Mattyblue

Whatever the reason, it’s the same outcome of hopelessness for us fans, they aren’t for going.

The difference is here is these owners have set themselves in for the duration. All those other clubs will see a change at the top at some point and the malaise has a possibility to dissipate, they have that thing, ‘hope’ - we do not.

The apathy kind of sneaks up on you. It hit home to me the other day. We were planning some stuff and the Mrs said ‘but Rovers are at home?’ One, I hadn’t even checked the fixture list and two when I said ‘well, we’ll go that day anyway’, the fact we wouldn’t look to arrange it for other days had her shocked. Anybody that knows me would be amazed by that, Blackburn Rovers is part of my identity, like part of my family, certainly it’s how my actual family have always seen the club. I’ve prioritised it (or had it prioritised for me) since I was about six/seven years old. First it was knocking night games on the head, but I rationalised that in my head with ‘work, cold. Red button’. For 3pm’s? Well, I’d just rather be doing something else. A football club and your relationship to it is precious, something you can’t really quantify, the sense of pride, of belonging, that link to generations passed… and they’ve destroyed it.

This thread from OwlsTalk from last year when wages first stopped being paid rings a few bells. Whilst they are you’ve no chance with such folk, so forget them. https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/337986-chansiri-fan-boys/

Sell all the experience so you have to cobble a squad together that can barely compete in the second division and they crow about it.

It is what it is, you can’t convince the 3)’s whilst wages are being paid. So just work around them.

And it will continue to be like this whilst they pay the wages. You heard a lot of the same within the Sheff Wed fanbase until he stopped paying the players/staff.

Yep, to go back to my 4 point breakdown of the remaining match going fans, there is still a sizeable number in 3), i.e benevolent owners who’d we be bust without.

Good points. But looking at the concourses I don’t think ‘turn off the taps’ generally has had much impact on those that still go.

RTID was saying he wasn’t going to any more games about a month ago, so I’d take it with a pinch of salt.

30 people. So in reality a handful at best of the general public (i.e non-business club members) went to a Q&A with the manager. Says a lot.

You can be pro or against the boycott in and of itself, but to try and argue it will impact the team is obviously BS. Millwall game, no bugger there, comfortable win. Derby, very good crowd by this season’s standards, crap performance.

‘We were delighted to host 'An Evening with Valérien Ismaël' last night, as part of the club’s ongoing 150th anniversary celebrations. 💙 Thank you to all supporters and #Rovers Business Club members who attended at Ewood Park, making it a thoroughly enjoyable occasion. ‘ Something else that has bugger all to do with the history of the club being ‘celebrated’ in the 151st year.

Like to see the breakdown of attendees between those from the Business Club v actual punters that shelled out 35 notes of their own.

Away at West Ham for QPR… ut oh! 😬

Do they actually write anything themselves these days? Not a good time to be a Comms Officer.

Nobody’s going to own up to that!

A club with an actual connection to its heritage back then.

Yep, no human would write ‘belongs-on’

£120 for something blatantly ‘designed’ on ChatGPT.

TMS certainly didn’t think England would win at a canter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cgqlqlw4gx3o

The Coalition themselves obviously have no issue with different perspectives, as Speedie is showing, so folk can carry on using this thread to discuss ideas (and yes, sometimes have a difference of opinion) until the actual mods say otherwise.

Exactly right. So knock it on the head and actually *read* what I’m writing, Rev for Christs sake.

No goal posts movement. I still don’t see the need for an ‘official’ boycott, but it’s happening so I’m supporting it. I still think the Sheff Wed game would be better, but Watford it is, so I’m supporting it. You know, doing what is needed for the cause, despite my own misgivings, and yet you hound me across the thread.

End of the day the only ‘on the record’ statement the regime even makes is in a quarterly FF and as you say they have said bugger all to the various releases from the Coalition, so I wouldn’t be worrying unduly about that lot.