It’s just a fact. There will be around 12,000 Rovers fans there, as usual. If you think £27-£31 for a ticket in the Blackburn End or Jack Walker (£30-£34 on the day) is in any way sensible for a mid table second division match then fair enough, but it’s a ridiculous price from where I’m standing. The club is only interested in filling the Darwen End at top prices, not trying to encourage a big derby crowd and atmosphere that could encourage our fans to return.

Rotherham, Wigan and Ipswich would love to feel that apathy.

Things will not get any better. The 'happy clappers' will trot out: Let's see what he does in the summer window Let's see where we are in Oct / Nov I think the writing is on the wall and, as far as I am concerned, has been for some considerable time. Mowbray failed to keep us up, brought us back but, IMO, we are now in sharp regression. Time to move on with a hungry and innovative new man.

Dear god, give it a rest. We know what you think about TM. Repeating every 30 minutes must be part of your therapy.

In the season we went down under Coyle/Mowbray we conceded 65 goals. This season we've already conceded 52 goals and there are still 12 games left.

Seem to recall Mowbray saying on Thursday night that there would be some games where the new hard bastard of a centre half would 'sit out for Lenihan and Mulgrew' on the basis of horses for courses. Could you imagine Shankly or Wenger saying to Ron Yeats / Tony Adams respectively 'this game isn't for you son' !

He wouldn't.

Should have ponied up the 100k or whatever it would have taken in January. And it would be Mulgrew I would be sitting.

That defence is a job loser, some advice he'd better heed before the start of next season as if we are struggling by October.......... Ditch the 'we'll manage' attitude and actually manage by upgrading some of the favs especially when there is a bit of money available. No amount of luxury signings who might come good in a few years or on loan from a huge club or telling fans what you think they want to hear will cover over the cracks that have been glaringly evident since we were last in the division for much longer. Wise up fella you've been in this game long enough.

He must have cost us 10 goals this season...but plays without question

Thats the key. Not a shred of empathy for anyone. I've seen reasons why it shouldn't be moved to 12, but none as to why it should be.

Chaddy the clue is in it help some to pay the bills. loose money not working and loose money paying for tickets. yes its been known what the kick off time has been known for some time. but real life comes first for some people not football.

Highlights from the u-18s 2-2 draw if you can stand to give Manure any web traffic: https://www.manutd.com/en/videos/detail/under-18s-highlights-blackburn-rovers-2-man-united-2-23-february-2019

Not in my book !!

First 20 minutes ‘unnaceptable’ - TM’s words before one of his apologists attack me. After arguably the worst half of TM’s reign and 4 defeats on the bounce, how on earth were they not fired up from the traps today? Very concerning.

Possibly a few points too far. Though it must be good to have a manager that still believes and their season should go into April at least

Decent point overall but could have been more

Remember how many seasons all we wanted was players to actually give a shit, a manager that wasn't a liar and some sort of pride/responsibility in representing Rovers. To quote Fatboy Slim: "we've come a long way baby!"

This won't be popular but I think Mulgrew is windy. He strikes me as someone who won't put their head in the way to save a goal. When you look at the likes of Moran, Hendry, Todd, Short and Samba, he doesn't have their bravery. I just wonder is he at the stage in his career where he thinks fuck it

It's a holiday camp at Brockhall I think. The players saying during the week that there were clear the air talks and then everything was back to normal. It's not good enough

And even the soldiers seem to have stopped fighting!

And not everyone can book it off. Some people think that life should revolve around Rovers as though that should be a factor for attendances. Anyone whose life revolves around Rovers is already attending - and that takes us to the high end of 11k fans. The club needs to stop messing fans about and charging ridiculous prices (relative to the economics of the fanbase) for the privilege.

Dont talk bollocks. Some people wont be able to attend all for a change that for all the guff coming out of the club is at the clubs request, for what reason exactly? And no, they wont be there regardless of the kick off time, you seemingly cannot fathom that some people arent as desperate to attend as you or I.

63 mins - Rovers pull one back , puliukatis? nice cut in from wing plays across box , Zimba scores 79 mins - Sam Durrant equalises F-T 2-2

Once again, from my perspective you are wrong and Tony is right. It takes time to “nurture” improvement. In his time, the squad is better, the individuals are better, the recruitment is better, the atmosphere is better and overall so far the results have been as good as we’ve had since Big Sam. Particularly the home form. All the minimum expectations have been surpassed. The club from the outside seems to be better on every front you could list, and I think is disingenuous to dismiss the poor state he took over when considering the improvement overall. Things change quickly in football but I have a large amount of faith in Tony to carry on the good work, which for me has been a resounding success so far.

Can't find the numbers for last season but numbers for 2016/17 showed record attendances for football league (not Premier League) games since 1959 and is showing a small year on year growth. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4497292/English-Football-League-attendances-reach-58-year-high.html Edit : this one shows the average attendances of PL , Champ, L1 and L2 over the years https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/nav/attnengleague.htm

Getting ready for when TM is sacked ..match day tickets are £5 (free before midday ) and the return of the so called missing 10000 fans ..not! (Cant fault the club for trying to move with the times though) Football as a "live " spectacle is a thing of the past now. We ve a generation of football fans that think a live game is one that's on tv. They ve no interest going to a ground to watch ..they ve no need to ..football on tv in the home ,pub ,tablet ..phone ..most important games can be picked up as a stream. That's live football. I look at the young adults sat around me and the majority of those were brought by their dads (and mums) as kids when football was less tv influenced and have now carried on either because of loyalty or habit. The next generation will be very thin on the ground. Football as a live event is dying out fullstop. Its like the cinema ..you can slash prices as much as you like ..deals etc but theres no real interest because what you want to watch is readily available elsewhere.

