v Hull City (a) - 23/8/25

[lraC]

10 hours ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Good news news with Alibousi, not as bad as first thought, the medical staff are going to assess him this week  and Hayden Carter back in training, could be considered for Saturday. We just need a winger, and more firepower upfront.

Oh and a miracle.

[Mercer]

18 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

The **** might hit the fan if/when we lose this one surely even the owners and management might sit up and take notice that we're rooted pointless to the bottom of the table after 3 games and just been beaten by a team under embargo.

I doubt it.

I honestly don't know how much sh1t would need to hit the fan before our owners and executive management sat up!

We must have the most passive fan base in the country - what other fan base would put up with what we've had to put up with for 15 years?

50 to 55 years ago, there would have been fans on the pitch, demonstrations in the enclosure in front of the directors' box and post match, Nuttall Street would be a cauldron of intense emotions.  The powers that be then didn't like it and it did bring about change.

Time for our fans to get off their arse and do something before our club drifts into oblivion with barely a whimper. 

12 hours ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Good news news with Alibousi, not as bad as first thought, the medical staff are going to assess him this week  and Hayden Carter back in training, could be considered for Saturday. We just need a winger, and more firepower upfront.

Given Carter was thought to have merely cramp against Accrington Stanley, I have little, if any, confidence in our medical staff.  Would be no surprise to see Alebiosu out for weeks.

Think it will be an inevitable Hull win.

[jim mk2]

The apparent lack of passion and acceptance about the club's decline is astonishing to older generations.

We didn't have the internet then to moan and complain from our armchairs so we made ourselves heard in the only way we knew - by getting on the pitch and in front of the directors box to let them know how we felt

It worked

Hull 2 Rovers 0 

 

 

[K-Hod]

16 minutes ago, Mercer said:

 

We must have the most passive fan base in the country - what other fan base would put up with what we've had to put up with for 15 years?

50 to 55 years ago, there would have been fans on the pitch, demonstrations in the enclosure in front of the directors' box and post match, Nuttall Street would be a cauldron of intense emotions.  The powers that be then didn't like it and it did bring about change.

Time for our fans to get off their arse and do something before our club drifts into oblivion with barely a whimper. 

 

Fundamentally, I completely agree with this bit in bold.

Only things I'd say are that the world has changed a lot and many people aren't willing to risk a criminal record (can't blame them on that score tbh, as there are cameras everywhere and not just CCTV).

Plus, it does get a bit old when people call the fans out for not doing anything, but they wouldn't do anything themselves.

[roversfan99]

Didnt Mercer give the Burnley game a wide berth out of fear?

[roversfan99]

21 minutes ago, Mercer said:

 

Given Carter was thought to have merely cramp against Accrington Stanley, I have little, if any, confidence in our medical staff.  Would be no surprise to see Alebiosu out for weeks.

Think it will be an inevitable Hull win.

Even more of an issue with Hyam out, like he was on Saturday.

[jim mk2]

We did our bit then K_Hod, unless you're expected 70 to 80 year-olds to jump over the fence with our banners and placards

Over to you

[Mercer]

26 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Fundamentally, I completely agree with this bit in bold.

Only things I'd say are that the world has changed a lot and many people aren't willing to risk a criminal record (can't blame them on that score tbh, as there are cameras everywhere and not just CCTV).

Plus, it does get a bit old when people call the fans out for not doing anything, but they wouldn't do anything themselves.

I understand your point, however, there are ways of protesting and expressing your discontent without risk of getting a criminal record.

I would willingly participate in any substantial and well organised protest(s) / activities.

I also did my bit, when needed, along with others like @jim mk2 many, many years ago - as to how effective those protests were, buy a pint or two for Rovers' fans of my generation in your local!

Edited 3 hours ago by Mercer

[K-Hod]

26 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

We did our bit then K_Hod, unless you're expected 70 to 80 year-olds to jump over the fence with our banners and placards

Over to you

So, you aren't willing to do anything, but you expect everyone else to risk their liberty and storm the pitch?

