Mattyblue

Motivation is huge factor in football, if you are just a little bit off it other pro teams, even divisions below, can beat you. The players obviously knew the manager wasn't arsed and that filtered down.

Yep, just a typical Mogga season in the end… but I’m sure this place will spend this season glued to another one up there.

Then we turned it round, went on a barnstorming run and flew into the top 2. That’s football. His cup record however can’t be defended. Shocking from day one. (Will the bloke have to have retired to his lemon drizzle before this place stops going on about him everyday, by the way? 😁)

Now it’s is a bogey ground bizarrely, collection of largely crap results since they moved…

Hosting a friendly when your season has already kicked off… now that is smalltime 😬 Though I’m sure the actual plastics of Preston will have enjoyed watching ‘their team’ for once.

It was a very good turn out on the day, c5,000 walk ons. But those walk ons can’t make up for the fact we have fewer than 9,000 ST holders, so we’ll remain at the bottom end of that particular table all season. But I’m certainly not going to hand wring about it, we know what needs to happen to counter it: sell more season tickets. But that won’t happen until we have a CEO that is willing to go down the PNE/Bolton route, unfortunately it isn’t that North East sounding bloke who recently emerged from his bunker, even if he does ‘come across really well’.

Just as bad are those that have each reply to a thread cascading further across the homepage, Luton’s for example. 😵‍💫 Long live brfcs.com

This place is an oasis of calm and rationality in comparison to that forum…

Generous gesture until you realise we probably have a few dozen ST holders.

Let’s see how long all this lasts, every August is the same re ‘directives’ usually runs out of steam very quickly.

My reputation proceeds me (Don’t tell Gav 😀) I’d imagine we’ll have a decent following there, 1,600 or so, but not quite the full 1,900. They’ll probably add more tickets in the morning.

It’s an enormous step up from League 1. Some big clubs at the top end of it these days, but there’s also a dozen plus sides down there that you can stroll past if you have a decent budget.

It was over before it started…

When did footballers stop being able to use both feet?

Think he will. With time on the ball he was spraying it around like usual, but was getting caught in possession, which is fair enough as he hasn’t had many minutes in pre season.

Every now and then with TM we’d put in a fantastic pressing performance… then it would disappear, lack of fitness was probably a big part of why.

Indeed SG, The passing around the back has improved markedly as you would expect as we’ve practiced it enough! 😁 Now the ball is moved quickly into midfield with the opposition dragged out of position, textbook really. It’s even seemed to have quietened down the ‘stop pissing about wi it!’ Mowbray piners around me…

Went on their forum and they were even arguing over his ‘legendary’ status as a player. ‘Clogger of a player, clogger of a manager’. 😬

Personally I’d go down the yellow card route for time wasting, only issue with that is some refs would quickly bottle it.

Again totally agree, we have a committed core fanbase, but this ownership and the third rate set up they employ is what has held us back this past decade as football has boomed. So, so much potential at this club, it just needs sparking.

Managers say this stuff all the time. Of course they want to protect their job and/or reputation so they can get a new job if needs be… and it’s not just in football, politicians engage in it too - ‘expectation management’.

We have great fans, Gav, I’ve never said anything to the contrary. I totally agree, success increases gates, just like everywhere else. But the point you are missing is that crowds have boomed, regardless of success on the pitch, across English football this past decade, but not here. Not sure why you don’t seem to be able to join the dots, as you don’t normally have an issue pinning our myriad issues on a certain family.

Aye, there better not be a single kit left over or the order is being slashed again next season!

If there’s one thing I don’t struggle on it’s gates. Course I expected a good crowd, I literally said yesterday we’ll have c13k home fans, it was 13,800, a good turnout (like we had last season). We always get an opening day spike. I hoped we’d have 3/4K for Girona, (my point that you missed as usual, was for Miller and crew not to be disheartened if they didn’t hit their target), we had 5k, *amazed*, I was. 🙄. All these years on here and you are still crap at wind ups.

Well you know. 💁‍♂️