Mattyblue

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.

Of course, but this guy had been England number 1 for a few years and he was still a mile off him. Nice one ‘Guv’nor’ 🤦‍♂️

After Brad, it was amazing how much of a downgrade Robinson, much younger, all those England caps, was.

Also shows how they actually don’t have a feel for the sport and/or fan culture, at all. An actual football man would spot that Hudds are playing in the cup at Burnley the week after, where they will likely take plenty due to prices probably in the £15/20 bracket, so of course a switched on administrator wouldn’t then price a game just after an expensive Xmas and new year at £30, as many of their fans will likely be making a choice of one or the other… and it ain’t going to be us. Drives me mad, but not to worry, we have a forum member who has the ears of them down there telling them what’s what…

Of course, they collapse at almost comically regular intervals, 1st innings or second innings from the mighty Ireland at Lord’s to pretty much everybody on the road… but Adelaide in recent years has seen both teams collapse due to the unique nature of the swinging ball the day nighter brings, England’s only hope is to come out on top of a low scorer, as I imagine they’ll wilt in the more traditional conditions at Melbourne and Sydney.

End of the day you get £30 million for AA and BB on a £10 million outlay and that talk of the ‘model’ from a few years back, I.e invest in young English forwards as they have the potential for high sell ons has worked out perfectly. Kudos to all involved (though SG isn’t exactly pulling up tress but you can’t win them all). Though, that is only half a model. The whole point is surely to now go back to the market with some of the cash for the next potential AA/BB, the rest can obviously go to plug losses, running costs and all the rest of it. However, if all the £30 million now goes to plug losses, then we are just kicking the can down the road to the next crisis when there’s neither fixed assets or sellable players to keep the FFP wolf from the door…

Usual stuff; muddled selections, poor spinner, collapses. Hopefully Broad and Anderson in a more swing friendly day nighter at Adelaide gets us back in it, lose that and it could get very messy down there, again.

https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11688/12491491/qprs-chris-willock-and-mark-warburton-win-sky-bet-championship-november-awards Galileo, Newton, Warburton.