3 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

just watched the scottish cup semi final epic game that finished 3-3,aberdeen denied a penalty in the worst decision in the history of football,predictably celtic go on to win on penalties,incidentally the best player on the pitch was junior hoilett who gave the celtic full back an absolute horro afternoon

Good game for a neutral and yes, I would have been cheesed off if that penalty had been denied Celtic. Celtic have the second worst penalty conversion rate in the Scottish Premiership, so hardly predictable that they went on to win it that way. I was dreading it.

I hadn’t realised Hoillet was at Aberdeen and I’m glad he only came on as a sub. Celtic’s right back, Johnston is a very decent player but Hoillet caused him problems. Didn’t help that Johnston twice allowed him to cut inside onto his stronger right foot and from those crosses, two almost identical goals were scored. 

Celtic just about shaded it, I thought, but it was still a poor performance from them. 
 

26 minutes ago, Lancaster Rover said:

I go up on the Blackpool Shamrock CSC Bus which I think a few of the lads from ours get on yours for cup games, etc!

Yep, you usually pass us on the M74, if yours is the white bus with a 01772 number on the back? 😆 Do you end up in the Tavern on Tollcross Road like us?

56 minutes ago, Gav said:

Some really strange results over the weekend, non more so than the mighty Ross Country beating Rangers for the first time in the clubs history, handing the title to Celtic.......

As welcome as that result was, it really only gives Celtic a slight advantage.

It’s still in both clubs’ hands. Celtic win their remaining 5 league games, they are champions. Rangers win their remaining six games, they are champions.

Celtic, however, may have the luxury of being able to draw the derby at Celtic Park, dependent upon how the results have gone. Hardly handing the title to Celtic.

If Rangers cock up against Dundee though…

I’m always reluctant to post regarding Glasgow Derby rivalry, (what used to be known as the Old Firm). Before long, discussions have gone off in various tangents and it all gets rather silly. My post yesterday evening was simply a reaction to the ludicrous ‘plastic’ and ‘Mickey Mouse’ comments which I wanted to address.

On 07/04/2024 at 22:23, Upside Down said:

Two Mickey Mouse teams in a Mickey Mouse league with massive followings of Mickey Mouse plastic fans.

I try to get up to Celtic Park once a month. The Celtic Supporters Club that I’m a member of runs a bus up to all home games, some away games if tickets are forthcoming, otherwise it’s a minibus or cars. Week in, week out.

The bus leaves Coventry at around 6am and gets back to the Midlands after games at midnight. There are lads on from Peterborough, the south coast, Wales, Coventry & Birmingham, with a few more being added on the way up.

The coach park at the stadium is full of coaches from all over Scotland and the UK. There are also numerous coaches parked up outside pubs. In addition, fans arrive from Ireland by ferry and plane. Week in, week out.

I can assure you, these are not plastic fans. They are die hards. As much as I dislike those from the other side of the city, their support and the lengths they go to, to follow their team, falls into the same category. 

Celtic is a club founded on charity and the need to help those less fortunate than others. To this day, the supporters continue to raise thousands of pounds each year for those in the east end of Glasgow, the wider Glasgow area, Scotland and further afield. I’m not talking about the club making donations here (although it does), I’m talking money raised by supporters alone. Over the years, it will have run into hundreds of thousands, if not more.

I can’t be arsed going into the details of the Tv deals (or lack of in Scotland) which reduces the Scottish Premiership to ‘Mickey Mouse’ levels, when compared to England. It’s not worth it.

May be do a bit of research before coming out with utter bullsh*t. You haven’t got a clue.
 

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Don’t disagree with any of that CLB, but if the Indian courts don’t force them out, I can’t see how a few oiks (in their lofty view) half way round the world would.

You could be right Matty. There again, you could be wrong. If folk keep saying the same old things time after time and don’t start taking action, we’ll never know.

We owe it to Jack, if nothing else.

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

End of the day you just aren’t going to get more than one man and his dog on organised protests on a match day. 

You only need a few more than ‘one man and his dog’ to get things going again. You don’t need (and wouldn’t get) 500 or so staying behind on the Blackburn End after games. An overwhelming percentage of the fan base is passive now. Tactics need to change and, as evidenced by the tennis balls on the pitch, a few games ago, this sort of tactic can work.

Ok, even the southern softy, almost Home Counties Reading lot showed us how to get things done. Tennis balls on the pitch, followed by several hundred supporters on the pitch. Reading for fuck’s sake. Let that sink in. Not Millwall, not Stoke, not Portsmouth, not West Ham…but Reading.

Where has the youth of Blackburn and East Lancs gone? A proud, working class, northern town has gone soft. Back to what happened at Ewood a few games ago. Those actions got the game stopped, even if it were for only two or three minutes. The commentators explained why this ‘mini protest’ was happening, so the message had got across. But that was then followed up by nothing. Any momentum, as slight as it was, was lost.

I don’t get involved on here any more and I only attend a few games each season but there have been literally hundreds of pages on several threads criticising Venky’s and the same folk are wringing their hands, shrugging their shoulders and saying the same things over and over and over and over again. Without actually doing anything.

