Mattyblue

Oh look here’s 1864 riding back in on his high horse 🙄 I pay my dues, as do many others on here, so if I feel WATR current strategy of ‘friendship’ is the wrong course of action I’ll say so.

Amazing fall from grace really. As he left us I expected him to have decades at the top… instead he’s managing a club on the verge of non league.

Mike’s been on an interesting journey, if we take his posts over the last year or so at face value, he does seem to have done a volte-face on these owners.

Paul Fielder, wasn’t it? Said ‘kids don’t like football’ so don’t bother with cheaper tickets for them, should sell them ‘FIFA skins’ or something instead. 🤦‍♂️ Yeah feck the next generation of customers, marketing 101.

I see very little traction over what the Fans Forum provide… but they do have a more formal association structure ‘ co-opted committee members’ and the like, which is nice. In reality their clout is no different as ‘engagement’ with Waggott and whoever else they drag out of the marketing pod means bugger all as power resides elsewhere.

They pretty much stopped posting when WATR sponsorship of this site ran out… some way to manage one of your key stakeholders that. They literally have their own thread on the biggest Rovers forum and they can’t be arsed posting on it - piss poor comms (presuming they even have a comms plan), where are the membership fees going?

You’d think so, but a bit odd for a PL club (who probably will have sold them) not to take them on that basis… and why would Rovers insist on such terms when there will be 10,000+ empty seats in the other stands?

That’s a weird decision by Wolves as PL club fans are always griping about how it’s very difficult to get away tickets as allocations are 3k max… yet a chance to take a huge following for once and the club hierarchy doesn’t take it.

It’s VenkyWorld, 18 months ago ago it was all about The Model of young players brought in to sell on and tying players down to long deals. Now it’s the polar opposite, older players on short term contracts and loans. Don’t even attempt to make sense of it, and so it does me laugh when certain naive posters actually try and purport that there’s some sort of structure here - when in reality it’s chaos, just like it has been since that dark day in 2010.

£30 off, wasn’t it? (Mine on early bird went from £379 to £349). Though the way they crowed about it you’d think they were half price…

He was the same against PNE. Like you say rather than that than strikers that walk in the opposite direction when there’s a pen.

Their comms has been terrible for years, like you I’ve often had to chase to just be on the mailing list.

So what damage did the earlier fire do? The later one obviously the area above the Enclosure as that’s where the JLC went.

‘Ooo remembers The Model?

Pep should have jumped ship in the summer.

I suppose the question is will family/peer pressure still turn those younger ones into glory club fans? As within the Asian community it’s now been 2/3 generations of defaulting to those two clubs in red. It’s great work (including the likes of yourself who chaperone), but it is vitally important for the future of the fanbase that we get hold of (enough) of the youth of Blackburn before their heads are turned.

Adam Wharton is a ‘pre-orientator’ according to some journo on Five Live.

Silver lining is they built the John Lewis Complex as a result… which as a kid I thought was the height of sophistication.

Only a matter of time with that arm

The deleted poster did have a point on moderation though. One view gets to stay as presumably it is deemed the unquestionable truth whereas his is deleted forthwith (his should have been deleted by the way, but why isn’t all political stuff removed from this part of the forum? It’s why I purposely don’t read/ask for permission to see the political board).

Calling it ‘woke’ was a bit of a piss take meme from what I read of it, you see it a lot online for stuff that comes out of left field stuff tactically, which obviously would be the case in this instance, it’s a Championship game corner kick, not, you know, the LGBT views of some pie in the sky potential signing, or something.

Think there’s an EFL deal with ITV to put a handful of Championship games on free to air this season - same with the League Cup.

They’re building a new ground with it.

They are selling more STs than they’ve sold in decades and their gates are still pretty much around ours (Tin)pot, kettle, etc…

Ours could easily not have been given, the fact no Rovers player claimed for it tells you that.