Mattyblue

Only these clowns would try and price Wrexham (12.30, Sky) as a premium fixture.

If you can Rover-ise the local area then great as the regime do everything they can to de-Rover-ise the Ewood estate. Just think of the history timelines and what’s been done to Blues Bar for starters.

Those cardboard cutouts in the stand were much more Yasir’s kind of fan.

One poster (no, not him) certainly thought Gestede was doing an ‘excellent job’, presumably still does…

It’s NYE 2075… ‘do we think Balaji Rao III will sell? Would a new owner look for building us a new ground or will we stay sharing the Anchor with Darwen?’

And that’s with free coaches too. Obviously was always going to be the case for a Sky game at 12.30 on NYD especially as they filled the Darwen End for a cup tie only a couple of years ago, so no ‘new ground ticking’ to do for their fans. Of course the idiotic regime here made it Cat A pricing to coin it in as they will have expected them to fill it again ‘as they did last time’, as always they’ve just shown themselves to not understand fandom and what drives numbers (which is no surprise as they don’t have a foggiest about their own fanbase either).

Not once, can’t say I’ve ever remembered that before half way through the season. Though I suppose considering even the 150th shirt isn’t even the iconic blue and white, then it figures as this regime have absolutely no feel or interest for this grand old club and it’s heritage.

According to Glen not only was the 150th kit delayed to the 151st to not prevent gold kit sales, we have also been wearing the gold recently over the green to further try and push sales of it as they’ve been poor. Club run like a convenience store trying to get rid of soon to be out of date tat.

A ‘prediction’ of a win with a shake of his random goal scorer generator.

They banged on and on about the town of Blackburn throughout the AI generated promos and videos to the extent I thought we were celebrating the anniversary of the borough not the football club. So why not for the green shirt (as was supposedly based on the livery of the borough) put the coat of arms on it? At least something to make the shirts have something striking to them.

So the rumour from Glen that Suhail delayed the release as he wanted folk to buy the other three shirts first that weren’t selling particularly well isn’t far off the mark then. Maybe don’t release four shirts in a season then if you want them to cannibalise each other’s sales would be the obvious solution, not releasing an 150th shirt in the 151st year…

Regardless of these other recently unearthed (and ambiguous) sources Parsons has alluded to, I’m telling you now if that random historical kits website didn’t show a white shirt first in the list of Rovers shirts we wouldn’t be wearing one on NYD.

‘Crap support’, usually.

People have given up, that’s why there’s no clamour for him to go.

Crap managers who get crap results get sacked, was ever thus. But that isn’t how this club operates. They have only sacked Coyle (and that was too late) in a decade. The clamour to sack him isn’t there as what’s the point in clamouring for something that ain’t going to happen.

Exactly what it is, no point wasting energy on something as piffling as the manager. He’d have got both barrels a decade ago when the fanbase were still somewhat under the illusion that this club operated in a normal-ish fashion.

Yep, shows how far the expectations at this club have fallen (plus the fact they don’t do sackings) that you can hover around the relegation zone for months and there’s not even a discussion amongst fans re him being removed, indeed plenty thinking he’s actually done a decent job. Just not normal.

They are obsessed with the Maltese Cross. Fine, a compromise should’ve been our iconic blue and white with the cross, not 80 to 200 quid for that.

‘150th celebrations’… in err, the 151st year.

Get an early goal and we stroll to a win. We didn’t so we didn’t. Millwall we did get that early one and it was a comfortable afternoon. So little attacking threat we need to score when on top early doors.

So they are going to wear the 150th shirt (that will only be available to a select group of fans on the very last day of the 150th) not just long past the actual anniversary but in the 151st year. A fitting conclusion.

To be fair to him, for once he has answered the question (obviously in his usual politician-esque round the houses way). Like me, he’s there because ‘it’s what you do’. I sit with my dad and the lads I’ve sat with for many a year, couple of pints (elsewhere) pre, settle in to a two thirds to three quarters empty ground to watch a crap display of football from a bunch of plodders that happen to be wearing blue and white, then trudge up Livesey Branch until the next time. There’s bugger all left in the ‘match day experience’ in and of itself that would attract anybody. If it was any other leisure event you’d have long given it up, they are lucky that a connection to a football club lead otherwise rational people to waste their time and money in a sad and depressing environment where there is no drive, at all, from the regime to do the very basics of custodians - i.e to have the club and ergo said lads in blue and white be the very best it can be.

Pre leaving: ‘He’s totally right to keep to his philosophy’. Post leaving: ’He was very stubborn with no plan B’

Two distinct commercial feck ups in one day. Whenever you think they’ll hit the absolute pits of incompetence and unprofessionalism they manage to lower that bar further.

So unless you can get down to the shop on NYE for click and collect nobody will have chance to even wear one in the 150th year (obviously shouldn’t expect to see them hanging in the shop or a chance to you know, try one on). Some level of incompetence that.