The only saving grace for next week’s gate is you’ll get a lot of fans who just fancy a festive game, folk back home for a few days for Christmas etc so getting thrashed the week before won’t necessarily come into it … but yes it won’t help.

Certainly could be, and I’m sure plenty will look to pin it all on the poor sod in the dugout.

You would think so, because of course this will have been part of a long term strategy/project plan, not just something made up on the hoof, won’t it?

Would be the second row back in consecutive cup games after the Blackburn End fiasco… maybe they need to stop making such ridiculous decisions to start with.

Just throw some teenagers on, kind of takes us back to where the blame lies again, doesn’t it.

We have seen shambolic window after shambolic window, a bottom half budget and as a result a small, inexperienced squad. So guess what we’ll get plenty of beatings from these kinds of parachute clubs. It is what it is, I’m not going to hand wring after such games. On the flip side we could well have a decent Christmas period with the games we have coming up against ‘normal’ Championship sides.

What has improved since this Fraser came on board? Now I could be being a little harsh as he may have very little in the way of actual executive authority but the commercial/marketing operation looks as shambolic as ever from where I’m standing.

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If we had 11/12k ST holders like we bloody well should have then definitely could’ve had a chance of getting close to that. Unfortunately with only 9k that would mean selling 11,000 walk on tickets, just not going to happen for a run of the mill Championship game, even if it’s Christmas.

Nobody scapegoated BB throughout his years of poor form, he’d have got far more abuse elsewhere than he got here. We have a very patient set of fans on the whole, all that ‘Ewood jury’ stuff certainly isn’t true these days.

‘Face it Rovers are a small club, fans need to get real’.

To have 3k walk-ons tickets sold already when usually that’s the total number sold by KO (with the majority sold in the last day or so) sounds positive… a win today would help, of course!

With our fantastic brewing tradition as a nation going back centuries serves folk right for drinking ‘macro lagers’.

Riverside pricing is another Swag ruse. Move the cameras and make it no cheaper than parts of the JW and coax Riversiders to move, and plenty have. The JW is a fair bit busier than it was pre Covid, Riverside a fair bit quieter - exactly what Swag wanted, now the vast majority of the c12k home fans are facing the cameras in the main stand and a lower tier behind the goal. Gives the illusion of a decently populated ground to the wider game, especially if a decent away following in the DEnd lower, but scan across the ground from the JW and it is anything but.

Been standard policy for cup ties here for the past 30 years, even if only for a week. You might have noticed that there’s still quite a few non ST seats for a walk-on fan to go at, and still plenty of time post any claim your seats deadline for that non ST holder to then take it. But yeah, feck it, might as well put season tickets straight on general sale next summer too, feck the ST holder that has had his seat since the ground was re-bullt, feck the friends and family he sits with. A football ‘club’ indeed.

Even through (some very long) poor runs of form, he always put a real shift in, that’s why he never lost the support of the fans - but you honestly reckon he was doing the same post World Cup till about late April last season? Well obviously you do reading the above post. But for me, he hid a little. Now human nature means it was probably done unconsciously to avoid picking up an injury etc, but it was very noticeable to me and I’ve never had an axe to grind with him, a wholehearted player, which is why it stuck out like a sore thumb.

So the only thing about what happens on the pitch you don’t like is risky passing (ball control? A reason not to renew a ST? Come on!). The rest I totally agree with but is nothing to do with JDT or the team. In reality we are 2 points from the play offs, only the relegated PL 3 and Ipswich have won more games than us, we’ve the fifth highest number of goals, Sammie is the league top scorer… all done with a bottom end budget, more Venky nonsense in the summer, an inexperienced team and an injury crisis that has left us with 15 year olds on the bench. ’Crap’ indeed.

What’s crap about it?

No guarantee they’ll renew even in the paltry numbers we have now, remember we didn’t even hit 7k ST sales in 21/22. Doesn’t take many to think ‘bugger this, £400-£500 when half the games are on Sky anyway’ etc and with such small numbers to start with sales can very quickly collapse.

Swag would take one look at that and think… ‘Nah, I’ll keep things exactly like they are, I’ll hit my revenue targets by milking the core 8/9k, and that’s with minimal effort and risk for me’.

The away support over the past few seasons is consistently the best it’s been probably since the 90s.

Another in the long series of ‘ticketing fiascos’, to go along with ‘merchandise debacles’ and ‘catering shambles’ A commercial operation completely unfit for purpose. A total embarrassment that a club as prestigious as Blackburn Rovers has to suffer this.

Probably would be a bit of risky signing because of wages/injuries… but ‘not Championship quality’, I mean, come on 😁

Of course plenty of older people are tech savvy. But plenty aren’t, so why are they being excluded? Not very ‘inclusive’, is it?

Because value is value, I’d back the opposition to beat us if it was a good price, that’s the entire point. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be ripping the betting slip up with delight if we actually won the game.