Venky’s & Waggott Out Protest Ideas

[Upside Down]

Express yourself by blowing a whistle throughout the whole match.

If even a few hundred people did this it would cause absolute chaos and the game would be nigh on impossible to complete.

Disruption to matches is the only protest that will get enough attention on the owners. If you're not prepared to do that then stop going.

[glen9mullan]

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

This was my concern with the #expressyourself idea.

The fans need direction - a few chants and a 3/4 empty stadium does not make a protest. 

The rest of the work so far has been great, but tonight has fallen flat. 

We haven't called a protest yet,

The stadium was nearly empty,

However rovers brought lots of police,  stewards and even the RSPCA in at great expense, kind of going to the seaside and not realising the tides out.

There was a lot of organic chants and a hell of a lot of banners taken by stewards, before the game.

We need to to try and trust the process, this really is a game of cat and mouse and they are being absolutely hammered by the press.

I'd say supporters are about 10 nil up at present, which given we'd of got the home crowd in one stand tonight ain't a bad position to be in.

Every time they open the mouths they score an almighty own goal. Rudy Givesed interviews with SKY were Keanesque and delusional 

A few banners won't shift venkys and co. 

The reverse phycology is absolutely got these on egg shells.

My Intel from inside, tells me they've spent a lot of man hours this past week just trying to deal with surge.

I'm also reliably informed the Raos have gone bezerk.

They thought the club was engaged and working with the supporters in a inclusive manner 

They choked on onion baji when their names etc went global this pass week.

You don't need to break the law to win the mind games.

I'm happy we chose not to call a protest as the numbers would of aided the club's narrative, as at best there was 5500 home fans who attended tonight.

Being unpredictable will reap the fruits

[Neal]

The club is dead to me under these people. I cannot support it anymore. What is there left to support? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 

 

I heard they were stopping banners coming into the ground. Stewards mixed in with fans to stop protests which makes it even easier to just simply stay away folks. 

 

Walk away folks. Empty the ground. There's nothing left. 

 

Come back when they're gone. 

 

NOT A PENNY MORE.  

Edited 15 hours ago by Neal

[simongarnerisgod]

8 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

They choked on onion baji when their names etc went global this pass week.

🤣😂

[davulsukur]

19 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

We haven't called a protest yet,

The stadium was nearly empty,

However rovers brought lots of police,  stewards and even the RSPCA in at great expense, kind of going to the seaside and not realising the tides out.

There was a lot of organic chants and a hell of a lot of banners taken by stewards, before the game.

We need to to try and trust the process, this really is a game of cat and mouse and they are being absolutely hammered by the press.

I'd say supporters are about 10 nil up at present, which given we'd of got the home crowd in one stand tonight ain't a bad position to be in.

Every time they open the mouths they score an almighty own goal. Rudy Givesed interviews with SKY were Keanesque and delusional 

A few banners won't shift venkys and co. 

The reverse phycology is absolutely got these on egg shells.

My Intel from inside, tells me they've spent a lot of man hours this past week just trying to deal with surge.

I'm also reliably informed the Raos have gone bezerk.

They thought the club was engaged and working with the supporters in a inclusive manner 

They choked on onion baji when their names etc went global this pass week.

You don't need to break the law to win the mind games.

I'm happy we chose not to call a protest as the numbers would of aided the club's narrative, as at best there was 5500 home fans who attended tonight.

Being unpredictable will reap the fruits

Getting the owners rattled? Now that's a job well done 👏 

[glen9mullan]

7 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Getting the owners rattled? Now that's a job well done 👏 

If wr are predictable we become weak,

We chucked them a bone they ate it, choked on it and we ain't left our living rooms yet on our action.

We went to the game tonight as per our statement to watch the match .

The club sent the cavalry in at great expense, but we moved camp last week. 

Strategy everything 

[Leonard Venkhater]

8 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

He is the only one ,we know about . Others maybe lurking in the shadows still .

Never assume with these corrupt people !

I remember a quote on here from a couple of years ago, which made me shudder.

"They are still here..."

[47er]

2 hours ago, BigHoz said:

3 month break will break all momentum,

 

Yes but in that 3 months interim many season tickets won't be renewed. That will be very significant I'd imagine.

[47er]

40 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

'm also reliably informed the Raos have gone bezerk.

They thought the club was engaged and working with the supporters in a inclusive manner 

A clear example of how disengaged they are from Ewood. They appoint non-entities, then believe what these stooges tell them!

They don't have the interest to even get a balanced account of what is happening.

What is the point of hanging on year after year?

[Peter]

The club just looks so desperate, derelict and forlorn.

 

The neglected, empty stadium.

The rag-tag pound shop squad, built on the sinking sands of loan agreements and contracts rarely renewed in time.

Then, to compound it all, the once fan favourite Gestede, popping up on the airwaves with his complacent, blinkered twaddle, completely at odds with the calamity unfurling before us. Anyone still here after all we’ve had to put up with since that fateful day in November 2010, can plainly only be so because they damned well care. How dare this prat insult the intelligence of diehards already suffocating under a landslide of 15 years of crap. 

