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Stuart

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  1. “Tony Mowbray’s blue and white army” was ringing loudly around Ewood today. Waggott was being fawned over by some fans on a pre-game walkabout. Most remaining Rovers fans are completely ignorant about the goings on (and don’t want to know) so if Venkys rocked up I’m sure they would be roundly applauded as they were when they first walked onto the pitch a decade ago. Being a Rovers supporter in 2021 is rapidly becoming like taking the blue pill and remaining in the blissful ignorance of the Matrix.
  2. Not seen the replay. It looked like it took a big deflection…?
  3. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. We look more like a team without Armstrong. A very tough final 10 minutes. Going to five at the back was nerve-shredding but we did it. It was great to be back and the BBE was in full voice during that last few minutes to keep those players going. Brereton looks a different player. (Thank you Martin Lasarte - definitely something Blackburn-related in that name too!). If Rothwell had nudge that ball into his path, it would have been a much more comfortable finish too. Ref was appalling and fell for the antics of a very cynical Swansea - where on earth he got six minutes from I’ve no idea. A good day. Really enjoyed being back.
  4. Indeed, and I totally agree. But even so, we don’t have ‘class of 92’ good young players.
  5. Just seen some numpty post on the club Facebook post about this letter. Comparing us to United’s Class of 92. I mean 😳 No seriously 😳
  6. Good post. For me, words mean nothing and actions mean everything. Consistently throughout their tenure they, or one of their charges, have said one thing and done something even worse. Waggott is just about the worst so far. What matters now isn’t a letter (whether or not he wrote it, he has put his name to it) it’s what happens to the club next. They have not been decisive over the Summer, and will not sack Mowbray. Instead he has now been given the job of keeping this club in the division with a bunch of kids and our goal hope being a newly crowned half-Chilean (we absolutely need to get behind this lad this season by the way). If we start badly then they MUST replace Mowbray and quickly. If they don’t then this letter counts for nothing and once more they prove they are full of shit. As you say, a very small step in the right direction. And as for that cost of arms… cluck me! 🐣
  7. The problem isn’t so much young Adam. He’s completely ignorant (in every sense of the word) of the goings-on and the implications. It’s that there are 83 people (now 90) who agree with him. He talks about “getting behind the club” - what does this even mean? Shouldn’t it mean defending the club? Having pride in the club? Protecting it from mercenaries? Not just looking for “look how true a blue I am” Facebook likes in the echo chamber that is “TheRovers” group, surely? If somebody was breaking into the club shop while wearing a Rovers shirt, these people would stand and clap. Just like they do while the management team spend millions of a couple of players who they can’t get the best out of, and who will likely walk away for nothing. Just like they don’t make any money on nearly any players departing - most of the time they have to pay them off! Wanting the best for the club is NOT negativity and I wish people like Adam could see this. He and his ilk are complicit in this club being the ruin it is. Mind you, he was probably in Primary school when Venkys bought the club so has no idea what being the Pride of Lancashire even means but even so, it really grates when there people “slayte” their fellow fans instead of helping to keep the pressure on. Social media is a barometer for the strength of feeling around a club. Every apologist supporting Mowbray, and slagging off those who know better, is helping to keep us in the situation we are. The type of situation where 4 days (now 3) away from the start of the season we don’t have any new signings - as he himself points out. It’s lunacy.
  8. All this time to get their jabs and they get them four days before the opening game of the season. 🙄 Let’s hope none of them have any adverse reaction.
  9. They are great these ‘looking back’ posts. Those pointing this out at the time we’re branded negative and moaners (still are by some of the most blinkered) yet here we are. Your post is spot on. A manager rocked up thinking that his standards were higher than little old Blackburn when in reality they were much inferior. Loyalty ahead of ability. Theory over common sense. Heart over head (being kind). And here we are. Wonder when it will be 10 years since Kean’s final contract? Maybe that will be D-Day on the club’s financial future. Wouldn’t be at all surprised to see us have a season like Sheffield Wednesday did last season. Hoping for a miracle. But if Venkys have the money, and we’re even remotely interested, they would have got shut of the Coventry 3 a while ago. If they don’t want to make tough decisions they need to start by replacing Waggott with someone who has the power to hold Mowbray to account.
  10. We always end up back at the same question: what do they get from continuing to run the club? Without getting into conspiracy theories you have to assume they just don’t care. Somebody puts a bank overdraft increase in front of them each year and they hold their nose and sign it. I imagine they avoid the shame of what they’ve done by just not thinking about it. In the quiet moments where they feel any tiny twinge of guilt at the way they have insulted the memory of a proud Blackburn man (never mind the supporters) they will likely just blame Balaji and vow never to speak of the blue-and-white problem.
