[Archived] Fans Meeting and Protest for Spurs Match confirmed

[glen9mullan]

Over the last week or so, Myself and the fellow organisors of the recent protest have been working hard on what we should do next following the ridiculas comments coming out of the club from both the Manager and the Clubs Owners.

What has now been planned and agreed is:

Thursday 20^th October 2011 19.30

An open fans meeting has been organised for supporters to openly discuss their worries about the clubs both short and long term future. This will be held at:

Uncle Jacks Public House

Lower Darwen

Blackburn

Lancashire

BB3 0PQ.

Sunday 23^rd October 2011 Meeting time 12.30pm

A protest March asking for the removal of Blackburn Rovers Manager Steve Kean is scheduled to take place. We wish to have the march set off around 14.15 and take the route down to Ewood Park following the one way system, Upon arrival at the ground we wish to circle the ground once as we did on the last March and don't foresee any problems as the Rovers supporters will be sitting in all four stands at Ewood Park, The numbers for the March are expected to be much larger than the previous March as more and more supporters have joined the Protest campaign

Brown Cow Inn

125 Livesey Branch Road

Blackburn

Lancashire

BB2 4LU

Sunday 23^rd October 2011 16.45

Following the match we plan to hold a sit-in protest, this will be in all stands of the ground and will be an extension of the fans determination to have their voice heard.

Blackburn Rovers FC

Ewood Park

Blackburn

BB2 4JF

All these motions are being strategically planned with peace and health & safety at the forefront. We have asked for both Police and club co-operation to ensure that all these events are carried out with no obstruction or prejudice.

Please support these motions and get word out everywhere to ensure maximum attendance, Post these details on all message boards you are members, All press comment boards, and speak with all who have no computer access.

I'm currently putting together a press release to ensure the media also put word out of what the fans next plan of action is.

This is your club, lets fight for it

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

I'll be there. Bit confused, where does this come into it:

Brown Cow Inn

125 Livesey Branch Road

Blackburn

Lancashire

BB2 4LU

Sunday 23rd October 2011 16.45

[LeChuck]

As much as I admire the determination to do something, it's clear Venky's will take the numbers attending as an exact proportion of fans who are against Kean.

So even if you get 2,000 fans attending, they'll still say it's less than 10% not backing him. I'm not sure it'll achieve much.

Have you considered generating some sort of petition at the ground? If you could get a few people around the main entrances before and after the game collecting signatures, I'm sure you could gets thousands of people to sign. This could then be forwarded to Venky's.

Perhaps that's not entirely practical, but it's worth trying to think of a way that you could generate the amount of numbers needed to counter Venky's idea that most supporters back Kean.

Good luck anyway though, I hope I'm completely wrong and it gets Kean the sack.

[glen9mullan]

I'll be there. Bit confused, where does this come into it:

Brown Cow Inn

125 Livesey Branch Road

Blackburn

Lancashire

BB2 4LU

Sunday 23rd October 2011 16.45

Brown cow venue for march,

And the time under is the sit in part

[philipl]

For those ever so serious nay sayers to the protest, here is a wonderfully irreverently seditious piece from this week's Economist. I have copied it in full below in case anyone has difficulty clicking through.

For Wall Street et al, read Steve Kean by the way....

Occupy Wall Street

Occupy yourself

Oct 4th 2011, 21:38 by W.W. | IOWA CITY

HERE's my two cents on the Occupy Wall Street protests: Woo!

Maybe that's one cent. Anyway, I am not by disposition a joiner, but I'm nevertheless inclined to smile upon attempts to stick it to the man, even if the attempt is quixotic or confused and the man in the end remains unstuck. The Burkean horror of social upheaval is fine in its place, but there is no apparent danger of upheaval. And who among us doubts that the man deserves a good sticking to? So why not try?

Set aside for a moment the question of the efficacy of protests and mass demonstrations as engines of social and political change. Isn't the efflorescence of spontaneous, meaningful community cheering in itself? Generally, I think it's a mistake to see phenomena like Occupy Wall Street or the tea-party movement as immediate inputs to reform. If one insists that this sort of thing must "make a difference" in order to justify one's support, it is possible to see protests, rallies, gatherings, be-ins and so forth—with or without intellectual or strategic cohesion—as investment in "social networking" and the inculcation of ideology and activist identity that may eventually pay dividends through conventional channels of reform. But that's boring, and life is too boring already, which brings me to my point. When life is both boring and lived within a matrix of maddening institutions, why not get together with thousands of like-minded folks, scream about it, screw up traffic, get arrested, whip one another into a frenzy of self-righteous indignation, spit on some people, provoke the jackboots, and maybe even wreck some stuff? Why is that not a good idea?

D.H. Lawrence, in one of his less sexy productions, had the right general idea:

A Sane Revolution

If you make a revolution, make it for fun,

don't make it in ghastly seriousness,

don't do it in deadly earnest,

do it for fun.

Don't do it because you hate people,

do it just to spit in their eye.

Don't do it for the money,

do it and be damned to the money.

Don't do it for equality,

do it because we've got too much equality

and it would be fun to upset the apple-cart

and see which way the apples would go a-rolling.

Don't do it for the working classes.

Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracies on our own

and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.

Don't do it, anyhow, for international Labour.

Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of.

Let's abolish labour, let's have done with labouring!

Work can be fun, and men can enjoy it; then it's not labour.

Let's have it so! Let's make a revolution for fun!

(Tip of the hat to Jim Henley.)

Or do do it for money, equality, the working classes, and international labour. Whatever. Do or don't make yourself useful, but don't waste life clucking at the internet and waiting around til "Parks and Recreation" comes on. Get out there and and stick it to the plutocrats. Stick it to the socialists. Stick it to the fall prime-time lineup. Stick it to not sticking it. Go ahead. Occupy Wall Street. Occupy yourself. Live a little. Woo!

