Mattyblue

Not bad after five months without a start though.

One injury was two minutes on its own, two goals, load of subs, general time wasting all half… five minutes put up. Farcical.

Christ knows how Vale was ahead of him in the pecking order…

Chaddy’s Twists and Turns catchphrase is back with a vengeance. 😁

BBD certainly looked like his mind was elsewhere on Friday, you couldn’t say that today.

Sacked before he was even appointed? Sounds about right for the PL…

For a start it’s at home. And they are looking like they’ll be out the picture by then. Very defeatist to say we ‘won’t’ beat a team at Ewood who may have nowt to play for and who could well be sitting in about 12th.

We won’t beat Cov at home? Why?

Gallagher obviously isn’t ‘finished’ here. Contracted to at least 2024 and is one of our top earners… where’s he going to go?

First start in five months, held his own throughout and was at the start of many an attacking move. Oh and he’s 18. That’ll do for me.

Get a life, Chadster 😁

Yep, he defo made his decision on the back of your posts.

We finished 6th and qualified for Europe in his one full season (after being in a relegation battle the year before). Yes, we fell away from a possible title challenge, yes he was right to have been sacked the following season. But he obviously wasn’t ‘’awful’.

He did well, then it went sour, that’s football. It was then bringing in Brian fecking Kidd that was the disaster, a disaster we’ve never fully recovered from.

A great what if, if Sven had turned up in ‘97 instead…

If you say so. You think Bolton has a bigger fanbase/fanbase potential due to the town of Bolton being bigger. I disagree due to how our fanbase has geographically changed in recent decades. So we might as well leave it there.

If we only had our support coming from the town, then obviously. But we don’t. It’s about where the fanbase resides and much of ours has never resided within the boundaries of Blackburn or have moved out the town to outlying areas over the past 25 years as the town has fundamentally changed demographically. Bolton have 14k ST holders to our 9.5k due to them being half the price and the fanbase buying in to a ‘new dawn’, not because there are more folk residing in the town of Bolton over the town of Blackburn. History shows that our support has always been evenly matched… until the last couple of years.

Well no, that was the opposite of my point as I gave the example of Blackburn being a bigger town and Borough than Burnley, but that isn’t the be all and end all as they attract fans across plenty of other towns… just like us. Bolton are not a potentially bigger supported club than us just because the town of Bolton is bigger than the town of Blackburn, as history has shown.

Who said it was?

I know you can, that’s my point. So not ‘bollocks’ then. 😁 Neither do I, and that is my big worry for the future of this football club, so thank god we have these non-Blackburn areas to pull from.

Eh? Darwen, Rishton, Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, Clayton Le-Moors, Clitheroe, Haslingden, Bamber Bridge, Chorley, Hoghton, Mellor, Abbey Village, Balderstone, Samlesbury, Wheelton, Langho, Whalley etc etc.

I know Bolton is a bigger town, but despite that they have rarely had bigger gates than us through history, which is fair enough as much of our support has always come from outside Blackburn (and evermore as demographics continue to change within the town). The reason they are suddenly leaving us for dead crowd wise is price.

Lot of Rovers fans in south Ribble, in Hyndburn, in Ribble Valley etc. Like I said it’s not just about the ‘home’ borough.

Us and Bolton have always matched up generally gates wise… until the last couple of years. Yes, Bolton Borough has a bigger population than BwD, but certain parts of their borough are Man Utd strongholds. Plus, a load of our fanbase have historically (and now increasingly) resided across plenty of other Lancashire boroughs. So it’s not simply a case of ‘bigger population’. (Same when the Dingles try and pretend they are getting 20k from the town of Burnley when in reality their fanbase stretches from Hyndburn across to West Yorkshire).

And that’s a division in which half the clubs fetch 300 or so away fans.