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[gumboots]

Your insult belittling the sincere actions of approx 700 supporters is Ok then is it?

One thing that annoys me is that every time they show a protest on tv they show those who look to be aggressive males with their faces contorted because they are shouting at the moment the photo is taken. They don't show people like my husband and myself, Dawn, who when I met her on the 24 hour protest was there with her kids and was looking very smart, old people I've met protesting too, people who have supported the club for years and just want to have a club left to support. We are all there too and yet what people outside the protests see is a group of largely shaven headed young men. Now I'm not being judgmental myself here because I've also met many of those and they are not a threat to public order either but they are marching together in a group, something that scares your average public. Think the media should actually look at who is protesting, but of course they won't.

[Wendal]

we need to find the compromise between supporters where the protests can continue in an active manner which is not seen as 'disruptive to the team'

A 15 minute boycott will absolutely be disruptive to the team and general atmosphere around the ground.

As the fans of teams around us are uniting and making their grounds a fortress (in terms of atmosphere) we are organising 15 minute boycotts for some of the most crucial games in our modern history?

It doesn't sit well with me at all, particularly as results are just picking up, we should be looking to build on that.

Instead we're harming our own chances of survival through a ridiculous attention seeking boycott.

The protestors have always said they have the clubs best interests at heart and would never do anything to harm the team, this action is the polar opposite of everything they claim to stand for.

[SAS]

I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of families that took partvin the last protest.

[SAS]

I fully support the previous protests(having participated myself), but I disagree with a 15minute boycott. Too many players have come out saying hue damaging it is for them. The team deserve and need 110% support DURING the game.

Protest all you want before and after.

The media cannot jump on our backs for that.

[booth]

Your opinion of coure; mine is that a few dozen fans protesting on Bolton Road or a few hundred marching from a pub to a football ground isn't what makes the Economoc Times of India devote 4 pages to a story any more than it made Venky's sack Kean

No it isn't, it's all those fans sitting on their hands isn't it.

[booth]

Nope I can see it now, stupid dancing, special brew, poor enunciation and hair thats been pasted to the skull with a vat full of chip fat.

+1

Just for you two...

http://www.chelseafc.com/

[Mattyblue]

For me, the work that has been done on the Economic Times article is the biggest achievement to date.

Venky's do not give a feck about protests in the UK, bunch of proles waving placards, arriving late, marching and the rest of it (and I've done all of it myself) won't bother them in the slightest.

Go for the jugular in their own backyard again and again and again must be the strategy, surely? This doesn't mean if we scale back match day protests we have lost.

[Hasta]

For me, the work that has been done on the Economic Times article is the biggest achievement to date.

Venky's do not give a feck about protests in the UK, bunch of proles waving placards, arriving late, marching and the rest of it (and I've done all of it myself) won't bother them in the slightest.

Go for the jugular in their own backyard again and again and again must be the strategy, surely? This doesn't mean if we scale back match day protests we have lost.

I don't get this viewpoint.

IMO had the protests not kept the story live and current in the UK then happenings such as the JW letter being leaked, the Independent report and the Economic Times article may well have never happened.

[Mattyblue]

Don't disagree Hasta.

But you need to win the PR war as well.

Protesting whilst a game is on is going to get the protesters a load of grief, get some of our fans to turn on them- 'you lot are as bad as Venky's and do our cause harm with the wider public.

The 24 hour protest, marches and training ground protests have kept the momentum going, this boycott? Counter-productive.

Still, don't know why I'm babbling on, if the Action Group have decide that's what they are going to do, then that's that.

[OscarRaven]

Oscar and Hemel, whilst I appreciate that, being in Germany and Hemel Hempstead, you personally can't be around, if message boarders are worried about the 'type of people' that will be broadcast at the deadline day protest, they need to do something about it.

Your right and I was wrongly stereotyping the protesters, albeit based on personal observation of a large number of them. I know not all the protesters have hair and a desperate need to use clearasil. I'm guessing and making assumptions that may or may not be correct but I'd certainly be willing to have a wager with you.

Also just for the record I live in Germany but I am a Blackburn End season ticket holder and make most matches, its only a mere 550 miles. Looks like we all make incorrect assumptions at times doesn't it?

And you are correct this website is a fantastic proof that we have many eloquoent fans, but its also proof of the converse too!

Fiver?

[K-Hod]

Don't disagree Hasta.

But you need to win the PR war as well.

Protesting whilst a game is on is going to get the protesters a load of grief, get some of our fans to turn on them- 'you lot are as bad as Venky's and do our cause harm with the wider public.

The 24 hour protest, marches and training ground protests have kept the momentum going, this boycott? Counter-productive.

Still, don't know why I'm babbling on, if the Action Group have decide that's what they are going to do, then that's that.

Agree with this. I just can't agree with a 15 minute boycott I'm afraid, it's only going to serve to cause further division between fans, when ultimately we all want the same thing.

Before match protests fine.

[PAFELL]

I don't get this viewpoint.

IMO had the protests not kept the story live and current in the UK then happenings such as the JW letter being leaked, the Independent report and the Economic Times article may well have never happened.

Protests have to change as things change. There was.reason to start the protrdts at ewood.park. But the battle ground has now changed. It is in venkys.own backyard where things need.to be done. The article was good. But now needs to be built upon. Contact other media un India. Now one paper has done an article. Others would be willing to follow now. Venkys do not care about protests at ewood. As they are not there. They do not see or hear it. But in India, that hurts them.

[thenodrog]

A 15 minute boycott will absolutely be disruptive to the team and general atmosphere around the ground.

