[Archived] Rovers Takeover Thread

[Gav]

Why the hell do you keep giving the guy a platform to post such cr@p? He’s obviously a burnley fan spending his time winding you all up.

I do the same on the burnley website, its great fun, but I'm convinced we have more intelligent life forms on here than they do on the burnley site......don't we?

[gumboots]

If everything is so hunky dory like you seem to think it is

why has the club not been sold yet?

Any new owner looking at Lancashire as his catchment area would not only have to consider the enormous pull that the big teams like Liverpool and united have in the area but also city with their wealth and therefore potential if they do things right and don't screw up like they usually do, Everton with thier rising success levels and then the entrenched loyalties of fans to clubs like Preston and Burnley. Wigan don't have a big fan base but they take a certain section of the population then not everyone want s to change their allegiance to a pemier league club and fans will continue to support clubs like Bury, rochdale etc. Really the support base for Rovers is BwD plus the Ribble Valley which is hardly a sizeable population, particularly when half of Clitheroe football fans support Burnley. You seem to think that it's an easy job to sell a football club and that somehow there's a conspiracy not to sell. It's not true. There just aren't many buyers and some clubs even from lower leagues, are more attractive than Rovers. You can't divorce a club from the area it's in except for the odd exception like Utd who seem to be far more popular globally than they are in their own back yard.

And GAV I'm not wound up. When I am it's short, sharp and to the point. When I'm not I try to put forward logical refutations of people's arguments. Don't always succeed but I try.

[47er]

Vinjay you are like a dog chasing its tail....round and round and round!

I'll give you credit though you know how to get attention.

I've got a dog so I know what you mean. The difference is that she eventually runs out of energy and stops.

[SouthAussieRover]

Bless you Vinjay.

Who needs ICBINF when we've got you?

[Guest Vinjay606]

If wikipedia is accurate Accrington and Darwen has a combined population of over 60,000. So you can add that figure onto the population of Blackburn as well considering most people in those areas support Blackburn Rovers. (or one of the top 4 usually Man United as the most local)

[b12_simon]

If wikipedia is accurate Accrington and Darwen has a combined population of over 60,000. So you can add that figure onto the population of Blackburn as well considering most people in those areas support Blackburn Rovers. (or one of the top 4 usually Man United as the most local)

OK compare that to Birmingham, where I live. It's a city of a million (plus a large catchment area) pretty much split between 2 clubs (ok there's also WBA but their support isn't huge in Birmingham itself). Compared to that (not to mention Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, etc.) we are a small town and a small club.

You live in some fantasy world where it's still 1995 and we should be competing for the title every year. Football's moved on. It's not down to some failure of the board. Town clubs have struggled since the wage cap was abolished in the 60s and will continue to do so until something dramatic happens.

Earth to Vinjay: learn to accept we're not a big fish in the football world and hope for some more success in the future.

[Ray-Von]

If wikipedia is accurate Accrington and Darwen has a combined population of over 60,000. So you can add that figure onto the population of Blackburn as well considering most people in those areas support Blackburn Rovers. (or one of the top 4 usually Man United as the most local)

Sorry Vinjay thats wrong. Support for Rovers in Accy is matched easily by the Burnley contingent, with Stanley and the "big four" hangers on too.

[Guest Vinjay606]

It's a big town and a big club and I won't change that view if a gun is held to my head. We have Jack Walker to thank for building the club into what it is today. I'm not going to run down the legacy he's built here. Some people have an inferiority complex and try to drag the club down to their own level. The club is the leading symbol of excellence in this area and something to look up to not systematically run down.

Birmingham City couldn't even sell out in the premier league for some games. Look at BRFC's attendance/population ratio in comparison. Look at Gillingham...huge catchment area but are they a big club?

I never said I expect to challenge for the title even if the Walkers were backing the club to their full potential.

Sorry Vinjay thats wrong. Support for Rovers in Accy is matched easily by the Burnley contingent, with Stanley and the "big four" hangers on too.

Nonsense. The vast majority of people in the Accrington area support Blackburn Rovers. I have younger (and older) relatives who attend school and live in Accrington and they don't know anyone who supports the other contingent.

As if Accrington Stanley are a threat to Blackburn Rovers support. It's like saying Altrincham are a threat to Manchester City.

[Hughesy]

Accy is pretty much split 50/50 between Rovers & the dingles. Everyone knows that Vinjay, so I cant see you convincing others differently.

[Ray-Von]

It's a big town and a big club and I won't change that view if a gun is held to my head. We have Jack Walker to thank for building the club into what it is today. I'm not going to run down the legacy he's built here. Some people have an inferiority complex and try to drag the club down to their own level. The club is the leading symbol of excellence in this area and something to look up to not systematically run down.

Birmingham City couldn't even sell out in the premier league for some games. Look at BRFC's attendance/population ratio in comparison. Look at Gillingham...huge catchment area but are they a big club?

I never said I expect to challenge for the title even if the Walkers were backing the club to their full potential.

Nonsense. The vast majority of people in the Accrington area support Blackburn Rovers. I have younger (and older) relatives who attend school and live in Accrington and they don't know anyone who supports the other contingent.

As if Accrington Stanley are a threat to Blackburn Rovers support. It's like saying Altrincham are a threat to Manchester City.

I have lived in Accrington for 36 years. You are talking nonsense.

Care to explain why Accy Clarets run two coaches to the majority of away games?

