RevidgeBlue

Ironically when his Granddad Derek Keighley was briefly Chairman before ill health sadly took him from us all too soon, I thought the Club displayed far more ambition than it did under Bill Bancroft. A then Club record fee of £80,000 for Duncan Mckenzie in the old 3rd Division etc......... Used to sit behind Derek in the old Nuttall St. Stand. Poor guy used to sit there chain smoking cigarettes every game looking like his life was on the line with every kick. His grand son however sounds a very confused individual. How can you go from being a proponent of FC Rovers (a notion I vehemently reject) to being full square behind the owners?

I think that's probably correct. Technically it's probably only a "public place" for the purposes of attending a football match. Not protesting. That said imo the optics would be terrible for the Club if they moved the Police in to break up a non violent protest.

Any idea whether it will actually be published over there? Could be very important

Not a bad statement BUT tbh I wouldn't mind "reckless spending" "unrealistic ambition" or "Premiership Football"! This game should be about dreams, not aiming to finish 21st in the League. The main problem with the Club is the complete and utter lack of ambition. There's no priority placed on winning football matches and trying to be successful, the only raison d'etre seems to be to try to develop players to flog on for a profit the second they show any promise and bring in just about enough money fo pay the inflated salaries of a few chosen Club officials. The statement almost makes it sound as though if they "communicated" with us everything would be ok. Well sorry, as I said in another post to RF99, Im not bothered whether they win any popularity contests as I'm not thinking of inviting them round for dinner anytime soon. If the Club was well run and the team was successful on the pitch I couldnt care less who the owners were (within reason) or if we didnt hear from them from one year to the next. I do agree 100% with the overall sentiment of the message though. Well done to all concerned and Please keep up the good work on behalf of most of us. Never give up, Never give Never give up.

We havent lost 15k imo, maybe 10k. If we lose another 4 or 5k from the current 9k though, I think that could be the tipping point. We won't know until it happens though will we? I haven't said anything about your own personal choice to attend games, I dont mind that. I recognise that there will be a proportion of fans like yourself who will always attend games no matter what. I was on about you pouring cold water on each and every protest idea that is mooted. "Won't work" "That's been done" etc etc. It's easy to say that, what are your suggestions to improve things?

Nope, went from wanting to sack him after 5 games to Ismael being the best thing since sliced bread. Gone a bit quiet on him recently and no wonder. But the weather/injuries/referees..........etc

I feel you're being obstinate for the sake of it there. Obviously, a massive boycott by ST holders won't affect income levels for THIS season but a regular 5k home fans attending for the remainder would surely raise eyebrows in India at the very least. And if the boycott continued into next season come renewal time then that's the time it would really bite and possibly force their hand.

You keep telling us why various things won't work in your opinion, but you're not coming up with any alternative suggestions of your own to improve things - just pouring cold water on everything.

So you don't believe that a considerable reduction in gate revenue would make any difference? Imo, not hitting their targets in terms of ST revenue and matchday revenue is the only thing that gets them twitchy.

Ill hold my hands up at the end of the season if Im wrong.

You know full well you predicted that for this season but never mind. No shame in admitting you were completely wrong. Yes I am missing Eustace strangely enough because he left us in 6th or 7th and the current apology for a Head Coach has us in 20th.

How's your prediction we'd finish above Derby looking?

Edit: To back up the "eye test" 13 teams have conceded more goals than us (including Millwall in 4th) and two have conceded the same amount. However only TWO teams have scored less goals than us - (Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday) If the latter stat doesn't improve, that's where we are finishing imo.

At least Ill be able to watch it. If I want to spoil my Sunday afternoon.

If they were still here they'd have to be plaiting sawdust. It's the lack of goals at the other end that's an even more terminal problem imo.

To think someone was moaning about Beck in summer and now we have De Neve.

Is this just a Macron thing then? Put out a white shirt with a Maltese cross as an anniversary edition, even though neither have any particular relevance for the Club concerned. Perhaps they've got a bulk order of 10m lying about they need shut of.

Which one?

I liked the rubber duck idea "floated" by Carl the other week. Humerous yet very cutting at the same time.

I was thinking more organised protests in advance, rather than people going home early pissed off because we were losing or the game had been called off because we havent got a playable pitch!

I'll bet it isn't! Have we seen either concerted protests or mass walk outs during games? I genuinely don't recall them if we have.

Genius! 🙂

Exactly.

Not what I asked at all but never mind. Lol. Also I think someone could be relatively unconcerned about the owners or our overall plight but still use the red button for midweek night matches in winter, that's an entirely separate issue.

It seemed to be common consensus though, certainly when JDT was here, and maybe even Eustace, that the Head Coach had input into the selection process and the final say.