Take the sponsor off it and it's a nice Rovers-related T-Shirt. Bit meh as an away kit to me.

For people who buy corporate tables for the season, do they all sit in the central comfy seats? Are they all put into the W09 / W10? Or do they get cheaper seat in W08 / W11 ? If they did that could skew your numbers.

Took 12 days of silence before we got the minutes last time.

Wrong thread.

Slowed down a bit now in this half.

Regarding Batth, it will all come out in the wash.

I think the personnel to some degree was irrelevant. It was the philosophy. It noticeably changed just before Pears came in.

Swag not wanting to miss a free holiday in Austria?

The change for me came over Christmas. Up until then we had been pissing around at the back but trying to play everything short and through midfield. This meant that when under pressure we would still try intricate little balls which kept costing us. At Burnley they were too good for us to play through them, and yet we continued even at 3-0 down. The only chance we had in their box actually came from one of the only long balls where we picked up the second ball and broke. It was the refusal to do anything else but short little balls, even in suicidal positions, that was pissing me off with JDT. Then suddenly against Boro in December, during the first half Buckley was getting on the ball and pinging it long into the channels for the wide players to run after, which really got us on the front foot. We hadn't seen that all season. When we were under pressure players were suddenly clearing their lines instead of tippy tippy stuff. It's like there had been a group meeting and a change in instruction to allow more direct balls if required. It didn't actually improve results, although it did cut out the numb goals we were conceding (Rotherham away aside). But I felt it was a definite improvement in how I wanted us to play, and that a proper couple of strikers may have been effective.

I’m surprised Aussies are still 2/1 to win this.

He probably told someone to back Wigan for the League One title when he found out Mowbray's starting line-up at Charlton.

That and the fixtures being released. Bumper day. Swag's treating himself to cockles and caviar this afternoon.

Well the opening game isn't on the Friday or Sunday at least. Let's just hope it doesn't end up at 8pm on Saturday or something ridiculous.

Leeds or Wednesday away would be OK. Probably be Boro or Sunderland.

It's the equivalent of a goalkeeper who is not great on shots and crosses, but gets picked because his distribution is good. 🤔 On the game, in general would we have lost had we not declared. I'd be fairly sure no. Could we have still won had we not declared. Potentially yes. The declaration was wrong and led to defeat.

I just think its double standard to eliminate betting companies but then have a vaping company. If you are eliminating one on moral grounds you surely eliminate the other. It never bothered me when we had beer on the front (I drink), or betting companies (I gamble), so even though I don't smoke / vape it shouldn't bother me that Totally Wicked sponsor. As I said, its just the double standards of turning down what I think SW said would have been a better deal from a betting company (before Recoverite) to ultimately now be sponsored by TW.

One of the annual footballing rituals tomorrow. When somebody ITK confidently 'leaks' the Rovers fixtures only for it to be proved a load of rubbish less than 24 hours later.

Burnley are at home on Boxing Day also.

OK. But that's different from your original two posts which I have quoted below. In your original posts you sounded like you were just talking about people who could afford to go and decide not to go. Venkys / The Owners wasn't mentioned. I agree with you to some degree on that point, but I think the number of people who say they don't go because of the owners is fairly small in my experience.

The big screen in the Blackburn end fanzone to not look as blocky as a Commodore 64.

I’ve read it all again. You said that you and the people around you complain about people who ‘choose’ to stay away. I’ve given you 3 examples of people who choose to stay away. People who maybe would be tempted by lower prices. All are people who used to go ‘when the going was good’ but don’t now. They are the ones you originally said you sat at Ewood and complained about. In the three examples I gave I just want to know, if you saw them face to face, what your complaint is?

That’s who you are complaining against but what is the actual complaint? Of the group I used to go with in the 90s, one has moved about 45 mins away and now has kids. He didn’t get a ST when he moved away and has gradually stopped coming altogether apart from the odd game here and there. He’s brought his young son a couple of times recently. Another stopped going because he was pissed off that Kean wasn’t sacked and didn’t want to go whilst Kean was in charge as he felt he was having the piss ripped out of him. That first two seasons in the championship were a shambles off the pitch so he didn’t go back. Now he just does other stuff at the weekend .He will come now and again, generally if we have a night out planned after, but says he honestly doesn’t miss it. The third, interestingly, stopped having a ST as he was missing a lot of games due to shifts. The only time he got one was in the Darwen End when they were reduced to £199, but still ended up missing a few and didn’t renew. He still goes on the freebies from our group or for cheap games. He is a prime example of a fan who may be tempted if he thought the cost was cheap enough to fall into his ‘easily disposable’ bracket. None of them would say “If it weren’t for Venkys I would go back”, although Venkys clearly drove the second lad away. So my question again, is what are you actually complaining about them? Out of interest, I think a £200 season ticket with a free kids ticket would interest one and three although I appreciate that’s too big a price drop.

Why would you complain about people who could afford it but choose not to go? What is the actual complaint?

Meh. I tried Heypi last night and it refused to believe Rovers beat Burnley on April fools Day 2001. Kept telling me it didn't believe me but it would 'humour me' and play along.

It's only gone up £2.50 a month. Thats nothing. You'd have to be a right pezzy bastard to not be able to afford that. 🙄