[Archived] Season tickets again!

[roverzee]

vile, poisonous rubbish.

Really not - if it is then let's hear your evidence?

[Stuart]

If you visionaries - let's call you super-duper-fans - were so knowledgeable back in the day, why didn't you shout a bit louder and protest a bit longer?

Because back then you scared everyone else off, shouted them down and said that they weren't real fans.

Makes me laugh though when people act as though no-one could see it coming. Yet we did see it coming, and it came. There is no happiness in saying that but you were wrong then and you are wrong now.

[gumboots]

Protesting has to be supported by a significant number of fans. Perhaps if more had jumped into bed with the protests, stayed and made their voices heard, someone somewhere might have had to listen. It was easy for everyone to dismiss when there weren't that many prepared to do anything. I don't hold with insults but it does seem that some even now think that if we all just turn up and applaud the team, all will be well. It won't.

[K-Hod]

I still don't buy this argument about numbers on protests. They don't give a f*** about what we think, and certainly didn't then either.

[gumboots]

I agree to so e extent but I was thinking more about media reporting and the fans of other clubs, and pressure from the authorities. It's harder to get away with things if the eyes of the football supporting crowd are on you. Someone eventually would have had to say " why are the normally passive rovers fans protesting so much?" It may not have made a difference but who knows. All ifs and buts and maybes now.

[roverzee]

Because back then you scared everyone else off, shouted them down and said that they weren't real fans.

What a load of absolute rubbish! Are you really saying that the visionary protesters were scared off by the silent majority!!?

The protests stopped because Shebby cuddled up to Mullan and Fish and told them to be quiet. End of story (and protests).

[roverandout]

What did u do roverzee while the club was being raped, you seem to talk a lot, maybe you're all mouth and no action

[roverzee]

What did u do roverzee while the club was being raped, you seem to talk a lot, maybe you're all mouth and no action

4641 posts plays 217 posts, and I talk a lot?

Believe it or not, there's a world outside of this messageboard where people buy tickets and watch football, and don't get their knickers all twisted about rumours and sh!t stirring internet nonsense.

Stuart posted last week calling such normal people ignorant. But if Preston Blue's source at the ticket office is correct, and ST sales are up on this time last year, then it's currently ignorants 1- internet whingers 0.

[gumboots]

As someone asked, how long had they been on sale at this stage last season? And I'm not sure Preston blue said they were actually up this year. He said they were about the same I think, or was that what someone else said?

[roverandout]

The woman in the ticket office could have been lying? Maybe they have been told to make out everything is hunky dory to make fans enquiring believe that sales are up to get more fans to renew/buy one, I know its a long shot. I just can't believe sales are up

[gumboots]

It was the girl in the ticket office who told me last year that a lot of people were saying bowyer had taken the team as far as he could so, whatever the official line, they don't usually lie

[Rover_Shaun]

Silent majority? The sht I was given for having the temerity to call for Keans head whilst the club stood back and took the pee is probably the main reason I spend my weekends elsewhere under this regime. I can still recall the shakes of anger I felt and it ain't nice. I am rarely slow to forgive but this is the exception.

I could come down to their level and say that the thought of them reaping what they sowed, watching GB bore them to death, warms my cockles but it doesn't because reasoned Rovers fans are suffering too like Gumboots and Parson.

[Mattyblue]

Indeed Shaun, I was given absolute dogs abuse by a lot of people around me when I said I had been on a march.

Until the Bolton game and that day's Telegaph front page- 'Time to Go Steve', you were a pariah in the stands for calling out for Voldermort's removal.

To be fair, post Bolton there was a road to Damascus conversion for many fans, however the abuse we received from the national media and then as a result, other club's fans, has seemingly knocked the stuffing out of the fanbase- as an example, has there ever been a single anti Bowyer chant?

[Rover_Shaun]

Whilst I have my reservations about GB he doesn't deserve any chants against him.

Your area may have become more enlightened at the Bolton game Matty but I received abuse during and after that game. One happy Riversider at the Norwich game even said it was my ilk who had relegated us. A wedding Spain came at the right time as I missed the Wigan game and the hassle that would have come with it.

[Mattyblue]

Not saying he deserves Kean-esque abuse in any way, hes's a good bloke doing his best. However, there is just a general meekness about Ewood which I believe can cause more harm than good.

I.e. lets pretend Venky's do take an interest and they asked Shaw/Bowyer or whoever

'Is there any discontent around the ground in the way the season turned out?'

They could truthfully say, 'no, not a murmur'.

[ABBEY]

Indeed Shaun, I was given absolute dogs abuse by a lot of people around me when I said I had been on a march.

Until the Bolton game and that day's Telegaph front page- 'Time to Go Steve', you were a pariah in the stands for calling out for Voldermort's removal.

