Don't know as I went. You may be right as it was an early kick off. Still doesn't negate the point.

Swansea and Stoke. Both not on TV. Both on a weekend? ???

No one is justifying the non-atendees. Just explaining one of the main reasons why they don't go and explaining why the 6-game deal won't work. Do you think that this deal will significantly increase attendances? There's a reason we got one of our biggest home cup attendances of the last 8 years for a midweek game against Newcastle despite it being in TV, and it wasn't due to success.

How unfit must Chapman be? Does he look like some tubby little barrell now who looks like hes wearing a fat suit. Surely with 2 or 3 weeks fitness training you can get a player ready for bench cameos. I keep reading he's a couple of months away. You could probably get me fit in 8 weeks!!! As for the Dack substitution, he'd just shown his first bit of magic to carve out his chance at the near post. I didn't think he was looking that tired. To take him off was one thing. To then move two players out of position, and switch a third to the opposite wing was ludicrous when you could have done a straight swap. It undoubtedly broke the momentum we had at that point. Palmer got on the ball and just helped them keep possession better. I thought he did well for them from that perspective.

Travis substitution was spot on. Dack however .....

Don't bother Matty. He's got to be on the wind up.

But at the start of the season we didn't realise that most teams in this league were going to be mediocre, or that we would keep shooting ourselves in the foot in the last 10 minutes of games. At the start of the season I'd have been happy with finishing mid table but not now. Now I feel like the last play off spot is up for grabs. Bristol City didn't look great today and they are 6th. Birmingham are 8th and we were strolling past them until we committed Hari Kari. Surely watching the way the season has panned out has made people change their view from the opening day. Maybe this season is like the year Leicester won the premier league. All of the big names are going through a transition period and by next year Stoke, Villa Swansea etc.. will have got their act together. We put ourselves in with a chance but , despite all of the talk, didn't strengthen and try and make a serious challenge. Disappointing.

I thought we had our best spell, and had most momentum, in the 10 or 15 minutes leading up to the Dack and Palmer substitution. After we made our change, we never had a sustained attack again until the final few minutes. Dack obviously didn't want to come off so I think Mowbray has been outmanoeuvred there. The ref was atrocious but his biggest mistake was not sending Travis off.

Do Everton need to take something, or are they already through?

I see the Preston Massive are travelling to Bolton today and its allowed to kick off at 3pm.

Bristol City are on a great run of form, but the only team they have beaten who are in the top 10 during that spell are Birmingham. That doesn't mean they haven't done exceptionally well, and they have draws against Derby and Norwich in there. Win today and no team will have picked up more points at home than Rovers this season (30). Should be a good game. I just hope one of Dack or Graham starts and Mulgrew is back. If we go with Rodwell plus a non-centre half at the back I fear for us.

But over the years the number of lapsed attendees must be huge. I'd imagine it's more than the number of walk ons, even if they are different people each games. The deal in itself may be ok for some, but it's still a big single outlay and doesn't try and bring in new fans, which has to be the long term fans. I imagine you'll hardly see an increase on the back of this deal.

Disagree. I think lapsed attendees over the last 10 years outweigh the current infrequent pay on the day customers.

A single special offer for a plum 3pm kick off game.

So the plan to try and encourage boycotters, lapsed fans and never-attendees to get themselves into the new Ewood experience is to get them to suddenly spend the best part of £100 on tickets. Hmmm. See the flaw in this?

Shocking wasn't it. The lack of basic effort and urgency was appalling.

It's plausible that someone actually could have spiked Steve Kean's drink.

People who criticise Breretons performances, myself included, get told that we are being unfair as we are judging him based on his ability needing to match the price tag. I disagree (see my original post). I judge Mowbray on the fee. I don't doubt that you have idiots who hurl abuse at our own players sat around you. However, as idiotic as they are, I think they are disappointed with Breretons lack of contribution in general rather than expect him to be amazing / the finished article. When you said that "Because of his large transfer fee, many are expecting the finished article already and forget he is only n n n n nineteen", I presumed you had come across people on here and other forms of social media actually saying this. I actually agreed with your post other than that line. I'd never seen anyone stating such things so asked who they were. Now it turns out it's a couple of idiots who shout stuff, and you don't know if they do or do not hold that opinion, you just think that they do.

Now you're just losing it. I didn't say any of that about my seat. All I said was that I don't think there's anybody that expected him to be the finished article at 19, regardless of the fee. You claim there are many people who are stating this. If some 'urchin' stands up and calls him rubbish and a wanker that's one thing, but I doubt your Ewood park neighbour is standing up shouting 'Your rubbish Ben and, as you cost £7million, I expected you to be the finished article.'

All mythical people that sit near to you I presume. I've never come across anyone who expects him to be at his peak already at 19.

Are they? Who? We expected someone who, having already made 50+ appearances at this level, might be able to make a decent contribution to the first team.

Just seen the highlights. Rodwell doesn't cover himself in glory for goals 1 and 4. His marking for the fourth is particularly poor. He's got the guy in front of him and 2 seconds later the guy is clean through without doing very much.

The two lads he's having a go at are complete pond life though. You only need to look at their tweets back to the rovers fans who've criticised them for being abusive to Bennet.

Based on a few comments like this during the game I decided to watch the stream from about 78 minutes onwards (i didn't realise there was a stream until it became obvious UK residents were watching it.) All I will say is he must ahve been bloody good before I turned it on !!

Rovers should have let him continue, created a supporters section for content on iFollow and posted them on there instead of YouTube. Problem solved.