23 hours ago, Miker said:

I'm really keen to fly up to England in May in the hope that we do end up in the playoffs or automatic promotion places by the end of the season. After 16+ years of supporting the club I've still not been to Ewood and think now may be the perfect time to go. With the latest increased cases of Omicron though, I have no idea if it will still be possible, but really hoping it will be oaky.

Would really appreciate any suggestions people would have about coming to Blackburn. I'm not sure how to plan for the trip tbh given how unpredictable it's going to be where we end up at the end of the season. 

• 30th April for the game against Bournemouth - which may end up being the decider for automatic promotion?
• Mid-to-late May for the semi-final/final games - if we end up in the playoff spots (which seems more likely)

Of course, we may just end up dropping off completely in which case I would be there for a dead rubber game!

Always travel either Christmas or Easter from a long way away. So Easter with Peterborough Away/ Stoke at home then Preston Away would be best. You will need a friend or good contact to get the Away tickets though this Season(hopefully).

The other great few dates are March 11th  to 16th with 2 home games. Fly back from London and take in Reading away!!

Whats the variant after Omichron?

So who missed the Game on Saturday?

Access worked well.....atmosphere rocking...would not have missed it for the World.

Sweet Caroline!!

If I asked myself this question 100 times(including after Fulham this Season) the answer would always be the only constant thing in my life since 7years of age: The World's Most Successful Town Club.

Three hours before we find out who has not been vaccinated ?!

Watch this space.....

On 12/11/2021 at 13:04, Wheelton Blue said:

I sincerely hope that the club suitably treated the Chile supporter to replica shirts, accomodation etc.

He's done more marketing for the club in one foul swoop than the club itself has done in months.

Whilst I agree with you on the marketing point, he was one of the Chile Delegates at Cop26 in Glasgow and sagged off to come and see BBD. The Press write the story that fits their narrative : The Guardian headline would have been " Cop26 Delegate wastes CO2 on minor Football Match"

On 09/11/2021 at 22:24, RoversClitheroe said:

Are you going to look back into selling those fantastic Rovers Trust shirts? 

We have loads in an attic somewhere. Then Primark opened its first shop!

Always thought they were like poor Ivy League Baseball clones.

Send your details to support@roverstrust.co.uk and we will find an attic-soiled free gift.

On 07/11/2021 at 18:23, WIR Second Coming said:

A lot of managers getting the heave ho this week, even on the back of positive results - Colin Wanker and Farke two good examples. Shows other clubs have awareness, ambition and decisiveness at their core. Rovers, in the meantime, have Waggot, Mowbray, Venus, crap catering, dodgy dealings asset stripping the club for petty cash, players literally ready to walk for nothing, a total humiliation from a bang average competitor on their CVs and a stadium that is starting to look waay beyond its sell-by...

 

...And we sit on our hands and do feck all to make a change, or at least those in charge of the club do so...

 

Baffling. Predictable, but still Baffling

Which is why the lack of vision,strategy and direction still resides in Pune.

11 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

I’ve been a member since day dot, yet I’ve never received a thing, be it in the post or email, the £10 always goes, so I presume I’m still a member!

Can it be looked into? Happy to DM on here, or is there a specific email address I can contact?

Please...you are such a long term and valuable member of brfcs that we cannot allow this cock-up of our Mailchimp database to continue. Send an email to chair@roverstrust,co,uk and I will send you personally a copy of our next newsletter! You are not the only Member of the Trust to say this and of course if you change your main email it does disrupt this.....but an email to me or enquiries@roverstrust.co.uk  on any issue does get forwarded to Michael E. or the relevant person.

As a footnote we have 37 new members in the last few weeks. Our aim is to move up to 1000 members and show to the Club that we represent a high percentage of Rovers Supporters.

5 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I put this in a post that was for no reason removed, but who are you aiming this at? Why can't you accept that some people have less of an interest and a desperation to attend Rovers than you or I? And why do you view it as some sort of obligation, as if it is visiting a sick grandparent, for every single person with any affiliation or interest in Rovers to attend with such regularity? Why should they if they feel if it is too much money, if they have lost interest and want to do other things, if they have grown disillusioned with disinterested owners overseeing (loosely) 11 years with no chance of progression, with our best players leaving, with a manager going nowhere, why does everyone have that obligation to spend a considerable amount of money (hundreds of pounds) and give up so much free time to attend baring in mind all of the above?

