Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

[Crimpshrine]

6 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Like it’s been since day dot with these owners you’ll get dissent when the team continues to do poorly on the pitch and at the end of the campaign even more ST holders knock it on the head.

That’s all it will ever be here when it comes to protests and anything matchday related.

Everybody needs to forget expecting anything else - it will never, ever happen. So, just let Ewood be what it is and let Glen et al do the real work away from the place. 

No matter how unlikely it may seem, there will be a point where the worm turns.  

We have to keep encouraging it. One PASHSA OUT banner today, more questions asked in the crowd, more people become enlightened as to what is going on.  A few more banners and shouts of dissent in the coming weeks, more awareness,  actual protests ?  

We can sit on our hands and watch the continued decline and wait for the sub-4000 season ticket sales or we can at least try to motivate some action.

[Mattyblue]

No, the worm really won’t turn at Ewood. There aren’t enough worms left for a start and a high proportion of the remaining ones are more than happy in their little patch of soil thank you very much.

Like I said if the team is doing badly, bottom of the league, then you’ll get chants… we then win a couple, or we get a new manager, then it stops, just like late last season, just like when Eustace arrived.

As always, the actual protest is folk walking away. They’ve done it in droves ever since our 25,000 average crowd in 2010… but unlike most normal owners where that would ring very loud alarm bells… this lot couldn’t. give. a. fuck.

Change will come, if it ever does, from the likes of Glen away from Ewood Park.

Edited 11 hours ago by Mattyblue

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

No, the worm really won’t turn at Ewood. There aren’t enough worms left for a start.

Like I said if the team is doing badly, bottom of the league, then you’ll get chants… we then win a couple, or we get a new manager, then it stops, just like late last season, just like when Eustace arrived.

As always, the actual protest is folk walking away. They’ve done it in droves ever since our 25,000 average crowd in 2010… but unlike most normal owners where that would ring very loud alarm bells… this lot couldn’t. give. a. fuck.

Change will come, if it ever does, from the likes of Glen away from Ewood Park.

The chicken chokers wouldn’t care/know if nobody came. They’d just cut their cloth accordingly.

[Mercer]

43 minutes ago, Crimpshrine said:

No matter how unlikely it may seem, there will be a point where the worm turns.  

We have to keep encouraging it. One PASHSA OUT banner today, more questions asked in the crowd, more people become enlightened as to what is going on.  A few more banners and shouts of dissent in the coming weeks, more awareness,  actual protests ?  

We can sit on our hands and watch the continued decline and wait for the sub-4000 season ticket sales or we can at least try to motivate some action.

Sadly, the worm(s) will only turn when it's too late and the coffin is being lowered into the ground.

Unfortunately, far, far too many of our fans simply don't get it and / or can't be arsed and will put up with our club being shat upon for ever and a day.

Edited 11 hours ago by Mercer

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Everybody needs to forget expecting anything else - it will never, ever happen. So, just let Ewood be what it is and let Glen et al do the real work away from the place. 

We should ALL be expressing our discontent with how the club is being run into the Ground...dont sit in silence while Ewood burns.

No one person or group should have to do all the work and bare the responsibility.

Together we will get these feckers out.

Edited 10 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Mattyblue]

I agree it should be like that at Ewood… but there’s point wasting time and energy hoping against hope for something fifteen sorry years of experience tells us will not happen.

[Eternal Optimist]

Sheffield Wednesday protested yesterday outside the ground, held a funeral for their club which garnered national press interest

Why is nothing like that ever suggested by our “Action Group” or lack of action group!

Banners at least outside the ground pre games just something, anything! Our action group do nothing!  

[sardblue]

[Mattyblue]

On 14/08/2025 at 11:29, Mattyblue said:

They’ll just wheel out Rob Coar in his club tie.

Oh

[StHelensRover]

22 minutes ago, sardblue said:

Something like that could be good if fans chipped in, but I don't know how much it costs. The club probably snoop on here so if they knew it was being planned they would probably spend what little money we have on hiring it out so that fans couldn't do that.

 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

3 hours ago, Eternal Optimist said:

Sheffield Wednesday protested yesterday outside the ground, held a funeral for their club which garnered national press interest

Why is nothing like that ever suggested by our “Action Group” or lack of action group!