 

Frankly, I’d rather wipe my arse with a hedgehog, than shell out another penny to this. Supporting the club over the past 15 years, one becomes accustomed to feeling as bruised as Stevie Wonder’s toes,  but looking up at the top executive seats increasingly grates. I wouldn’t send any of these chumps for a loaf, yet there they are - sat in the cocktail bar of the titanic - whilst we go under in steerage.

 

The Rao family are so phlegmatic at this juncture, that I’m sure results no longer register. This, along with their woefully inadequate delegates on Nuttall St, is a profoundly malign combination indeed. 

 

It’s all now got that sinking familiarity of when Lambert became miffed by the sclerosis of operations at the club. 12 months on we were bound for the third tier. Only this time, Eustace was cast in that role. At this moment - the club looks rudderless - and once more trouble and strife seem to be descending on Ewood like anthrax on open sores. 

[Ghost7]

1 hour ago, Neal said:

The club is dead to me under these people. I cannot support it anymore. What is there left to support? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 

 

I heard they were stopping banners coming into the ground. Stewards mixed in with fans to stop protests which makes it even easier to just simply stay away folks. 

 

Walk away folks. Empty the ground. There's nothing left. 

 

Come back when they're gone. 

 

NOT A PENNY MORE.  

 

I saw a very large professionally made Suhail Pasha out banner refused entry.

Let the fans have their say!

[NJRover]

1 hour ago, glen9mullan said:

We haven't called a protest yet,

The stadium was nearly empty,

However rovers brought lots of police,  stewards and even the RSPCA in at great expense, kind of going to the seaside and not realising the tides out.

There was a lot of organic chants and a hell of a lot of banners taken by stewards, before the game.

We need to to try and trust the process, this really is a game of cat and mouse and they are being absolutely hammered by the press.

I'd say supporters are about 10 nil up at present, which given we'd of got the home crowd in one stand tonight ain't a bad position to be in.

Every time they open the mouths they score an almighty own goal. Rudy Givesed interviews with SKY were Keanesque and delusional 

A few banners won't shift venkys and co. 

The reverse phycology is absolutely got these on egg shells.

My Intel from inside, tells me they've spent a lot of man hours this past week just trying to deal with surge.

I'm also reliably informed the Raos have gone bezerk.

They thought the club was engaged and working with the supporters in a inclusive manner 

They choked on onion baji when their names etc went global this pass week.

You don't need to break the law to win the mind games.

I'm happy we chose not to call a protest as the numbers would of aided the club's narrative, as at best there was 5500 home fans who attended tonight.

Being unpredictable will reap the fruits

I saw the pictures of the empty stands on twitter - tragic. 

[J*B]

Some thoughts:

1) NAPM/Do not attend isn’t a viable protest. Not enough will do it, the vocal majority are already doing it. There’s been fans surveyed and then response is “don’t tell us what we can’t do”. It will cause division and make us look weak.

2) Stopping games will work, but will need hundreds of people committed. Anything less and the fans that do commit are at risk of a criminal record. How committed are you? 

3) Any official protest needs someone to lead and be responsible for it. If something happens at that protest and all reasonable precautions where not taken, the organiser is partly responsible and stood up in court with their job, home and family on the line. Are you willing to have your name on the list as the organiser?

[Dreyski]

1 hour ago, 47er said:

A clear example of how disengaged they are from Ewood. They appoint non-entities, then believe what these stooges tell them!

They don't have the interest to even get a balanced account of what is happening.

What is the point of hanging on year after year?

This was my major takeaway as well.

If true, it means Waggot/Pasha/Gestede have been left to get on with things with no support & input from Pune. I'd almost have sympathy for them if they hadn't made the wrong decision at almost every opportunity.

[Aqualung]

How many Rovers fans turned up last night? On TV the home ends had tumbleweed blowing through them and I reckon there was less than 7000 blues there. 

The official attendance was over 15000 with 3200 odd Boro fans visiting.were most rovers fans watching TV on the concourse or what? 

There were nowhere near 15k on last night. Far from it. 

Sign of the times and folks are voting with their feet. Good on them. 

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, Aqualung said:

How many Rovers fans turned up last night? On TV the home ends had tumbleweed blowing through them and I reckon there was less than 7000 blues there. 

The official attendance was over 15000 with 3200 odd Boro fans visiting.were most rovers fans watching TV on the concourse or what? 

There were nowhere near 15k on last night. Far from it. 

Sign of the times and folks are voting with their feet. Good on them. 

They've always counted sold tickets as the actual attendance.

Also, fictitious ticket sales is a common money laundering tactic in football....

[Forever Blue]

3 hours ago, J*B said:

Some thoughts:

1) NAPM/Do not attend isn’t a viable protest. Not enough will do it, the vocal majority are already doing it. There’s been fans surveyed and then response is “don’t tell us what we can’t do”. It will cause division and make us look weak.

2) Stopping games will work, but will need hundreds of people committed. Anything less and the fans that do commit are at risk of a criminal record. How committed are you? 