As the fans of teams around us are uniting and making their grounds a fortress (in terms of atmosphere) we are organising 15 minute boycotts for some of the most crucial games in our modern history?

It doesn't sit well with me at all, particularly as results are just picking up, we should be looking to build on that.

Instead we're harming our own chances of survival through a ridiculous attention seeking boycott.

The protestors have always said they have the clubs best interests at heart and would never do anything to harm the team, this action is the polar opposite of everything they claim to stand for.

Have sympathy with that given recent evidence that the players are showing more determination, however there wouldn't be protests of any sort if we were top half of the table would there?

[thenodrog]

I fully support the previous protests(having participated myself), but I disagree with a 15minute boycott. Too many players have come out saying hue damaging it is for them. The team deserve and need 110% support DURING the game.

Protest all you want before and after.

The media cannot jump on our backs for that.

Quite comical dicussion when considering that the Riverside have so many who have walked out and boycotted the last 10 mins for donkeys years! Nobody turns a hair anymore when those mindless numptys bugger off whatever the score or sitution do they?

Question is where tf do they go and why? I can only assume that I must be missing out on cheap beer or free sex... or both somewhere!

[thenodrog]

Your right and I was wrongly stereotyping the protesters, albeit based on personal observation of a large number of them.

If you were there then shame on you for not swelling their number. If people like you were less timid then a cross section of the Ewood support would be represented and the chavs would be outnumbered wouldn't they? Sod wringing your cap and giving ingratiating smiles to your betters in Pune ..... just think luddite!

Previous quotation from Edmund Burke again applies to you I suggest.

[HemelRover]

Just for you two...

http://www.chelseafc.com/

Nowt to do with the location of the team. Dont get me wrong, you get the same types outside the grounds of Stoke/Tottenham/Reading/Watford/Man City etc.

I think its just that it is a certain type of person who is happy to hang around the clubs training ground gates all day til god knows when at night hoping to get a glimpse of a new player through tinted windows.

Obviously, if it is an organsied protest then there will be a larger % of bright eyed, eloquent, handsome types.

[Plastic Head]

Quite comical dicussion when considering that the Riverside have so many who have walked out and boycotted the last 10 mins for donkeys years! Nobody turns a hair anymore when those mindless numptys bugger off whatever the score or sitution do they?

Question is where tf do they go and why? I can only assume that I must be missing out on cheap beer or free sex... or both somewhere!

We are getting in the queue for the half time beer at the next home match.

We have all learnt over many decades that good things rarely happen in the last ten minutes.

[thenodrog]

We are getting in the queue for the half time beer at the next home match.

We have all learnt over many decades that good things rarely happen in the last ten minutes.

Right so you are sat in your armchair watching the Rovers on live TV, we are away from home with 10 mins left and the match delicately poised with action heating up as both teams go all out for a crucial win.

Yet plastic it sounds like you are one of hundreds of supporters who must look at their watch, leap up (usually whilst play is in progress ) switch off the set and take the dog for a walk?

If you don't mind me saying imo that is well ###### weird behaviour that I have never ever come close to being able to fathom out!

[Mattyblue]

It's the fabled 'beat the traffic' routine gord.

Bloke on my row; comes late, goes down to the concourse before half time, gets back late and goes home early.

[thenodrog]

It's the fabled 'beat the traffic' routine gord.

Bloke on my row; comes late, goes down to the concourse before half time, gets back late and goes home early.

You need to be having a word with that bugger about manners and consideration.

[Ben-2000]

Quite comical dicussion when considering that the Riverside have so many who have walked out and boycotted the last 10 mins for donkeys years! Nobody turns a hair anymore when those mindless numptys bugger off whatever the score or sitution do they?

Question is where tf do they go and why? I can only assume that I must be missing out on cheap beer or free sex... or both somewhere!

By no means it that exclusive to the Riverside. It happens in all stands, it's just that in the other 3 you disappear down some steps rather than being in full view at the front!

...and before you make any presumtions i'm not a Riversider and I don't leave games early

[Roost]

im still mentally traumatised by trunceons

That's what happens when they don't use margarine............

[mark1875]

AMENDMENT TO PROTESTS - 01/01/12

When the BRFC action group releases it's protest plans across social network sites and various online Rovers forum sites' it is done so as a suggestion of what should be done for this round of protests. Never are the plans set in stone as 'telling' people what is to be done, public opinion is always gauged on these sites and forums before the plan's are made official and a press release is issued.

The suggestions given to us are always considered with the relevant authorities' inclusion, put forward for public opinion and only then set in stone as the official course of action. It is a process which we feel is needed to include everybody and research is required to take these opinions on board.

On this occasion the suggested idea of a '15 minute boycott' has seen a vast number of people show their feelings against it. This was anticipated, however it was an idea originally suggested by a group of people on a number of occasions, so a wider opinion was always going to be needed on it.

It is because of the overall opinion shown against this form of protesting that has brought about today's decision to remove the '15 minute boycott' from the protests against the owners of Blackburn Rovers on the 1st February v Newcastle.

The March is still being looked at with the relevant authorities to see what measures are needed for it to take place in a safe manner which is always the number one priority of the group.

Effective methods of protest are always being looked at, however suggestions from supporters are needed at the planning stage and if anybody does have any ideas to put forward then please do so. All ideas and suggestions are looked at, not just with the action group taken into consideration but the opinions of Blackburn Rovers supporter as a whole.

So to confirm that there will be NO planned boycott of the Newcastle match.

[Tom]

Good decision and good to know its always flexible

[EwoodDawn]

It took a bit of courage and good sense to come out with that, Mark. Good on you.