Mattyblue

Or you’d have a player modelling it in the LT, as a certain number 9 did in our new CIS kit… and then buggered off about a week later. 😭

I’d say a lot of fans read the odd thing in the LT about the Brockhall sale, but due to piss poor reporting and the refusal to even print Rev’s letter, I’d wager a majority, as they had nowhere near the deep dive into it that we had on here, would have had no issue with it.

Ok I’ll rephrase, yes of course some have walked away in despair, but the majority of Rovers fans aren’t interested in the ownership, Chief Exec. They just go to watch the team, and they won’t be back when the team is as average as this, never remotely threatening the top end of the table, just a club going through the motions - J*B’s second point is on the money. We on here and those that have walked away in despair know why we have such a mediocre team, however many fans aren’t interested in the reasons, just the reality and they won’t be parting with £30/40 to see it. We need to remember that most fans aren’t that invested, they don’t see it as their duty to attend, that their attendance could keep us out of FFP, they never marched, protested, turned up at Blakey’s, they won’t even be aware of the Brockhall situation. But floating or whatever, they’ve gone and there’s nothing currently that will bring them back, especially at the quite ridiculous prices, apart from actually doing something on the pitch, so as I said I’m not sure what the point of the thread is when there will be nothing forthcoming from the club either on or off the pitch to entice people back.

Well of course it would, but it just ain’t going to happen when the team treads water in the second division year after year, and it’s £30 (£400+ STs) for the privilege too. Most floating fans aren’t particularly arsed about Waggott, Venky’s etc, they just see a bang average side playing in a morgue, and that’s not a state of affairs that gets folk marching down Livesey Branch. It’s all pretty obvious so not quite sure why this needs a thread.

He can’t sign a pro contract until he’s 17 (in June). So you can imagine that a 16 year old playing for our U23s and England under 17s is going to be very difficult to tie down with some of the clubs in this region sniffing around…

90s goalkeepers tops were all pretty garish, I only ever have fond views of anything from that era.

Lambert was on paper a good appointment, done quickly with a back room staff too. It didn’t work out, but that’s football and I was feeling quite optimistic at that time that we were beginning to resemble a normal football club again. Who got that deal done I’ve no idea as we soon reverted back to mean.

I’ve no inside track, but what I would say is that this summer did have a feel of when they gave Bowyer feck all to spend and then had him out the door by November…

The murals at the corners of the stands were great, the one at the Darwen End side was just painted over with an ‘Away Ticket Sales’ sign… though there was already a sign just behind it saying the same thing! Still annoys me every time I walk past it.

Getting a balance on online forums is very difficult, this place obviously skews one way, the LT comments section completely the other. If you get a critical mass of say 3/4 of folk thinking one way, it will attract more folk with similar views and those opposed will either keep quiet as they fear a pile on or will just stop bothering - ergo said forums become ever more entrenched. It’s another example of ‘echo chambers’. The most well known example being the day after an election when a certain party wins, yet those on Twitter will cry ‘but I don’t know ANYBODY who votes for them!’ … well, that’s kind of the problem.

Ha, same, I was looked at aghast when I brought him up as being one of the club’s many issues at the Swansea game. I would say of all the folk that sit around me at Ewood and all the people I go away with, I’m the only one that even has a vaguely negative view of his suitability as manager.

Brfcs-ers might not like to hear it, but steel city’s view on TM is a pretty mainstream one away from this board.

N01 is still a fairly busy area, as is NO2 (apart from the front rows). Plenty of folk to piss off. N05 would be better, seems fairly sparse over there this season. Fun this SimStadium game, as it’s the closest we’ll get whilst Swag ‘is looking into it’.

To paraphrase a well known truism… Results dear boy, results. You’ll only see unrest at games if we start plummeting down the table, was ever thus. As an example, for all how unpopular Coyle was, he only started getting dogs abuse in the last few weeks of his reign when we had fallen into the bottom 3.

Be interesting to see where that leaves Bury AFC. From memory there was a lot of animosity between those that decamped to the Phoenix club and those that have tried to revive BFC

So what? Be a professional! His warm ups are a prime example. And we also have little insight into how he trains. His career tanks or if he spends it in L1/L2 that won’t be the fault of Tony Mowbray.

I’m all for getting on TM’s back when required. However, there is obviously an attitude issue with Chapman. There’s definitely a good work ethic and spirit in this squad, his demeanour stands out a mile. He’s without doubt got more quality than hitting 24 and playing his football at Shrewsbury and Burton, so maybe he needs to look at himself before he ends up on the scrap heap.

So what if it was?

Miller is exactly right, there is no groundswell against how the club is being run currently. As he says, even the Rovers Trust had no majority against flogging off Brockhall and the membership aren’t up in arms with the present situation. There’s generally just a shoulder shrugging ‘we are where we are’ malaise around the whole place - including the fanbase. That anger we saw circa 2011 to 2016 has long dissipated. I hope change really is afoot, though I think the likes of Rev are being a tad naive, as we’ve heard it all before, but change will only come when the owners themselves wake up, as there won’t be any sit ins at Ewood or angry public meetings at King George’s any time soon.

So they were fully aware of the plan to flog off Brockhall, then?

Like I’ve said before, pretty much his only public statement since being here was a rushed piece to camera after his Brockhall stitch up was rumbled. There will be no ‘small steps’ under this ownership whilst they continue to employ such nefarious charlatans.

Well obviously, I was merely pointing out that NO1 isn’t brimming with Rovers Ultra types.

You have a point Colt. Someone mentioned NO1 of the Blackburn End. Yes, the back corner has a hundred of so folk stood up throughout the game. But the rest of that block is full of folk that have been there for donkeys years. They were probably bouncing around the old Blackburn End terrace in 1992, but thirty years on I’m not sure how much appetite is there now!

Putting to one side if he’s actually any good. Keane’s problem will be similar to Souness’. He won’t be able to put up with the modern player and BS of the game currently. Much easier just rocking up to Sky’s studios once a week.

That figure is inflated by parachute clubs often carrying players on crazy wages, Bournemouth being a prime example last season, the likes of Villa previously. I’d wager non parachute clubs with average crowds between say 12 and 20,000 will be nowhere near that.