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Rovers played well today and a good win. Though I do feel Leicester were wasteful and should have scored and offered more. Does this mean I have to go to the Derby game now! 🫣

The fanbase need a united front - no other club of comparable size would tolerate this ownership. The "Get Behind the Lads" brigade have a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome! The lads they want to back are being exploited by the regime, hung out to dry as part of a poorly composed squad. The lads take the flack for the Venkys' failings! They're "backing" and abetting this exploitation of genuine, hardworking young footballers!

Yep, and this is the one we managed to win! The irony is just when you think it's safe to go back in the water Rovers will inevitably start losing again! 😂

Yep, in the PL days we'd get 20k home fans vs United. Now it's more like 10k. That's 50% of the fanbase who've left. That's shocking tbqh. A lot of it is a quiet boycott, myself included. Rovers fans need to get serious. It may be difficult to achieve but get home crowds really down closer to 5k. Stop buying merch and food like Wednesday are doing. The fanbase, I'm sorry to say, have been a soft touch and we need a serious plan to safeguard the future of our club. Protests, boycotts, hit them in their pockets, media. A multi pronged move on the ownership.

Exactly this, we need proper organisation and eloquent speakers to get the message out: • The club has been systematically mismanaged • This has gone on too long (15 years) • This cannot go on • We will not subsidise the owners any more.

I really cannot bring myself to go ATM. It's just a way to waste £30 and an afternoon. You're lining the pockets of the owners. I do not aim my ire at the players or Ismael at all. They're the ones who bare the brunt of this when the people who created the problem can hide away. This run of form and lack of goalscoring is really concerning. I was thinking we'd be just about ok. Tonight showed though that we're in big big trouble.

Exactly this, people who know me know I love the game but I grow more and more cynical. I was a season ticket holder as a kid in the 2000s and looking back at family pictures I have some great memories following Rovers since I was tiny - FA Cup Semi Finals in 2005 and 2007, beating Burnley in 2009 at Ewood. You go nowadays and it's a husk of what was.

Rovers fans have been very tame. This mismanagement would not be tolerated by most peer clubs.

It seems the performance today, for the raw technical ability of the squad, was ok - so we can't fault application. The individual weaknesses would be carried and helped by an otherwise competent squad so we shouldn't hang the players out to dry. As was said earlier, a change in management would merely be shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. Until the ownership changes, we will live this groundhog day over and over. Maybe League 1 will force them out. Three or four seasons in the bottom half of League 1 with Bolton and Wigan then we can hopefully spend the following ten years climbing back up the leagues. It's wasted breath to expect anything different under this ownership. This season really is as expected - bottom half flirting with relegation. It's still early days so win the must wins and we may well be ok. However, to be cynical, are we just postponing the inevitable if we do survive? We have to be pragmatic and accept from where the club is today it's a long road back in any scenario. Ultimately, the darkest days for Blackburn Rovers may still be to come in the next few years as the chickens come home to roost.

Been a bit slow to this story. Let's not beat about the Bush here. This is another salami slice off the club, or the temperature of the frog's water rising slightly. The club is being destroyed one inch at a time. The LT should be able to comment freely on the nonsense that has been going on. The club simply don't want negative attention on their mismanagement. I've said this before, but whenever Venkys sell (which could be years and years away) there won't be a club left to support. It'll be so withered, the fanbase so shrunk and clinging to a PL era in the 2000s, languishing at the lower end of League 1. The fans need to pull together and realise they need to act. It's a farce.

Yep, and that was us 12 months ago. You need the raw quality for, say, top 4 but an average team can bungle top 6 (like Blackpool and Huddersfield) We just happen to be one of the teams that is on for a poor season unless this squad gels and improves with time. 13th-15th at best. At the end of the day the club is in purgatory, relegation and collapse to League Two like Bolton might be the best thing for the club to shock it out of stasis and force Venkys to sell. I seriously doubt anyone would see a viable business model in the club and actively want to buy it though. Clubs in the South East like Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton are much better 'franchises' to invest in.

Does anyone know if Ewood has a smart meter? 😂

Oh no! I was thinking last night when I saw the rain was carrying on into today that this just wouldn't be playable. If I were the club last night I would seriously have thought about taking a better safe than sorry approach and calling it off at 8am before the Stoke fans set off. If this game isn't played in full then it's a disaster for BRFC from an optics perspective. I'd much rather take the flack for being too cautious than be known as the club who constantly abandons/postpones games late in the day.