I've never known a set of fans who can find an excuse not to attend a football game. It's pathetic.

He explains why Rothwell isn't playing.

No team goes all season without having a shocking performance, I think we’ve had a few this season admittedly but compared to the Kean,Coyle,Berg and Appleton days we are basically Barcelona.. We don’t have the quality required too be challenging in This league, we got too 8th place and a few points off the playoffs at one point through being an organised team who runs themselves into the ground. We don’t have the quality in the squad too pull a result off when we aren’t on song. Last season we did, we played poor a lot of games but came away with 3 points.. Whenever we’ve played poorly this season we’ve paid the price. When you look at our squad a lot of work still needs too be done, that’s why I stressed the other day how massively important this summer is for us. Mowbray needs to be ruthless, players like Conway and Smallwood should not be anywhere near the first team next season, and are hopefully moved on and replaced well... We’ll see, nervous times ahead this summer..

Steele and Emnes' best moments in a Rovers' shirt combined into one:

The game showed us what we really know and have been saying pretty much all season. The exceptionally slow and poor start characterised lots of similar starts this season and surrendering another lead to a late goal (and a bloody poor one at that). The in between wasn't that bad as we got a foothold in the game and some of our players started to actually play. If this was a one off I could accept it but there simply has to be inherent weaknesses in some players for it to happen so often. It's an area that Mowbray has to address and in my opinion it can only be done through new players. I thought the draw was actually fair on both teams. Surprisingly Mowbray only made one change which we don't see too often. I really thought some Rovers fans were embarrassing today with their behaviour. Maybe I'm getting too old but throwing beer, abusive behaviour and fighting amongst themselves doesn't do our club any favours.

And a manager that signs some players in January.

Correct, I'm not a ST holder, and won't be bothering. Won't be paying £24 to sit in the riverside, so would have to be another stand at nearly £30, so no thank you. Newt to play for, playing crap football, with players who look like their ready for the summer, no thanks. Will spend my £30 on a night out. No live football isn't always for me Meadows.

and we got away with it because League One is pi$$ poor. I think even C o y l e would have got us up!

There's certainly been 5 that were 100% his fault and several where he's been a factor. If I could be bothered I might even have a look through the highlights and tally them up. But I can't be bothered, it's too painful.

It would have been the ideal time to make a change. I mean the pattern is we concede, so why not try and shut up shop?

Certainly not 10. 3 max, which is a lot

Didn't bother with any more subs.... Must have shrugged and been happy with it.

Considering how poor most of our team is at scoring goals, Mulgrew's set pieces are vital. 9 goals for the season now. Meanwhile Corry "new contract" Evans hasn't contributed a single goal or assist. Even Smallwood has one assist to his name.

Shite defender but unbelievable set pieces. A dilemma.

Yeah but them values. Cut him some slack, jack.

About what? If it's about us under Mowbray you'd better include the manager in that as he now seems to be agreeing with what I've been saying since the summer.

@bluebruce

Looking at them results there's been some massive fuck ups from winning positions or positions where we've been fortunate to be in. Swansea away we we're winning until we threw it away. Middlesbrough with ten men and we we're winning and threw it away. Leeds we lost when winning in the 91st minute, I don't even know how that's possible. Then there's Sheffield United, brentford and reading. All games we had more than a chance to win and should have if we had a ruthless streak. That's 17 extra points on top of what we have.

Big day today at the business end. Leeds v Bolton Norwich v Bristol City West Brom v Sheffield United Although I sympathise with the supporters of Bolton I hope we beat them 10-0 and they get whats coming to them. In our -15 pts season that Gartside and that other mug at Ipswich were the 2 biggest gobshites wanting heavy sanctions against us apart from the -15. Sure they wanted -25 as well as other embargoes. Nothing against the fans but the former now deceased chairman was a prick and for that I dislike them. When we went down there in 2004 their fans were good as gold after and we had a good booze with them on Bradshawgate. Funny how what goes around comes around. University of Bolton. You couldn't make it up. University ?? Like Huddersfield. These places arent fitting of Universities. Anyway looking forward to a good day on the sauce today. Not had a drink for 3 weeks so ready. 11 bells start. By your beds. Birmingham 1-2 Rovers. In TM you trust. Good luck.

Here is my gamble on this weekends team Raya Nyambe Mulgrew Rodwell Reed Bell Bennett Travis Dack Armstrong Graham Bennett and Reed could swap places

Seen it many times over the years, lets sell x player for mega money and reinvest in the squad, it never, ever works. Shearer, Duff, Bentley, Santa Cruz, Jones, Rhodes, when all these were sold for big money we became a poorer team the year after and struggled. For the club to progress we must keep Dack.