Gartside or his successors will have a hard job persuading anyone to fork out £90m for a club (whose neighbours are two of the richest in the world), a nearly new stadium and a hotel.

Not sure that the Davies family willl look forward to about £50m of their inheritance disappearing.

If Venkys lose a fortune at the money they paid (even through their own stupidity) - it will make the job of finding a buyer here well nigh impossible.

Especially if - as seems very likely - another Lancashire town team noted for pies could also end up having cost its benevolent (ha!) owner the thick end of £50m when they go down this year.

Lets enjoy the party while it lasts - and hope that OC can keep defying the laws of football economics - whilst all the top jobs remain the preserve of latin super-coaches.

Now getting quite worrying.

On the one hand - love to beat them this weekend, and smirk at the Venky's
Even better if we could get Samba for a pittance

On the other - bad news for sale prospects after ED and OC

[Hoboh]

In the short term I am delighted that Venkys have made such a hash of things.

But in the longer term it is worrying.

Williams (good guy methinks) spent years trying to find a buyer once the Walker Trusts had had enough- and in the end the only ones who would buy a Lancashire town Team -even in the PL - were Venkys - and that allegedly at a value of £40-odd million including debt.
I strongly suspect that the Walker trusts have lost a lot of money indulging Jack's hobby if that is all they ended up with.

Well- our debt is over double that - albeit mostly to Davies related entities - and so at some point we are sitting on a time bomb. I hope ED outlives me, and keeps his enthusiasm for the team.

Gartside or his successors will have a hard job persuading anyone to fork out £90m for a club (whose neighbours are two of the richest in the world), a nearly new stadium and a hotel.

Not sure that the Davies family willl look forward to about £50m of their inheritance disappearing.

If Venkys lose a fortune at the money they paid (even through their own stupidity) - it will make the job of finding a buyer here well nigh impossible.

Especially if - as seems very likely - another Lancashire town team noted for pies could also end up having cost its benevolent (ha!) owner the thick end of £50m when they go down this year.

Lets enjoy the party while it lasts - and hope that OC can keep defying the laws of football economics - whilst all the top jobs remain the preserve of latin super-coaches.

Now getting quite worrying.

On the one hand - love to beat them this weekend, and smirk at the Venky's
Even better if we could get Samba for a pittance

On the other - bad news for sale prospects after ED and OC

Stop being mard!!!!! I'm sure we'll find a decent curry company to buy us ie the Bengal whatever and like any good curry we will penetrate hide a few dodgy chickens

[boltonboris]

Rice 'n' Easy must have a mint saved up in the bank!

[jaffka]

Paul Robinson readies himself to jump ship if the six fingers go down.

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[Armchair Wanderer]

Now getting quite worrying.

On the one hand - love to beat them this weekend, and smirk at the Venky's
Even better if we could get Samba for a pittance

On the other - bad news for sale prospects after ED and OC

I actually think the opposite. It would be good for English football if Blackburn go down.

When it comes to the time when we're selling our club to someone do we want to sell it to someone trying to make a quick, easy buck (ala Venkys)?

Wouldn't it be better if buying a PL club was seen as more of an investment for intelligent people who understand football? I.e. you can make plenty of money but only if you're not an idiot.

[boltonboris]

Now getting quite worrying.

On the one hand - love to beat them this weekend, and smirk at the Venky's
Even better if we could get Samba for a pittance

On the other - bad news for sale prospects after ED and OC

I actually think the opposite. It would be good for English football if Blackburn go down.

When it comes to the time when we're selling our club to someone do we want to sell it to someone trying to make a quick, easy buck (ala Venkys)?

Wouldn't it be better if buying a PL club was seen as more of an investment for intelligent people who understand football? I.e. you can make plenty of money but only if you're not an idiot.

The thing is.. "These intelligent people who understand football" know that there's no money to be made unless you're an Elite club (in Coyle's terms).

If somebody were to buy us, the only way they could make a profit, is by asset stripping... We certainly don't want that

[jaffka]

Blackburn being set up for a final day decider between them and Wolves

[Lofthouse Lower]

West Ham v Millwall twice next year should be tasty

[Lofthouse Lower]

Steve Kean charged with drink driving

[Lofthouse Lower]

Tonight has been a great night

[jimbo_bwfc]

And if you thought the manager caught drink driving was bad enough...

Front page of The Sun. Wherever Allardyce lays his hat, the B-word is not far behind.

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