This is my first away game of the season. Making a day / night of it - shall enjoy a couple of ales on the Gower and then Wind St in Swansea centre! 

I went to our only previous competitive match at the liberty stadium in April 2012 - it was a disaster - culminated in leaving the match with 30 minutes to go at 3-0 down and ending up ridiculously inebriated on Wind St! 

The difference between the manager and players re both these matches is telling. We currently have a fantastic honest manager and a squad of players who care and give their all.

Back then we had Kean and a bunch of overpaid useless mercenaries, albeit Nzonzi played that day! Anybody who went that day will recollect how spineless the performance was. Also rumoured that Givet punched Kean in the dressing room before hand and he was mysteriously left out of the match day squad. 

Play like we did yesterday and hopefully this visit will be more positive than the last! 

The back to back Saturday home games in early November against QPR and Rotherham respectively should have been the perfect opportunity to do a cheap ticket deal. Two for the price of one. £20 for both. The perfect time to encourage half season ticket sales.

Both of these sides will bring poor away followings. There is no potential for trouble in order for Lancs police to intervene and discourage a big home crowd. The players and season ticket holders would all love to see big crowds for these games. 

It really isn’t rocket science marketing. Comon Mr Waggott sort it out! 

Instead for the QPR game we have cheapest £21 in Riverside and £24 in Blackburn End! Cue 11,000 crowd! Surely someone who represents us on the fans forum can raise this?!

6 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

I think I tend to follow Rovers quite well on social media and I have never once heard or read the suggestion of sacking Mowbray in favour of Neil Warnock. At least not often enough to suggest it warrants column space in the local newspaper. I think as a journalist at any level you have a responsibility to ensure your reports are fair and accurate. By putting forward a notion that enough fans have the view of sacking Mowbray that it warrants such a response isn't fair or accurate.

 

I have just been thinking the same thing. I read this forum regularly. I read the Rovers fans facebook page. I read Rovers related things on Twitter. I know many Rovers fans and live in the area.

I haven’t seen anybody suggest that Mowbray should be sacked! I certainly haven’t heard / read that he should be replaced by Warnock. 

Its strikes me as utter codswallop.Even if it was true and some jester had expressed this opinion, like you say, why has he reported it in the LT? It will only get back to Mowbray and the players and create a needless negative vibe. 

I hope Waggott reads this - you are charging too much money and this is one of the reasons why Attendances haven’t improved. Cheapest match day ticket of £24 is too much. Putting season tickets up by £50 after the previous 8 years of utter rubbish was a nonsensical decision. 

Football in the UK is too expensive and all clubs need to re think pricing given we are in an age where most matches can now be viewed on live internet streams and red buttons. Bundesliga teams charge £12-15.

This is Blackburn. It isn’t a particular well off area. The price needs to be reflective of the area. West Brom only charge £20 and season tickets are cheaper than ours - why couldn’t we have had a similar pricing scheme? Salford City season tickets are £100!

Seriously when we have £7 million to spend on Brereton why the need to have such over priced tickets? The fact the owners found £7 million from somewhere would suggest gate money isn’t that imperative. We don’t appear to be an Accrington Stanley who rely heavely on gate receipts. 

I really don’t get why we couldn’t have implemented some progressive policies re ticket prices and lead the way for affordable football. Season tickets £200. Match day prices £15. Get crowds up, build the fanbase and also be commended by the wider football world. Got to be better than the current half empty stadium.

18 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Bolton is in greater Manchester. Simple as

Great win for Rovers in a good old fashioned LANCASHIRE derby, with 2 founder members of the football league who proudly sport the red rose on their respective badges. I couldn’t go yesterday, watched on sky and it was great to hear the presenters and commentators refer to it as a lancs derby on numerous occasions.

I’ve read the thread from start to finish - 2 points I want to make:

a) you are misinformed. The traditional Lancashire boundary which is 800 years old and includes Manchester, Bolton etc has never been abolished. It is still in existence and the traditional counties are recognised in recent legislation. So people from Bolton can correctly refer to themselves as Lancastrian.

