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Season Tickets (inc. Renewal Poll)
arbitro replied to Stuart's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/vaccine-passports-football-matches-coming-24610700 I'm not sure which thread is the best but this one seems appropriate. -
I thought it was really strange that Lowe did the post match interviews rather than Venus. It's another sign to me that all isn't well with two thirds of the Coventrio.
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I went to Bradford today and the performance aside the real worry for me was what Armstrong and Rothwell did after being substituted. Neither sat with the other players and staff on the bench but instead walked half the length of the pitch and sat on the steps outside the changing room well away from everybody else connected with Rovers. Now I might be reading too much into it but it really looked like neither of them wanted to be there. Anybody championing Chapmans cause will be in for a shock. He was our worst player today, that really is saying something in a sea of mediocrity.
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The sad story of Keith Treacy
arbitro replied to Paul Mellelieu's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
There was an excellent documentary last week about Family Courts which are coming in for increasing criticism. Somebody in my family had the misfortune to go the the turmoil and emotional trauma these places can bring. Ultimately it worked out well but seeing the tension and worry they can bring affected many, many people. Some of the people involved have been to hell. https://www.channel4.com/press/news/torn-apart-family-courts-uncovered-dispatches -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Wages and salaries up by £3.2m from 2019 to 2020? Is that the whole business or just the playing side? If the former it's even more questionable as most of the non playing staff were on furlough. -
Kit supplier and sponsor from 21/22
arbitro replied to alex l's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That's my favourite all time kit Tyrone. I know we live in different times but it beauty is it's simplicity and no manufacturers or sponsors logo. They did retro versions of the older shirts which were sold in the club shop and they were actually 100% cotton. -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
A competent Chief Executive would have addressed that long ago. Mowbrays control and autonomy has allowed this to go unchecked with the awarding of contracts to players who should have been shown the door. It's a amazing how a club like Millwall with smaller crowds than us can manage their finance, not worry about P&S and still finish above us, even flirting with the play-offs. -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Keeping Mowbray and getting relegated would cost the club over £6m in lost broadcasting monies alone. If we are to go with the current squad I just can't see Mowbray getting enough out of them. In my view it's critical we get somebody new in who can get more out of the players tactically. -
The sad story of Keith Treacy
arbitro replied to Paul Mellelieu's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You should be extremely proud of yourself mate.- 47 replies
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Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You make some good points but lets assume we sell another two million quids worth of season tickets. It will barely scratch the surface in terms of P&S. Things have spiralled out of control as the year on year accounts demonstrate. Questions have to be asked like why players contracts have been renewed unnecessarily and why we have a useless Chief Executive who goes nowhere nearing justification of his huge salary. I honestly don't blame anybody for not engaging with Rovers anymore. -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Your assumption that I'm not renewing could be wrong but your guilt trip comments are an insult to everybody who isn't. Why not just respect their reasons and carry on? If Rovers went to the wall then no fan would be to blame irrespective of what you think. There has been cash flow problems in pretty much all of their tenure because of gross mismanagement and things like paying up to 185% of turnover in wages. That's why they are putting in colossal amounts of money. But you carry on blaming the fans if it makes you feel better. -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
What absolute nonsense. The lack of fans won't kill the club, it will be the gross mismanagement of the decade of decay. To try and guilt trip the fans with that comment is poor and the tactic that Waggott employed when he refused to give refunds for BCD games. -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Your thingy says you are a former season ticket holder now boycotting. So I'm assuming at some stage you actually boycotted but now your asking others to buy tickets and saying we're either fan's or we're not. Double standards? -
Your second sentence is true when you say they are taking advantage - of us! I for one won't be going.
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Adult tickets for Leeds are £15. Adult tickets for Bolton are £10. Rip off Rovers. FOW.
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Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The main reason they are having to chuck £20m in each season is their own mismanagement of the club. Lest you forget we were a stable, well run top flight club when they appeared. Dwindling fanbase, wages to turnover ratio, poor commercial activities, a succession of poor appointments into positions of power, I could go on. The mess that is Blackburn Rovers lies solely with the owners. The black hole they have created is getting bigger and bigger. Where do you think we will be with them at the helm for another five years? -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That is what's happening now, it's just that many are in denial. In my view we are well past the point of no return. The golden goose of the Premier League will not happen under this lot and where will we be in one, two or five years more of these wretches? We owe them nigh on £200m which is increasing by £20m minimum each year. We need new people owning and running the club. The biggest threat to the future of Blackburn Rovers are the current owners. -
John Park head of recruitment
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The letters sent first by Messrs Williams, Finn and Goodman and latterly by Paul Hunt spelt it out clearly to the owners what they needed to do but they didn't heed this and actually got did of all four for their temerity. This naive, badly advised nonsense should be out to bed. The buck stops with them. And all these years on they are still running the club awfully with chancers and shysters. I'm sick of people defending the indefensible. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk- 406 replies
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Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The players have been back for three weeks now and fitness levels should be rising. The real worry is that we haven't brought anybody in to supplement a wafer thin, inexperienced squad and given Mowbrays infamous integration policy will there be any new players in the team for Swansea in three weeks time? We are in a real mess. -
John Park head of recruitment
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Mowbrays penchant for picking the low hanging fruit has been evident throughout his tenure. Players he has worked with before, players from previous clubs, an assistant manager he has played and managed with, even a CEO. Mowbray likes to be in his comfort zone and retain the autonomy he enjoys as he pretty much does what he wants. He doesn't like being challenged in his megalomaniac world and surrounds himself with sycophants. I'd be really surprised if there aren't already talks about a new deal for him and Venus.- 406 replies
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John Park head of recruitment
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
For me it's a case of Mowbray strengthening his position even more. He brought in Venus, Waggott and now Park, all of whom he has worked with before. They are probably three of the four most powerful men at Rovers. It adds to the rotten stench emanating from Ewood and only a clear out will sanitise the place.- 406 replies
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AFC Fylde vs Rovers (Pre-Season 21/22)
arbitro replied to a topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
How vague is that - 'operational and internal problems'. What on earth has happened to our club, famed for its off field management and the envy of many clubs, often bigger than us. And then a game is called off for that reason with no explanation. It's just another insult to us. I'm getting to the point where Conference football would be acceptable to me to clear the decks of the bastards who own and run our club. -
Summer transfer window 2021.
arbitro replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You missed the word incompetent from your last sentence. 😁😁 -
AFC Fylde vs Rovers (Pre-Season 21/22)
arbitro replied to a topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The Rovers badge and sponsors logo usually comes with the shirt from the supplier. Names and numbers are done in house. -
AFC Fylde vs Rovers (Pre-Season 21/22)
arbitro replied to a topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Similarly Ian when I was an active referee the PGMOL secured a lucrative deal with Emirates but there wasn't enough time to get their badges on the shirt sleeves so they sent us the badges out separately the day before the season started. Vague instructions were supplied on how to affix the badges and the next day pitches up and down were littered with Emirates badges which had fallen off 😁😁. I took mine to a local dry cleaner and they applied them with their best presser.