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Just not good enough are we? Wood is a sad loss but its like us relying on Carter.

Even our catching has been embarrassing compared to their's. We just don't have the same competitive instinct.

Some really good comments from Rovers fans in this article:

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/blackburn-rovers-boycott-debate-emotional-120000596.html

8 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I hope they're not expecting their £200m back. 

Nobody is buying the club for that kind of money.

That's never coming back. The only thing that cheers me up about Rovers these days.

Amateurs seem to have taken over again. Totally inadequate preparation, (they knew best) and a basic failure to understand that there are 5 days in a Test match. Feel so sorry for the thousands of England supporters now stuck with a dead series.

It seems to me we can  now only play at home on our wickets.

5 hours ago, ... said:

Stop engaging then when the answers are all the same. Stick to those who want to make it work 👍🏻

Only way to deal with Chaddy is to ignore him.

28 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

It’s £26 million now. Be £126 million next.

Ewood Spark has thought the owners fantastic since day one… don’t be a trembler!

God, I remember him! wish I didn't.

50 minutes ago, M_B said:

protesting is more likely to make them dig their heels in. 

and not protesting will encourage them to sell I suppose? 

So what's your point----do nothing?

45 minutes ago, M_B said:

I'm not negative, I'm looking forward to Saturday, are you ? 

Hard to credit.

10 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Another prick, let’s keep it positive and progressive and leave out the musings of the minority pond life !

Good comedy value surely?

46 minutes ago, M_B said:

If that's how you see it, you crack on. I knew you'd be one of the first up on that moral high ground.

By the way, it isn't called boycotting if you weren't going in the first place.

It's just called not going. 

Bit negative aren't you? How would you resolve the mess Rovers are in?

7 hours ago, steved said:

Who will be prepared to offer the Raos anything like the sum they are going to want?  

People will only offer what they think he Club is worth to them They will never reimburse Venkys for all the stupid mistakes they've made. That just never happens.

This an ailing  business and would be priced accordingly. but keeping it, simply means Venkysv have to put millions in every year just to keep an ailing business afloat.

Like much about Venkys there is no logic in it.

7 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/comments/25700385/

The same stupid comments..'nobody telling me what to do'

1 hour ago, Gordon Gekko said:

Woke up to this on Facebook, these idiots deserve the Venky's! mind numbing and so infuriating!

Given all those stats about how poor people we are in East Lancashire, perhaps he should be asking why Rovers ticket and food/drink prices are so high.

47 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Agreed, I'd even go so far as to say that most of that number wouldn't have any awareness of a planned boycott or this letter or indeed the strength of feeling among some parts of the fanbase. 

For one reason or another there is a large portion of people who go who simply have little to no interest or understanding in what goes on other than from 3pm - 5pm (or 12:30pm-2:30pm these days) every other Saturday at Ewood. 

It seems to be that they can switch off their Rovers interest for all but a couple of hours a fortnight and even then won't trouble themselves with matters around ownership, management, decisions. Just turn up, sit there, hope we win and shrug shoulders if it goes badly and see you in a fortnight.

I'm not criticising that, I envy it, as I sometimes wish that was the extent of my interest in this club and I could put myself in such a bubble and carry on going and enjoying that routine. I can't do that though.

But I know from the people I sit near that many of them would react with surprise, amazement, horror or bewilderment if I asked them about a plan to boycott the Watford game. Many wouldn't have heard about it, many wouldn't even entertain the idea as a serious suggestion. Some don't even understand that there's anything wrong with the club because, up to this point, their little routine of visiting Ewood hasn't been seriously affected. 

Must have noticed the scores though eh?

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

I can only think about the people that sit around me, the people I travel with to away games (not that I’ve done too much of either this season) I’d be very surprised if the majority follow the Coalition’s direction.

And that’s the rub of this whole thing, assuming a critical mass of the remaining match goers are onside is a big gamble from the Coalition as the regime will be itching to spin it to their benefit if they aren’t, divide and conquer.

Simply has to be tried. We are in a real crisis. Can't go on the same way regardless.

One wonders what joy anyone gets out of going to Ewood this season anyway, particularly for a night match,. Its expensive, the state of the ground is depressing, there's no atmosphere, its often on TV where its warm and we invariably lose.

Any chance of that message (or shortened version) being placed in an Indian newspaper Glen?

Plenty on here would contribute to cost I'd think.

21 minutes ago, KidderStreetNoise said:

That'll be a no then.
 

What about them?

How are they different situations? Because of the location of the areas, maybe we need to be even more extreme than going on the pitch & stopping games then.
 

Garner, Shearer, Atkins, Friedel & Dalglish will have no idea how bad things are under Venky's.

TBF Shearer throws in comment every now and again.

8 hours ago, alcd said:

Ismael is asking for players in January and wants to ship out the failures. Neither will happen. 

 

First the "offer" of giving up January transfer money to fix the pitch, now this, contradictory though they are.

Is this Ismael distancing himself from Pasha/Gestade and trying to appea directly to the owners?

Is some decisive moment coming or am I just wishful thinking? (again)

4 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

We havent got the best squad so we need a Head Coach who can over perform and produce something better than the sum of its parts.

 

We had one! I would think the reputation of the Club is  now such that we won't find another,

17 minutes ago, London blue said:

there's currently not a single thing I can say I'm proud of about supporting Rovers. 

The Academy I suppose?

9 hours ago, JHRover said:

Just playing the victims again and trying to sow divisions between supporters, making out that those who complain/criticise are the villains here and are behaving unreasonably.

Possibly also also trying to discourage adverse comments on social media, like they're monitoring it and fans could get in trouble?

6 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Rovers commentary from yours truly…

Brilliant again Herbie, you're a natural. You'll be on Match of  the Day if you keep this up!

2 hours ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

The back line is very poor this season due to stupid decisions, poor recruitment and injury,

 

Very predictable injury too. Not factored in---we live on hope. Like with the pitch.