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There is already an organic boycott going on. If we're only getting 5000 in the ground, you'd like to think it wouldn't take too much more to get a good number of those to boycott one game.

His movement in and around the box is what gives opposition centre backs the problems, he can and will score goals, it's just dependant on the supply. He's our most important player.

Real punishment would be a free season ticket and mandatory attendance

The protests are happening right now. We are a Championship club with 5,000 in the ground for league games. Even if 500 home fans turned up the announced figure would still be ‘10,000’ due to STs sold. The Coalition, whoever needs to be emphasising that the protest/boycott is well underway organically and stop worrying about ‘organised’ ones.

Its was always going to be overseas appointment after Eustace cos that's was direction of travel in terms of transfers. Final 2 choices were Ismael and Wagner. Would things been different if we appoint Wagner instead

The coalition can’t win either way.

The 135 year history, before they darkened the door !

Boycott? Its been happening for years. Fans have been walking away in the thousands. We lost over 15k from the take over to now. All that is left is the hard core fans who are STH. Fans walking away hasnt had an impact on the owners and all that has happened is more cuts and cutbacks in finances. You can’t expect Fans who attend every league home game to boycott games.

It's still ridiculous to think we appointed him in the first place considering where we were when he got the job. Would anyone else have appointed this guy whilst sat in the top 6 of the Championship in February? Of course not. Even if we had been bottom 6 in February he was still lucky to get the job after his recent tenures. But then we should remember that promotion was never on the agenda here, so they weren't looking for someone to keep us up there or get us up. Eustace created a problem for them last season and everything they've done since then has been to ensure it doesn't happen again, forcing him out, dismantling his squad, selling key players to Derby, Wrexham, Middlesbrough etc.

I dont think we've bottomed out yet but I don't think we're far off. We're only heading one way and that's in to League One, whether that be next season or within the next few seasons. We won't bounce back this time either, as we wont have the best squad in the league. Would a few seasons in League One force Venkys hand? I cant see why it would. Its all thoroughly depressing and I can totally see why thousands have binned this nonsense off

Of course and I appreciate that. If there was more direction in terms of a boycott, do you think supporters would take part?

Arguably VI has had it worse in a way - they sold/lost half of his starting team in one window and brought in the calibre of de neve, Sidnei and henriksson, plus a lad who would miss a third of the season. JDT and JE didn't face that level of mismanagement.

And just think about what is going to happen come the summer if we do manage to avoid relegation. Gestede collects his bonus and then sets about offloading some more of our bigger earners and better players to make some money and reduce the wage bill further.

I put these on the socials after the Sheffield Weds game…

First the "offer" of giving up January transfer money to fix the pitch, now this, contradictory though they are. Is this Ismael distancing himself from Pasha/Gestade and trying to appea directly to the owners? Is some decisive moment coming or am I just wishful thinking? (again)

Starting to think he’s picking the team

Who would have thought the trust getting involved would have stopped the momentum of a group that achieved more in 10 minutes than the trust achieved in 10 years

They much prefer forcing the managers hand so that they walk, or better yet, either find another club, so that they can get some compo, or offer to buy out their own contract to escape

Of course he’ll walk away from a million quid he’ll already be loaded, I mean, those fjords!

For what it is worth, the next step surely has to be calling for Rovers supporters en masse to not attend a specific home league match. However, the call to do that cannot be undermined by the team then suddenly putting two wins together just before the chosen fixture. As such, might be worth hanging on until later in the season to make the call (on the assumption the picture has gotten bleaker and you don't march the troops to the top of the hill for nothing). I'm 38 years old. 14 year old me would be so upset writing the above! I'm clinging to the hope that the "end of days" feel about the current regime at Rovers is something genuine. We need to hang in there. One day, "They" will be gone, we will be able to "think big" again and the rebuild can begin.

We had 1,079 there last season, 695 this time. I think that’s a pattern we’ll see repeated. As even a big percentage of our fantastic away support will be thinking ‘why am I spending an enormous amount of my time and money when the regime fundamentally doesn’t give a fuck?’

1 point from Norwich, Oxford, Portsmouth and Swansea. Slitting our own throats.

I think people are looking for direction rather than reading a statement and saying "yes I agree"

Embarrassing he can't even spell professional TBF

Perhaps he should have carried on with that rant and added But we signed him on the basis that I give him minutes, come what may, increase his value and sell him on.