Blackburn come under fire as ‘absolutely horrific’ tweet emerges

Blackburn come under fire as an ‘absolutely horrific’ tweet emerges following their side’s 7-0 defeat at home to Fulham on Wednesday night.

With fans watching within Ewood Park and back at home via Sky Sports, the game showed not just the class of a dominant Fulham, but the downfall of Blackburn, who have now spent nine seasons away from the top tier, and one season within that time (2017/18) was in League One.

The Rovers faithful’s disappointment this term has led to a decline in average attendance, with the number currently standing at 11,024.

Back in 1995/16, the season after they won the Premier Division, they were seeing crowds of 27,714 with Alan Shearer still with them at the time.

They currently sit 12th in the Championship table, 23 points from 16 played and two points from the playoffs and 12 ahead of the relegation zone.

But after the last three season saw them finish 15th, 11th and 15th, fans are losing patience and want to see them challenging for the promotion places instead of a team that continuously sit mid-table, and after Wednesday’s performance, it’s no wonder fans are feelings frustrated.

Blackburn Rovers tweeted after the game: “Thanks to the 9,326 supporters that stuck by us tonight. We will do all that we can to put things right on Saturday.”

That figure is their second lowest of the season (first being a 2-1 home win against Hull), and some reckon those who attendance should get a refund.

WHAT MANAGERS SAID POST-MATCH

Blackburn’s Tony Mowbray: “The first two were very poor to concede, I have to say. It’s been a long time I’ve seen us concede one like the second, a corner into the six-yard box, headed straight in. That just hasn’t happened to us for a long time. Listen, like I said, it’s not the time for me to sit here and pore over it. Generally, that is not the team you see when you support Blackburn Rovers. I think it’s the second time in the year we’ve lost by more than one.

“If it was a common theme that we were losing three, four, five on a regular basis, you’d see the soft underbelly of the team. But I don’t think that’s the case. This team deserves a little bit more credit but on a night like tonight, there’s no credit. We have to accept it. We have to put it behind us very quickly.”

Fulham’s Marco Silva: “We know we won’t win all the matches but I don’t want to see any steps back like last month, because the winning mentality, and consistency is everything we’re trying to achieve. We showed that. I told our players at half-time, we have to keep going. We scored two goals. Started the game really well, efficiently. Had two chances and scored two goals. Very first moment, our first goal. Second goal, one moment that we prepared was to exploit that spot in the box, and we did fantastically.

“After the red card, against 10 players, we were really serious. I told our players that we have to keep the winning mentality and what we did in the second half means that. Scoring more goals, respecting them of course. But the best way to respect them, ourselves and our fans is to keep doing this to good teams. We have a lot of confidence in ourselves.”

Blackburn come under fire as an ‘absolutely horrific’ tweet emerges, see what is being said below…

You think this can just be swept under the rug? Jeez…..

— Alex Lomax (@AlexLomax11) November 3, 2021

@Ossyref: You’re very welcome. Stayed for the whole game. Think we deserve some kind of compo for that

@LScotty2706: Christ depressing. We need a new energy around the club.

@xcarlaax: Think you need to give us some free pints on Saturday cause I’m gonna need a keg full of beer just to get over that 🥴

@DonEdiciones: Mowbray OUT. Please.

@fourstar12345: Crowds going down & down ! Mowbray killing this club along with Waggot.. 7-0 at home..

@HeyesJack: I don’t want to hear it.

@PeteDog13: The only way you can put this right is sacking the manager our heaviest home defeat in 146 years, it’s embarrassing and unacceptable

@RoversClitheroe: Absolutely horrific tweet.

@matt_cooper85: RTID but the club is so disconnected from the fans. We’ll never see big crowds again. There is zero value for money.

@a_wildthing: Any chance you can get the coach driver to park it in front of the goal this time?

@90azz: Look at that attendance. Says it all really. A club so disconnected from the fans.

@roversfan09: Should give them a refund for having to sit through that.

@GeeNelsss: Have you really tweeted this?

@MatthewGoddard: 9000 fans at a homegame with a capacity of 31K ? wtf

@Zaydthava1: You can start by getting rid of Mowbray

@jakerrey: Full refund needed after that sheyt!!! Spoilt a perfectly sound Wednesday evening, highlight was double Big Mac on way home after 60 mins

@Ant_Houghton: I’m sorry but no matter what the result is on Saturday can cover up and bullshit that result or put things right if you carry on with unsackable managers then they will be hardly any fans left!

@Paddyfletcher4: Embarrassing result no wonder attendances are so bad we need a new manager with fresh ideas everyone is jus fed up with the same old shit being spoke over and over its about time the owners showed some balls and change it up

@jay_brfc: On Sky or not, that is absolutely piss poor.

@sarah_allsop: Rovers admin tweets…then quickly logs off

@WrestlingRhys97: I last had a season ticket to follow you guys 3 years ago. Guess am glad am not missing much now. Especially after tonight. Embarrassing

@JordBurrowss: Think you’re going to see the attendances continue to dwindle until you adress the absolutely enormous elephant in the room. Enough is enough. It’s time to fucking go.