The Oxford game proved that when tickets are a tenner, it is a sunny evening and there is a promotion party, that many people who aren't that interested or who in the main spend their time in other ways turn up as a one off, why do people carry such resent towards those people for not attending every other week? If you want to feel resentful, feel resentful towards Waggott for not having season tickets announced by then, for then increasing the prices that summer killing any chance of building upon that momentum, and ultimately to the owners for overseeing a reign of terror that has seen many choose what they consider to be more constructive ways to spend their Saturdays and their hard earned money.

The important thing about the Oxford match is that there were no vouchers for money off the next seasons season tickets(in fact as frickin usual ST prices were still being decided!) for all the extra supporters. Doubt we even had them on any database. Core ST holders want more fans on the ground.

I think everyone is forgetting a non-football issue. To avoid the FFP problems that Rovers have(low Commercial Income and even lower Gate receipts) we now need to raise £10mn per year from other sources. This explains Adam Armstrong; potential sale and lease back of Brockhall; and the sale of one or two players in January. So those who have not signed  contract extensions HAVE to be sold ......and we need to keep the Wages Bill down because this is the key Expenditure vs Income figure....everything else for BRFC rotates round that.

If Tracey Crouch's Review can sort out the 'trickle down' from the PL, and end parachute payments then the Rovers have a sounder future. We will still need a more 'aware' BRFC Management to switch-on new supporters and sponsors/advertisers to bridge the gap. The key to it for the forseeable future will be players wages out of kilter with the financial reality of their Clubs.

You will notice that the new Board of the Trust has sponsored www.brfcs.com as a vital connection between the fans. We strongly believe that we have to collaborate together(usually used as a phrase against a visible enemy!). We are also sponsoring Radio Rovers and 4000 Holes. We hope to start a "Regeneration Fund" in the future......as much to safeguard the assets and  also celebrate our heritage. My own favourite is to crowdfund a Bob Crompton statue, but other ideas have been kids tickets for local schools and , obviously, a safe standing zone. We welcome ideas and particularly people wanting to join the Board....currently 5 elected and 2 non-exec, so 3 potential non-exec roles.

And some of the ideas from our Feb 2020 Marketing Prospectus(see Trust website) have been introduced.....but not at the speed required!!

Agree with all that Revidge Blue, especially the issues around the actual management of the Club assets. It feels like the 'beginning of this end' but unless the Owners get more involved or at least their Representative gets more involved/starts telling us what he is doing, then nothing can change.

A change of Manager and Management is actually a highly dangerous move under this Ownership.

The biggest clue to how far current Owners have reduced morale and commitment of our fan-base will be the attendance figures for Notlob  and ourselves on Saturday. Both at home with similar cash-strapped fans, similar pandemic experience etc etc.

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Why do we even have a Chief Executive ?

Last time we fell foul it was partly put down to not having anyone proper overseeing things for Venkys here in Blackburn.  Since then they've added Waggot to the payroll and the phantom man of the shadows.

Plus there is Mr Stability I build football clubs, defenders are coming, we are building for the top 6 Mowbray.  So why do we end up in such a mess again ?   Plus Cheston how much have that little lot cost the club over the last few years ?

And for what, mid / lower midtable finishes, a 12 million pointless investment scheme and another high paid crock on the books just when we've managed to get rid of a few others.

Every ###### one of them should be removed as soon as possible.  I hope these cost cutting plans include that and we just have to somehow get through this season. Then a new broom.

Just wanted to bump this up.

Everything from Player management; ticket management; retail management; web-site management etc looks like a competency issue as of Summer 2021.

It feels serious. They can only add missing Season Ticket holders on Saturday....so that is the first thing I will look out for after the score(on Holiday but ST holder)

On 01/08/2021 at 09:12, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

As others have said, putting his injuries to the side, Ayala and Lenihan don’t even make a good pairing - too similar, both like playing the same side and both don’t have an ounce of pace between them. 

As for the ‘injuries’, Jesus Christ he’s putting Grella in the shade. At least Boro fans used to get to watch him from August - Jan every season. Three years was reckless - sounds like it was almost suicidal for Mowbray, but Mr Bulletproof marches on. 

I think the lengthy Contracts for all the ex-Boro players stinks.....but Pears takes the 'peach' so to speak fruitily. We did not even need him. And he hunts down Harry Chapman who then will not get his attitude right for the Manager.

