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"Ran with the ball a lot, dribbled and beat his man but in positions that weren't dangerous or nothing came of it, got a couple of shots away from outside the box, some of which were blocked." Am I describing a Rothwell bad game or a Brereton good game?

Armstrongs goal scoring record and general threat over the last 2 years probably give him some credit. I thought Brereton was anonymous first half but much better second half, especially for a 10 minute spell around the hour mark. However I do think for the last 20 minutes the defenders sussed out he was dropping deep and then trying to drive forward with his first touch and managed to stop him. He still has to pull the trigger at the end though. Good enough performance in the second half from him but we still need a striker as the goals just aren't going to come from the lad.

Use your right foot there Del.

I bet it doesn't even have the Premiership Pledge anymore.

Forget comparing it to 15 years ago when many fans wouldn't even have been going or would have been on kids rate. You need to compare it to the product you bought last season. • You ultimately get to attend less matches for £50 more. • If there are more than 1 of you in your household then, after the first season ticket holder, you get no recompense for any matches you cannot attend. • The match day experience is going to be far worse than a normal season. The timing of this price increase to the £400 barrier is an absolute shocker. The club isn't that hard up as the Gladwin / Smallwood situations show. A bit of PR would have been to announce that in light of the costs associated with COVID that prices should go up. However in acknowledgement of the issues at the end of last season, the enforced change of seating / stands, and the general unertainty of this season, announce that the price increase was on hold with prices held and ifollow away games thrown in as a bonus. Then give some spiel about budgets and the market value of our tickets being too low etc... and say that passing on some of the extra costs associated with COVID are being deferred until the experience is back to normal. Again, confirm that prices need to go up and would be going up next year if things are back to normal, apologise for the lack of information and clarity up to this point and thank people for their understanding.

It's more a gamble that putting prices up by 15% will not lead to an 15% drop in attendance. As it is, we will never know as this will be a season like no other.

The problem is that all those little things in the recent past such as the increase in food and drink costs, the Waggot Tax, relocating the family stand, closing the Darwen End etc... have been nudging supporters away from the club for some time. It became clear that everything has been about extracting as much money as possible to the detriment of club-supporter relations, whilst the playing side have been allowed to fritter money in some areas without restriction from above. (Gladwin extension, Smallwood extra month etc...) Communication has been non-existent for years but especially over the last few months, where even an explanation of why there where delays would have been better than silence coming from a weed-strewn Ewood Park in August. Now with a little bit more consultation and communication all of the above could have been handled a lot better, so that in times like these, when they need to extract an 18% cost increase for a reduced season (the cost per match you attend will have gone up more than 18% !!) the fan base were more likely to accept it. As it is, all those penny pinching, divisive antics are going to come home to roost now they are having to go back to their core customer base cap-in-hand.

Wohooo. It must be true then. It's time to get excited. Defenders are coming. Defenders are coming. Defenders are coming. Defenders are coming.

Before I get excited can somebody please fill me in. Is this a solid link about us signing a quality defender? Or is it someone off twitter's mate who had a pint with an ex player on Sunday?

Unfortunately not. It's quite clear on the highlights here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtZPm_F6Nc Shame because we were really on top at that moment and there only looked one winner.

Same every season with attitudes towards relegated sides. Regardless what they cost they are now our level and have lost their better players.. That squad being assembled in the Premier League will count for nothing when they are dropping points against QPR and Boro shortly.

I couldnt get the pause just as the ball is played, but he looked marginally off before the cross is hit and marginally off just after (attched).

Tight but think he was off. I paused it just before the ball was struck and he looks slightly off. I paused it again just after and he still looks slightly off when you zoom it in. (ive got a pic but it wont upload for some reason)

I'm sure Klopp would have upgraded 1 of our centre backs since they relegated us 3 years ago with our budget. The backline wasn't good enough then and isn't good enough now.

Brace yourself. Tony Mowbray defenders are coming. Transfer window defenders are coming.

Bournemouth are drawing 2-2 with the Premier League champions.

Starting to walk through us a bit now.

Good first half without creating much actually in their box. Would have been frustrating to go in behind. Couple of nice runs from BB. Id be shooting and hitting the target every chance now as that goal will be on their keepers mind.

Norwich, Oxford, Exeter

I don't think they need anywhere near the full JW upper for corporate. I think they are overestimating demand here. They should have halved the stand, with corporate going into one half and X amount of season tickets available in the other on a first come first served basis.

Unless they are going to pay him significantly more money than he is on here, Mulgrew would just say No.

Goals conceded in our last 12 competitive games:- 3 3 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 3 2 That's gong to cripple us, and if we do become more sterile going forward we have big problems. At least we will have kept a few clean sheets in pre-season playing Blackpool and Fleetwood reserves. ? Centre-half, left back and striker in and keep everyone fit then top 6. As it is about 14th or 15th.

The great is the enemy of the good.

If he had made a few sub appearances and an odd start and then been bombed out I would agree with @islander200. However, he hasn't had a "proper chance" (presuming that means a run of games) because in the 40 odd appearances for the first team he has made he hasn't looked very good. He will get more chances now as we have allowed 2 strikers to leave and brought none in. Financially, we couldn't afford to blow £7 million on a dud. That mistake has already been made. Jeopardising results by not accepting this would be a second mistake.