Blackburn fans groups have meet, with a meeting taking place this week, to determine the next steps in the proposals to attempt to force a meeting with the clubs owners Venky’s. With it decided some will head to India next year.
A proposal is being set up for Blackburn fans to protest against the clubs owners against Wolves next month in the Championship match being shown live on Sky Sports on 29th October.
This meeting, which was attended by more than 500 fans, has the Lancashire Telegraph reporting the plans with it suggested entrance into Ewood Park doesn’t take place until the 18th-minute with fans then encouraged to leave on 75-minutes with that representing the year Blackburn were formed, 1875.
BRFC Action Group is working with the Rovers Trust and Ewood Blues, who have proposed this idea with it backed by other organisations with Rovers Trust chairman Wayne Wild quoted, when talking about the Indian plans, as saying.
‘Our view is that we want to take this to India. Our view is that we have a delegation of people who together go out as a very professional set of people and offer to meet the owners in their own back yard. One target date we have got is January 15. England play India in a one day international in Pune. And we think it could give us a lot of exposure. Then we want a very sustained campaign after that.
‘We will set up a meeting and if they don`t turn up then the campaign continues and we continue that in India itself. It`s going to be expensive and we`re going to need a fighting fund to put that together.’
With Alan ‘Birdy’ Birkbeck adding of the Wolves plans next month.
‘As far as the protest is concerned I had the idea of getting as many people who have been stopping away to come back for the Wolves game. We go in, we stop in the concourse until 18 minutes, come upstairs and leave our seats on 75 minutes. I don`t want to boycott the club but I want them to see what it is like with a lot of people in the stadium and what it`s like with every seat empty. If that is what they want they are going the right way to get it.’
Further meetings are planned with the expectancy being this will take time to achieve the (hopeful) final aims with various other proposals raised.
These included seeking the FA ‘make fan representation on club board’s a legal requirement’ with match boycotts an option with an ‘advertising campaign in the Indian media against Venky’s ownership’ also a possibility.
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