Tom - I remember Míchel Salgado telling us in India what a wonderful player Cotton was going to be. I guess that explains why Salgado hasn’t gone into management!

There's another reason for the surcharge, in that it avoids long queues of people rocking up at the ticket office at 2.45.

He was hardly going to say that he expected loads of ST sales on July 20th or whenever was he though? He was just making a general point that it there is no financial incentive now to buy a season ticket before the first home game of the season.

I don't Matty, sorry, but there will be a number sold around the start of the season. I do know that at the Fans Forum last week the club had sold more than last season's number, which would have included half season ticket sales as well. The 10,500 target is I assume the stretch target they have spoken about a few times. At the Forum Mike Cheston was hoping they would get to that target on full ST sales but strictly speaking they would meet it with half ST sales. I also know that very few will now be sold before 11th August as there is now no incentive to do so, but that some will be sold from then until they go off sale sometime in September. What that number is is anyone's guess but will depend on what happens in the first few weeks of the season. Some of that will be who we sign whether permanently or on loan but some will also be on performances. As we know from last season the biggest way to boost sales is to win matches. The club are still planning to do a price promotion at one of the early games in the season. I was assuming it would be the Millwall game but that's not definite - they could be waiting until after the main holiday season.

Keep up lads. From the Fans Forum last week: - JW asked for an update on the release of new club kits. MC replied that the home kit would be released on Wednesday 18th July and would be used at the Liverpool game.

You've missed a key word out there. Lynsey said that there might be games when they would close the Riverside. What she meant there was say a Carabao Cup game on a Tuesday night against a League 2 team. I doubt anyone would be surprised if the Riverside was shut in that circumstance.

This is the minute from the Fans Forum meeting last Monday on the Riverside: - TS asked whether there were any plans to close the Riverside stand for games after the pre-season games. LT replied that there were no plans to do so but there may be games where it would make commercial sense. MC stated that the club accepted that the stand needed modernising but there were no plans in the short term. In the long term the club would like to redevelop the stand but at this stage these were just conversations rather than definite plans. There was however absolutely no intention to close the Riverside stand other than for any future possible redevelopment.

Chaddy - I've no idea what the restructure will be and nor should I or you before the people involved have been told. All i know is that it is coming soon.

Before you all get carried away with guessing, he was in London for the appeal to the FA for the ladies team to be promoted.

It's coming - be patient.

Of course we haven't.

Point of correction. I’m pretty sure Greg Coar said that it was 15-16% of sales were to new AND returning customers.

Assuming the plan hasn't changed, we should expect the first home game against Millwall to be a cheap one, probably £10.

All 11 club pitches, including Ewood and those at Brockhall, have been relayed this Summer. In other news goal line technology has to be installed as well as it's a Championship requirement. This comes at a cost of £83,000, which has to be paid for by the club.

They don't normally Tom, except they occasionally have but only after full STs are taken off sale, which isn't until well into September. Of course we have a new man in charge this year so things could change.

From what I know £2m sounds about right should we have 10,000 ST holders. I presume Steve Waggott will be saying something about ST sales on Thursday night, although I doubt he will give out any exact figures at this stage. Rovers have certainly lost some cash from this family this coming season. My son has decided not to renew - given a combination of work shifts and holidays meant he only saw 4/5 games all last season it was a no brainer for him, no matter how much he might want to come. I'm a senior for the first time this year so I've only paid £215 for my JW Upper seat. Mind you I still have the rug and flask to buy yet.

Yes, the decision has already been made to make programmes optional in the EFL. The Fans Forum discussion was to talk about improving what those on the Forum agreed was a sub standard product. I think the club recognises that whilst sales are nosediving (mostly because the information is now readily available elsewhere) there are a lot of programme collectors out there. I suspect they move to some form of subscription service i.e. the programme is available to those who sign up in advance. Whether programmes would still be available for sale at games i don't know and whether there will be any changes for the coming season I have no idea.

I went and it was an excellent game with an under strength Lancashire made it a tight game, although it became very difficult in the last few overs with the loss of wickets. As Lancs couldn’t qualify they rested Joe Minnie and Graham Onions for the Championship game at weekends don’t that was probably the difference, comb8ned with several dropped catches.

The minutes of last week's Fans Forum will be up on the club website next week but in the meantime some information on kits from the meeting: - - New training kits will be on sale first in June, with home kits before the end of June and away kits in mid July - the club are going through a beauty contest for shirt sponsors to replace Dafabet - all are other betting companies - the club are also pursuing sponsorship contracts for other spaces on the shirts as now allowed

Maybe but his agent nicko is playing hardball on personal terms.

At the Fans Forum on Tuesday Steve said he was going to meet a group of DE fans and he was bullish about finding a solution that would work for you. I think as long as any existing season ticket holders are looked after as well it could work out OK.

The contract with Umbro has another two years to run.

To save another 10 pages of angst, it won't be happening.

No. Steve Waggott told us the end of June for home kit at the Fans Forum on Tuesday night. Training kit should be out a bit earlier and away kit by mid July. Disclaimer: I suppose it's possible that he said end of June to make sure and that there is an 18th June date in place. Dafabet deal has ended and the club are currently going through a selection process for a new sponsor. Obviously that has to be resolved before the shirts can be sold.

By the end of June.