This thread is a candidate for message board gold. Somebody needs some help.

Just now, oldjamfan1 said:

Know-it-alls - particularly on social media but also at games - who spout utter sheeyite and have clearly never played football in their lives and think they are watching FIFA or championship manager. I’m not suggesting you have to have been an ex pro to have knowledge of the game but some of the nonsense I see and hear drives me mad sometimes. 

And of course the obscene amounts of money swilling around in the upper echelons of the game. Surely the bubble will burst one day?

 

Bubble has burst. Next Sky deal will be lower as clubs stream their own games

Just now, Silas said:

Hey Joe. You appear to have responded to most posts in the thread except this one, that poses some pertinent questions. 

I think if you were a bit more open and gave answers to these you may find people a bit more accommodating. 

This is not the music association thread.

Just now, JoeHarvey said:

Tell me how I have done that, honestly, by choosing to make a documentary that isn't about Venkys. Since the first ten minutes this thread was created you've made your best efforts to shit all over it, come back at everything I've had to say, despite the fact our opinions on the clubs ownership are so similar.

It's a real shame how much of an agenda you're pushing at me. Have to say it's bloody hilarious how out here, in the public space, this is the reaction, but every private message I've received, and the polling results, don't agree with what you're saying.

If every single person, publically, privately and in that poll shared your view that everything I'm trying to do here is god shitting awful, then maybe I'd stand down, but as much as you might not want to believe it, you're in the minority. People don't want to re-open the Venkys wound, and I won't be the person to do it. No matter how often or hard you try to push me on it. 

Stand down Harvey,

Stand down please,

Stand down Harvey,

Just now, Leonard Venkhater said:

What if you and the greengrocer were in cahoots and the other greengrocer was a silent partner? Your name was above the shop door, as you sold dodgy veg together.

Then, things got too hot and you and said greengrocer fell out? ....Oops, and the authorities were in partnership with the same greengrocer?

 

We've never had greengrocer wars in Ossy........

.......yet.

Greengrocer authorities? Is that the council?

Where did I say the veg was dodgy?

Badly advised FFS? If I paid £100 for 5lb of King Edwards, I wouldn't say I was badly advised by the greengrocer. Caveat emptor.

FOV.

Venkys.

4 minutes ago, JoeHarvey said:

Representative of who, it's been posted in here and a Blackburn supporters Facebook group. 

Hilarious this thread, I'll be blamed for global warming next  

If your sample is not representative, your data is skewed. You've clearly got off on a bad tack. Never mind, it was a decent idea, not thought through.

12 minutes ago, JoeHarvey said:

 

• Only 73% of people said they hated Steve Kean

Clearly, you have not got a representative sample.

Just now, Leonard Venkhater said:

Bizarre and infuriating. He clearly wasn't supported in team objectives, while BB seems to have been foisted on him as an...investment(!), at the expense of solving glaring, long standing problems.

Hmmm. Who's picking the team?

Just now, lraC said:

Yes, but not necessarily the Italian Mafia. There were a few dubious characters about the club back then and as you will see with the link below, it all seemed to lead back to the same person/company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-12-16/aristocrat-s-son-starts-soccer-player-investment-opposed-by-u-k-leagues

Blocked by pay wall.

50 minutes ago, lraC said:

Its got to have been secured against the stadium and the hotel. They won't have a cat in hells chance of repaying the £40m in 4 years. Someone called Nick Luckcock is involved and it may be £20m lent by him and £20m lent by Sharon Brittan. There is a third charge, but that might be the hotel looking at it. 

4 years to find another multi-millionaire then.

29 minutes ago, lraC said:

The big question is, how did they end up with owners like this in the first place? If there is a fraud investigation underway, then you have to wonder.

There were some very strange rumblings about Rovers initial takeover, for anyone who remembers and a Western Union Transfer was cited, as shall we say, questionable. 

Berri - Sunshine After The Rain

Just now, oldjamfan1 said:

 

And Foxton still plays Clitheroe Grand every December.

On 04/08/2019 at 22:49, AllRoverAsia said:

This is especially for @Mike E 

Bob Crompton looking down his nose at the Spurs captain at WHL, 9th February 1911, FA Cup replay, second round I think, Rovers won away 0-2

 

 

What is the trophy pictured?

Deep Purple - Child In Time

On 04/08/2019 at 22:49, AllRoverAsia said:

This is especially for @Mike E 

Bob Crompton looking down his nose at the Spurs captain at WHL, 9th February 1911, FA Cup replay, second round I think, Rovers won away 0-2

 

 

Madon, can you post this photo to WMC group.

On 29/08/2019 at 18:06, WIR Second Coming said:

Some things they did very well - the football side (mostly) for one, with some good players coming through (Mike Duxbury being the cream of the crop, but others like Danny Keogh, the Barrow brothers also doing well). Other things would probably merit the kind of witch hunt that seems fashionable these days, but should probably be left in the past. Good things - Ken Holt, Tommy Duckworth, Ma Riley !, Peter Rose, Fred Rose, Mike Neild, Mike Finlay, Spam Eastham & the barmy school bus amongst others. Some good memories, some crap ones!

Harry 'Get Off That Pitch!' Pilling, top groundsman. The pitches went to seed (no pun intended) when LCC took over.

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

3pm and challenging they’d have fetched a load, not so many will be travelling after their start, you’d wager...

Waggott must be crying into his seat netting.

Legendary WMC group meeting Wednesday.

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Its happening with Barnsley, it's also happening with Preston, it will happen with Luton, its already happened with Huddersfield. Small clubs that usually float between the 2nd and 3rd divisions are catching up to us and overtaking us.

There are two responses to that. Shrug your shoulders, have a moan, then use it as an excuse for us struggling on the pitch. Or do something about it. 

I'm afraid shuffling prices about a bit whilst maintaining a price increase, coming up with daft competitions (does Waggott seriously think that people are going to cough up for a season ticket just to potentially give themselves a £10,000 lottery ticket?) are not going to deliver the numbers we need.

There's more to it than simply 'freezing' the price and sticking a few posters up and some videos on Twitter. We are way behind the game these days as the club has been reduced to a skeletal staff with little idea on how to grow the fanbase. 

Football is changing and we are getting left behind. Is that because we are as a club behind the times or because Blackburn is a unique place in the country that doesn't react to things the same as everywhere else? I know what I think is the answer. 

The whole club needs revitalising and there needs to be an acceptance that we are falling well short as a club. A quick look at Stanley under Holt shows what can be done on a budget to increase numbers. I've done it to death the lack of interest in doing things at Ewood, even from minor things such as improving the bar offerings.

Weve closed home areas down, moved people around, put no effort into relocating them. The Darwen End area - not my cup of tea but certainly better than it being closed. Most clubs are actively trying to build singing sections next to away fans, we are actively discouraging that by moving away fans upstairs and breaking up our singing section. Just ludicrous but typical of the downscaling operation. 

Reading, Huddersfield have recently succeeded in creating singing sections next to away fans. We failed miserably because we had no interest in promoting it or growing it, eventually shutting it when numbers dropped because it saved a few quid.

The disconnect between the club's recent executives and the fans is plain to see. No regard for fans who watched for decades from the Nuttall Street Enclosure/JW Lower or those who spent years in the Darwen End or BBE upper. Bean counters and nothing more running the club. All these changes are losing fans left, right and centre.

FOV.

The Football League was created to give all clubs an income throughout the year.

Just now, jodrell said:

more money to be made from Sky i in Salford than Bury. More loyalty to Friends than Family

Salford was derelict in the 80s.

Wankers