Wheelton Blue

So, despite your protestations, you are boycotting in some way after all 🤣

This is my protest 'starting point' from Saturday. I never buy any of the tat from the club shop anyway, but will not be buying any more rip-off food/drinks from the kiosks.

Thanks, I hadn't seen that.

I'd suggest that after every home game, the Coalition put a statement out with the numbers, actual vs publicised.

The Wednesday game will suffer from an 'organic' boycott anyway. After the Ipswich debacle when they charged folk again for the replay, a precedent has been set now and they'll have to do the same for the Wednesday game. This time, I reckon folk will just not pay it, a lot of ST holders will swerve it, and we'll see a lower turnout than was had against Oxford.

I'm not suggesting that it shouldn't be respected, if that's what you're implying. The reality is that some people will attend Ewood no matter what, other people won't. The same as it was at Blackpool and Wednesday. Each to their own, it's a personal decision, whether we agree or not.

Last season we had a decent side, this season we have a crap one.

I think attendances aren't far off bottoming out anyway. My suggestion for the Coalition would be to publicise the true attendances on social media game by game. Even now, the attendance levels are such that a boycott is happening anyway. That would give good publicity. As for calling people 'happy clappers', my God, how embarassing. Some need to accept the fact that some folk will attend no matter what, it's what they do. A chap who sits next to me has been going on to Ewood since the 50's. As he once said to me, 'Ive been going for over 60 years, I'm too old to stop going now'. That should be respected. Me personally, I'll be there on Saturday, as I'm not letting people down who I've made arrangements with. Beyond that, I'll make a stand in my own way, starting with avoiding the concourse outlets and club shop.

A player who signed but isn't a 'signing'. Make that make sense!

Exactly. After nearly half a season, we absolutely deserve to be where we are in the league.

But they didn't. Because they're not good enough.

Quite a few regular ST holders who sit near me weren't there last night, I suspect that they had the same view as you. I pretty much had the whole row to myself. 8k tops on Ewood last night I reckon, and it'll only get worse.

4 great chances, but converted none of them. Perhaps that's because the players just aren't very good.

The state of the pitch is just one of many symptoms of their lack of care. The whole stadium is a neglected, run down, shoddy mess, and sooner or later some other urgent remedial action will be needed elsewhere. They have absolutely no pride, nor do they care a jot.

Isn't he a Dingle?

Whoosh!!!!!!!!!

I'll trudge down LBR as usual. But such is my peed-off-ness over yesterday, I really don't care much if we win, lose, or draw

I don't understand why you're wasting effort trying to argue which pitch was worst, the Ipswich one or the one yesterday. The fact remains that both pitches were unplayable, and people with far more knowledge than the likes of you or I made those calls. The fact also remains that it's our so-called owners and execs who are responsible for these embarassments. Energy would be better spent directing ire in that direction.

They hold us in such utter comtempt, that's the top and bottom of it. They simply don't give a shiny one, about anything or anyone. People spent time and money on that yesterday, but they simply do not care. No apology, no contrition. Nothing. The best thing to do is to boycott the replay, as has been suggested. As a ST holder, I'd be all for that, as would the Wednesday fans I imagine.

Are refs any worse these days than that George Courtney display at Selhurst Park? I'm not so sure about that!

My neighbour is a Wednesday ST holder. Reckons that their first 11 will give most sides a game and that they should have beaten PNE at the weekend. They have no strength in depth though, and suffer with inferior subs. Sounds familiar.

All sides are impacted by the appallling standards. The good sides find ways to still win games. And I very much doubt that Ismael would be bleating as he is, if we were winning games.

The fact remains that 3 points were there to be won. Why we didn't is due to a poor manager, making poor decisions, with poor players. Everything else is excuse making.

"We played well"; We were excellent"; "We were unlucky"; "We deserved 3 points" "Ref was shit" That's just losers' talk to me. All I care about is winning football matches. 1 win in 9, carry on like this, and we're only heading one way. People need to waken up.

Piss poor marketing then, perhaps.