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Seen quite a few posts on Facebook today regards the boycott. But this one took my breath away.... And those who 'liked' the post.

Well I turned 62 about three quarters of an hour ago so Im sat here contemplating the meaning of life, the Universe and everything with an Aldi bottle of Champagne ...... nah bollocks to that Im only worried about Rovers. If Im still here in 10 years time I hope the Club still is too! Good luck to anyone with any protest efforts. To coin another Churchill phrase " The definition of success is the ability to bugger on from one failure to another with no significant loss of enthusiasm". And an early Merry Christmas to one and all irrespective of any differences of opinion regarding the Club.

You were right.

A great idea. You were brilliant in assisting us with the drafting of the letter trying to stop Waggott flogging off the training ground. Would you care to draft something up?

Ironically when his Granddad Derek Keighley was briefly Chairman before ill health sadly took him from us all too soon, I thought the Club displayed far more ambition than it did under Bill Bancroft. A then Club record fee of £80,000 for Duncan Mckenzie in the old 3rd Division etc......... Used to sit behind Derek in the old Nuttall St. Stand. Poor guy used to sit there chain smoking cigarettes every game looking like his life was on the line with every kick. His grand son however sounds a very confused individual. How can you go from being a proponent of FC Rovers (a notion I vehemently reject) to being full square behind the owners?

I think that's probably correct. Technically it's probably only a "public place" for the purposes of attending a football match. Not protesting. That said imo the optics would be terrible for the Club if they moved the Police in to break up a non violent protest.

Any idea whether it will actually be published over there? Could be very important

Not a bad statement BUT tbh I wouldn't mind "reckless spending" "unrealistic ambition" or "Premiership Football"! This game should be about dreams, not aiming to finish 21st in the League. The main problem with the Club is the complete and utter lack of ambition. There's no priority placed on winning football matches and trying to be successful, the only raison d'etre seems to be to try to develop players to flog on for a profit the second they show any promise and bring in just about enough money fo pay the inflated salaries of a few chosen Club officials. The statement almost makes it sound as though if they "communicated" with us everything would be ok. Well sorry, as I said in another post to RF99, Im not bothered whether they win any popularity contests as I'm not thinking of inviting them round for dinner anytime soon. If the Club was well run and the team was successful on the pitch I couldnt care less who the owners were (within reason) or if we didnt hear from them from one year to the next. I do agree 100% with the overall sentiment of the message though. Well done to all concerned and Please keep up the good work on behalf of most of us. Never give up, Never give Never give up.

I was asked for my opinion on a number of things from @roversfan99 like @M_Bwas from the same post and I answered his questions.

We havent lost 15k imo, maybe 10k. If we lose another 4 or 5k from the current 9k though, I think that could be the tipping point. We won't know until it happens though will we? I haven't said anything about your own personal choice to attend games, I dont mind that. I recognise that there will be a proportion of fans like yourself who will always attend games no matter what. I was on about you pouring cold water on each and every protest idea that is mooted. "Won't work" "That's been done" etc etc. It's easy to say that, what are your suggestions to improve things?

This. None of us have any idea whether it will work. If it doesn't work, then just have to move on and think of something else. There will be some who sneer and go "ha told you it wouldn't work". But that's not a reason to not even try a boycott. It has been more effective at some clubs than others, let's just try it as a one-off at Ewood and see what happens. If you've been going for ten, twenty, fifty years, at some point you have probably missed a match to go to a wedding or on holiday or through illness. The sky didn't fall in. Just try missing one game en-masse as a warning to the owners and let's put the ball in their court.

and not protesting will encourage them to sell I suppose? So what's your point----do nothing?

we are apparently linked with wrexhams ryan hardie,good reliable centre forward but highly doubtful he`ll come here on the measly wages we pay

Hard to credit.

When did I say he was the best thing since sliced bread? Another one who goes OTT and used words no-one has said to suit yourself

What are you going on about again. Ive been more than open and honest with my stance whilst respecting yours whilst you dont with mine and others who will choose to attend games, vack the players and club, etc. Will it tho? How would we know? That's your opinion. We lost 15k STH and nothing changed, why now?.

millwall recruited very well in the summer and are a formidable side this season,another painful saturday imo,beaten by two set pieces and we hardly trouble their backline

Might aswell not go if all we gonna do is stand on the concourse

I was asked my opinion and gave it. You have protests every game post match at the start, meetings with the FA, EFL, PL and the Sports minister, 15k STH walk away, relegation from the PL and even the Championship to League 1, offers to buy the club supposedly a few times, yet they are still here. So no I dont have the magical answers, do you?

Nope, went from wanting to sack him after 5 games to Ismael being the best thing since sliced bread. Gone a bit quiet on him recently and no wonder. But the weather/injuries/referees..........etc

I like how the ‘early 80s’ is referring to the 1880s.

Nobody knows if this will work until it has been tried. Unless you are willing to join in and give it a go to see if this will be effective then your opinion on the matter is invalid.

I feel you're being obstinate for the sake of it there. Obviously, a massive boycott by ST holders won't affect income levels for THIS season but a regular 5k home fans attending for the remainder would surely raise eyebrows in India at the very least. And if the boycott continued into next season come renewal time then that's the time it would really bite and possibly force their hand.

You keep telling us why various things won't work in your opinion, but you're not coming up with any alternative suggestions of your own to improve things - just pouring cold water on everything.

How much is being the reduction given people have ST and most walk.ons will have already purchase their tickets for Saturday game?