We have been told that Venky’s won’t sell and Venky’s have made it clear that they won’t entertain discussions with potential suitors, should any suitors be found. The court case in India aside, only one thing has the potential to make them reconsider. That is a course of action by the supporters to ‘out’ them.

Rome is burning and we are sleepwalking into oblivion.

Well done to the tennis ball throwers. Well done for informing the BBC, they knew straight away the significance of throwing them on in the 14th minute.

Pity there weren’t a few hundred balls on the pitch and scores of ‘supporters’ getting involved instead of a paltry handful. It’s a start, though and hopefully a sign of more action in an attempt to rid the club of the twats thousands of miles away.

4 hours ago, tomphil said:

There was a guy used to post on here and send the odd DM who knew all about this stuff and he talked about this a few years ago. The fella knew their movements in this country inside out including various business ventures and he seemed to think that is why shadowman was really over here.

Dunnfc was it ?   Got himself banned but he was bang on when it came to this stuff.

Anyway he flagged this up years ago as the vehicle set up to buy the house.

Actually it isn't that one there is another on there from years ago somewhere.

 

He posts on roversfans.com (thenodrog’s lot). On their Venky’s thread, he’s posted letters to the FA (from back in the day) outlining a whole variety of dodgy dealings.

16 minutes ago, tomphil said:

How come this vastly experienced guy who has overseen more signings than we can even remember has

suddenly lost the ability to do his job ?

Also how much will it cost to pay him off and shut him up !

Exactly. For those also pointing the finger at Broughton, he could well be caught up in all the shenanigans. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if, once again, this is Waggott’s doing and Waggott’s alone. He’ll come out smelling of roses and the others will be the sacrificial lambs. Broughton may well be being told to keep quiet and he strikes me as the sort of bloke who may not have the balls to quit. Fucking shit show.

29 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

if the current regime is still in charge can you imagine the state of the season tickets sales next season if they keep the same price structure 🤣

Well, that’s the incentive for everyone to collectively pull together to rid the club of the vermin. Be that those in India or the useless shower of sh!t left ‘in charge’ at this end. It can be done. We’ve roughly six months to do it.

17 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Big fan of Gallagher and I think he is good player for us. 

I’ve seen better players up at Blacksnape.

I don’t mean in the Darwen League. I mean top class at junior school.

I have a read on the ‘other site’ now and again and there is a great post by Dunnfc, in response to the initial poor home ticket sales for the Forest game. The post is on the first page of the Forest thread.

A while ago, he wrote to Waggott with a whole host of very good suggestions to boost ticket sales for home games. Discounts, offers and, importantly, re engaging with local companies who had previously been involved with sponsorship etc down at Ewood. Also getting additional local companies on board. A really good post and some thought provoking ideas.

Waggott never responded. Sums the guy up no end and reiterates comments made on both this and the season tickets thread (on here) that the hierarchy within the club have no intention of even attempting to grow the fan base. They’re a complete waste of space.

Have a read, it’s well worth it.

I have an alternative name for the Season Ticket thread.

I call it (like plenty of others, actually) the Chaddy Show.

I’m going for a Norwich win by 3-0 but, such is the nature of Rovers’ bipolar results, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if we, at the very least, avoided defeat.

That said, I can feel a death spiral is about to gain momentum.

2 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

Have a look at the league table. 

In third position and already lost ten games in early-mid December and with a negative goal difference. We’re in a false position. 

We never win when we go a goal behind and have no plan b, let alone plan a. The only player we have that can score is stuck out on the left wing. There is no balance in the team. No leader and very little experience. Boys against men most weeks. Two games running that our defence has been bullied by over the hill has beens.

I would go four at the back and get Diaz in the middle where he can be more of a threat. 4231 or a variation of that. That won’t happen, though, with this mon in charge.
 

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

If Venkys are never in the town, how do you run them out ?

They were in town, sporadically, until the snowball incident, so not quite true.

It was a figure of speech, though, but you knew that. 

Thank God that my son is in Qatar for the England game, or I would have been at Ewood. As it was, I simply turned the tv off at 2-0.

41 minutes ago, LDRover said:

The club has been dumbed down to the level that most fans are happy that Venkys pay the bills.

30 years ago the fans would have been apoplectic after 2 results like this, these days it's a shrug of the shoulders and see you next week.

10 years of shite and counting...

Quite right. Where are the youth of the town? Back in the 70s, Venky’s would have been run out of town. In 2012, there were a few demonstrations, nothing really to write home about and now, there is total apathy. 

Swag will be pissing his sides. The general dumbing down of the club and fans, back to a more manageable level (where he has to do even less than the fuck all he did before) and then on again to scaling down the facilities, a la Brockhall.

More fannying around at the back and Preston almost in for a third goal.

Fuck off

This is awful, can’t get out of our own half. Mola wouldn’t get a game up at Blacksnape.

Tippy tappy sh!te and then the defence parts and gives their lad the freedom of Blackburn.

Another good thing about this World Cup, is that there has been no evidence, so far, of any plastic chair throwing competitions between supporters.

The type of supporter that engages is this sort of thing still has enough nouse to realise that any nonsense in regimes such as Qatar and Russia (last World Cup) could land them in serious trouble. Trouble they could find it difficult to get out of.

Great to see, or not see, as is the case here. With England v France on the horizon, I hope I’ve not spoken too soon.