6 hours ago, JHRover said:

His days were numbered at Coventry. If he hadn't walked he would have been pushed.

He thought he was too good for League One to start with. Never mind League Two.

 

Always made me laugh at his haughty attitude in League 1, ‘my methods aren’t suited to this division’ etc.

As if Wigan, Portsmouth etc should have been honoured to have Tony bloody Mowbray on their premises.

For those saying ‘small steps’. I’d say retracing well worn away steps…

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/14773708.we-remain-totally-committed-club---blackburn-rovers-owners-venkys-release-statement-fans-meeting/
 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/15272635.we-deeply-hurt-events---venkys-release-statement-following-rovers-relegation-league-one/
 

‘Approaching 6,000’.

So sell a few more over the next couple of weeks and we’ll probably hit that 6,000 mark before they go off sale.

Six thousand ST holders, SIX! I would imagine that’s the lowest sales in the entire second division and you’d have to go back to the mid 80s (when attendances across the country were much lower than today) to see such dreadful sales here.

What a complete shit show of mis-management over a decade that has led to this sorry state of affairs.

On the flip side, if we were on one of TM’s intermittent winning runs, I’d imagine they’d get a fairly rousing reception… 

‘Whoever replaces Mowbray next season’

Most optimistic take yet.

7 minutes ago, Angry_Pirate said:

The journey... 

20 outfield players 4 goalkeepers.

1 soon to leave, 2 long term injuries, 3 injury prone (and currently injured).

Can't blame Venky's for that.

All Mowbray.

Who keeps him employed?

‘Uptake in season tickets have been positive this last couple of weeks’, according to Sharpe, he’ll reveal all tomorrow.

I imagine that to be the case, always that late surge. Alas, with only around 3k sold a fortnight back, I just can’t see it getting close to what has been our standard 8/9k over the past 4 or 5 years.

Pretty sure in 2019/2020 (prior to March, obviously) their average gates had dropped to around 17/18,000

Taken on their own…

Does having an away coach on sale two weeks later than usual REALLY matter?

Does having the club shop/ticket office closed three days out of seven in the last week before KO REALLY matter?

Does scrapping the programme REALLY matter?

Does having STs on sale later than every other club REALLY impact sales?

Does the U23 head coach going matter?

Does the Head of Physiotherapy going matter?

Does the Head of European Recruitment going matter?

Does the Head of Academy Recruitment going matter?

Does going into a season with zero new signings really matter?

Is selling our lowest numbers of STs for c40 years really terminal?

On their own, a lot of those aren’t particularly ‘scandalous’ or the end of the world, but ‘in the round’ for them all to occur over one summer they point to a club that is rapidly going backwards (that’s without even mentioning Brockhall).

2 minutes ago, JBiz said:

I never said anything was the fans fault, if a third won’t support the team because of the manager - it’s a huge issue.

 

So brfcs IS now representative of the wider fanbase when it helps form your argument? 😏
 

Oh I see. Sack the fanbase!

If things ‘aren’t that bad’, why do you think that Blackburn Rovers now have fewer ST holders than third division Blackpool (!), Wigan (!!) and Bolton plus fellow Championship also rans PNE? We had double the numbers of two of those just a couple of years ago. Bolton now have double ours.

*As an aside. Away tickets have always been 3 weeks before. Week just for ST holders, two weeks on general sale. Same with travel. 

They’ll be scattered around the ground now to make up for the lost ST holders.

Have to agree with Jim, of course the schedule of the English season is a right mess - Buttler hasn’t played a first class match since February.

Yet, NZ came over here with very few long format matches under their belts and gave us a lesson in our own conditions. Looks as if India will do the same and they’ve been largely just netting up at Durham for the last six weeks. But they are adaptable cricketers that show you can quickly move across from limited overs to Tests and still thrive with the right attitude in the modern multi format sport.

For England, a lack of Test quality batsmen and poor application is not a good mix.

According to the sages of the LT comment section, it’s the fans fault anyway for these departures, not buying enough STs.

(I’m sensing some very fractious fan v fan rows this season… especially with those in my vicinity in the Blackburn End.)

Won’t somebody think of the families! 🙀

‘It’ll take three years to have the European scouting network up and running properly’ was a certain poster’s regular refrain, so we’ll be seeing the results any time now, which dovetail’s well with our slow buil…OH.

But who’s going to be creating it?
Most fans now left won’t have much truck with a ‘toxic’ atmosphere. ‘It’s the first day FFS, just get behind ‘em’.

36 minutes ago, 1864roverite said:

Its just 72 hours or so until the season kicks off in earnest and yet the forward planning is absolutely non existent, the lack of urgency isn't there, the fervent build up to the new season is nowhere to be seen which really is a sorry state of affairs as we come out of the covid induced absence from our team stadium, the lack of communication with the clubs support is astoundingly poor and the serious lack of commercialism is a shocking indictment on the leadership of the club.

Mowbray is trying his best to fool us and continues to treat us all like buffoons.

Waggot is an utter incompetent in the manner he disdainfully treats the fans of our club.

 

There is a very clear and apparent lack of respect on the fans, the clubs history and what it means and stands for, the legacy of Jack Walker has been trampled on and yet these idiots thinks its okay and that everything is ship shape and Bristol fashion.

The urgency now requires the fan base to come together as one and get the message across from the stands. Keyboard warriors are no good we need loud and verbal views to intensify the removal of these incompetent idiots and to ram this message across to India because we all know they will be watching. yes, they may choose to ignore us but at least they will be able to gauge the rancid atmosphere and it might just decide to take action.

 

Totally agree with the sentiment, however we’ve got to a stage where the owners and manager are the most popular they have ever been this past decade - so considering we could never get mass protests in 2011 or 2016 (when Venky’s and Kean/Coyle were actually unpopular) going, then we’ve no chance now.

Going to be death by a thousand cuts.

Is it buggery ‘nonsense’, charming way to discuss matters too.

As have I, midweek games and the like. They’d often fill one and attempt to fill a second, if they couldn’t, they’d cancel. 

One Away Travel trip for us got cancelled to a Tuesday night at Watford back in 2001, we rang around and my long standing relationship with the Birdy Bus was formed. The club was a much better institution in every way back then, but these things can happen.

However, we have never not had a single official coach on sale just a week before the first away game of the season on a Saturday afternoon.

1 hour ago, LeftWinger said:

What is for certain, is that squad is way too thing, certainly in defence.

One thing that does stand out is that 15 out of the 20 players in the squad are English - that must be fairly unusual these days.

And two of the 5 (4? BB is pushing it) non-English players came through our academy. 

Can’t be another squad in the top two (maybe top three even?) divisions that contains only two players that are either non English or not home grown?