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So pretty much everybody else that did the job before him (and indeed with him) was much better. So like I said you didn’t rate him.

You didn’t rate St John though…

Just Rev being Rev, once he makes his mind up that’s that. Been a patten all the way back to John (‘St John’) Williams not being up to it.

He’s a standard Championship mediocrity, not on this planet can he ‘do a bit of everything’… he can’t pass a ball for a start.

Travis ‘can do a bit of everything’, since when?

Rev, what are you expecting a player in Tronstadt’s role to do that he doesn’t in order for you to think he’s ‘good’?

So why you asking the question then?

Can’t ‘nip to the website and buy them for Sheff Wed’ though ay…

That new fangled thing called ‘YouTube’.

Well, that worked out well, didn’t it. Maybe there’s a bit more too it than arranging buses for school kids.

One of the few ‘successes’ of recent years when it comes to Ewood is a Blackburn End lower that was pretty full most weeks (obviously by just concertina-ing the remaining fans into camera facing areas, I.e BB Lower and JW, but still) … so of course they’ve put a sledgehammer to that too.

How very 2021.

What would a Bored Ape Rovers edition have gone for?

Yes, a comparison to the games either side of it seems a fair enough barometer.

Why would a club run by administrators (I.e their whole remit is to rescue the business) instruct tickets in just one stand to be taken off sale nearly a week before the game. Of course it’s a Rovers decision.

6,000 people is not a success when there wasn’t much more that in the ground on Saturday.

End of the day we’ll see in a year or so time if it was effective and if it was a first step of anything in particular.

No corners here, total open mind. I’ve already said, I expect c6,000, no different than Oxford. If it’s c3/4k then definitely a success.

That’s the stuff!

Ive already said. What the Coalition did last season to smoke the three stooges out their foxhole was excellent, plus use FOI through Lancs Police to get the fact a ‘boycott’ is already underway into the press. 6,000 people at a league game for Blackburn Rovers. A club that had an average crowd of 25,000 as these owners bought the club. There’s your story right there and will have just as much national media interest as this non-boycott will have, *plus* keeps match goers onside. As at the moment the only people winning with this are the regime as the fanbase is well and truly divided again.

…and they won’t do that either as Saturday showed.

Exactly, Paul. Nothing will happen v Watford that isn’t happening already. But if you want to call it ‘official’ now, fine. Still don’t see why none of this couldn’t have been achieved through an FOI police request and a media campaign, which would have kept the remaining match goers in the tent. Like I said brfcs-ers and The Coalition don’t understand the actual reality of where the fans in the ground are. But crack on

No Rev I interviewed every fan on the way in on Saturday 🙄 It’s called ‘anecdotal’. I am telling you now that 5/6,000 people at least will be in the ground, ergo it can’t be deemed a success as a ‘boycott’. Like I said if that doesn’t matter as it’s all part of a bigger campaign, then fine (which of course begs the question, why do it at all and not focus on other things that do work in and of themselves)

And you’ve repeatedly said how it’s a good idea when the evidence of actual fans that still go says the exact opposite. Protesting by numbers instead of thinking what will actually work. But if we don’t actually need boycotting fans for a boycott to be a success as we’ll actually judge it on having a few weeks of an odd press article before the media moves on, then fine.

How is it ‘irrelevant’ to say that a boycott that doesn’t have a sizeable number of match goers boycotting isn’t much cop? Campaigns, whatever the cause are about hearts and minds and bringing people with you, if this boycott doesn’t grab said hearts and minds of the very people it is supposed to - I.e the folk being asked not to attend, then this part of the campaign is a failure.