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How many of today's boycotters thought/intended to boycot Val rather than the owners? 200? 500? Just keen to see opinions

It never does!

Ground staff crawling out from under the bus around now

Absolutely stinks of that Thomas cunt whatever he’s called who’s always ranting on in similar vein on facebook……

I cant believe how much this Club has regressed on and off the Pitch this awful Season. Its just one fuck up after another,no light at the end of the Tunnel,I feel overwhelmed by it all...not going to end well all this is it,I think most of us know what is coming. A Club in utter Chaos. Entitled?..no doubt you'll be telling us our natural level is Div1 next eh Blue and White.

Ismael mentioned it too. With some injured players returning a new excuse was needed.

He posts once a year to slag off the fanbase (so of course, it’s today he makes his annual contribution) take no notice.

Cantwell has said the pitch was poor today

Why do all the other Championship owners cover losses? Championship clubs spend more than they bring in, its just how it is. Also, if you think that Venkys sacked Allardyce because of the fans then you are the one that needs to get real. But yes, people are just annoyed that Venkys dont turn up "enough" (one way of putting it) waving pom poms. Have some standards.

The reason Venky’s sacked Sam was because some fans called his style hoofball. Good one.

Yeah I would agree with that. He was never going to bag 15/20 goals. His finishing and positioning is very poor

My better half agreed to come to the Rovers (not a massive football fan but wants to spend time together) and we've been to a few games in the last year, mostly away from home. Across those games we have scored 0 goals and to boot probably had less than 5 shots on target. The fact she is still willing to go is a miracle because good lord we suck the life out of the games we're in. I want to go to Rovers games because I have a deep connection and I want to see us do well but boycotting is an easy because there is the entertainment level is non-existent and the manager is a charisma vacuum, so there isn't even a sense of togetherness from that. It's just depressing - could be worse under different owners, but it's worth the roll of the dice to me.

He may well be tired and over burdened but he was never anything more than bang average. There was talk in the summer of him being rested and ready to score 15-20 goals which always seemed fanciful.

Wages £25m, Operating costs £10m, Income £20m. That's our average season, £15m per year for Venkys to make up. So who in their right minds would buy a business to lose a quarter of a BILLION every 20 years. Nobody. And I've heard fans say: 1. "New owners can grow the club to raise income" - No they can't. Blackburn will be the first majority-Muslim town, its one of the lowest wage areas in the country, its surrounded by a dozen other clubs and its got 3 super clubs nearby. It's practically the worst club in English football to grow. 2. "The owners can get us back in the PL" - There are 13 billionaire-owned clubs in the Championship, so why don't all the others suddenly spend £150m to do that? One FFP, two it's an insane gamble. If you don't go up, you're in Administration. Fans don't like the idea of us going nowhere fast for the next decade, well its time to get real. Rovers 1990-2010 was not our natural position in the football pyramid, its not what we deserved, its what we were gifted. Fanbase entitlement whining about "hoofball" helped convince Venkys to sack Allardyce, which destroyed our PL status forever. And fan entitlement is at it again, trying to force out owners that have spent into the hundreds of millions by now because they don't, what, turn up to matches enough and wave their poms poms? In exchange for at best some chancer with 1% of Venkys wealth, who can't cover our massive annual losses, and downsizes us to League 1 for good.

How can anyone possibly have evidence of people who want to buy us? The owners wont put us up for sale and even if they did, we wouldn't be privy to such details. Why are you putting us down by suggesting that we couldnt find owners that at the very least would also pay the bills? 23 other Championship owners all pay the bills. Clubs at this level and below are bought. What makes us such an undesirable proposition and unique case? Paying the bills isnt this big plus you seem so keen to credit them for. Its the only way they would be able to keep the club. At every other club whose owners also cover the losses as its par for the course owning a Championship club. I bet you dont have fans crediting them for it in the absence of absolutely anything aside from that.

Yuki has been flogged. Badly needs a rest I feel. Can’t understand why we are playing a 6ft1” striker out wide either. if we are looking domestically I would be inclined to go for Dominic Ballard at Leyton, the guys a goal machine.

I am boycotting and would encourage others to do so. I'm not funding the destruction of the football club. My second reason: is it actually fun going? No, it's depressing and toxic. Enjoyment is the reason we all should be going.

Go on then, how do we get them out? What are your forward thinking ideas would love to hear them. Today was a success because everyone is talking about it.

I think Yuki’s suffering from just a few weeks off last summer in 2 years

It's never not a good time to play us.

Oh I see. When they said there would be 3 players in before the Hull game, they meant this one not the cup game. Silly me.

Agreed we could have Fernandes an haaland in our team but if Val is persisting with his stubborn formation and tactics it’s irrelevant

This is the same cowardly fatalism people used when Mowbray was manager. "Who else is going to manage us?" "Who else could do better than Mogga on our budget?" etc etc. Somehow we managed to find two managers back-to-back that had us within spitting distance of the playoffs until they were hamstrung by the owners. "It could be worse, so don’t rock the boat". 15 years of Venky's ownership has created learned helplessness within our fanbase.

In all seriousness though. Tricky and Goozeburger, the last time I seem to remember you on here was during the summer extolling the virtues of the transfer window and how exciting all the new incomings were and how good it was to get rid of the old guard. (How is that going –don’t tell me, we have to wait for the transition to play out at least until the end of the season.) Now you turn up after a protest essentially suggesting that protesting will achieve little for a variety of reasons. It may be that you are correct. But unless you provide alternatives for ridding us of the Rao’s (which you appear to agree with) then surely your posts are not constructive.

Always thought he was vastly overrated tbh.