Do you have expectations for all 92 league clubs? xE if you will?

Maybe they just aren’t very intelligent…

Joe doesn’t know what actual ‘football intelligence’ is, I see…

What a load of pretentious twaddle that paragraph is 😁 But fair play to all those that make a living out spouting it…

Doesn’t rile me, more amusing, obviously riles the analysts themselves when they get rumbled though 😁

What am I disliking? I’m merely talking about the crafty re-naming of long established tactics by analysts, not belittling data analysis itself. New tactics spearheaded by data analysts, then ok, certainly ‘progress’… but in what way is calling it a ‘low block’ instead of ‘defending deep’ or ‘two banks of four’ or a ‘pivot’ instead of a ‘holding/deep lying midfielder’ “Progress”?

The only good thing is that by chance more than design it looks like only Blackpool will Cat A post Hudds, due to all the potential ‘big’ away support fixtures falling in the first half of the season. So assuming we don’t go behind closed doors, at least any crowd building momentum won’t be stalled by £36 tickets in the JWU…

Saw the pin and I thought his departure had been announced 😢 (Nice work though, lads!)

It will ‘entice a few’ walk ons, certainly more than if we were 12th, but it all goes back to my mantra of lost ST holders. Say we still had 10,500 ST holders and 4,000 match day tickets got bought (which is the upper end of what gets bought here weekly and would be a good effort a few days before Xmas) plus say, 1,500 away fans - that would be a healthy 16,000 crowd. But when you only have 7,300 ST holders, even with that 4,000 and 1, 500 it’s a much less healthy looking 12,800. The damage was done in the summer and we will pay for it all season unless an absolute shed load of half STs have been sold…

Some of the fans that stopped going in the summer of 2012 I wouldn’t have believed a year or two earlier, these weren’t ‘Premier League fans’, but proper, dyed in the wool types with decades of attendance. They thought the club was taking the piss. A few came back with half STs and a ST in 2013, but plenty more will just have got out of the habit and are now long gone…

Still £30 in the JWU, but yes generally cheaper than PNE/Hudds. People do seem to struggle to realise that if ST sales drop in the summer, match day ticket sales just won’t take up the slack each week as only a finite number will buy for a standard fixture.

Most clubs see a small drop in crowds on relegation, we lost nearly half our ST holders overnight, which is unprecedented - I have always been adamant that a sacking of Kean the night of the Wigan game would have prevented such a calamitous drop off. Keeping him on that summer of 2012 was absolutely toxic for sales. We’ve never recovered ST (and therefore crowd) wise from that insane decision to keep him on that summer.

Here’s hoping that half STs have done well, there will never have been a better PR sales period running up to Christmas for them…

There will always be a load of empty seats as there are 20,000 to go at in home areas (no DEnd or BBE Upper) and we only have around 7,500 ST holders, and as you just won’t get 6/7000 plus buying match day tickets every week - we are a ST heavy fan culture at Rovers, the disaster that was the summer’s ST sales campaign comes home to roost, again.

Well I’ve just consulted the never wrong Rovers exit predictor… the new calendar. In 2022, Mr January is… it was nice knowing you ,Joe. BBD is… Mr June, so a summer departure it is!

Just watched it. Obscenely rich dickheads chatting in rooms largely… but it’s bloody great 😀

It will be, £20 absolute tops (famous last words!).

Sorry, I’m talking about how on Earth this little place impacts the club/the team which was 1864s insinuation. The fact brfcs can be hard work as a user due to some people being unable to debate is a different issue, and I don’t disagree…

And it matters one iota if a few dozen folk are ‘negative’ on brfcs.com, as long as fans get behind them at grounds, (which they certainly do) because?

⬆️ This is the fella that ‘tells it straight’ to the club!

Blackburn and Accy - ‘Clurrrr is o’er thurrrrr ont sturrrrs!’ Burnley - ‘Cley-er is over theh-er on the stai-ers!’

Crossed purposes then, I was assuming you thought it was fans who should be cleaning up the mess on the actual BRFC owned site.

And fans do - I.e the sorting out of John Lewis’ grave, 100 Club purchasing kit, minibuses for the academy etc. But down at Ewood we are talking about a ground that has been left to get into a dilapidated state over a decade, it is the club that needs to sort out the remedial work, not fans with litter pickers…

Get all that, and prior to the shenanigans earlier this year, then I’d have said fair enough to such a rationale. But it all now seems a very quick volte face from what they were planning earlier in 2021…

I’m a mere ‘OTK’ peasant who ‘just wouldn’t understand’, of course… but the obvious question is - why the total change from the very apparent downgrade in terms of both facilities and footprint that was planned just a few months ago, to now some vast site in terms of acreage?