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Claytons Left Boot

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Haven’t posted on here for a long, long time but still visit almost daily for info and to see what’s going on. In order to orchestrate a successful protest, first of all, the masses need to know what really went on from the moment Venky’s took control of the club. By masses, I mean at least 95% of the support. We need to get the ‘Facebook brigade’ on side, so every supporter is singing from the same hymn sheet. We need the average Joe to know the full facts, the sort of supporter who simply rocks up at Ewood every second week and who doesn’t do Facebook and the other socials. We don’t want any factions or splits in the fan base. We all need to be fighting this together. To this end, I would crowd fund a booklet or pamphlet to be distributed before a forthcoming home game which would outline, in bullet points and in a timeline, the absolute sh!t show that has taken place since day one. I am not privy to everything that has happened but I have grasped plenty of the shenanigans by simply tuning in on here. The fact that Venky’s thought there was no relegation, Jerome Anderson and his band of merry men effectively having full control of the club for a period of time, the dozen or so unknown Portuguese players who arrived and then departed, agents fees etc., the threats of violence to Glen (and no doubt others), the alleged Glasgow gangsters, the purchase monies for BRFC back in 2010 being traced to a branch of Western Union in Bradford (for fuck’s sake), Steve Kean’s involvement, the fans’ delegation that went to the Football Association to seek help and which fell on deaf ears, right up to Venky’s current problems with the authorities in India and alleged fraudulent affairs. There will be plenty of stuff that I’ve forgotten about but, all of this and more, needs to be highlighted in the booklet or similar publication. Perhaps also, a Facebook page being set up to mirror the said booklet, plus a pinned thread on here with the same information. An advert in the Lancashire Telegraph outlining the booklet to be distributed before a home game. Talks at local working mens clubs to get the message across with Colin Hendry as an ambassador. Would Chris Sutton get involved? He talks sense and tells it as it is. There’s absolutely loads that could be done to get the message across and to get all our support onside. The Venky’s need to be smoked out. They need to be shamed. They need to be embarrassed. They need to leave and they need to be told to put the club up for sale. That’s the way to go, rather than Administration. To draw attention to our plight, Tony’s suggestion of whistles at the Newcastle game is superb. Wouldn’t need many to get involved in that. Just a few in three of the four stands. Couple that with tennis balls on the pitch and it would be a start. I’m nearer 70 than 60 now. Venky’s have worn me out and I only attend a few games each season. I doubt I’ll ever see the Rovers back in the Premier League. Over to some younger blood to implement the above. Best of luck. VENKY’S OUT! WAGGOTT OUT! IT’S OUR CLUB!
  8. I’ve seen better players up at Blacksnape. I don’t mean in the Darwen League. I mean top class at junior school.
  9. 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.
  10. I have an alternative name for the Season Ticket thread. I call it (like plenty of others, actually) the Chaddy Show.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. They were in town, sporadically, until the snowball incident, so not quite true. It was a figure of speech, though, but you knew that.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. More fannying around at the back and Preston almost in for a third goal.
  17. This is awful, can’t get out of our own half. Mola wouldn’t get a game up at Blacksnape.
  18. Tippy tappy sh!te and then the defence parts and gives their lad the freedom of Blackburn.
  19. 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.
  20. The main thing that I’ll take from this World Cup is that the gap between the top sides and the ‘lesser’ clubs (those that we would have laughed at twenty years ago) is getting narrower and narrower. Still expect the competition to be won by one of Brazil, Argentina, Spain or similar but the progress of teams like Japan, Morocco, Senegal, South Korea, Australia and the US is impressive and great to see. Wonder how long it will be until one of these ‘lesser’ teams wins it?
  21. He’s his own man, is Ange Postecoglou and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he ended up in some other far flung place. For the time being, indications are that he’ll carry on the sterling work at Celtic until he feels that that particular job is done. So far he’s bettered himself with each of his moves and he probably will end up in the Premier League. Not only would he relish the challenge, say a three year deal at a middling PL club would set him up for life financially. I reckon another 18 months at least at Celtic, maybe another season longer. Celtic don’t identify with the tag ‘Old Firm’ any more, both the club itself and the supporters. Both Celtic and Rangers jointly own the copyright to the term but Celtic now refer to their games as the Glasgow Derby. Rangers are still hanging on to it and, as far as those in the East End of Glasgow are concerned, they are welcome to it.
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