Mattyblue

They ran out of stock in August (again) for months, that isn’t good stock management to me - and not replicated at other clubs.

*Bot Correction* ‘Just get behind the regime team FFS’

The players have a choice.

Oh Rev. 🤦‍♂️ Please, please just put your hands up and say you initially misjudged a player, we’ve all done it… I mean, plenty on here did with Sammie. (You won’t, of course, as your weak spot as a poster has always been that you decide to die on hills on day 1, when you could easily just walk back down them).

They were saying how marvellous ‘Hecky’ was a month or so back…

We have 9,100 ST holders (not including half STs) Gut feel, we’ll limp to about 6k. An absolute calamity in comparison to where we were when they bought the club, but in reality won’t push them any closer to the exit door in and of itself.

It was a turn of phrase. I.e he wasn’t going to be playing when everybody was fit. Of course he was going to go to Tottenham, ‘Judas’, come on.

‘Judas’, behave. 😄 He was a teenager at a non-parachute second tier club that had hardly had a sniff who left to go to Tottenham. That’s the game, happens at all levels, we’ve done it ourselves with young lads from lower down the pyramid.

So as always run out of stock for months during the season, flogging excess off for a discount in April

Even the finance guy, Kieran Maguire, supposed ‘guru’ of all things money related in football has spent years saying what marvellous owners they are - ‘20 million a year!’

Hope you’re right, but this mob putting the club up for sale as a result of poor ST sales? Seems a stretch to me.

We are at the heady heights of c9,000 ST holders currently - yet we only sold 6,995 in 2021, they didn’t bat an eye lid. Say it’s 3,995 next season, I don’t particularly foresee the owners buckling under any pressure… of course they should then be buckling, klaxons should be sounding an inch from their faces… but these are not normal owners.

Think you’re right. We sold a mighty 6,995 STs in 2021 (substantially lower than even the Coyle summer)… shrugs all round.

Even the president of the Markanday fan club doesn’t think he’s good enough.

We fundamentally have a ‘board’ of a professional football club that has no ambition, no interest in seeing the club thrive on or off the pitch (with everything said thriving leads to). They are purely there to tick it over, to lower costs with a minimum of fuss for owners half way round the world, owners that haven’t visited their business for a decade. Not normal, which is why folk need to possibly reset their expectations re them fecking off in even the medium term.

It all comes down to what you believe ‘the club’ is. If you think ‘supporting the club’ just entails watching blue and white shirts at Ewood every other week, then you don’t have anything to weigh up this summer. If however by wanting the best for ‘the club’ you believe you need to do what it takes to get these owners currently killing it out the door, and you feel not handing over ST money can aid that (if it will with these strange people is another matter) then surely you are also ‘supporting the club’.

If ST sales collapse to say c4,000 (2,000 full adults) next season will it push them closer to the door? At any normal club, of course it would (that would be an enormous decline from c20,000 when they arrived), the Oystons are a prime example of NAPM having the requisite result - here? I’m not convinced as we just can’t look at these owners through the lens of standard business norms.

Surely not, ‘League 1 player’, ain’t he?

I would go to some games, it’s my club and my heritage, but when it suited me, I’d imagine, instead of the opposite way round it’s been my whole Rovers supporting life - I.e would I buy another season ticket? Not sure I would.

I’d never even given it a second thought before this summer. My overarching feeling on it is (putting the ‘making a stand’ and all that to one side) purely on a personal psychological/leisure time perspective, if I stop, that’s me done as with a decent distance to travel to Ewood and all the fixture moves/night games/on TV anyway, I’d very quickly get used to not losing a day of my weekend every other week.

So Bury 😱 will have more on this weekend than we will next season.

I’m afraid it’s run its course for this season (unless we lose both over Easter and you may see something against Watford). Just the way it is as most fans are purely results driven. As I said yesterday the next stage will be the collapse of STs and so crowds in general next season, that will be a bigger visual and financial protest than anything else.

Nobody else would ever buy us, nobody else could do a better job than Steve Waggott. We are truly blessed.

A late draw and an away win have taken the winds out the sails too. It’s the double edged sword, of course, as football is fundamentally about your club winning games, though doing that removes most hostility - we win on Friday and the campaigns will get very little traction for what’s left of this season, then in the close season it is also harder to get noticed. (Of course the biggest protest of all is still to manifest itself, I.e the collapse in ST sales and ergo crowds next season).

Be more extensive than anything the regime will cobble together.