‘Whoever replaces Mowbray next season’ Most optimistic take yet.

Who keeps him employed?

‘Uptake in season tickets have been positive this last couple of weeks’, according to Sharpe, he’ll reveal all tomorrow. I imagine that to be the case, always that late surge. Alas, with only around 3k sold a fortnight back, I just can’t see it getting close to what has been our standard 8/9k over the past 4 or 5 years.

Pretty sure in 2019/2020 (prior to March, obviously) their average gates had dropped to around 17/18,000

Taken on their own… Does having an away coach on sale two weeks later than usual REALLY matter? Does having the club shop/ticket office closed three days out of seven in the last week before KO REALLY matter? Does scrapping the programme REALLY matter? Does having STs on sale later than every other club REALLY impact sales? Does the U23 head coach going matter? Does the Head of Physiotherapy going matter? Does the Head of European Recruitment going matter? Does the Head of Academy Recruitment going matter? Does going into a season with zero new signings really matter? Is selling our lowest numbers of STs for c40 years really terminal? On their own, a lot of those aren’t particularly ‘scandalous’ or the end of the world, but ‘in the round’ for them all to occur over one summer they point to a club that is rapidly going backwards (that’s without even mentioning Brockhall).

So brfcs IS now representative of the wider fanbase when it helps form your argument? 😏

Oh I see. Sack the fanbase!

If things ‘aren’t that bad’, why do you think that Blackburn Rovers now have fewer ST holders than third division Blackpool (!), Wigan (!!) and Bolton plus fellow Championship also rans PNE? We had double the numbers of two of those just a couple of years ago. Bolton now have double ours. *As an aside. Away tickets have always been 3 weeks before. Week just for ST holders, two weeks on general sale. Same with travel.

They’ll be scattered around the ground now to make up for the lost ST holders.

Have to agree with Jim, of course the schedule of the English season is a right mess - Buttler hasn’t played a first class match since February. Yet, NZ came over here with very few long format matches under their belts and gave us a lesson in our own conditions. Looks as if India will do the same and they’ve been largely just netting up at Durham for the last six weeks. But they are adaptable cricketers that show you can quickly move across from limited overs to Tests and still thrive with the right attitude in the modern multi format sport. For England, a lack of Test quality batsmen and poor application is not a good mix.

According to the sages of the LT comment section, it’s the fans fault anyway for these departures, not buying enough STs. (I’m sensing some very fractious fan v fan rows this season… especially with those in my vicinity in the Blackburn End.)

Won’t somebody think of the families! 🙀

‘It’ll take three years to have the European scouting network up and running properly’ was a certain poster’s regular refrain, so we’ll be seeing the results any time now, which dovetail’s well with our slow buil…OH.

But who’s going to be creating it? Most fans now left won’t have much truck with a ‘toxic’ atmosphere. ‘It’s the first day FFS, just get behind ‘em’.

Totally agree with the sentiment, however we’ve got to a stage where the owners and manager are the most popular they have ever been this past decade - so considering we could never get mass protests in 2011 or 2016 (when Venky’s and Kean/Coyle were actually unpopular) going, then we’ve no chance now. Going to be death by a thousand cuts.

Is it buggery ‘nonsense’, charming way to discuss matters too. As have I, midweek games and the like. They’d often fill one and attempt to fill a second, if they couldn’t, they’d cancel. One Away Travel trip for us got cancelled to a Tuesday night at Watford back in 2001, we rang around and my long standing relationship with the Birdy Bus was formed. The club was a much better institution in every way back then, but these things can happen. However, we have never not had a single official coach on sale just a week before the first away game of the season on a Saturday afternoon.

And two of the 5 (4? BB is pushing it) non-English players came through our academy. Can’t be another squad in the top two (maybe top three even?) divisions that contains only two players that are either non English or not home grown?

For a Tuesday night at Plymouth etc in January, maybe. But not one coach even booked, never mind on sale, just over a week before the first away game of the season is something that has ‘always happened’? Don’t think so.

Yep, still bombproof with a hell of a lot of fans. I’ve never known such a mediocrity be so staunchly supported for so long.

From the moment he came out with the utterly bizarre statement that ‘I had to tell the owners to slow down’ I knew that getting the best results possible on the pitch was not the modus operandi of this manager - just not normal, why was he here, and why has this dragged on so long?

Screen-grabbing the screen-grabber, sure he won’t mind 🙂 Just a bloody mess, isn’t it.

Of course, targets come and go, watch a few episodes of that Sunderland documentary to see what a madhouse transfer windows can be at clubs in a big a mess as us.

It was the fella (Jon Holden) that sells vintage ones outside the ground that tweeted it. Absolute aficionado, so if anyone has had a tip off…

Yep, thought so…

Chaddy, read between the lines for once in your life, good god.