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Riverside under the drip

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  1. Honestly, I thought the pink one was top notch. It was clearly the popular choice around town this year. As a XL wearer away from Rovers kits, I needed 3XL which I then took into town to get shortened and the fit was worryingly fine. I may be 'big' but I'm bloody well not 3XL big!

    I would have got a home shirt this year if it had been very '150th' themed. I may or may not get an away as it depends on the design. Any special one-off 150th bonus shirt would need to be football style (in material) rather than the cotton rugby jersey for me as I don't like heavy fabric.

  2. 6 minutes ago, Disgruntled Rover said:

    Hypothetically of course, similar to Reading's tennis ball protest, and as a symbol of the owners' other business interests, would eggs making their way onto the pitch be an effective way of promoting our cause?

    Shattered shell on the pitch would surely pose a danger to players and lead to the game being abandoned, or at least delayed, leading to nationwide or worldwide exposure of our plight.

    Easter is coming up. There are many things egg-related in the shops which wouldn't be a danger to complain about but would be the same theme. Should someone want to disrupt games, of course...

  3. 2 hours ago, davulsukur said:

    "Call it extreme if you like, but I proposed we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign"

    (One for the boys from The Dwarf, if there are any still out there....)

    Give quiche a chance but the abbreviation is a bit of a drawback... 😉

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  4. Not in my experience. The numbers involved are so much lower, any fan likely to give up on the main team would not be the sort to attend these games in the first place (generally speaking). Lots of those who attend youth games are actually family members of the players or other age groups and their families too along with scouts etc so would not be boycotting (for want of a better word).

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  5. 1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

    I suppose the question is will family/peer pressure still turn those younger ones into glory club fans? As within the Asian community it’s now been 2/3 generations of defaulting to those two clubs in red.

    It’s great work (including the likes of yourself who chaperone), but it is vitally important for the future of the fanbase that we get hold of (enough) of the youth of Blackburn before their heads are turned.

    I think the trend seems to be that we're a novelty to be explored. The vast majority are not going to get their families to take them. Full stop. Many parents have even asked where they're going and who is playing when they drop them off! The goal is to get them to consider us as a form of weekend entertainment when they enter late teens. That does seem to be happening anecdotally (at least to me)...

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Rovers1875_ said:

    Kargbo is a winger with a lot of pace 👍🏻 

    Thanks for that. It never once occurred to me that the name being mentioned all the time wouldn't be a goal-scorer.

    Personally, I think goals FAR outweighs any other issue and width is a distant second even though at this point they're all really glaring needs.

    No-one could possibly accept no more strikers surely?!

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  7. It's an interesting (ish) thought experiment to guess what could be the bare minimum we get done that will get people congratulating Waggott/Venkys and saying, "See they have backed us after all!"

    My guess is one youngish forward prospect with no goals (Kargbo or someone similar) and a last minute loan midfielder (another Clarkson, Morton type).

    Neither would solve our glaring weaknesses of reliable goals and pace down the wings. Both would have numpties telling us all to stop criticising and 'give the lad time' as if we've got that luxury.

    It's beyond pathetic that a couple with slight potential would probably keep the masses happy when 5 or 6 guaranteed first-team starters are needed to keep us going IMO (GK, possibly LB for the long-term, CM, LW, RW and #9 striker).

  8. We're on the Ewood Express again for this so there'll be a bit of excited noise up in the top of the BBE. Our lot are a bit of a jinx as we lost to Bristol the first time they came, the Blackpool game got cancelled due to the FA Cup and we drew with Plymouth last season. I don't hold out much hope but at least some little people are buzzing about it...

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  9. Talked about the Ewood Express before but I've been patiently working on the kids at school all this time about this exact thing. Where is the connection to Liverpool? We were born in Blackburn (some usually put their hand up and point out their mum went to Burnley). The ground is over there. They are our team whatever you think. There is no genuine love for the big teams. None of them know YNWA or Blue Moon or whatever and couldn't name a single player from back in the day. They genuinely care a lot more about Ronaldo being better than Messi than their chosen 'big club'.

    I tell them it's like family. Yours aren't the richest, or the prettiest, or the cleverest, but they're yours and you love them anyway. Little by little, Tugay reference by weekend story, they're slowly coming round to liking Rovers. Not enough to go but they know the score on Monday and ask me how it was. They know some players (they all knew Sammie last season). One in particular is actually desperate to go to Ewood but his parents point blank refuse to take him (he asks when school is going back quite often). I tell him to get a season ticket when he is 18 and he beams.

