Mattyblue

It’s the helplessness of it.

Yesterday my Facebook memories flashed up with the stream of consciousness I was spouting on that day in 2009. We’d just beat that lot again down the M65 (the last season in which we would) and the passion was flying out of me.

Now? On Saturday, a 3pm game not too far away I would’ve gone without question a few years back, but I didn’t even think about it, indeed I just glanced at the score at half time/full time, sighed and went on with my day - anyone that knows me and my lifelong passion for all thinks Blackburn Rovers wouldn’t recognise me.

’Yeah, yeah it’s because you’re shit so you can’t be arsed’. No, not the case. I was burning with anger, protesting, paying my fees to WATR for years when we were also shit but you hoped we could push them towards the door, if not at least push them into a change of course. Sheff Wed are shit too, but their fans know they are at near end game, hope.

Here? What’s the point? The ‘club’ has no interest in achieving anything on the pitch, yet the owners have no interest in selling to anybody that would try to. Protests don’t work, ten thousand people walking away doesn’t work. So, you just quietly quit and move on with your life, without even noticing.

League 2? Don’t need Brockhall or a Cat 1 Academy or the Riverside. Mothball, ‘consolidate’, sell the land etc and keep cutting that cloth.

How do you know he’s struggling to settle? He could’ve been down his local ‘spoons an hour after moving in for all you know. 

No, no, its only because La Liga’s not at the Championship’s level.

If Coyle had been sacked on Boxing Day after he got dogs abuse at Barnsley post another horrendous performance, with Mowbray then brought straight in we’d have survived no question… only manager they’ve sacked in a decade and it was still too late.

23 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

I wonder if an esteemed poster still sees him as an ‘excellent’ appointment (he did a few weeks ago)?

Obviously not, took a while.

He’s an Asian lad from Dingleland so I’m going to say it’s highly unlikely.

What’s that got to do with it?

Probably is the goal, but why? What’s the point of any of this?

That’s a potential explanation as to why they are shrugging their shoulders this season… but the second part, I.e why this interminable, joyless (on both sides) ownership never ends?

That window just gone confirms there is no goal of staying up, but no selling up goal either… why?

End of the day doomed Sheff Wed aside the other relegation threatened clubs will look to rectify it in January as they don’t want to see their passion, their investment, end up in League 1 for both sporting and financial reasons.

Here? Well, we all know the answer to that.

The irony is the only way that growing community would ever even remotely engage with the club is if it achieved something in the pitch, I.e Premier League… which of course will *never* happen under this regime.

So yes, only one cure whatever way you slice it.

I wonder if an esteemed poster still sees him as an ‘excellent’ appointment (he did a few weeks ago)?

Load of ideas there, but then they run into the standard VenkyRovers roadblocks… I.e no money, no organisation, no drive, no passion.

Especially Gallacher who is never out the hospitality suites.

Why would he be under threat?

He’s been brought in to aid in the downsizing of the club and on that he’s done a good job.

Results don’t matter here.

Not sure Tuchel has any issue with the away support, cracking fans, but Wembley is a morgue, who would argue with either statement?

Someone’s obviously stumbled across a new phrase and will now be using it to death in completely the wrong context.

… or to rename it the Tony Parkes Riverside that was being ‘looked into’ as far back as pre-Covid. 

To be fair he has to fit all family engagements into international breaks as he certainly wouldn’t be missing QPR at home for one.

8 minutes ago, ... said:

That needs to be asked at the next FF where is that timeline

Agreed. @only2garners , can this be on the agenda please? I’ve asked this to be raised before as I just can’t fathom it… at least the de-Roversisation of Blues Bar they can blame on Sodexho.

Bolton, Wolves, Derby all traditional old clubs like ourselves. The league game is therefore enough just like it was for the 100th and 125th, plus play in a one off kit, job done.

If you are going to have an additional game you surely don’t just have a 40 minute kick about between amateurs and a bunch of 50/60 year olds an hour after the game - either do it properly or don’t bother.

Parson has made it clear that he has fundamentally no issue with how the club is being run.

The obvious solution, but of course this lot not never take that option.