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But if you are prevented from going on your holiday you have booked you get a refund. You don't get a live stream of Benidorm beach instead.

Although it will be a very expensive match day pass for ilfollow if there is a lot of BCD matches. The real carrot here has to be allowing away matches to be streamed as part of the season ticket package (free or reduced cost), bearing in mind there's going to be no away fans this side of Christmas. I know that will be out of Rovers control but the EFL / iFollow need to sort something out. In fact there's a decent money opportunity for ifollow and the clubs on away games here.

IFollow passes per season ticket for all games played behind closed doors. No refunds to be given. (which I suspect is what is coming here)

Back to Marcus Bent, I hardly recall anything of him after he left Ewood. However he went on to score 35 Premier League goals for a number of clubs, as well as making 55 PL appearances for Everton.

I seem to be in the minority, but I didn't thng that much of Cunningham when he was here. If the bar is 'are they better then Bell and Del' then it's a pretty low standard.

I don't think you understood the title of this thread. Donis isn't even in the worst 20 Rovers signings ever.

If we think we can get a fee for him we will be telling Keith Curle he is Beckenbauer.

I'd rather he played next to Berg and formed a solid defensive foundation in defence with some aerial prowess, something we've been lacking in our last 3 seasons in the champnship and which we haven't properly fixed in 7 transfer windows. Its difficult enough with our probably limited budget trying to get players to strengthen our team. To also find ones with unnecessary attributes is even more difficult. Here is a damning statistic. We have known about these defensive issues for a while, and yet at the end of last season whilst we tried to convince ourselves we had a realist I've chance of the play offs we failed to keep a clean sheet in our last 11 games, conceding 2 or more in 8 of those games. Only Hull didn't keep a clean sheet in that period. This isn't a new manager coming into a club. This is a guy who has been here over 3 years, and yet our defending is an utter shambles. Yet he thinks the problem is we aren't passing the ball out of defence enough.

The problem is if what you are saying is true, we are going to turn down the Craig Short's for the Lorenzo Amoruso's.

Nah that's a bit of a myth too. Last season they got 28 points at home and 26 away. In 2018 they got more points away than at home. They are simply a side that makes it difficult for teams, regardless of venue. Kind of like when we were labelled the 'bully boys'. We knew we could also play a bit but the rest of the country started to believe we were a bunch of cloggers.

We got promoted last time with Short and Berg. Neither would step forward and start spraying the ball around. It's a myth that is what is needed to get us out of this league. Central Defenders first job should be to defend well. If they can then also play a bit it is simply a bonus. Unfortunately, because it's a bonus it puts them in higher demand / value. Dyche's football is nowhere near as bad as it's made out. What he does very well is spot a player to build the defensive spine of the team - Heaton and Pope, Mee, Tarkowski, Keane, Players also improve and progress under him. He then gets the best out of what he has going forward, often making a decent profit in the process and replacing them - Austin, Ings, Gray. If anyone would turn down the style and model Burnley are adopting there, on the grounds that the football is 'poor', then they are living in cloud chicken land.

And yet it was Lenihan at fault in the air for both Charlton goals that day.

Wanted:- Centre half who has the technical ability to play like a midfielder and play out from the back. Someone who is composed and can pass a ball. Maybe even one that is technically good enough to take free kicks and penalties. Basic centre-half defending ability is preferred but not essential. Recent international experience would be advantageous. Hmmm. Sound familiar?

I remember Donis tormenting one of the Neville's so much at Old Trafford that he got subbed after half an hour and Irwin was moved across to try and cope with him. Was a one trick pony with his speed and it didn't work out but far, far from one of our worst signings.

Nothing wrong with loan signings if they are to help us progress. They are often the key to successful promotion sides. Even back in 2001, for all the young talent we had available we still brought Mahon and Berkovic in on loan through the season to give us an extra bit of quality. Especially Berkovic during that run in.

Which will be "out" first:- Fixtures - 4/5 New Kit - 7/4 Season Tickets - 8/1 Tony Mowbray 500/1

He didn't drop that cross at Preston. He kind of just flapped around a bit with nobody near him but got no contact on the ball.

Just catching up. In the absense of a transfer links thread, has anyone actually reported us being interested in Muric and Iverson? Or is it just fan gossip which the tubby tabloid peddler has picked up on?

If we could have sold Raya, got an equal replacement and spent the money well elsewhere then I'd have been happy with the sale. That applies to any player. Unfortunately I don't think we did.

Give that no away fans will be allowed, I wonder if there will be money allowed to be made by streaming or beaming back away games.

Yep. You can play a possession based 3-2-2-3-1 whatever systems, but have the option to go direct or get it in the box during the same game. Again at Luton, for all the faffing around in the second half, it was a ball onto Grahams head that led to the goal. Unless you can collect the best players in the league, then in order to be a good side you usually needs to be able to mix it up.

Ask the same question at £350 with no guarantee of seat, stand, refunds or attending games like you said yesterday and see what the results are.

Thought I'd bump his thread back up. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2020/july/ive-loved-every-minute-of-my-time-at-rovers/ Good words. Decent Rovers career.

The 12 point administration rule was brought in to stop teams overspending beyond their means and then just clearing the debts with administration. I don't know the ins and outs but not sure that's what has happened in this case.

This would be my 30th consecutive year of having a season ticket and I'm having serious doubts. No pubs as normal pre or post match. No atmosphere inside the ground. Many people are still furloughed or don't know their future economy / employment situation. It's going to be a very tricky sell for the club But as far as a I can see, you are saying that if the club says "it is £350 for a season ticket but we can't tell you which part of the ground you will be sat in or how the seating will be arranged. We also can't tell you whether you will actually be able to attend all of the games at Ewood, or whether you will need to watch many of them at home on an internet stream", that almost 4000 fans are going to sign up to that and pay £350 ???