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  1. 1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

    It won’t be half empty. But generally yes it just shows how difficult it is to get a 20,000 crowd with only 9,000 ST holders.

    But to pretty much fill the Blackburn End lower and a giant stand like the Jack Walker (as well as far more in the Riverside than the standard one man and his dog) from such a low base will be a big success.

    Now if we had say 12,000 ST holders (like we bloody well should have) and then sold 7/8k walk ons all of a sudden the place is looking very well populated.

    Sell more STs, sell more STs, sell more STs is always the answer to the perennial crowd question at this club.

    Surely any new ST holders will be taken from within the regular walk up crowd so the overall total for a game like tomorrow would likely be the same. A higher ST base would certainly help for the regular midweek fixtures though.

  2. 1 hour ago, the original david brent said:

    I wonder if there is a contingency plan to open another part of the ground such as 1 half of darwen end lower or blackburn end upper? I guess the problem will be staffing and catering. 
    Sales have pleasingly picked up over the last couple of days. We don’t want a situation where there’s a real late surge and fans are turned away on the day.

    Won’t be necessary. There are still a reasonable number of seats available across the JW and BBE not to mention the half empty Riverside. Scary to think that even with £10 tickets the stadium will still be half empty and yet it’ll be considered it a decent turn out. Would be great to get up to 20k though.

  3. 13 minutes ago, Cherry Blue said:

    This season is all about financial stability and it stinks. High price ST, closure of BBNEND partly due to a out of his depth CEO, the mismanagement of Rothwell & Raya resulting in a crap transfer window that saw the embarrassing O'brien episode, arrival of unfit Ennis & signing of Leo. We have to put a 15 kid on the bench and field a wafer thin knackered first team that only suits attendances of 8,000.

    We have owners who don't know what they are doing so how long will this go on? Is the writing on the wall? January transfer window approaching but with no money this season will end towards the championship bottom with no investment for next season. 

    I’m not debating whether the club is being well run but don’t think there’s a need to bring Raya and Rothwell up given we’ve signed up our best players to new contracts recently. I’d also suggest the signing of Leo is hardly a stick to beat the current regime with.

  4. You will not see a more comprehensive defeat than that. Yes they’re better than us on paper but that doesn’t excuse the gulf in standards. I’ve never seen such a toothless display and the final scoreline flattered us. 

    Didn’t even think Southampton were spectacularly good. After the first 10 mins we absorbed most of their pressure in the first half relatively comfortably but kept throwing possession away on the rare occasions we had the ball. Can’t expect to invite pressure for 90 mins without posing a threat at the other end, and get anything.

    Brittain won’t sleep well tonight. Inexcusable given the circumstances today and overall squad situation. 

    Wahlstedt the only one to come out with any credit and he conceded four. Says it all. 

  5. 1 hour ago, alex l said:

    No of course not. But it's one thing your agent saying club x and y would pay x amount, and another where players from half a dozen or more prem clubs tell you that you could be on however many times more just for being in the development squad at the big clubs. 

    He’s in the U20s not U21s. I’m sure many will be on more money but very few will be getting the same game time as AW. Also he’s been in the England set up for a while yet has signed two new deals in the last 12  months. If his head was that easily turned, I think it would have happened by now (as it was with Phillips).

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  6. 5 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

    I think he gets away with it quite lightly to be honest.

    2 points adrift with 15 games to go when he was appointed, and got us out of the bottom 3 twice before allowing us to slip back in there and eventually go down.

    All we had to do was beat the mighty Burton Albion in his first game and match there results thereafter.

    Despite the high points total, he failed. He was bought in to keep us up, not to get us out of league one 18 months after appointed.

     

    Our midfield back then consisted of Hope Akpan, Liam Feeney and Danny Guthrie. Wes Brown was getting a game. TM didn’t keep us up but look at the tools (literally) he was working with.

    I’ve always thought overall he did a fairly decent job with us. The biggest criticism I have is significantly underachieving with the 20/21 team. He overstayed his welcome which soured things as well.

