I’d say going into Sunday the match going fans seemed content enough with him… but I think there’s a fair few doubts creeping in now.

Not sure that makes him ‘unpopular’, but then this is Rovers fans, they loved Mogga, never took to JDT, so who knows!

Fella who talks of nothing more of dinner parties with Dingles, turns his nose up at the oiks in the stands,  and was too scared to attend the derby last season, now bemoaning Ewood and its fans as ‘docile’ and un-hostile. 😅

I heard a few grumbles on Sunday, but nothing major. JDT had plenty more throughout his reign. If we stay up he’ll get the benefit of the doubt from the fans that rock up next season .

Just god knows how many that will actually be, considering; a terrible season of results at Ewood, the general shambles that is BRFC, another summer of departures and no spend, the new TV deal and big prices.

It’s a perfect storm that can only be even remotely mitigated  with a substantial price cut.

'Blackburn fans' 🤦‍♂️

Spot the 'local' paper sub edited in err, south Wales.

Oh and season tickets came out in March last year, not April 28th.

If you struggle to get to night games you've seen one win at Ewood in six months. Pathetic.

The season ticket 'campaign' will be a laugh.

17 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

 

If there are awards do it when it's over ffs.

Come on now Abs, they’ll have flights to Marbs and Dubai to catch straight after Leicester.

‘Typical Rovers fans’, ‘must be the worst set of fans anywhere’, ‘so negative here’ is the refrain on social media.

Nope, it’s the same everywhere, indeed I’d say our match goers are pretty bloody positive considering the complete garbage we’ve had to sit through for a decade.

9 minutes ago, rog of the rovers said:

Thinking about season tickets for next season and the tough sell to the fans that 2024/25 will bring (no matter which division) got me thinking about Rovers' poor home record this campaign. 

I also felt as though we've not scored too many at the Blackburn End this season, so looked into it further and we've scored 13 goals in front of our end! And only four Blackburn End goals in the 10 home games in 2024.

 

Rovers (League) Goals in front of the Blackburn End in 2023/24

1. 19/8/23 - Hull City - Gallagher goal to give Rovers the lead (lost 1-2)

2. 21/10/23 - Cardiff City - Rankin-Costello goal to give Rovers the lead (won 1-0)

3. 10/11/23 - Preston North End - Szmodics equalizer (lost 1-2)

4,5,6,7. 29/11/23 - Birmingham - Szmodics double, Hill and Leonard (won 4-2)

8. 12/12/23 - Bristol City - Scott Wharton header to give Rovers two goal lead (won 2-1)

9. 23/12/23 - Watford - Adam Wharton goal to give Rovers the lead (lost 1-2)

10. 1/1/24 - Rotherham - Szmodics goal to give Rovers the lead (drew 2-2)

11. 3/2/24 - QPR - Gallagher goal to make it 1-2 (lost 1-2)

12. 24/2/24 - Norwich - Hyam goal to equalise (drew 1-1)

13. 5/3/24 - Millwall - Szmodics goal to equalise (drew 1-1)

 

 

Largely because we are usually terrible after a promising first twenty minutes or so (in front of the Darwen End usually) and cannot get back into games after going a goal down.

Weak, weak, weak. 

The fact he even got an ‘appreciation thread’ just for having a good game in as cup tie  shows how small time we now are.

This is an obscure forum with a few dozen regular posters, wider social media is a cesspit, but there’s nothing anybody can do about that.

Come 3pm on Saturday at Ewood, he’ll be supported, like always, and that’s all that matters.

‘Half the world laughing at him’, it was shared on social media for an hour or two before the semi final got going. Most football fans wouldn’t know the bloke if he sliced a ball into their back garden.

4 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

When was that, i don't really remember it? I remember the odd game later in the walker trust years where they'd open the darwen end lower tier to rovers fans when they weren't expecting many away fans. Personally didn't like it, just felt wrong to me sitting in what I'd always known as the away end. 

The Darwen End had home fans in it every game pretty much (unless moved for Liverpool/Man Utd) for twenty years from 95/96 until c2015.

We’ve billionaire owners yet we are selling our Crown Jewels to ensure we can carry on paying the PAYE of the poor sods in admin roles etc. on c20/30k a year.

Obviously they deserve all our sympathy, but obviously that doesn’t negate the impact its had on the team, which was Windy’s actual point.

So you don’t think we should ‘be fair’ to the owners?

Thank god for that, as that’s a devil’s advocate too far even for you.

He had to go, and quickly, as the owners can’t meet their obligations, due to them being under investigation for financial impropriety - so let’s be fair to them.

I was talking about Wharton, and like Waggott said ‘we need to help the owners’.

Yeah, come on now WWWM, listen to Masher, be fair to the owners.

So support makes no difference at all to results? 

So across football why do the vast majority of teams do better at home?

What leadership qualities do you see in Hyam?

Freak start to the season for PNE when they ended up at the top, apart from that they’ve looked shite whenever I’ve seen them… we still couldn’t beat them like.

Nice touch to include Word documents. 👌

With their hovel only having 19k home seats, there is a scarcity factor when in all likelihood they will either be a Premier League club or fighting for the Championship title. You best get a ST or you may miss out.

Here there is absolute no pressing need to buy one at big prices for another season going nowhere in a huge ground.
 

No Jim’s quite right to point it out - it is all down to upbringing, my dad instilled in me local pride, the importance of heritage and passing down the baton between generations when supporting your local club, indeed it is what ‘the club’ is - and to have nothing but contempt for the local glory hunting Liverpool and Man Utd ‘fans’ and for them to ‘win’ as little as possible.

Thank you dad.