Venky’s & Waggott Out Protest Ideas

[Upside Down]

6 hours ago, Riverside pessimist said:

I am too at the point of walking away after 30 years of support. I am willing to get behind any form of protest. However, I believe only way now and the most hard hitting form in terms of media coverage and financial burden for Venky’s is fans on the pitch and stop the games, Friday night is the perfect opportunity. If Reading can muster a few hundred fans on the pitch why the fuck can’t we, Venky’s have been here over a decade. Surely there are 200-300 anti-Venky fans who would be prepared to go through with this. Meet up before the game, decide what minute and on. Protesting in the stands doesn’t work, outside the ground doesn’t work, so what else is left? Open letter from fans / local MP’s requesting the sale of the club. 

I agree 100% that there needs to be the very real threat in place that we will get matches abandoned.

This can be achieved without people risking criminal convictions though.

Whether we do it on Friday is debatable. It's difficult as the next manoeuvre has to be just right so that the club can't demonize and blame the fans for the team losing a match and missing out on the playoffs, even though anyone who has a working brain can see that the club themselves have once again deliberately sabotaged any chance of that ever happening.

They need to know that we will make life difficult for them and the easiest way for them to avoid this is selling up and fucking off.

[Exiled_Rover]

6 hours ago, Bethnal said:

It’s been a form of protest in the past but fans should be mindful that entering the pitch without permission can result in a criminal record and a lifetime ban. I would encourage anyone considering it to remember who the hierarchy at the club are and whether they’d seize on the opportunity to permanently remove fans they deem to be “undesirables” or “troublemakers.”

Bingo - the club would definitely push for prosecutions. 

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It's not really the time to be leaping to the defence of the Club and to be trying to shoot down any criticism quite so aggressively Chadster.

I wasn't defending the club about Forshaw, cos I didn't believe his Forshaw assumptions from the time he mentioned

1 hour ago, Ghost7 said:

So would you agree success starts with passionate and interested owners?

100% agreed. 

You need an owner or owners who want to own the club, run the club from Ewood Park/UK and understand how footballing world works and will appoint a CEO and board who understand the area/supporters base, how to run the club, price ST and match day tickets reasonable for the fan base considering a number of financial situations of people in local area, communicate to the Supporters and improve the commercial operations of the club. 

 

[lraC]

2 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

So you don't think he was asked to play forshaw in that first game? Lol

I was told that from a very reliable source and do believe it.

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@glen9mullanwhat is phase 2 out of interest? Inbox is open

[glen9mullan]

 

[lraC]

4 hours ago, davulsukur said:

I have no reason to doubt your info, as I have 0 inside track but the club is in the black, the CEO got a cushty payrise and we've added 2 new staff to the scouting team.

Can't see how we're not paying the players.

Even at our lowest the players still got paid (to my knowledge) can't see it changing now.

As soon as the players stop getting paid, that's when the authorities start looking (at last) and Venky's won't allow that. 

There are other people who have posted  on here today, who have been told about this. It isn’t 100% definite, but unlikely to have just been made up.

So far as being told to play certain players, I would like to put it out there that the current manager, was not appointed based on his record in his last 2 gigs and was certainly not good enough in those jobs to warrant the length of contract he got.

In my mind, it is therefore possible that he accepted that he would be told to play certain players and given what I was told about Forshaw, think this is more likely than him being chosen above all those other supposed applicants on his past achievements.

Edited Sunday at 21:07 by lraC
Typo

[Forever Blue]

7 minutes ago, lraC said:

There are other people who have posted  on here today, who have been told about this. It isn’t 100% definite, but unlikely to have just been made up.

So far as being told to play certain players, I would like to put it out there that the current manager, was not appointed based on his record in his last 2 gigs and was certainly not good enough in those jobs to warrant the length of contract he got.

In my mind, it is therefore possible that he accepted that he would be told to play certain players and given what I was told about Forshaw, think this is more likely than him being chosen above all those other supposed applicants on his past achievements.

There’s enough to hammer the club with without resorting to tittle-tattle that probably isn’t true. You’re playing right into their hands. 

Edited Sunday at 21:14 by Forever Blue

[rigger]

16 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

 

At least he won his pound bet.

[Waggy76]

2 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

There’s enough to hammer the club with without resorting to tittle-tattle that probably isn’t true. You’re playing right into their hands. 

There's history of interfering with team selection, with our wonderful owners! 

[lraC]

1 minute ago, Forever Blue said:

There’s enough to hammer the club with without resorting to tittle-tattle that probably isn’t true. You’re playing right into their hands. 

