Mattyblue

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’!’

It’s £15, not a £5. Only a fiver dearer than Wednesday. So why would 8000 non ST holders suddenly emerge to buy a ticket for a mid table second division game in November? (Especially on the back of that complete debacle).

He doesn’t work on the defence, Danny Graham confirmed that on Radio Lancs the other month.

End of the day, he didn’t go anywhere in the midst of that horror run last season, when even TM himself was as good as begging to be put out of his misery. So there’s not a chance he goes with us a few points from the play offs, though we know the 2 points away will soon be 4 then 6 then 8… He’ll be here to see out his contract… and it’s not out of the realms that he’s offered another.

Aye, any kind of decent result last night would have seen a bit of a surge before Saturday.. can wave goodbye to that now.

Ha you reckon?

Performances are another thing the owners ‘have no knowledge of’ then, I take it - like the attempted houses on Brockhall?

Yes, to get ‘their’ own man in… TM already is.

10th under Souness, but we won a cup though… and 6th the year after.

As does David Dunn, you find most ex pros do, even if they are local, just how we are known within the game itself.

It grates… just saying

Oh but you do. ‘Low block’, ‘pivots’ and all the rest of the jargon is just that. They are not revolutionary new ways of playing the game, just re-badged aged old tactics, but it keeps the new army of analysts, both professional and the Twitter amateurs busy.

Apropos of noting, but speaking of Stergiakis, at least he actually stands between the sticks from time to time. With no pure reserve team football anymore and the plethora of young keepers on the books, plus our tendency to exit cup competitions as rapidly as possible, Pears pretty much never plays a game… great work if you can get it, but a bloody odd career all the same.

Probably, panic buying from a club with plenty of cash… enter NUFC January 2022.

Great preview! Just seen that they won’t be allowed any more tickets as Rovers have said it isn’t ‘financially viable’. Err Ok.

About £22 million (and this was the late 90s, not the 2020s) on Ward, Blake, Dailly and Davies. We didn’t half throw Jack’s cash down the toilet in that debacle of a year that inevitably ended in a calamitous relegation.

Good preview, but… *Rovers*

‘Lancs minnows’… haughty stuff from a club with less than a third of our trophy count.