Banners at least outside the ground pre games just something, anything! Our action group do nothing!  

We are told they dont work...not the done thing my good man!

Edited 5 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Exiled_Rover]

5 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

We should ALL be expressing our discontent with how the club is being run into the Ground...dont sit in silence while Ewood burns.

No one person or group should have to do all the work and bare the responsibility.

Together we will get these feckers out.

I think short of them being forced to sell by their Govt we're powerless. 

[Mattyblue]

They can and do work, SG. Our lot just aren’t up for it.

Edited 5 hours ago by Mattyblue

[sardblue]

43 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Something like that could be good if fans chipped in, but I don't know how much it costs. The club probably snoop on here so if they knew it was being planned they would probably spend what little money we have on hiring it out so that fans couldn't do that.

 

Can we do it at away grounds, that way the money doesn't go into the club.

[Eternal Optimist]

19 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

We are told they dont work...not the done thing my good man!

Thinking more along the lines of just doing something to get some press coverage! If the stories of any negative news not actually making its way back to India are true then getting it in the press just might make its way to India 🤷🏻‍♂️

[den]

6 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Like it’s been since day dot with these owners you’ll get dissent when the team continues to do poorly on the pitch and at the end of the campaign even more ST holders knock it on the head.

That’s all it will ever be here when it comes to protests and anything matchday related.

Everybody needs to forget expecting anything else - it will never, ever happen. So, just let Ewood be what it is and let Glen et al do the real work away from the place. 

It’s not just at Ewood Matty. Apart from  the usual chants inside the ground there’s hardly any real dissent or protests anywhere. 
 

We all know rovers have a small core support of fans who will turn up whatever the circumstances simply because the club is their life. I was like that when I started in ‘62. Don’t forget a lot of fans had walked away after the ‘60 cup final when tickets were apparently very hard to get hold of. There was a lot of anger with stories of players selling tickets outside woolworths etc. Many fans vowed never to return and didn’t. Losing fans isnt new to rovers.

We should really admire those that will go whatever situation the club is in. Now if all of those fans could do that while still acknowledging that the clubs a sh1tshow. That would help😀

[Mattyblue]

Indeed. ‘Protest’ here has always been walking away.

[Ossydave]

4 hours ago, Eternal Optimist said:

Sheffield Wednesday protested yesterday outside the ground, held a funeral for their club which garnered national press interest

Why is nothing like that ever suggested by our “Action Group” or lack of action group!

Banners at least outside the ground pre games just something, anything! Our action group do nothing!  

There's pictures circulating of completely empty bars on the concourse at half time too, fair play.

[chaddyrovers]

55 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I think short of them being forced to sell by their Govt we're powerless. 

The Government can't get involved in the running of football. 

As far as the FA, EFL and the football authorities Venkys are running the club properly, wages are paid on time, bills paid on time, Selling players to fund the club. 

[Mattyblue]

What’s your view on the club no longer even having a Sky Sports subscription?

[London blue]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

The Government can't get involved in the running of football. 

As far as the FA, EFL and the football authorities Venkys are running the club properly, wages are paid on time, bills paid on time, Selling players to fund the club. 

Read the post you quoted again.

[Upside Down]

9 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

You just know that the deluded and those in denial within the fanbase will make the Derby game all about Eustace. "We have to beat that snake". "I'm not missing out on seeing us get 'revenge' on that snake".

There'll be plenty of nonsense along those lines. Guaranteed.

This and it being the 150th celebration game means the self titled 'through thick and thin' will be even more resistant to any form of protest on the day. "I'm supporting my team, thanks. Owners come and go, they won't stop me from attending...". "The club is 150 FFS, why can't you be positive and celebrate our history". "Protest some other time, why do you want to ruin the 150th celebration?".

I can see it being similar to that Arsenal game back in 2011, where those who can't see the wood for the trees are jeering and hissing at those who can.

We have to try something of course and I think the only way it could work is if we are rock bottom or close to it and on a losing run when that Derby game arrives.

I don't know about the thin part but they're certainly thick.

[Upside Down]

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Oh

As I just posted in another thread.

So fucking predictable.