Yes, Martin Tyler is on comms (memories thread) saying how Oldham have one of those new fangled under soil heating jobs… don’t want to get that going under plastic 😁

Does it matter if the ‘club would’ve been slated’ by nobodies on social media? In this instance the club themselves obviously thought he was on the way out, so no surprise his contract has started to run down. But generally if the club wants to protect its assets, it should do it, the opinions of roverboi1995 is neither here nor there. Like we did with SG last season (the club did get slated online, but so what) and what we should have done with BB in 2021.

Watford have had as many managers since 2012 (18) as West Ham have had in their entire history…

Yes think it was, the Ray Stubbs narrated 93/94 review VHS is coming back to me…

We did, Tugay scored a cracker. Also a game in the 90s, we played in red and black stripes at Ewood for some reason…

Extended interview (via the EFL podcast) with JDT…

As they only had one season in the PL, I believe they only get two seasons of parachute payments.

‘Value’ is obviously in the eye of the beholder. However, the fact we only have 9,000 ST holders, one of the lowest in the division says that the majority of the fanbase don’t see them as value.

The ‘new’ Riverside is only three years older than the Darwen End… shows how quickly Blackburn Rovers transformed.

I was talking about that one. But on the other games, that’s football, especially with a new manager and a young team.

I think there’s a good chance. A load of ST holders won’t bother… but I suppose it depends on how many of them pass their numbers on to non ST holders.

Yeah, but surely we need to know first if the Dolan postcards are back in stock?

The strange phenomenon of Sky having a Friday night Championship game on every week, but *never* being us is finally broken (even more strange considering we seem to be on Sky every other week each season). Still haven’t had one at Ewood for 9 years though…

‘Lies, damn lies and… ‘

Surely we’ve got to move on. He made mistakes on the day, we got well beaten. It was an awful day, but it was four months ago and we’ve bounced back strongly. All this about it being ‘unforgivable’, of course it’s forgivable, he has us in with a chance of completely transforming this football club after just months in post. We are getting as bad as them for obsessing about that one fixture.

Depends what ‘turn out’ means. 13k for a top of the table clash with only a dozen games left says without that good base of ST holders to build from a big turn out is very difficult to achieve. Of course on the back of this run the summer is a big opportunity (whatever league we are in) to increase ST sales and ergo crowds substantially… unfortunately we know what Swag will do.

For a league that’s full of loanees, we really have reduced our reliance on them.

Because we only have c9k holders, simple as that. We had c4k walk ons for a Sky game at £25-£30, nowt wrong with that. But of course it is very difficult to pull in a big crowd when your ST base (the vast majority of any crowd) is at that low level. So 13k is the higher end of what you will get at standard pricing until we increase ST sales. Why don’t we have more? Because unlike our neighbours that have reduced prices, we have increased ours by 30% since Covid - £430 to £530 for any potential new/returning fan in a town like Blackburn, in a cost of living crisis. The 13k that attended had plenty of heart and soul, the players and managers have heart and soul, the academy has heart and soul - it is up to the CEO to pursue commercial policies that would add numbers to them.

To the level that it’s been used now? Definitely. Far more prevalent now than in the 90s/2000s at away games. As an anecdote, my cousin moved to the US a few years back. He was home for Christmas last year and went on a pub run coach to Hull. He couldn’t believe how much coke had taken the place of booze since he’d been away, pretty much the whole coach was openly doing it.

Didn’t feel like it yesterday!

Done some job there has Robins, taken them from League 2 to knocking on the door of the Premier League (plus all the perennial off field stuff ).

Fandom has undoubtedly changed. The days of a home crowd backing the team and going for it from minute 1 has largely gone. It is certainly understandable here after a decade in the doldrums. However, it doesn’t take much to rouse them; a crunching tackle, pressing hard etc. If a team grafts the fans appreciate it. Yesterday was a good example of how players and fans can feed off each other to help get over the line.

Cocaine is the biggest change in away support this past few years…

‘Simple’ 😁

Definitely. Just watch a standard Championship game on Sky and most grounds sound like morgues…