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?

Move it into the BwD boundaries so it’s ‘Closer to the community’ ?! Not to get all Vinjay, but that is a small time outlook and also ignorant of the realities of where much of our fanbase now resides. There are an absolute load of Rovers fans in the RV these days, I imagine Langho itself will have plenty more than many districts of Blackburn. We need to be doing MORE outside BwD, not less.

Sorry didn’t realise we were now operating at Northern Premier/NW Counties level were volunteers are often relied to keep on top of the place, but a club with a turnover in the tens of millions, execs on more than a quarter of a million a year and billionaire owners… though I am probably also doing a disservice to the likes of Clitheroe FC who I imagine use a jet washer more than once a decade!

It’s not particularly sitting in your seat outside, but more the concourses, for PNE the Blackburn End’s was absolutely packed pre match and at half time - and even throughout the game there were a load of folk down there…

It’s the small things, I.e just general maintenance and cleaning, with a bit of rota-ed care and attention you can keep the place in good nick - but if they get left for a number of years they gradually turn into much bigger, and much more expensive jobs. Standard false economy down there.

Tickets will presumably go on sale next week, at £10/15, I’d wager. Yes I get the ‘priorities’ line, but a packed out away end, harking back to the Steven Reid rocket era, get a win and carry on the momentum, can only be a positive.

TM’s problem was trying to play the system he’s utilising now, but without the personnel. Now we have four very handy centre halves for the three spots, with two solid and athletic wing backs (though Nyambe’s injuries are always an issue). It’s a truism, but build that solid platform and go from there, especially as never have much issue in scoring goals.

Sky have split their sports coverage up into individual sport channels these days (Sky F1, Sky Cricket etc), so I imagine you can.

I long gave up on Quest. If you have Sky, you should be able to record the early hours highlights of each Championship game (or watch if you are just getting in!) on Sky Sports Football. Repeated at 10 this morning by the looks of it…

We need to stop with all this ‘boycott’ talk, as I said on the match thread, there really isn’t that many that are actively ‘boycotting’. We are making a big issue and creating rows over something that is neither here nor there. In reality, we’ve never recovered from the Kean debacle, we lost around 8,000 ST holders over his reign and most have never come back. Some of that 8,000, especially at first, were making a conscious decision to withdraw, but over time most have just drifted away and now have a plethora of other things to do with their time, and have switched off from Rovers, and that is a big issue for a town club like ours with a limited fanbase to start with.

There really aren’t many ‘boycotters’ in the grand scheme of things, but there are a hell of a lot of fans who have simply drifted away over this past decade and are now well out of the habit… and they are much harder to get back than someone who has made an active choice to ‘boycott’.

Burnley have ended up as our all encompassing rival, but you are right, go back a few decades and it would depend on where you lived. Yes, if you lived in say Accy or Great Harwood it would be that lot, but for a Darrener it would be Bolton, for someone from say Bamber Bridge/South Ribble, PNE.

A ridiculous amount of penalties in the PL these days. Just the 7 so far this weekend…

Of course a winning team trumps everything, but it is Cat B. 😁 Good thing is, looking at the fixtures, post Huddersfield it looks like just Blackpool will be Cat A anyway till the end of the season…

You know I don’t think he actually is when it comes to tickets. He’s here for a limited time and he knows it, he’ll presumably be on for targets, bonuses etc for hitting certain revenues. That’s the problem when you have a revolving door of Chief Execs, they obviously will have little incentive to look to the long term growth of a fanbase…

You’re a better man than me, I don’t even talk football with Blackburners of said description.

I’m not justifying it, but that is the rationale of Swag, like it or not (and obviously I don’t like it!). End of the day we are on the cusp of something here and if we had a Chief Exec that had any interest in the long term health of the club over short term revenue, he’d be doing everything possible to get as many ROVERS fans as possible into Ewood Park, not trying to fleece 2000 away supporters whilst pricing out your own. This season could be absolutely transformative, and ticket pricing could make a big difference as Ewood is a transformed place and you can see it in the team when crowds hit 16,17k plus…

That’s exactly why we asked our nephew who his two favourite players were… so Dolan on the back it was!

Reason 1 is obviously away support, if the game had been against Reading it wouldn’t be Cat A. Reason 2 I would agree is trying to do that. But there is obviously a middle ground between undercutting ST holders and Cat A.

It’s not even about ‘cut price’, though I’m always open to that, but just the nonsense of charging £36 (THIRTY SIX) to sit in the JWU for a game straight after an expensive Xmas and new year for most folk, to watch a second division game against Huddersfield Town! Laughable really, but the joke is on the club as Swag will have fecked off elsewhere soon enough after his disastrous tenure.

Ha, not you K-Hod!

He looked past his prime but he was only 29 when we signed him, Brad being in his late 30s when he left, night and day in professionalism.

My brother in law has just started taking his 6 year old lad, he didn’t commit to a ST for them as he wasn’t sure if he’d take to it (he loves it, by the way). He’s a JWU man, as many match day buyers are ,and it’s costing him around £50 a time for matches against the mighty West Brom and PNE in the second division - he’s lucky enough to be able to afford it, but many can’t (or won’t) pay such insane pricing.