We’ll never know if without lockdown the fans would’ve turned. But there can surely be no arguments that he received very little grief from match goers over his tenure. Like I said JDT has had more pelters already. Very lucky guy. But anyway, let’s move on from the miserable sod.

Of course managers should get cut slack depending on the circumstance of the club at that time. But I’ve never known such a middling manager get such an easy ride from fans over such a long period of time. JDT is certainly not getting such a luxury after only months in situ.

Midweeks always are (everybody expects it to be anyway), even a deal doesn’t really move the dial. So don’t waste your one tenner offer of the season on it. As morten says, we have two tasty looking 3pm games against promotion rivals in the run in, no brainer to pick one of those (well, it should’ve been).

There you go then, as I said, poor decision to choose this game.

Not a negative. the crowd will be c15k, which is obviously better than a standard midweek and can only help the atmosphere. But it was just the wrong game to pick. As midweeks will always have limitations with a lot of fans being unable to attend. Instead, if you choose a 3pm game in the run in and you will have 22-23k+ . If you are only doing a tenner game once all season, you obviously need to target it at a game that will pull the most folk in. A Wednesday game, in March, against a team fetching about 300, isn’t the one.

It’s a figure of speech, UD. 30 Years a Slave, football ain’t.

There isn’t even enough for the mascot, never mind anyone else. Kit man takes them home to wash every week, I take it?

It certainly is, but considering you have never outlined what has improved on the commercial side since the maggot days (and on the surface it certainly doesn’t look an improved commercial operation) then folk will take it with a pick of salt.

We signed Buckley and Travis up on long term deals last year. And quite right too, their wages won’t be breaking the bank and it protects our assets and helps future planning. No reason Dolan, JRC and Carter shouldn’t follow.

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Considering over 4,000 were sold before general sale, at Ewood for said random game would be the answer…

Not sure about that. There’s 15k+ seats in the JW and BEnd lower alone.

Aren’t there 20,000 available seats in the BBEnd Lower, Riverside and JW? So if there are 5,800 left, wouldn’t that mean c14k sold?

Wrong how? I said they should’ve put the request in last week as they were flying out the door, A fair opinion. I also said ‘all’s well that ends well’. And as for ‘wrong again’ glass houses and all that..

Load of Dingles wandering round Blackburn town centre looking in vain for an actual boozer would be a sight to see 😁

Swag seeing his stretch bonus slipping through his fingers…

They didn’t, that’s why they are putting the request in now as they’ve obviously been caught by surprise by the demand. But all’s well that ends well.

It will be better than a normal midweek. So say c14k/15k instead of 11/12k, that’s obviously not a bad thing. But if you are going to pick one match all season for a tenner, surely you pick an afternoon game in the run in in which you can get a *real* big crowd in to roar them on. I.e Good Friday against a promotion rival or the final home game against another. You’d be looking towards 22-23k for one of those. Better than nowt, but a missed opportunity.

‘We’ve done all we can’…

No chance of that, JR! There’s Exec bonuses to think of!

They should have realised that there is a real buzz around this fixture. 900 tickets for general sale was never going to be enough. The request for the extra 1,000 should have been in last week as they watched 4,000 fly out the door just to ST holders. Unfortunately ‘the club’ just doesn’t understand fandom and what drives big away followings.

Reading aside, the academies of the others are a ‘nice to have’. An operation in using their financial muscle to scoop up armies of young lads and then loaning them out for years on end, often for nice fees. They unearth a gem or two, it’s a bonus. Here, the academy is now absolutely vital to our whole existence as a competitive club, and something (one of the few things left at this diminished club) to be very proud of.

I’m with the Chadster. Loads of folk round me still worship Mogga. It was very evident against Swansea.

Which we also did at West Brom, and that is a change from some of those pre Christmas away games where the towel went in very early…

To be fair how teams perform vs different formations is a much more tangible and useful stat than the BS that is xG…