Mattyblue

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…

Lot different than a day at Elland Road, but very similar to a lot of Championship grounds…

The average gate was 26k the year this lot bought the club. You aren’t getting close to that kind of crowd for a Wednesday night game in March against an opposition who’ll bring 400. You would need 17,000 walk ons! Now if they’d chosen the game against a play off rival on Good Friday, that would’ve been a totally different issue…

7 academy grads in the squad yesterday…

I think the ‘morgue’ atmosphere is overplayed a bit. It is the same at every ground of club’s treading water - the likes of say Stoke or Cardiff are the same. It’s certainly not a unique Rovers phenomenon.

Blackpool fan has died after an incident in The Manchester pub according to their AVFTT forum…

No it wasn’t just that. It was also a ‘false position’ and we’d soon be 10th, just like usual… but there is no ‘usual’ when it’s a different fella in charge.

All that ‘false position’ stuff and taking the piss out of others for merely pointing out that ‘we are 3rd’ was always a bit silly. This fella isn’t TM and even in bad runs of form we were still picking up odd wins, no death spirals with this mon.

Contract law, another area full of brfcs expertise 😁

Maybe that’s the improvement he is talking about, we had 8k buying at those prices, now we have 9k and Swag hit his bonus. Doubles all round when he next visits his office…