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The ‘err, well, look at Bury’ excuse still survives though, as if us and them are any way comparable as football clubs.

I suppose when about 15 clubs have sacked their manager by February (some of them twice) it’s hard to avoid teams with a new man in situ…

Swansea was largely very poor, though improved tempo second half. No arguments. Though I am surprised that anybody would think last night was ‘terrible’ to watch. Once we scored a nicely crafted goal (great to watch), we played well. Good tempo, moved the ball much quicker, flying into tackles, Buckley orchestrating from midfield and carving them open on a fair few occasions. Obviously the caveat is they looked like a L1 side and Buckley and the like aren’t going to get that kind of space every week, plus for all the times we got in behind there was a lack of composure and decision making. But in the round that was not ‘terrible to watch’ in the slightest. A solid, committed top end Championship team controlling a football match. I enjoyed it.

Oh I’ve certainly seen him play better, however another match winning goal and he’s obviously now a key member of the squad. He’s a great story and an example to a lot of young lads that have it handed to them on a plate but just don’t have the hunger.

So adding another dozen plus games onto a tired surface through a Lancashire winter. 🤦‍♂️

For me we will be there and there abouts, purely because JDT will continue to keep us solid. Yes, we’ll get beat somewhere, but then follow it up with a 1-0 win. Carry on in that vein, keep nicking those wins and with the shed load of victories we already have, we’ve every chance.

Spotted that he wanted to put the ‘defeat in the bag and move on ’ last night. Great spin on a Mogga classic line that 😁

I mean, I don’t understand it, they bought some lamps and everything… or maybe they just nicked the bulbs from the Jack Walker reception.

Came here after being released from Preston, only first team games at Clitheroe. Obviously he has ability, but so do a lot of young lads. He’s a great example of how far desire and attitude can take you.

Ha, didn’t realise Reading had a game already… so no!

Just walk over to the ticket office at the Blackburn End

It’s the kind of thing that used to happen… too many ‘stakeholders’ (!) these days for such common sense.

Normally if it’s not on the red button, it won’t be on ifollow/RoversTV either (in the UK).

No, isn’t on, not part of the red button package because it’s a re-arranged 3pm game, not an initial midweek match.

I imagine prices will be ‘held’ ( but at the post early bird price), so £429 to £529. That’s Swag’s usual trick.

All this because the Chadster had learnt a new word 😁

Not popular at Ewood though, is he? Most around me were very annoyed/angry/scathing of him on Saturday… the very same folk that just collectively shrugged their shoulders for five years with the last guy, go figure!

What I would say about JDT is you never expect a death spiral a la TM’s horrendous January-March runs, we are doughy enough to hang in there and nick wins even on the back of a real poor performance.

LancsLive on the ball there cobbling together an article from the Fans Forum minutes from *checks notes* 9th January (and just the month after Sharpe did a piece on it, crack ‘journalists’ on this patch).

We have ‘strict structures and wage ceilings’, ‘the days of paying big wages for established players are over’… until we don’t/they aren’t. This is VenkyWorld, we will always be at the whim of these owners, so it’s why I always take talk of new approaches from whoever the latest frontman is with a pinch of salt. They’ll do what they want to do and you might as well just go with the flow…

JDT the 8th longest serving manager in the Championship…

It won’t happen any time soon because the PL is a money making behemoth. However, if in 10/15 years that has changed and Premier League TV revenues have declined, then of course they’ll look at it again, and some ‘signed document’ from 2021 won’t matter one jot.

‘Stakeholder’, where you learnt this? New boss at work? 😁

Agree generally with a fixture like Blackpool, but much better if a Saturday afternoon.

‘But, but they signed a document!’