Almost 5,500 walk ons is excellent for us, especially as it wasn’t that cheap, still nearly £15 for a run of the mill second division game on a rainy November day. That volume of ticket buyers is very seldom seen here, Ewood had always been a ST dominant crowd - the issue is that we’ve lost so many ST holders over the past 3/4 years is that even a big walk up doesn’t pull in a big crowd. Now if we still had the 10k+ ST holders of that long and distant era of Gary Bowyer, we’d have seen a crowd well in advance of 20k on Saturday. Lose ST holders, lose crowds. Simple.

I see Sky are back promoting this individual (I refuse to even add the link), I thought we’d finally seen the back of the puff pieces that kept emerging on a yearly basis. He won the league with Brunei, ya know! That plucky underdog that happens to be the only club in a sovereign oil state! Any other one job management failures you can think of that still gets interviews published in national media a decade on? Wonder how he manages that? 🤔 Yet, he still can’t get a sniff of a job in the UK, even as a bib and cone man… how odd!

I’ve been a member since day dot, yet I’ve never received a thing, be it in the post or email, the £10 always goes, so I presume I’m still a member! Can it be looked into? Happy to DM on here, or is there a specific email address I can contact?

It shows how the game has changed and just how lucky Burnley have got. A decade ago, a Villa, West Ham, Everton etc. would have been all over Dyche and that lot would have sunk back to whence they came. Now, even a Palace or Southampton wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole, so he can just crack on getting 40-ish points whilst sitting on a mega contract and they can continue to ride the PL gravy train.

Well of course it was ‘private’, he didn’t wrestle the microphone off the MC! But he is obviously willing to discuss how the manager has just avoided the sack to whoever he happens to sits down with in the bar. Well you obviously remember a much less candid JW than me, yes he loved a gossip, but I don’t ever recall him being as unprofessional as the current incumbent when it comes to his employees.

As I said, the football industry runs on gossip, all fair game. And like you, I spent a bit of time with Williams and he loved his ‘off the record’ tidbits, but could you have imagined him in the Premier Suite, just half an hour after a big win saying to whoever’s listening; ‘Greame/Mark/Sam would have been sacked without those three points!’. ?

Letting all the senior pros run down their contracts is ‘strong management from Rovers’ What a model club we are!

TM… if he hadn’t have pulled that out the bag yesterday.

Players moving? No problem, always the way, indeed Waggott has been talking about players contracts, agents etc for months to fans - however, saying a long serving manager is about to get sacked after just delivering a big win? Not sure JW would be saying that at 5.15pm to whoever was listening in the suites…

You are right, and I’m not going to turn down gossip, glad that he had your ear, it’s what makes the football world turn, but it speaks volumes of the calibre of Exec we now have.

Of course he shouldn’t be telling people like me! These matters are for the employee and his employer, not for holding court with folk in the Premier Suite. Basic bloody decorum and standards.

Does the manager deserve to have his boss going round the lounges, just half an hour after a steering his team to a vital win, telling all and sundry that he was about to be sacked from his job?

Is it ‘refreshing’ or unprofessional? I was in the Premier Suite yesterday (a one off, prawn sandwicher, I ain’t!) and I spotted him, I was in two minds about engaging him re contracts - but never got chance as I presume that was you on the table, Paul, near the kitchen he was deep in convo with for a good while? But if I had, as interesting as the snippets would be, I couldn’t ever imagine the likes of John Williams saying the manager’s on the verge of the sack half an hour after the whistle to punters in the club lounges. TM, like any employee, deserves more respect than that.

It’s generally in the Premier Suite that Waggott does the rounds, I imagine he wouldn’t divulge the juicy info to the great unwashed outside.

My point is, we are still a mile away from some big groundswell against him anyway. So in no way a comparison to the actual divide and conquer days of Kean or even Allardyce whose mere presence triggered many a row in the stands. He’s the most popular manager since Hughes, by a very wide margin, still.

But he doesn’t need to try and divide the match going fans, there is very, very little dissent against him. Even after a 7-0 mauling there was a collective shrug of the shoulders.

I spotted that from Michael last night. He’s always come across as pretty level headed on Twitter. Certainly not ‘negative’ to parrot a certain individual. So reading that it brought home what this horrendous decade has done to the fanbase. A club decaying and neglected in all areas.

How many tickets has he paid for in his life considering he’s been on the books of clubs/in the game since being a teenager? The ‘flask and bovril on the terraces’ routine has always been a load of old blarney with him.

So thin skinned if that’s his response. Just shows what an easy ride he’s had from the fanbase throughout. Even after the worst home defeat in our history it was muted. He’d have got absolute pelters anywhere else… indeed he would’ve here just a few years back.

When are we reaching these sunlit uplands, 1864?

Not your age, I know folk in their 70s and 80s that still rave about, to them, ‘recent’ players like Tugay. I too have no affinity with this last decade’s bunch and It’s largely due to most players passing through our doors being journeymen mediocrities.

It’s only when you go to away games, see what the likes of Accy are doing on a shoestring that you realise what a soulless, run down place Ewood is.

The majority of match going fans think Venky’s are the saviours of the club and we’d be ‘Bury without them’. So why on earth would a protest take off? (Standard anti manager chants on the back of bad results is a different issue - though he is still very popular too from what I can see).

Like I’ve said repeatedly, you lose ST holders your gates drop, it’s that simple. Yet that complete fool Waggott thought that whopping price hikes on the back of a pandemic and 18 months out the habit was the way to go.

‘But, but… the ‘letter to the fans’!’