This is such a stupid argument and far too many people use it on here. What does it even mean? Is it some dig because he’s an older bloke or summat? When you get up to work, get paid and x amount of quid gets shoved aside in pension contributions - what are you doing? You’re working until your pension pot suffices. What you’ve just tried to use as a bit of a dig at Mowbray is what every other working person is doing in life too. Mowbray has worked in football for over 40 years for fuck sake and there’s posters on here who do nothing but moan about how this is his “last pay day for the pension pot”. Get over yourselves. It’s another job for him, and if he did get sacked or does leave I have no doubt he’ll be back at another club in a matter of time, being paid and...shock horror....building his pension pot. What an evil sod

Brereton to progress once again in my opinion. He looked decent against Watford going forward. Great goal too. You'd have to stick with 4-3-3. Kaminski Nyambe Lenihan Williams Douglas Trybull Johnson Holtby Elliot Armstrong Brereton Our weak points yesterday were Bell and Evans. We'd have given a much better game if they weren't on the pitch. Why is Rothwell isolating by the way? Can't he just get a test to prove if he's positive or not?

Evans will play League 1 football once he is done with us.

Bell and Evans weak links. Could have told you that before kick off to be truthful. Douglas and Trybull each on the bench laughing their heads off. They’ll walk into this team if they have owt about them. How dearly we miss Rothwell. Think him, Holtby, Elliott, Dack, Armstrong and dare I say it BB will be big players for us this season in a settled side.

I used to walk down that alley way many years ago to school. Down from Marlton Rd, under the "mucky bridge", past the Aqueduct and down the alley towards St Barts. Maybe you have a different view of things as a kid but I certainly don't ever recall it being in as bad a state as it is now. Is that because the residents of the adjacent houses were prouder back then or because the council and club have both had their budgets cut in them years? I know which one I'd wager... Unfortunately for every story you tell about how you clean your flags, there'll be a story about someone who doesn't. Not all people will clean up after themselves but the surrounding businesses should be looking at maintaining the area to the best of their ability in order to attract new investment. As Blackburn Rovers are the biggest business in the area (excluding the likes of McDonalds or Aldi who are big business and have no real footprint on the local community) they should be taking the burden of responsibility and keeping all adjacent roads and alleyways as clear of litter and grime as possible. It will cost pittance in comparison to the thousands a week they pay players. As an aside, I always remember my Grandad regularly sweeping the alleyway at the back of his Marlton Rd house. Never see that kind of thing anymore and as I got older you could start to see the difference between his flags front / back and everybody else. As it has been said, a simple matter of pride. That maintenance guy sounds like most people you meet in life. "Oh, I think this area is our responsibility but that isn't". A man driven by numbers on a spreadsheet and determined to his very best at avoiding responsibility. Whether the rubbish is on the bays or the access road by it just get out there and pick it up.

Oh well. Another window over. I guess we will have to wait for our annual "I was wrong" by Mercer predicting 20 million pound savings, club tittering on the edge of oblivion and all his other doomsday predictions. Now we will "walk it". Man is a walking contradiction, but nevertheless it is hard to feel anything but joy at todays business so I won't spoil the occassion. Anyone else excited for the game tomorrow? Jesus, I've not felt giddy in a while.

Wait, wait, wait.... Have we just had a good deadline day?? Now for Bolasie, where have these links come from? I am in a state of shock I won't lie, roll on tomorrow!!!!

There’s absolutely no reason for any of the clubs to vote away their future right to eat at the big table. “Turkeys voting for Christmas” comes to mind. It’s an opportunist power grab by the upper echelons of the game, who make no mistake about it have ambitions beyond a meagre “English game”. They see themselves as Worldwide brands and are looking at using crisis capitalism to accelerate that. If this gets passed through I’ll be done with professional football. Sadly I don’t think it will matter much, but the best each of us can do is start to support our non-league friends and put our money where our mouth is.

I think it’s less about lacking ambition and more about being desperate for cash.

Brereton never develops in my opinion. I got £17m + add ons from Wolves after promotion and he failed badly there. Think he is mincing it about in the lower leagues on my save right now.

Best football we’ve ever seen? Come on man, far from it actually. It’s been fantastic to watch the last 5 games, even the losses we performed well, but it is by no means a sign that this squad plays the best brand of football. Souness early 2000s and Mark Hughes after both played nicer football. There’s not a passer in this team that remotely resembles Tugay. Holtby is good, but he’s a league below. They have some way to go to match them squads.

Same thing happened to me only this weekend man. Back end of last year I tore my right quadricep, I only managed 15 minutes of the last game of last season after it. Played all pre season and managed a start this weekend but even the lads have said I'm a second off what I was before. I could notice it too, I weren't sliding when I otherwise would have and in general just being fearful of going into the same tackles as I otherwise would. Anyway, first start back on Sunday and within 15 minutes I've pulled the tendons in my left ankle. I did it because I made a sliding tackle when before this injury I know I'd have made the 50/50 and put my foot in right away. Left ankle got caught under my backside trying to make up for it and so came the crunch. Ankle in a moon boot and potential surgery on the way. Tearing my quad was my first injury in nearly 20 years playing football, since then I've barely gone 45 minutes without a knock or being behind the pace. Although I blame the lack of physio and the fact I'm a desk jockey now whereas before I was on site active all the time.

Talk of Phil Jones is pie in the sky but even if it wasn't I wouldn't want him. He hasn't gone a season injury free in the past 5 or 6. The last thing we need to be doing is breaking the bank signing a player to sit on the physios bench. We have Mulgrew for that.