[Mattyblue]

Problem is glen, any march will be batted away by Kean (and now the owners) as a minority.

That's why the in game chanting made such an impression. The sit in was an extension of it and rammed home the point.

I'll probably join the march but get ready for it to be undermined.

[tomphil]

Problem is glen, any march will be batted away by Kean (and now the owners) as a minority.

That's why the in game chanting made such an impression. The sit in was an extension of it and rammed home the point.

I'll probably join the march but get ready for it to be undermined.

The thing is this time unlike the Arsenal game he will most likely be getting it in the stadium as well, the pendulem has swung massively since that game.

[arbitro]

Problem is glen, any march will be batted away by Kean (and now the owners) as a minority.

That's why the in game chanting made such an impression. The sit in was an extension of it and rammed home the point.

I'll probably join the march but get ready for it to be undermined.

There's no reason why we can't do a march, protest during the game and sit in after. I really hope the fence sitters get involved in at least one of these.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke.

[rover23]

Instead of saying "we won't get many" just back it with your full support. The more the better. If you want Kean out. Be there.

[Ferrit]

I'll be there, as I was the last.

[clitheroerover]

As a third strand to all this how about having a complete boycott of the Carling Cup game against Newcastle. The attendance will be low anyway and it will not distract from the importance of maintaining our Premier League status.

The percentage game can then be used to the supporters benefit if Kean wants to play at that game

[Kamy100]

No problems with the protest as long as it is peaceful.

It is very important people keep doing this if they want Kean out. The PR think that by coming our with continued positive comments about Kean it will eventually break the will of the protesting fans. By protesting fans can show that they will not back down.

The dynamic of the situation has changed since Arsenal game, we had mass chanting for Kean out last Saturday, if Rovers lose to QPR, then Spurs game feelings will be running very high.

[thenonda]

As a third strand to all this how about having a complete boycott of the Carling Cup game against Newcastle. The attendance will be low anyway and it will not distract from the importance of maintaining our Premier League status.

The percentage game can then be used to the supporters benefit if Kean wants to play at that game

i think that is a great idea, one game boycott!

[glen9mullan]

As a third strand to all this how about having a complete boycott of the Carling Cup game against Newcastle. The attendance will be low anyway and it will not distract from the importance of maintaining our Premier League status.

The percentage game can then be used to the supporters benefit if Kean wants to play at that game

I have already boycotted that match, I'm not giving Venkys anymore cash than I have to

[bob fleming]

The PR think that by coming our with continued positive comments about Kean it will eventually break the will of the protesting fans.

How on earth do they work that out Kamy? If anything all it is doing is winding people up further? A bizarre move. Does Agnew, sorry, Venky's PR Team think the fans are just going to go away and accept all this nonsense??

[Mattyblue]

Agnew is on a power trip.

[Guest Rovers4Good]

Don't feel a protest before the game is the way forward but will support you no matter what.

My thoughts are that if and when we are playing badly or getting battered then let your thoughts be known.

After what Venkys came out with about Keans ability then they are not for budging and after a corus of booing then your only other option is a boycott as if there's no money in the pot then it will make these idiots sit up and listen.

[Kamy100]

How on earth do they work that out Kamy? If anything all it is doing is winding people up further? A bizarre move. Does Agnew, sorry, Venky's PR Team think the fans are just going to go away and accept all this nonsense??

He, sorry the PR team think that they can get most people off Kean's back by making it clear that there is no chance of Kean being sacked.

They are in for a shock!

[yoda]

He, sorry the PR team think that they can get most people off Kean's back by making it clear that there is no chance of Kean being sacked.

They are in for a shock!

Indian mentality

the boss is always right,

I knew the culture difference was/is going to be a problem

[AJW]

I still think we need a visual protest inside the ground whether it be white hankies or A4 sheets with 1% on or turning our backs on the game or whatever the point is the more people inside the ground showing annoyance with the currect situation the better and if te tv pictures pick up on it even better

i think we've also got to be mindful that the team still need our support , booing Kean or Kean out chants might make us feel better but the lads on the pitch still need our support

[Roost]

As a third strand to all this how about having a complete boycott of the Carling Cup game against Newcastle. The attendance will be low anyway and it will not distract from the importance of maintaining our Premier League status.

The percentage game can then be used to the supporters benefit if Kean wants to play at that game

This has to be the best possible idea - I agree with some form of action and am convinced that a boycott will have far and away the biggest impact.

[clitheroerover]

I still think we need a visual protest inside the ground whether it be white hankies or A4 sheets with 1% on or turning our backs on the game or whatever the point is the more people inside the ground showing annoyance with the currect situation the better and if te tv pictures pick up on it even better

i think we've also got to be mindful that the team still need our support , booing Kean or Kean out chants might make us feel better but the lads on the pitch still need our support

The most effective visual protest will be for no one to turn up at the Newcastle game. Empty seats will be very effective and will get the media attention

[SharrockDownSouth]

For Wall Street et al, read Steve Kean by the way.... "Occupy Wall Street"....

Occupy... Steve Kean... ? Ugh....

[AJW]

The most effective visual protest will be for no one to turn up at the Newcastle game. Empty seats will be very effective and will get the media attention

and how will that help the players on the pitch?

the green and gold campaign got loads of attention at Utd , they didnt get rid of the Glazers but everyone knew what it meant and why they were doing it , them Utd fans never stayed away just gave a huge V sign to the board that everyone saw whilst still supporting their players

[G Somerset Rover]

Obviously it won't have the same effect as a home match but is anybody planning anything for the QPR game?