Hello all, I’ve started this thread to discuss protest ideas so those in support can start taking positive action against the current state of the club and owners Venky’s & CEO Steve Waggott. Their short sighted and non-sensical business decisions are slowly killing BRFC from the inside out and it cannot be allowed to go on. As fans we’re the only ones with the best interests of Blackburn Rovers Football Club at heart 💙🤍🌹 Aims of the Protest Movement 1. The ultimate aim is for Venky’s to sell the club to new owners who are present, communicate with the fans and have the best interests of the club & fans at heart AND the community it is part of. 2. The initial aim is to voice the growing frustration of the fan base & for the current CEO Steve Waggott to start communicating with us and to be open & transparent about the ongoing financial issues and resultant inability to recruit the quality & number of players we need to progress as a club. 3. If there is no response from the club to the initial aims, the protest will enter its next stage, ideas below: Ideas Further ideas would be welcomed on how to take this forward. There were the first rumblings in the Blackburn End v Huddersfield with the “Venky’s Out” chant but we need more co-ordinated action for the owners & CEO to really sit up and listen. They’ve had a far too easy ride up until now. Some ideas I’ve had already: 1. Protest with banners/sign reveal and singing on 18 & 75 minutes during a league game. This could be as simple as downloading the below image onto your phone or iPad & holding it up as well as home made banners, signs and the like for those who want to. 2. A Reading style pitch invasion and sit down protest during a game. This would be a last resort currently. 3. Printing of t-shirts and a full on march style protest ending up at the Jack Walker statue before a League home game Any further and even more innovative ideas would be welcomed…. Venky’s & Waggott…were comin’ for you!

Those crafty feckers JDT and GB causing all this unrest, good job we have the constants of Suhail and Swag continually doing the right thing by BRFC.

What sort of football club would appoint a DofF who has never done the job at any level? Can’t believe that even the current regime at BRFC would be daft enough to make such a move……..hang on though, we aren’t a normally run football club so it might happen.

This is what always sticks in my mind some big names in the UK and Europe and beyond have been here. Players and managers who in a lot of cases have been at some of the World or Europe's biggest clubs and you never hear a bad word about the place or the fans. Yet we enter an era of nobodies and dollopers in every level of the club and you now struggle to hear a good word, it's all about levels though and the level of BRFC has been dragged to that akin to the back rooms of a greasy fried chicken joint in the last decade plus. If you want hero worship then earn it.

The only reason Blackburn Rovers is ‘broke’ is because the Rao’s are no longer funding their business. If any other non parachute club had owners who had turned the taps off (or had the authorities turn them off for them) they’d be broke too. There is nothing fundamentally different about BRFC, we just have owners under investigation for financial irregularities.

What 'major financial trouble' is the club in? Over the last 3-4 years it has barely spent anything be that on transfers, facilities etc. Our wage bill has been drastically cut. We make substantial annual losses but we are no different to any other non-parachute laden Championship side in that respect. If you are referring to the 'issues' preventing the owners from sending money over that's a different matter altogether. That is their issue and their problem to sort. It isn't the club's fault or a result of the club's financial structure. With or without Szmodics being sold we should be in a very strong financial position going into the summer. As you rightly state we have already brought in over £25 million from sales since last summer and are likely to go past the £30 million mark with Raya joining Arsenal. None of that has been reinvested yet. Most other professional clubs would be ready to push 'go' on multiple quality signings using a large chunk of that cash to ensure we hit the ground running this summer and next season. We all know this won't happen and it sums up the miserable existence of BRFC in 2024 that rather than relish a rebuild and reinvestment and a brighter future pretty much all the transfer talk is about weakening ourselves further by offloading the one positive from this season. Unfortunately many will be suckered in by false promises of reinvestment which won't materialise and then they'll come with more ridiculous excuses about admin issues as to why not.

This is why certain players/ex players etc keep saying expectation levels are too high amongst the fans. They miss the point though that fans have issues with the ownership, those running it (into the ground) and all associated problems. When you start a season after finishing 8th/7th you are entitled to expect at least midway even allowing for a budget cut. Not at BRFC though.

End of the day the FF was set up in a simpler time, for a completely different football club, it was for incremental, adjacent type issues - catering, travel etc. It was not set up to take the club to task over the existential place BRFC now finds itself - that is what the bi-annual Supporter Consultation was for, until COVID was used as a neat way of quietly dropping it. If anything does need adding to the FF’s next agenda - it is to ask when the consultations are being brought back, as per EFL mandated requirements https://www.efl.com/supporters/fan-consultation/#

Too true Tyrone.No BRFC supporter trust/Group can even engage in conversation with these people purporting to owning our Club. We have asked for years what do they get from mismanaging Rovers?,this Season has maybe answered that to an extent...we are to be a feeder Club through our Academy,when it suits them to sell and when the money is right. Its NOT what the suffering fans of this Club want as it stinks of a lack of ambition and progress.

History is full of irony, BRFC has a great history. We missed the playoffs on goal difference in 2023, if we go down in 2024 it will be on goal difference. Also the Norwich manager has a history of playing a weakened team, when he was at Huddersfield, to our disadvantage in 2017. I’ve no doubt he will do the same at Birmingham now that his team are definitely in the playoffs. Our only hope is Hull getting something at Plymouth. The omens aren’t good.

So Fleetwood is preferable to Championship BRFC.

