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They removed a fantastic pictorial historical timeline for that ‘Visiting Supporters Ticket Sales’, even though there is another sign just behind saying the exact same thing. A club, nay an institution, that has completely lost its way and needs pulling up by its bootstraps.

I see a well known brfcs-er is defending it on Twitter, ‘cos furlough’. Not an excuse, ground staff could keep on top of that kind of stuff - though they are very stretched these days with covering both sites. But ask for volunteers! We are a supposed to be ‘a club’, no? The furlough is a red herring that neatly allows the executives to abdicate their very basic duties, the state of the ground has been a disgrace for years.

It ‘takes time’ because the ground has been left to rot for years, not months. I’ve mentioned this before, but I used to go to the gym built into the away end at Deepdale, there was a constant buzz of folk around the ground; jet washing, touching up the paint, sweeping up, cleaning and so on. A quick glance of Ewood tells you it’s been a long time since we’ve had that here. It’s bloody piss poor and shows a lack of professional pride and commitment from the Chief Exec down, if nothing else. Though to be expected when a club has become a hollowed out husk run by hired hands.

We loved a funky keeper kit in the 90s, which clubs didn’t?

And we thought Umbro just recycled designs...

Costs money? Bit of weed killer? Didn’t realise we’d gone right back to the mid 80s in which we are choosing between paying for training balls or leccy bills. It must be even more dire down there than any of us realised...

Season tickets? Considering Ewood seems to have been through a zombie apocalypse, I doubt we’ll be seeing them on sale anytime soon...

And we are too incompetent to even make hay out of that as the third kits usually go out of stock after about three weeks...

He’s having a jolly old time, stop feeding! The good thing about avatars on the site is if I see that a thread is ‘Hot’ and a golden M as seemingly always the last post, I know to steer clear.

We saw just that between 2015 and 2017...

Academy grads and cheap loans, you’d imagine... (Not sure where that leaves The European Scouting Model).

What’s that got to do with expecting a Flowers or Freidel?

Which people are they?

It’s accepted at all levels now. You hear the pundits ‘he’ll have felt contact, so he’s entitled to go down’ A ‘foul’ in the modern game.

It reopened as just an open terrace for a year or so - 88/89 you can see it for the Garner record against City and the Palace play off. Then closed for good in 1990.

Which is why he’s sitting in the Sky studio.

Was it not because the Riverside had been temporarily closed?

Mate of mine has worked in gambling for years, straight from school went working in a bingo hall and progressed from there, the parent company of said hall is registered there and now he’s there living the life of Riley... after a few years in the other European alternative for gambling companies... Gibraltar. Bastard.

West Brom, nothing club? Very similar club to us in many ways. Founder Members, 82 top flight seasons, multiple time trophy winners. And we certainly aren’t a ‘nothing club’!

Remember reading when the first few games were played BCD, journos were sure we’d seen an end to play-acting as there was ‘no crowd to play up to’... that lasted long.

30 years ago without doubt, some fantastic players in the Charlton era, plus the Keanes and Duff in more modern times. Seems to have dropped off this past 10 years though? Just cyclical or is there something deeper going on with talent coming through?

Tugay and Andy Cole being the obvious exceptions, Souness made some pretty dodgy signings in his latter time here...

Best tell Stoke...

How will you judge the network if we don’t sign a single foreign player?

Why would someone having to quarantine for 14 days stop us or them agreeing to a lucrative 2/3/4 year contract?