At least with Graeme Souness the ex-Rangers players he brought us were outstanding or we got our money back. TM's Boro players....just money down the drain.

4 hours ago, tomphil said:

It's like the owners, manager, directors etc take the easy option first time, every time and to hell with it.

Whether it comes to funding - yeah just sign off the usual budget and do what you want with it.

Signing players - just look at what our mates have for us or what's around at the last min then try and fit them in the team.

Tickets etc - well whoever wants to come will come and pay the going rate, balls to the rest.

Absolute tinpot outfit.

This is wrong! We have had no Board and no care and attention from the Owners for 10 years. There is no connection between the Team, Manager, CEO and the rest of the Club Directors, whatever time they spare for us. It is now a Financial Control issue only from Pune. The Trust is trying to flush them out, but it is not working as yet. Next stage is July 19th when the UK re-opens coupled with the Rovers Accounts being passed(?).

We need the fans back and in numbers 'to keep the flame burning'. The season ticket pricing plus walk-on prices will not produce this. I think we need a September 1st Season-Ticket Offer in August coupled with 6 match or 10 match "bundle offers". Its of no use to have more supporters not at the match as those at the match, because there is no appetite for protests and the situation just breeds apathy.

On 14/06/2021 at 14:31, chaddyrovers said:

I just asking(dont expect any names to be named on here) are they any former Rovers players or former board members or any famous fans part of the Rovers trust

The answer is ....."yes"   .......then.

I was in Hawkins. Never won anything but had character!

Agreed Meesh. We miss Graham Jones....I will be inviting him to Trust AGM when we can fix a date. Tim Farron has been very pro-active as well and I have been in contact with Straw family. But the luckiest man in Politics(Nigel Evans) and Corbyn's PPA(Kate Hollern) have been silent and uninterested.

A Contributor asked for a Pasha address....we sent c/o Ewood park -but we have to flush him out!

The Trust got a pretty quick and very, very positive response from Tracey.

I am in transit at the moment...will get one of my colleagues to post it very soon.

Waiting for 6pm announcement on Covid Release to sort out yet another revised date for Trust AGM

Thread hijacked and diverted😪

14 days since the letter was posted to India; Venkys London Ltd and Directors at Ewood Park(plus of course Sohail Pasha!). No response as yet. But May is coming to an end and no sign of Season ticket prices either, despite 16 other Championship Clubs announcing theirs, so no rush!!

Tracey Crouch MP has started her   " Fan-led " Review today. The Trust are preparing their submission, but its a painful process remembering all the decline and unfathomable decision-making.

Do remember that its 'our' Club and every day is a step nearer.....................................

2 hours ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

So exactly how has this letter been transmitted to Madame?

A post box ?

A fax ? 🤣

An email ?

or via this message board ?

 

Can't imagine a read receipt.

Can't imagine the Trust posting the open response letter on here.

 

Multiple methods....Directors at Ewood Park; Letter to Pune; Letter and email to Sohail Pasha; Venkys London Limited and one other more secretive avenue.

They may be "humble and loyal" but they are multiple times more secretive than the "Big 6 " Owners.

11 hours ago, PeteJD13 said:

i have posted this letter into the rovers and blackburn rovers supporters fb pages, the trust really needs to work on its profile. What good is it sending an open letter without plastering it across social media?. the trust needs a re brand and a complete re vamp. Its not only venkys that need to engage with fans the trust does as well, the letter is an excellent opening approach but if only 200 people see it ?  

Sorry Pete. We have a sequence for any of our Newsletters, which starts with the Members and Subscribers of Rovers Trust and then(because of our long term love of brfcs) to put it on www.brfcs.com. Twitter and Facebook comes today but takes a lot of curating.

We have 2,300 Members and Subscribers(750 Members) so it does reach a lot, with a high rate of opening, but this Open Letter has also gone to our press list. Personally, get fed up of the Agenda being hi-jacked by the 'Big6' especially ManUre.

I voted Yes - no matter what.

TM would not be manager now if the Riverside had been in place!

And I am not currently trying to re-stock the Rovers Trust Board because its an ego thing, more because WE have to protect OUR Club from yet another dangerous period.

Now is not the time to give up and just become another bedroom , keyboard warrior.

Now is the time to re-double our efforts....perhaps the Fan-Led Review can steer us a little closer to a better Model.