Mattyblue

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.

Sounds like Steven Schumacher will be leaving Plymouth for the Stoke job.

Odd one. Sacking Mogga you were expecting them to go down the ‘French fella you’ve never heard of’ route, not a bloke who thus far has had a brief spell at QPR and did bugger all at Rangers.

Bloody hell I’m off ignore… must be Christmas 🎅

Makes sense as it must have been thirty years ago when he was ripping off Andy Cole. What a servant to the game 👏

They’ve sold out their initial allocation, which would’ve been 1k or so you’d reckon. Extra now on sale.

Great to read that from you as you swore blind that there was no issue with ticket pricing until fairly recently. A rare bit of consensus. The Swag tenure will end, everything does (well apart from this ownership which looks like it will outlast us all), we can only hope whenever this new broom arrives they rip the lot up and start again. So much potential here but let’s hope the earth hasn’t been scorched beyond repair for whoever does pick up the pieces after this clown.

Penny-wise, pound-foolish has been the stock in trade of this cretinous regime from day one.

Ha, course he has! Eddie didn’t do much in the Champions League, maybe he should hold out before trekking all the way back down here.

Shame he’s managed all the north east league clubs (yep, all, err, three of them) so the poor bloke will have to travel again 🎻

Plenty of bums on seats due to luckily being situated in a massive catchment area = ‘huge club’, obviously. They’ve achieved the square root of feck all for 50 years… bit like their dear neighbours come to think about it.

This is what happens at a club without serious people running it. You can just imagine the meeting this got raised as an idea by a well meaning, but wet behind the ears digitally native young employee. But instead of being immediately slapped down or it being developed into a wider offering, I.e ‘change to an e-ticket and have a chance of winning Jack’s Kitchen tickets’ or whatever, they’ve just gone with it, especially as Swag can now use it as a nice ‘green’, ‘ethical’, ‘EFL Environment Week’ smokescreen as he cuts back on the hours of ticket office staff (and cleaners and stewards as there will be bugger all folk there).

Don’t you think JDT would like to buy experienced and tough players?

To be fair to Broughton he has also repeatedly said ‘we want to be an established and sustainable Premier League club’, obviously that’s just platitudes with this set up, but at least he pretends that BRFC is like every other pro football club that exists to try and get to the highest level they can - Swag doesn’t even bother doing that.