So the concessus is that as they cannot be bothered to attend Ewood we should tell them to get lost. We can do without them. We do not need anyone to attend who is not 100% Blue 'n' White. We will be relegated in the next few seasons but we don't care.

While I'm at it I would like to point out that this messageboard is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Many, many posters here were completely obsessed in previous posts with stopping the likes of manure fans infiltrating home areas!!!!!!!!

Bloody fleurkerligerously brilliant!!

I have suggested in the past that ANYONE who bought tickets should be encouraged - as long as they accepted that demonstrably obvious away fans would be expelled.

I have met several of our season ticket holders who initially attended Ewood to see their armchair supported team

But we actually managed to have over 3,000 empty seats in the home areas against the scum.....

Whoopy-fleurkin' do....

That is why I am so negative now...

I am starting to believe that a majority of Rovers fans are not prepared to accommodate changes that are essential to our Premiership survival

Paul is correct that the club have tried and will continue to try a variety of marketing ideas.  The ideas have been very wide ranging and innovative, but have continually met with a frustrating lack of response.

That's 'cos they're targetting the wrong group.

There are hundreds of car driving Lancashire folk desperate to follow a Premiership side.

Provide them with easy access and tickets to see the likes of manure and le pool and they will dip their delicate toes in the Ewood water. If you don't believe me then check-out notlob.

Truth is, many of our fans want a glorious decline from grace.....

Fleurklin' sad or what

Gerrinterrmmmmm.....gerrinterrmmmmm.....

......Yer fleukerin' cluntyer.....

Dead right, booth.

There are loads of places to park in Horwich and Wigan.

Each year the scum of Blackburn council increase resident only areas and double yellows.

I park off Heys Lane and do not object to not parking outside homes where residents might park.

However, many resident only zones are where the houses have drives and where you never see any on road parking.

At this rate I reckon I will be parking on Tockholes road within a few years as the area outside ? Moorlands school has just been double yellowed.

At this time I doubt I will be fit enough to waddle to Ewood from there!

It is only one factor but it will contribute to stopping new fans attending.

At least when we get relegated then there will be no problem parking.

Blackburn council do not give a damn.

Christ!! Wanklers of the world unite or what??

He might well be good, he might be sheeyte.

Asking folk here the question " Mark Hughes - Good Choice " is a bit like asking a tank full of goldfish if they want to remain in the E.U. or not.

Our fans have been feurklingler useless recently...

Crapler at supporting the team, attending games and in their opinions...

SHUT YER FACES!! WE HAVE A NEW MANAGER - name of MARK HUGHES!!

If he is no good then we are premiership history.

If he is brilliant then it is no skill of ours.

Sink or swim he is our manager.

THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE...

GET BEHIND THE TEAM AND THE MANAGER...

STOP PONTIFICATING....

WE ARE STAYING UP...SAY WE ARE STAYING UP..

BELIEVE..........

So Sky have confirmed the appointment with immediate effect.

A new era.

Let's hope he does as good a job as Souness.

Even better let's hope he does an even better job.

That will result in him getting the manure job in a few years but at least that would mean we would still be a Premiership side.

Let me be the first to state - " Hughes out now!!!'

I hope the usual suspects will keep quiet for some time now.

mark Hughes' blue 'n' white army

nice one tash

I will be there as well  

Of that I have no doubt

Onwards and upwards

Scotty, I agree with all your points. At least you analyse the facts and adapt your argument accordingly. We cannot afford to buy a new team hence must appoint a manager who can use what we have.

1864 - I don't rate Douglas but we cannot afford luxury players at the moment for obvious reasons.

And not that it should matter a jot but if your date of birth is as stated on your profile then you are younger than my youngest brother.

After a night of reflection I am a sight more angry than yesterday and am to be found on the sofa next to the dog watching the telly with my elbow wedged firmly up my arse, the resulting discomfort providing a welcome distraction from our miserable plight.

Hopefully next weekend I shall be sat next to my boys cheering our new manager who we will be welcoming as our saviour on the road to a top half league finish ( wearing my myopia inducing dark glasses as modelled by my yellow faced friend )

you obviously know faff all if you think using Douglas is the answer.

I wouldnt use him to clean my shoes he is that poor

Mmmnnnnn ....

.....and how many times have you seen him play, bright lad.

As it happens I WOULD agree with you that he is a very basic player with no frills.

I have seen him often, usually playing for the reserves, including the recent draw with Liverpool. I didn't bother to post on that game as I did not recognise the game reported by the few posters that had attended and could not be bothered to disagree with decent, if blinkered, folk.

