Just googled it Mike, whilst sat in the labour ward in Newham General (see the Good News thread shortly). the team was originally Hartlepool United until in 1968 a new borough of Hartlepool was created and the team dropped both the s and United. Then they added United back in 1977..

I doubt Joe’ll have it on -he’ll probably be watching the hurling.

Does the club have the resources to both film and provide a commentary for two games at once?

It’s probable that, like Rovers, they charge less for midweek games.

Whilst I can see the logic in this it does mean that most fans aren’t going to be able to attend the under 21 games.

To be fair Rovers will be charging a maximum £30 for away fans this season unless they come up with some multi-game packages to allow them to charge more in the away end. It's straightforward for Rovers to charge £20 for away fans for the home game with Reading, as it's a Wednesday night in March so will be a Cat C game for everyone.

My point wasn’t whether strikes are an inconvenience or not - clearly they are for anyone affected. But just about nobody would have been inconvenienced in getting by train to Ewood yesterday.

There weren’t any strikes which affected Blackburn yesterday - Northern, TPE and Avanti West Coast were all working normally. There might have been a few QPR fans who might have struggled to get from London suburbs to Euston but it would be very marginal.

I’m pretty sure that the turnstile flashes a different colour when a concession card or ticket is presented. That of course then relies on the steward being prepared to challenge anyone who uses a concession and is obviously not a child or a senior, which is a big ask of the young inexperienced stewards.

That's just asking for him to score against us next week. Bristol City were seriously unlucky yesterday. Hull City's penalty equaliser was just ridiculous and then they won it with a 93rd minutes deflection.

The second challenge was much earlier than that - my guess about 25 minutes in and not that long after the first. The first challenge was Buckley being fouled by Dykes - the ref played an advantage that petered out almost straightaway - the ref could have brought play back then but didn't. Moments later Buckley jumped into Dykes in retaliation. Both bookings but had the ref stopped play at the first the second wouldn't have happened.

It was simple Bazza. In the 30s my grandad had enough spare cash for either the BBMS bus or the ticket in to the game, but not both. So he walked. The first time I went to Ewood, some time in the early 60s, it was on the BBMS bus with my uncle. He lived in a house on Station Road right next to the bus depot. It was the first time I had stayed away from home in the country and the first time I had slept with street lights.

As stated in the FF minutes 7,800 STs = £2.25m, not £3.11m. PNE’s number will also be much less than £3.64m. You’re just taking a headline figure and not accounting for concessions.

Given the minutes have been signed off from last Monday's meeting (18th) and will be on the site very soon I can confirm that the figure we got at the meeting was 7,800. That is just bought tickets, so excludes any comps that have been allocated and I guess that could explain the difference between that and Goozburger's calculations. I assume that the club's various sponsors get comps allocated as well as club employees, players etc.

In most business circles appointing a senior manager and getting him to join in the following month would be regarded as very prompt.

If you mean the guy in the Rovers shirt and white jacket that's not Birdy.

Whist the club will have input it will be Macron that lead the design process.

Yes, they know that.

Can I give some clarity regarding the supply of this season's shirts. Given the issues with supply of goods from China since the pandemic a first small batch were air freighted so that the club had some stock to sell early. The main stock was sent by sea. They have arrived in the UK and are currently having all the logos added and they should be back at Ewood on Friday, although that date could slip a day or two.

My grandad used to walk from Bamber Bridge to Ewood to games in the 30s. He lived into his 90s.

Really? I had no problem Matt. I had my ticket booked for nowt by 10.30 on Monday. Now I have to decide whether to bail out on a family trip to Bristol next weekend to go to Finals Day. I’m already missing half of it for the England v India one dayer at Old Trafford the day after.

I don't know but would imagine that it is due to the difficulty of getting stock out of China at the moment.

It was good to see Lancs brought home by three local lads, Lamb (Preston), Hartley (Ormskirk) and Gleeson (Blackpool).

I never liked Led Zeppelin I remember turning down the chance to see them at the SU at Sheffield in 71/71? when a student there in favour of seeing Lindisfarne at the City Hall. But I have really enjoyed most of the stuff Robert Plant has done since and particularly the stuff with Alison Krauss. A few years back on a short break to Belfast we were sat having hotel breakfast when a bunch of long haired men walked in and I turned to my wife and said that bloke doesn't half look like Robert Plant. On closer inspection and looking up that the band had played in town the night before I realised it was him. I left him alone though!

I hope you haven't set off Gav as it's sold out.