Darwen North End would be more geographically apt, no?

Agreed, however the rationale and process was sound and executed professionally - that’s all you can ask, alas we are seemingly asking too much for this club…

I’d say once, Lambert. We had one guy out, and a new guy with a good reputation in, with staff, in days. Yes, it didn’t work out, but that’s football. However for a brief (very brief) period we were behaving like a normal football club… Then we had a summer just like this and a fella name Coyle rolled in.

A sponsor literally walking distance from Ewood… ‘think big!’

So Hartlepool replace Port Vale in the list of mediocrity. Will we be the last one standing?

But haven’t you kept banging the drum about how Carlos also had a big budget at Swansea and Sheff Wed? We can split hairs, but to call Farke a ‘cheap option’ when he is obviously used to decent sized clubs and budgets and we have also been linked with the Big Duncs of this world doesn’t compute…

If the cash cow that is the Lord’s test match struggles to sell out it may wake up a few at the ECB that even the most loyal of support that is the English Test crowd won’t have the piss taken indefinitely… wouldn’t bet on it though.

Samba went to Anzhi Makhachkala for the challenge of the Russian league then, I take it?

I believe the only league clubs in 2022/23 not to have played at new Wembley are… - Accrington Stanley - Blackburn Rovers - Colchester - Crawley - Ipswich - Solihull Moors (if they win the NL play off final). Esteemed company.

The fact it’s the second row back in a matter of months following on from the removal of Cat A+ tickets in the middle of the season shows that there is absolutely no strategic thinking or market research going on. Just totally reactive and panic when they realise they’ve completely misread the market. With our demographics, a limited, hemmed in catchment area, a cost of living crisis, pricing of other clubs, to put season tickets for potential new/returning fans at £429 -£529 is ridiculous. Us ‘experts on brfcs’ (as a certain poster likes to mock us with) can see these calamitous situations arising a mile off, yet those who are supposedly overseeing ‘big improvements’ can’t. Lets hope there’s a fanbase left by the time these incompetents have fecked off…

It was ever thus. Even Don Revie did it!

Nobody, don’t encourage them.

Think that says it all about sales thus far and what a compete debacle the pricing has been. ‘Things are improving’ down there, indeed. On ticketing they are actually, inexplicably, getting worse. They are utterly clueless and Swag needs removing from post ASAP.

Stanley now on open sale… the season ticket exclusivity period for when there is no season worked well then.

I’m getting an electric razor and to be fair I haven’t had a shave for about a week… spooky!

If I’m watching game as a neutral fine, if I’m watching Rovers I am entertained by three points at 5pm.

Even lower than the COYLE (!) season. Lowest in 30+ years for the absolute key commercial metric of any football club. Still, why bother with actual evidence ay, when you can just swallow some corporate waffle about ‘progress’, ‘big improvements’ from a here today, gone tomorrow carpet bagger like Steve bloody Waggott.

Miller gave you the rebuttal yesterday (I 100% agree with it, so I’m not going to repeat it again, you ignored it unsurprisingly. However I will on Brockhall, ’the club’ wanted it bulldozed just a year ago, that shows that it is still not being run in the best interests of BRFC if such an idea can even be proposed, a vicious local resident and fan backlash making them withdraw their plans does not change that their intentions for the future can and should be questioned. On the manager they’ve known for months that no contract would be forthcoming for Mowbray, yet eight weeks to KO, no manager. That’s not a functional process in my view. FYI I don’t #putonignore because I’m not a teenager who can’t debate and throws his toys out the pram when he’s disagreed with.

No that would be your assertion of a much improved club, Miller’s response neatly rebutted it. The club is in a big a mess as ever on what matters - ST sales, income, corporate sales, manager recruitment, remember these people who you lap up every utterance from were trying to flatten Brockhall for housing a mere 12 months ago- nice kits and a standard pitch repair is not what a club lives and dies on. You need to separate being told something is better by those paid to say something is better, with actual reality.

… and then the CL again.

Certainly an element of that, and Fianna Fáil were always fairly populist, leaning left economically, right socially. So they have largely dominated Irish politics as a ‘big tent’ party since independence.

Yet you wouldn’t do any of that with Dyche because ‘he’s a Dingle’. Open minded, indeed!

Only in VenkyWorld would we get lumbered with a total novice purely because he’s pals with a journo that somehow ended up as an executive here (briefly) years ago…

Hmmm, perhaps because he’s 50 and never been a permanent manager at any level? He wants to learn his trade? Good for him, but go and do it on some L1/L2 club’s dime and time.

Well you won’t be seeing any better any time soon that’s for sure…