Mattyblue

It's the little things that (almost) grate as much. Making Blues Bar a beige shell, stripped of all Rovers memorabilia, a sports bar that doesn't even have a subscription for sport channels. The ground being in a state of disrepair and rot. Actively trying to empty out the Blackburn End Removing the history timelime murals (maybe it would have helped them remember when we last won the FA Cup). A club shop containing largely cheap tat (that doesn't even open on some working days). The 150th being a shambles from day one. A lack of care, attention, affection for such a fantastic, historic football club that goes back to the very beginning of the sport in this country.

Wasn't aimed at you.

I'm an actual attender that will be doing said boycott, so not sure what corner I'm painted into or how that makes me a 'naysayer', especially being called so from people that have no boycott to make as they already don't go! Some balls. However, this is a forum that is supposed to be about exchanging views and as I'm also a paid up member of WATR that is part of the Coalition, I'm more than entitled to offer some constructive criticism as to why, *in my opinion*, even though I'll do it anyway, this isn't the correct game.

Personally I don’t think an ‘official’ boycott is needed at all, but it’s out there now and if, and I think it is, the point of it is to get visuals and figures into the media as part of an overall campaign, then in my opinion a night game is preferable as the biggest bang for your buck - other club fan groups doing the same obviously pick said games for a reason.

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Boycott, protest call it what you want. The whole point is a visual of the ground looking as empty as possible (backed up by a true FOI attendance figure) to give power to the arm of the anti-owner campaign - I.e midweek, just like Sheff Wed’s, just like tonight. Who cares about a ‘true reflection’, ‘well this game is 30% lower than a standard 3pm’ ‘oh is it 🤷‍♂️’. It’s about social media/traditional media eyeballs. ‘25,000 average crowds when they bought the club… just 3,000 home fans in the ground tonight’ accompanying said visuals.

And it’s now being reported across traditional/social media (with no disclaimer saying ‘well it is a night game’), a 3pm Saturday and plenty more would be there. Maximum impact, canny move from the organisers.

It’s about publicity for the cause and as few bums on seats as possible..ergo there’s a reason why everybody else choose night games.

A night game is always a better option. Sheff Wed should have been the one. Very apt with their issues (and their own league game boycott was midweek against Boro, so is Leicester’s tonight).

Makes me laugh when a Venky’s Out chant is heard ‘typical when we are getting beat’ Yet not getting beat… ‘what’s the problem we are winning/drawing here?’

Oh.

Imagine the results if they weren’t ’playing for him’, we may have had one home win all season instead of two, or something.

We don’t know that last paragraph to be true, plenty of managers would still be interested in a Championship gig in which you get to put your feet under the table, and they could well be able to win more than two home games in half a season (of course this is all for discussion purposes as he’s going nowhere regardless).

Live engraving on the pitch to correct it.

Really made a big fuss of it then.

There’s no point playing the ‘who we gonna get?’ game (I hear enough of that with ‘who would buy us?’ stuff - plenty of decent managers would be interested in a Championship gig for a club that is nowhere near being marooned by the way). There’s no point as the truism of football - it’s a results business, you don’t get them, so out you go, simple as that… is a truism everywhere else but here.

No sign. Probably got the date wrong.

Good job you don’t work in governance.

‘Sack the board Head Ofs, sack the board Head Ofs’

Take everything he says with a pinch of salt. If it’s the status quo it’s correct, that’s all there is to the thought process. New owners come in and they install various capable directors he’ll have switched to saying the exact opposite of his earlier post.

The shirt will be in the shop tomorrow… the ‘very limited numbers, exclusive ST Holder offer’ didn’t go too well then.

*£28 in the Blackburn End (£30 if you have the temerity to buy one in the ticket office). For the day before the big miserable January return to work, good one.

I wouldn’t mind but it’s literally on a board slap bang in the middle of the Blackburn End

Imagine we had a proper corporate structure and, say, RF99’s view on it was ‘nah, feck these other roles, we only need a CEO and a deputy’, what do we reckon his response would be?

Silent Bob sitting on his own in the boardroom rubber stamping documents put under his nose will be the extent of ‘board meetings’, you’d imagine.