3) Any official protest needs someone to lead and be responsible for it. If something happens at that protest and all reasonable precautions where not taken, the organiser is partly responsible and stood up in court with their job, home and family on the line. Are you willing to have your name on the list as the organiser?

Turning up makes us look weak. We’ve bent over and took it for 15 years. If nobody turns up there isn’t a club. It’s the only thing that will force them to sell. Turning up won’t do anything, they’ll just be here for another 15 years. 

 

[BlackburnEnd75]

27 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Turning up makes us look weak. We’ve bent over and took it for 15 years. If nobody turns up there isn’t a club. It’s the only thing that will force them to sell. Turning up won’t do anything, they’ll just be here for another 15 years. 

 

I can't in good conscience hand over any money at this point onwards. As by doing so I'm endorsing what they are doing. It tells them they can do as they please as people like me would still turn up and pay their money.

Suhail believes it a minority of fans, he'll soon realise it isn't if people stop buying season tickets.

I won't buy more tickets just to sing venkys out songs. 

That's why the remaining home games are important. We need to build momentum and harness the anger of the crowd.

The poor results and performances under ismael have the ability to turbo charge fan dissent as tbh that's the only thing some pay attention to.

I await the next phase. Really I believe that it should result with us trying to get the last home game of the season severely disrupted in some way.

[...]

Think that was my last game this season. Told the kids that and they were gutted but I can't keep paying for that. I won't do it. 

[Ferrit]

Sadly it feels like we are pissing in the wind, go and read the cesspit of LET rovers articles, the delusion of some of our own fan base makes my blood boil. These fucking “we need Venkies” “where would we be without them” clowns, my word it annoys me.

State of this:

”There are worst owners than Venkys CV. At least we have a club to support, do Reading ? Wednesday can not pay their wages, Plymouth reckon every Championship club . like them are losing 1m per week , every week. ? Action Group , made up of 14 year old kids, were embarrassing, and on National TV. Not a good time to be a Rovers fan.”

“Disgraceful from a sections of the Blackburn end tonight , they started with negative chants right from the kick off, the confidence in the players is shot and they needed lifting . I respect that supporters have the right to voice their opinion, but do it before the start, at half time and after the game has finished.”

“Agitation Group cost Rovers the game”

Edited 8 hours ago by Ferrit

[glen9mullan]

3 hours ago, Aqualung said:

How many Rovers fans turned up last night? On TV the home ends had tumbleweed blowing through them and I reckon there was less than 7000 blues there. 

The official attendance was over 15000 with 3200 odd Boro fans visiting.were most rovers fans watching TV on the concourse or what? 

There were nowhere near 15k on last night. Far from it. 

Sign of the times and folks are voting with their feet. Good on them. 

I'd say not more than 5000

[The1mattjansen]

What's going on at Ewood is clearly as disaster, and the current ownership make it almost untenable to continue to support the club.

But what is the perceived end goal of the campaigns to get rid of them?

Rovers are losing £20m/year consistently. The wage bill is 120% of turnover per most recent accounts. And Venky's are owed £140m from the club.

So at a bare minimum, there'd need to be someone out there willing to give Venky's at least the value of the clubs assets in returning for taking ownership of a business that's going to lose them £20m/year (else Venky's would be better off liquidating it).

Does such a person exist?

And then the reality is that the Venky's are unlikely to simply walk-away from their* £140m. So it's going to cost a good bit more than the asset value of the club.

I struggle to see a way out of this.

Edited 8 hours ago by The1mattjansen
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[rigger]

6 hours ago, 47er said:

Yes but in that 3 months interim many season tickets won't be renewed. That will be very significant I'd imagine.

I would say anyone buying a season ticket is a fool. Not for any political reasons, but simply because the product is not worth the money.

[Herbie6590]

6 hours ago, Ghost7 said:

 

I saw a very large professionally made Suhail Pasha out banner refused entry.

Let the fans have their say!

The thing with banners/flags is they can hide behind fire safety etc as a reason to refuse them. The Diaz Chile flag had to have certification for it to be allowed in.

The ideal would be to have a double sided flag…show the stewards one side (& the certification….) then turn it around 😁

Or mosaics…made up of individual cards…

[Waggy76]

7 minutes ago, The1mattjansen said:

What's going on at Ewood is clearly as disaster, and the current ownership make it almost untenable to continue to support the club.

But what is the perceived end goal of the campaigns to get rid of them?

Rovers are losing £20m/year consistently. The wage bill is 120% of turnover per most recent accounts. And Venky's are owed £140m from the club.

So at a bare minimum, there'd need to be someone out there willing to give Venky's at least the value of the clubs assets in returning for taking ownership of a business that's going to lose them £20m/year (else Venky's would be better off liquidating it).

Does such a person exist?

And then the reality is that the Venky's are unlikely to simply walk-away from their* £140m. So it's going to cost a good bit more than the asset value of the club.

I struggle to see a way out of this.

There is a reason why they have never tried to sell the club in the last 15 years.

Suspicion and rumour has surrounded the owners since day one. Yet have never actively put the club up for sale .

It is strange to say the least .

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark !!