Mattyblue

Like most clubs then.

People can have any opinion they want at work, in the pub, over the garden fence as long as they get behind them at games and he’s had full throated support since day 1, just like BB did even when he was struggling for years - very supportive fans here.

Gueye has been popular since day one.

Ok, a million, 1.2million, whatever. There will be plenty of suitors, why? Because he’s an established Championship player and they’ll see it as a more than reasonable price.

Doesn’t matter if he’s ‘worth’ 1.5m+, he’ll actually go for 500k-800k which is more than a decent deal for a Championship club.

Ok, sorry:

We’ve been through week after week of Saturday/midweek games since Christmas - now one match a week till mid March (then an international break), players coming back fit/new signings getting up to speed. Been burnt before these past few seasons getting giddy, so I’m not going to think about it too much, but on paper, well…

He’s a decent Championship player, like he has been for years. A load of clubs at this level will be more than happy to take a free transfer.

Rob Coar, the immovable object.

Interesting today. Crowd right behind the players, but despite sitting fifth also a ‘stand up if you hate Venky’s’, first time I’ve heard that in, what, 7/8 years? And plenty stood up, even in the Jack Walker from what I could see.

Exactly right. It’s a transactional industry. Clubs show no loyalty to managers, so why should a manager return the favour?

Noticed that Plymouth fans can pick up pre bought tickets from the Away Ticket Office tomorrow, (so obviously a manned desk), but can’t just turn up and buy one as ‘no sales on the day’. Why?

Exactly right, makes me laugh how many folk are actually sore that a manager doesn’t actually believe the cliches he comes out with, but is just trying to advance his career). I haven’t listened to an interview from one probably since Mark Hughes*, it’s all leadership course banalities mixed in with media training (*I made an exception for JDT, as, well, that charisma, calling out whoever he pleased when he pleased and the perma-smirk just did it for me 🤩)

Yeah only Mani saw something off the back off that famous friendly game 20 minutes. In reality most of us saw something pre the Dingle red card after which he lost his rhythm and his confidence drained away. A confidence player - the Sheff Wed header was the catalyst.

A win last night, fifth in the league, Eustace is a ‘snake’ according to much of the fanbase, so we can wave goodbye to any match day dissent (NO1 singing the ‘I don’t care about Venky’s chant, aside). So, it has to be the social media etc campaigns if we want any traction.

‘The club’ should be supported at all times is the crux of it with such people. The fact that leads to them blindly defending the regime of Swag-ail and the owners when instead ‘support’ can actually be demanding said people depart from the club doesn’t compute.

In reality there would never be a ‘mass walk out’ and such like - I know/know of a fair few on the FF and it just isn’t in their nature.

Edwards or whoever comes in and we get a couple of results pre I imagine he won’t be mistaken.

‘Togetherness’, ‘commitment’, and all that, it’s all cliched manager bingo you should take with a huge pinch of salt. This is the game, there’s no loyalty to managers, they’re only a bad run from the sack (well, not at BRFC, but everywhere else), so why would they return the compliment?

We’ve lost 10,000+ fans on their watch, normal owners would’ve moved heaven and earth to rectify that years ago, this lot just shrugged and they couldn’t care less if we lost another 10,000.

Yes, a sustained media campaign, social media obviously paramount. We need to remember that those who have somehow ended up running BRFC are ‘the club’ to a hell of a lot of fans. To us, *we*, the supporters are the club as we are the perennials, but that’s not how many see it, they will blindly swallow anything that comes from an ‘official’ account as that’s Blackburn Rovers in their eyes. So the likes of Wag-ail have a head start in the PR war, so we need a co-ordinated campaign from WATR and whoever else can get hold of the narrative.

All power to you, but there ‘won’t be a steady and consistent effort from the fanbase’ at the ground. We had all this a year ago, it lasted about half an hour - we will see exactly the same again, the remaining match going fanbase isn’t interested. Christ the vast majority weren’t even interested in 2011 and 2012. What’s the actual large scale show of dissent folk show when it comes to Ewood? They just stop going. If that’s me being unhelpful in your view, fair enough, but surely we need to be looking at something different than the tried and failed matchday tactics, it’s done bugger all in fifteen years.

Odd thing to downvote when that’s exactly what will happen.

There will be a chant or two on Saturday, they’ll then appoint Edwards or whoever and it will be all ‘get behind the lads, it’s not the right time for all this’ and that will be that.

Of course we aren’t self-funding, not even close at this level - which is why we’ll soon crash down the leagues… and the owners will still be in situ.