Mattyblue

Yes, Sweet Caroline has been playing at US baseball games for a while, then it ended up over here in Rugby League… then the Euros and, well, now it’s everywhere!

This round of midweeks aren’t on the Red Button.

Ha! I thought it was you behind the designer sun gigs, but then I thought, ‘nah he won’t be slumming it in the Blackburn End’

‘Simply the Best’, obviously!

13k home fans today. 9,500 against this lot last August.

This you?

The target must be both. End of.

Twenty odd years I’ve been on here and I’ve heard some stuff. But this has to be up there with the ‘worst take’ I’ve ever read.

You literally said their problems started when they signed Ronaldo!

Lack of knowledge of the club’s history too. We’ve had support across large parts of what is modern day Lancs since day dot, but it’s just increased as the town has changed over the last 20 odd years.

It’s not a new pitch, Sharpe literally states it in today’s article, ‘it’s 30 years old’.

Sorry OEB, I’m totally lost to what point you are trying to make here. We need both, obviously. Someone that can amble down LBR, but also someone from Langho, from Ossy, from Chorley, from Clitheroe, from Preston. Wherever. It’s simply a fact that more and more of our fanbase lives outside the town. Ask around you at Ewood for proof of that. These aren’t all ‘Ribble Valley poshos’. It’s the modern world, people are far more transient, amplified here due to the rapid demographic change, but most clubs expect a lot of their support to be from outlying areas. We will get ‘further away from a full ground’ by NOT focusing on the wider fanbase. We no longer have sufficient support in the town itselfto get 15/20k in Ewood, just a demographic reality, and that’s fine, a Blue is a Blue.

It’s not ‘going with a begging bowl to outer areas’, that’s simply where more and more of our fanbase lives as Blackburn has changed massively demographically over the past 25 years. Using my mates from school as an example, out of say a dozen close friends, *one* still lives in the town itself. The days of the vast majority of the crowd living in BB1/BB2 has long gone. The club *must* engage and continue to attract fans in these areas if it wants to survive, and these are normal people, by the way, not your bizarre view of a load of poshos living in country villages with gravel drives and 4x4s.

Not sure how much of this plan to bring in player by the truckload on massive money is Cooper’s over the owner…

Well yes, but that refers to the whole ‘Professional’ league, not a ‘Premier’ league that you were talking about. They’ve gone back to the old one league format - I.e like we had in the Football League pre 1992.

Neither of those exist. The SPL was scrapped about a decade ago and the top flight was re-integrated with the rest of the Scottish league system.

Thought you said last week that the problems there only started last season?

10 games? 15? 46? Does it include cups, sub appearances? Typical half a story, maybe the full one is on his grifter site.

So another 4K buying match tickets and a c15k crowd. About double the number that ‘walked up’ when we played WBA last August. (11,900 crowd).

Another interesting insight, some real attention to detail. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20639777.jon-dahl-tomassons-blackburn-rovers-pitch-requirements/ (oh and it confirms there was no new pitch despite the continual claims to the otherwise all summer from one poster).

‘Get on yer bike!’

Totally agree, which is why the club can’t just focus its engagement on BwD when more and more of the fanbase lives across Lancashire.

BBD (plain old BB in those days) was the last one I remember…

Hans Segers, Wimbledon. Think it is Hillier. David Buust for Coventry? Ian Butterworth, Norwich? Can’t remember what I had for my tea last night, but 90s football!

Can tell there’s a lot of new members (which is a good thing, of course) as most threads of any decent size have always gone off on tangents - puns, completely irrelevant discussions, memory lane, you name it! Just what football message boards do. Especially transfer threads when there’s not been a sniff of a transfer for over a week. Nature abhors a vacuum and all that…