GQ magazine likes the home one, rating it as 5th best in the Championship! There are some right mingers to be fair. Kits

To me it’s not inconceivable that both will be voted into the Championship team of the year.

Keith Fear was the loaner of all time. No-one had any idea we had him till he appeared ready for kick-off at the Turd. 45 mins later he was famous. 20 mins after that he was infamous.

Because he’s not yet ready for the Championship?

We had the worst manager in our history for 2/3rds of the season, the players weren’t playing for him. Plus Raya is a substantial upgrade on Steele, Smallwood an upgrade on Lowe and Bennett MkII an upgrade on Bennett MkI

Terrific read on Furphy. I went and got his signature on my season ticket book on his first morning at the club.

I’m in the camp of Mowbray has earned our trust until he does something to lose it. I like his ‘brick-by-brick’ approach and hope the days of massive overspending on dollopers and has-beens is over. I’m sure he’s working day and night to bring players in but the fact is we are not first choice in this division and may well have to wait till the last week when players/agents unrealistic expectations hit the wall of reality. I’m also not sure how many points having “momentum” (ie fewer fans moaning) wins us in July.

Walls would never sell another sausage if they were honest with their paying customers.

Left foot as well. Sign of things to come from Robbo on his debut...

If he’d said Chapman would be a certain starter the price and salary probably would’ve doubled. If we can get him at bench player prices he’s worth a punt with that injury; if we can’t, he isn’t.

I’ll have some of what you’re having

Apart from the manager’s column, pen pictures of opponents and key previous meetings, there’s very little in a programme that isn’t easily available online. Maybe EFL should resurrect the old Football League Review idea and include in every clubs’ programme a kind of mini 442. Producing 32 pages of interesting and new content every other week is both expensive and difficult for each club. Maybe each club should just produce the 4 pages of match relevant content coupled with the mini 442 which they each get for 1/72 of the cost of production.

Sir Alf was a distinguished international who outshone Robson as a manager.

I don’t know if I’d buy a season ticket or not if I was in min wage. One has to spend based on ones own personal priorities. Beer, fags and skittles wouldn’t make my list but I suspect they do for many on low incomes. If tickets should be priced vs local income and catchment area then Burnley tickets should be cheaper than ours, regardless of being in the Premier League, and Accy should be paying people to come. Obviously one doesn’t like the thought of proper fans being priced out - although that has been the story of football everywhere the last 20 years - but the gigantic flaw in the idea is giving a 35% price cut to the 12,000 who can already afford the current prices. Enough new people don’t come to bridge that gap.

I did grow up in Blackburn and my parents still live there. I don’t get why people expect Rovers to offer much lower prices than the norm when it’s not normal in any other business, their costs aren’t any lower, and history has shown that demand is relatively price inelastic. It’s a business not a charity.

I’m not sure you’d get a single Baggies fan to entertain that notion; they’ve won all 3 major honours, been in 13 cup finals winning six of them and have spent less time in the third tier. And get bigger crowds.

I haven’t been back in a while but I assume new cars and petrol sell for 35% less than elsewhere in Blackburn

All managers sign players who for whatever reason don’t work out. Not all managers sign players who have the impact of Dack, signed on a longer contract.

But the hits massively outweigh the misses when one measures by contribution rather than headcount. Even without Samuel we’d have barely registered a point before Oct. One thing I like about Mowbray is he didn’t persist with the failures too long

A lot of the current 14 were nowhere near the 1st Div back in the day. I suppose one could say that tv money, while creating a permanent top 6, has democratized 7-20. I wonder how many Subbuteo team sets Brighton, Watford and Bournemouth would’ve sold back in the day.

That’s only about half a dozen clubs shy of a decent looking old First Division

Yes indeed, taking an individual word from a sentence to construe your own meaning is a well accepted rhetorical practice. One wonders why Cicero bothered with all those extra words when one would do. I get a sense of a feeling of superiority that your expectations have not been dumbed down, unlike us sheep. Enjoy the view from up there.

I think I missed all the posters who said they love us being a lower-mid Championship club and have no desire to be anything else. I must’ve been too busy reading the ones who think that, as the next step in our recovery process, lower-mid Championship would be acceptable.

Indeed so, I spent my first couple of seasons in it. That roof made for tremendous acoustics. I have to say I don’t remember a lot of fuss when we were relocated to the Blackburn End when the ground was first segregated. I think it was purely a logistical decision: majority of home fans head off back toward town or up LBR, easier to bring in the away coaches down from the Boundary. How on earth did we survive the next 40 years where home fans only went in the Darwen End by going over the top into battle.

Good debate following an excellent balanced post from Darrenrover - as one would expect from a Darrener! Personally I’m tired beyond belief of reading the never-ending pronouncements of “I’m not going back till they are gone.” Firstly because no-one, and I mean no-one, cares what the people concerned do with their time. And secondly, because chirping on here is the least effective, and least effort, protest known to man. I seem to recall Birdie did a sit-down protest in Nuttall Street when Lee bogged off - it didn’t change anything but at least it was an effort on his part. I think it was said before: if they’d bought us last July we’d be singing their praises as owners. Nothing in life is predictable, them more than most, but if this continues I think we are in for more good times.