‘Negative’ police again. This place is getting very daft with all this. For the millionth time, people can have whatever opinion they want on an obscure internet message board… they can ‘back’ them, ‘slag’ them or just think they are ok, it makes not one iota of difference to if a dozen posters on brfcs.com ‘get behind ‘em FFS’ or not. You debate and explain why ‘player x is actually great’ (just like Mani is doing), don’t try and just shut debate down with more ‘negative’ barbs.

There has been a rot at United for a decade… here’s to another!

Define ‘regular?’

Considering the crowd figure is usually given as ‘one man and his dog’, I presume so.

This ‘horse’ thing you lot have suddenly started coming out with (obviously annoyed that the Dingle nickname has stuck so long). Not sure any Rovers fans even know about it, so poor comms from you lot. I only worked out you lot meant Rovers fans a few posts deep on your forum. Any explanations to where such a lame epithet has come from?

Know what you mean Chadster, get Broughton in as the false 9 for the Hartlepool game, see how he goes.

Yet most clubs in the league have either reduced or held ST prices. So thus far this season it looks as if they are trying to plug gaps with fairly steep looking price hikes for the match day ticket buyer…

Talking to actual Scousers. How quaint! For most of us it will be that ‘lifelong Liverpool fan’ in the east Lancs pub, street, office that will regale us with all his deep knowledge from watching those two CL games he played in on BT Sport!

Time to shut the board if mods had an issue with a Jack Walker tribute being posted! It’s now been 22 years this month, and I still think of him every time I see the ground he built come into view as I walk down LBR…

So it was your opinion I disagreed with? Not your data? Fair enough. I still disagree with you. Never have put someone on ignore, never will. Hopefully you’ll learn how to have a robust debate at some point without throwing a wobbler…

No it’s called a forum to debate Blackburn Rovers. I disagreed with your view, it’s what happens, but it’s something you never take kindly to.

That’s the problem by purely looking at data. He may have linked up well at times, but using your eyes tells you he has a long way to go physically, he was repeatedly brushed off the ball/couldn’t get near it. So it’s not as easy as just saying ‘he’s far superior to Gallagher’, as there’s a lot more to playing centre forward.

Exactly!

It’ll be a bloody mad scramble for away tickets if it isn’t… I best sign up for 1875 😧

Indeed, I bet a lot of our fans see Scott Wharton as a ‘youngster’, he’s about to turn 25! Probably mirrors modern society in some way in our expectations of when people are full grown adults, when they now move out, move back in, get married, get a mortgage, have kids etc…

Ok 8.5k STs. There won’t be that many walk ons this time as it’s not the first day, they won’t bring more than 2/2.5k. There’s not a chance of us getting an 18k gate for an early season game at full price tickets. Just arithmetic, so I’m not sure how I was being ‘unfair’.

I suppose they’ll say that Championship clubs need the income from tickets more than the PL clubs, as they have a vast TV income.

Interesting how season ticket sales were reduced by a lot of clubs, yet match day tickets seem to be on the rise at many of them…

Just finished Six Feet Under. I dipped in and out of it at the time it was originally on. But what a show, and the final episode, wow - that’s how you end a HBO show!

The ECB taking all cricket off free to air TV immediately after didn’t help on that score! Ask someone in their 50s/60s to name England cricketers from the 1980s and 90s and plenty will reel them off. Then ask the man on the street about who’s in the current side. No exposure, no profile. As for Rugby Union, of course it will never have the national profile of football, but I’d say the 2003 spike has been sustained - helped by the Six Nations being on prime time BBC/ITV year in year out. The World Cup is a big event. In the 90s who was interested in RU up here? It’s a far bigger sport outside its Home Counties heartlands than it used to be.

Bellamy and Mark Hughes up front this season, unstoppable!

I’ve no idea why folk get over excited or upset with weeks of the window still to go. 400 odd pages of angst and excitement largely over links (or no links) to players most have to Wiki and YouTube - and then have a *very firm* opinion of. It’s a stupid system that has the season running for 6/7 games before a club at this level can have its squad complete. Close the window on the 1st August and everything just gets moved earlier - transfers, PL loans etc. Obviously this won’t happen due to the other European leagues kicking off later, so this is the daft market we have to operate in. But surely if it’s been a good/bad/indifferent window will come clear when it’s shut and we’ve seen who’s gone and we’ve had time to let the replacements bed in…

If Man Utd Women have been having c2-4k watching them at Leigh, but on the back of this they will now have 7-8k surely that’s better in a now busy stadium than rattling around in a 10% full Old Trafford?

Mark Hughes?! 😀 Well he is from Wrexham.

It’s usually the worst attended away as it is, as its obviously a serious trek from up here, but it isn’t exactly close for our south east fans that attend London and Home Counties matches in good numbers either. So couple that with those prices and it’s no surprise…