Venky’s & Waggott Out Protest Ideas

[47er]

15 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

The level of funding is determined by the owners. The management at Ewood Park have to work according to what budget is made available to them and decide how that budget is best spent.

And whatever the owners do, you support.

[MarkBRFC]

16 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I agree with you that no employee should be told that they will lose their job via a message from their employer via WhatsApp. However it would appear that the post on WhatsApp was from one of the players.

Again, not what I am referring too.

I am talking about the complete silence to employees of the club about there future's. Keeping them hanging on while they "decide" when they know damn well what the decision will be.

If they had to disband it, they haven't woke up yesterday morning and decided not to fund it, this will have been months in the pipeline.

You need to wake up a bit to this regime.

Hopefully the terrible PR will make them backtrack and decide to fund it, but we'll see.

[Mashed Potatoes]

36 minutes ago, 47er said:

And whatever the owners do, you support.

Completely incorrect.

[Mashed Potatoes]

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

Completely irrelevant.

How many watch the under 21's and youth teams? Shall the club stop funding them too?

This will affect other Rovers girls teams too.

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter.

As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

[Upside Down]

36 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter.

As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

By this brain dead logic, a life long Blackburn Ender shouldn't give a toss about them closing the Riverside down, which they inevitably will.

Whether you watch the women's team or not is irrelevant, it's the disgusting behaviour and treatment of this club by its current custodians. If you don't understand that that is the point here then just stay out of the discussion less you make even more of a fool of yourself.

[Bronzed A Donis]

47 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter.

As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

It's not Faux outrage. It's genuine anger because it reinforces the nonsense of this myth the owners care about the club but are hamstrung by various things out of their control PSR/Court Orders/Covid etc.

It's another example of their ways of running the club being unsuitable.

People care about Blackburn Rovers FC, first team, women's team, under 16s, walking football etc. All same Umbrella.

FWIW I've been watching the women's team for over 17 years on and off and have family and and friends whove worked for the club and it's night and day from pre takeover to now, just in terms of them being dealt with in a manner befitting a properly run football club.

[Mattyblue]

A football club is supposed to be more than just a first team. It is supposed to represent its community and offer a service to its supporters. Most of it not remotely profitable.

Be it a programme, be it Radio Rovers, be it Rovervision, be it the club shop in town, be it attempting to knock down the academy to put houses on it, be it not having the club locked down on a working day every week, be it fans in the Darwen End, be it fans in the Blackburn End upper tier, be it a Blues Bar now stripped of Rovers memorabilia (so they can put on Liverpool nights)… or be it a women’s team.

All gone, all further reducing this club to a sad shell.

[London blue]

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter.

As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

Sorry but who are you to assert that anyone's outrage is faux?

I haven't seen a Rovers mens game this year. Am I not entitled to be angry about the men's team?

[RoverDom]

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter.

As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

The club is for everybody, not just the bits I'm interested in.

 

[funny-old-game]

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

A football club is supposed to be more than just a first team. It is supposed to represent its community and offer a service to its supporters. Most of it not remotely profitable.

Be it a programme, be it Radio Rovers, be it Rovervision, be it the club shop in town, be it attempting to knock down the academy to put houses on it, be it not having the club locked down on a working day every week, be it fans in the Darwen End, be it fans in the Blackburn End upper tier, be it a Blues Bar now stripped of Rovers memorabilia (so they can put on Liverpool nights)… or be it a women’s team.

All gone, all further reducing this club to a sad shell.

It's been stripped to it's ass by billionaire owners and their clueless, over paid, incompetent, self serving rent boys running the circus 🤮

Edited 1 hour ago by funny-old-game

[lraC]

In a lot of ways, posters suggesting that we should not get upset about this situation, with the ladies team, is similar to the cry to just get behind the lads.

Ignore what the owners and management at Ewood do and just turn up for the games and sing your heart out.

Unless we carry on letting these leaches know, they don’t get away with treating the club in general, they way we do, they will find a way of making this fatal.

[DE.]

We hear all of the time how charitable our billionaire owners are. Apparently not charitable enough to support women and girls trying to make their way in a game dominated by men since its' inception. Let's be clear - any loss being made by the women's team is peanuts to our owners. They could easily choose to support Rovers women rather than abandon them. It wouldn't hurt them in the slightest. 

Hopefully Glen is making that point in his communications to India. 

[arbitro]

2 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I appreciate that you, along with Proudtobeblueandwhite and only2garners are a poster who genuinely has taken an interest in the Ladies team so I don't have any quibble with you being upset. The faux outrage about this from other posters who have never shown any interest is another matter.

As pointed out above the Under21s and youth teams provide players for the first team and funding for the club so nobody wants them to go.

You are missing the wider point here. There is an upwards trend in women's football and typically we are going against this by, if the reports are correct disbanding ours.

Why not try and look for sponsors and try and increase commercial income (does that sound familiar) rather than just throw the towel in.

We paid £1.2m on agents fees and pay ridiculous amounts to under achieving executives. A proportion of that would fund the women's team.

