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.

Yes I agree it will hurt the club and fans in the short term, but we are not talking short term anymore after 14 years of ‘ownership’. This is about the long-term future of the club. Blackburn Rovers will not prosper in any shape or form with Venky’s at the helm, lets face it the only direction the club is heading is down under this lot. This form of protest would create problems Venky’s do not want on top of their court battles. Maybe just maybe this could pile further pressure and cause then to consider an exit. As for criminal records, I would like to know many Reading fans were arrested. If thousands of fans stopped the match I hardly think arrests would be made on mass.

Seriously, what will it take for a few hundred to a thousand of us Rovers fans to arrange and invade the pitch to stop a game. If Reading could muster those numbers and willing participants last year, then why can’t we. This type of protest would shine the spotlight on Venky’s in the media, hit them in the pocket i.e. fines and potentially points deductions. I see no other option now for us supporters to make our feelings heard. The only way forward is without Venky’s.

I have been a long term reader of this forum, and I have always enjoyed reading people’s opinions on Rovers, without ever posting myself. After 30 years of supporting Rovers, I think I am at my lowest point, and there have been many lows over the past 12 years as you all know. I cannot stomach the thought of another 12 years under our current “owners”. As many have posted over the last couple of months, where do we go from here to rid ourselves of these people who have shamed and continue to shame this once proud and great football club. 12 years of mis-management, lies, and embarrassment. Does it make me any less of a fan to think rovers would be better off getting relegated in order to force a reaction in India? As we are only going to be in the exact same position or worse next season in the championship. The topic of protests. I admire those who organised the tennis ball protest against Newcastle albeit it was a small protest. What will it take for Rovers fans to invade the pitch in numbers like reading have done, hitting the club and owners in the pocket with abandoned matches. Through the Lancashire telegraph or other platforms, can an open letter to the owners be compiled requesting them to sell the football club as their position is untenable and beyond repair. This may have been tried in years gone by, and be nothing more than something the owners would simply overlook but at least it hammers home the fans feelings. Surely more pressure must be applied to the Football League for more stringent criteria to be put in place on owners. A founder member of the Football League being dragged through the mud, and technically being ran on the basis payments are approved by a court in India. I can live with the club not having much money to spend on players, but to be subjected to a constant cycle of crisis and incompetence at every level I cannot. At the very least we demand the club is ran professionally by people who care and have good intentions.