The Final Countdown has been around as a walk on song since the early 90's. Im sure it was the song we ran out to in the Premier League winning season of 94/95? It has had several spells. We tend to go away from it for a year or two and then end up going back to it. It's definitely been the most used song over the last 30 years.

Not sure we'd be selling but it would be a lot healthier with local support returning plus the floating 'Premier League' fans. I know someone (Man U fan) from Pendle area who has 3 season tickets at Turf Moor because it's relatively cheap to take his family locally to watch Premier League football.

Ignoring his cameos like yesterday where he comes on for the last few minutes, Brereton has featured (either as sub or starting) in over 20 games for Rovers which he has got 20 minutes or more on the pitch. Thats why i said chance after chance. Had a kid come in and performed as he has done he would have been back in the under 23s a long time ago. Peopld say ignore his price tag, but it is clearly the only reason he still gets on the bench and gets any game time.

I didnt see the Boro game. I did see yesterday, Preston, Huddersfield and those games in our winning run in which he suddenly started games. If plan A wasnt working yesterday, the best option to change it is to put him up top and play off him. He is still far better than SG at holding the ball up and bringing others in to play. Of course Graham needed upgrading, but as we obviously have failed to do so he should be being utilised more. Brereton did play at Bristol City. If i recall most posts said we played well but he was still poor, which was my view too. Chapman has been exiled and told he has tp perform for the under23s, yet Brereton keeps getting put on the bench despite doing nothing for the under23s, even when we have 2 other strikers as subs.

I don't mind losing to teams which are clearly better than us like yesterday. What I didn't like was starting with a plan that clearly wasn't working unless the plan was to cling for a 0-0. We could easily have switched Armstrong and Gallagher, either for a spell in the first half or at half time. Armstrong was getting very little involvement and Gallagher was ineffective as ever shoved out wide. At least it. might have got us up the pitch a little. However we stayed as we were until the inevitable goal happened and then switched to desperation mode. This season will probably be remember as a season when Graham was past it and on the decline, which is rubbish. He has been isolated on the bench to allow Gallagher to play to justify his purchase. Not sure if Chapman is injured or not, but why he has been stuck in the under23's, and yet Brereton is given chance after chance after chance, despite showing nothing at any level for us, is baffling. When we really needed something different yesterday, we got 4 strikers on the pitch with a hit and hope policy. It may not have made a difference as Fulham were just simply better. However they have lost to Preston, Reading, Hull, Stoke and drawn at Charlton, Luton and Boro so, despite their mega-budget, they obviously have flaws which can be exploited.

So we defended well. But Fulham controlled the game. Ive not issue with how we started, but surely we at least need to swap Gally and Armstrong at some time long before they inevitably scored.

Defensively, from front to back, they were excellent. Going forward they didnt create loads but they controlled the game and you always felt if they got in front it was game over.

Fulham best side at Ewood this season but ridiculous from Mowbray persevering for so long with that starting plan.

Travis looks generous on bet365 at 14/1 to score, 33/1 to score first and 125/1 to score twice. Without dack, rothwell or holtby surely he will be given some license to get forward in support.

That's like saying someone spiked his drink and consequent statements and legal action corroborates that. Venkys had a full season of mediocrity to sack him and didn't. He probably had half the squad and most people based at Ewood hating his presence around the place at the end, with all his allies off site or in India. Also, Shebby was shooting his mouth off on Sky and radio slagging Kean off, which was a godsend for his lawyers to launch the 'forced out' legal action. If Venkys wanted him gone because of his results, which was the original point', they would have simply sacked him.

He arrived 2 years after Shearer had left. He had just a very good first season in the premier league and was only 21. He was regarded as one of the top young strikers in English football. Of course there was genuine excitement. You need to remember he wasn't the immobile battering ram he ended up being. In that first spell at Southampton he looked like a player who could run and dribble with the ball at pace.

Yeah sorry. Misread that Stat. It was 9 in 20 Premier League starts which is a very good return. His form at Chesterfield is actually not great statistically with 22 goals in 113 starts, although that is a lot of football league games for a 20 year old too have played. Therefore he had more experience than Brereton, and was scoring at an almost 1 in 2 rate in the Premier League, including a goal of the season contender at Everton. Whilst many people questioned the Brereton signing, I think there was genuine excitement at Davies' arrival.

