The murals at the corners of the stands were great, the one at the Darwen End side was just painted over with an ‘Away Ticket Sales’ sign… though there was already a sign just behind it saying the same thing!

Still annoys me every time I walk past it.

Getting a balance on online forums is very difficult, this place obviously skews one way, the LT comments section completely the other. If you get a critical mass of say 3/4 of folk thinking one way,  it will attract more folk with similar views and those opposed will either keep quiet as they fear a pile on or will just stop bothering - ergo said forums become ever more entrenched.

It’s another example of ‘echo chambers’. The most well known example being the day after an election when a certain party wins, yet those on Twitter will cry ‘but I don’t know ANYBODY who votes for them!’ … well, that’s kind of the problem.
 

Ha, same, I was looked at aghast when I brought him up as being one of the club’s many issues at the Swansea game.

I would say of all the folk that sit around me at Ewood and all the people I go away with, I’m the only one that even has a vaguely negative view of his suitability as manager.

Brfcs-ers might not like to hear it, but steel city’s view on TM is a pretty mainstream one away from this board.

N01 is still a fairly busy area, as is NO2 (apart from the front rows). Plenty of folk to piss off.

N05 would be better, seems fairly sparse over there this season.

Fun this SimStadium game, as it’s the closest we’ll get whilst Swag ‘is looking into it’.

5 hours ago, Wood26 said:

Can’t see anything changing in terms of holding people into account. Not at games anyway.

Home games - No one really cares, about 30 people in Blackburn end will sing, rest will sit there watching game peacefully until we score.

Away games - Majority just want to support our team on the day and leave the club politics behind.

To paraphrase a well known truism… Results dear boy, results.

You’ll only see unrest at games if we start plummeting down the table, was ever thus. As an example, for all how unpopular Coyle was, he only started getting dogs abuse in the last few weeks of his reign when we had fallen into the bottom 3.

Be interesting to see where that leaves Bury AFC.

From memory there was a lot of animosity between those that decamped to the Phoenix club and those that have tried to revive BFC

So what? Be a professional! His warm ups are a prime example. And we also have little insight into how he trains.

His career tanks or if he spends it in L1/L2 that won’t be the fault of Tony Mowbray.

I’m all for getting on TM’s back when required.

However, there is obviously an attitude issue with Chapman. There’s definitely a good work ethic and spirit in this squad, his demeanour stands out a mile. 

He’s without doubt got more quality than hitting 24 and playing his football at Shrewsbury and Burton, so maybe he needs to look at himself before he ends up on the scrap heap.
 

2 minutes ago, gumboots said:

Was when darrenrover and the others involved with this communication with owners attended. 

So what if it was? 

Miller is exactly right, there is no groundswell against how the club is being run currently. As he says, even the Rovers Trust had no majority against flogging off Brockhall and the membership aren’t up in arms with the present situation.

There’s generally just a shoulder shrugging ‘we are where we are’ malaise around the whole place - including the fanbase. That anger we saw circa 2011 to 2016 has long dissipated.

I hope change really is afoot, though I think the likes of Rev are being a tad naive, as we’ve heard it all before, but change will only come  when the owners themselves wake up, as there won’t be any sit ins at Ewood or angry public meetings at King George’s any time soon.

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

 

These changes with potentially a good deal more to come would also tend to suggest that when people say the owners don't  know what's going on at Ewood or simply don't care, that is very much wide of the mark.

 

So they were fully aware of the plan to flog off Brockhall, then?

Like I’ve said before, pretty much his only public statement since being here was a rushed piece to camera after his Brockhall stitch up was rumbled.

There will be no ‘small steps’ under this ownership whilst they continue to employ such nefarious charlatans.

Well obviously, I was merely pointing out that NO1 isn’t brimming with Rovers Ultra types.

You have a point Colt.

Someone mentioned NO1 of the Blackburn End. Yes, the back corner has a hundred of so folk stood up throughout the game.

But the rest of that block is full of folk that have been there for donkeys years. They were probably bouncing around the old Blackburn End terrace in 1992, but thirty years on I’m not sure how much appetite is there now!

Putting to one side if he’s actually any good. Keane’s problem will be similar to Souness’. He won’t be able to put up with the modern player and BS of the game currently.

Much easier just rocking up to Sky’s studios once a week.

That figure is inflated by parachute clubs often carrying players on crazy wages, Bournemouth being a prime example last season, the likes of Villa previously.

I’d wager non parachute clubs with average crowds between say 12 and 20,000 will be nowhere near that.

They don’t usually.

‘ST holder in the BEnd Upper? Tough, it’s closed’

’ST holder in the DEnd? Tough, it’s closed’.

9 minutes ago, rigger said:

Aways and U23s. Luckily both U23s have been free so far, probably due to the replacement season ticket bedacle, long may it continue. 

Fair enough, sure I read that you’d been at the first team games at Ewood, but happy to be corrected.

Aren’t you still buying match tickets?

I imagine people are saying the Riverside because the club would be most willing to rip the seats out and convert that stand.

All moot as I just can’t see them being bothered to do it to any stand - though as we’ve said before infrastructure is not part of FFP, so the ‘never refuse a cheque-ers’ will oblige, no?

Tony Parkes tribute? 

Ive worked out what all that rubbish is outside the JW is, it’s all the cans he’s kicked there.

1 hour ago, HowieFive0 said:

But Matty ..the bar setting  of success for fans from Lancaster ..the Fylde coast  and other surrounding areas  outside Blackburn which boosted our PL attendances  etc .etc.. wasnt set at success at League One ..they were used to PL . The coaches from far and wide around Lancashire are now non existent. They used to fill the land in front of the Fox n Hounds pub.They aint interested in League One success.

You ll only see a filling (not even a full house ..no where near ) at Ewood if we re coasting to Promotion or back in the so called Promised Land ..regardless of price.

As for Tomphil ..i get where you are coming from regarding keeping the base of Rovers ST holders ..but when you re down to a base of 10000 ? there are lots of factors that can influence that figure give or take 1000..regardless of price...which makes a big impression on such a small ST fan base.

As daft as it is (i know it is !) but if Rovers put on a free bar or 2 quid a pint for two hours before the game serving decent ale i still maintain that that would have more upward influence on attendance figures  than a cheaper ticket. Its a sad indictment of these times but no different what Stanley are doing by reducing beer prices to  2 quid a pint after the game if they win ..  i know living in the Accy area what a draw to the game that is   ! It really does drag people in ..

I agree, doing well in the third division isn’t ‘success’ here, but it wasn’t me that said merely winning games pulls in the punters.

So a combination of being down to just c6000 ST holders, sky high match tickets and a pretty bang average team says we ain’t seeing a decent crowd this season - indeed a decent team at the top end wouldn’t either due to the fact we’ve sold so few STs and it’s £30/£40 if you just fancied taking in an attractive fixture.

Great point re the Accy Stanley ‘experience’. Ewood really is a generally soulless, dilapidated place these days, and that isn’t just because of the numbers, Accy have shown what you can do on a match day even with a core of less than 2k.