[Archived] Protests v Fulham

[technoprisoners]

  On 13/01/2012 at 16:22, Blue and White Army said:

Is the protest taking place outside the ground or on that scratty car park near the clubshop?

On the pavement across the road outside the club shop and on the main road at the traffic lights.

[Its time to go Steve]

  On 13/01/2012 at 16:12, MarkBRFC71 said:

Just driven (well crawled with traffic at this time!) past on Bolton Rd and there looked to be about 15 people. Couldn't see any banners but most had yellow & black scarves on. Guess more might turn up tonight but it's gonna be a cold one!

15? Well I see complete apathy has set in.

[gumboots]

  On 13/01/2012 at 08:36, thenodrog said:

Nobodies said he'll be at Ewood have they gumboots?

No they haven't but if he's not expected to be there why would the police use his name as a reason for the march needing to finish early? I suppose i put 2 and 2 together and made what seemed a logical 4

[EwoodDawn]

Did a stint between 3.40 ish and 4.40. At its height during that hour there were about 50 people. Numbers dwindled a bit as night fell but let's hope more will turn out after work. Met a couple of message boarders out there.

[Ossydave]

I agree with John Haworth to an extent, but I'm not in any way knocking the protesters for their efforts. If the owners were local, or even UK based then they wouldn't be able to avoid coverage of this protest. But will they get a full report on this in India, or will insiders at Ewood just sweep it under the carpet and tell them its just some silly people who aren't real supporters? I fear that's exactly what will happen. I've taken part in previous protests but concluded they are just falling on deaf ears, the only people taking note are police and stewards.

I hope to hell I am wrong and this protest gets the result we desperately want, fingers crossed and I applaud your efforts.

[EwoodDawn]

Cryptic message on facebook - "Section 12 lifted - march to begin at 1.45" I presume this means that any restrictions that the police wanted to impose re. the timings for tomorrow have been lifted?

[glen9mullan]

Quick update, people have been coming and going all day, around 40-50 people at ewood now, and more on route,

The section 12 was lifted after discussions I had with the Police at Ewood today, They had imposed a 13.15 set off time on the march's but this has now been relaxed and they will set off at 13.45

We also have 5000 leaflets for distrubution, which have been kindly paid for by supporters and some local companies

[Paul Mellelieu]

Good stuff Glen and good move with the leaflets.

[EwoodDawn]

  On 13/01/2012 at 18:37, Paul Mellelieu said:

Good stuff Glen and good move with the leaflets.

Picked up a leaflet today and the content is very good - facts & figures re. the debts, financial losses and Kean stats. Let's hope a few of the 'heads in the sand' folks read these and wake up.

P.S. The quotes from Kean at the end are a great way to finish off and leave the reader bluntly reminded of how inept our manager is.

[glen9mullan]

Mp Graham Jones has spent quite a bit of time on the 24 Hour protest, and has also made a financial pledge to the supporters cause, a big Thank You to Graham,

Its been fantastic to see so many new faces today, including a group of supporters who have come up from Leicestershire to show their support

Numbers are going up now its got evening and people have been dropping off free refreshments as the day has gone on, Massive community support and residents have also been out to pass on their support and offer free refreshments and hotpot supper as the evening progress's.

This kindness is what I love about some of our supporter base, I just hope more continue to come who have never joined in before, and make an extra effort to join the protest march's tomorrow.

[Hasta]

Can someone remind us of the paypal address to donate to ?

[Ewoodbhappy]

  On 13/01/2012 at 18:34, glen9mullan said:

Quick update, people have been coming and going all day, around 40-50 people at ewood now, and more on route,

The section 12 was lifted after discussions I had with the Police at Ewood today, They had imposed a 13.15 set off time on the march's but this has now been relaxed and they will set off at 13.45

We also have 5000 leaflets for distrubution, which have been kindly paid for by supporters and some local companies

Good news. Well done for efforts today, watched the TV coverage BBC, ITV you came across very well.

[glen9mullan]

  On 13/01/2012 at 19:51, Hasta said:

Can someone remind us of the paypal address to donate to ?

Stevekeanout@aol.co.uk

This is the one we have used for four months and will continue to use as people know it

[SharrockDownSouth]

Glen, is there a version of the flyer on the web somewhere?

[glen9mullan]

Credit to Darwen Roofing service whose van dropped off 10 bags of shopping for the 24 hour demonstration at Ewood,

[John]

The flyer is excellent, good work whoever created it.

[CarlRH]

  On 13/01/2012 at 20:24, glen9mullan said:

Credit to Darwen Roofing service whose van dropped off 10 bags of shopping for the 24 hour demonstration at Ewood,

Kin hell. great stuff.

[mattym]

Well done everyone who's at the protest, it's amazing how in one year a massive part of our lives has been utterly destroyed by people who took on something they simply knew nothing about, I pray to God that after the Venkys are long gone we can somehow get back what has been taken away from us and by that I mean !!

BLACKBURN ROVERS FOOTBALL CLUB 1875

Good luck to you tonight I know all your efforts will pay off to the benefit of all true rovers fans in the end

[mhead]

In some ways it does not matter what the owners think or get to know about this protest.

Its now all about us sticking together and proving how much we love OUR Club.

Well done guys. PayPal contribution next week for the Future of Blackburn Rovers. 137 and counting.

[glen9mullan]

Now 80-100 supporters at Ewood, the worlds media has picked up the story both BBC NW and Granada tonight done pieces, BBC North West in particular great piece from supporters point of view,

Every radio station I can think of has convered it, all the papers etc..... Loads of local business's have been down, a massive effort and still time for you to join in

[teddy]

me and my 11 son coming down 10.30. just asked him and he said " we should go down dad.its always been your club and its also now my club for life. i dont want it to die" after that i cant stay at home at a time like this,

[miqaayil]

  On 13/01/2012 at 21:13, glen9mullan said:

Now 80-100 supporters at Ewood, the worlds media has picked up the story both BBC NW and Granada tonight done pieces, BBC North West in particular great piece from supporters point of view,

Every radio station I can think of has convered it, all the papers etc..... Loads of local business's have been down, a massive effort and still time for you to join in

Superb effort , i was on "FANZONE" Yesterday alerting of protest and also of Anderson's interview .....Commented regarding "Dark Forces" we have a good asian community and one of our most loved player is TUGAY....

[Andy]

Just driven past the lads on my way home with my missus - looked to be plenty of people there in their yellow and blacks.

Gave them a few beeps and a wave as I drove up Livesey Branch Road

[Tom]

As I said earlier my views may differ about the effectiveness of this sort of thing but I can't question the motivation and drive to do it so good on them all.

[Paul Mellelieu]

Great effort. Supporting you from Manchester.