[stuwilky]

If wikipedia is accurate Accrington and Darwen has a combined population of over 60,000. So you can add that figure onto the population of Blackburn as well considering most people in those areas support Blackburn Rovers. (or one of the top 4 usually Man United as the most local)

And much of Darwen support Bolton as well.

Vinjay, if you must continue to spout off, it might help if you could get some stuff even close to accurate.

[modes98]

It's a big town and a big club and I won't change that view if a gun is held to my head.

Maybe a gun won't but how about a table showing the populations of towns and cities?

Click Me

62. Blackburn

Look at some of the far larger Towns & Cities that have no or a very unsuccesful football team.

[waggy]

surely anyone intrested in buying the rovers will wait till the summer,if we are premier league it will be X millions if we are championship we will be priced at Z millions.the lack of tv money will reduce the price by half

[deryck guyler's spoon]

Maybe a gun won't but how about a table showing the populations of towns and cities?

Click Me

62. Blackburn

Look at some of the far larger Towns & Cities that have no or a very unsuccesful football team.

Fair point. However I did read recently that the 2001 census had the "Greater Blackburn" (6 mile radius from the town centre) over 1/4 million inhabitants. Sort of blows our small town club status out of the water along with our excuse for poor gates.

[Guest Vinjay606]

surely anyone intrested in buying the rovers will wait till the summer,if we are premier league it will be X millions if we are championship we will be priced at Z millions.the lack of tv money will reduce the price by half

I have said I would be surprised if there's interest before the summer.

[gumboots]

Fair point. However I did read recently that the 2001 census had the "Greater Blackburn" (6 mile radius from the town centre) over 1/4 million inhabitants. Sort of blows our small town club status out of the water along with our excuse for poor gates.

6 miles out of Blackburn in most directions you are into rural England and the very separate villages and towns that make it up though. Places like wilpshire and Langho, Mellor etc all come into the 6 mile zone but no way are they part of Blackburn in terms of their ethos and affiliation, and they don't generally look to Blackburn but to Clitheroe as their main town. I bump into loads of people i know from there shopping in Clitheroe or even in Accrington rarely in Blackburn. A straightforward line on a map tells you nothing. Shops, education etc do. People deliberately buy houses on the Rogersfield estate because it brings them within the catchment area for Clitheroe schools

[Ozz]

It's a big town and a big club and I won't change that view if a gun is held to my head. We have Jack Walker to thank for building the club into what it is today. I'm not going to run down the legacy he's built here. Some people have an inferiority complex and try to drag the club down to their own level. The club is the leading symbol of excellence in this area and something to look up to not systematically run down.

It's not a big town, but I applaud the rest of this quote Vinjay.

[leftfooter]

6 miles out of Blackburn in most directions you are into rural England and the very separate villages and towns that make it up though. Places like wilpshire and Langho, Mellor etc all come into the 6 mile zone but no way are they part of Blackburn in terms of their ethos and affiliation, and they don't generally look to Blackburn but to Clitheroe as their main town. I bump into loads of people i know from there shopping in Clitheroe or even in Accrington rarely in Blackburn. A straightforward line on a map tells you nothing. Shops, education etc do. People deliberately buy houses on the Rogersfield estate because it brings them within the catchment area for Clitheroe schools

Tune in next week to Gumboot's latest treatise on the cultural habits of the good folk of Blackburn, when kids, she'll expound in the most recondite manner how Blackburn is uphill from Rogersfield and Clitheroe is downhill, thus facilitating easier bicycle visitation of the latter.

[gumboots]

Tune in next week to Gumboot's latest treatise on the cultural habits of the good folk of Blackburn, when kids, she'll expound in the most recondite manner how Blackburn is uphill from Rogersfield and Clitheroe is downhill, thus facilitating easier bicycle visitation of the latter.

ah, but since you do the shopping on your trip to Clitheroe or Blackburn it's actually an advantage if it's downhill on your way home.

[leftfooter]

ah, but since you do the shopping on your trip to Clitheroe or Blackburn it's actually an advantage if it's downhill on your way home.

People in Wilpshire might be trying to send their kids to schools in the Ribble Valley, or more pertinently, avoid sending them to schools in Blackburn (I wonder why...), but their mentality is very much Blackburn overspill. Think of it as the Ribble Valley's very own Essex to Blackburn's Eastend.

[Tris]

Nonsense. The vast majority of people in the Accrington area support Blackburn Rovers. I have younger (and older) relatives who attend school and live in Accrington and they don't know anyone who supports the other contingent.

That explains a lot!

[Guest Vinjay606]

I finished school a few years ago. What I meant to say was younger relatives attending school/living in Accrington and older relatives living in the area too.

[Iceman]

The credit crunch has to some extent come at a bad time, and to some extent a good time for Rovers. The bad is that the rich investors are somewhat reluctant to invest in a club, where no profit will be made. On the other hand, the richer clubs are a bit more reluctant to have a free for all spending spree( except maybe Man City). Either way, Rovers need somebody to come in and even spend 10mill pounds a season on new players. That will be somewhat of a miracle though.

[Hughesy]

Its simple - one of us, needs to win a BIG euro lotto jackpot, invest the money and make 100's millions more and then buy Rovers.

[gumboots]

People in Wilpshire might be trying to send their kids to schools in the Ribble Valley, or more pertinently, avoid sending them to schools in Blackburn (I wonder why...),

I too wonder why, because our school is very good.