Okay then.

Thing is, even if that did happen, I'm unconvinced it would make any difference.

[Mercer]

44 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Didnt Mercer give the Burnley game a wide berth out of fear?

When you reach a certain age you become more circumspect about exposing yourself to potentially dangerous situations.  That is not fear but commonsense.

I would ask you to stop trolling.  I feel sure other users of this MB are also bored and fed-up with it.

Edited 3 hours ago by Mercer

[Mattyblue]

No chance young Merce was on the pitch, he’d have been well ensconced in the Nuttall Street or Riverside upper tier.

[jim mk2]

28 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

So, you aren't willing to do anything, but you expect everyone else to risk their liberty and storm the pitch?

Okay then.

Thing is, even if that did happen, I'm unconvinced it would make any difference.

I do what I can at my age but we were there in the trenches when it mattered

Thousands on the pitch did make a difference then - and only a few were arrested. The same would likely happen now

If you don't try you'll never know 

[K-Hod]

3 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

I do what I can at my age but we were there in the trenches when it mattered

Thousands on the pitch did make a difference then - and only a few were arrested. The same would likely happen now

If you don't try you'll never know 

No it wouldn't.

Think back to similar recent events of mass disorder and how many people were nabbed from CCTV retrospectively.

Efforts are ongoing in different ways, as I'm sure you know.

[jim mk2]

5 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Efforts are ongoing in different ways, as I'm sure you know.

Good luck and I wish them well; all I'm saying is that in 15 years the club is a continuing state of chaos and decline and nothing has worked. In my opinion the latest softly softly approach is likely to end the same way.

Workers don't want to go on strike but sometimes they are forced into a corner and have no other choice and have to take direct action. This is where we are now - in my opinion

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

When did thousands of our fans take to the Pitch in Protest Jim?....cant remember in my lifetime tbh.

We have one of THE most laid back and Apathetic Fanbases in Football.

[Mattyblue]

Presume they mean the Iley era and other grumbles against Bancroft et al... not exactly the first scene of Gladiator, was it.

[booth]

The owners are so far away from the firing line it's difficult to believe anything will work. They couldn't care less if the fans cheer or boo it seems.

[arbitro]

I can vividly remember standing on Nuttall Street with a few hundred other chanting 'sack the board' in the 70's but I honestly don't remember any pitch invasions of the protest variety.

[Rogerb]

15 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I can vividly remember standing on Nuttall Street with a few hundred other chanting 'sack the board' in the 70's but I honestly don't remember any pitch invasions of the protest variety.

I can remember supporters on the pitch chanting in support of John Pickering when we had been relegated FFS.

[Mercer]

37 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

When did thousands of our fans take to the Pitch in Protest Jim?....cant remember in my lifetime tbh.

We have one of THE most laid back and Apathetic Fanbases in Football.

Not always the case!

Not sure how old you are and how far you go back.

Rovers' fans had a notorious reputation in the 1960's and to a lesser degree early 1970's.

Edited 2 hours ago by Mercer

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Lol.....give over Mercer.

[jim mk2]

5 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Lol.....give over Mercer.

Rovers fans were attacking opposition players on the pitch in 1926

https://ewoodpark.jimdofree.com/blackburn-has-no-lads-from-the-terraces-crowd-trouble-blackburn-youth-elders/

Mercer and I were there

😀

[Mercer]

25 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Lol.....give over Mercer.

Extracts from 'Ewood Park The Cradle of English Football' - those around at the time will recognise some of this, particularly the late 60's and early 70's:

Edit

@jim mk2has beaten me to it and provided the link in above post.

Edited 1 hour ago by Mercer

[Wheelton Blue]

'Saxton Out' chants by a hundred or so on Nuttall St was as volatile as I can remember.

[Mercer]

4 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

'Saxton Out' chants by a hundred or so on Nuttall St was as volatile as I can remember.

Saxton was early to mid 1980's - things had calmed down a lot by then!