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I take another Michael Vaughan or Ian Bell or Jonathan Trott at 3.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/sheffield-wednesday-told-to-avoid-doing-one-thing-for-blackburn-rovers-match/ Wednesday helping out

His numbers say he is that good Chaddy, ranked 9th in World, we only have 1 player in top 20, Gus Atkinson, which tells its own story. bowling Total wickets 69 Bowling avg 18.17 Maidens 102 Best Figuresvs England 26/12/2021 6/7 (Before Brendon Mccullum took over, nothing like blocking up an end and batting all day eh 🤣)

I don’t think they are happy or indeed, content for them to stay. They just aren’t prepared to do anything in an attempt to get them removed.

Are there any “ David Steele’s “ out there in the county championship these days ? The not flashy but steady types who don’t give their wickets away lightly. He came from nowhere to fit the bill at No 3.

A significant portion of those still attending Ewood will be most loyal / apathetic towards the ownership. The majority of those who have had enough are already boycotting, albeit unofficially. It's why a boycott call now is so difficult for the Coalition - for those who agree with them, you're preaching to the choir and those people are probably, mostly, not attending anyway. That leaves you with the remaining group who will be very hard to convince to take action. It's not an enviable task. Granted there are a few on here who go but would boycott for the cause, as we've seen. I sadly think they are in the minority though - even if we're just talking a single game.

Agree, the match going home fans that remain I rarely hear much dissent about the Venkys other than the odd chant when we start losing. We have lost the real dissenters from attending over the years which is fair enough, I will probably join them next season.

Modern Footballer's...f'kin embarrassing and paid a Kings ransom to be so.

I will go tomorrow as have paid for my season ticket and football is a nice bit of escapism from the daily grind. I don't enjoy it at the moment and haven't really for a few years as our home form has generally been poor under different managers. In particular this season it's been really drab, we look clueless in attack or with the ball and dodgy at the back when under little pressure. I will happily miss the Watford game as per the call to action but missing the rest of the season feels a step too far given iv paid for it. A boycott on season tickets next season is definitely something I would support and I think would have the largest impact in the boardroom. I think we will get beat again tomorrow by a narrow margin. Sometimes I wish we just got thumped at home rather than all these narrow defeats as it just gives Ismael excuses all the time. A 0-4 hammering might force some changes.

Probably so but I wouldn't think they are in the majority and if you include all those who have walked away since 2011 then there are perhaps at most 5000 attending who for whatever reason are content enough.

Probably tomorrow, normally does it on Friday if its Saturday home game. External ones? Just BBC radio Lancs I would imagine It's will be only BBC radio Lancs and Rovers Tv there.

Like Rudy and probably Pasha, he's pretty arrogant. 1 win in 10 at home, 3 points off the drop, sat 20th in the league, genuinely not sure how he has the stones to have such arrogance that he can't be challenged.

Pre-game media? May offer to walk out if challenged.

It depresses me turning up to a match at Ewood these days, the miserable look on the die hard Rovers supporters faces, the pathetic football on show. Its time these excuses for footballers, rolled up their sleeves, and put a smile back on the Rovers supporters faces.

Far more than 10% are content enough for the owners to stay.

Here it is…

We're all asking the questions that need to be asked,genuine fans who care and are fearful for the future of this Club.... We are being met with Silence,we are still waiting for answers.

It’s how you phrase the question(s)…for those of a certain age there’s a “Yes Prime Minister” episode in which Sir Humphrey illustrates the conundrum beautifully. I’ll try & parody it…badly… “Are you worried that Blackburn Rovers will fold without generous owners?” ”Do you agree that to be competitive in the Championship you need owners with deep pockets?” ”Do you think that calling for Venky’s to leave risks Rovers future?” versus… ”Do you agree that football without hope means nothing?” ”Do you agree that success in a lower division would galvanise a latent Rovers fanbase?” ”Do you think the club could be run by better, new owners than Venky’s?”

Will Ismael be doing his pre-game press conferences today? Could get interesting with the external ones, BBC Lancashire must ask him about the fan dissent.

I think it's actually somewhere in-between. Because while I think probably 90% of fans dislike the owners and are really frustrated with them, a sizeable portion of those are also too risk averse to want a change of ownership, that's where we get the "I don't like them but at least they're putting the money in, we could be another Bury, no one will buy us" comments. That sizeable group of people dislike the owners, but will either never protest, or will only protest once we're bottom of League One. Those are the ones we need to convince regarding a boycott. We need to convince them that it is worth rolling the dice with new owners. Edit- I don't have an answer about how to do this, especially after 15 years of nonsense.

That's the one

I think you’re badly wrong there Herbie. The Coalition might not be representative of all Rovers fans but my guess is that it is more 90/10 -85/15 territory. I think if you asked every Blackburn Rovers fan whether they wanted their club to be run better, by new owners, you would struggle to find a single dissenting voice.

not just fees, Brighton/Brentford etc also used money in to increase the wage budget

I always assumed, though could be wrong, that clubs like Brighton, Brentford etc. started off buying players for lower fee's, selling those for good money, using that money to buy more expensive players than the first lot cost, sell those, reinvest, rinse, repeat. So like, you'd buy a player for £2m, sell for £10m, then buy a player for say £5m out of the profit, sell for £20m etc. etc. (they are example figures that i've just made up) Rovers just wanna buy for £500k, sell for a profit and then buy more players for £500k.

Tony Bloom probably the best/most successful club owner in the last 15 years. Local man done good. Transformed Brighton from a league one club into an established premier league team that qualified for Europe. Very smart man who brought in a load of other very smart people and worked hard to create a club which looks nothing like the one he bought. In the last 15 years our owners have completely transformed our club, in the opposite manner. No smart people, no good decision making. Shebby Singh, Suhail Pasha, Shaw, Agnew, Gestede et al. Steve Waggott looks like Jeff Bezos against that list. Appalling.