Quite a statement. How have you come to this conclusion?

Jason Steele, Jake Kean

The stand to the left is still in use today...

That please, when’s it happening?

Is the club run in a ‘model way’, Phil?

I can see Chapman going the same way, not to the extent of behaving off the field like Tomlinson has, but generally drifting down the leagues/out of the game.

I can still remember Dickens’ howler against Wolves in the midst of that horrendous losing run to this day, the wheels were coming off (I thought!)

Forest manager sacked... never in doubt with us coming up next.

Well there you go! Modern game in a nutshell.

Good job there’s actual matches being played at Ewood or it’d be like this by the time fans are allowed back...

Wages, you’d think. Be surprised if he’s not now on 30/40k a week.

Andy Neild? Ended up leaving the LT and starting his own PR firm, didn’t he? Talking Mark Hughes era, don’t think he was linked to Agnew.

Someone else’s problem when he fecks off at the end of the season.

You’ve still not explained how this is an Ewood phenomenon, and how much time in recent years you’ve spent sitting with the home support of our divisional rivals to decide to start this this very odd thread.

Well obviously! I mean on here, been most cordial, for once.

Just shows that most fans don’t ever spend much time sitting with fans from opposing teams, as you would see the exact same behaviours with them. That’s simply football crowds.

Just a pointlessly divisive thread to start when the forum and team is generally in a good place.

Went to Stoke last season and it was a half empty morgue. Birmingham and Boro the same. Thats generally what happens when you become a middling Championship club.

Where are all these ‘hostile’ Championship grounds? I’ve been to pretty much all of them and I can’t recall many. Can you quantify how this non hostile Ewood crowd has somehow ended up also being more ‘aggressively critical’ than anywhere else? Considering the shite we’ve endured for a decade, the Ewood crowd has been more than patient - the way Ewood has been right behind BB is testament to that. And an odd fella shouting bollocks is a Blackburner phenomenon now? Who needs Dingles when you have our own fans spouting such inaccuracies...

One odd thing from that season is coaching staff wearing the home shirt, recall Tony Parkes wearing it often too.

Andy Neild was a good journo, Rovers fan too. Andy Cryer? Right place, right time for him as the Kean debacle got him a (brief) gig at the BBC.

I always thought Tyler was one of the all time great commentators, but have to agree, the last few years his commentaries have just become 90 minutes of him rambling and going off on tangents.

Every chance it never even gets to a stage where socially distanced seats are allocated...

Soccer Saturday as a premise is 4 ex pros being watched as they watch football... for about 6 hours. So of course it needs to be light hearted with them bouncing off each other, not earnest tactical discussion all day long (not that the new panelists can offer that either) but as you say, Sky seem to have forgot what the show’s USP is, diversity quotas need to be met, I suppose...

I suppose it’s true in a black comedy kind of way, finally getting them on sale and getting over 2,000 folk forking out £400 - £600 for a pass not to enter Ewood Park just as East Lancs went into lockdown and Boris pretty much confirmed no entry until at least March Tell you what ain’t ‘encouraging’, though. 18,000 ST holders lost in a decade.