Not a chance. I’d be happy for the home numbers to match yesterday, which will be a challenge in itself as you always get a spike first day of the season. We have only just scraped over 8k season holders, so say WBA bring 2k, that needs another 8k+ buying a ticket. That just doesn’t get close to happening here without heavily discounted tickets a la Bournemouth, Oxford.

We are the only club in the land with a completely empty tier of that vast size… and it looks bloody horrendous, and surely can’t help the club when it comes to marketing, TV coverage etc - so another total own goal by Mr Quantum. But if some of you don’t think it’s a poor look for BRFC to have half the action taking place in front of 30+ plus rows of blue seats beamed across the country every week, ok, each to their own. But on the other issue, why does having away fans up there give us an advantage? What stats do you have to back that up? For me, It just adds to an all round flat atmosphere, that doesn’t aid the players. Our best performances often come out of a raucous atmosphere… and busy lower tiers is the best way to encourage that.

Fair enough. But I like the club to be shown in its best possible light. And it’s not exactly difficult to steward a 5,000 seat tier, when the majority of clubs are fetching c750-1500 … and the ones that are difficult to steward (Dingles, PNE etc) are in the bottom tier anyway!

I’m sure there are, but it ain’t happening with the mindset of the CEO and the income targets he’s set by these owners…

Ha well obviously, but considering most weeks we can fit all of ours in the Jack Walker, that’s a long way off!

Just stating a fact, Rev. Ewood is a far better place with the lower tiers well populated.

Our form fell of a cliff after they were put up there last season. Our cracking run was with them downstairs…

Jack Walker and the BEnd lower were well populated, if you would’ve had the 1300 away fans in the lower too, even a less than half full Ewood would’ve looked fine on TV. Instead Trav’s goal is in front of a mass of empty seats, gives a shite impression of the club to anybody watching the ITV highlights.

Why would anybody have an ‘agenda’ against Dack? And what would the ‘agenda’ be exactly? I can’t imagine a single Rovers fan wouldn’t want the Dacky of old back, but for reasons we all know he’s probably a way off that at the moment. Will he ever be the same? Will he fit in with JDT’s plans? On the flip side, is he still the main main when 100%? All legitimate arguments to make and discuss on a Rovers forum, no?

Yeah, but you don’t have to look at/listen to Danny Murphy…

Apart from the thankfully brief spell of the overexcited chimp that was Coyle, it’s striking just how long it’s been since we had a manager that wasn’t a bloody dour bugger. I’m finding it all very discombobulating…

Smart haircut too.

Never meekly accept that the ‘lower leagues is our natural level’

Big black market in fake Rovers tickets, I take it? 😀

The King of Ewood has had a rapid dethroning through the divisions…

The show is the show, doesn’t change whoever has the rights - a few main highlight games, then a load of narrated-over goal packages. However, the talksport host sounded like he never watched an EFL match in his life, in contrast to CM who showed a real passion for the lower level game.

Words I never thought I’d say… * Bring back Colin Murray*

A 16 year old ‘Pogba6Boi’ troll on social media, presumably in Singapore or Hong Kong, probably couldn’t name a United player from 2008, never mind anybody else.

‘Err, umm. It was ok really. Nothing really stood out, but we’ll have a look at it on Monday. Listen, they are a young team, lot to learn some of them. Anyway, we’ll put the points in the bag and move on’.

What’s that got to do with long lapsed ST holders? Like most clubs of our size we have a floating support/casual support/local glory hunters that come out for those kind of games, many of those won’t ever had a ST. It’s sad, and it made me angry for a long time that these idiotic owners threw away overnight such hard work over years to build the fanbase. However, a whole generation will probably have passed by the time these owners leave, so a whole new generation of Rovers fans will be attending Ewood by then. So there’s no point hoping against hope that these long gone ST holders (who yes you are right left for many a reason including the farce of 2010 to 2012, but long gone they still have), who by then will last have been a regular 15/20 years ago, will come flooding back in 2032 or 2042…

Prayers answered 🤲

Not sure about that. Some will, but plenty more will never be back whatever the division is or who the owners are. You stop going for a decade and you will have new hobbies, new things to spend your dosh on and they wouldn’t even think about going back to Ewood.

They don’t even bother trying to entice those that have just stopped renewing, nevermind those from a decade ago.

Please can the previous PA announcer be back in situ 🙏

My issue with the retained staff was never them personally, I’ve no idea if they are good, bad or indifferent. It was more the chance of scuppering a potential decent managerial appointment if he could only bring in some of his own staff as a result. If the appointee is happy to work with them, crack on.