Good footballers don’t necessarily make good managers, so it’s pointless bringing up their trophies etc won as a player, pretty simple point, no?

£530 in the JWU.

Indeed. It makes absolutely no sense, surely every business wants to grow, so why on Earth would a company with a declining customer base, a base that is now at its lowest for decades, look to financially penalise all potential new or returning customers? Business plan of the mad house.

We’ve only signed one permanent centre half in four years, Only paid a fee for one In *EIGHT* years! Some set up this and the new fella comes in spouting the old ‘the owners want sustainable Premier League football’ line. Fantasy land stuff.

It’s just the totally self defeating nature of an arbitrary seat and price deadline in the middle of the month I can’t get my head around. You are bouncing people unnecessarily into making a decision today when the odds are not stacked in the club’s favour. Delay it until the end of June, a decent manager lands next week (I know, I know!) and you’ll certainly get some waverers signing up. Those that refuse to be bounced today, probably now won’t sign up at all as they’ll refuse to pay a premium on the same seat that is already ridiculously priced. The destruction of the ST base since 2012 couldn’t have been orchestrated better by a Dingle sleeper cell as CEO, never mind a collection of folk paid handsomely to supposedly work in the *best* interests of the club.

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They are click bait memes posted on social media to get folk to comment, ‘no way! [enter club here] are tinpot’ etc etc, and then to follow their ‘Footie Bantzz’ pages.

Harsh. He did a very good job considering it was his first role, he had a load of his squad sold from under him and one crisis after the other within the club to deal with.

Don’t think a Rovers player has lived in Blackburn since Alan Irvine lived near me at Pleckgate in about 1990…

All anecdotal, of course, but I’m certainly getting the same feeling I had in the summers of 2012 (Kean inexplicably kept on after relegation) and 2016 (Coyle appointed) that sales have fallen off a cliff…

Yeah but it’s not the Originals vs *checks notes* the Superchargers though, is it?

So that would be just the two first team centre halves left (and one of those was on loan in the third division last season). Big rebuild (sorry I mean big potential loanee list to work through) for the DoF, or whoever the hell makes decisions down there. Seven weeks to go…

101 of professional football, however it stopped being the modus operandi at this club a long time ago…

Oh I see, you just have an irrational dislike of them, partly due to an incident 25 years ago, sorry I thought you were trying to say they were actually similar set up clubs, which, of course, would be a daft thing to say.

At 27/28 you still have a load of years left as a centre half. A four year deal taking them to 31/32 is not exactly risky. Another one after that taking them to 35/36 is obviously a different issue. A club built on loans and young lads will eventually lead only in one direction…

Not sure how accurate that table is. As an example, Blackpool only had one 14k+ crowd all season, a usual crowd was about 11k.

When we sold just 8k under Coyle I thought ‘wow, we’ve really hit rock bottom now’… then we scraped 7k last summer, worst sales for 30+ years, and once again I thought ‘it can’t get worse than this’… and then came along this present debacle. So more fool me for not realising that there’s always further to fall under this regime. (‘things are much improved’ though, so that’s a relief).

Noticed on the official site they are still promoting that the claim your seat deadline and ‘loyalty’ price is ending this weekend. Does the club actually want a collapse in sales? What has happened in recent weeks to make the wavering thousands renew? Still no manager and now no captain. And if you hold off, you’ll be stung with another £30 to make ridiculous prices even more obscene, ergo plenty more won’t renew from then on out of principle. The claim your seat deadline needs extending to the end of June and the price hike needs scrapping immediately.

It’s all to do with Middlesbrough and their wages. Blackburn Rovers never struggled to compete with bloody Middlesbrough until recent years. The crux of the matter is, even putting FFP restrictions on owner team investment aside, why this club has reached such a state commercially that even our top earners can’t get close to their ‘middle pack’.

You said ‘maybe’ to them being open to investment, I asked a follow up question to why you think so. ‘Tis a forum after all. No need to get narky. 😁

Then why don’t they invest in club infrastructure that isn’t impacted by FFP?

He’s 28 and never played outside the lower leagues, he can’t even get on the 10 man bench of the worst Ireland side of the past 40 years. He’s the quintessential second division steady Eddie centre half. All that being said… we still won’t ‘replace’ him with a player as good, which speaks volumes of modern BRFC. So we ‘move on’ ever downwards.

‘How was your first day?’ ’Captain walked out’.

So Blackburn Rovers can’t even pay their top players a wage that can even get close to Middlesbrough squad fillers? A nice way to sum up the past decade of withering on the vine…

In what way are they anything like a basket case like Birmingham?