Mattyblue

People forget just how successful Everton were. Their fans rue the day Shankly got hold of their rivals.

No rush. Takes a while to get up to speed with the sideways passing moves. Aim for giving him a start after the international break.

Of course, no red flags there and at least a load got satisfaction in waving inflatables in his general direction.

I was just about to post something similar. When non-Rovers fans now come to speak to me at work or wherever, ‘poor result at the weekend’ etc, I just cannot summon the enthusiasm to even discuss it - whereas even a year ago I’d be ranting away.

’We had crap gates in 1986 too’ ’*insert any other club name here* is a bigger club’ ‘*insert any other club name here* is from a bigger/richer town than Blackburn’

Lowest away following for many a year coming, you’d expect.

‘It’s a season of transition’ is Venky-poligist bingo up there with ‘’oo else is gonna buy us?’, ‘twenty million’… and the old classic ‘they were badly advised’.

Exactly right. How many years of this and folk are still coming out with ‘why’s he not been sacked?’ ‘Why’s he still playing him in that position?’ ‘Why so many young lads on the bench?’ Because winning matches, I.e the whole point of professional football, is not the point here.

‘You suggest someone then’ is such a pathetic comeback, what you’d expect from a ten year old.

End of the day we either carry on with this slow, but ever continuing, slide into the lower divisions (with a rotted infrastructure to match) or we get a new owner, who, yes, may be Chansari-esque, or they may grab this club by its bootstraps and give it a go. This isn’t 2010, the game has grown exponentially since and potential owners are falling over themselves to get involved (particularly for Championship clubs - so of course this lot are doing all they can to torpedo that sweet spot in the football pyramid). *obviously it’s all moot as they’ve no intention of selling and it’s scenario 1.

If anything sums up modern football.

Yes, merging with the Dingles is the answer, not getting rid of these owners, who are now seemingly benevolent ones we should doff our caps to. ‘Eeees better, eeees cheaper’, indeed.

Come on now, he’s even been translating Hungarian, tough language that.

We have a very odd fanbase when it comes to belittling the status of Blackburn Rovers. I think it’s largely through circumstance, i.e a lot of the fans that were around in the 70s/80s see us as small time as the club was often hand to mouth, of course, those that only remember Venky’s and their downsizing also see us as small time. Ergo it’s Jack’s/the Walkers club that is the aberration, not that Jack built a club to be bigger than the 70s/80s, just like football now is across the country. Nobody else harks back to ‘well, we had crap gates in the 80s too, that’s our level’… so did fecking everybody! The game was on it’s arse.

Why shouldn’t fans of a club that has spent most of the last decade *one* division below the Premier League have at least an ambition to have a go at getting into it? That’s kind of the point of professional football, no?