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Sydney? At least we’d then have a good pair up front.

I'd give this post a hundred likes if I could. Makes no sense. I'm sure they'll offer him the same terms on a one-year deal at the most...would love for him to stay on, been a really solid player for us.

There’s absolutely no point in worrying about/analysing crowds during the season, as always, the dye was cast in the summer. If you just about scrape 9k STs (not even convinced we’ve sold that many as no final figure has been forthcoming in the FF minutes) then unless you are at the top of the league and thousands upon thousands of walk ons are turning up (for weekend matches largely anyway) then we have what we have when we are in 18th, which is a two thirds empty ground most weeks (more at night). If the club makes no effort in increasing the ST base and we are doing bugger all on the pitch, then this is us.

As iv'e said silent protests are pointless and just damage the club further there is nothing impressive about it and the victim mentality is nauseating now. I've long called for a single match protest to drive the message home this is what will happen if you don't start running the place properly. That never happens though it's just the slow demise that now provides excuses for manager and players as we are now seeing. And it provides more excuses for the cost cutters. They long gave up and trying to build this club up it's so much easier to go through a period of managed decline and end up in a situation that is cheap to run and requires easy low funding. That's where we are heading on all fronts and the only thing fans can do is either boycott properly to try and force a regime change or continue turning up in the usual numbers and try and help the team stay in this division. That isn't happening now.

All around the ground. They know mid weeks are shite why not coax people in with some sensible pricing

Nobody wants to come.

Nobody wants to sit there, proved that with the season ticket discount & them selling an extra 150 in the riverside

I disagree - 7k-8k fans turning up on a cold night to watch a club whose heart and soul has been dismantled over the past 12 years is really impressive. I'm surprised that many turned up. Absolutely back the players, but the club is rotten and there would have been riots at other clubs if they were managed like this.

Wasn't it £17 for adults bought online last night in the riverside ? They really need to do something similar in the Blackburn End because they've killed it.

We're just too easy to play against at home. It's like we don't have a midfield, it's one simple pass and the opposition are running at our defence. Defensively, it's like watching the team under JDT in his second season. Eustace had us so well set up and hard to beat, but now it's like knife through butter.

The turnouts or lack of them aren't helping anybody, come on 7-8k turning up it's pathetic. Yes we know all the issues but this is dire now if we want the team to win we have to give it all the help we can because by god it needs it. Back the team NOT the regime supporters are supposed to support other teams fans seem to manage it but here people are just staying away because we aren't winning. I'm talking about the 12k we usually get not the missing 10k from 2012. All that it will do is hasten the clubs demise because some of those in power are looking for any and every excuse to cut back even more. These are league 1 crowds and the least we can do is try and fight that off instead of contributing to it. Not meant to offend anyone but cold hard facts are sometimes harsh although non of this detracts from the poor efforts on the pitch at home which are inexcusable whether there is 5k or 25k there.

I think he's a poor manager but doing an OK job considering the backdrop of what he's got to work with. The fact we're not in the bottom 3 (yet!) is an achievement with this squad of players. If we got rid, who would come in? It would be someone cheap, desperate for a job, and possibly even inferior to VI. I think we will just have enough to stay up as we've got 5 of our best players missing at the moment and we seem to be able to sneak a win here and there. Sonny is absolutely key. Huge gaping holes in midfield without him. Such a top player.

We start games so slowly and have done since Ismael came in. First 5 minutes , opposition have a big chance, big save, corner, big chance. It seems this happens every match. Even in the games we won. Hull, Leicester, Preston this happens. Its got to be a mentality thing when they leave that changing room. You can get away with not forcing the tempo away from home but so impassive at Ewood gives us a mountain to climb to grow into games, coupled with rubbish players who cant pass 10 yards or win 2nd balls.

Probably by dropping the prices significantly

His home record (all competitions): Pl 15 W 3 D 3 L 9 F 18 A 25

They are huge, huge fixtures and in reality, we need to be getting 9 points from those (but we're more likely to get 1)

It’s the (continued) muddled thinking that’s perhaps the most bonkers aspect with those ‘running’ the club. We only gave Ribeiro a new deal, what, 6 months ago? He’s now seemingly not part of our plans whatsoever. He hardly set the new season on fire, but one suspects it’s wage related. We then give Cantwell the captaincy just prior to the first ball being kicked this season just a couple of months ago. Again, call me (and many others) ever suspicious, but he’s clearly being marked for the exit door. Pointing out the obvious but they make things up on a whim dependent on how they feel on a particular day. Working under this lot must be utter torture for the average sane person.

And just remember, the money they make/save by sidelining Cantwell and selling him in January is more important to the stooges than having the best side possible at a critical time of the season with us embroiled in a relegation battle. It's never been about the football. All about individuals and targets/bonuses.

What about Sweeney? At least there'd be a better supply of pies on the concourse.

In what respect should we pull our weight a bit more?I I think the answer is pretty much in the rest of your post but to apportion any blame towards the fans is feeding the narrative from the shysters who drove them away.

There is no excuse regarding the centre backs. We knew how injury prone they are yet didnt bother to replace Hyam anyway. Toth, Tronstad and Cantwell are unfortunate, Kargbo is no loss. The squad and starting 11 shouldnt look so weak still.

Its not another Paul Downing we need. Its not a young defender who had been nowhere near our first team that we need to recall. We need a couple of centre backs of the quality to come straight into the starting 11. We massively miss Hyam and Batth. We knew we would. Gestede has filled the squad full of players that are absolutely woeful from random leagues. De Neve, Henriksson, Gueye, Kargbo, Tavares etc. Even the more domestic ones, Gardner Hickman struggled for game time in League 1, it shows, McLoughlin couldnt nail down a regular centre back spot when at Hull, it shows. Miller is so poor on the ball. Its frightening that these players have been signed to kick start a supposed overhaul of the squad. Cheap, sub par crap.

I don't think we have any idea about what promises were made or not made during the job interviews. If Ismael was lied to he could have done like Tomasson and Eustace and jumped ship, but you could argue that he's being professional by staying at the club and trying to make the best of a bad situation while JDT and Eustace simply threw their toys out of their prams when things weren't going their way. How much would it have helped us if Ismael walked out on principle when they sold Hyam? I'm not defending the owners or Gestede, but they are who they are and need to be taken into account as such.

I'm quite fond of Ribeiro, perhaps not full quality but could atleast play some decent passes from the back. Him in the line up for many games then to be halted was when our left back problem arose

The other old chestnut is - who would get a better tune out of these players. Look at who we had missing yesterday, half the first team. Would this team have played so poorly ? Toth Alebiosu, Carter, McClouglin, Wharton, Hedges Tronstad, Cantwell, Taylor-Hickman Gudjohnsen, Ohashi There were players starting last night that in normal times wouldn’t even make the bench. Let’s have it right. 5 key players with bags of experience all missing.