You mean like dropping Danny Graham? It's notable that we were 1-0 up at Swansea and 0-0 against Sheffield united when Graham went off. We were 2-0 down when he came on against Preston. We obviously lost all games. Graham provides an outlet for the team when they are under pressure that playimg Palmer, Dack or Armstrong simply doesn't give us. When Graham doesn't play, we switch to plan B, and plan B has been proven to be not very good.

Time to spend this evening durIng the championship games trying to get the sky sports app working in Germany for tomorrow night. Sky's website says I should be able to watch red button games on the app in the EU but I failed on my previous attempt.

Has Cook not started spouting off yet about how they beat us to the title because that 13 point start we handed them was insurmountable. Give it another day or so and he will...

There are horrors everywhere. For the third goal, Mulgrew should be clattering the ball, their striker and Reed all out of the area as they prod it in. It's almost like him and Reed left it to each other to clear.

Return fixture will still kick off at 9am

Just seen the Brereton 'goal' which is not offside regardless of whether Dack touches it or not (he doesn't). However that comes from another high ball into the box which DG knocks down.

Just watched the sky highlights before I comment on the game as what a horror show of defending that is. The first two are decent finishes but it's so easy. Nyambe s held his hand up on Twitter for the second. Lenihan get sucked out and fails to win the ball for the opener. Despite how poor we had been, at 2-1 I fancied us to get something out of the game but Williams was rancid for the third. Had Brereton goal stood immediately after we may still have got the grandstand finish but the offside call ended any hope. I couldn't see how he could be offside at the time but it's not shown on the sky highlights so can't tell for sure. Poor, poor performance. The decision to leave Graham on the bench has been well covered. I would hope this would comprehensively end Tony's thoughts of doing it again but I'm not holding my breath.

I must have missed all that as we walked up from, and back to, the Greyfriar calling in most pubs on the way and saw no trouble at all. Preston fans generally couldn't believe how bad we were after the game. Admitedly we left at about 87 minutes so didn't stick around for the final whistle. It was a good day apart from 3pm till 5pm.

How can the club know this? What do you reckon the average number of tickets per order is? 3 maybe? They don't know how many in my party do or do not attend at home. Likewise they don't know if non-attendees have regular home fans going with them who they bought tickets for. Whilst I don't doubt there is a large number of people going today who don't attend at home, I don't see how the club can accurately put a figure on it.

To be fair the exact quote from the LT coverage was:- "I haven't been here and felt what you've felt. The emotion of the situation, I'm trying to get to the point where we resolve it. It seems counter-productive that something they have done is keeping you away from supporting your team. "I don't feel they think that paying their £25m a year to sustain the running of the club feel they have done much wrong." Which us very different from how you have put it. Quite a diplomatic answer really.

Why do £10 tickets have to be reciprocal from the other club for Rovers to run that deal as a promo?

We were all talking civilly about Tesco and Asda and then this appears. Firstly, I never said you did say that did that, so check your facts right and read what I posted before you start losing it and posting in CAPS. Gumboots posted the standard Vue prices (which is just £8.99 at Bolton cinema out of interest) and I just said that I never paid that as I got special offers from Vue through various sources. The point being that Vue want to get more people attending so have a standard price and actually REDUCE it rather than increase it on the day. But for some reason you then replied to me started telling me people work midweek and also about how you don't like putting love into your life on Tuesdays and Wednesdays !! So, please, lose the attitude you unnecessarily have in the first two lines of your post as it just drags the board down. As for taking kids to night games, on of our party has taken his 6 year old lad to the QPR and Rotherham games. Do you think on a school night he should take him to Ewood and get home after 10.30 ?

Eh? Not sure what relevance that has to the original point that Vue are actually doing special offers to encourage people to attend. Besides, me and the missus have been together long enough to go to the cinema to actually watch a film and not to try and cop a feel on the back row. Tuesday and Wednesday nights are a no for some people at Ewood due to working. And it's hardly an ideal game to take your kids to when they are at School in the morning. But we don't do any special offers and still charge a £3 surcharge.

