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Yep. It's like saying Ryan Lowe should have been given a new contract at this point last season when they had a better record than we have now. Good job for Preston they didn't do that ! It's promising, but let's not get carried away.

Cantwell has been in training for 30 days. How much more fitness time does he need to start games? Weimann is older and had been training less (and played less games last season) when he started at Burnley.

I've no issue with it, although I can understand why some people do. I do have an issue with Rovers running their current ticket office on what seems like a staffing level where we are already digital-only, whilst still operating paper tickets.

Too soon. I’m over the moon with how we have started, but I can also see there’s been a slice of fortune there. There’s a few things I’d still like to see from a JE team - going to either Plymouth or a Coventry this week and being the better side for example. Whilst the three away games so far have been ‘gritty’, I don’t feel the performances have been amazing.

It’s fine in the JW so they won’t give a shit about you.

I know. Just making the point it looked to me like quite a lot of season ticket holders sacked it off, possibly because of the kick off time. If we did therefore get 4000 walk-ons who wanted to come on a Saturday lunchtime against uninspiring opposition when it’s available on Sky that’s pretty good.

Considering they brought only about 800, 13k+ wasn’t too bad. However it felt much less than that. My two season ticket holding buddies didn’t go and I suspect quite a few others.

How can buying a ticket early on a Thursday morning and being told the only free option is collection, but I can’t collect it until Monday be to anyones liking. That can’t and should not be ‘the future’.

Which is fine, but twice I have gone down over 24 hours after I purchased and got told to come back next week as they weren’t available for collection.

We were a shambles on the pitch for the second half of last season and a shambles in the Indian courtrooms. The talk all summer was of selling Szmodics and having no money to spend. We hadn't won a home game under the new manager. Of course that wasn't a platform for increasing sales organically. Yasir acknowledges a lack of signings was an issue with supporters. Add to that last summers 'cheap' signings were generally shit. So when we did suddenly get our act together and start bringing players in, by then the season tickets were no longer 'cheaper'. They had gone up by £82 in my area. The club were told by numerous people that the pricing should have been held all summer because people aren't going engage with that increase. If they'd have been on sale at the original "early bird" price after the Derby game I guarantee they would have sold 20% more tickets than they did after that game at the "Fat Cat" price which they ended up at. You see this in business all the time. Stupid people making bad decisions but cleverly spinning a narrative upwards to try and justify themselves. Normally they are the only ones who gets to communicate with a higher level.

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Or 18-30 as the minutes say 🙄

Looking back at last season after 6 games it’s very similar. Top had 16 points (Preston!) , 6th had 11 points and mid table had 8 points. I’m guessing over a period of 6 games at any point in the season the form table would look similar. It’s consistency across the season. I agree it is interesting to monitor. Nice one @TheKitGuy

"But we only sold 3 tickets on the day." Probably cos you had told Blackpool they weren't available. And if you hadn't, they tagged you in a couple of times that week saying no sales on the day. Surely you should have corrected them. How come I know this, but 6 senior officials at Rovers attending a supporters forum and using it as an excuse don’t?

Lol. He's the same height as Messi and a couple of cm shorter than Maurice Greene.

He should be. He will have been in training with us for 28 days since he first signed. Weimann had been in training with us for less when he started at Burnley, and he had played a lot less football at the end of last season than Cantwell.

One of the problem from yesterday may well have been we were "playing on the counter" against 10 men. The second half felt dismal. We should have been camped in their half probing to find a way through. Cantwell and ACD's introduction was way too late.

As annoying as it is, I kind of accept this is a “move for Sky” scenario. Next Saturday will piss me off more when we kick off at Ewood at 12.30 and yet we aren’t even on Sky TV. We are one of 2 other games available for “streaming” at 12.30 which clash with the televised Derby / Norwich game. Ball ache for me as it takes up my Saturday morning and afternoon. Bigger ball ache for QPR fans. At least we had 8 weeks notice or whatever.

Yeah but wait till the new signings settle in.🙄

To be fair to Abbey it was pretty numb from Joshua.

Just looked into this. Roads closed 1pm till 4pm. The main closures are the two roads which run directly from Deepdale back down towards the town centre (Deepdale road and Skeffington Rd). They are not closed around the ground but from about half way down towards town.

Be aware the 09.11 train is cancelled. That leaves just one train direct to Preston in the morning. If you are relying on that then good luck 🤞

Somewhere there’s an ex-Skybet odds compiler shaking his head.

I agree completely, but I also fear the rich are the most powerful here and that's not what will happen. Many, many years ago (2005ish) we talked about a European midweek league and a domestic league at the weekends. It's just happened by stealth. I mean, look where we are now with the champions league. If viewing figures and interest is high in this, and the format proves popular for the armchair fan, then it will become "Why can't we expand it and play 10 games in Europe during Autumn / Winter" and so on. And it will be the domestic game which gets squeezed out. If they suddenly say that "unless you finish in the bottom 8 in that league above your Champions League spot is secured" then we have the European Super League from a couple of years back. And the top clubs will lap it up. But to your point, I agree. Go back to 6 CL games, ditch the World Club Cup and if you want to do the Nations League do it over a longer period so in each international break you only play 1 game. Otherwise ditch international breaks completely.

I said initially it would be the clubs. It's already happening. The players won't be calling for it yet but secretly the top clubs will certainly prefer less cups and league games. The champions League is now the European Super league in all but name. A quick google reveals Pep already called for the Carabao Cup to be scrapped. Not sure how much truth here, but here is a report from 4 years ago claiming Liverpool and Man United are behind proposals to reduce league size to 18 teams. Given a choice between Champions League or Carabao Cup ties, financially of course they would rather ditch the cup and play more Champions League games. Once they make it clear to their players that more money is available for them if they play European football rather than League Cup football, the players would fall into line. As for the Nationals League, I'd completely abolish it if we are abolishing all games which aren't Euro / World Cup qualifiers. But if we are having international breaks with 2 friendlies, as we did previously, I much prefer it over those.