1000+ down there today despite everything #nobodywouldeverbuyus

Very small number of trolls and plants post in there but they have an oversized influence due to it still being a main source of Rovers news… the regime must love it/coordinate it.

We’ll see if Gestede is fair game with what the wider fanbase thinks at matches. If he’s on banners/part of chants too, then great. If folk are scratching their heads, then it was a misstep and a distraction from the ultimate cause.

Obviously my point is being missed here. To be clear, I was massively against his appointment from day one (unlike a fair few on here), a ridiculous appointment, he’s out of his depth and shouldn’t be here - another symptom of the disease that is this ownership. However, I accept that much of the fanbase don’t get in the weeds like we do, they won’t understand why you are going after ‘football’ people too - we need to bring as much of those fans along with us. Division is what the regime want and have utilised against us from day 1. (But I’ll leave it here as I’ll keep repeating myself every time someone else goes ‘well, feck him, he’s fair game’, ‘he’s up Swag’s arse’ etc).

Exactly that, Dom. Like you it’s just a bit of constructive feedback.

Of course he isn’t some cult hero, and yes he is ’neither here nor there’, so why include him then? He’s seen as ‘doing a job on the football side’, ‘so why is he being targeted? Thought they wanted to get behind the team?’ Think like Joe Bloggs that just watches a game at Ewood every other week, not us club forensics. Suhail and Swag sufficed.

Don’t think like us brfcs-ers, think of the wider fanbase. Going after a ‘football man’/ex player ‘who’s doing ok with no budget, he brought in Makhtar!’ is diluting the waters. I seem to be in the minority on here, fair enough, but think of those that need educating out there, Gestede is a distraction.

Disagree on Gestede. As an ex-player on the ‘football side’, he’ll not be seen as fair game by a sizeable chunk of the fanbase in contrast to Venky bean counters like Swag-hail. That was the only misstep for me today. It’s vitally important to keep the messaging tight as we need to keep as much of the fanbase as possible onside this time if it’s going to be different than all the previous campaigns.

So we go after some no mark like Rudy Gestede? A completely insignificant individual, but by including him too you can dilute the message and it becomes scattergun.

Yes, I didn’t quite understand the Gestede angle, low down the chain, even less clout than Swag-hail. I’m nitpicking slightly, as it’s been a highly positive day, but the owners and those two should have been purely the targets for me, an ex-player on the football side is far more likely to get some sympathy from the fanbase.

Always amazes me how many folk spend the majority of their time at Ewood supping that piss water on the concourses.

Their standard playbook. Say nothing or come out with a platitude ridden statement on a blue background and wait for it to blow over - perhaps it won’t this time…

I’ve cut them a lot of slack, I’ve been a member for a decade, but fundamentally it seems a very cautious, bogged down in procedure organisation and they seem to struggle to quickly pivot and get on the front foot. There is still a place for them, it has a committee full of dyed in the wool Blues that care deeply, but in a time of crisis they just aren’t going to lead any resistance - but luckily others will, as proven today.

Bit of reflection needed within the WATR committee after today.

The Facebook responses are interesting, hardly a pro-regime one to be seen… contrast that to a few months ago. The tide has turned and they know it.

On the BBC now… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cz6161z4531o

1300 tickets, will go on general sale no question

More national traction for the cause in a morning than the group I actually pay money to has managed in a decade.

Shaw was a nobender, so I sure he was delighted to.

The young lad sits alongside 10,000 less folk than he would have if these owners hadn’t have ever turned up. Not sure what difference it will make to him if it’s another, say, 3k less next season.

Stoke have frozen their prices since 2008 - local owners that understand their fanbase and local economy.

Exactly, rising prices at a club in complete disarray that can only lead to a poor product on the pitch = substantial fall in ST Holders and indeed, less revenue.

It’ll be £500 behind the goal in the run up to KO, that is not cheap, and that’s before you get to the general shambles that is this football club.

What’s the old line, ‘a camel is a horse designed by committee’. I always get that vibe from WATR, especially with the contrast with Glen, too much procedure and caution and not enough seizing of the moment with this lot.

I was there… but my mate who had been to more away games (keep your stubs!) than me wasn’t as he was about 20 people behind me in the queue (that snaked down Bolton Road for tickets) and they’d sold out. Went with my Mum and Dad on the old 007 bus with Darwen Blues (if you know, you know!), stopped in a pub near Ormskirk pre game, real nervous energy. Around the ground Liverpool fans with Rovers scarves on, hoping we’d win the game, surreal. The game itself was horrible, rumours kept going round the away end ‘Andy Cole’s scored!’… he hadn’t. ‘United have missed a penalty’… there were no penalties. Then Redknapp, but seconds later, delirium, tears, trophy. My next memory is arriving back in Blackburn and folk all over the streets all the way back to Ewood and we on the coaches were also treated like heroes! My dad got off the coach, went on a pub crawl and I don’t think we saw him again until the Ewood Party the day after 😅 The greatest time made possible by the greatest owner. I’ve held off posting on here as it upsets me, as I find it so hard to look back when you see what these present incumbents have done to this fantastic football club - but they can’t, won’t take my memories. Up the Rovers.