[Archived] Next protest

[BuckyRover]

That's great news.

Well done

[Wendal]

Excellent news, good to see flexibility and a swift response.

[SAS]

Wise call Mark.

[BRFCBOY]

Great decision, now let's hope the players respond with three points

[Silittl]

Ok decision needed tonight we have two options that we are left with for the Newcastle game. 

1) Prematch March from Brown Cow and ceasing at Jack Walker Statue.

2) Static Protest at Jack Walker Statue prior to game.

Majority Rules!

Both options have there issues and safety concerns. However given everyones previous conduct we are prepared to go with either.

I know there are other options but we need to embrace the ones the majority support and these are the two.

Your Choice Guy and Girls vote away.

[Pete1981]

I think number 2 will attract more people

[St_Jimmy_77]

Hasn't Mark confirmed there'll be no boycott. Not sure if this is meant by point 2?

[Silittl]

Hasn't Mark confirmed there'll be no boycott. Not sure if this is meant by point 2?

There is no boycott as Mark has stated. No 2 is were we will all gather at Jack Walkers staue prior to the game and at a fixed time before the match starts we will disperse and go and support the team.

[roverwhelmed]

A march from the Brown Cow to the statue.

[Tom]

I think 2 has more potential to go wrong and attract negative attention.

Static is good but jacks statue for me would be off limits

[Silittl]

I think 2 has more potential to go wrong and attract negative attention.

Static is good but jacks statue for me would be off limits

Tom The statue is a reference point ideally we'd take it closer to Players entrance. Though given the impeccabe behaviour at other organised Marches/Static protests I would be very confident it would be respected. However i do take on board your concerns.

[Al]

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

Don't try to be smart. You know damned well that the protests have been much more than that. That remark is insulting to the work that the protesters have done and you know it is absolute rubbish.

What in your opinion brought this to the attention of the Economic Times if it was not the publicity brought about by the protests? That post was grasping at straws.

[Tom]

The problem you have si is it only takes one or two and it brandishes everyone including all the folk that have acted perfectly since the start

[EwoodDawn]

I'd prefer the march.

[Al]

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.

We all have one of those. I sit on the end of a row and have to let the bugger past four times every match. It takes him ages to shuffle along the row blocking peoples view all the way.

[St_Jimmy_77]

Fair enough Simon, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Roost]

Good decision

[thenodrog]

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.

Good strategy to try and channel all protests through one outlet mark. Stops the shotgun effect and helps target the protests more effectively.

btw

Wear Pakistani cricket shirts aka Peter Kay. Should be plenty of cheap imitations avaialble along Whalley Range. A ground full of them would be well funny.

[Hughesy]

Whichever - aslong as it doesnt continue in the ground.

[Exiled in Toronto]

What in your opinion brought this to the attention of the Economic Times if it was not the publicity brought about by the protests?

I suspect it was the herculean efforts of 2 professional journalists in Kamy and Sportingintelligence to keep knocking on the door of the the Economic Times with a basically ready-to-print, multi-facted story covering everything from finance, (mis)management, plummeting league position, broken promises, leaked letter from ex-board and yes, fan dissatisfaction. I think that is more likely than the leading financial newspaper in a country thousands of miles away monitoring protests in a small, Northern English town and then taking the initiative to investigate.

[trs]

Up to present day, the only hint of any trouble was on the very first march when an elderly gentleman (anti protester) had to be restrained by Police.

I actually feared for his health when seeing him so irate.

When I read or hear of People's doubts/worries on the possibility of trouble from the protesters I have to laugh.

If there has ever been a more peaceful March/protest ever in this country than the ones so far from us, then I would love to see it. :-)

Massive credit for attempting to make sure it happens this way has to go to Glen and Simon.

Personally, I'm with the likes of Abbey and Waggy on this. Let's take to the pitch.....Probably just a seventies thing:-)

[SAS]

March again IMO.

Static protest is open to abuse.

[Hasta]

I suspect it was the herculean efforts of 2 professional journalists in Kamy and Sportingintelligence to keep knocking on the door of the the Economic Times with a basically ready-to-print, multi-facted story covering everything from finance, (mis)management, plummeting league position, broken promises, leaked letter from ex-board and yes, fan dissatisfaction. I think that is more likely than the leading financial newspaper in a country thousands of miles away monitoring protests in a small, Northern English town and then taking the initiative to investigate.

I disagree.

I would say that the things I have highlighted in bold possibly only came about because of the intensity of the protests. The things I have highlighted in red have possibly only been highlighted to the general public and possibly the outside media because of the protests.

As people often say, no-one cares about Rovers outside of Blackburn (not individually obviously). Why are we featured in the papers and on SSN so much now. Why is JA and SK going on TV to defend themselves. It's because the protests are keeping it newsworthy. The Economic Times article is just a knock on from this. No protests - no article.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

A simple explaination of your perspective would have sufficed without the insult thanks

He can't. We have a 14 year old at home who behaves with more respect.

[yoda]

Exiled in Toronto, on 24 January 2012 - 20:09 PM, said:I suspect it was the herculean efforts of 2 professional journalists in Kamy and Sportingintelligence to keep knocking on the door of the the Economic Times with a basically ready-to-print, multi-facted story covering everything from finance, (mis)management, plummeting league position, broken promises, leaked letter from ex-board and yes, fan dissatisfaction. I think that is more likely than the leading financial newspaper in a country thousands of miles away monitoring protests in a small, Northern English town and then taking the initiative to investigate.

I disagree.

I would say that the things I have highlighted in bold possibly only came about because of the intensity of the protests. The things I have highlighted in red have possibly only been highlighted to the general public and possibly the outside media because of the protests.

As people often say, no-one cares about Rovers outside of Blackburn (not individually obviously). Why are we featured in the papers and on SSN so much now. Why is JA and SK going on TV to defend themselves. It's because the protests are keeping it newsworthy. The Economic Times article is just a knock on from this. No protests - no article.

damn, I thought my many emails to Indian newspapers was the reason!