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Brilliant Diaz there

We are making silly decisions

Ayala calm OEB nervous wreck

Who taught this fuckin ref ?

Good subs these.

Pickering central. Edun full back. Dack for Sammie please.

Forgot Szmodics was playing

Calm the fuck down lads.

Boooooo

Gally a better defender than Nyambe

Gally would never have scored that stuck out on the wing.

Buckley is a better full back tban Nyambe

Diaz superb strength, run, control, pass. Can't be the same player from that first season.

Fuck Sam yesssss Great play Diaz

Morton on for Brittain Buckley full back ?

Buckkey having a really good game.

Under TM I wouldn't expect us to reach HT in front. Now I have zero nerves.

Boom. Passed that one in

Ayala and Ash really comfortable so far.

Brittain is a massive upgrade on Nyambe.

Go on then. Agreed. COYB

But we are not talking about those already in the tent. Not really. Its the topic. The strength of the local economy (Blackburn) and its direct link to the local club (not just at Rovers). Enticing people from outlying areas vs BB1/2. In which local economy the money is spent. Jobs, pay and affluence to afford certain priced tickets. Ticket prices and how in touch the club is with affordabilty of their customer base. It is complicated and all interlinked. Matty reconciles it as rapid demographic shift. I do not disagee with that but I disagree that going forward we ever fill our stadium with folk from out of town and ever increasing prices. I want the stadium full of working class folk (because they love Rovers AND they can afford to go). As it was for most of us. So for me the primary target must be within Blackburn.

Of course they can. But do they ? I suggest they get the train back and spend it in Clitheroe. And if they are already doing this, they are not in need of the club enticing them are they so those few not the topic here. The club must focus on gaining fans from the local area to attend games AND spend their brass locally. Unsure what relevance demography has but if anything sounds like snobbery....

And I will add.... you do realise there are folk being born every day in BB1 and BB2 ? These should be Rovers fans and our targets first and foremost. Those who left town are already Rovers fans and old enough to choose whether to go down or not. So I respectfully disagree on this point Matty.

Rovers needs fans from BB1 / BB2 who can walk down and spend spare income before and after locally and in town. Local working class people on which our club and its values were founded. Working class people who live out of town are less likely to spend time and money on travel, parking etc AND money in the local shops and town centre. Think that is just a basic fact. And sorry but like or not, the more who come from the Ribble Valley etc who don't blink at a £500 ST takes the club further and further away from our heritage and a full stadum. Special mention to Brentford fans. 10 minutes after the game not one had left the ground. What a credit to what is going on there and in their community. Our lot are leaving with 10 minutes left to get out the car park and back home.