Just now, chaddyrovers said:

or I just don't with yourself it was dead rubber for the points I posted.

I can 1000% guaranteed you it wasn't me who posted that so I would suggested you be careful about accusing people of doing this 

another condescending comment from you about people attending games and being a STH. 

If that is the case re - the Facebook post and you have an impersonator, I apologise.

People can be happy about wining a dead rubber, but it is still a dead rubber.

Are we going to qualify for the Play Offs as a result of winning yesterday? No.

A Win, loss or draw yesterday would not affect our league status at the end of the season = dead rubber.

As for the last part, have a read over several of my recent posts, including replies to yourself.

Finally , you are not doing anything noble or worthy of praise by attending a football match.

You have no sense of perspective.

38 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

That's your viewpoint but others have a different one to yourself

it might be dead rubber to yourself but they are points to play for, players want to win and the supporters want to win. 

I think yesterday's win and performance should be viewed as a building block under Ismael 

No I don't see it at all having any effects, we lost 10k STH when relegated from the PL, nothing happened. 

In 2021/22 season, we have around 7k STH yet nothing happened 

so why will it now? 

Excellent performance by the players, pattern of play and good to get back to winning ways at Ewood Park after 2 months

ok 

Thank you for your feedback 😂

You either do not understand or do not want to understand the meaning of a “dead rubber”.

How many times are you going to repeat yourself about season ticket sales not being an issue?

We shall see.

You were on the club’s Facebook post before the Sheffield Wednesday game stating you hoped Ismael would incur a head injury as he might see sense, so quit it with the holier than thou act.

Don’t get too lonely at Ewood Mausoleum next season.

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Why can't supporters enjoyed yesterday win and performance? Yes we know the issues above the football on the pitch. 

I don't see these games as dead rubber at all but wins for the club, players and fans. 

I don't agree that less STH will have any effect on the regime as has been mentioned we lost over 10k STH from PL and yet nothing changed 

I take it from your comments that you weren't there yesterday 

Once again, you are attributing remarks to me that I didn’t make.

I didn’t say that supporters should not have enjoyed the win and performance yesterday, but was pointing out the win should be viewed within its context.

That match, and every other until the end of the season, is the very definition of a “dead rubber”, because there is nothing tangible at stake, (ie promotion or relegation).

At a more stable, ambitious and well run club, performances like yesterday could legitimately be viewed as building blocks.

At Venky Rovers, God knows what the team will look like come August.

I know you don’t agree that lost season ticket sales will have any effect on the ownership.

You don’t need to keep reminding me.

Loss of ticket revenue is the only form of protest that has any chance of catching the owners’ eyes.

Whilst I have every respect for people trying to make life uncomfortable within the stadium for the hired goons (Suhail, Waggott and Gestede), they are still paying for the privilege of being there, and that is a clear win for the owners and this regime.

I was working yesterday, but might make it next Saturday.

Then it will be away games only from next season, so another empty seat to add to the many thousand at Ewood Park.

I hope to be back at Ewood Park in my lifetime.

We shall see…….

Each to their own. No problem with you or anyone else attending, but my emotional attachment to the club is in hiatus unless / until the ownership changes.

15 minutes ago, M_B said:

Everyone understands what it was, nobody is being fooled by anyone.

As condescending posts go, that was right up there with the best/worst.

It wasn’t aimed at people on here, but at the evidently cerebrally challenged amongst our fan base.

I don’t make that sort of remark lightly, but am afraid it’s the only logical explanation for some of comments posted on mainstream social media.

Some people clearly are being fooled, and actually still have faith in this ownership.

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

It's was a win for Rovers fans, enjoyable performance and some good goals. Entertainment for the fans

.........what's left of them.

If you and a few thousand others are happy with being set up to fail year after year, that's fine, enjoy.

Dead rubber wins don't excite me at all, and evidently I'm not alone in that thinking, as the thousands of empty seats illustrate.

Yesterday was like choosing the winning numbers for the lottery after the draw had been made.

13 minutes ago, M_B said:

Have a listen to yourself.

It's a meaningless result.

Too late, (again).

Where was this kind of result when we still had a chance?

The whole culture at the club is entirely wrong, and the annual post Christmas collapse is a leading symptom.

1 hour ago, 47er said:

The point is that once again we are bemoaning our failure to capitalise on a strong position and get in the play-offs for the first time since we were relegated more than a decade ago. How many times is this?

I've no confidence that will ever change with the current owners.

A win is a win but doesn't change that fundamental situation.

Exactly.

It’s deceitful and is stringing people along under false pretences.

Other than Suhail and Waggott, it’s an ever changing cast, but the end result is always the same. Failure.

My eyes are open, and a couple of dead rubber wins don’t change anything.

Win, lose or draw, it’s all just an academic exercise until the end of the season.

Then it’ll be the usual shenanigans in the Summer, no doubt.

It’ll be the team that takes the field in August that matters.

Best case scenario - another pretend play off push.

Worst case scenario - relegation.

10 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

once again we`ve nearly reached the play offs and have something to build on,will the three muppets and the chicken savagers actually build on it,i`ll leave that question to you fellow fans

It’s all built on sand, as the Summer will no doubt illustrate.

Same old, winning games when the pressure is off.

11 minutes ago, funny-old-game said:

My son-in-law, 2 grandkids and his brother plus my son and his 3 mates aren't renewing. All season ticket holders for many years, so the figures might be bigger than people think. Then again, the 3 stooges have a knack for spinning things their way.

Today’s result will no doubt fool a few.

