[Archived] Season Tickets 2012/13

[Stuart]

m1st

Whilst understanding your commitment over the years,will you come back if and when we are successful.If yes then does this not define fickle

It's got nothing to do with success, or lack of.

Haven't you been paying attention?

[Sandiway Blue]

Marmite

you do not dislike Marmite when it suits.once a supporter always a supporter.Suppose you will be in ASDA on Saturdays

Don't talk crap!

There are many fans who have supported Rovers over 20+ years (in my case 35 years) who aren't renewing.People protest in different ways.Personally I can't stomach handing over my hard earned cash to these idiots for them to waste it on running this club to the ground like they are doing.If you want to condone what's going on at Ewood,then fine,that's your prerogative.However don't come slating people who are taking a moral stand against these clowns.

[blondie]

Stuart

Paying attention .However whilst m1st feels like the fabric of the club has been destroyed ,lets not forget we are the fabric of the club.Boycott and you are matching Venkys incompetence and Keans arrogance.

[gumboots]

I heard the other day of a guy who has been going for 70 years and will not go again until Kean at the very least is gone. Are you going to call him fickle too?

[Tom]

I see it the way many others do, my circumstances are I have protested outside the ground (albeit a johnny come lately), protested in the ground, let my feelings known directly to the owners and the indian media, ranted on the internet and now I feel the only thing left to do is vote with my wallet and show I don't support the regime.

Frankly if that makes me less of a fan I don't care as I don't feel the need to justify myself or my level of support.

I also don't feel the need to spend money on something I don't agree with

[Mercer]

Handful being 5....£225 x 5 - you do the maths, but it aint £2k

Seems your 'cluelessness' continues.

Note where I sit sat and have another go

[blondie]

No i feel for everybody who has come to a decision not to renew.However if you sing ROVERS TIL I DIE mean it

[1864roverite]

You pay your money you have the choice.

Blondie, I take exception to yoy calling fans fickle. I have done 42 years of supporting Rovers but at this very time I have chosen not to venture to Ewood simply because of KEANSCUM. If he was half dcent football wise, tactic wise, common sense wise and didnt talk such utter diatribe then I would go on but believe me, he hasnt got a clue on how to set a team up. Case in point his woeful win ration, home record and goals conceded record. Believe me, watching his style of football is not good for your health. If you cjhoose to go and watch it and accept it good for you. You will soon realsie what other people are simply suggesting.

Being a Rovers fan is unique really. We are a small club that had been built on solid foundation however those foundations are no longer existant, its a fragile club compared to 2 years ago, it has no rudder and no spine and at thsi very point in time it is a club sinking fast because on inept decision making.

I cant stomach to see that fatheaded scrote on the sidelines yet along see his pug ugly puss in the media. That is what has turned me off Rovers and football in general. I love my club and will forever support Rovers, at this point in time though I dont feel I can simply hand over my cash to watch the shyte we have been servoed under KEANSCUMS reign. Its truly embarassing and like I said, its bad for your health.

So, like many others I abstain for now. The biggest worry for me is that as it stands Rovers are heading further down the leagues under this stewardship and its something I care not to witness.

I genuinely believe there is a much bigger picture to be painted about this current regime and I wait for the day that all good supporters prayers are answered.

KEANSCUM OUT

[Ewood Spark]

Here are a few of the reasons  I renewed:-

1) People keep on harping on about how 'this is not our Rovers any more' .... 'the cub has changed beyond recognition'. Well, during my 40 years of support there have been a couple of times when Rovers have undergone huge change.  This period is one of them. The other one was when they knocked the old Blackburn End terrace down and started to break the transfer record every Thursday! That period bore absolutely no resemblance to the previous twenty years I had 'endured'. Despite the 'change' I didn't walk away then ... and I won't now.

2) I take my two little lads to the matches. The older one is at primary school, and what I have noticed is that the football fans in his class are divided roughly into two groups. Those that attend football matches regularly are all Rovers fans ... the armchair fans all 'follow' the 'big' clubs. There don't appear to be any armchair Rovers fans. If kids don't get involved with their local club it's much easier to become a 'plastic'.

3) All eras come to an end. The Venky era will one day become history as did the Jack Walker era (almost certainly to be remembered for very different reasons). The torch must be kept burning until that time arrives. Another thing history teaches us is that once the attending habit is lost it is very difficult to revive it ... just ask some of those on here who gave up last season.

4) I predict that many of those who do not attend next season will become bitter towards the club and possibly develop a hatred of it. I met people like this in the 70's and 80's. People who felt they had been wronged during the 1960 Cup Final ticket fiasco had not attended Ewood since and seemed to revel in the clubs struggles in the lower divisions.

5) Non-attending will make diddly-squat difference to absentee owners. The money involved is minute compared to trading players .... But it will make a big difference to the local lads and lasses who staff the ticket office/ club shop. No trade = no jobs.

[blondie]

Forever suporting Rovers is going to games.Not going to games is fickle

[Mattyblue]

Well my Granddad has been going since the 1940s and is on the verge of not renewing, fickle me arse.

[gumboots]

But it will make a big difference to the local lads and lasses who staff the ticket office/ club shop. No trade = no jobs.

have said before that I don't think it will make on jot of difference to them - Venkys will probably sack half of them or not renew their contracts whether there are people at Ewood to look after or not. they sackwhoever they feel like sacking regardless of whether they need them or not. Your cash and mine will make no difference to that. And if they had sacked Kean at the end of the season we'd all have season tickets now and this wouldn't be an issue anyway. don't try to make others feel guilty - it's not us who will stop their employment - it's Venkys and their inability to run the club in an acceptable manner

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

And as Dave says I hope someone says something to me about going in and actually tries to stop me.

