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 yesterday at 12:29 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 23 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 19 hours 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.. 

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, Waggy76 said:

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.. 

Mckinnon played away at Sunderland I think -for some bizarre reason I was there, a mate of mine made a totally random decision to scream up there in his XR3 i about 3 hours before kick off.

I think you're probably right with the date of the demo against Saxton and it's the one Merce and I are referring to.

 

[simongarnerisgod]

13 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

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.. 

poor bobby had to get by on thin air for transfer fees,thought he did an absolutely fantastic job given his resources,we really should have been promoted in 84/85,top of the league at christmas but no reinforcements when injuries and tiredness kicked in😥sounds familiar,though in fairness the club was absolutely brassic at that time

[Waggy76]

13 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Mckinnon played away at Sunderland I think -for some bizarre reason I was there, a mate of mine made a totally random decision to scream up there in his XR3 i about 3 hours before kick off.

I think you're probably right with the date of the demo against Saxton and it's the one Merce and I are referring to.

 

Was the S

 

13 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Mckinnon played away at Sunderland I think -for some bizarre reason I was there, a mate of mine made a totally random decision to scream up there in his XR3 i about 3 hours before kick off.

I think you're probably right with the date of the demo against Saxton and it's the one Merce and I are referring to.

 

Was Sunderland a Sunday afternoon game for some strange reason? Got beat 3 nil. 

[RevidgeBlue]

34 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

Was the S

 

Was Sunderland a Sunday afternoon game for some strange reason? Got beat 3 nil. 

Sounds about right.

[RevidgeBlue]

45 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

poor bobby had to get by on thin air for transfer fees,thought he did an absolutely fantastic job given his resources,we really should have been promoted in 84/85,top of the league at christmas but no reinforcements when injuries and tiredness kicked in😥sounds familiar,though in fairness the club was absolutely brassic at that time

I wasn't a fan of Saxton tbh he was way too loyal to players who were past their best.

[USABlue]

I can not see past more of the same as long as we can not score goals we are not going to win games.  Hull win with 2 assists by Rovers

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I wasn't a fan of Saxton tbh he was way too loyal to players who were past their best.

i suppose he was,in the end it cost him his job,in all honesty he  had 5 years and time ran out on him,was the right decision to let him go,mackay was a better manager as well 

[rigger]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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.

No it was sometime between 1970 and 1976 It might have been just before we signed John McNamee .

Edited 16 hours ago by rigger

[Wheelton Blue]

1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:

Was the S

 

Was Sunderland a Sunday afternoon game for some strange reason? Got beat 3 nil. 

If that's the game that I think it was, it was absolutley perishing that day at Roker!

[Waggy76]

34 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

If that's the game that I think it was, it was absolutley perishing that day at Roker!

Rainy and cold on in  the corner of the  open end at Roker, I am sure it was a Sunday game, I can't work out why... A couple of weeks before Xmas.. I have a feeling Bobby Mimms was playing.. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Waggy76

[broadsword]

Jeez, they're nicking old aged pensioners these days for protesting against what's happening in Palestine. That tells me two things, one-age is no barrier to protest if you feel strongly enough; two - protest is clamped down on hard these days. You can get nicked for causing too much noise at a protest march. You can go down for fourteen years for saying that Palestine action have a point. We're not far off of living in a police state. 

So someone telling me to get on the pitch and risk a criminal record, when they won't do the same because they've already done it fifty years ago when things were a lot more lax, I'm sorry, but no. 

Quite apart from the fact that the owners still wouldn't give a fuck. You could burn the ground down, they still wouldn't sell up. 

I don't know what the answer is really

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by broadsword