Educate yourselves!

Because it’s a rudderless ship. Naive young staff getting to indulge in silly pet projects based on vague buzzwords they received in an email from the EFL, I.e ‘green’, ‘sustainability’ to the detriment of your actual customer base. Obviously egged on by a CEO that has worked out it will save £47 on paper and ink cartridges. Where are the adults in the room at this club?

Initial thoughts is that UEFA/FIFA are in big trouble. The ESL aren’t going to repeat the mistakes of the initial launch (closed shop etc) and will look to mirror the existing structure of the game but with them pushing UEFA out the picture.

Aye, a bit like me also pining for wingers going past a full back and putting a cross in. Dinosaur, think of the data!

If fans don’t like it they just stop going, that’s the best form of protest any fan/customer has in their back pocket in any walk of life and we’ve seen plenty of that here since 2011. Unprecedented thing here is they don’t even care if folk bugger off, just an excuse to merrily close more stands/amenities, come up with ‘initiatives’ to tick some box, well, 4k will buy an e-ticket anyway feck the rest, and charge more to whoever’s left the season after.

For all the cracking work the fans have put into the Watford game, it shows the biggest obstacle to any progress for Blackburn Rovers is the senior management that have somehow got themselves into position of authority at this great old club and, of course, the owners that keep them there.

‘MU & LFC banter page’ can you imagine. Dave from Hemel Hempstead and Rob from Guildford having the bantz. 😒

A decent percentage of folk don’t have smartphones. I suppose when you have a lad in his early 20s as Head of Marketing it’s no surprise we see this kind of ‘initiative’.

When was the last time we put in a good performance/win in front of a bumper home turnout? Always a load of anticipation for games like this… then let down.

It’s both him and the subbies. I kind of understand why he does it, as I’m pretty sure you are taught in journo school to not keep repeating the same proper nouns. So not ‘Rovers’ over and over again. OK, so mix it up with ‘the Blues’, ‘the club’ then. Though Sharpe just kept it to Rovers. The headlines are the job of the sub-editors and they won’t have a clue either way.

I’ll go 18k. 16.5k-ish home fans. Which would be 7,000+ walk-ons, more than double what you’d have had for a £25-£30 Category B game. As always, we won’t be seeing really big gates (I.e 20k plus) for such games until we have a bigger ST base to build the gate from.

‘Blackburn fans’ in the headline there, you can tell that the LT is sub-edited nowhere near East Lancs these days (south Wales).

He probably drew a few too many, but to be expected with inheriting a poor, unfit squad lacking in confidence. However, a bit more time for him instead of having to pick up the pieces from that clownshoe in almost March and he’d have done it. Obviously should never have been appointed in the first place but if they’d have sacked him post that debacle at Barnsley on Boxing Day when he got dogs abuse from the away following we’d have stayed up comfortably.

Wouldn’t have thought so as I doubt the Riverside will be full by KO.

‘Coyley’ and the club wreckers that first employed him, then kept him in post months too long were obviously far more to blame than TM who only lost 3 of the 15 games he had.

It’s all on the guy that was appointed in late February? Nowt to do with the Doughnut man or the owners keeping said man in post until late February?

Far more players in the box than a decade ago? Not sure about that, but there’s a hell of a lot more punching, even when unchallenged, which is strange as surely the ‘data’ tells them that punching a ball five yards is riskier than just catching the bloody thing.

Is shot stopping much worse? Not sure. But without doubt the ability of keepers to ‘control their box’ is. Far more flapping at corners, naff punching. No surprise as apart from corners how much crossing do keepers deal with these days? The ball is at their feet twenty yards out far more than over their head from whipped in crosses.

The club has said that if a fan turns up to the ticket office in the run up or on the day they’ll be turned away and told to go online. Strange way for a club with 20,000 empty seats to behave. Some older folk have taken to the digital revolution no problem, plenty others haven’t - they don’t have a smart phone, they don’t even have the internet, so why can’t they just call into the ticket office and buy a bloody ticket? Interestingly looking at places like Facebook and Twitter, mediums that are normally chocka with folk backing the club over ‘negative, moaning Rovers fans’ there has been a universal thumbs down.

He’ll mean at home as he keeps saying JDT is ‘hype’ as he doesn’t go away.

Yes. A Private Members Bill in the Commons trying to give home Test matches ‘crown jewel’ status like the football World Cup, Wimbledon etc - probably little chance of it getting into law as PMBs rarely do. Also, you would assume the ECB would fight it too as Sky bankroll the game here… obviously to the detriment of the sport’s profile which has fallen off a cliff since it went behind a paywall post the 2005 Ashes.

Of course it is, they are the root cause of this whole sorry shell of a football club. But they aren’t going anywhere. Whereas a CEO can, and eventually will feck off. However, I would wager the owners have had zero input into these ridiculous policies. It’s Swag’s path of least resistance to hit his revenue targets. Another CEO could well take a totally different approach to hit them. We just need to find out, and quick.

Oh there’s so many initiatives the club could pursue, alas I’ve accepted that nothing proactive will happen here until you know who fecks off (no, not them, presumably they’ll still be pissing their 20 million up the wall in 2043). The next appointment on that score is absolutely vital, a Swag mk2 and we might as we padlock the place.

To be fair a lot of those grounds are situated in far bigger towns/cities, some are substantially smaller grounds than Ewood, some fit both of those categories. Even in 2000/01 with a 20,000+ average gate that was only 66% of capacity. But yes, with all that spare capacity charging the prices we do after a decade of shite isn’t getting us off the bottom any time soon.

Only there for about 20 games, wasn’t he Can’t really judge him on that spell either way. It’s certainly a gamble.