Like a horde on The Walking Dead.

To be fair most on here (maybe not the lemmings on wider social media) were aghast by his comments in his big eve of KO interview… but looking back he was merely stating the truth.

This club has no ambition outside not being in League 1 and ‘developing’ players - and it hasn’t tried very hard to even fulfil ambition 1.

To paraphrase den, ‘operate like Crewe, become Crewe’.

3 minutes ago, DE. said:

 

For what it's worth though, and I think you've said similar in the past, I ultimately couldn't care less what a manager says in interviews or pressers if results on the pitch are good. I can ignore the media stuff, but I can't ignore the results or our position in the table. So in the end that's all I'll seriously judge Eustace on.  

I have. Think I’ve been on here too long, I have a fair few catchphrases. 😄

But yes, it doesn’t matter one bit if he gets results, so crack on, John, but if you don’t mind I won’t waste my time listening to you either.

What was your signature phrase back in the day, den?

1 minute ago, rovers11 said:

We will when we see the quality of player that replaces them! 

‘They literally can’t be any worse’… oh they can!

32 minutes ago, martonrover said:

It will ‘kick off’ organically if things go badly on Tuesday.

It will kick off between myself and the bloke behind me if he describes the “Venkys out!”  chant as “brainless” again, as he did v Stoke.

Tuesday maybe not to any great extent as a load of regulars will serve it. Plymouth, definitely. 

The only ‘brainless’ folk are the ones that have undergone a Venky lobotomy post about 2017z
 

Very curt statement considering 25 years of service taking them from the Northern Premier (tier 7) to at their best not a million miles away from the League 1 playoffs.

Holt must’ve been on the ale last night again.

6 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

As I said when he arrived, this is a win win for Eustace. If he does anything well then he's a miracle worker, if he does shit then everyone with half a braincell knows that it's 100% down to the owners. 

 

Unfortunately a good chunk of the fanbase don’t have said half a brain cell and it will be JDT that gets the blame.

So doing what he’s paid to do? 👏

4 minutes ago, BigBar said:

I second this, looked pretty clear

‘We win together, we lose together’ didn’t last long, did it…

Have to pick up wins against Millwall and Plymouth (or 4 points at least), as I certainly can’t see where many more are coming from after that - can’t see the four points either considering we’ve one win in fourteen.

One of the biggest weeks for many years coming up… yet the people who actually own the club couldn’t give a flying fuck about it.

We were told he was improving?

Wait for the ‘it doesn’t matter, nobody calls us that outside the area’.

Yep, quite right, they don’t, which means it’s a canny little move if he does start to do so himself - JDT cottoned on to that straight away, and to be fair Mogga did from time to time.

Yep, there’ll be a Waggott Close, Venus Drive, Rovers Fold.

‘Only difference’ from Ke*n.

Aye, almost two peas in a pod, aren’t they…

They burned through the first Wharton instalment already?

11 major trophies won in the town of Blackburn… not bad considering ‘it’s not a football town’.

Often see that for big games. Loads of folk obviously just buy a ticket anywhere in the stand and head straight for N01
 

16 minutes ago, Andy said:

I thought everywhere looked as full as they have for some time, even down in the corners of the JW.
Exception being the Walkersteel, as ever.

But c22k will about right - spare pockets around the ground, top tier of the Blackburn End and the gaps in the Walkersteel would add up to c7k-8k.

Of course the figure is right.

The Riverside was fuller for Watford, the JW and Blackburn End were just as busy though. Which makes sense as there were about 1k more home fans in the ground that day over last night.

Got to say I don’t remember any conspiracy theories on here post that game though. 😅

Obviously isn’t nonsense. Both end blocks of the lower tier were pretty much empty, the middle corporate block (Blackburn End side) was at least half empty. The far corners weren’t totally full. 

The crowd has to be reported to the police and the SAG. We were 8,000 short of capacity, simple as that. 
 

Of course it does, we were 8,000 short of capacity, not 10k which the JW holds.

As I said before -

3,000 in the BEnd Upper, 100 or so in the lower, 500 in the Darwen End, c2,000 in the JW, c2000 or so in the Riverside. Add corporate, disabled etc to that and seems fair enough to me.

No conspiracy here.

Yeah the fact we had 27,600 for Oxford when there were certainly 2,000 empty seats in the Darwen End and a fair few in the BEnd Upper says there’s no funny business going on.

Think we are so used to rattling around at Ewood we over-estimate the gate for such games as the ground ‘looks and feels’ much fuller than usual.

Forest about 31,367. From memory the highest crowd the ‘new’ Ewood has ever had was something like 30,800 against Liverpool in the 90s - a complete sell out.

So that gives you 8,000 empty seats on Tuesday.

3,000 in the BEnd Upper, 100 or so in the lower, 500 in the Darwen End, c2,000 in the JW, c2000 or so in the Riverside. Add corporate, disabled etc to that and seems fair enough to me.

They have to detour to Nottingham first as it’s been double booked by some Liverpool fans.