Which shows the daftness of ‘goal involvements’ as a metric as he was pivotal to the Leeds goal but gets nowt.

He just doesn’t fancy the rough and tumble of the Championship.

Just two posts 6 months apart, both bigging up that lot, but if you say so.

Don’t fret, he’s a Dingle, only ever two posts since joining and both singing the praises of that lot.

…he’s still not having that air shot as an assist though.

They randomly never put the front row of the Blackburn End Upper on sale either, so what’s that another 150/200 seats? Best to be on the safe side though, as otherwise you may have seen mass chucking of decanted Fosters into the bottom tier or something.

Every extra block that went on sale was sold in hours. The last release of tickets sold in about an hour. There are c800 unsold seats in home areas (never mind the Darwen End) and obviously still demand as it ‘sold out’ with a week to go. As for the police, Ewood is covered by the same division (East) of the same constabulary (Lancs) as their ground. They have a line of stewards within the same stand as segregation, we have c1500 netted off seats across three separate stands. It’s cop out from the lazy, complacent people that run Blackburn Rovers.

c26k ‘capacity’ crowd. Only at Venky’s Rovers.

… shots out the box are frowned upon too, you know, ‘The Data says’.

Thought it was a decent performance personally, but there you go.

They were a team bouncing around the second and third tiers playing in front of a load of empty seats (in one of the country’s biggest cities) until Bielsa turned up, so they can get off their high horse.

To be fair they scabbed a win at Ewood last time with a goal out of nothing, we were well in the game - I don’t think the players will need telling.

‘Popular view on here’, so I take it you have a different view? Which is what, that they actually are interested? They have a funny way of showing it.

Two things can be true at the same time: The players and manager are doing well, deserve praise and are getting praise… but if we want to stay the course we need reinforcements.

Sam Smith is a unique case I could say, largely due to the highly eccentric owner. The industry generally it all goes back to the 1989 Beer Orders brought in by the government. It was intended to break the near monopoly of the big 6 breweries when it came to brewing volumes and their tied pubs. But all it actually did see instead is Pub Cos come on the scene who slowly strangled the life out of them. Add the smoking ban, huge volumes of rates and tax they need to pay, plus changes in society and no wonder the numbers have collapsed.

Not as simple as that as for a normal game, I.e not the one on Saturday, we will be back to c13k/14k fans. Not particularly impressive that for a team around the top 6, is it? Why? Because we only have 9k ST holders. What do we do to remedy that? Sell more seaso.. . (And how do we do that? Reduce prices. It’s as simple as that).

I’d say 22k-ish out of the 23k seats in home areas, they’ll give a ‘sold out crowd of 26 thousand and something’ (a 31k capacity stadium) Crazy really when the game ‘sold out’ with over a week to go.

And in half arsed fashion they only put a few back row seats for sale in the Riverside too.

Due to higher walk ons all season (not just since going on a run, even earlier when we were plodding). Most weekend games all season have 4/5k of them, so 13/14k home fans in the ground. Substantially more than some other seasons. If you think back to the last Mowbray season when we up the top end of the table, we also saw a spike in walk ons, but as we only had 7k (!) ST holders we struggled to get decent numbers in. We get STs up to 11/12k, which shouldn’t exactly be insurmountable for Blackburn Rovers and we’d be seeing a busier Ewood every week. That has to be the aim for next season, but alas the club just aren’t bothered.

Newcastle’s ‘passionate support’ is one of the biggest myths in football. Big city with one club and one of only three league clubs in the whole north east of England. They are lucky to be able to call on such a vast hinterland, it’s not some unique hotbed. We are situated in football’s hotbed.

Think he was referring to both. No billionaires in the 80s, still ambitious.

Despite not having a pot to piss in In we had six seasons in the second tier top 6 through the 80s, seems pretty ambitious to me.

German = top coach.

14,000 average attendance at Newcastle the season Keegan arrived… so bear that in mind as we are inundated with all this ‘uniquely passionate fanbase’ stuff from the media.

Down to about 6/7k in the mid 80s (the nadir for English football). But other local clubs were down at 3/4k. Even the likes of those ‘passionate Geordies’ (and Leeds) were down in the teens.