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steve w
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Abbey you need to be in the ground for that to happen! In the old days you could have all congregated on the Blackburn End and something spontaneous may have erupted - those days are gone (sadly in some ways ie passion, friendship, atmosphere etc)
Am I going to risk my livelihood? with cameras every where and police probably monitoring this post/social networks - am I fuck!
I, like you, have attended most of the protests, gone to meeting, contributed to videos and as others posted I hate the owners with a burning passion but at the risk of saying the same thing over and over
take it or leave it - they are our options
Am I going to risk my livelihood? with cameras every where and police probably monitoring this post/social networks - am I fuck!
I, like you, have attended most of the protests, gone to meeting, contributed to videos and as others posted I hate the owners with a burning passion but at the risk of saying the same thing over and over
take it or leave it - they are our options
Doubtful. Visionary more like.
As for spoilt brat? Hardly. I'm sure you can recall my regret from the off that Jack didn't also buy control over PNE, Burnley and Bolton and form a single super club which would have been enduring, future proof and able to compete toe to toe with City clubs without the need for a sugar daddy. Truth is that I knew Jack's input would never be permanent, let's be honest how on earth could it be? Few agreed with me then though when we were top of the pile and looking down one or more divisions on our lowly neighbours. Unfortunately and entirely predictably the tables are turned now exactly as I warned they would and should the proposal ever be considered again it'll become obvious that negotiating from a position of weakness is a much different proposition that negotiating from a position of strength.
btw Abbey I seem to rem you posting that if BRFC ever amalgamated with our neighbours to form a Lancashire County club that you would never be able to support that and you would pack in going!
Rather a hollow threat now eh? After all one can only pack it in once can't they?
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He was a Deserter too was he?
You have to admit there's a massive irony there.
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Jack felt that's what Rovers should be. Lancashire's club. Williams said in 1998 "we must see ourselves as being Lancashire" but after he died it was an endless stream of "small town this", "small town that" which isn't even true. So obviously the Lancashire line came directly on Jack's orders. There was no reason to scrap Jack's way of thinking as Rovers were the only club in modern day Lancashire in the top flight for many seasons. The club did nowhere near enough to take advantage of that and the fans bought into the "small town" brainwashing. No doubt that is exactly what the Walker family & trustees intended and sadly club executives (including the aforementioned Williams) promoted that line as well. By 2005 I saw right through it and tried to tell fans on BRFCS they were being brainwashed but people wouldn't listen. I'll never forget that "small town in Europe" chant which was something the club instigated (well Middlesbrough might have chanted it before that or am I mistaken?) because the line was in the season ticket marketing packs. The anger I felt hearing that the first time it was bad enough seeing it in the ST packs. I thought it was "small town in Zurich" at first (it was against Basle) but I quickly realised. Of course at that time anything could set me off into a rage. I'm probably as calm as I'm ever gonna get these days!Doubtful. Visionary more like.
As for spoilt brat? Hardly. I'm sure you can recall my regret from the off that Jack didn't also buy control over PNE, Burnley and Bolton and form a single super club which would have been enduring, future proof and able to compete toe to toe with City clubs without the need for a sugar daddy. Truth is that I knew Jack's input would never be permanent, let's be honest how on earth could it be? Few agreed with me then though when we were top of the pile and looking down one or more divisions on our lowly neighbours. Unfortunately and entirely predictably the tables are turned now exactly as I warned they would and should the proposal ever be considered again it'll become obvious that negotiating from a position of weakness is a much different proposition that negotiating from a position of strength.
btw Abbey I seem to rem you posting that if BRFC ever amalgamated with our neighbours to form a Lancashire County club that you would never be able to support that and you would pack in going!
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So Gordon boycotting is visionary ....
Me boycotting is deserting ...
Cool
Me boycotting is deserting ...
Cool
Barmitzvah Boy
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I rarely take a peak at the ‘dark side’ MB but these two very recent post interested me when looking at BRFCS this morning. I don’t know how many active boycotters we have (50, 75, 100?), as I reckon most fans just stopped going rather than doing a napm, but it looks as is there may be slow drift back to Ewood. This is not a go at anyone but I am of the opinion that the team deserve our support and whatever I have done in the past has done nothing apart from a short-term feelgood factor.
Those posts:
1. “Despite what the absent tw*ts (Venky’s) have done to the club, it’s clear that the majority of fans don’t and never have had the bottle to do anything significant in an attempt to oust them. I’ve done the odd protest march and stayed behind after games to demonstrate and I hate them with a passion. I am, however, now of the opinion that there is no point remaining a NAPM. It’s pointless. The stubborn bar stewards have shown that a substantial drop in turnover and a return to large losses doesn’t appear to hurt them. They will leave when they’re good and ready and on their own terms.
