It would be interesting to know how many points we would have if matches only lasted 70 minutes. Don't ask me to do the research though. I don't have the patience these days.

If matches lasted 1 millisecond we'd get 46 points

Ever the optimist me but we're going down.

6th time ever out of the top 2 divisions in 141 years.

#VenkysOout

3rd time. We've only dropped out twice

I would edit the statement to read

Venkys as owners = Certain Relegation

But they've certainly speeded up relegation with their appointment of the failed idiot

Warnock out

Struggling a bit with your maths there, Shaun. 36 no?

Moot point mind. Still sends us down.

Typo. Meant to type 46

Shows how much apathy you have that a) you didn't realise the season is 46 games long and b.) you didn't assume it was a typing error

12 games gone and 9 points = 0.75 points per game

Over a full season 46 x 0.75 = 34.5 points

Survival totals of the last 5 seasons

2016 - 41

2015 - 42

2014 - 45

2013 - 55

2012 - 49

In the sh.it!

No problem whatsoever with that, we all see what we see. However you seem to suggest that there was a groundswell of opinion that Sellars was a soft arse ("It was well known at the time") so you appear to be speaking for others. I would be surprised to see too many people endorsing your opinion. Ask Mark Patterson about Scott Sellars - he curses him as he saw him off the premises at two clubs, and Patty was renowned as a tough tackler.

Welk known as in my circle of dad, grandad and teen friends

I've never really forgiven those players for 89. It hurts now to think of it

You can't learn how to not be a bottler. You either are one or you aren't. I can assure you that despite his slight frame, Scottie was no bottler or soft lad. Just a typical wide player of that time - brilliant on his day but with the odd stinker thrown in. Very similar to Noel Brotherston I would suggest. I was as horrified and peed off as the next Rovers fan at Selhurst Park in 1989, and yes we didn't turn up that day, but I think you might have picked the wrong target there mate.

Its all about opinions

Garbage.

Is it? It was well known AT THE TIME that Sellars vanished into his shell as soon as an aggressive full back kicked him up his arse. Usually he took them to the cleaners but the odd few rattled him

There were many bottlers that terrible day in London. Even Super Atko

Must have been a different Sellars that grabbed the play off semi-final against Derby by the scruff of the neck after we went 2-0 down early doors then?

I was never a huge fan of David Mail but to describe - for me - a terrific Rover like Sellars as "a bottler" is harsh, to say the least!

You are talking THREE YEARS further on when Scott was older and wiser.......hence he finally made it to the Premier League.

As I said at the time in 89 we had a number of players who always crumbled at the business end of the season......hence the numerous play-offs from the jaws of automatic promotion and then playoff capitulations. It needed someone like Kenny to sign a couple of class players and gave the old guard the confidence and mental toughness to go with their ability.

On his day Sellars was a fine player but at that stage in his career he was a bit of a soft lad. IMO

Gayle should have made it 3-0 but Eddie McGoldrick scored late to make it 2-1. Garner got a last minute goal to make it 3-1. Sadly we had a few bottlers in that team like Mail and Sellars......hence the capitulation in the 2nd le

I think it improves the TV view

Took me the whole highlight to get used to the ends being the wrong way round

Surely they could have spent the money on paint and a clean?

Who's 'really to blame' for less fans in attendance. And thusly less staff jobs? (I use in attendance because Rovers have the same amount of fans they had pre-december 2010)

Tip: Begins with V

Well aren't I a plank? I thought it would be some scaffold carbunkle. Looks good. Not sure how those at the very back will think of it as it will probably be just above their view of the far touchline.

All this to capture an empty stand!

Don't think I've seen anybody with a rug or a blanket over their knees at Ewood for years except possibly for wheelchair users.

I remember around the Ardiles days when my Grandad and his mate took a bit of carpet to sit on into the Nuttal St stand. We had one beaujois (at the time I regarded it as posh though the sink was used as a urinal) season as ST holders in there

It's been posted on here that the scaffolding will have been removed by Saturday

I assumed it meant the 3 scaffold towers that seemed to be up for roof maintenance.

I must have got the massive end of the wrong stick (not for the first time). LOL. I assumed the only way to do it would be to build a scaffold platform as the roof never looks robust enough.

Are you saying the TV gantry is a structure suspended from the roof, or on the roof?

I'm not moaning. Just pointing out that DUH! obviously a sheet load of scaffolding is going to compromise some poor fans views. It's called empathy Al

Don't be childish Al. You're better than that. We all know that in the grand scheme of things it's a pointless exercise.

Unless it's a levitating gantry then views will be compromised unless they have no intention of selling affected seats

Did someone post a picture of the gantry scaffold? I am sure it stretched across the central 3 blocks of seats and seriously compromised the view (of one of the goals) from the seats from the rear down to the columns in the adjacent two block sections?

Thusly buggering up the view in the R O V E R sections

But surely with cost cutting measures in abundance we can't afford this. Factor in Cheston said ticket money goes towards running costs of the ground and that's going to take a big blow because of the stayaways. Then they lay some off who've worked there for years then hey presto they spend money on something as pointless as this.

So lack of income doesn't apply to stupid whims then ?

Who said we can afford it?

I think the stumbling block in the past was that the stand was pretty full and frankly the gantry destroys the view from 1/4 of the prime seats in the middle.

Now there's sweet fa fans in there they can build as big a gantry as they like for the most pointless exercise in the clubs history.

Now the world won't get to see a real football stand with decent leg room. Now all they will get to see is the JW with what few fans are in there with their knees up to their nose as it was made for people who are 2ft 3"

The world must be holding it's breath for the 10 seconds on Channel 5 every Saturday evening

Looks like matchday