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They are.

Just to inform everyone that in response to suggestions on here an option to add your name in support of the letter has now been added. Our IT guru tells us the letter has been viewed c9k times so far and is gaining traction nicely, but we're a bit thin on numbers for signatures at the moment as the option to sign wasn't there when most people read it. If you like the letter but haven't signed, could I ask you to revisit it and add your name. http://www.protectjackwalkerslegacy.com Many Thanks Simon

Got me for 10 seconds as well first thing this morning until I realised the date! If Carlsberg did threads..........

Sort of the same, and it will be for me until the manager goes. We couldn't beat Coventry at home, can we see off the mighty Wycombe away?

Apologies. Having read the article again he wasn't asked the question directly but was attempting to head it off at the pass before it was asked. "They seem to have a little more space than us on both sides" LOL. Yeah 55 acres as opposed to a proposed 19 acres! It would be quite comical were it not so serious.

I suspect he knows exactly how big Finch Farm is. He had to be vague on the issue because he was asked a direct question on the size comparison between their site and our proposed new one.

No problem, thanks for the feedback. I was surprised you'd seen it so quickly tbh. Good work!

Oh, hi Chris, I would never have known it was you if you hadn't have said. Simon Leigh in case you hadn't noticed from the Brockhall thread!

Thanks for everyone's comments. The key is to share the hell out of it so that as many people as possible are made aware of the issues then they can make their own mind up. Our technical guru informs us that there are options to add signatures in due course depending on the amount of traffic to the sites so we can do this if people require I think.

We could easily have delayed slightly to get a few more signatures on, but felt that it was more important to try and get the issues out into the public domain ASAP. As regards any other fans Groups, with the greatest of respect their response thus far has been either non existent or neutral. I am unable for example to decipher what the Trust's official stance is on the issue either way. If any official groups want to comment on the letter either way they are more than welcome. We haven't tried Lancs Live yet no but I have no doubt we will. The letter has only been live online for a few hours.

They're probably worried that if they fell out with Rovers they'd be left with nothing to print except stories about Granny baking a cake etc. I used to know someone who worked at the Telegraph years ago who said if they were struggling to fill column inches they'd stick in a story about a chip pan fire. In the long run though Messrs Waggott Mowbray and Venus aren't the Club and won't be there forever. The Blackburn Public would think of the paper far more favourably if they investigated these sort of things properly and impartially. It shouldn't be down to random fans to have to do their job for them.

Would just like to add that we intended running this in the Lancashire Telegraph first as a paid for ad with a QR code linking to the letter but to date they don't seem inclined to run it. What a worthless rag it is. It was precisely because they weren't investigating this fully and impartially, or asking any of the right questions, that we felt the need to do this in the first place.

You beat me to it. I sent this letter by e-mail to Lynsey Talbot at the Club today to be forwarded on to Mr. Waggott and hand delivered a hard copy to the ground where it was picked up by Security. The place looks desolate. Shuttered up more securely than Fort Knox.

I left (6th form) in 1982 as well and remember Dave Skidmore quite well, same year I think. The other names ring a bell too.

Bravo!

Here here. You can see Foden being the next Glen Hoddle under Southgate. One of the best players we've ever produced but frequently left out of the team on principle for some weird and unknown reason known only to the manager.

Even if that sale led to the loss of Cat 1 status due to lack of space?

Good idea den. Anyone fancy that? Hopefully there will be one or two other initiatives up and running by the end of next week as well!

Rhetorical question Chaddy. Not aimed at yourself. What does "one" have to do not to pass this initial vetting stage. I.e. the Club.

What do you have to do to fail the initial environmental assessment? Propose to dump ten tons of highly radioactive sewage into the local water supply every day? At least 450 local residents appear to be on a war footing. Go on lads and lasses! "Uncle Jack's corduroy army!"

What a great post. Mr. Waggott owned.

"Garlic bread, it's the future!" "I've tasted it!"

Thought that was garlic bread! 🙂

I'll start! "Under one roof" (Which will probably result in loss of Cat 1 status) ermmmm....................

I noticed that when the article was first published - one man's 'jam" is another man's bribe. Says it all when an attempt has to be made to pay off the villagers to accept it and the application can't be left to stand or fall purely on its merits. So basically almost everyone could receive some benefit from this tawdry scheme, developers, planners, PR agencies, local residents and anyone else in between. Everyone that is apart from the Club who would lose a substantial part of their infrastructure which we then can't fall back on in future if really needed when we no longer have multi billionaire owners. And for the present, said owners seemingly face having to shell out yet again to fund (at the very best) facilities similar to what we have now, only far less of them and which could end up putting paid to Cat 1 status for good. Sounds like much of our transfer business over the last ten years, everyone gets a piece of action along the way and the Club end up getting shafted.