Mattyblue

Played 19 (soon to be 21) Tests under Bazball against India and Australia, won 6. There was nothing results wise under this regime that pointed to any new dawn. The Root era ended in a poor way, scared, negative cricket. However, this lot have just over-corrected, they still don’t win against the big boys.

Fundamentally, and I don’t say this lightly, the likes of Glen and the rest of the Coalition decision makers don’t understand the mindset of the majority of the remaining match goers, that’s majority and remaining and their motivations when it comes to their fortnightly or so visits to Ewood - i.e not the likes of us on brfcs/their own social circles that still go but will do whatever it takes to try and get the bastards out or not those that have already stopped going. If they did they would not have gone near an ‘official’ boycott with a barge pole.

No tickets on the day is a Sheff Wed decision (why this has become a thing across the division post Covid I’ve no idea when few games sell out), not being able to buy one for almost a week before the game (didn’t realise there were six bank holidays between the 23rd and 29th) is obviously ours.

It’s very simple. The wages are paid and there’s a team in blue and white running around Ewood Park, whilst that is the case a good few thousand will turn up, plus they’ll buy a pie if they fancy and they’ll buy some tat from the shop if they fancy and that’s that. There is no point in wasting energy in worrying about changing minds of such folk.

As always… Masher gonna’ Masher.

Yeah they are definitely tuning into games like Oxford at 2am Pune time 😒

Exactly what we said would happen, especially for a 3pm. The ‘boycott’ is happening anyway, 6,000 are in the ground midweek, 8,000 on a Saturday. 6,000 for a Championship club of our stature! That should have been shouted from the rooftops through traditional and social media, we didn’t need anything ‘official’. Case study, lad next to me, he’s lamented with me what’s happened to this club every step of the way for a decade plus, he is no way in the ‘who else we gonna get brigade?’ But when I floated the boycott idea him and his mate looked at me like I had two heads. It wouldn’t have entered their minds for a second to do that, or that I would do it either. For them it’s simple; this is who they support, so they turn up, terrible owners and all, they just hope they can see them off at some point. Whilst they are paying the wages the remaining core will be there and as soon as you start making it ‘official’ it actually becomes counterproductive folk get very intransigent about it, ‘who are these people telling me what to do?’

Was in Jack’s Kitchen today, it was packed which I was pretty surprised about considering 12.30 game and our horrendous home form. Listening in to conversations and around me in the ground, any boycotts were generally just scoffed at. Of course, the fact there was probably just 8,000 or so rattling around Ewood tells you all you need to know regardless but I really doubt it will be significantly emptier for Watford than it was today.

Who cares if it’s ’carnage on here’. There was ‘carnage’ anyway because the likes of De Neve are crap. You play good footballers whatever the route to the first team. It’s the job of those down there to make judgements on players not give a feck what Rovers Lad75 on a forum thinks.

Team winning = little dissent. Was ever thus, especially with the rump that’s left at Ewood.

Same RTID that was saying he wasn’t going to any more games about, err, two weeks ago.

That’s Crawley making 100 caps then… with an average of 31. Lucky lad.

Apt considering his greatest legacies, Ewood Park and Brockhall have been left to slowly rot away.

Pot, kettle.

‘Val will do it cheaper, so go for him’ being the conclusion of the brains trust, I’d imagine.

Cecil Chadwick back in 1936, ‘that Owens should just focus on his running’

No other counties bid because they knew FIFA and Saudi had carved it up between them for 2034 💰 💰 💰

A club of our stature, spent pretty much twenty years in the top flight, stuck down here since and one manager has been sacked (and that was too late) in a decade. As always, not normal.

Of course. Not a chance big numbers of their floating fans are going to shell out for months on end of dead rubbers.

Back then at least the regime had some semblance of normality. I.e crap manager they get sacked and replaced with a safe pair of hands (obviously an actual normal one wouldn’t have appointed the clown in the first place and at the very least sacked him earlier). Now? This fella is here for the duration, if that ends in League 1, ah well 🤷‍♂️.

Sheff Wed fans did briefly but the crowds have dropped back again (to be expected when the team is that bad). No reason there wouldn’t be an initial return of a good number here.

Still every chance it gets canned with a ‘due to unforeseen circumstances…’ (Obviously nobody down there could have foreseen that no fecker would be daft enough to cough up… bit like how nobody could have foreseen Adam Wharton turning into a good footballer).

Not just the hearts and minds of neutrals, a lot of our own fans too. The long term anti-Chansiri crew only got the rest on board once the wages stopped being paid.

Imagine finding a ticket for that in your Christmas stocking 🎅

Far more than 10% are content enough for the owners to stay.