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

[Mercer]

1 hour 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.

You don't recall those clambering over the dividing fence between BE and Enclosure and those over the wall from BE and into the Enclosure (cutting across the pitch) in order to confront the Directors in front of their Box?

I know it might be 55ish years ago but it's still in my memory bank!

[rigger]

3 hours ago, Mercer said:

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. 

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.

I agree with your view of our medical team.

[arbitro]

7 minutes ago, Mercer said:

You don't recall those clambering over the dividing fence between BE and Enclosure and those over the wall from BE and into the Enclosure (cutting across the pitch) in order to confront the Directors in front of their Box?

I know it might be 55ish years ago but it's still in my memory bank!

I don't remember being there for that.

[rigger]

6 minutes ago, Mercer said:

You don't recall those clambering over the dividing fence between BE and Enclosure and those over the wall from BE and into the Enclosure (cutting across the pitch) in order to confront the Directors in front of their Box?

I know it might be 55ish years ago but it's still in my memory bank!

Our directors now, will more than likely not be in attendance.

[rigger]

1 minute ago, arbitro said:

I don't remember being there for that.

I only remember sitting on the Blackburn end terrace refusing to leave after a game, I didn't even know what it was about.

[RevidgeBlue]

47 minutes ago, Mercer said:

You don't recall those clambering over the dividing fence between BE and Enclosure and those over the wall from BE and into the Enclosure (cutting across the pitch) in order to confront the Directors in front of their Box?

I know it might be 55ish years ago but it's still in my memory bank!

I remember that - used to sit right behind Fox/Bancroft/Coar in the old Nuttall Street Stand.

They shot off down into the sanctuary of the Boardroom faster than a badger down a rabbit hole when they saw the fans coming over.

I was killing myself laughing!

Edit: Thought it was during Saxton's time 40 ish years ago?

Edited 6 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I remember that - used to sit right behind Fox/Bancroft/Coar in the old Nuttall Street Stand.

They shot off down into the sanctuary of the Boardroom faster than a badger down a rabbit hole when they saw the fans coming over.

...And in retrospect what we would do to have decent folk like that running our Club now.They did their best when we really didn't have a pot to piss in.

Edited 5 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Parsonblue]

45 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I remember that - used to sit right behind Fox/Bancroft/Coar in the old Nuttall Street Stand.

They shot off down into the sanctuary of the Boardroom faster than a badger down a rabbit hole when they saw the fans coming over.

I was killing myself laughing!

Edit: Thought it was during Saxton's time 40 ish years ago?

There were protests about Jim Iley in the 70s.  Remember everyone shouting outside the Boardroom on Nuttall Street.  Difference then was they were local businessmen who had customers in the town, so protests could have a direct influence on their business.  Today, clubs are owned by global enterprises whose owners are often based on a different continent!

[Mattyblue]

What’s your view on our owners, Parson? (That’s our owners, not other clubs’). 

[roverandout]

I was there 14 years ago standing outside Ewood on a Friday night straight after work in the freezing cold. Chanting for venkys out. Giving up my Sunday mornings to go on a protest march then during match day handing out leaflets before the game.  All we got was murmers of what's the point or you're only ruining our chances of avoiding relegation.  Rovers fans are the most apathetic in England 

[simongarnerisgod]

5 hours ago, rigger said:

I only remember sitting on the Blackburn end terrace refusing to leave after a game, I didn't even know what it was about.

was after a tragically pathetic home defeat to oxford over christmas 1990,it was so bad the blackburn end started cheering for oxford,there was brief sit down after the final whistle but it was so bloody cold it did`nt last long😉the police did`nt take to kindly to it either,best bit of the afternoon was my mate sitting down in protest and ending up with a wet arse,he sat in someones puddle of  p*ss🤣

[rigger]

36 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

was after a tragically pathetic home defeat to oxford over christmas 1990,it was so bad the blackburn end started cheering for oxford,there was brief sit down after the final whistle but it was so bloody cold it did`nt last long😉the police did`nt take to kindly to it either,best bit of the afternoon was my mate sitting down in protest and ending up with a wet arse,he sat in someones puddle of  p*ss🤣

The occasion I was on about was in the 70s. In 1990 I was serving in the RAF in Germany

Edited 45 minutes ago by rigger

[RevidgeBlue]

6 hours ago, rigger said:

I only remember sitting on the Blackburn end terrace refusing to leave after a game, I didn't even know what it was about.

After we got relegated to the old Div 3 in 1978 (?) everyone flooded onto the pitch to show support for caretaker boss John Pickering who,despite being dealt a very difficult hand and being given no financial support, was actually very popular.

Could it have been that?

Then we got Howard. What a turnaround.

[Waggy76]

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

was after a tragically pathetic home defeat to oxford over christmas 1990,it was so bad the blackburn end started cheering for oxford,there was brief sit down after the final whistle but it was so bloody cold it did`nt last long😉the police did`nt take to kindly to it either,best bit of the afternoon was my mate sitting down in protest and ending up with a wet arse,he sat in someones puddle of  p*ss🤣

I remember a  demo against Saxton following a bad defeat that would be November /December 86, he was sacked after a couple  bad Xmas results, one being at Hull and it that was bloody  cold, I think Mckinnon played..