Kevin Davies at Southampton. 24 starts / 12 goals (11 premier league) Brereton - 41 starts / 9 goals.

It does happen.

Eh? There is one post which says Walton cocked up for their goal. There are 3 posts praising him for a wonderful save. Im sure sometimes people just imagine a torrent of negativity on here

Was better than Lowe, Smallwood, Guthrie, Akpan, Williamson etc. Had he came in during the championship he would have been viewed on as an average player. As it was, he became a symbol for the clubs decline from Tugay, Flitcroft, Bentley Reid to Andrews and the midfielders we have had subsequently.

Who get's angry? It would be like getting angry at people talking to kids about Father Christmas. ? Seriously though, I don't want anyone to stop posting any rumours (which is exactly what they are). Like the Nicko days, it's the people who believe it and then beg for more information that I shake my head at. If the poster was going to post names and info they would do in the first place !

Overall I agree, but if there was one fixture on paper that would be poorly attended it would be a mid-week game in January against a bottom-half London side with us languishing in mid table. £10 a ticket wouldn't have boosted that gate much as previous promotions have shown. @Mattyblue points out that Wigan was a unique situation pre-Christmas and that, tied in with a promo, worked even with the game being on regular Sky. Promo's have to be for attractive games to get new / floating fans in. The club needs an ongoing policy to attract more fans and bring fans back in. I think my point is that once this game was rearranged it was a lost cause for the club to look at any pricing or initiatives for this fixture, the horse had already bolted on getting a decent crowd in for this game. The only thing that would have helped is good form / hope. Stopping the red button broadcast was just pointless.

Can't remember. It's just stuck in my head once thinking "he was right".

Fair play, maybe they did, but I don't recall it.

I was just about to post the same thing. Only unleaded has ever revealed names that have not been linked elsewhere before, and then interest has come to fruition. Others seem to come out with names that are rumoured to be close from elsewhere as though they are breaking some big news. Of course it may well be that they have confirmation that the rumours are true from within the club, but until someone pulls a name out that hasn't been mentioned anywhere before I take everyone with a pinch of salt and the view that they are acting like they are ITK.

Attendance against Wigan was up because we were recently in form and fans suddenly had a belief we could achieve something. It was down against qpr because we have been recently out of form and fans no longer believe we are challenging for promotion. Very little you can do from off the pitch about the above on cold, January night matches. Hence why reducing these uninspiring games to £10 a ticket has never worked and proved nothing.

How much didn't the parachute payments cover that spending? Where they even aware of the forecast budgets after relegation for years +1, +2, +3 etc... Did they know how much they were paying those players? I don't know the answers, but they may well have been unaware and 'badly advised' on that as well and therefore had no idea what they were ultimately spending / risking.

Quick thoughts. Tosin and Lenihen did well defensively although Tosin gave it away a bit too much. Nyambe I thought was very good in the first half, especially on the overlap, but like against Wednesday seemed to play within himself in the second half. Bell was poor first half, getting skinned a few times and distribution poor. He defended better second half. Travis needs to improve his distribution but he was MOTM for me. He's becoming a right niggly little git in a positive way. Downing and Holtby were OK without being spectacular. Armstrong was lively and took his goal well, although the defenders want shooting for giving him that amount of time. Gallagher tried to make a nuisance of himself in his random right wing position. Rothwell was outstanding for 45 minutes before injury. Not sure why after 70 minutes they all moved 10 yards deeper and couldn't put their foot on the ball. QPR didn't suddenly start playing well, we just couldn't do anything other than lump it long and give it them back. Result wise it was a very good evening and keeps us on the periphery of the top 6. As for the 1,500 who flocked to buy tickets after the red-button option was removed, they obviously didn't cover the gaps from the 1 in 3 season ticket holders sat around me who decided not to bother.

Does that not imply it's £10 for UK residents to watch it in iFollow, and £5 for oversees. If so, it's plainly obvious why it's not on the red button (not that I disagree with the decision)