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Then why would you want an unproven , younger centre half to come in on loan. But not a player who has already shown he was our best centre half last year by being player of the year. Who is 100% proven in this division We would all much rather we signed him permanently, but if that really isn’t possible then why wouldn’t you loan him, especially as you are clearly open to loaning a centre half ?

So we don’t want anybody on loan at centre half then?

We've tried Dack up top on his own and it just doesnt work. He's marked out of it too easy as he cant lose his man. His goal last night, and the majority of his other goals, are him finding space when running into the box. Timing his arrival perfectly. The way to play Dack would be to have Gally up front and dack running off behind him. Basically turn SG into DG. That can leave Brereton in his wide role to join in as he see's fit. I'd be going more like this. But who you'd put on the left I don't know. Edun? Dolan? Sammie? Buckley? None appear ideal for that role . Maybe Edun to cover Pickering behind him Kaminski Britain Phillips Ayala Pickering Travis Morton Brereton Dack ????? Gallagher

Kevin Ball probably saying "he got the ball".

Two centre halves haven’t been at fault - again. The rest have been shocking. Hate how we have 2 strikers who can supposedly head the ball, and yet we get throw ins 10 yards from their goal-line and work it back to Kaminsky. Brittain hasn’t played well at Reading or in the first half here, but looked decent in his first game. However I have to say Sammie is lucky to be starting. Outside of the well taken goal against Swansea I’ve seen little other than energy. I don’t understand how we seem to want to pass,pass, pass and play football everywhere on the pitch, but the most technical player we have to play that game is on the bench.

With what’s available I don’t mind that line up IF Brittain and Eden are allowed to and can get forward.

He was very safety-first against Reading. Not that I mind. Rather that than do what Gally did for the 3rd goal.

Well that was bad. Im all for making the pitch as big as possible, but not when you haven’t got the ball. They need to get closer to each other, with and without the ball

No way he lets his contract run down for a big move and then chooses to go to Nice if there are genuine Spanish or Premier League options. All this could do is set the ball rolling on other bids.

I emailed the club and asked why the oldest stand in the ground, with facilities straight from the 80s had had an over 20% price increase. This removed the cheapest tickets available, making the minimum price for a season ticket £430 in one of the most deprived areas in the country. Unsurprisingly, I received no reply. I know the bottom level season ticket prices were one of your criticisms of the club over the summer. However in you summary of your meeting with SW you didn’t mention this at all. Did you raise this criticism and what was his response?

Not the point I was making, but agreed.

Think big.

He was playing right in front of me in the JW upper and I didn’t think he was that bad. It was everyone else giving the ball away cheaply that was stressing me.

I’ve not come off Ewood enjoying a 3 points as much as that for a long time. They didn’t even play well, but boy was there plenty of labore. Having said that, the two goals were quality.

West Brom have played well both games. They battered Watford for long spells. This is the first real test of the season for me. We will have a good handle on where we stand come 5pm.

Good news. Maybe that overflow into the river Darwen flows both ways .

I wouldnt trust that. They said the BB2 problem was sorted yesterday afternoon then changed it to say still ongoing. They’ve been at it almost 24 hours now. We’ve had no or little water since 10am here. Its back on at gather moment but they are using water tankers to top up the supply and that runs out fairly quickly. As they topped it up overnight, that will run out quickly when everyone realises they can top up their kettles / have a shower / water their garden. UU need to get their finger out or the game could be in doubt.

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Cup draw in about half an hour. Fat Frank’s Terrible Toffees at home please.

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I'm fortunately enough to be able to commit to my ST up front so never really look at the monthly payment options we offer, but on the website it says "An eight-month payment plan is available for supporters wishing to spread the cost of their Season Ticket ". Which equates to about £55 a month until April for a season ticket at Ewood.

For the first season yes but not for subsequent seasons. In your second season at Hull if you've had enough by November you can just stop going. Looks like you have to give 2 months notice. I'm not sure its a massive benefit to us as fans, and unless it attracts more fans (which doesn't seem to be the case at Hull) then it's not in the interests of the club.

Hull's average attendance last year was their lowest since 1990. If there's a month with only 1 midweek game, and you were it precious about your seat, you would you cancel for that month. Would you bother renewing if you had something alternative the following month? Also in those years when the season is dead by the start of February think how much the sales would fall away. It's a good idea for the fans but surely would lead to less revenue for the club . The way to increase season ticket sales is price them ok to start with, and then give discount for every year you've had a season ticket. If the discount was healthy enough, the churn would certainly be less. I wouldmt have given mine up last year if I was throwing away a 20% discount I'd built up over a few years.

I didn’t renew at the start of last year. I was unsure of the post-covid situation at games and any potential scenario where we went to behind-closed-doors games in winter. I said I’d do a few home games anyway. I fully expected to do quite a few and simply didn’t. The only one I did was Sheff Utd, and it was the cheap ticket deal which lured me in. Otherwise i found I’d already planned to go here, or I’d stop and home and do this instead. Even the Preston game I left till the last minute and decided against going. (I went round to my mates and watched it there instead, but again that’s the elephant in the room with non-attendees in this discussion) Once we got through new year, and it was obvious the season was ‘normal’, I got a half season ticket (performances prior had obviously helped). I then attended games when I really couldn’t be arsed simply because I had a ticket.

I’ve quoted your post above. If he wanted to move there no way we’re paying him £8million or whatever. If he didn’t want to move to Leeds we would just keep him.