‘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…

Bundles are a waste of time, the FF minutes show they never sell more than a few hundred. However, £10 a ticket for the Wigan night game just before Christmas the other year led to our biggest home turnout (Oxford aside) in years… so something similar hasn’t been attempted since, obviously.

We’ve lost around a third of our season ticket holders since he arrived on the scene, so that’s working well as a strategy then…

US private equity owners can be as pro active as fans as they like whilst in the PL. I imagine the shit will very quickly hit the fan once relegated and they want a return on investment…

Not sure what you are disagreeing about. Sam as a lower division manager would be all about getting promotion. Which he did at numerous clubs. That is only done by winning match after match. As a club with limited resources in the PL, his remit was obviously different, all about keeping the club up, you can argue with his methods in doing that, but it’s apples and oranges with managing a team wanting promotion.

Filling his boots, he’ll never get a gig with the eye watering salary and bonuses he’s on and control he has again. Eventually he’ll end up at a Sheff Wed etc.

The show is made by Beckham’s production company and is therefore very United skewed, there’s obviously been plenty of help from MUFC with archive footage, behind the scenes stuff etc.

Who you asking? I obviously don’t disagree, that was the point of my post! HK is exactly the kind of manager we need, maximum results for minimal outlay. My point being, too many fans these days have an obsession with ‘playing the right way’ over what is best for the club… there is only one ‘right way’, the way that leads to winning matches.

Oh, must have misheard it. Still, £50k disappearing over the horizon, when you’d already pissed away thousands must have hurt!

The same Howard Kendall that made 1-0 tight wins an art form? Half the fanbase would be screaming ‘anti-football’ if he rocked up here these days.

The Stoke cup game the episode showed last night was a shocker. KG having 50 grand riding on Beardsley scoring first and Newcastle only getting 3. So he spent the last half hour when 3-0 up just passing it back two yards… yet they got a late 4th anyway. A banning offence these days, but you can just imagine the turmoil he’d have been going through..

Council areas are often completely arbitrary anyway, many towns and villages just bolted together by civil servants with a map in the 1970s . Rishton, as an example, is part of the Blackburn post town with a BB1 postcode, yet those fools down at Ewood are happy to just not bother with such areas and leave it to another club to have free reign just because they happen to have different coloured bins?

More and more of our fanbase reside outside Blackburn, yet if you don’t live within the arbitrary borders of the BwD council area you’ll see bugger all from the club. If you’d have said a decade ago that we’d be trailing Accrington bloody Stanley in engaging kids in long standing Rovers heartlands like Rishton and Ossy you’d have been laughed at, yet here we are.

I know they did that for Luton, hadn’t heard they were also planning to open it on Saturday.

Away games are a different beast, a combination of mad keen fans and those that don’t bother with Ewood. At home, the impression I get is that the crowd is still well on his side, on the whole.

There’s obviously fewer fans at Ewood generally, but with the rump that remain, I’m certainly not sensing any clamour for him to be replaced.

Front row of the middle tier… cracking seat to witness a glorious triumph!

He could’ve, he carried on as normal in his first season at Newcastle, but that injury he got up there in 97/98 meant he was never the same player and any chance of that went.

Radio 5 were playing an interview earlier that he did with Jimmy Armfield (two legends, both left out of the ‘66 winning side!) in 1997. He spoke along the likes of how he had ‘skill, composure, finishing ability… but not very strong in the air and didn’t quite have the power and aggression to be the complete centre forward… that’s Alan Shearer.’ The interview then cut to today and Big Al was on the line almost speechless hearing that!

You won’t get chastised, you are a perfect example of how you’ve got to work to build up a crowd, but it’s so easy to lose them, and bloody hard to get them back. John Williams operated on that basis, alas these fools have never come close to grasping the paramount importance of it…

Yep the £30 cap, from memory by 2012, places like Chelsea were £45+ for us, so obviously followings fell away markedly… though you need to fork out that in Waggottland for a ticket in the Jack Walker to see some second division fixtures these days, so go figure!

Think people have forgotten that in the PL post about 2003 until relegation a lot of our away followings were in the hundreds, even on a Saturday afternoon. Many reasons, price being the main one Now we rarely take much under a 1,000 anywhere at a weekend, which isn’t to be sniffed out when we’ve spent the past decade largely watching varying degrees of shite. I miss those days enormously, and there’s not much to crow about re the modern BRFC, but the away support is one of them .

That’s not the narrative impression I got from it. Yes, there was the usual Hovis advert ‘oop north’ angle, but most of the journo talking heads were painting it as these nouveau riche nobodies inflating fees and wages.

20,000 if we did something similar? No, a) because they’ve already sold 11,000 STs in comparison to our 7k, so straight away they have considerably fewer match day tickets to sell to get to that number. b. they have a feel good factor around the club that we just don’t have. But again it just shows how important it is to build up your support with a solid core of ST holders, John Williams never forgot that, these fools aren’t even arsed in attempting to try and increase or even maintain the numbers coming through the turnstiles.