I heard a few grumbles on Sunday, but nothing major. JDT had plenty more throughout his reign. If we stay up he’ll get the benefit of the doubt from the fans that rock up next season . Just god knows how many that will actually be, considering; a terrible season of results at Ewood, the general shambles that is BRFC, another summer of departures and no spend, the new TV deal and big prices. It’s a perfect storm that can only be even remotely mitigated with a substantial price cut.

Well said. I've been going on for 49 years, the only time I gave it a swerve was for 3 seasons or so after these clowns took over and potted Big Sam. I'm so fed up with BRFC and football in general; the season can't end soon enough so I can spend my Saturdays fishing instead. If my daughter wouldn't threaten me with ostracism, I'd be seriously considering to ditch the ST again next season.

I paid £11.99 for a NowTV day pass to cover the Leeds game, versus the £10 is usually costs to stream a single game on RoversTV. I really begrudge paying Sky a penny, but can't help myself when it's BRFC.

Is he thick? He is if you think he is trying to act in the best long term interests of BRFC, but just happens to make bad decisions time after time. I’d say Waggott makes decisions for Waggott, and will be leaving here (at some point) very well compensated.. so who’s the fool?

I found this website; https://www.11v11.com/teams/blackburn-rovers/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Leeds United/ In the entire history of the fixture Leeds have won 50% more games than Rovers, with BRFC losing 8 of the last 9. It's not looking good for Saturday.

You should have kept it. There are some harsh replies on this. I'd wager that people's responses would be different if the name was changed to Tugay. I played against him when he was young, even then he was being tipped as a future England player. Going from 20 years of constant ego boosting to nothing caused a massive drop in his mental state. He, like many, turned to synthetic means to try to rekindle that high. It is hard to feel sympathy for millionaire footballer, and especially one who was utterly abject for BRFC. He stole a living whilst at BRFC, and I also remember his wife crassly attempting to defend him. For this have a go all day. Yet, to me, this should be separated from him getting hooked on coke. People either abusing, or being addicted to drugs, need help not scorn.

Precisely. Immediate financial considerations are only one component of running a football club, yet it seems Waggott and the rest down there have that as their one and only remit. There are many other factors that have to be balanced with a desire to cut costs, save money, reduce owner input. You have to invest. Invest means spending above and beyond the bare minimum essentials. Invest means trying to grow and improve, progress, get better. Invest isn't asking the owners to pay the wages each month or for a bag of grass seed so we can get the pitch ready for pre-season. You have to try and get better. If you don't you get worse, and with that, as you rightly say, comes less income and a vicious circle of decline. Waggott may be perfectly competent at cutting costs, saving the owners money and doing the job they want him to do. Unfortunately for BRFC and any other professional sports club there is so, so, so much more to it than cutting costs and saving money. As we teeter on the brink of a return to the 3rd division and a further drop off in already poor attendances maybe that message will get through. Then again maybe not.

The football boom of the past decade that somehow misssed BRFC.

We need a CEO and board of directors who are not only capable and trustworthy but will sweat blood for the club and go that extra mile for the benefit of the club not themselves. Waggot is the polar opposite of that he remains here just because no one has told him to go so he carries on just going through the motions. We're selling Wharton and they've loaned out the captain to save a few quid and the best he can do is casually pick up the phone push the old boys network button and bring in a lad whose had career ending injury problems and hardly played fr 18 months. In doing so he commits to wasting c4/500k of the Wharton money straight off for someone who the odds on contributing anything for 5 moths were wafer thin to start wth. You tell me he isn't doing others favours there and getting a drink himself, nothing at all in that scenario is for the benefit of BRFC.

Stop believing him..hes a con artist with a silver tongue he should be nowhere near BRFC A DOF rarely works in the UK especiallt under this messed up club

You believe some shit you do...GB is another gravy train rider who should be nowhere BRFC director of football he couldnt direct traffic

When anyone worries themselves about promotion and relegation it would be useful to remember this sort of thing. Whilst we are now fighting to preserve our Championship status the CEO and shadow man are scurrying like rats in the shadows trying to find new ways of getting players out and off the wage bill. Even going behind the manager's back and undermining him in the process. They're not here to do any good by BRFC. Promotion, relegation, progress, growth, improvement - never on the agenda with this lowlife scum. They're paid to do one thing and one thing only. We need shut of the lot of them and this club will never improve or prosper until they are history.

Suhail is Venkys puppet and Waggot is Suhail puppet i think that much is obvious as to how the peer order works at Ewood. Both are doing very nicely plodding along earning a few hundred grand a year doing something most dream of, something neither are very good at but they get by winging it short term year by year. Neither will stand up to their bosses and tell them what is what and what is required to do anything other than keep the lights on, it's called keeping the bosses off your back for an easy life. Both should be stepping fwd doing what is in the best interests medium and long term for BRFC and telling the owners straight to sort the finances or consider real dialogue with any genuine interested parties. They won't though they'll do the opposite and keep a lid on as much as they can whilst sitting pretty.

I'm sorry but i respectfully disagree ... the books sing according to the lyrics of the songwriter i don't think i ever mentioned laundering ... for that you need to own the money you are moving to avoid taxation. BRFC cannot come under investigation as its not an Indian Registered Entity. i look at things from a simple law of business simply put " Juice is worth the squeeze " ... but also i could be completely wrong. i also believe these recent news of not wanting to sell is a form of reverse advertising of a willingness to sell at higher price , i may also be wrong but i judge the fire by the smoke as i'm far from the burning ground.