Is it just me who's increasingly cynical of the game? You've got the PL shelling out more and more money with the big boys dominating every competition with their inexhaustible pockets. Meanwhile, most club Championship and below are in permacrisis and financially struggling. Do we really want to tough it out for the next 20 years for the privilege of being PL whipping boys for 12 months?

We are where we are. It's been coming for probably 5 or 6 years. Maybe a prolonged spell in the pits of League 1 or 2 could be a good thing and rid us of these owners. We've had 10+ years of purgatory in the Championship threatening nothing. At this point another season in the Championship = more Venkys

My feelings exactly. The club is being killed by stealth. We've managed to stave it off somehow but the spectre of ending up where Bolton and Wigan are (but worse) has loomed large for years. The business model of football just doesn't care about clubs like ours. We're an inconvenience as much as anything as we take support away from the City, United and Liverpool.

It's been evident this season was going nowhere for some time. At least Hull showed we have some fight and we're capable of winning six pointers. We're on for a weaker season (eg Preston last season) rather than a season with an off chance of the Play Offs. Will it change - not until the ownership changes. Even then, football finance is f****d so it's an uphill battle. Nor do I see an ownership change in the next couple of years. They don't want to sell nor is anyone likely to want to spend over the odds buying a tired club in a deprived region.

I've said before, our relative success in recent seasons is based on the players being grafting lads pulling together. If there's disquiet in the dressing room that's a major red flag. ⛳

It's dull nonsense. Most Championship clubs have had a PO campaign or something in the last 10 years to shout about. We've had no POs, we're the biggest club in the EFL never to have played at New Wembley and the highlight of the last 10 years is runners up in League One. With all due respect even that achievement wasn't built upon nor that exciting as a fan. We're in purgatory waiting for whenever the Venkys have had enough and let us collapse. Bury, Macclesfield and Wimbledon may have been playing minnows, but it was a fun ride and the fans felt engaged and part of something. It's the community asset ethos the game is all about. The hopes of a revival wither with every year of purgatory as people drift away.

There's a lot of dross in this division and crisis ridden clubs - that's our saving grace. Even at this stage of the season, Hull next week is a big "do not lose, should be winning" fixture.

Beating the better clubs isn't necessarily needed realistically where the club is at atm. We just need to be better than three other teams and beat teams in the bottom half. That's the model we're running on until the ownership changes - stay in the division. Rovers is fundamentally a house of cards. We just have to hope we get a good new owner one day, rather than go down the "Morecambe route".

We've been living on borrowed time for probably 7 years. Unless something changed, it was inevitable reality caught up with the club.

Given our spending levels and the calibre of the administration all that's really been proven today is that we're not utter chaotic dross destined to go down. Unless we get a bit of luck, once again we'll be nowhere near those Play Offs! Let's just be grateful given the situation behind the scenes that we're still solvent and able to field a competent, serviceable squad.

Agreed. Imagine if what had happened to Rovers happened to Newcastle! The decline of Rovers was allowed to happen 'salami slice style', surrendering an inch at a time. The frog has now well and truly been boiled, yet many still have their heads in the sand.

The question needs answering as to why the owners don't bail... 1. Can't admit they failed - well, they've dug themselves a deeper hole and the shame grows daily. 2. Recoup investment - seems poor business sense when they're clearly competent with the chicken business. They've poured money in for over a decade. Would £100m from a promotion to the PL really make up for it? 3. Fun - they're absentee so I doubt they're just enjoying the football! If they really wanted to wash their hands of Rovers, there'd be someone willing to buy. Even if the new owners were worse than the current regime. You do have to remember, too, that even after the best part of 10 years in the PL culminating from over a decade of exceptionally competent management, Burnley only managed to sell a bit of equity to some exciting American investors. I want good owners for Rovers as much as the next fan. But chances are, we'd end up like Hull, Cardiff, Sheffield Wednesday or Reading. Rovers aren't investable. No parachute money, relatively small fanbase, infrastructure in need of an overhaul, small declined town in a saturated region 100s and miles from the South East. There's a reason Palace, Brentford and Brighton have been able to do it yet we haven't! The proposition isn't there for Rovers.