It is the ‘fault’ of a club if a raft (not just one) of players are sold or go on a free with contracts running down. Said club obviously can’t offer sufficient wages or ambition to convince them to stay. Disclaimer - from a Rovers perspective it’s all ifs and buts at this stage as they haven’t gone yet and the contracts are on the table.

Would go nicely outside the Blackburn End, such events… fat chance!

Love Kenilworth Road, so horrendous it has a charm of its own. The stand that is just portakabins, turnstiles through folk’s back yard, wood benches, the Eric Morecambe Suite… marvellous!

I actually had to rack my brain then to remember who the feck ‘Douglas’ was… completely blanked last season out of my mind.

The thing is with a lot of modern refs, and those at Stockley Park in the PL games… do they understand the game? It’s all well and good saying they are ‘crap’, ‘terrible standard’. I think that’s true from my perspective, but are a lot of these constant unfathomable decisions (to us at least) not actually something they get marked down on? Case in point both the ref on the pitch and more refs via VAR giving that penalty to Liverpool at Palace.

No, I’m looking for SG to use the size and strength he already has better. I like him, works hard and the tools are there for him to improve, but come off it Gav, he isn’t an ‘excellent player’ currently.

Without doubt. Scoring goals has never been an issue under TM, clean sheets have. He’s obviously always wanted to play this formation, he has attempted it intermittently throughout, but we just didn’t have the players, until now.

Reading their forum, same thing as usual. Obviously has talent, but doesn’t work hard enough, not fit enough… https://burtonbrewers.proboards.com/thread/4813/chapman-departs

Indeed it does, but ‘excellent’ he currently ain’t.

He’s not ‘excellent’ at this level, but he’s certainly a decent finisher. But he has lot of work to do when it comes to control and using his height and strength.

The club can go for it, why not. But multi match bundles offered mid season don’t work here, never have. Which makes sense, as if you wanted to tie yourself down as a floating fan to multi games including night matches, you’d have bought a full or half ST by now. Many of said fans ‘pick their games’, I.e a Saturday afternoon they fancy. So, for me, I’d be doing what we did in 2001, target a couple of matches and price it as a £10 a ticket in all areas, Operation Fill Ewood.

Pretty much the case from reading their forum… big missed opportunity.

They had a big demand when in the PL, large waiting lists for tickets. However, they never capitalised on it by extending their ground and building up the fanbase when the interest was there.

Especially in the Jack Walker Lower with two sets of club doctors and physios literally yards away! Great news, Davey!

Considering this was Sky’s promo for the game, then no surprise…

Then why mention the valuation at all? It should be irrelevant when it comes to selling to a promotion rival. Do I think he will go? No, shades of Jack bidding for Cantona, but telling that the noise out of the club is talking about them ‘not meeting valuations’, not that they can ‘feck off trying to unsettle our player, he’ ain’t going to you lot at any price’ etc

Hmm maybe because I actually read them? It explicitly says ‘they were rejected as they haven’t met the valuation’, not that they were rejected as he’s not for sale to a promotion rival.

Let’s hope so, but the unexpected/absolutely crazy transfers often occur in the last week of January…

‘However, the Cherries haven’t reached anywhere near the valuation that Rovers have for the 27-year-old who has been a key performer this season. Reports this morning have surfaced that Bournemouth have submitted a bid in excess of £2m for the midfielder but Rovers are holding firm.’ That reads to me that he could well go to our direct promotion rival in our biggest season for a decade, if the price is right, not ‘piss off, we aren’t selling to you lot of all clubs’…

And some more will dip back in for a weekend game when/if we are closing in on promotion, that’s what floating fans do. We are seeing double the standard amount of walk ons every week now, we’ve sold record half STs, we’ll undoubtedly see some big crowds in the run in. And of course, STs, STs, STs in the summer need to be pushed and pushed (whatever division we end up in). All that is all good news after a decade in the doldrums, so there’s no point pining for those that walked away between 2010 and 2012 (and believe me, I have pined for them), ordering them to ‘come back’, to ‘get behind the club’, as many of those former ST holders have long, long moved on…

If they haven’t been here for a decade plus, perhaps they have moved on and won’t be missing it…

We are doing fine. Loads more are now buying tickets every week, and more and more will do so. However, the crowds are still lower than we expect because we have so few ST holders in comparison to previous years… and there’s nowt we can do about that until the summer.

3,000 more than other night games this season, happy enough with that for a Sky fixture. It’s the weekend fixtures that will see the big crowds.

I’ve never known a player that’s done so little here have such revered status. He looked an exciting prospect in the third division, but a combination of injuries and attitude has seen him fall away, that’s football, and if he had anything to offer a team hoping for PL promotion, now aged 24, he would certainly have ripped it up at lowly Burton Albion. It’s a shame, but both sides need to move on.

What and actually use the big screen and TV concourses for something other than adverts and a team listing?