    The squad he left behind was vastly superior to the team he inherited despite limited investment in his last couple of years. Also don’t think it should be understated that his appointment enabled the first real period of (relative) stability since relegation from the PL which was desperately needed given the chaos beforehand.

     

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  7. 11 minutes ago, Neal said:

    This is not the total football Swansea of old. We're a much better side in my opinion. There are no gimme's in this league, typically in this league they could take something from us but based on what I've seen of them this season, we should be looking to build on our recent wins with a convincing 3 points. 

     

    I don't want to us to upset the 11 but If Hyam isn't available, I'd move Hill to CB, move JRC or Brittain to RB with Trav in midfield... Scotty doesn't convince me. 

    Our right hand side has been our biggest strength in recent games and no coincidence it’s come with Hill at RB, JRC central and Brittain further forward. Should maintain that arrangement as best we can. 

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  8. 22 minutes ago, M_B said:

    I've been saying for weeks that some of the criticism aimed at Pears was totally unrealistic, ludicrous even. 

    The way Wahlsted's mistake has been met with such support and empathy only proves that point. 

    Support and empathy?! He’s been criticised by virtually everyone. He’s made one bad mistake but overall has done fine since coming into the team. I also think Pears has been harshly treated by some fans, possibly down to the perception that he was initially only signed because of Mowbray’s connections.

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  9. 3 hours ago, 47er said:

    I read on here that we had 1300 or so fans there Saturday and I read somewhere else that the away end was sold out.

    If both are true did we only get an allocation of 1300 then?

    Seems odd. Away end wasn't full.

    We only had the top tier of the away stand and sold it out. Not massive numbers but interestingly I don’t think we sold the top tier out last year despite being in a far better league position and run of form.

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  10. Good win. QPR woeful and somehow worse than they were in the Spring. Not getting carried away but played some good stuff and the game was over with 30 mins to spare. Hill was impressive and linked up well with Brittain who did well in a more advanced role. Thought JRC had some really good moments too. 

    Keeping an open mind regarding the rest of the season. We’ve started the last two seasons well and faded badly so perhaps we might invert that trend and actually build towards a decent finish. Keeping Szmodics and Siggy fit will be key if we’re to do anything of note.

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  11. 9 hours ago, tomphil said:

    Why in hell were they expecting under 4k ?

    They are genuinely idiotic or just being extremely disrespectful with those bullshit generic replies Waggot is showing himself now as a liar of epic proportions.

    How many home fans were there last night? 4,600ish? Devils advocate - when we get such low crowds it’s hard to argue that more areas of the stadium should be open particularly when we’re trying to cut costs. Not saying I agree with the decision to close the BBE per se but it’s hardly like we were turning fans away for lack of seats yesterday.

     

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  12. 1 minute ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

    Time to stick a quid bet on West Brom winning the play offs.

    No idea how they got back up there but thats how it goes.

    Because it only takes a couple of wins to jump from 10th to 6th. No one can string a good series of results together. There is so little quality in this league below 1st and 2nd. The fact that we’re in 6th despite not winning since mid March says it all.

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  13. Feel sick. Our season is panning out like the Sheff Utd FA Cup game in slow motion. Horrific. 

    Id rather we fall out of the play offs with a string of heavy defeats than this. It’s torture. We’re not going to make it and we don’t deserve to with results like tonight.

    There can’t have been a weaker team to have occupied a play off spot for as long as we have over a season.

    Hard to tell which changes were tactical and which were enforced by injury. So many silly mistakes at the end to invite pressure. 

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  14. Embarrassed that we’re anywhere near the play offs. If by some miracle we end up in the top 6, the rest of the league should be ashamed. 

    No quality, no confidence and terrible decision making. No shots on target in the second half against a poor side with nothing to play for. Wrong team selection and took too long to change it. 

    Right now, I’d shake hands on 10th place and finish the season. 

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