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If that’s the case, then despite this supposed new set-up, nothing at this club will have changed. I’m personally going to give GB the benefit of the doubt, but if Hirst did inexplicably sign on a permanent deal for actual millions of pounds, then we might as well give up on this club under this ownership.

Behave, Hirst is miles away. It’s nearly January and you won’t get ‘a run of games’ if you offer absolutely zero when you do get a start. You need to grasp it. If loanees aren’t up to it, they can’t play, so let’s stop wasting time trying to develop the sub standard players of other clubs. His career isn’t our problem.

Think it depends when you do the poll. Five minutes after a defeat vs five days would make all the difference! 😁

Jury’s out, fair enough. Jury made a decision in 10 minutes and he’s guilty? Not so much.

The pitch was looking ok until they trained on it all last week, will be a mess by the end of winter.

No it doesn’t mean anything in December, we saw that last season. People can judge him whenever they want, but sacking him when 3rd, with our budget, just months into the job and only 1 transfer window? Lost the plot totally this place (well a few on here have).

Football is a results business and we are sitting third. It isn’t a ‘but, but’, it’s the whole point of professional sport.

Don’t bother with cup games? He’d played 3 won 3 before tonight. Better than the last fella managed in five years. Yeah let’s sack the manager months into the job after just beating a fellow play off rival away to go into Christmas 3rd. This place. Do folk actually read what they are typing when it’s post match? 🤦‍♂️

Exactly that. Cheap tickets do and have worked time and again, but it is far more noticeable for a league game when you already have 8/9k ST holders in the tent and you are just adding to the gate with extra walk ons and a bigger away support. Tonight, plenty of non season ticket won’t be there, I’d say well over half the ones I know aren’t going - the gaps in the Blackburn End illustrate that, and unlike other city clubs we just don’t have the extra floating fans to take up the slack. Just simple maths, really. Unfortunately it is lost on the social media warriors.

I know, I’m just generally musing as to why a club that usually brings 2k or so are suddenly all out the woodwork.

If they hadn’t have opened the Riverside in the first place (like usual for cup ties), the crowd would have hardly even been mentioned. As soon as they announced that they had closed it, it’s been a week of angst. We’ll have c6.5/7k home fans there, which is absolutely standard for a cup tie against run of the mill opposition (especially midweek just before Christmas), it’s all been a very odd overreaction.

No surprise that they are fetching plenty. First PL season for twenty plus years means getting tickets for standard away allocations of 2/3k have been hard to come by. So a cheap and huge allocation after a month break for a club in its most high profile position for a long time was always going to sell well. Of course they will now be giving it the big ‘un , but in reality they are just another club with very lucky geography.

It is on their website, fourth news story down. (They’ve sold over 6,500, by the way).

Great to have you on board. 🙄

December 2019, Sky moved the Wigan game to an evening KO on the 23rd December. We made it a tenner and nearly 18,000 home fans turned up, our most for any Championship game since relegation. It’s all about picking the right time and event (with no daft strings attached like ‘season ticket holders bring a friend’ etc) for ticket offers. In that instance, non local residents back with the family for Christmas or big groups fancying taking in a festive game Do that and it will bring plenty in.

Apart from Coyle, has there actually been a ‘*insert manager here* out!’ chant at a Rovers game since Ke*n? An impatient, fickle fanbase, we ain’t.

Social media has led to such ridiculous overreactions - and if certainly isn’t just a Rovers phenomenon, I’m sad enough to scout around other forums and I bet pretty much every manager in this league has had a ‘sack him’ thread/posts this season already…

Mourinho had gone to newly Abramovich minted Chelsea a couple of months before Robson was sacked, so the timings weren’t right.

Probably did. Bit like pricing Wigan as Cat A thinking it’s some big derby he can exploit. 5 years here and he’s still as clueless as the day he started.

Of course, and we showed just that at Norwich in contrast to that nonsense against PNE…

Bloody hell Longers, not sure why this needs explaining to you, but here goes. It’s all very well for a parachute club with a load of quality footballers for this level to play that way. But for a club with Wigan’s players who are trying to avoid relegation?

Another manager coming into the Championship and forgetting that he’s no longer coaching top level footballers…

We never sell tickets in any number for standard cup ties (and they are pretty much always priced at £10-£12), especially not midweek just before Christmas. Indeed I’ve seen many a similar crowds for later rounds then this (c7.5k home fans for an FA Cup Quarter Final springs to mind). No idea why this has become some hand wringing issue across social media. It’s a Carabao Cup 4th round against Forest, not a semi-final against Liverpool. So this means bugger all either way re the real issue - the need for cheaper STs.

Always a catch with every initiative they try and then it’s head scratching time when it fails.

There is a difference between being upset, which we all had a right to be after two such horrendous performances and actually contemplating sacking a bloke, that in his first season has a non-parachute club with a middling budget 3rd in the table at Christmas. (Obviously virtually nobody is contemplating it away from social media).