    Incidentally, a lot of the ones who go on these Ewood Express trips are actually young (Y3) lads or older girls who you wouldn't expect to care at all. Shoots of recovery...

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  10. Who would have guessed that almost being relegated coupled with hated owners who won't fund the club properly would affect season tickets?! No apparent realisation that hiking the prices massively after a tiny early-bird would put off people. The phrasing makes it very clear that prices are going to rise heavily next season and see off a few more die-hards.

    All in all, the usual mediocre employees unwilling to actually try to make Rovers a better club.

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  11. Just got back from a very enjoyable city break down there. Lovely city, nice views.

    In amongst the well-deserved praise for Gueye and Ohashi, might I add a note of exasperation? We defended Gallagher's poor ability for so long by going on about contribution to the team performance. The same seems to be true for Dolan for me. I still can't see any improvement at all from his first game. Constant silly spins and twirls to 'fool' the defenders seem to be his primary objective rather than scoring goals. Surely Ohashi must take his spot in the starting 11 soon?

    I actually thought Sigurdsson had one of his best (not full) games when he came on. He's been a bit indifferent for a long time but looked intelligent with his play which settled us towards the end.

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  12. 3 hours ago, Ossydave said:

    Telegraph running a story about students enrolling at our sports college will receive a free season ticket. Nice gesture to be fair, they’ll absolutely be included in the ‘sales’ figures though by Swag. 

    Honestly, I couldn't care less what the sales figures say. All I want is more than a handful of fans at Ewood. A couple of dozen won't make much of a difference but every little helps.

    Of course, signing players would help much more.

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  13. On 17/06/2024 at 07:56, lraC said:

    So someone’s been stealing your points?

    I hope it’s those thieves in India and they have transferred them to the league table for the up coming season. We will need them I think. 

    Upon further checking, the most Rovers thing ever:

    120 points were 'manually deleted' when renewing rather than being automatically added. An excellent online system if ever there was one. When I queried this with the ticket office they had the nerve to suggest, "It's a new system. There's bound to be glitches."

    In other, non-rotten club news, my class of 10 year-olds did well in their arithmetic tests. They demonstrated a key knowledge of the difference between adding and subtracting.

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  14. We were discussing the general, rotten incompetence at all levels of Rovers and talk came to loyalty points. When the scheme was introduced, I checked and I had 180-odd points (ST plus several away and cup games). I checked today, post renewing my ST (120 more) and now I have 61. WTF?

    How sad it is to assume they couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery, log in to confirm and quickly have it confirmed!

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  15. Particularly on the Telegraph, there is a VERY small number of posters. The same two or three people comment and are then congratulated by the other one or two. There is usually a reply saying "well said" or something equally brief and supportive. Quite frankly, the sort of reply you'd expect if someone had several profiles or if two people were best mates. The Atomic and Reg posters, in particular, can be seen on there for every single Rovers article expressing strong opinions.

    There have always been unusual opinions expressed on any subject down the pub. These people have always been argued with, mocked or ignored. The difference here is that the comment stays and has a wider audience than their own circle of drinking buddies.

    Equally, any post that comes from a profile which you look at and go, "Chav" should be ignored. Mental capacity is essential in reasoning problems and anything with shades of grey needs it. "Get behind the lads FFS" is this in a nutshell. This is me being very judgmental (feel free to think I'm smug and superior), but I have no interest in the opinion of anyone who uses unnecessary swearing in everyday language or posts middle fingers in a profile picture (we all know the sort). Anyone who uses their post to say "Our fanbase is uniquely pathetic" is mistaken and can't distinguish sincere, honest criticism from needless abuse.

    When a post is well reasoned, with valid arguments, then I will accept it even if it completely contradicts my own. I am willing to accept that Steve Waggott is an experienced leader of a football club who exhibits loyalty to his bosses when attempting to save whatever pennies of their money he can. I believe the facts can be selectively chosen to paint this picture. Without access to any information on Rovers beyond going to Ewood, I might also have that opinion. Just as my opinion is informed by knowledge of Bradford Western Union and other titbits.

    The more information you learn (redevelopment of Brockhall; delays in appointing the last manager before JDT came in; Glen's accounts of meetings etc) the more you believe he is a jobsworth without any care for the well-being of the business he is supposed to lead covering for owners who place pride way ahead of actual competence in their dealings.

    The Indian Government knocking their pride is, to my mind, the only thing that will move them. In the meantime, let's not have fights in the BBE because different people choose different culprits to apportion blame to or who refuse to blame anyone connected to Rovers.

    "Never argue with fools. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain.

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