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How many January games left? It'll be Easter in no time!

First time? They claim 11k every single time even if it’s a cold, wet Tuesday night vs Oxford and the stands are clearly empty. I know that you know it’s BS

It's ridiculous, really. Granted Mowbray had some similar shocking runs of form, but he had some credit in the bank from our promotion season and more generally keeping us in and around the top half most of the time. It always turned around eventually, albeit usually too late for us to get into the top six. It was infuriating in its own way, but for a club that seemingly just wants to hang around the Championship forever, it was understandable that they'd trust him to eventually reverse the nosedive for a while. Ismael has none of this. He tanked our playoff chances last season from the moment he stepped in the door. His record this season is appalling. Our home record especially is pathetic. His pre-Rovers record largely reads as "gets found out after less than a year and leaves". There is zero reason to believe he'll turn anything around, even after the mythical injury apocalypse clears up (if it ever does).

I’d take a league one club if the people running it treated the fans, the employees and the club with respect. But the current club treats the fans with no respect, they treat the fans forum and the trust with no respect. The treatment of the women’s team was a national outrage, not so much becausd they didn’t want to spend the money but the lack of information and support the players were given. How many long standing employees have left under the recent ‘management’? There too many rumours around for some of it not to stick. We used to have our heritage on the walls of the ground, both inside and outside. It was removed and discarded as trash. Brockhall sales, payday loans, transfer deadline mess ups, 150th anniversary mess ups. You cant look at the club as it’s been in the last few years and be proud of it. It’s embarrassing. That’s the bigger picture. Not sucking up to the Venky coin in desperation to keep floundering in the championship under arrogant fools.

Apart from anything else, the pride they get from knowing they did the right thing.

Whilst I definitely agree that Ohashi has been run in the ground and it will affect his wider game, I don't think it's the reason he's missed some absolutely glaring opportunities. I just don't think he's a hugely composed finisher. He can score some solid goals, just not consistently. With that said, I also don't think being an out-and-out striker is his best role. If he was playing across the forward line, scoring 7-10 a season whilst we had a proper striker up top converting chances more regularly, it wouldn't be an issue. I actually think we were starting to see that with the Gudjohnsen/Ohashi partnership before Gudjohnsen got injured.

Well I got most of the team right sorta. He had to change formation. Cashin did very well at Lb, I like him, solid and good in air for being sub 6ft. Ohashi has to score that. Just has too. Big hole at striker position and Morishita was woeful too. Watford only played for first 25mins. Game was there for us. Dare say I have a little optimism going forward now, with the return of some of our better players. Poor Doherty as well, lad looks like he won a prize, couldn’t control the ball.

I'm the fourth generation of my family to support the club. From the stories I've heard, even going in the "dark days of the Third Division" with 3,000 on at Ewood had more fun than this monotony. It was a community and you laughed at Ken Beamish booting it into the Blackburn End again. Your expectations were low, but it was a good day out. This modern iteration is just a hollowed out husk with no sense of anything but what was. How is going to a ground with no atmosphere that's not even 30% full 'fun'!?

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.