The Lancashire county council area and Greater Manchester are only administrative “counties”. In laymen’s terms they are just administrative areas and not real counties. Hence when you drive out of Blackburn into Hyndburn you pass a sign saying ‘Welcome to Lancashire.’

b) I presume you are local? As Mattyblue has already said - why would you seek to diminish Lancashire? Why not embrace the whole County palatine? I know people who live in places like Bolton and Salford through following Lancs cricket and Salford Red Devils who can’t stand being associated with Greater Manchester and are proud Lancastrians. Again why would you be against this?

Sorry to divert this thread but I am proud Lancastrian and feel strongly about this issue. 

14 minutes ago, Colt Seavers said:

All good points David.

However, shoving an officer and running off would be classed as resisting arrest, not the more serious charge of assault on a police officer.  It is likely that some plea bargaining took place and Dack accepted the charge to avoid a costly trial, safe in the knowledge that a minor sanction would be imposed.

Police officers are just like you and I. Ordinary lads and lasses drawn from society to do the job we don't want to do.  They are Mums and Dads, our daughters etc. Not there to be assaulted. Mandatory jail is the only satisfactory outcome in my opinion when a person assaults a police officer (which Bradley admitted).

I think I would be a bloody good Magistrate! 

I take your points on board re the police not being there to be assaulted and accept there probably was a bit of ‘plea bargaining.’ 

Google ‘Assault PC Magistrates sentencing guidelines’ and have a quick perusal. You will then see why it wouldn’t warrant prison. You won’t like me saying this but applying the criteria in the guidelines - there is an argument he could have got away with merely a financial penalty. I guess you will say the guidelines are too soft! 

4 minutes ago, Stuart said:

Gardening, surely?

Any proof of this, btw?

I can categorically confirm it’s true. I understand prison was seriously considered by the DJ. Others have gone down for 3 breaches of Community Order. Lucky boy. Great player but needs to grow up. 

3 minutes ago, OnePhilT said:

Never mind that, we've won three of our five Championship games this season!

2

28 minutes ago, clarkycan said:

Everytime I see The Rovers

I get down on my knees and pray

I’m waiting for that final moment

When Blackburn Rovers have their day.

(Alt. 4th line - When Venky’s f** k off out the way!)

 

 

Superb! Wouldn’t it be great to hear that at away games! 

Wouldn’t it be good if we could have an original New Order Rovers chant given the aforementioned connections! Instead of the usual generic rubbish or copying off other clubs songs. 

Blue Monday is probably the most adaptable to a terrace chant. Or even Bizarre love triangle. 

Sadly it would never catch on with our fanbase! 

For anyone interested True Order are a great New Order tribute band. They play in Blackburn usually once a year. They play at Electric Church (formally live lounge) on Sat 13 October.

1 minute ago, AAK said:

Had it for ages, damo. 

Fair enough. I’ve only just noticed it! 

5 minutes ago, ewoodnews said:

We have a number of bids in but nothing that I can be 100% on. So wouldn't want to confirm anything.

You were spot on with Armstrong - apologies for jumping the gun when he wasn’t announced on the Friday! 

Anyone else follow Harry Chapman on twitter?

Has he always had a cover photo of himself in a Rovers kit or has he recently changed it to that? 

1 minute ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Moral of the story, don't believe anything you read on an anonymous message board 

I wouldn’t believe stuff like that if I read it from some pretend ITK kid on twitter.

However this site is different. It’s been going a long time and I’ve been posting on here many years. I think there is a ‘gentleman’s rule’ on here that if you post something as fact.... it is fact! 

As I say there is a difference between rumour and fact. That was posted as fact with a reference to the source.

Hopefully it is true and Sharpe has been asked to tow the line - I doubt this though. 

12 hours ago, ewoodnews said:

Signed for 1.25m 

At that price I think he is a really good signing

This is rather contradictory to what Rich Sharpe has just tweeted. 

I’d have no issue if you had said that you had heard he was on the verge of signing. I encourage transfer rumour and gossip on here as it adds to the fun.

