Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

[chaddyrovers]

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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.

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? 

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24 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

don`t know why the coalition are asking us all to boycott,it`s already began has`nt it???

you will never get a complete boycott,there are many people who go for the social outing and the saturday (or whatever day) ritual,imo you need to get at pasha and gestede with a bit of matchday disobediance.i.e everyone gather in the concourses and don`t go into the stand

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

[chaddyrovers]

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I feel you're being obstinate for the sake of it there.

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.

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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.

Will it tho? How would we know? 

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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. 

That's your opinion.  

We lost 15k STH and nothing changed, why now?.

[47er]

45 minutes ago, M_B said:

I'm not negative, I'm looking forward to Saturday, are you ? 

Hard to credit.

[47er]

50 minutes ago, M_B said:

protesting is more likely to make them dig their heels in. 

and not protesting will encourage them to sell I suppose? 

So what's your point----do nothing?

[StHelensRover]

13 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

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.

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. 

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

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?.

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?

 

[chaddyrovers]

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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.

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. 

[RevidgeBlue]

On 15/12/2025 at 18:15, glen9mullan said:

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.

[RevidgeBlue]

On 15/12/2025 at 20:47, glen9mullan said:

Been sent indian press

Any idea whether it will actually be published over there?

Could be very important

[RevidgeBlue]

8 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

Aren’t the gates open for a specific reason though (ie attending the match/going into the shop) and Rovers could ask people to leave if they’re there for any other purpose (ie protesting)?

I agree this would create a story but purely in terms of the legalities I think they/the police could move people on. 

Failure to do so would then either be civil or criminal trespass (depending on other factors).

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.

[RevidgeBlue]

12 hours ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I was thinking that, he is an A1 attention seeker, there is no doubt. Loves to play my Grandad was the Chairman but just likes to be the total contrarian.

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?

[RevidgeBlue]

4 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

I’d like to be proven wrong but I can’t help thinking a change in strategy is needed. Every call to action over the last 15 years has demanded maximalist action, be it a march in the pissing rain, invading the pitch or a match boycott sometime weeks away when 15,000 are boycotting every game already. The fact is that most fans just aren’t that invested beyond the 90 mins. 

So, rather than a few hundred fans at best taking some action that frankly is not supported by anything like a majority of fans, why not look for something that a) demands little or no effort, and b) is something that virtually all fans can get on board with. A simple online petition that anyone can click in a couple of seconds and worded so that no-one can disagree with it. There has to be some common ground between fans like Chaddy and Glen Mullen, find that and get 30,000 signatures. Then it can’t be dismissed as a minority with an agenda. You can initiate getting the law of the land changed if you get enough people to sign the right petition.

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?