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Sad about that. On The Beach---great album. 

18 minutes ago, bazza said:

There are two offside. I think the other is Ohashi

And Ohashi is more offside than Pape!

10 hours ago, lraC said:

Stewards did threats that yesterday apparently.

So much for free speech! Not allowed at Ewood. I suppose someone with money could challenge that but most haven't.

6 hours ago, aletheia said:

Keep your fingers crossed.

They'd have sold it for housing if they could!

4 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Well that’s that. A bit of fight this time but the damage was done in the pathetic showing in the first 2 Tests

Jamie Smith must be the epitome of the  Bazball philosophy. Bashes the ball around like he’s playing in a one dayer then inevitably gives his wicket away. Does he realise it’s ok in test  cricket to be circumspect for a while and not every ball has to be lashed to the boundary?

McCullum,s a busted flush. Look forward to his resignation 

We showed in this test that we could play Test cricket. All we have to do now is to do it for 5 days.

Oh and learn to catch.

Just now, rigger said:

In Scotland maybe. 

We'll see I guess.

1 hour ago, rigger said:

I doubt many, if any, five to six year old boys are actual fans of a specific club.

I was!

47 minutes ago, rigger said:

Who the hell is going to buy Gueye ?

He'd do well in League 1.

6 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

England have as many talented players as them

No Jim--we don't. Especially in the bowling ranks. 

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.