However you stated it as FACT that he signed last night and it was to be announced this morning???

As a result I told numerous people last night and I look a bit of a ?end now! 

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers will release the figures this week. Expect about 12k Rovers fans have bought or renewed this season. 

No indication is clear from the club apart from Waggott's comment at the fans forum. 

Making signings shouldnt be a factor but the key factor should be wanting to support the club, players and Mowbray next season. 

 

What did Waggott say about sales? I haven’t seen that.

I believe we had 8,000 season ticket holders last season. If sales were already at a 50% increase the club would be shouting from the rooftops.

Do you know anybody who has got a season ticket this season who didn’t have one last season? I don’t. There was significant interest towards the end of last season and the Club failed to make the most of it. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if we sell less than last year. This time last year there was a perverse kind of excitement. We were signing players. We were going into the league as favourites. 

There isn’t the same kind of excitement this year. The club have massively messed up in my opinion by putting prices up by £50 across the board and closing the Darwen End to Rovers fans. They have alienated fans.

i can only speak for my circle of mates - 3 haven’t renewed from last season. Not happy with the price increase. It’s not so much the extra £50 but more the principle of it. I’m a little annoyed by it and only renewed on Friday. We had 8 years of dross until last season; increasing prices from our last stint in the championship is an insult.

Just over a month ago we had the largest amount of Rovers fans in Ewood for a match for 10 years. More kids are wearing Rovers shirts around town since the Europe days. It was a great opportunity to capitalise on this with innovative season ticket prices. Surely it’s better to have 16,000 at £200 than 8,000 at £400 eg Bradford.

The fact there has been nothing from the club about season ticket sales is a clear indication they haven’t been great. You reap what you sow. 

Anybody watch the Edinburgh derby last night? My Scottish team are Hearts. I was particularly interested in the game to watch the reported Rovers target Dylan Mcgeouch who plays for Hibs. He was on the bench, came on early, did okay but nothing special. A rather angry Neil Lennon has confirmed today Mcgeouch is definitely leaving. 

My conclusion - forget him and go all out to get 17 year old Harry Cochrane from Hearts. This lad will be playing for the full Scotland team in the near future. A great player with a big future. An all round midfielder who can pass, beat a man, strike a ball but also isn’t afraid to put a tackle in and has a great engine. Would work well with Smallwood. 

If Venkys are looking for sell on value he is the type of player we should be in for. The Scottish captain could hopefully have an influence! I honestly don’t know what he would cost though? Rangers are rumoured to be sniffing around him so by virtue of that he shouldn’t be too much?! Albeit he signed a new contract with Hearts during the season. 

1 hour ago, dallydally said:

Be good if Dack came out and said "I'm going nowhere"

He pretty much has:

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/15825038._I_enjoy_coming_to_this_place_every_day____Rovers_move_has_brought_the_best_out_of_me__says_Bradley_Dack/

Pretty sure Boro didn't loan him to us for him to play 15 minutes a game! 

Really starting to doubt Mowbray - I cannot see the logic in not starting Chapman.

As with a number of posters, my initial reaction was one of being completely underwhelmed and disappointed, but having reflected and done my research on him, he has my full support. 

Seems a decent honest straight talking bloke which is something we haven't been used to for the last 9 months. Had to overcome personal tragedy with death of his first wife at early age in 1995.

His record really isn't that bad at all. Kept Boro and Coventry up when appointed at similar time and circumstances as this.

Most fans at his previous clubs seem generally positive about him. The link to the Coventry site is evidence of this. His biggest failure seems to be at Celtic where he was sacked with them being in 2nd place having won 17 out of 30 games albeit 10 points behind Rangers.

i really struggled to get excited about Rovers under Coyle. 

Surely Mahoney has got to be worth a punt in the first team? He looks the part.

Good read.

12 quid tickets in all areas for this one. I wonder if a few more will turn up? Probably not!

RIP Kelbo. Been a household name on here over the years. Will be sadly missed