And they do. And they won't attend when they might for 15 quid. I wish people wouldn't apply their own budget to others. It's obvious that cheaper tickets, travel etc means more fans, which boosts the team. 37 quid and hours travelling isnt a small consideration for a lot of people just for a game of football, which could easily result in you coming away feeling down, and certainly isn't 'cheap as chips'. Especially these days where you can often find a stream...

It doesn't penalise anybody. If you're travelling by another mode of transport, chances are that's your choice (obviously if you live very far away from Ewood that's different). If you want the free transport, take the free transport. Yes if you live really far away it's different, but what if you live next door to Charlton? Then you get your ticket subsidised and your travel costs sod all anyway, whilst someone travelling from Ewood is paying a ton in travel. Free travel is a great incentive, not some backdoor penalty effort. You can't please everybody.

Pretty much none of those Hull players looked good enough for us. When I noticed him, he did ok, but I was paying a lot more attention to us. Hull site gave him the same score as all but one of their attacking players, a 5. Apparently he shone against Reading though. He is adapting to a new league and a new team, who themselves are adapting to losing their two best attackers. It's bound to take him a bit of time. I've seen plenty of cracking players have poor games against us. Hell under TM he wouldn't even play for the first month or two to 'learn how we play' (if we didn't have an injury crisis). Time will tell if he is up to the league and whether we fucked up by not getting him. But hindsight is great like that. On paper he was well worth a punt, however it turns out.

"He does bring you goals and assists, undoubtedly, but we chose a different option over that type of player, as it was what we were looking for at the time." Soooo, we wanted a player who doesn't bring you goals and assists, instead. Nice one. Mission accomplished, at least.

They were doing pretty well before he left too. Got some good goalscorers.

Nah I'm still not sold on him. Average at best.

That's when we struggle the most.

I've not been as critical of TM's lineups lately. Given the circumstances I don't think they've been the worst of selections. I'm not too pleased with this one though. Johnson was dogshit last game and looked lethargic. A few days later he is only going to be more so. Should have thrown Davenport in. I'd have had Chapman ahead of Bennett too. I'm expecting he wont even come on off the bench though, that honour will go to BB and Samuel, woefully out of position. Other than that I'm ok with it in the circumstances.

And that if he is anything less than the best player on the pitch, some here will be giving it 'I told you so'.

Why will they need to be of 'good' quality to stand still when some of the ones we are losing are a bit shit (Leuts, Bell) or have been out all season (Cunningham)?

Let me save you the concern. We are no longer in the playoff discussion.

I remember people posting a few unsavoury stories about Dack when we signed him. Even that prick Diouf did a job for us. Unless it's a Joey Barton level scumbag I couldnt give a fuck as long as they deliver. His record suggests he will deliver.

Only in League One I think. Yes that's why I said backup-backup. I don't think he is any worse than Brereton as they both stand at the moment. But obviously we only invested heavily in one of them, who to be fair has more room to grow. Graham is finished after this season, that should be obvious. You do need at least 4 strikers in your squad. Although with our insistence on strikers out wide you theoretically need 6...

Will definitely never be a winger. I dont think he'd be the worst backup-backup striker if he actually got to play there, but our bizarre insistence on strikers out wide, mostly ones that don't even suit that style, is killing his and various other strikers' careers. Won't care when he leaves though.

We have scored for the last 8 games running before today.

I think today must have settled this issue for those who still thought we could. Surely?

Fulham aren't poor, they're one of the best sides in the league. However, they didn't particularly impress me today. We simply conspired to have no threat.

Think people are being harsh on JRC. Granted I've missed bits but he's done alright when I've seen him. Far better than the likes of Bennett would do in that role.

Think Armstrong is having one of his cold days so far, which is a real shame as he is our main goal threat lately. Still, he's always a threat so could still pop up with one.

We have eight players out of contract in the summer if I'm remembering rightly. Walton goes back and his wage goes off the books. Hard to say what the result for our wage budget of all that will be. It does seem Forster is on something in the region of 60-70k per week, but I doubt Celtic are paying anything approaching that. Sinclair was meant to be their highest paid player on about 35k. Maybe Southampton will loan him out again. And contribute most of the wages. Maybe they'll be thankful after shafting us for Gally. I do agree it's probably one we can't afford without a huge wage subsidy (and he's not out of contract until 2021), but I don't think there was any need to snark the poster about him paying for it personally. Not everyone has looked up everyone else's (reported) wages before making a suggestion.

I think you've confused bbrovers with the owners.

You're gonna want to use a more successful example...

These comments are a serious stretch. The fee has intensified criticism of him, yes. But if he had just come through our academy and played like he has, we would be saying he was promising, and hope for him to press on over the next year or two. We wouldn't be saying he looks good, or a star. I think he'd be regarded in the Buckley bracket at the very best, or possibly more in the Mols bracket (who is rarely talked about, though some here insist he is better than BB). He is behind so many players in the pecking order in pure football terms, fee aside. In fact if he hadn't cost so much he would have had nowhere near his number of first team appearances. On the other hand, the lack of pressure may have improved those performances. Maybe he can still come good, but I think this will 90 percent come down to psychology and that the club aren't doing him any favours in that area.

He watches nearly every u-23 game.

Wow, we really are pretty fucking stupid with this, aren't we.