Mattyblue

Can’t say I’ve seen many goals this season but even the ones I have it has been verging on polite applause from me. Not because my passion for Blackburn Rovers as a ‘thing’ is waning, the opposite, it’s just a visceral dislike of what the regime is providing - no pressure to achieve and the resulting poor players with a poor manager in a soulless, decaying ground. The soul of BRFC now resides elsewhere and we need to fight for it, unfortunately that won’t happen with the Ewood attendees, so it’s Glen’s campaigns or it’s nothing.

Pretty much every division in England from the top flight into deep non-league has send attendances boom this past decade… spot the outlier club.

Suhail sorting out a no fly zone as we speak .

Calling people ‘gimps’ at 33.

It’s all a dilapidated, downsized version of what we had twenty five years ago, when we were a club that was innovative. The game has long left us behind

I have a season ticket and this will only be my, I think, third trip to Ewood this season and we are in late October, and to think we’ve had a friendly and cup tie at home too. It’s a real bloody effort to motivate yourself to go when the regime has no particular interest in even staying in the division never mind actually achieving anything. So if I’m thinking like that as an already paid up ST holder how on earth can you expect floating fans to give a flying fuck (shelling out 30 quid a time to boot)? As the club certainly doesn’t.

Yep, by now we should have all long realised that Ewood on a matchday is irrelevant as the will just isn’t there. The only ‘squirming’ they’ve done in years was last season on the back of Glen et al’s social media/traditional media campaign - stick with that as it did get traction.

He accepted the job on those terms, he is happy to do their bidding in removing the higher paid pros, keep quiet about off field matters and be their lightning rod - what does he get in return? A well paid long contract at a level he is out of his depth in. Fair play to him, but lackey he is.

There will be ‘Venky’s don’t care about me’ and ‘Ishmael sort it out’ chants and some boos… we then traipse home.

Of course, Mowbray just wandered off at the end of his deal no idea if he was staying or going, which was very respectful by the ‘honourable people’.

Longest contract for any manager post Kean, so fairly obvious he’s doing the job they want - to be an acquiescent stooge for downsizers.

Terrible results are the only thing that get dissent in the ground, even with the rump left. So it will happen organically… not that it matters one jot. The regime’s only card to get the heat off is sack VI. New guy comes in and it will be straight back to ‘just get behind ‘em’ Rinse and repeat until in non-league.

End of the day that will be the reaction of most of the remaining rump of crowd. You’ll be very disappointed if you expect anything else. Like it’s been said many times, 10,000 have walked away, that’s your protest right there. The majority who are left just want to watch a game of football with some lads in a blue and white shirt.

‘We want Venky’s out’ through the Last Post, disrespectful, rest of the day is fair game. But Masher gonna Masher.

Whatever it is they need to make the most of it as there’s only one more whilst the season is running..

I’ve not listened to or read a single thing he’s come out with since he joined. It helps.

They can’t relate as this isn’t normal. Usually owners just give up the ghost either of their own volition or they are forced to through administration etc. Here it’s been going on so long, the decline akin to a slow puncture as the lights are always on, not a Sheff Wed-esque car crash, it’s become normalised and turned perceptions on their head - ‘just how it is there, they have crap support, their owners keep it afloat’.

Like I said, briefly, it had long gone even by the end of the Victorian age. So, why has it become the crux of the whole AI generated comms campaign? I’ve seen far more Maltese crosses than red roses.

No Maltese cross! Poor effort. Don’t you know a random website once said it was our badge briefly so is now the basis of all our AI generated comms (and will be on the anniversary shirt, of course).

A shout out to the owners of the club from the club and they’ve managed to get the club’s name wrong.

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.