I'm going to put you into a Half Nelson outside the B/Burn End.

[Pitty]

I agree with blondie

[roverandout]

dont talk balls, i hate not being able to go, i wish i could renew my season ticket but i just cant bring myself to do so with these scumbags in charge and that vile man on the touchline, i cant get behind the lads like i would want to as i detest kean so much, not being there next season will hurt so much but its a choice based on my hatred for venkys and kean not rovers. (this is aimed at blondie)

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Forever suporting Rovers is going to games.Not going to games is fickle

Mind reprogramming for you tomorrow blondie..starts 12:00 pm prompt!!

I know you yourself are a long time supporter but lets face the facts...these imcompetents have done more damage to this club than any stay away protesting fans could possibly do...the Doughnuts in charge have put fan against fan as you can see.

'Fickle' long standing supporters are turning away in their droves Dave..they CANT all be wrong.

[gumboots]

Forever suporting Rovers is going to games.Not going to games is fickle

Forever supporting Rovers is doing what you think will bring about the end of Kean's reign asap and preferably that of Venkys too. Nobody knows what will actually make it happen so you do what you think suits you best - it's not not supporting to refuse to attend matches. That's what this blind loyalty seems to suggest, but it's just not true. I care. i care so much it hurts that i won't be there. I'm tempted with the offer being extended. But I know for me it would be a decision I'd regret the first moment i stepped into Ewood and saw him there.

[Mercer]

Not being funny but, in the main, all this 'Rovers till I die' business is crap.

Have heard so many songs sung in 50 years or so that we should have had capacity home gates for years and huge away followings. Just bravado, hypocrisy, as the Hull gate will prove.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and choice regarding renewals.

For me personally, struggling to remember a game I enjoyed since Kean took over and, to be honest, got to a stage where I was totally indifferent to our result. That is not how it should be.

It's simple, IMO, Venky's and Kean have destroyed our club as once was. Unfortunately, they are now our club. I personally despise Kean for everything he stands for and it would be madness and hypocrisy to support the club under those circumstances. Until Venky's AND Kean exit, not a penny more of mine will go into BRFC. That is purely my choice, however, I respect the right of every individual to make their own choice and to those who have renewed, I simply say, 'good luck'.

[Tom]

I like reading the responses in here and there is always a mix of well thought out arguments and total claptrap on both sides.

I just wish the people stating their opinion as the one true way would realise that there is no right answer in this situation and everyone is doing what they see to be right

There is no need for warring factions over it

[Roversboy1972]

I like reading the responses in here and there is always a mix of well thought out arguments and total claptrap on both sides.

I just wish the people stating their opinion as the one true way would realise that there is no right answer in this situation and everyone is doing what they see to be right

There is no need for warring factions over it

i had a season ticket for 25 yrs i dont think i will renew when you got a cockend as manger them that dont know anything about football waste of money there just in it for the money sorry you dont agree

[Rover_Shaun]

For me personally, struggling to remember a game I enjoyed since Kean took over and,

Despise Kean but I enjoyed the Liverpool 3-2 result in his first half season messup and the Swansea home game because it was the first time in 25 years of attending I had seen a player score 4

[Tom]

i had a season ticket for 25 yrs i dont think i will renew when you got a cockend as manger them that dont know anything about football waste of money there just in it for the money sorry you dont agree

I'm not renewing

[ABBEY]

I also don't feel the need to spend money on something I don't agree with

ARE YOU

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

The constant accusations and defence regarding whether or not those renewing are supporting Venkys is killing this messageboard.

In my opinion this debate is the only one worth having these days when it comes to Rovers. Every other Rovers-related topic involves discussing the details of a bunch of total lunatics formulating their insanity-riddled and inevitable doomed plans. "Hmm, who could Shabby Singh be talking about signing? What will Agnew bring to the role of general manager? Will Steve Kean evade his slander charges..."

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[Salgado Is A Hero]

(IMO) Renewing -

Positives:

- You get to watch Rovers play

- You get to shout abuse at Kean

- Every 4/5 weeks we will win a game

- It will help the local economy a bit

- Their might be less job losses

Negatives:

- You have to watch Rovers play

- Your money goes straight into the Raos (and Kean, Agnew and Anderson's) pocket

- Kean's bodyguard is on stadium duty and I don't think they will take to dissent too well

- We are absolutely terrible at football and we will be losing to the likes of Barnsley and Peterborough

- The stadium will be very empty indeed and won't look or feel too nice

- Protesting or shouting abuse will have basically no effect and as bad as it is the media will not mention it

- You have to look at Kean standing on the touchline looking mentally deficient

Not renewing -

Positives:

- As basically all other means have failed, a boycott is the only way you feel you can really protest

- You don't have to pay money to watch us get outplayed with relative ease

- Will save a lot of money in the long run / have more free time

- You don't have to look at Kean

- Realistically we are not a real football club anymore as nothing that is done is in the interest of the fans

- The less people there, the more Venky's might realise they are not wanted

- Kean etc will probably be laughing at those who have renewed

Negatives:

- Less people there might cause job losses

- As well as the local economy perhaps suffering

I will have forgotten a few. Not a season ticket holder myself so I never wanted to get involved in the discussion. The ones who have been going for years and don't want to break the habit due to the enjoyment they get on matchdays or whatever, I don't necessarily agree with but like I said I don't have a season ticket so can't really disagree with them. The ones who go so they can protest, shout abuse at Kean etc I don't understand as we have all realised that did nothing. But each to their own. People shouldn't try and take the moral high ground though regardless of what side their on as their is no right answer in this situation.