Mattyblue

Define ‘great’?

Total nonsense though. Conflating raw numbers (that one club big cities like those two should have) with passion.

It really was just a job for him. Since retirement he’s totally walked away from the game, no interest - as proven when he was the only member of the 94/95 squad not to come to Ewood for the reunion evening.

Considering league games are only £10, and you can get a SEASON pass for £110 (£4.70 a game), yes I think it’s poor value.

Batty was one of the best midfielders I’ve ever seen at Ewood. 93/94 he was immense. However, spent much of the next season injured and left at Christmas the year after, so obviously he didn’t have the consistent presence Sherwood had. Though still a much better player, for me.

A competitive game? Absolutely. However fans are still consumers and expect value, £5.99 is steep for a friendly on a stream.

Thought it was a service provided by Blackpool?

He looked better, though from a very low base. Really, really hope you are right, vital that such a big outlay for the club turns out ok. With a name like yours, I presume you’ve been watching football a long time, so fair enough if you think he ‘has it’, for me, he still seems extremely raw and not someone who will make a telling impact in the short to medium term.

It’s that fee that’s kept him hanging round here, when it was screamingly obvious he should’ve spent some time on loan learning his trade. Would a 19 year old from our academy been given so many chances? The fee can’t come into it when you are a million miles away. Instead TM has insisted on throwing him on the pitch when it was clear his confidence had completely drained away. Will he ever make it? Not sure he will, glimpses over lockdown, this upcoming season is last chance saloon here for him and the club, but I do feel he has been managed poorly.

They seem to be trying to sign folk up intermittently. I couldn’t read any articles at some points last week. Today and I’m straight in.

I watch very little European football as don’t have BT, and to be honest seeing the cartel clubs playing and further enriching each other year in year out at the expense of the competitiveness of domestic football does little for me. However I remembered at the last minute that BT have to show the final free of charge so I found it on their YouTube channel... they don’t advertise that fact very widely though, strangely enough

It’s all about what and who we are as a club in 2020. Unfortunately this regime has probably put paid to us ever again becoming the club we were when Jones emerged, never mind who we were in 1997/98 when Duff and Dunn were breaking through. However, if this hollowed out operation can still have an academy that can churn out players of Travis’ quality on a regular basis then that’s fine by me.

Mid 80s until about 1996, every away kit was a cracker (just what were the two recurring themes?! ?)

His potential move has gone down well. ’Shite hole of a human’ by all accounts... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/danny-graham.1526481/

Ha, the stream would be available in perpetuity if that was the case!

Some proper east Lancs vowels!

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Sometimes it’s a relief that we have no marketing team... https://twitter.com/jamesqpr05/status/1296768981362245632?s=21

‘Announce Ainsworth’

If it doesn’t bother you then fair enough. The optics of the Walker Fame memorial bricks with weeds sprouting out of them and a generally filthy ground obviously does bother a hell of a lot of fans and the club were embarrassed enough to put out a statement, which says it all considering they’ve said bugger all for 5 months...

Understandable, but what isn’t is the years of neglect down there, those pics aren’t just showing a few months of a lack of upkeep due to furloughed workers...

I thought we’d moved on from those days when I saw that magnificent stadium rise up, didn’t you?

I don’t personally get too carried away with gossip either way, but wasn’t that largely from Kamy’s post? He painted a pretty bleak picture, and as he has/had (?) a long lasting line into the club, of course people feared the worst. Though it’s a fine example of how everything needs to be taken with a pitch of salt at this time of year...

And to think, when I mentioned how I expect little to be done to commemorate our 150th, I got the piss taken by a few on here...

But why? They didn’t look particularly tatty or faded, an easy gimmick to showcase our heritage. I honestly can’t comprehend the decision making.