Can’t be true as I keep reading on here that TM is that crap he’d never, ever get another job at this level…

That’s now two weekend home games in a row the club has withdrawn DEnd availability pre game (as no bugger was buying). So as predicted on here, of course, an unused area with no existing ST holders is not suddenly going to get decent numbers in for a standard priced game with no price incentive for that stand. The incompetence staggers me (though it shouldn’t after 12 long years).

Forum ITK-ers. The floor is yours, as you’ve been telling us about all the fantastic changes incoming, so the Academy, our final remaining crown jewel, Jack’s vision flourishing with a team full of graduates, of course, won’t be downgraded?

Since when?

So what if Everton fans wanted him? You don’t run a professional club on the whims of emotional punters that largely know bugger all. It was a terrible appointment.

Does intrigue me roverandout at how much of a downer you have about all things Rovers (fair enough), but are a super duper fanboy for a side that most football fans are only semi-connected to, and don’t give one second’s thought to until a tournament rolls around…

I wouldn’t say it’s deliberate to the extent there is anything nefarious going on, but there are certainly two very damaging things occurring from my perspective. One, Waggott et al still have no idea about the Rovers fanbase; what makes it tick, what it responds to (or doesn’t). The ridiculous overuse of bundles that no bugger ever buys is a prime example. Two, a decade of decline in attendances had made Ewood a very easy place to manage and complacency and institutional laziness had took hold. Same numbers turning up year in year out (give or take a steady drop in ST holders each summer). So this unexpected charge up the table with a load of additional walk ons appearing on a match day has obviously caught them with their pants down, and the club is totally unprepared - Huddersfield earlier this season even has a delayed KO due to ‘crowd congestion’ - ‘great, big crowd today then!’… there was 16k on. So we are now seeing all these schemes to reduce queues etc, and for me it’s largely due to the club not being able to cope with any spike in attendances and wanting to get back to an easy match day run by a skeleton staffing operation. The old conspiracy theory in the 80s about the club ‘not wanting to go up’, certainly resonates today as the infrastructure of the place is now a million miles away from what is expected in the 2022 Premier League, and they know it…

Bugger buying pubs, just restore Blues Bar to its former glory. Maybe have a fact finding mission down to little Accy to see how you actually ‘sweat the assets’.

Sherwood just didn’t seem to fancy the second division, I remember the incredulity when Kenny said he’d be the main man once up… KK couldn’t half read a player.

So with months still to go mid table third division Bolton already have nearly five thousand more ST holders in the camp than Championship Blackburn Rovers managed last summer. Something is badly amiss at this football club…

…and they’ve got the ground name wrong.

There’s certainly a parallel in league positions. The difference being we snapped out of it quickly, came and went in a mad month and with enough time to recover… just. This has been going on for over three months and it doesn’t feel like we’ve come out of the other side of it as yet. The fact we had far better and far more experienced players in 1992 than now is a major factor…

Pro or anti-TM, that article is a damming example of how mis-managed this club is. He’s a month of games left and totally in the dark to if he’s got a future here or not, even at a personal/professional level it is a piss poor way to treat one of the league’s longest serving managers. So, do we think Waggott and ‘the board’ are any clearer so they can look for a replacement? Of course they won’t be, indeed Swag might be off himself - so if TM doesn’t sign a new deal inside a Pune lair deep into the close season, a Coyle era scramble for a replacement will commence in mid summer by whatever rump of executives we have left at Ewood, whilst other clubs are well underway strengthening their squads. All this nonsense from the forum ITK-ers about ‘new dawns’ is as laughable as it ever was…

Beats having a rehab game at Leyland, I suppose…

Only bucked with strong half ST sales. Last summer saw the worst sales in 30+ years. Every chance many of those half ST holders jump straight back out of the tent in the summer with the way things have gone post January, and no doubt a piss poor offer being prepared for next season…

Good luck with that, as my question on why they keep doing these shite bundles went unasked by the looks of the last set of minutes…

In what way is Dolan anything like Derbyshire as a player?!

The profile and column inches of the ceremony had tanked in recent years, so the Academy will be rubbing their hands with glee and making him life president…

Bit like them removing those fantastic two history timelines in both Jack Walker Stand corners - the DE side one being replaced with an ‘Away Ticket Sales’ sign, right next to an existing sign saying… err… ‘Away Ticket Sales’ Just can’t fathom what goes on with the Brains Trust down there.

In the 2000s Blues Bar was a cracking venue. Good food, drink variety, loads of fantastic Rovers memorabilia all over the place. We used to be in there for hours pre match week in week out. Went in recently and I couldn’t believe how much it had gone downhill. Food and drink really poor and they’ve somehow got rid of its USP, a ROVERS bar, most of the memorabilia removed, even the tiled floor mosaic of our badge on the floor near the bar, gone - now just a generic and tatty ‘Sports Bar’. Sums up this decade of mismanagement nicely, I thought…

Like Blackpool, Stoke on Easter Monday is Cat B. Strange how the club has totally rowed back from the marketing guff around the ‘Final 5’ bundle which said how great value it was because all remaining home games would be Cat A. I presume the threats didn’t work then and Swag has counted how many bundles were sold using his fingers and toes…

To be fair it would’ve been 150 years of a slip up. Unless there’s written minutes etc from the time, aren’t we just looking at the age old issue of conflicting historical accounts? The Maltese cross shirt is another example. A very interesting little nugget here SG, but I doubt any records are going to be officially corrected…

Well it’s been 12 years and counting and it doesn’t look particularly close to me…

No worries with Nyambe in there, though he has obvious weaknesses as an attacking wing back, he’s a superb defender.

You always say variations of this rigger, I’ve noticed, but you have to be ‘bothered about other results’, as we obviously won’t win every game (and neither will anybody else) so clubs will always need favours from elsewhere.