Stone Roses - One Love

Stone Roses - Waterfall

Digital Orgasm - Running Out Of Time

Ben Marshall was in Rishton Tory Club on friday night.

Stone Roses - Shoot You Down

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

Manix - Feel Real Good

Redskins - Keep On Keeping On

Dead Kennedys - holiday In Cambodia

By the way, I remember Peepers.

The Jam - Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero

Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman

32 minutes ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

Without exaggerating, there is still a healthy number of at least nominal Rovers fans in that part of the world. Think the supporters club moved to the Dog & Partridge down the road  (which has since closed & reopened as a gun shop - the Dog & Cartridge!). 

You probably need to get as far as Chorley before you would class it as proper Rovers territory though. Can get to Ewood in 30 minutes, but then again you can say the same for the Manchester & Liverpool clubs, and even Bolton. Also goes to show why it's not surprising that even after their relative glory years, Latics have never been able to get much support. 

Agreed. In fact, in the 90's Rovers fans filled a 53 seater from Edinburgh to Ewood every game for many seasons. Not a single one of them attend now, the biggest reason being an event in November 2010. Some of them fly to Hamburg nowadays to watch St Pauli in the German 2nd Division.

Just now, Admiral Nelsen said:

I remember getting free tickets to watch low-demand Rovers games from school in the early 2000s, and that was in Wigan!

No reason at all why we shouldn't target basically everywhere in Lancashire north of Bolton imo. 

There was a supporters branch in Standish (Boar's Head?) for many years that organised travel to Ewood.

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Wait until there is this ‘super’ east Lancs council, be every club for themselves. 

Well apart from nicey nice Rovers not wanting to ‘step on any toes’.

Impossible these days, with all the empty seats.

5 minutes ago, Don Said said:

Too right. I feel we miss a trick with this and quite a few other things.

Is the club trying to attract more people to Ewood? Yes.

Does the club understand how best to attract more people to Ewood? No.

No. Steve Waggott on attendances before Christmas, "As a club, we've done everything we can". 89 pages on this thread says they haven't.

6 hours ago, old darwen blue said:

Sorry no, wonder what happened to him?

Cirrhosis?

The Clash - Tommy Gun

Black Box - Ride On Time

On 04/03/2019 at 23:10, Herbie6590 said:

*Spoiler Alert* ?

 

Fingers crossed we can make it happen...??

Bobby's up for it.

Deep Purple - Highway Star

Just now, Miller11 said:

The “Venky’s have learned from their mistakes” rhetoric has addled some minds... what possible hope can anyone have that any replacement for Mowbray would be anything other than an absolute joke? Which of the 7 appointments they have made give you any confidence they would employ any one of the names mentioned above?

They stumbled across a likeable but limited trier, who replaced a previously unemployable dingle, who replaced a spineless spent force, who replaced a well meaning out of his depth youth coach, who replaced a well connected novice coach, who replaced a misguided attempt to appease the fans, who replaced their beloved Steve fucking Kean.

Each and every one of their appointments has been met by, at best, scratching of heads, and at worst near mutiny. We can all come up with fantasies of who would get the job... and that’s exactly what they’d be.

Mowbray has been adequate in his tenure so far. He looks as though he’s going to start slipping below that level. In my opinion he is worthy of faint praise for modest successes. He’s not the biggest issue.

I’ve said plenty of times he has taken too much credit for last years achievements, but now I think he is shouldering too much of the blame for the shit state of our squad. Yes, our lack of formation and tactical identity is on him, as is his misplaced loyalty to players who helped get us promoted (and relegated in the first place now I come to mention it). But you cannot possibly tell me that Mowbray was given a 7 million budget to do what he pleases with and spunked it all on Brereton? There is something decidedly iffy about that deal, and indeed our whole transfer policy which seems to have a complete make do and mend approach towards the defence - something I keep banging on about, but has been the case since the Rao’s rocked up. I also very much doubt he turned up at Brockhall on his first day and went “hey, these academy coaches are the best I’ve ever seen... let’s get them working with the first team!”.

Mowbray has his failings for sure, but the club remains a basket case. As has been proven since the days of Kean, managerial issues are the tip of the iceberg.

 

And there, thanks to Miller11, you have it in a nutshell. FOV.

3 hours ago, scotchrover said:

 

You can talk about trying to “entice the fans” as much as you want. The fact the average walk in didn’t purchase one, when they’d have been given one for free the following season, if we’d been promoted under Bowyer, says an awful lot. 

Well lack of take up says they didn't think we'd go up.

Passion needed. Hughes & Fazakerley would nail it.

Toots And The Maytals - Pressure Drop

Get Tony Parkes on.