But did he ever get those Chapman postcards back in stock? I was worrying about it throughout lockdown…

I don’t count that peculiar Rob Young character, he was pressing for the sale of Brockhall earlier this year. Facebook which tends to have more locals commenting on posts than Twitter was particularly scathing.

Club getting an almost unanimous slaughtering re West Brom prices on the various social media channels. I would say we are looking at our lowest league turn out in home areas for 30 plus years this weekend…

I said fairly regular, so as I said there’s a chance there will be a fair few this season.

Peterborough v West Brom on Saturday 28th is 8pm too, so it looks as if it’ll be fairly regular through the season…

‘Doesn’t bring in a profit’. Neither does giving 4 year deals to the likes of Pears, or an extra year to Smallwood… or keeping Swag on 300k, but hey ho.

We actually broke off our family holiday in Scarborough to drive home, watch the game, and then drive back again the next morning (my Mum wasn’t too impressed, but as my Dad said, ‘we have no choice!’).

We did, August ‘92…

All for it. Red and black, yellow with blue trim are the quintessential away Rovers colours. But surely the yellow should’ve been held back for next season?

I find listening to the likes of Souness, Hughes, figures from the 90s etc quite difficult to listen to. As I do watching old clips and matches. It just brings home to me what has been thrown away. Of course, the nefarious characters of the past decade ‘can’t take your memories’ and it’s only myself that I’m denying, but there you go.

Lenihan has stagnated, though perhaps second tier clogger is simply his level. Travis has certainly not improved over the past 18 months, though he has a few injury problems, big season for him.

Always had their number… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/21810265

In what way is it a ‘joke cup’. It’s one of only three top level competitions in the country. Apart from being newer, so doesn’t have the heritage, I’m not seeing how it is much different than the FA Cup, you may as well call that a ‘joke’ too…

6,000. There won’t be much more in the ground (if even as many) for night games in the league this season… but I suppose you’re right, there’s not many left to care whatever the competition is.

Interesting that it was our biggest opening EFL Cup crowd (Burnley aside) since relegation from the PL. not saying a lot it was just under 6,000 (but we’ve had some 3/4k gates in the 1st round previously), but I imagine a decent number of non ST holders will have walked up in the nice weather, summer hols etc - they certainly won’t be looking for £400 odd quid down their settee after that…

You break the £30 barrier and it psychologically turns off a good percentage of fans, home or away. As an aside, the Waggott tax and the 1875 club seem to have bitten the dust…

Their Facebook group looks fairly active.

The London Branch supporters club usually meet up in decent numbers for south east away games. Not sure if any members are on here?

All because West Brom fans can be rinsed, the hope will be that they’ll sell a couple of thousand match tickets at £32… yet any increase in revenue from that will be negated as you’ll put off your own fans from buying them (pissing off that customer base whilst you are at it). Beggars belief the thought processes down there.

Let’s hope folk buy a season ticket because you can wave goodbye to many walk ons if half the games are going to be priced like this (top notch proofreading prior to publication too!) …

I’m got taking it particularly seriously this season with that squad. But as Jack said, though fair enough if you didn’t actually mean that one of only three major trophies in this country is ‘pointless’.

That day at Cardiff didn’t seem pointless…

From my seat in NO1 of the Blackburn End, the metalwork between the BEnd and JW was absolutely covered in grime… the Totally Wicked devil that hangs between the stands has been infected too. Just looked generally very shabby… ‘furlough’, obviously. Though not sure what the excuse was prior to March 2020.

Yep, 12 (ten outdoor, two synthetic) to 6 (5 outdoor, one synthetic).

From memory the combined site would have 50% fewer pitches.