For example, despite scoring Matty looked as good a player compared to before his injury as Brigit Bardot does a doe eyed sex symbol today compared to her glory days....

....back to the recently appointed three year contract Douglas...

NO!! He is not a left sided midfielder BUT guess what??

Once he was played there last season our results improved so much we pulled out of the relegation zone.

If you missed that and fail to understand my point in using a basic but solid player to shore up our defensive liabilities at times then I doubt your ability to know your football arse from your soccer elbow

Does that mean we're not going to hear from you for a couple of months

   

Oooh Whikey my lovely .....

I fully take your point...

I have made a dozen posts in the last two months...

You have made two hundred and fifty in the same time....

No wonder the standard of posts has become so much better recently....

.........I’m just going outside, and I may be some time.........

Souness has gone but at least he had come to realise that it is completely suicidal to play two wingers in a 4:4:2 away against a decent team with attacking flair, especially with our lack of pace at the back.

We should've started with a midfield of Douglas, Ferguson, Tugay, Flitcroft in a 4:4:2 or played a 4:5:1.

I have always had the utmost respect for Parkes but that went when I saw his daft line up today.

We now stand on the brink of premiershipsurvivalextinctioness.

Our poor start means that the new manager has only up to a dozen games to turn things around.

If he does that then we can still finish in the top twelve.

If he does not then at best we will probably just avoid relegation but will be on a downward spiral that will further deplete our Championship-level crowds and make it highly unlikely that we remain the genuine Premiership club that we are at present.

We have all to play for but the next two months will be a desperate roller-coaster ride of morning sickness that will either see the gestation of Blackburn Rovers as a stable top division football club or as a bloody bucket bound abortion heading for the mid/lower reaches of the fizzless Coca-Cola nothingness occupied by our hapless neighbours.

I plan to surface from an alcohol induced coma in early November to find out what has happened. Good luck to all concerned.

his dick advocaat is a serious contender. Other than that its looking like a thirty man race on who could be the next manager! It could be anyone in the world.

Cracking good name for a dick that !! And I thought it was a drink for girls - " get your lips round that, love "

Also you must live in a very odd world mate - only a 30 man race but " anyone " in the world could win it

What a brilliant example of the expression " a fool and his money are soon parted " this thread illustrates.

As somebody said earlier on this thread this was all a betting scam.

If Jimbler has more than a modicum of intelligence then he must be in on it.

Personally I believe in his integrity

Somebody ( informant or journalist ) invented the story that Reid was favorite to become our manager and contrived to have some shiyte rag publish the sorry tale....

.......once the odds on Reid had fallen sufficiently and hence the odds on him NOT getting the job were good enough those in the know struck - look at the price/volume over time graph on betfair - large bets were placed there and elsewhere at this time AGAINST Reid becoming our manager. Soon after this happened the odds on Reid getting the Blackburn job rapidly rose ( and hence the odds laying against Reid rapidly become less favourable ).

When our new manager is appointed ( funnily enough NOT Reid ) then the clever scammers collect their winnings at very good odds for predicting that he would not be the one.

Made a really interesting thread though

Mark Hughes may well turn out to be one of the best British managers of his generation. When he takes on his first big club job then we will find out if this is indeed the case or not. If this is for BRFC next week then we all must pray that he is in the mould of His Whingerness t' Red Faced de Glasgow and not the incompetent Clown-Prince I Kidd U Knot.

For that reason I would appoint the jockular Gordon Strachan. Unfortunately, despite the laudable ambitions of many here, we are a relatively cash-strapped premiership club with the priority of trying to remain so.

Strachan was blooded as a manager in four seasons of lower half of the premiership battles for Coventry. He then took Southampton from a terrible start to their 2001-2002 season and turned them into a stable top ten side. If he could repeat that feat here then he would've proved himself to be the right choice for us. He is without a club, will not feel like running away to warmer climes when the Lancashire winter winds whip up his kilt ( unlike certain foreign types from Landan and beyond ) and I have fancied his daughter for years ( especially when she was on that show with Pete Waterman ). His no nonsense media style will also suit the morose East Lancs psyche. Glenda Twaddle ? Yor affin 'ar larff !!

If there was ever a marriage made in heaven for club and manager it could well be this.

My penis is called Peter....

....fleurkin co-incidence or what??

Once a tweart always a tweart eh Gym

Heysus l. Xristus or whatever phrase this tree-hugging forum now allows....

Same old same old over and over again.....

