Painful Acceptance

[M_B]

4 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Steady on!

They had put the club and its supporters through seven shades of shit before all that....

Indeed, you might argue that the snowball was merely a powerless response

Don't tell me, you threw it🤣

[Tomphil2]

It would be more acceptable if those who caused it all and those who profit from it cleared off never to be seen again.

A cleansing of all the underlying toxicity gone for good and hopefully a rebuild of some sort however modest.

[Leonard Venkhater]

17 minutes ago, M_B said:

Don't tell me, you threw it🤣

Haha. No...but  last year, I did meet a bloke, who claimed the act.

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Can't recall a post ever creating this much response so quickly

[Proudtobeblue&white]

So where does this leave us? If some sad souls don’t even know about the proposed boycott, we have just over a week to get it out there? None of the mates I used to go with go anymore. Empty stadium and one brave person to smuggle in a banner.

20,000+, to nothing, that’s what you’ve done, be proud, because none of us are?

[AllRoversGirl_]

I thought I would add my two pence to this conversation as someone in the coalition and as a fan. 

I used to love football and get excited about watching Blackburn Rovers. 

I don't anymore. Every inch of love has been taken away by a club that desperately needs help. 

Owners who don't care and continue to be absent

Senior management running the club, who do not have the capacity or understanding of what this club means to the community, fans, etc. 

More projects than the Two Ronnies 4 Candles Sketch

I've started watching rugby to fill the void. 

For people who say that we're entitled. People who say we don't ever attend matches. The list could go on

I'll make this simple. I don't want PL football.  

I want my club back.  I want to feel something for Blackburn Rovers

I want owners who care. 

Suhail Pasha and RAO Family

Your time at this football club has to end. It's nothing but short of a disaster 

 

 

 

 

 

[jim mk2]

2 hours ago, glen9mullan said:

So many of these thoughts are exactly how I feel.

I stripped my Rovers room last week (moving house).

Memories going back nearly 50 years, all boxed and no intention of being dIsplayed again. Was going to sell/donate it all, but wife said NO.

Season tickets un-used since turn off the taps were announced.

I wont attend again this season, and wont be renewing either.

Wife may take kids for the rest of season (that will be her choice and it will purely be for the girls), they love their football, but the tradition of my family all being rovers fans, may break as my girls love Mbappe etc and will choose who they support as they get older uninfluenced by tradition.

 

 

Probably an even sadder post than the OP. This chap bleeds blue and white, like we all do, but he's battled hard over many years to break the Venky's regime, at great personal and emotional cost according to his postings - and now even he's given up.

There is cause for optimism here - however slim it might be. It's often said that it is darkest before the dawn and these grimmest of grim times might be the nadir. Something, somewhere, maybe soon, will cause Venky's to sell up and leave.  We have to cling to that hope. 

 

[AHoyle90]

I haven’t posted a whole lot over the years on here but coming across this thread has really hit something inside me.

Hope, that’s all you need as a Football fan isn’t it? I was born in 1990, just too young to remember the title winning team properly but my word had some of the best times of my life watching Souness/Hughes era.

We also had some times under Jack Walker/Graeme Souness where things didn’t go to plan, but you knew there was a plan behind the scenes, a direction, something to get behind, hope…

Nobody is guaranteed Premier League football, no matter how much you spend or how well the club is ran, it’s Football…I don’t think we as a fan base feel entitled to it? I think that is what Rudy Gestede feels with his ‘it isn’t 1995 anymore’ type comments, we just want hope, and the club, its supporters, staff and players to be treated with some common decency.

It’s exhausting but so hard to stay away/out of touch when it’s been a part of your life since you could remember. Some of the worst and most embarrassing days I’ve witnessed at Rovers in the last 15 years but somehow a week removed from a game, something inside me wants to watch and support MY team. I’d go so far as to saying their reign has affected my passion for Football.

I gave up my season ticket after we had just scraped staying up the season they took over, you could see it all coming a mile off, it took them a matter of months to poison the club, and sadly we have lost a GENERATION of fans or potential fans because of this seemingly never ending nightmare.

The neglect of Ewood Park and the infrastructure of the club for 15 years is symbolic of their tenure at the club.