To be fair, post Bolton there was a road to Damascus conversion for many fans, however the abuse we received from the national media and then as a result, other club's fans, has seemingly knocked the stuffing out of the fanbase- as an example, has there ever been a single anti Bowyer chant?

Said it before the @#/? we got was pathetic. I nearly ending up scrapping in the BBE on a few occasions over it and got shoved outside the players entrance by a girl whose bf then started verbals after I gave her some and I nearly got nicked for it .Pathetic.

[thenodrog]

Indeed Shaun, I was given absolute dogs abuse by a lot of people around me when I said I had been on a march.

Until the Bolton game and that day's Telegaph front page- 'Time to Go Steve', you were a pariah in the stands for calling out for Voldermort's removal.

To be fair, post Bolton there was a road to Damascus conversion for many fans, however the abuse we received from the national media and then as a result, other club's fans, has seemingly knocked the stuffing out of the fanbase- as an example, has there ever been a single anti Bowyer chant?

In fairness Bowyer has never had us below top third and until I'm informed otherwise I don't believe that he is 'on the rob' like that other little @#/? and his devious swindling mate.

The thing that frustrated me back then was that most of the supporters were judging SK solely on the teams performance and didn't appear to be able to see, want to see nor comprehend the scams that were obviously going on behind the scenes. And yet it was all being played out under our noses! People still wonder why I protested and why I couldn't bring myself to buy a ST for two seasons. Lest we forget..... http://www.brfcc.com/mb/index.php/topic/26002-michel-salgado/?p=1252311

[Gav]

It still completely baffles me why more fans didn't feel the need to protest, regardless of the perceived outcome. The club was being destroyed from within and yet regular fans thought doing nothing was the best course of action, sitting it out, playing the waiting game.....

One group of supporters, who once would have been leading the protests, thought it best to attack the protesters! That also baffles me, well actually it doesn't if I think about it, being No 1 fan means more than actually protecting the club clearly.

It's all very sad, fans won't fight for what's right, protecting the Walker legacy, I could go on, but it's over now, the rats won and we're left to pickup the pieces.

[thenodrog]

It's all very sad, fans won't fight for what's right, protecting the Walker legacy, I could go on, but it's over now, the rats won and we're left to pickup the pieces.

Venky's let it happen by their own inexperience and stupidity by persisting with the rats and like us they too are employed in picking up the pieces.

[Athlete]

It still completely baffles me why more fans didn't feel the need to protest, regardless of the perceived outcome. The club was being destroyed from within and yet regular fans thought doing nothing was the best course of action, sitting it out, playing the waiting game.....

One group of supporters, who once would have been leading the protests, thought it best to attack the protesters! That also baffles me, well actually it doesn't if I think about it, being No 1 fan means more than actually protecting the club clearly.

It's all very sad, fans won't fight for what's right, protecting the Walker legacy, I could go on, but it's over now, the rats won and we're left to pickup the pieces.

We'll be left to pick up the pieces in the not too distant future.

Maybe next summer

[roverandout]

In fairness Bowyer has never had us below top third and until I'm informed otherwise I don't believe that he is 'on the rob' like that other little @#/? and his devious swindling mate.

The thing that frustrated me back then was that most of the supporters were judging SK solely on the teams performance and didn't appear to be able to see, want to see nor comprehend the scams that were obviously going on behind the scenes. And yet it was all being played out under our noses! People still wonder why I protested and why I couldn't bring myself to buy a ST for two seasons. Lest we forget..... http://www.brfcc.com/mb/index.php/topic/26002-michel-salgado/?p=1252311

Looking at that, you forget about some of the posters that have come and gone, lechuck, philipl, was it kelbo who died a couple of years ago? What happened to Philip?

[thenodrog]

PhillipL's been back with a couple of posts recently. He did take some fearful stick though when he was plainly opposed to Venkys, Kean and Anderson and I don't think crossing swords with Nixon endeared him to the nickoteens on here either.

[Al]

PhillipL's been back with a couple of posts recently. He did take some fearful stick though when he was plainly opposed to Venkys, Kean and Anderson and I don't think crossing swords with Nixon endeared him to the nickoteens on here either.

Crossing swords with Nixon was the catalyst that made me respect philipl. No doubt which one wants Rovers to succeed.

[thenodrog]

Crossing swords with Nixon was the catalyst that made me respect philipl. No doubt which one wants Rovers to succeed.

Phillip wasn't alone. I had more than a few spats with Nixon and by association his army of nickoteens and assorted, star struck camp followers. Rev Blue too was the victim of some rough treatment on here for having the temerity to question Nixon's a. information and b. motives. Pretty sure there are more who were targetted similarly by the fat sweaty, red top rumour monger.

[J*B]

Can someone give Gordon some credit please to stop him posting on every single thread telling everybody he knows all.

If we could keep him occupied in one thread, it'll mean the rest of the forum can continue.