11 minutes ago, dallydally said:

Don't agree. This is a bang average side on the whole, for whom every now and then everything clicks and we look world beaters. Normal service will soon be restored

….Which surely means you DO agree.

It’s pretty much exactly the point I’m making.

For me it’s the hollowest of hollow drubbings and means nothing in the bigger picture.

However, no doubt it will be enough to fool the goldfish memory brigade.

Again, the irony of this type of performance and result when it’s too late.

Credit where it’s due, but it only serves to emphasise the rut and cycle of futility the club is in.

43 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Tipping point was losing 10k STH and PL money or dropping to league 1. Nothing changed. 

Losing a couple of thousand STH aren't going to tipping point or put any pressure on anyone.

Let’s agree to disagree.

I think we could be looking at far greater season ticket losses next season.

I’m not talking about a couple of thousand.

No point in labouring this conversation any further.

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

We lost over 10k STH and PL money yet that didn't forced them to sell the club. Very much doubt anything will now

There will be a tipping point, I’m sure of it.

The attendances have fallen, but have still been respectable for the Championship.

It would undoubtedly put pressure on if they fall off a cliff edge.

1 hour ago, Herbie6590 said:

I suspect season ticket sales/revenue is one of the few metrics that is often discussed & targeted by Pune..? 

We clearly don’t know what metrics SW & RG have been targeted to achieve but SP’s sole ambition seems to be to fly under the radar…& that means repeated cost-cutting so that he doesn’t have to ask for parental support. 

It’s the one thing Suhail and Waggott can’t gloss over or put a spin on.

If sales are very low it will stand out very clearly.

22 minutes ago, M_B said:

It isn't a fact, actually the evidence so far suggests they've no intention of going anywhere, despite the drop in numbers.

I’ll agree to disagree.

If the numbers drop ridiculously low, life will become very uncomfortable, even from thousands of miles away.

53 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

We fundamentally have a ‘board’ of a professional football club that has no ambition, no interest in seeing the club thrive on or off the pitch (with everything said thriving leads to).

They are purely there to tick it over, to lower costs with a minimum of fuss for owners half way round the world, owners that haven’t visited their business for a decade. 

Not normal, which is why folk need to possibly reset their expectations re them fecking off in even the medium term.
 

Get behind the managed decline of the club, FFS

9 hours ago, M_B said:

It isn't a fact, it's an opinion. 

What is a fact is that season ticket sales have dropped through the floor, but they haven't shown any sign of leaving.

It’s a fact.

Season ticket sales have dropped, but not yet to ridiculously low levels.

 Counting season ticket holders, they can still pump out an over inflated attendance figure of around 15,000, even when the ground is evidently at least two thirds empty.

That may well be different next season.

It’s the one form of protest with a cat in hell’s chance of working.

Turning the tap off.

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

It's your decision going to make a different tho you want to see? 

We lost over 10k STH and Premier League money yet they are still here and ita look like they going nowhere

It has more chance of making a difference than continuing to pay money in.

What that is doing is feeding the disease, (the owners).

The only way to get rid of the disease is to starve it.

Just to clarify once again, I bear no malice to anyone who renews / buys tickets, and in some cases there are very good reasons, (eg attending with kids or elderly parents).

I also get the “it’s our club and I’m not going to let Venkys stop me from going” argument, but for me I’d now rather step away and try and remember the club I supported home and away between 1978 - 2010.

This is no longer Blackburn Rovers for me, but merely a swarm of parasites moving a corpse.

If you buy tickets you are helping to prop up this pale imitation of the club, and potentially killing it with kindness.

Sorry, whilst I respect anyone’s decision to do so, it is a fact that the more people that buy season or match tickets, the more chance the status quo is maintained.

People can dress it up any which way they want about where the money goes, but indirectly, and ultimately, it makes it easier for the owners to keep this futile cycle going for longer.

It will make change take longer.

13 minutes ago, sabino said:

I've renewed,my son's renewed and 3 grandchildren asked me to renew theirs and I have.

Despite the nonsense on this site, the money doesn't go to the Reos/Venkys.

COYBs

 

Reading this sort of thing makes me glad I won’t be there next season.

Some people deserve how the club is being run.

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

I’d never even given it a second thought before this summer.

My overarching feeling on it is (putting the ‘making a stand’ and all that to one side) purely on a personal psychological/leisure time perspective, if I stop, that’s me done as with a decent distance to travel to Ewood and all the fixture moves/night games/on TV anyway, I’d very quickly get used to not losing a day of my weekend every other week.

I can honestly say that, as long as I’m still treading the planet, I will return if / when Venkys go.

I will miss going in the meantime, but can see the bigger picture.

Every ticket bought helps keep Venkys in.

Matt Smith is on record as saying he would like to buy the club, but would need to get others on board.

That is the difficult part.

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

I’m afraid it’s run its course for this season (unless we lose both over Easter and you may see something against Watford).
 

Just the way it is as most fans are purely results driven. As I said yesterday the next stage will be the collapse of STs and so crowds in general next season, that will be a bigger visual and financial protest than anything else.

It’s the only effective method of protest left.

The home attendances are too small to mount an effective protest within the stadium, and many who do still attend would not join in.

8 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

sounds like a brainwashed idiot to me,thats putting it kindly

I'm not saying all non - UK Rovers fans can be tarred with the same brush, but a lot of the stuff this guy posts indicates how detached from the reality of the situation he is.

One visit to the stadium on  matchday would provide a hard dose of reality.

He simply doesn't get it.