AvRover

30 years late, Zidane is available. Just saying.

For all VI's weaknesses, the focus can't be on him. The problem is the Owners and always will be. We had the same palpable anger when Eustace left 12 months ago, it'll be the same in 12 months under this ownership. Don't kid yourself they'll bring in Enzo Maresca. It's another mediocre place man for 12 months and friction will grow when the club opts not to spend. Rinse and repeat Feb 2027. The only question is if it's in League 1 or the Championship.

Who will take the poisoned chalice next for 12 months? We've lived this cycle for too long. No one of any quality will come now. Only the third manager they've sacked in 15 years. Don't let this distract you from the true problem - THE REGIME.

The atmosphere at Ewood has been poor for many years. It was hardly Leeds at the best of times but there's been nowt to shout about for a long, long time. I'm not an optimist, but I anticipate there'll be nowt to shout about for many years to come. Things will keep getting worse for Blackburn Rovers until one day they don't.

I still think that has to go to the-deluded-one-who-must-not-be named or Coyle. Ismael's just a poor manager with poor resources.

I think the odds of survival are very, very low at this moment in time. We need a massive boycott until Venkys go. Get home attendances below 3k.

WE WANT VENKYS OUT SAY WE WANT VENKYS OUT!!!

I'm the fourth generation of my family to support the club. From the stories I've heard, even going in the "dark days of the Third Division" with 3,000 on at Ewood had more fun than this monotony. It was a community and you laughed at Ken Beamish booting it into the Blackburn End again. Your expectations were low, but it was a good day out. This modern iteration is just a hollowed out husk with no sense of anything but what was. How is going to a ground with no atmosphere that's not even 30% full 'fun'!?

I am boycotting and would encourage others to do so. I'm not funding the destruction of the football club. My second reason: is it actually fun going? No, it's depressing and toxic. Enjoyment is the reason we all should be going.

Exactly my thoughts. Hopefully relegation this time means the end of the regime.

Well, I'm looking at the table and Portsmouth have two games in hand on level points. Norwich could pick up something from their game in hand. We're 2/3 points adrift already. Unfortunately, unless something changes, I think we're down. The vibe around the club is just wrong, gloomy and declinist. It's the culture of the whole organisation. It's not a club battling to survive and pulling together.

Today may well be the tipping point where we realise we are going down.

I don't feel there's been ever really been the depth nor outright quality for a sustained promotion push. We've only ever briefly been part of the pack. Chancers, not serious contenders. The organisation's culture isn't driving for promotion and lacks ambition. There's at least a dozen clubs in the Championship who proactively have a serious plan for promotion and funds to buy and attract quality. We would have gone down in 2023/24 were it not for some luck v Leeds and playing already promoted Leicester on final day. Unambitious, low resource teams eventually lose their players and go down.

Look at it this way: do we really want to get tonked by Burnley next season? Let's go down to League One, the owners might go and the rebuild can begin. Relegation has been coming for a few seasons now. We're delaying the inevitable. I can't see next season being any better So, let's rip the plaster off and get it over and done with.

It's a very sad state of affairs I'm afraid. We do have to remember Venkys won't last forever. Things don't go on forever, but things often go on longer than they ought. I was told my Great-Grandfather bought a season ticket at Ewood in the 1920s. I heard the stories of the "dark days of the Third Division" in the 1970s and the fairytale of the 1995. I was there in the 2000s for FA Cup Semis, beating Burnley at Ewood in 2009. I have now taken the decision to boycott until the regime falls. It's simply depressing and not fun - that's simply what it should be and why people went through the turnstiles every other Saturday. We live in hope that one day someone will see the value of a small town club in East Lancashire with a proud history and want to make a better future. Sadly, I am falling out of love with football. I can recite tales from throughout football history and I'm passionate about the game. However, the silent decline and fall of Blackburn Rovers is simply how the smaller clubs are being purged, there's no next gen fans who drift off to spend £150pp at Man City. Look at the state of VAR and the state of FIFA. PSR rules designed to entrench teams at the top and kill 'the dream' Rovers once lived. With a heavy heart - Rover and out.

On the bright side, the darkest hour is before dawn. Relegation may force the owners out, finally.

Those who know me know I'm passionate about this club, but this purgatory takes the biscuit. I will boycott now until Venkys go. Enough is enough and it has been for 15 years. Venkys need to go and we need a fresh start. It doesn't matter if we have to start over like Wimbledon did. Following a club is amount enjoyment, pride and moments of success and heartbreak. Currently there's no pride, no enjoyment and only heartbreak.

Agree, but isn't that the story for most Championship teams though? Only a few can *afford* to keep the squad together so for most it's groundhog day? Given PSR, the general finances and players agitating for a move to the PL we have to work with a high turnover squad.

F**k! Rovers get a solid win at home!? No evidence of rain? What's gone wrong here? Can someone explain how it's not going to rain torrentially now and we're going to be docked three points after the fact?

Eflood Park init?

Lol, BRFCS is now basically the Met Office 😂

This needs raising with SW fans on their forum. The football community supported them in their hour of need. Hopefully they'll be happy to repay the favour to another club in trouble.

We have to hope we're inching towards the end of the Venkys era as these factors add up. Remember: regimes collapse slowly slowly then all at once. God help us with whatever comes next!

I know this is gloomy but unless the club gets a massive, massive slice of luck I feel it is destined for decline. I think you've got to be exceptionally optimistic to believe a return to the Premier League is ever on the cards, even in 30 years.

I can forgive extraordinary bad luck if it was just this year. It's practically every year now! It is beyond happenstance. Swansea game in 2021, Millwall in 2022, Portsmouth 2024, Ipswich 2025 and Sheffield Wednesday 2025! If we were a film saga we'd be on "Episode V: The Puddle Strikes Back". We're truly a basket case club withering into history yet never seen able to escape this purgatory and be put out of our misery.