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a place on Earth

Rhodes is ten times the finisher Armstrong is IMO.

I think this league is there for the taking. The 3 premier league teams to be relegated were all pretty dreadful and are probably at the right level for their squad. Bournemouth are perhaps the better of the 3, but they are / have lost their better players. Last season Leeds and Baggies' squads were good enough to pretty much guarantee a top 6 finish but I don't think we even have 2 teams who we can guarantee play offs for. You have to suspect that eventually the Premier League quality of Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich will show itself but I'm not exactly frightened of any of them. I can't see Reading and Bristol City keeping up this form but in this league nothing surprises me. I'd place a wager that we are amongst the best in the league at the moment and suspect the top 6 will consist of the likes of us, the three relegated teams, Swansea, Brentford, Milwall, Bristol City & potentially Boro. Any variation of that won't be far wrong.

Same team except Nyambe for JRC. Cardiff is a different challenge for us. They've got out and out wingers in Ojo and Hoilett so our full backs will be in for a tough day but suspect they will be more than up to the challenge. There's not really anybody that worries me as I think Lenihan and Williams can handle Moore between them. Predicting a 3-1 win With any luck Brereton to get on the score sheet. He has done everything but score this season and deserves his reward. Feels strange already looking forward to a game.....optimism well and truly back.

Nyambe for JRC and then exactly the same side that played Wycombe. Easy 3 points. I'm going for a 2-0 win for back to back clean sheets and an Armstrong brace.

Our package goes above and beyond the likes of Bolton's, who for some reason have been held up by some on here as a "how to do business". Remarkable, really. No Bolton fan was offered a refund pro-rata the ticket. It was a "buy it and that's it" kind of deal. They are of course helped by the fact their average tickets cost less than an iFollow pass, resulting in an instant saving guaranteed simply by purchasing the ticket anyway. Probably goes a long way to explaining the 7k sales they have had. The only bad thing Waggott has done in this whole debacle is put that price increase in possibly the most poorly timed money grab I have seen. Literally everything in economics is currently trending towards reduced prices (reduced demand = less cost generally) but here we are. The club have probably missed a trick here. They could now be saying to supporters: "there's a price increase coming next season providing fans are allowed back in, however if you buy our season ticket as priced now (last years prices) we will freeze your rate for the following year plus reserve your long-standing seat". That in line with the pro-rata refund would have given us the best package available probably in the League.

I don't think you can accuse Waggott of over pricing. We are priced within the average ST sale price for Championship clubs. In some areas we are lower than average, ie our most expensive. Again, the price hike came at a silly time, but for years we as fans have gotten used to a product that is undervalued in respect to its market comparison. Waggott might have sold more tickets had he not raised it by however many % but that was a commercial risk he took. I don't think we would have got anywhere near the 8k sold mark even if prices remained the same as last season. There's a whole lot of rants about Waggott on here that are both fair and unfair in equal measure. He does strike me as a cheap skate, and everything he does has an element of cheapness to it, but at the same time he is in an almost impossible position of trying to satisfy our now expected low-cost season ticket with the accountants demanding increase in revenue. If the price hike was too expensive for some then it should be more of a jibe at the modern game. You cannot blame our executives for pricing within the average ticket price. Had we been excessively over the market value then the argument stands up to scrutiny, but the simple fact of the matter is that we are bang average in our pricing.

I'm hoping that people are overestimating others' ability to 'fall out of the habit' of football. This isn't like it is a voluntary stay away for some fans. Behind closed doors is a policy forced on us, and presumably by the time it is lifted we will have fans itching to see some football again.

What more can the club do? They have now released kits, season tickets, sold cardboard cut outs, sold iFollow passes. How else can they generate cash flow when the country is once again entering a state of restrictions? All businesses are suffering, not just ours. The above league of losses, if you will, is testament to how we are performing in comparison to other clubs. Cardiff are neither here nor there in terms of expenditure but they are losing a staggering amount of money per match day. The next step is perhaps introducing a 'membership fee' a la the Bundesliga but I doubt many Rovers fan would stump up £50+ for a membership fee to a club that won't offer what the German clubs do - a vote / share Genuinely unsure at what kind of strategy you are after from Rovers to generate income in the event of a Covid-19 restricted lockdown.

You learn something new everyday. Always assumed that because you could at non-league games and in other countries it was an FA rule not law. Needs changing in this day and age imo.

That’s a fantastic idea. However I believe there is a stupid rule which prohibits alcohol being consumed whilst viewing the game if I remember correctly from my time at Aston Villa. This is an FA rule so it would be up to them to cancel it, but I suspect if they don’t it will scupper this idea unless you agree to only have soft drinks served.

If he does do that then I would suggest it would be the nail in his coffin at Rovers. The price increase would have to be on around £170.00 to counter any credit you get back on a £399 ticket. It just won't wash. Even if he tries to claw back 25% of that it is still nearly a £50 rise on top of the increase in prices this year. I don't think you will see a price rise of that magnitude in any commercial business except maybe ones that rely on resources prone to fluctuations (gold, oil, whatever). This is why I genuinely think Rovers will further discount tickets next season. It makes the most commercial sense. It is definitely something I'd be doing if I was working in their department. Although I massively underestimated the uptake in season tickets this year, so any further discount won't benefit the majority and only the 1,200 that have purchased tickets this year. I suspect any reduction in price next season would only bring it back in line with last years ticket prices. I don't think it made short term business sense, as seen by the uptake, but I don't know what the long term commercial plan is. A £80.00 rise is near enough 20% so something suggests a further adjustment in the prices will follow. Again, all guesswork.