Really. All the players and staff had to pay for tickets for last seasons pre season matches.

Are you sure Travis didn’t kick off regarding having to pay for 13 tickets for the friendly against Liverpool and therefore queried his pitch until Christmas?

TM told us all that this summer we were going to kick on. Early August should tell us whether we have or not. COYB

Course it does. why not just let him cart on?

Does it matter?

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

Summertime Blues - The Who

Primary?

Listening to Mowbray; it's clear that it's the buying, polishing and then selling players for a profit that's the focus and priority and not building a team for promotion. If promotion came as a consequence then I feel they'd see that as a bonus. I don't get any feeling whatsoever that Mowbray's going to return from India with a war chest and promotion being the primary aim.

Guy Mitchell - Singing the blues

Using Chorley as an example: Rovers could arrange a bus starting at a pub in the centre of town with pick ups and drop offs at other pubs en route (eg Dressers Arms, Hoghton Arms etc). The point is Rovers need to do something rather than just shrugging their shoulders.

The independent buses from pubs in Darwen illustrate the point in question. I know for a fact that if the facility wasn’t there, a number of people wouldn’t bother going to Ewood. It would be worthwhile trialling something similar from Chorley, Clitheroe, Accrington etc to see how it went.

Anybody know what debilitating injuries Gladwin has had that will still take until January 2020 to recover from?

You're right there Matty: what is it with Leeds and Sky in particular?

I know, probably but do the maths of multiples of £319 and insert your own salary figures. I'm sure you get my drift.

Absolutely. Another way of looking at it with guesstimates attached: If Leuts, Conway and Gladwin are all on £4k a week, it will take 2,000 season tickets bought for The Riverside to cover their cost. Get rid, save the cost and let us in for nowt!

Jesus: Leutwiler, Gladwin and Conway? Clear the decks and get shut if we have any ambition. Doesn't bode well IMV.

Newly promoted Bury in court today facing a winding up petition. Their players or staff haven't been paid for 2 months either. Bit lower profile, so no help or publicity surrounding their plight. Football stinks!

Surely we shouldn't be contemplating retaining any players on the basis of an occasional 10/15 minute cameo from the bench? (Mulgrew/Conway)

Whilst Wanderers sad situation gets all the publicity, the fact that Bury are in a similar situation seems to go relatively unnoticed. They've just gained promotion to League 1 but their players and staff haven't been paid for 2 months either. They also face a HMRC winding up petition on 15th May. Seems shit owners are the scourge of Lancashires clubs, particularly when you add them to the Oystons. Sad state of affairs.

Aye, based on that, he'd do.

For DG?

We all hope so!

You’d have thought Mowbray would have already made his mind up who wasn’t going to feature next season and would take a look at some of the youngsters between now and the end of the season. The fact that he hasn’t suggests to me that he’s unlikely to be as ruthless as we’d hoped. Disappointing but hardly a surprise and doesn’t bode well for next season in my view.