I’m not reacting to some tittle-tattle. I know and trust the person(s) who have heard this and think it is highly likely to be true. If you heard something like this from someone you trust, would you not post it? 
I have not stayed 100% as the person who it came from hasn’t. 

[Forever Blue]

2 minutes ago, lraC said:

I’m not reacting to some tittle-tattle. I know and trust the person(s) who have heard this and think it is highly likely to be true. If you heard something like this from someone you trust, would you not post it? 
I have not stayed 100% as the person who it came from hasn’t. 

So the person who told you doesn’t know if it’s true either? And why would you trusting that person make it true anyway? 
 

It’s just tittle-tattle. 

[lraC]

10 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

So the person who told you doesn’t know if it’s true either? And why would you trusting that person make it true anyway? 
 

It’s just tittle-tattle. 

I think my understanding of tittle- tattle and yours probably vary.

I would suggest it means rumors with no substance, which this isn’t. 

[Forever Blue]

6 minutes ago, lraC said:

I think my understanding of tittle- tattle and yours probably vary.

I would suggest it means rumors with no substance, which this isn’t. 

Thee is no substance. You’ve admitted there’s no substance. It’s probably your understanding of ‘substance’ that is the issue. 

[lraC]

8 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Thee is no substance. You’ve admitted there’s no substance. It’s probably your understanding of ‘substance’ that is the issue. 

Ok

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, lraC said:

I was told that from a very reliable source and do believe it.

Really? 

Buckley wasn't available and Tronstad just coming back from injury so who else was going to play there. 

[davulsukur]

45 minutes ago, lraC said:

There are other people who have posted  on here today, who have been told about this. It isn’t 100% definite, but unlikely to have just been made up.

So far as being told to play certain players, I would like to put it out there that the current manager, was not appointed based on his record in his last 2 gigs and was certainly not good enough in those jobs to warrant the length of contract he got.

In my mind, it is therefore possible that he accepted that he would be told to play certain players and given what I was told about Forshaw, think this is more likely than him being chosen above all those other supposed applicants on his past achievements.

Tbf, the players not getting paid would answer a lot of questions about the last 4 games!

[47er]

3 hours ago, MCMC1875 said:

The person with the username "Lord Of The Pies" is/was actually a Riverside season ticket holder and a semi-retired former sales executive for Scottish and Newcastle who washed up here when S&N took over Matthew Brown and lives in Walton Park near Bamber Bridge. 

He's worse than the Dingles on there!

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Come to the decision, I don't want us to get into the premier league this season. All I want is to stay in the championship with new owners. I want to go into the prem knowing we've got a squad with vision management with a game plan and owners that care. 

[Rovers1875_]

15 minutes ago, ... said:

Come to the decision, I don't want us to get into the premier league this season. All I want is to stay in the championship with new owners. I want to go into the prem knowing we've got a squad with vision management with a game plan and owners that care. 

Luckily for you we are nowhere near promotion anyway 

[47er]

14 minutes ago, ... said:

Come to the decision, I don't want us to get into the premier league this season.

I think your wish is certain to be fulfilled! 

[funny-old-game]

1 hour ago, glen9mullan said:

 

Glen. Do you think Venkys are now just using us to offset profits from their other businesses?

[steved]

We've been here before.  Some fans threatening to protest, but never enough to grab the headlines or, more importantly, affect the ownership, management or general running down of the club.  Last time I called for protests on here I was told it would put the club's future in jeopardy.  Some future!

I'm saddened by recent events, and the possibility of reaching the playoffs cruelly taken away by incompetent owners and management who have no real wish to see the club returned to the first tier of English football.  They know all too well that it would put the club back in the mainstream media spotlight and show, with glaring clarity, their failings and unsuitability to own and run a professional football club.  So I bet they're loving it right now.  Eustace gone, poor manager in, squad demoralised, absolutely no chance of being in the playoffs, let alone promoted.  Job done boys, roll on next season.

I didn't renew my season ticket last year and I certainly won't be doing it this time around.  I may go to a few home games if the weather is fair and I have nothing better to do.  But that's it.  

Such a shame.

 

[Polky]

@glen9mullan Are there any ideas to target the owners via the Indian media?

I imagine some Indian journalists will be wary to target them due to the size of the company and their power.

With the court case at the minute they’re hardly in the good books of the government. We could try and ruffle some feathers with a sustained press attack of the next couple of months.

Edited Sunday at 22:33 by Polky

[glen9mullan]

27 minutes ago, funny-old-game said:

Glen. Do you think Venkys are now just using us to offset profits from their other businesses?

No