You a Billy No (ST Holder) Mates?

Blackpool are travelling in decent numbers this season, which is understandable as they are a club with a feel good factor after some horrendous years. Also they haven’t been to Ewood for a while, so no surprise that’s Cat A. He’s going to be in for a shock for Stoke and Boscombe though…

I’m all all about offers, more the merrier for me. But I did pick up a bit of resentment from some of the ST holders around me the other night about ‘all these offers, what about us that stump up every year?’ It’s getting to the stage where all these offers are starting to annoy some ST holders, but as they are largely shite and a dogs dinner anyway, you aren’t attracting decent numbers - whilst also pissing off your core. So a lose/lose situation. Complete shambles.

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A club serious about promotion, one who came into the window light on forwards, doesn’t make a 20 year old, who had never played a first team game, their only signing for that position.

Unfortunately I asked O2G on a couple of occasions to raise why these crap bundles are being promoted after failing year after year, for the other week’s meeting, it wasn’t raised by the looks of it. End of the day they expect Stoke and especially Blackpool to fetch decent numbers, so it’s Cat A. I get the rationale, even if I don’t agree with it when the run in should be about as many folk as possible in the tent. What do I think is a beyond stupid idea is this ‘Final 5’, which is trying to tie in floating fans, but at £120 (£24 a game) in the JWU, it becomes an unattractive price very quickly if you can’t make one (and many floating fans won’t be able to commit to all 5, that’s why they aren’t a ST holder already) - so said floating fan will obviously keep his powder dry and pick his games considering he’ll be able to get a Bristol City ticket for a tenner and a Derby ticket for £20 anyway. Crap maths, crap marketing, crap knowledge of the buying habits of their own floating fanbase. Complete clowns and it really needs a new broom from Waggott down.

£30-£36 a ticket then for Blackpool and Stoke. What a great way to help the team in the run in. 🙄 So if you are a floating fan that knows you can’t make some of the 5 games of that bundle (that itself is pro rata far more expensive than a half ST), you will have to pay those ridiculous prices. Absolute nonsensical ticketing policies down there.

Yes, they took a point from a team with a good home record and are still well in touch with the top 6. Job done.

Of course it should be. The 18 first class counties represent the historic counties of this country, not post 1974 admin areas. It’s been the home of LCC for 150 years, and is in a fantastic location in one of the country’s main cities. Should Surrey move to Guildford? Warwickshire move to Leamington Spa? What an odd comment.

Any reason why such a bad ref (and if sounds like those even within the referring world agree) get to keep a gig at a fairly high level of football year in year out? Is there such little quality coming through?

Is there suddenly a thousand plus extra ST holders (on top of the substantial number that miss plenty of midweeks anyway) not going tonight, due to ‘CBA-ness?’ How do you know?

Two home games on consecutive Tuesday’s doesn’t help. It’s not always pessimism keeping ticket holders away, some ST holders just struggle with those for a plethora of reasons.

Chaddy, as always, only sees things from his personal perspective. He’s from Accy, so of course it’s all about the Dingles and so nothing else can even be called a derby. He doesn’t realise that Bolton is a bloody big game for a Darrener, PNE is a proper rivalry if you live in South Ribble or Chorley way.

Greater Manchester isn’t Manchester. Just a name given to the ten boroughs that make it up (Manchester being just one of the boroughs). Just like the West Midlands isn’t Birmingham and West Yorkshire isn’t Leeds. Rochdale is still part of historic Lancashire. Modern rump Lancs needs re-naming as it just adds to the confusion and dilutes wider Lancastrian identity.

Exactly Speedie, not since the 1950s. They’ve had more top flight seasons than any other club. Only Arsenal go back further without a relegation. Be some story, but they dodged the bullet a fair few times in the 90s…

They spent a few seasons in the second division in the early 50s.

It is the post 1974 admin area of Greater Manchester. It is in the historic county of Lancashire: Although legislation transferred to newly constituted councils administrative business and responsibility for redefined areas, such legislation did not alter or affect the Duchy Palatinate boundaries which remain the same as the old geographical County of Lancaster. Duchy of Lancaster - 4th September 1992 Eric Pickles, the Local Government Secretary said: “Administrative restructuring by previous governments has sought to suppress and undermine such local identities. We formally acknowledge the continuing role of our traditional counties in England’s public and cultural life.” Why on earth would you want to minimise and belittle our great county? Try doing some research before you spout off your usual ignorant statements.

Norwich have had just one season out of the top two divisions since 1960…

It’s because you read The Grauniad, Tyrone…

Sounds wholly plausible. Is this really a club geared up for the Premier League?

It is all ‘ifs’ because no one on here has an idea of what really goes on at the club. ‘Finance available’ means bugger all if it is at a level that can’t attract better quality players, just like these ‘improved contract offers’ mean bugger all if the players concerned don’t think they are worth signing.

So we fall away and it’s all on the manager, nothing to do with the owners?

I’d take those comments with a pinch of salt. A lot of protection of these owners goes on in public from Waggott down.

Yes it has been average outside those two months, but so what, points on the board are points on the board. However, this form carries on and we finish 9th (and it could well happen), then I would imagine it will be a parting of the ways, and he won’t be able to say he hadn’t had a good bite at it. However, the buck, as always, is with these owners. They turned down the chance in January to make a potential transformative season much more likely. The ire of this board needs turning to them, not the Average Joe doing the best he can in the dugout.