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The bubble will burst, on away wins sooner or later, if we don't start winning at home, we can wave goodbye to the Championship.

And therein lies the problem. Nobody cares down there about dwindling attendances or more importantly the reasons for them. They are tone deaf and are content to keep their heads in the sand and ignore the real issues as long as they keep their cushy number and inflated salaries. There are many reasons for our vanishing supporter base and the vast, vast majority can be laid at the door of the club, the way it's run from top to bottom. With another two midweek home games coming up I feel this whole debate will be regurgitated again when a few thousand are rattling around Ewood.

Or Bob....

An insult to the loyal Blackburn Rovers supporters, in their 150th anniversary year. They can't win in front of their home supporters, we must be close to the worst home record in the Championship. Hang your heads in shame.

Yes all roads lead back to the poor unambitionless handling of season tickets.

I think my points about it adding to the problems instead of fighting against them and playing into the hands of the excuse makes and cost cutters are very valid ones. I know i'm not alone on that outside the confines of this board but yes we know the root cause and they are reaping what they've sown. They'll never own up to it though it just provides more ammunition to blame the lack of crowds for further managed decline.

Floating fans and even a load of ST holders aren’t arsed about night games, red button has done them in. Same everywhere just amplified here due to having so few ST holders to start with in a big ground. Its a non-issue to me as there’s nothing that can change it in November.

Our midweek home games since relegation in 2012 have been low and dwindling even since then. And the home form this season has done absolutely nothing to address that. Everything that is wrong at Rovers leads back to the owners and their lackeys, not the fans whether they go or not. Clearly your opinion about the missing fans differs from mine but I was really surprised to see your original post and your criticism of them. It's rare I disagree with anything you post but in my view you are way off the mark here.

£18.75 to sit everywhere in the ground vs £17 in the worst facilities in the league

People attending just to be at the 150th anniversary game?

We seem to be good away so let’s hope that continues.

£18.75 v Derby and about 18750 home fans turn up, live tv stupid early kick off, added appeal of trying to put one over former manager. Weds night, no tv, on back of beating local gobshites and probably a seasons best performance, so called winnable game and thousands of tickets available at £17 on one stand, CHEAPER than the Derby game. About 8.5k actually turn up. Make it make sense please, somebody.

Sydney? We could do with 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.