Venky’s (& Suhail) Out Protest Ideas

[glen9mullan]

12 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ngxq?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Articulated and measured superbly, well done

[MarkBRFC]

1 hour ago, glen9mullan said:

To be fair even Waggott n Suhail have said previously if someone has the money and can show funds and deposit the bond to start due diligence then they are all ears. However both claim to date no one has demonstrated this.

Their interest in rovers is pretty much zero, bar putting in the capped £20m

 

So does this mean all the venky bots are correct that there isnt anyone out there that will touch us?

Because I find that really hard to believe, if the information you have been told is correct then how do we get it out there that the club is available?!

[Leonard Venkhater]

On 20/12/2025 at 11:27, Leonard Venkhater said:

Did he say “nonsense” off the pitch? 

I guess he was trying to say the players must not allow themselves to be distracted?…. which would be fair enough..

Sorry to reply to my own post. My assumption about the context of the remark  was wrong. I agree with you, @SIMON GARNERS 194.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leonard Venkhater

[MarkBRFC]

Unfortunately the "turn the taps off" protest wasn't in flow yesterday.

Blackburn End concourse was busy at half time yesterday with pints and food on show all over.

Also the boycott suggestion, I asked a couple of folk around me what they thought of it and they laughed and said not a chance. "I miss some games anyway I'm not being told to miss one that I can make" was a comment made to me.

Unfortunately as a fanbase I dont think we are anywhere near the "official boycott" stage.

[Tomphil2]

Reality is we had a 11/12k hardcore that has now become 8k.

The club seem to have meekly accepted this as have a lot of that hardcore, the future is very grim indeed and those who scoff at it i assume will be happy to pay a lot more next season to cover it ?

[Mattyblue]

20 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Unfortunately the "turn the taps off" protest wasn't in flow yesterday.

Blackburn End concourse was busy at half time yesterday with pints and food on show all over.

Also the boycott suggestion, I asked a couple of folk around me what they thought of it and they laughed and said not a chance. "I miss some games anyway I'm not being told to miss one that I can make" was a comment made to me.

Unfortunately as a fanbase I dont think we are anywhere near the "official boycott" stage.

Exactly what we said would happen, especially for a 3pm. The ‘boycott’ is happening anyway, 6,000 are in the ground midweek, 8,000 on a Saturday. 6,000 for a Championship club of our stature! That should have been shouted from the rooftops through traditional and social media, we didn’t need anything ‘official’. 

Case study, lad next to me, he’s lamented with me what’s happened to this club every step of the way for a decade plus, he is no way in the ‘who else we gonna get brigade?’ But when I floated the boycott idea him and his mate looked at me like I had two heads. It wouldn’t have entered their minds for a second to do that, or that I would do it either. For them it’s simple; this is who they support, so they turn up, terrible owners and all, they just hope they can see them off at some point.

Whilst they are paying the wages the remaining core will be there and as soon as you start making it ‘official’ it actually becomes counterproductive folk get very intransigent about it, ‘who are these people telling me what to do?’

Edited 1 hour ago by Mattyblue

[lraC]

[lraC]

Just now, lraC said:

We know he hates the publicity, so let’s get some of these displayed around the ground. 

[Gav]

Any truth on the ‘Pasha Out’ banner being banned from games moving forward? Some rumours it’s been banned with season ticket removal threatened? (Is that really a threat 🤣)

[Wheelton Blue]

The timing of it all is off for me.

ie just before xmas, with folk on annual get togethers meeting mates and family at the match. The gate against Wrexham will be half decent, simply because it's the festive season.

Before we know it, any momentum has been lost, let alone started.

Should have waited until early January when people will be on natural downer.

[lraC]

7 minutes ago, Gav said:

Any truth on the ‘Pasha Out’ banner being banned from games moving forward? Some rumours it’s been banned with season ticket removal threatened? (Is that really a threat 🤣)

Stewards did threats that yesterday apparently.

[TugaysMarlboro]

Regarding fan boycotts and support from the ground, I thought I’d take a longer view and look at average attendances across local clubs over a large period to see how we’ve actually fared compared to teams around us.

I’ve looked at every season from 2009 to 2010 onwards and taken the average attendance figures from three different websites for consistency. I’ve done the same for Bolton, Preston and that lot down the road. Comparing the average attendances from those two seasons gives a fairly interesting picture.

2009–2010

Rovers (PL): 25,428

Bolton (PL): 21,881

Burnley (PL): 20,654

Preston (Champ): 12,935

 

2024–2025

Rovers (Champ): 16,161 (36% decrease)

Bolton (League One): 21,325 (2.5% decrease)

Burnley (Champ): 19,876 (3.77% decrease)

Preston (Champ): 16,505 (27.59% increase)

[Tomphil2]

We are a league 1 club now in everything but name and it's only a matter of time.