Disjointed, lethargic, unambitious, arrogant poseurs who thing we are better than we really are.......and that is just the majority of the contributors to this messageboard!!

Who do you all think we are?? Still the glorious northern @#/? creation of His Holiness Jack the Magnificent??

At very best we now represent the upper end of the third faction of the four divisions of the premiership. Comfortably beating those in the lowest reaches is no longer our Jack given due. Wake up and smell the true scent of our blessed red rose....

After leaving Ewood today I was cursing Emerton, Matteo and Amoruso....

But after watching the 50 minute highlights on Sky and the pitiful I.T.V. like - match of the day, combined with several beers ( not at work tonight for a change - thanks for your concern dave B. gamma G.T. all over the place I am sure ) I have become saddened by the spoiled ranting of those here who's post match posts I used to respect...

Stead worked hard to little effect, Yorke looked a class act, Tugay ran the show in the second half, Ferguson is improving all the time, Short is still a man mountain and Gray was our best player as usual.

OK - 2 points dropped - but shyite happens - glass half full or half empty??

Crowd not as low as some feared and reasonable noise from the true fans.

A sunny Lancashire day playing in one of the best leagues in the world representing a small Lancashire town.......only spoiled by the ever growing band of spoiled brats here...

HA!! love you all really......NOT!

WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE, SAY WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE.....

life is too short....enjoy it while you can....ride the blue 'n' white rover-coaster....

So what lee hughes chant shall we be singing??? 

Well, it’s fun in a Mercedes,

Too slow in a Renault,

Hughesy you get ready,

Now go, Lee, go....

But don’t you laugh at the Baggies' blues..

You can do anything but lay off of the Baggies' blues.

Well, you can knock me down,

Step in my face,

Slander my name

All over the place.

Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,

Blimey, run off now Lee Hughes

Don’t you laugh at the Baggies' blues.

You can do anything but lay off of the Baggies' blues...

You can burn off rubber,

Drive too far,

Drink your liquor

In a speeding car.....

Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,

Quickly, run off now Lee Hughes

Don’t you laugh at the Baggies' blues.

You can do anything but lay off of the Baggies' blues. ....

Might have been the case A75, but as Koumas is suspended I don't think he will trouble us

TO ME......

Mr Bryan,

You're thinking of Jim. He does wind-ups. Rather well IMHO.

Mr Colin

TO YOU.......

Mr C:

Agreed, Mr Jim is peerless, however thenodrog isn't bad himself. Can you really take his comments on here seriously? Shurely he's taking the pish?

Cheers.

Mr B.

The Chuckle Brothers - don't you just lurve 'em

I hope that there is never a point in your life where you have to experience any of the things some of the families/survivors of Hillsborough had to endure. Yeah, maybe there are things bigger and worse in the world...but when something effects your little corner of the world, it doesnt half make things hit home - dont agree, but at least have some respect!!!

There is a point in everybodies life when they experience such utter misery if they live long enough. Please stop being so bloody precious.

It goes without saying ( but of course one has to say it anyhow ) how truely awful the events at Hillsborough were. I cried my eyes out as I watched the events alone on the tele.

How come we never hear compassion for the negligent authorities who must endure their own private misery?

How come you never except any responsibility for the slaughter of the innocents?

How come you never show any respect to anyone else but merely luxuriate in your own self-indulgent hell-hole.

That really is very, very easy mate.

Cut the capacity of Ewood to 25,000.

Season ticket sales would approach 20,000 as folk would know that they would be unable to purchase tickets for most games.

Extra added bonus is that we could sell out against manure without capitulating the whole Darwen end.

This is, of course, how the big city clubs sell out by having proportionately pathetically small grounds.

That was a great post Scotty, still is.

Good post waggy. I think Souness and Williams have to take on board that the Club has to deliver a quality product on the pitch. I'm sure there are a lot of people who have the Rovers in their hearts but it really is hard to justify the cost of a season ticket, especially given the considerable number of poor sesons in the last 3 seasons.

We have just had three excellent seasons.....

Not enough fans, not enough money.....

Chicken and egg.....

WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE....

If too few Lancashire folk care about that very soon then we won't be....

.....and by the way riml - I live 10 miles from Ewood, as the crow flies, and have seen and heard no Rovers promotion....

That 'pulling' comment was a joke... I don't even want a lovelife..

Oooooooocome on now my lovely.......

......i wouldn't say no to a bit o' Jung(ian) flesh....

'ow bout yew 'n me an' a lurvely jar o' pet roll 'ium jelly...

no wat i mene like......