Mattyblue

Off the charts level of arrogance for someone who has achieved what exactly in the game apart from a parachute club promotion?

Thanks, Glen. Obviously I didn’t expect anything else. But how very sad that this is the rabble that swan around wearing the club ties in the name of Blackburn Rovers. Indeed read those minutes from 2009 and weep for what we’ve lost.

Don’t need specifics, @glen9mullan, but what was your general view of the club representatives? Be it demeanour, level of evasiveness, professionalism etc?

No it isn’t. They’ve had a social media team with their players for years. All good fun, but no different than previous seasons… or anywhere else.

58 Tests for Crawley at an average of 31 and no doubt he’ll have played 63 by the end of the Ashes… a fair number of very good cricketers pre this era would’ve loved anything like that kind of chance.

Yeah, didn’t think so.

Whoa hang on, they do provide kits for the first team (no intel on who washes them though - perhaps the captain’s mum and dad?)

Will the club provide the jumpers they’ll need for goalposts or does he have to bring his own?

I have… every couple of months is the same, or more every four/five months these days when the regime can be arsed actually holding a meeting.

Surely one of the players/coaches could’ve coughed up seven quid for one? (Ok, it’s for your car, but just don’t let on) https://www.roverstore.co.uk/giftsaccessories/souvenirs/badges-keyrings-f/4369_blackburn-rovers-car-pennant.html

Whoa, hang on. Look what the women’s first team still get, not sure what all the drama’s been about: All players chosen to play for the club will receive official 25/26 Blackburn Rovers training, travel and match day kit.

One set of lads fresh from Heaton Park put in on a flag and now the club’s trying to co-opt it. Very cringe.

Another club with momentum and the fans just can’t get enough of it. Nobody is interested in buying us though, we’d be the next Bury Morecambe.

As said many times, the ‘governing bodies’ and leagues of English football are purely competition organisers, nothing else. They don’t ’safeguard’ the game one iota, as long as all the teams turn up 46 times, they’re happy.

Be great across the pretty full Blackburn End - oh yeah, that’s right, they hiked up prices and have done their best to thin it out… they’ll have to use the stewards to stop it falling between the empty rows.

Terrible owner = but they’ll go in the short to medium term. Proper football club like that will recover, perhaps strongly. Terrible owner = They won’t go and they are happy to see the club further and further ‘cut its cloth’ until all’s left is a raggy piece of string.

His garden will be looking nice.

No I don’t get seven TV games kicking off at half 12 either, can you explain the rationale?

Ribble Valley, that. Clitheroe FC’s patch.

Yeah Blackburn and Darwen obviously now Burnley marketing territory - they are a PL club, after all.

Low crowds due to years of going nowhere due to poor ownership and management coupled with high prices is not a boycott.

I used to think they were just being disingenuous with this ‘BwD focus’ as their own database would tell them that the majority of fanbase certainly now resides outside the town of Blackburn if not the borough as a whole… but that post from Mike about them not knowing which post codes are even in BwD sums up what we are dealing with

‘Think big 1970s civil servant drawn line around Blackburn and Darwen’

I think we were planning to, on the way to, then the ‘99 relegation happened and we never quite recovered - plus the other Lancs town clubs started to improve from their third/fourth division berths.

What a club we had… and could again if they just. fucked. off.