Please, just leave. 

[KidderStreetNoise]

11 hours ago, 47er said:

So why don't they want Rovers to be successful?l

Because if we're successful they have to sell the club

[Penwortham Blue]

11 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Haha. No...but  last year, I did meet a bloke, who claimed the act.

That be Abbey. Remember him well from the 80’s travelling days, a passionate Rovers man who could take no more.

Edited 4 hours ago by Penwortham Blue

[47er]

2 hours ago, KidderStreetNoise said:

Because if we're successful they have to sell the club

Sorry---lost me there.

[DeeCee]

Like several others, I am a long distance Rovers fan, having moved to Cornwall (after a divorce and career change) a few weeks after I went to the play off final.

I first went to Ewood in the late 50s as a babe in arms as my parents had the shop next to the Aquaduct pub. I've continued to support them ever since, following home and away through the 70s and 80s, good times and bad.

I used to plan my trips back up north to see family and friends to coincide with Rovers games. That ended a couple of seasons ago and apart from the odd SW away game I haven't seen the team live since JDT.

I'll support Rovers till I die which unfortunately will be before Venkys leave and I will be the last of my line to support this once great club - my grandkids now support Manure 😢 after their parents separated  and new influences arrived.

Keep the faith everyone, they will be gone at some stage, what state we will be in by then is anyone's guess but there will always be a Blackburn Rovers.

[MarkBRFC]

Yeah can echo a lot of thoughts in here.

My first game as a kid was September 1988 against Oldham at Ewood, first away game was a week later against Stoke.

I'd say I have been obsessed with everything Blackburn Rovers from the start of 1990/91 season after the World Cup in Italy caught everyone's imagination.

Been at all the key games over the years, Wembley 92, Anfield 95, Deepdale 2001, Cardiff, 2002, Doncaster 2018, plus a lot of low ones too that ended in relegations,aAll over Europe, cup games at Blyth etc

I even stopped playing Sunday mornings in 2010 so I could still watch Rovers as much as possible when my lad was born as couldn't really be out all weekend with a new child.

For me the apathy kicked in after the first relegation and it being clear that nobody in charge was bothered about this great club. Remember choosing to give my garden a complete makeover instead of going to the Peterborough game at Ewood in 2013, nipped inside to get a brew at half time and checked the score to see us 3-0 down, I just shook my head and went back outside to carry on, wasn't even angry. Family was just in complete shock that I was doing that instead of being at the game.

Kept my season ticket for a few more years but found it very easy to miss a game here and there which would have been unthinkable a few years before. Finally gave it up when Owen Coyle was appointed, genuinely thought someone was taking the piss. However I started to take my lad the season before, and he enjoyed it to a degree without being desperate to go again. During this Coyle season he did ask to go a few more times so we did, and I probably ended up spending as much on match tickets as the ST was worth.

Got ST back in league one, a novelty season with winning every week and achieving something at the end of it, and ticking off some new grounds in the process.

6 months into the following season under Mowbray I was at the same stage a few years previous where again, lad was 50/50 into it and when he didn't want to go I just didn't bother, then when covid hit and we had 18 months out I was very close to just not bothering again.

Something changed with my lad in that 18 months though, he had just started high school, got into watching football a lot more despite playing it since he was 5, his mates all went to games watching the local teams to where we live (Stoke & Port Vale mostly) and he was itching to go back to games, so we got ST's again and he has been completely obsessed with Rovers ever since, much like I was back at his age and honestly it rejuvenated me to a degree too to have it to share with him, we have probably been to 90% of weekend games since coming back from covid and any midweek's that have fallen in school holidays, his face when we win is priceless and completely worth it to me.

Sorry this post has gone on longer than I envisaged, I guess where I am at now is that as long as my lad still wants to go then I am in and will go anywhere with him, if he ever gets fed up with it, or in a couple of years he might go to a university far away or something, then if nothing has changed, which I don't think it ever will, then that will probably see me knock Ewood on the head.

I do think I would carry on with a few aways though as I'm lucky to have a really good group of mates that we go with and the days out are always superb win, lose or draw.

 

Edited 49 minutes ago by MarkBRFC