Dreams of 1995

Ok Jim you are not a stakeholder 😁 Problem solved

This is embarrassing more than anything. The whole operation at Ewood has been wound down to 'barely operational'. There is no spark or desire to improve the matchday atmosphere I'm not here demanding light shows or fireworks - just a good, old-fashioned well run operation in which the stands and concourse are clean; the fan areas are kept up to date; the food on sale is of good quality and priced accordingly and the beer / refreshments are varied I went to Blues away this year - must be the only club that I have come close to thinking: "Ewood is better than this" Almost every single other venue I have been, even during our League 1 days, I came away thinking the atmosphere is better here than at ours. Yeah, the likes of Walsall you had school tables acting as the refreshment bar, and the facilities aren't as modern, but they were maintained a damn sight better than ours Going to Ewood just isn't a pleasant experience any more. I will always go away before a home game

Does it really matter whether you define yourself as a fan or a stakeholder? By the definition of a fan you are affected by the companies - the teams - performance Therefore you are a stakeholder But if you don’t want to be a stakeholder then don’t be. Be a fan. Nobody really cares

Great pass by Buckley too. Plenty would have whipped that in Hes not a “sitter” - Mowbray played him right and he got plenty of assists. Needs to be further up the park but that boy can pick a pass

THATS WHERE THEY COME FROM - THE DEFENCE Big goal

You won’t get a response They’ll remember what Chaddy said from 2007 though

Fail to see where the goals come from in this side

Much much better in the second half We need a goal here. Draw away, win at home. You follow them rules you’ll get play offs.

Why does everybody care so much about Chaddys opinion on everything? There’s loads of posters that have made an opinion, then when events unfold that opinion isn’t the reality, and they change their mind. That’s called life So what? It’s football and this is a messageboard - like all things social media you post your immediate thoughts Bloody hell, it’s like some of you have ever been wrong before. And it isn’t just on Dack it’s on every single damn thread and by the same half a dozen people It’s so fucking boring. You tell us not to read it but it’s literally every thread running at the moment. Find a new man to hassle He has said now about 20 times that his opinion on Dack has changed. Move on

Szmodics has not got that Dack effect. The ability to turn a corner or cut a defence in half. What he does have is work-rate. I can see the logic in bringing him in to close a game out. When chasing though it seems a waste of a substitution

I would agree on Carter Next week I'd go for Hyam and Carter starting I do like the balance a left sided CB gives us, but for me Carter is above Wharton at this moment

It would be really good if they had their own thread

Sparks might know a better Director of Football playing U10s football in Haslingden?

Don't suppose you played the game did you K-Hod? I mean, the story of Frank & Bill....even though it did deviate from the game storyline 🤣

I hope there are some fans of The Last of Us here Just caught up now. If you’re a fan of the games this is TV gold. Got all the makings of a classic

Have we sold out of tickets for this? Can't see any on the website unless I am being stupid

How do you know? You don't know how spurious the reason is, who is at fault or even what happened that night None of us do It is bizarre how you have managed to come to such a firm conclusion Law of averages suggest you will be right, but to be so determined about it is odd given we know the sum total of zero To then suggest that if we are successful it will be due to sympathy and not due to being right - bearing in mind your final sentence - is even more bizarre!!!!

The playoffs aren't gone at all. 6pts separates us and 3rd place. In this league that can be overturned in a week, very easily. There are still 54pts to play for. The quicker we get O'Brien in the better.

Mowbray was only second to the Toad for how much support he recieved from 'the Owners' And he wasted it

I think it has become quite obvious that the EFL shoulders some of the responsibility here If it was as cut and dry some told us it was, then the box ticking exercise would be exactly that. Directors do not enjoy a claim that their organisation is to blame to be sat on their desk for any longer than necessary I still think the EFL will deny the appeal - they don't like taking responsibility for much. Then by the next transfer window a slight tweak to the rules will mean they'll never be put in this position again

I think it would be difficult for them to start building a training facility around Ewood. Impossible even. There simply isn’t the room

Them Chinese sides really do come in handy Found myself at Lazio during a journeyman save and reckon they probably gave me over £100m in a couple of seasons on some quite bang avg players

That JRC error was in part due to Morton He ran behind the player closing him down. Not into a space available for a pass JRC had to try and pass it through a Watford man No way is Morton better than Buckley

Exactly. Which is why the EFL's back and forth, on the face of it, appears wrong.

Because, within 10 minutes, it would be more than possible to insert a line into a Contract which states: "In the event of relegation to League 1 the Club are under no obligation to sign the player Lewis O'Brien" I'd say it sounds a lot more likely this was done, ratified, signed and sealed in ~10 minutes than it does to then agree a contract to cover promotion, and indeed wages/clauses/fees etc with it, in that same timeframe