Mattyblue

‘Anyone at Brockhall who can do it?’

Surely you should be putting in a seat request for said seat next to a mate and that could be provisionally ‘greyed out’. Why do 11,000 seats need to be off sale for a week?

I must be being dim, explain to me then why c12,000 spare seats in the open stands need to be off sale for a week, to process, what, a hundred or so seat transfers?

Surely you could just provisionally block out some seats or whatever, completely off sale for a week? Good job they aren’t all on a drive to increase revenue down there…

Obviously M-B is happy enough with a regime decision.

Yep, he thinks they are some of the best owners in football (no, really!).

Yep, not sure why this is even up for debate. If they are good enough they’ll get games, but you don’t just chuck them in to hit some arbitrary minutes target.

I’d take that advice if I had a clue what it was.

And that’s fine, we all make mistakes - but then surely you are the last person then who at the moment should be acting all high and mighty about clubs sacking managers after a much longer 6 months or 12 months…

I take it the FF that was scheduled for Monday has been re-arranged?

‘We tried to get some cash deals over the line… but they were on the 15th June’.

Yep, definitely don’t want to get trigger happy and want a manager sacked after a month…

Get him in a NL midfield with J-Lowe and they’ll rip the league up.

Exactly, the PL is now increasingly a defacto closed shop, just with a floating few clubs bouncing in and out of it.

The annoying thing about the Championship is it is very close to being a fantastic competition. Absolutely nothing between the vast majority of the clubs… though now being increasingly ruined by parachute payments.

Yes, two different things. Individual clubs have had a great season - I imagine if you are a Forest or a Bournemouth fan you’d had a cracking time, but as a competition if the title and relegation places are sewn up before Easter it isn’t in a good place.

All so we can have a ‘qualifying’ procession for any half decent side to a 48 team World Cup.

If you don’t want to fund the various elements of a professional football club, that’s fine, so surely the obvious answer is - PUT THE CLUB UP FOR SALE THEN!

Imagine wanting to hear more embarrassing claptrap and outright lies from Steve bloody Waggott.

Possibly be like the Doncaster Belles, used to be in the top leagues, now knock around the fourth tier as an amateur team.

A football club is supposed to be more than just a first team. It is supposed to represent its community and offer a service to its supporters. Most of it not remotely profitable. Be it a programme, be it Radio Rovers, be it Rovervision, be it the club shop in town, be it attempting to knock down the academy to put houses on it, be it not having the club locked down on a working day every week, be it fans in the Darwen End, be it fans in the Blackburn End upper tier, be it a Blues Bar now stripped of Rovers memorabilia (so they can put on Liverpool nights)… or be it a women’s team. All gone, all further reducing this club to a sad shell.

He’s struggling to differentiate between a league with the ‘most expensive players’ and a league that is the ‘best competition’.

Wharton and Phillips came through because they were young footballers with the obvious ability to thrive at this level or higher - JDT gave the rest a chance (because he couldn’t fill his squad with the experience he obviously would rather have had) and they couldn’t take it, as they aren’t good enough (Barnes possibly harsh to judge, bad injuries, however he was 23 when he left and had never played a league game outside non league.) If you are good enough you’ll get your chance, if you aren’t, you shouldn’t and should learn your trade elsewhere, the likes of Vale and Garrett never were and wouldn’t have got a sniff at a normal Blackburn Rovers.

Pedantically correcting my post… but accidentally emphasising the point I was making, so thanks for that 👌

Not part of FFP, so obviously no issue with funding a women’s team as they never refuse a cheq…oh!