Mattyblue

*Everyone* knows all these things, do they? You have some serious knowledge of our fanbase, obviously. Though I bet if you asked a 100 ST holders when next season starts I wager you wouldn’t hear many responses of ‘July’. I want the best for the club, so on all matters I point out where they are going wrong and how we can improve, that is positive. We sold our lowest numbers of STs for thirty plus years last summer, so obviously the club needs taking to task on this issue and any way to improve comms and marketing around STs obviously needs looking at. Merely parroting the lines of incompetents that have somehow got themselves into senior positions at the club is not positive from my standpoint, but is actually working against the best interests of Blackburn Rovers, but some folk on here obviously enjoy the relationships they have developed within Ewood, fair enough if that’s how they get their kicks.

No you thought you’d patronise folk instead. Yes, of course you can use a website or ring up the TO. But if you aren’t particularly tech savvy/internet literate (as many older fans aren’t) so you miss all the tweets and FB posts, and you haven’t even received a flyer (Glen hasn’t, so presumably many others haven’t either), never mind a DD pack, then your marketing strategy is failing.

And if it is true it means Swag et al are happy for the infrastructure to get into this sorry state and not asking for said cheques… either way it is a piss poor way to run a club.

Glen asked if people received a ‘pack’, I said no, it was a leaflet directing to you the website. A statement of fact. So not sure why you have to go into full club defence mode again, have a day off.

I know, I received one, but thanks. It’s not a ‘renewal pack’, as there is no pack with DD details to complete, a SAE for return etc, it’s a flyer telling you to buy one on the website.

End of the day we are pouring over their accounts, their ownership, their potential fire sale with no mercy… as did they a decade ago. We are looking for evidence of a closing gap as they come back to our orbit, we aren’t suddenly going to go all philosophical over the evils of US venture capitalism, you swim with alligators, you get eaten. That’s football rivalry.

I did get something in the post, but I wouldn’t call it a ‘renewal pack’, just a leaflet directing me to the website.

South Asia has obviously struggled to produce footballers of any note (though that doesn’t mean there isn’t potential either there or in the diaspora). But a bit odd to lump east Asia in into it, as Japan and South Korea are consistently strong sides and do produce plenty of players that are across Europe’s top leagues…

Yes to the first part, but they will *only* get c5k due to the DE car park limitations for the coaches, as otherwise it would’ve been yes to the second part too…

Sums them up that they’d pick a Rovers defeat as a season highlight. Get that tinpot outfit back to where they belong…

So Sharpe is wrong. Plus the club (who always like to crow about even minimal improvements) are choosing not to publicise this well needed new drainage system? Hmm, doesn’t add up, sorry.

Yet a far more unlikeable fanbase with the millions of plastic hangers on that pollute every town, so… ‘Blue Moon… ‘

So no new drainage system then, perhaps don’t exaggerate for effect in future!

It’s a photo of a grass-less pitch, not really going to tell me much, is it! So Sharpe is wrong and we are having a new drainage system put in like you said this morning?

The mental gymnastics here 😁

Of course, if he had another year on his contract he’d still be here. A decision only being made because the bloke in position has actually left the building. Win, lose, draw. Charge up the table or death spiral - Pune couldn’t care less.

Always the ‘little old Rovers’ pat on the head vibe from Myers. He hasn’t been as accepting of mediocrity at his beloved Toffees this season…

Perhaps then, 1864 needs to be a little more questioning instead of just swallowing whatever BS line Swag is imparting…

There is no particular problem in interviewing candidates, but you shouldn’t be sifting through CVs in the close season when you’ve known for months that the bloke in situ was soon to be out of contract and there was no indication from the owners that he was to be retained. It’s called succession planning, alas standard business practices don’t exist at this club…

All about reducing losses when literally three months from hitting the biggest jackpot possible to wipe out the lot, if ever there was a real life definition of ‘penny wise, pound foolish’, ‘false economy’ and any others you can think of…

So this summer the pitch is being completely renovated? Drainage, the works? If that’s the case why is it not being mentioned by the club? As Swag would surely be shouting it from the rooftops, like he was the other year before he got put back in its box and the full works was scrapped. Looks just like a standard re-seed to me?

I would think so. Cancelled about a month ago! Good job they spoke to you or they’d have been just them and a 🚜 on the pitch…

The Sun? Pah! He’s realised there’s are plenty of folk actually willing to pay him directly through Patreon for his ‘insights’, so he’s cut out the middleman! Cracking grift, but the mind boggles at the mugs signing up for it 🤦‍♂️

To the level we are seeing now very much is a change from twenty years ago, I.e even after winning a semi final, that means bugger all in itself. You rarely saw them from the mid 90s until the last few years. I.e why didn’t we end up on the pitch after going up at Deepdale? Winning the League Cup semi final? After winning the bloody Premier League! Yet ended up on the pitch twice in one week after Doncaster and Oxford in League 1 of all places? Smart phones and social media are very much a major reason to why they have come back in a big way.

A Yorkshire Dales villages in Cumbria… go figure!