Not sure what point you are making there in relevance to the thread but it's £9.75 if you book it online to watch at Bolton. This includes a £0.75 online booking fee. If you turn up and pay one the day it will cost you £8.99 without the booking fee. So it's actually CHEAPER to turn up and pay on the day at Vue.

Vue and Odeon also push a lot of special offers elsewhere. I get 6 free tickets per year from my bank account, and 2 for 1 tickets through Comparethemarket every Tuesday or Wednesday. We go to the cinema about 10 times a year and pay half price at most.

Sheff Wednesday is the first of December. And I agree completely with your second line. 100%. Your spot on. Absolutely And that's why we should do a cheap special offer for a big game.

That's true. Thats what happens when you google something quickly and don't realise we play on the 1st of both months !! Although we could have done the same offer for the Sheff Weds on 1st December which is a 3pm kick-off (unless Wednesday sold out the entire Darwen End in which case the police will get it back to 10.45am.) I see the chuckle brothers liked your post although have made no comment on this proposal which will try and actually engage more fans with the current team.

Player of the season in 2017 is now shite. There's not a lot in it in my opinion, and Bell will only get better, but due to the lack of presence in the air at centre half I'd prefer Williams at this moment in time.

I watched Croatia V Spain on Thursday night and that was a belting game. As was the England game yesterday. The Wales V Denmark game over the weekend was also a cracker at the end with a lot of bad feeling / tension on the pitch. This tournament has been great in replacing the meaningless boring friendlies with games which matter.

To the first line, that's irrelevant. It's ripping off your own fan base just to get more money in the coffers. And according to you, it seems like the surcharge is not having the desired effect it was introduced for. Second line, many people have given up watching Rovers over the last 8 years through various reasons. You aren't going to get the Premier League fans going at the moment. However others have just stopped going because they stopped enjoying the calamitous sideshow off the pitch whilst a revolving door of mercenary, has beens or half-decent players came and went. People have disconnected from the club. As others warned, these ex-supporters have probably found other things to do and don't sit there regretting not going to Ewood anymore. Now this is a shame because we have a manager and team showing "Total Commitment" (© Rovers Social Media and Advertising Depertment). For the first time in years there is a connection between the the fans and, not just one or two, but practically all of the team. However the people who aren't attending don't feel this. They aren't interested as they currently think whatever they do on a Saturday is more enjoyable than going to Ewood based on their last experiences. How do we get these people down to Ewood to re-engage? By making the Sheff Wednesday game on New Years day a tenner. Most people are off work. Whether its people buying tickets or getting tickets as Christmas presents, if that game was a tenner and well publicised we would get close to or above 18,000 home fans IMO. Sure we would lose money than it being full price, but if just 500 of these fans came regularly for the rest of the season the club would be better off.

As Gumboots says, you need to get people to engage in the first place. Therefore we are back at why not do special offers for Big weekend games rather than the usual ones which don't grab the imagination.

If you want a pint at half time, you now need to book it online the day before. Otherwise its subject to a 70p surcharge. I don't see this avoidable surcharge as a barrier but that's just me.

The fact is we don't have the demand required to fill the ground to generate revenue to compete at the top of the league we are in. Unlike last minute airlines, we are not a necessity like if you decide you want to use them last minute. Cinemas may do discounted tickets for advance bookings at non peak times but they certainly dont put their prices up in the last hour before the film starts. Whether it's to save on staff costs or not have too many pies left over, the surcharge penalises casual fans who decide to come at the last minute in order to make the club a bit more money. All very good on a balance sheet but it doesn't promote brand loyalty or good will, something which they have lost a lot of over the last eight years.

Good preview. Thanks I like the fact that on their bitter forum thread they are all having a bitch at us until somebody posts:- And then it goes quiet.......

I guessed that is what they had done when I got a pint and only got charged £3. Well done for the club for doing it. However they could have put something up to advertise the fact so people knew. I certainly didnt see any signage up around the concourse or bars, and your post is the first confirmation I've seen. They haven't cut the prices across the board on food before but they have done "Free pie with a pint" offers etc..