When posters say they would welcome administration you come back to them about people losing their jobs should it happen. This is no different as people will lose their jobs through this.

it simply doesn't have to be this way if the owners would fund it.

[glen9mullan]

My own thoughts as a father of 2 girls who play for teams , is the commitment of girls and grassroots teams emerging is fanatical.  The game is growing and Rovers have done very little to aid its growth and see the unlimited potential,  which is a mirror image of how badly they operate the club in the men's team too.

Marketing, ticket sales and just an ounce of ambition really don't register with the hierarchy. We are a championship club with a semi pro outlook.

It's natural the women's team ain't getting the growth it's capable of, and if this element was in someone else's hands. It's got the potential to really take off.

Our club and support covers all elements of the club from the kids, to the seniors regardless of if it's men or women.

It shouldn't of come to this where we are less than a week away from it ceasing to exist.

The club should of been far more pro-active in alternatives,  rather than let Suhail decide we can save money here and its not needed, and advise the owners that this is the case.

[Mashed Potatoes]

1 minute ago, glen9mullan said:

My own thoughts as a father of 2 girls who play for teams , is the commitment of girls and grassroots teams emerging is fanatical.  The game is growing and Rovers have done very little to aid its growth and see the unlimited potential,  which is a mirror image of how badly they operate the club in the men's team too.

Marketing, ticket sales and just an ounce of ambition really don't register with the hierarchy. We are a championship club with a semi pro outlook.

It's natural the women's team ain't getting the growth it's capable of, and if this element was in someone else's hands. It's got the potential to really take off.

Our club and support covers all elements of the club from the kids, to the seniors regardless of if it's men or women.

It shouldn't of come to this where we are less than a week away from it ceasing to exist.

The club should of been far more pro-active in alternatives,  rather than let Suhail decide we can save money here and its not needed, and advise the owners that this is the case.

A couple of points :

1. Average attendances in the Womens Premier League are down by 9% this season. I'm not convinced that the interest level is quite what some in the media would like us to think.

2. It's not just Blackburn Rovers who are having second thoughts. Wolves won the tier below the Championship but declined to apply for promotion because they were uncertain as to whether they could justify having to cover the increased costs arising from the new rules applicable to the Championship - and that is a Premier League club with all the massive level of income that they have. 

[TugaysMarlboro]

31 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

A couple of points :

1. Average attendances in the Womens Premier League are down by 9% this season. I'm not convinced that the interest level is quite what some in the media would like us to think.

2. It's not just Blackburn Rovers who are having second thoughts. Wolves won the tier below the Championship but declined to apply for promotion because they were uncertain as to whether they could justify having to cover the increased costs arising from the new rules applicable to the Championship - and that is a Premier League club with all the massive level of income that they have. 

I'll just leave this here: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c3e5803nx94o

 

Agreed on the massive level of income. The owners business has a turnover of approximately $30bn per annum. So they should also hang their heads in shame, just like Venkys. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[hollowsr]

22 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

If one looks at the Womens leagues every team in their Premier League is in the Premier League proper, and of the teams in their Championship only Birmingham, Charlton, Bristol City, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Sheffield United and ourselves were not in the Premier League proper (there is also London City and Durham in the league). 

A very bizarre way of saying there are only 2 Premier League clubs in the Women's Championship

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

A couple of points :

1. Average attendances in the Womens Premier League are down by 9% this season. I'm not convinced that the interest level is quite what some in the media would like us to think.

2. It's not just Blackburn Rovers who are having second thoughts. Wolves won the tier below the Championship but declined to apply for promotion because they were uncertain as to whether they could justify having to cover the increased costs arising from the new rules applicable to the Championship - and that is a Premier League club with all the massive level of income that they have. 

WSL attendances are down, but this is mainly down to the clubs participating in the division, last year you had Bristol who averaged just under 7000, this year Palace who average under 2000. Substitute Bristol back in and it is down 2%

Whilst WSL has reduced, Women's Championship attendances have increased by over 100% and as has been pointed out whilst Wolves didn't apply this year they have pledged to apply going forward, recognising their error....lets see if Venkys do

[Mattyblue]

If you don’t want to fund the various elements of a professional football club, that’s fine, so surely the obvious answer is - PUT THE CLUB UP FOR SALE THEN!

[lraC]

5 minutes ago, hollowsr said:

A very bizarre way of saying there are only 2 Premier League clubs in the Women's Championship

WSL attendances are down, but this is mainly down to the clubs participating in the division, last year you had Bristol who averaged just under 7000, this year Palace who average under 2000. Substitute Bristol back in and it is down 2%

Whilst WSL has reduced, Women's Championship attendances have increased by over 100% and as has been pointed out whilst Wolves didn't apply this year they have pledged to apply going forward, recognising their error....lets see if Venkys do

One think to mention on the Wolves position. Sounds like they didn’t want promotion, due to the cost that would bring.

Fancy a club not wanting promotion, which surely is fairy tale territory.