I'm going to make this my last post on this thread then let it die, the idea seemed a good one, but me constantly slagging off our embarrassing support every week will only succeed in getting peoples back's up.
No one is expecting 50,60 and 70 year old blokes to be stood on their seats and screaming their lungs out every week, you don't get that in any ground in the country, you'll get the odd person but generally that age group don't add much to the matchday atmosphere anywhere.
The problem we have at Ewood, seemingly more so than at any other ground, is the lack of "lads" that go on, they're the age group that's going to get the place going and there's undoubtedly a dearth of that type of fan going on the games. Our unofficial singing section in N01 in the BBE has an average age of about 15, for most of them it's just a fashion thing and to be there with their mates, they're not hardcore singers.
There are certainly things that could be trialled to try and improve the atmosphere but every one of those is reliant on having enough singers to make it worthwhile and the simple truth is, we don't have anywhere near enough.
It's no big deal to most, it's a distant second to us being successful on the pitch, to me it's very important. Players, managers, owners etc will come and go. We'll have good times and bad, like all football clubs, the one single constant in all that is the fans and we have got ourselves a reputation of being among the worst in the country. That's a fact.
People can make excuses and defend it all they want, I did for years, but at some stage you realise it's undefendable and that's the stage I got to some time ago....... and it's got worse.
As I say, let the thread die, I've said my piece and me saying it again next week won't make any difference. People can do what they want at the match, that's not being flippant, each to their own. I'll be there every match, singing on my own if I have to because I'll say it one last time FOOTBALL IS NOTHING WITHOUT ATMOSPHERE.
Rovers Till I Die...........
