Standard pricing (Cat B.) for Coventry, so of course, no thinking out the box to try and capitalise on the start. And I doubt we’ll see much of said thoughts all season. Yet, small mercies, at least it’s not an ‘A’ game… though still £27-£30 in the JW Upper.

Feel sorry for Lowe?! He’s had a cracking career on the pitch and financially considering just how poor he is. Very lucky lad.

*Checks messages* Twenty years of toil on brfcs… all for nothing. 😭

Looks like a typical Burnley season, poor start, then come to a bit, and start winning enough games from October onwards. (Sigh). Though maybe more of battle than previous years due to the number of goals they are conceding.

I imagine so rigger, there’s £32 to milk off a couple of thousand travellers. Yet that means £34-£38 in the most popular stand for walk ons (JW), putting off thousands at a stroke and it will prove that Swag’s only concern is short term cash flow and no actual strategy to re-engage the fanbase.

In what way lucky? It was us that almost threw it away in the run in. United went on a storming run post the Cantona ban.

Then you are needing a floating fan to commit to two consecutive weekends, there’s often a reason why they aren’t a ST holder in the first place, I.e demands on their free time, work commitments, other hobbies. Why not just £15 a ticket anywhere in the ground for one of the games? Coventry being a great example as they are riding high too.

Interesting how that will go down, because away from that very top corner of a hundred or so who stand throughout, the rest of the block is packed with long standing ST holders, many ‘of an age’, quite a lot of small kids and families too.

The Championship is a much of a muchness. You really can spring out of nowhere to challenge. We’ve had a team of grafters with a good team spirit throughout, but have been let down by muddled tactics and a constantly unsettled defensive unit. If it was having his hand forced by a squad clear out (plus a couple of top players signed at this level in Kaminski and Ayala) and small budget or a road to Damascus moment on the fundamentals of what gets results at this level, who knows, but TM has finally got us back to basics and we can see the result. For me, it won’t last due to the thinness of the squad, but let’s hope he sticks with it and we can ‘give it a right good go’ until the inevitable injures hit.

It wouldn’t have lasted once the oil/nation state money came in, Jack would’ve been blown out the water. But certainly for the rest of the 90s we should’ve been up challenging, the mistakes we made with recruitment and managers in the couple of years following Anfield meant we lost ground and never got it back.

Surely not. There’s a new dawn coming, a letter on poultry themed headed paper said so…

Without the takeover, I’d agree. However, after they were sold last year they are now owned by US private equity, who bought them using debt secured on the club, and they purely own businesses to use as a profit vehicle. They stay up, the money continues to pour in, whilst keeping a tight ship, the model can work, they go down and there is a big hole in that plan…

Sure I read that the Championship is re-starting a couple of weeks into the tournament.

Happening a lot, looked like only Man Utd published crowd figures last night. They are often still buried away on club websites. Burnley generally look down to about 15k-ish home fans. Obviously won’t be getting Tarmac in to sort out Pendle Hill just yet…

The cup form has been pathetic throughout Mowbray’s tenure… a long way from the mighty Michael Appleton and Gary Bowyer getting results at Arsenal and Liverpool and into QFs.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19597399.immense-objection-sees-blackburn-rovers-shelve-training-ground-plans/ “The pitches at the STC are unbelievable and (Head of Academy) Stuart Jones said they’re the best they’ve ever been down at the Academy. “The investments have been worth it.” So we need to flog it off and move somewhere smaller in BwD because…

Good idea, but I imagine this club won’t bother; ‘cost makes it too prohibitive’ etc etc… though ground improvements aren’t impacted by FFP and we have owners that ‘never refuse a cheque’.

Yeah let’s sell three of our senior pros for buttons in the middle of a season!

Excellent post Jimmy. I won’t ever forget the absolute idiocy of a sizeable proportion of our fanbase as they cheered him out of the door…

Barbara Magee. Bloody hell she’d survive a nuclear blast at Ewood 😀

I’m non plussed either way with AN, largely because well, not sure he’s markedly any better and it’s all moot as he won’t be coming here once TM signs a new deal, but not sure how having a club with one of the lowest budgets in the league finishing 7th, 13th, 9th, 14th in his full seasons is ‘failing miserably’.

Remember when folk on here were heralding a new dawn because someone at the club had put the bi-annual ‘Message from the owners’ on Bilaji’s headed paper this time?

You really do love that England team roverandout 😁

‘We’ll put the Brockhall cash in the bag and move on’

Most games are ‘shite’, it’s the second division! The 29th December game is Barnsley on a Wednesday night , so still isn’t the most attractive. Make NYD £10 a ticket, Hudds will bring double (if not more) their expected following at that price, with extra pints and pies on top, so what are we missing out on really? All moot, because I imagine it will be Cat A and up to £40 for a game taking place when everyone’s skint…