After seven years of pain, there is a real feel good factor returning this season. The away games in particular are generating superb atmospheres with numerous sell outs. After moving to Cheshire, I was at the Shrewsbury away game and can tell you it was great to be back amongst Blackburn/East Lancs people. I will be at Crewe on Tuesday evening and am looking to get up to more home matches including Boxing Day.
If we keep our good form going, there will be no problem continuing to sell out the away games. What we do need to do though is get the home attendances up to around the 14-17k mark. Over to the absentees.”
2. “I have stubbornly resisted reappearing at Ewood, I even moved our works Christmas party last year in order not to put another penny in their pockets, so they might have to put more of their money in. Though I am of the mind that it's me suffering far more than the Rao family. Just as when Keen left, I called down to Ewood the next day and bought my season ticket and my two lads tickets too, I would likewise do again. A few of us go to away matches and it has been great, except Oldham!
I really would like to support this team at Ewood and could very easily see myself getting half season tickets for me and Santa for my lads. I would gladly accept an olive branch or just the acknowledgement from the Rao family of their desire for Rover's future and possibly a proposal to rule a line under what has passed, this would have to come directly from them, not from any third party, e.g. a public quotation and not some puppet.
So the Rao's are you going to make two boy's Christmas? One of whom has been known to appear on here, how thrilled would he be do we all think?”
Those posts:
1. “Despite what the absent tw*ts (Venky’s) have done to the club, it’s clear that the majority of fans don’t and never have had the bottle to do anything significant in an attempt to oust them. I’ve done the odd protest march and stayed behind after games to demonstrate and I hate them with a passion. I am, however, now of the opinion that there is no point remaining a NAPM. It’s pointless. The stubborn bar stewards have shown that a substantial drop in turnover and a return to large losses doesn’t appear to hurt them. They will leave when they’re good and ready and on their own terms.
After seven years of pain, there is a real feel good factor returning this season. The away games in particular are generating superb atmospheres with numerous sell outs. After moving to Cheshire, I was at the Shrewsbury away game and can tell you it was great to be back amongst Blackburn/East Lancs people. I will be at Crewe on Tuesday evening and am looking to get up to more home matches including Boxing Day.
If we keep our good form going, there will be no problem continuing to sell out the away games. What we do need to do though is get the home attendances up to around the 14-17k mark. Over to the absentees.”
2. “I have stubbornly resisted reappearing at Ewood, I even moved our works Christmas party last year in order not to put another penny in their pockets, so they might have to put more of their money in. Though I am of the mind that it's me suffering far more than the Rao family. Just as when Keen left, I called down to Ewood the next day and bought my season ticket and my two lads tickets too, I would likewise do again. A few of us go to away matches and it has been great, except Oldham!
I really would like to support this team at Ewood and could very easily see myself getting half season tickets for me and Santa for my lads. I would gladly accept an olive branch or just the acknowledgement from the Rao family of their desire for Rover's future and possibly a proposal to rule a line under what has passed, this would have to come directly from them, not from any third party, e.g. a public quotation and not some puppet.
So the Rao's are you going to make two boy's Christmas? One of whom has been known to appear on here, how thrilled would he be do we all think?”
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#napm
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Coming back for a winning team ...fickle.
Fickle? Hmmm Imagine the venkymob had come in, kept Williams binned off Anderson, given Allardyce an open cheque book and we'd have been relatively successful and stayed in the Prem. I know they didn't and the clubs fortunes went belly up but surely you would have had no axe to grind Abbey and there would be no napm etc?
Chor .... Do you mean the paint on the floor?
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Just like me painted into a corner, I stepped out quick, no shame in going back and even if there is life is too short to bother about it.
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stopped reading at allardyce...cant we have a present day chat without bringing him into every bloody chat.
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i aint painted in anywhere. I just refuse to give a penny to the scummers. I could quite easily have caved in this summer but then the happy clappers on the inter web started giving it large about them being better than the boycotters and that swung it.
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You are fully painted as you just said 'I could have easily caved in'. You are making it a battle you against them, but quite frankly they don't give a crap if you go or not. How can you possibly agree with everyone that goes to Ewood, posts on a forum, calls the radio and so on, you can't. Who gives a shite about the happy clappers, there will always be things at a football club that people disagree on, sack him/keep him, play this bloke no play him, I can't stand X or Y and so on. If people want to cheer on the Venkys so what, if they want to say oh without them we would be this or that, so what. Why do you care? You know that happy clapper sitting there 'giving it large' does not give a crap about you or your weekend, not one crap. Have I said crap enough yet? Oh yes and while we are on about happy clapper, they will still clap after Venkys have gone, they will still go on the internet, Ewood, radio etc and tell everyone how they did not turn their back on the club and so on, and do you know what...............................................who gives a crap!
I don't know you at all (I think) however I can tell from reading what you have typed over the last umpteen years you really care about our team and it is obvious you are missing going. Let me say it again, the only person affected by your boycott is you, no one else. It's actually painful to read your NAPM lines as I know how horrible it is not to go. Please don't reply #napm FFS!!!