Kevin Ball probably saying "he got the ball".

Two centre halves haven’t been at fault - again. The rest have been shocking. Hate how we have 2 strikers who can supposedly head the ball, and yet we get throw ins 10 yards from their goal-line and work it back to Kaminsky. Brittain hasn’t played well at Reading or in the first half here, but looked decent in his first game. However I have to say Sammie is lucky to be starting. Outside of the well taken goal against Swansea I’ve seen little other than energy. I don’t understand how we seem to want to pass,pass, pass and play football everywhere on the pitch, but the most technical player we have to play that game is on the bench.

With what’s available I don’t mind that line up IF Brittain and Eden are allowed to and can get forward.

He was very safety-first against Reading. Not that I mind. Rather that than do what Gally did for the 3rd goal.

Well that was bad. Im all for making the pitch as big as possible, but not when you haven’t got the ball. They need to get closer to each other, with and without the ball

No way he lets his contract run down for a big move and then chooses to go to Nice if there are genuine Spanish or Premier League options. All this could do is set the ball rolling on other bids.

I emailed the club and asked why the oldest stand in the ground, with facilities straight from the 80s had had an over 20% price increase. This removed the cheapest tickets available, making the minimum price for a season ticket £430 in one of the most deprived areas in the country. Unsurprisingly, I received no reply. I know the bottom level season ticket prices were one of your criticisms of the club over the summer. However in you summary of your meeting with SW you didn’t mention this at all. Did you raise this criticism and what was his response?

Not the point I was making, but agreed.

Think big.

He was playing right in front of me in the JW upper and I didn’t think he was that bad. It was everyone else giving the ball away cheaply that was stressing me.

I’ve not come off Ewood enjoying a 3 points as much as that for a long time. They didn’t even play well, but boy was there plenty of labore. Having said that, the two goals were quality.

West Brom have played well both games. They battered Watford for long spells. This is the first real test of the season for me. We will have a good handle on where we stand come 5pm.

Good news. Maybe that overflow into the river Darwen flows both ways .

I wouldnt trust that. They said the BB2 problem was sorted yesterday afternoon then changed it to say still ongoing. They’ve been at it almost 24 hours now. We’ve had no or little water since 10am here. Its back on at gather moment but they are using water tankers to top up the supply and that runs out fairly quickly. As they topped it up overnight, that will run out quickly when everyone realises they can top up their kettles / have a shower / water their garden. UU need to get their finger out or the game could be in doubt.

Sky Sports News

Cup draw in about half an hour. Fat Frank’s Terrible Toffees at home please.

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I'm fortunately enough to be able to commit to my ST up front so never really look at the monthly payment options we offer, but on the website it says "An eight-month payment plan is available for supporters wishing to spread the cost of their Season Ticket ". Which equates to about £55 a month until April for a season ticket at Ewood.

For the first season yes but not for subsequent seasons. In your second season at Hull if you've had enough by November you can just stop going. Looks like you have to give 2 months notice. I'm not sure its a massive benefit to us as fans, and unless it attracts more fans (which doesn't seem to be the case at Hull) then it's not in the interests of the club.

Hull's average attendance last year was their lowest since 1990. If there's a month with only 1 midweek game, and you were it precious about your seat, you would you cancel for that month. Would you bother renewing if you had something alternative the following month? Also in those years when the season is dead by the start of February think how much the sales would fall away. It's a good idea for the fans but surely would lead to less revenue for the club . The way to increase season ticket sales is price them ok to start with, and then give discount for every year you've had a season ticket. If the discount was healthy enough, the churn would certainly be less. I wouldmt have given mine up last year if I was throwing away a 20% discount I'd built up over a few years.

I didn’t renew at the start of last year. I was unsure of the post-covid situation at games and any potential scenario where we went to behind-closed-doors games in winter. I said I’d do a few home games anyway. I fully expected to do quite a few and simply didn’t. The only one I did was Sheff Utd, and it was the cheap ticket deal which lured me in. Otherwise i found I’d already planned to go here, or I’d stop and home and do this instead. Even the Preston game I left till the last minute and decided against going. (I went round to my mates and watched it there instead, but again that’s the elephant in the room with non-attendees in this discussion) Once we got through new year, and it was obvious the season was ‘normal’, I got a half season ticket (performances prior had obviously helped). I then attended games when I really couldn’t be arsed simply because I had a ticket.

I’ve quoted your post above. If he wanted to move there no way we’re paying him £8million or whatever. If he didn’t want to move to Leeds we would just keep him.

4) Say to Southampton you pay the £390k or you may lose the player to Sevilla or elsewhere. Also, the original point was about him signing a new 4 year deal with Rovers which is completely different from above. That 4 year contract removes the threat of him leaving for nothing.

If you’re Rovers and you have him tied on a 4 year deal you don’t need to accept it. He’s young, his value is still rising. There will be other bids. I don’t for one minute think BBD will sign a new contract. But if he did, it’s certainly not against Rovers interests.

A release clause means that if that value is matched then rovers would have to allow the player to talk to the bidding team and would have to accept the offer. Doesn’t mean he definitely leaves unless he wants to. Therefore if Leeds bid £17million and the player wants to leave then we wouldn’t have to pay up BB’s contract (or give a loyalty bonus or whatever) as the offer is still there to stop at Ewood and earn that money. We aren’t making him go or encouraging him to go. He is choosing to go. Your scenario only plays out if Leeds trigger the release close, Ben wants to stay but we want him to leave and need to encourage him to go. Which is a highly unlikely scenario. On a 4-year deal we’d be happy to keep him in January. What would be dangerous would be sticking him on a weekly wage for 4 years which would cripple us.