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All this comes down to now is their arrogance. They don’t like being told what to do. They sold off our best players rather than put money in a bond that they objected to. Now the requirement for that bond is gone they have no inclination to improve our situation or reinvest any of those funds brought in back into the squad. lets be 100% clear, neither the Indian courts or FFP/P&S rules are preventing investment in Rovers - they just don’t want to.

Shit day. Shit anniversary celebrations. Shit line up. Shit pyrotechnics. Shit players. Shit performance. Shit manager. Shit attendance. Shit staff. Shit owners. Shit club for the last 15 years.

Here’s a little snippet from the programme. The usual amount of care and attention has gone into it I see. Absolute husk of a club.

Someone on Twitter is correct. No prizes for guessing which genius at Rovers made the decision to delay it til after Christmas.

The only people who deserve any boos on the day will be in the directors seats, corporate lounges and in bed in India.

Paul wrote a superb letter outlining the clubs unique achievements and importance to the game of football over the last 150 years. There had been hope/expectation that we would be actually making a big deal of celebrating our anniversary so inviting representatives from the above bodies as guests, or to open exhibitions etc seemed like a good idea.

You’ve definitely not misinterpreted. I’ve attended a total of 3 fans forum meetings. The first one saw Steve Waggott, Christina Haines and Lynsey Talbot sat amongst the supporters. At Suhail’s instruction an additional table was dragged over so him, Gestede, Yasir and others could sit at the head of the table, very separate from us mere mortals. The disconnect between Suhail and Waggott was evident, but the meeting was conducted professionally despite some robust discussion. The last 2 have seen the most senior member of Rovers staff lose his rag within the first few minutes and act in a bizarre and unprofessional manner. The issues with the minutes have been well debated on here, and I’m sure will be again. The entire tone has changed and blatant bare faced lies are being told by club officials. Aside from the fans forum meetings I’ve attended dozens of meetings at the club over recent years. From my perspective the culture is absolutely horrendous at the moment. Plenty of previously warm, engaging and competent staff are like frightened children. Everything has become combative and disingenuous. Worst of all there is a complete lack of accountability throughout. I get the feeling that any sign of contrition would be viewed as unacceptable weakness - which gives the impression of most people there being completely arrogant, which coupled with low levels of competence is a dangerous thing. It should be no surprise - it’s a top down thing. The owners are like that, and so are their staff.

It should be a 30,000 crowd. The fact it will be not much over half that just shows how much contempt our owners and their trusted employees have for us. We must mark the occasion by showing them how much we want rid of them.

Uwais Patel. Trustee of the Community Trust.

WATR have already met with the head of the regulators office. It won’t be a quick fix, but lots of what we said raised eyebrows and was very much of interest to them. It was definitely a very positive meeting.

Feel free to use this graphic anywhere you like. Plaster it on social media. Respond to all the clubs posts regarding the anniversary with it. It should hopefully be all over Ewood on the 8th

Watch this space!

We went for the hollow 15 to symbolise how we have become a husk of our former club.

Not sure where you’ve got your info from Carl, but I certainly wouldn’t agree.

I’m not sure anything was made up. Make a monumental fuckup, big backlash, quickly change plans, deny and pretend it never happened. That’s the Rovers way.