  11. Imagine billionaires throwing £200m at something and that was the result.
  12. Harsh? What are you on about? I was politely reminded if I don’t like the spam ad era I could piss off. I think my reply was quite light-hearted in response.
  13. A point I’ve already made for you. But thanks for reinforcing “F.O.” as the alternative. “If you don’t enjoy the experience, there’s other options out there”. Sounds like you’ve been in Waggott’s company recently. I imagine he has that framed on the wall in his office.
  14. Hi Glenn, hope you are well. Interesting points. However, I feel that we have reached the point where is is not between 1 and 2 but between 3.5 and 4. Everyone’s perception will be different. Interesting you mention paywalls though. It was deemed important not to enforce members only to avoid serial screenshotters from getting their kicks on Twitter but the response from the site owners/admin to ads is we could go to membership only (paid, of course). And somehow, paying to post (create content - which people currently do for free) is somehow comparable with a Netflix subscription! Anyway, it’s pretty academic as it’s their site to do as they wish. I just preferred how you and Ste ran it. Maybe it’s all wrapped up in a nostalgic want for simpler times when I used to enjoy being a Rovers fan rather that it being a duty, and now a form of psychological torture.
  15. You just keep on reading what you want to read Gav, don’t worry about what others are actually saying. 🤔 Keeps things simple for yourself. 👍🏻
  16. So you removed them, presumably, because you didn’t like the aesthetics and it spoiled the reader experience by harder to get to the content? I completely agree with you and this is precisely the problem. Clearly the forums don’t matter as much as the articles though. Ambition to become a Blackburn WSC and relegate the forums to “readers comments” in amongst the advertising, maybe? Ads are a necessary evil for the site (notably over the last three years mainly) but they really have now reached spam level. The type of which appear on click bait sites. The Citizen newspaper went down this road and people ended up chucking it straight in the bin - outdoor toilets no longer being a thing.
  17. Well “he’s not Kean” so he gets a free pass. These people would still be chanting “Owen Coyle’s blue and white army” because we simply don’t have any other songs to sing, such is the dearth of inspiration. Our only fallback is the sweary “no nay never” that tends to come out as a late-game song to try to warm the cockles.
  18. Without the “covtrio” we probably would, at least in the short term. Impossible to “rally around” without it being spun by them as endorsement. Following Rovers has never been this painful.
  19. Sounds like something Boris would say! Take away what you had and then offer it back to you at a cost. 🤔 It won’t be a surprise when I say this but the ads were bad enough when you first switched them on, now they are so obtrusive it’s not funny. It’s a full page one at the top and about 2-3 at the bottom of every page, then about every fourth post, and also pop up every time you change thread. Impossible to ignore - and still nothing I would ever purchase. Is there no limit to how many? Will we have them after every post soon? The fluff piece in the LT said the site is non-profit and the ads generate money to improve the site. Yet, at the same time they make the forum experience poorer. The functionality is worse than it has ever been over the last 12 years or so. Don’t ask me to list all the minor forum downgrades over recent years, there are a lot and they are little things but they all add up. At least it mirrors the state of club though so that’s good. What has changed since Ste and Glenn ran the site in terms of costs? Have server cost increased that much, relatively speaking? Because, on the face of it, it seems that you are sacrificing the forums to fund the site becoming news-centric. There are zero ads on your home page or articles page - or even the articles - let alone the intrusive ones we have to leaf through. So to turn your jibe to Rev on its head, are you going to start paying forum posters? After all they are content creators and wealth generators for the site (as the advertiser target audience that you have selected). At the end of the day, it’s your site now and you can do whatever you like, and I can either put up with it or walk away. Very much like how Waggott has treated us all as fans: “Pay up or F off” That aside, congratulations on becoming formal owners of the site.
  20. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Rothwell has asked to leave. Wasted under Mowbray. Keep Rothwell, sell Armstrong and use the money to pay off the Mowbrosaur and invest in a new manager.
  21. Interesting. Needs further research though. However, what I did find interesting was this article. Just the opening paragraph of point 1 is sufficient. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199711133372006 We are heading for a dark place. Threatening students not to be able to get an education if they don’t comply. If that isn’t duress or coercion, I’m not sure what is. This is the largest medical research programme in history and people are not being allowed to opt out, lest they are punished.
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