Leeds at home has been moved to the Sunday for TV.

I only know about this because the Blackburn 10K that was due to be on the 10th December has been brought forward a week because of the game being moved.

35 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

The timings of the price increases show just how out of touch not only swag but the whole of the club are. I guess ultimately its down to him but surely there's people that work there that can point the basics out?!?! Many families out there will have an eye on their summer holiday and its around now that many of them are paying the outstanding balance which is approaching the deadline to pay it. Money is tight, folk have priorities! For little reasons like this, you will always get some late purchases when people return from holidays, but why the hell are they being penalised for doing so?

So which one is it? Are they too oblivious to modern family life OR do they simply not give a fuck?

It’s both.

They don’t care enough to do market research, but a lot of it (I think) comes from the old belief that everything should see a year on year price increase.

They’ll tell us costs have gone up but will politely ignore the fact that those costs shared by more people would reduce the cost per head.

Have conversations around customer database with certain people from the club as part of my job, and speak to almost every other club in the country on the topic too. I can safely say Rovers are the least interested in actually doing anything with it. They just aren't arsed. Doesn't help that the head of marketing is a child.

23 hours ago, GHR said:

This is aimed at no-one on here as it's a concept rife everywhere in the game these days, but bottle up this feeling for every time someone suggests the Cup is a distraction these days, a throw back to the era of keepers without gloves, Inside Rights and lifting over the turnstiles. It's well over two days off yet and we may come away with nothing to show, but I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve. Absolute fucking dynamite is this competition.

Best part of football bar none. Maybe European competition draws but I’m too young to have experienced that properly so couldn’t say.

1 hour ago, superniko said:

I looked last week when I wondered if we’d get the extra allocation and there was a lot of empties. 
Cup games at home often sell closer to the date so it will build up, but not sure they’ll fly off the shelf like against Spurs, especially at £25 to a team you’ve played twice already this season (and the last X years)

Only 6 of the unsold blocks are limited availability. I'm sure they'll sell more this week, but that's rather poor.

18 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He doesn’t give much away does he ? Interesting to hear the some players viewed the trip to Leicester with the “ reserves “ as not being high on their list of enjoyable moments.

I think he literally meant the U23s game this week.

25 minutes ago, Hasta said:

As tragic as it is for both families, I do find the memorial service involving the manager and representative of the club, and the lighting up of the tower orange, all a bit odd when the guy has clearly gone looking for trouble 2 hours after a game.

There will be plenty of other tangerine fans who pass away and who don't go intentionally looking to fight with opposition fans who aren't afforded such recognition. Ultimately his actions should be condemned and serve as a warning to others.

Completely agree with this - comes across as the club endorsed his particular way of supporting the club… Or is it a PR stunt? The cynic in me says the latter.

3 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Maybe they're deciding how much of the cost to subsidise or sorting out free coaches.........

Great prediction

4 minutes ago, goozburger said:

My first thought would have been Tomasson chucking the towel in, but he's done a press conference this afternoon, so I'm not convinced it's that.

I do wonder if Broughton is going to get it in the neck in spite of his RoversTV interview. It felt like a desperate man trying to save his job.

My hope is that Waggott has gone.

My expectation is nothing.

I expect that they've seen a few mentions of the word protest RE Monday and are just telling the staff to expect people being angrier than usual etc. Nothing to see here, sadly.

1 minute ago, Angry_Pirate said:

The fact Rovers (and Birmingham) preemptively chose to play a match on DD (when even tomorrow would have been equally fine/made more sense) tells you everything you needed to know about how today was/is going to go.

I wouldn't put it past Brum's snide owners to do it purposely to have the excuse lined up for shit/no signings, and Waggot to completely miss it, the daft prick.

Any player-manager meeting will take place at the team hotel/St Andrews surely

10 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

Rich Sharpe on whether there's any money in the pot ...

 

You read something like this and wonder why you're going to spend your day on here waiting for rumours/links/actual transfers, but we'll all still do it. I hate this game.

12 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

This is my last go-around to be honest. If they mess up this partnership by not supporting JDT (after years of supporting Mowbray and his wasteful signings) then I'll be done.

It's a soulless club now anyway - the town is detached from the club now, you can feel it. 

You're right. If there was ever a time to sell Ewood and move onto the outskirts in a soulless bowl with 17-20k seats, it's this next few years.

I am not advocating for that just to confirm, but barely anyone would raise an eyebrow.

7 minutes ago, roverandout said:

I know I'm not jdt biggest fan but if he walks out in the summer similar to lambert then a full protest needs to go ahead. Sick of the lack of ambition at the club.  Venkys need to go. They've rarely done anything right

You're completely right, but also I can see a lot of the remaining fanbase being glad to see the back of him. It won't happen even if everyone was apoplectic with rage - there seems to be no organisation at fan level at the moment.

6 minutes ago, unsall said:

Looks like we missed out with the striker from France, close but back to the drawing board, time is pressing..

Is there a plan Q or are we now just going to hope an agent offers us someone?

1 minute ago, davulsukur said:

Did he say why it's gone tits up?

Losing another player to Nice so he's staying

11 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

I'm 54 and don't expect to see us play PL football again - certainly not any time soon -  thanks to the idiots who run the show. But at the end of the day, it's our club. It's not Venky's or Waggot's club - it's ours.

Even though I'm not as emotionally invested in Rovers as I used to be, I'm not letting them stopping me from doing what I've been doing since 1975.

One day they will be gone.

Genuinely - I do not expect them to leave. I'd argue our only hope is that when it's passed down a generation, there's some more interest.

2 minutes ago, rigger said:

I enjoy going for a beer before and after games, this usually means I catch the train to both home and away games. Rail strikes and games switching away from Saturday 15;00 kick-offs mean train journeys have become awkward. This season I have been to the least games, in the last 50 years. I don't even watch the televised games, as we have become so boring to watch.   

I think this is a really good outlying point, specific to this season. For me to get to Ewood involves 3 unreliable (at the best of times) trains or an hour drive each way, made worse currently by the state of the M6 between Warrington and Wigan, which has put me off considerably and fed into my feelings of apathy. I know others in a similar situation who've been to less games this season than for many many years. 

If there was a feeling of excitement & positivity around the ground with swash-buckling football and players giving it everything, the above wouldn't even be a remote concern and I'd be there as much as possible, however I can't be arsed getting to Ewood for 12.30PM after a 3 hour journey on trains or sitting in standstill traffic.

I think for me it's the monotony, you know what's going to happen almost immediately and spend the rest of the time watching (at home/the pub/the match) waiting for the inevitable and then being pissed off when it happens. Even the good results (both Norwich games) recently haven't given me any inspiration. 

The lack of signings, the lack of a wailing banshee in the middle, the lack of a final touch, the lack of fight. It's all too much to get that worked up by now. I feel passive towards Rovers, which is itself a wholly unpleasant feeling.

Nice to see that Dom Hyam has taken yesterday's defeat well enough to piss off to Dubai for some winter sun.

Why didn't the Wharton brothers play?

Based on Twitter comments I can’t see Mowbray being there in January to sign him.

1 minute ago, BigBar said:

Bumped into Bradley Dack last night....

Is he happy?

11 hours ago, BigBar said:

Lads I'm over the weekend (5th Nov) for the Hudds game. What's the craic with the trains? I'm staying in Manchester, is there any running or all cancelled for the day? Conflicting messages on the rail websites. Any advice be great.

Unsure on trains, but you can get the x41 bus from Manchester to Accy, and then head onwards from there via bus/taxi.