Oh no worries then, just fire up the laptop. These lower league clubs are in all likelihood going to have to pay an entire squad and non playing staff for all of next season, plus all the other business overheads with a few ifollow subscriptions and a tiny slice of TV money as their only income. How many L1/L2 clubs will survive that?

He did when he bought Warnock a few weeks later...

Great post JH. I’ve certainly missed away days, as I go with a good crowd of folk and it’s always good fun taking in new towns and cities, boozers and all the rest of it. Ewood? I thought it was a shite experience before lockdown, largely down to the managed decline policies of various executives. It doesn’t take long for a human to get out of a habit, and if even a fanatic like you isn’t that arsed about it coming back, then we are in big trouble whenever season tickets finally go on sale in 2021 (or 2022?), as so many of our ST holders will have found other things to do with their time and money. ‘How did I find the time to go?’ is a familiar refrain I’ve always heard from non-renewers a year or two down the line, this is of course magnified with the incoming economic depression. Let’s be honest, it takes up a fair chunk of our precious weekend - especially if you have to travel a decent distance, which as the town of Blackburn has changed, more and more of our fans do. Yet, many supporters did spend nearly half of their weekend travelling and watching bang average second division football as they were in the routine of doing so, will they be queuing up to do it again in 18 months time?

I’m sure you would be just as understanding and happy for players to refuse to turn out for the club in a relegation battle if it was Dack or Lenihan...

I agree, I can’t imagine Ewood with social distancing tape and all the rest of it. So, if we do go back in say 6/9 months time (there won’t be a vaccine for the general population, simple as that), it will be in front of a much diminished crowd (as if our gates haven’t been diminished enough already) , as I’ve spoke to many a long standing fan this past few months who won’t be setting foot in the ground if the virus is still prominent in the country. One way or the other, the game is going to be in a very bad place in one/two years time.

And that’s what will be happening and that’s fine. Chaddy however is all for BCD as he doesn’t agree with trying social distancing in grounds as it’s logistically difficult and there’s no point anyway as he believes BCD is only a temporary measure as there’s every chance of a vaccine for the entire country in 3 MONTHS. It’s cloud cuckoo land stuff and in reality if we are waiting for a vaccine to let fans back them it’s going to be years BCD and therefore the end of our fantastic league structure. To get this season done, BCD is here and we’ll just get on with it, but the game is in big trouble medium term from where I’m standing. Something he’s in total denial about, largely on the word of a professor at Oxford, by the looks of it.

Chaddy, you seem to think there’s nothing to worry about as we will spend a few months BCD then we’ll get our vaccines and back we go. When told that vaccines are notoriously difficult to produce and can take years/decades, if one arrives at all, you just go ‘well I’ve seen that Oxford are working really hard and we’ll have one by September (!!!)’ or ‘we’ll see’ So even though I imagine you’ll have a whale of a time watching BCD matches 6 times a weekend for the foreseeable, what is your solution if we get to this time next year with no vaccine? And how many clubs will be left, BCD comes at a cost, it’s not just beamed into your living room as a means of altruism by the clubs, there’s a whole infrastructure to support. BCD will finish most clubs outside the top flight if it goes on indefinitely...

Though the lack of communication nicely sums up the inept EFL

QPR Chairman not happy - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52875186 "I am absolutely stunned by this announcement," "Incredibly, there has been absolutely no consultation with individual clubs nor with the Championship doctors' working group by the divisional representatives - or anyone else in the Football League - regarding this matter," Hoos told the QPR website. "Having spoken with our director of football Les Ferdinand and our manager Mark Warburton, they share my views. We are vehemently opposed to this schedule." The EFL - who have been contacted by the BBC for a response - said the 20 June date was "provisional" and "subject to the strict proviso that all safety requirements and government guidance is met". "The players haven't even returned to full-contact training at this moment and yet they are now expected to be in a position to play at a competitive level in just three weeks' time," Hoos said. "I have made our feelings known to the EFL and, having spoken with a number of CEOs at other Championship clubs, I am not a lone voice on this matter. "We are absolutely appalled."

And that’s where you differ from most on here.

Don’t understand it? Because the modern game is a cesspit, perhaps that doesn’t come across on a glossy PL match day on NBC Soccer Channel or whatever. Rovers come first on here, it’s full of club fanatics, so obviously we look at stuff through a blue and white lens, a different view from others you speak to. You’ve said before that you aren’t that arsed about Rovers, that you prefer watching England games and the Premier League. Fair enough, as I imagine it’s difficult picking up our games out there without ifollow, but nobody should apologise for putting a Rovers and EFL spin on things.

Oh there are plenty Stuart, however normally they are social media obsessed PL ‘fans’ that couldn’t find a football ground if you plonked them on Anfield Road, not ST holders that should actually appreciate what a club represents, and who should cherish it, but there you go.

You don’t, other people obviously do think it impacts the spectacle and therefore their enjoyment of a match. So, cancelling a not cheap monthly package then makes perfect sense, no?

Makes perfect common sense that Darren... so Wembley it’ll be.

Rugby League re-started in Australia today. Believe Premiership Rugby Union in England plan to finish the season. No word on when they go back to training though...

The 1960 cup final ticket debacle took decades to get over. We have never recovered from the Kean nightmare. As JH says, we could be staring down the barrel of mass non renewals. Only anecdotal, but the mood music on renewals I’m picking up from long standing fans worries me...

He’ll have been spreading the virus very efficiently then!

How many did he play at Ewood? Missed a fair few games with injury, from what I remember...

Much more of a suited name for ?

I didn’t say the clubs were after ‘lining their pockets’, it is about survival, crazy really considering just much cash they’ve had every year, but when you see bang average footballers driving Bentley’s and living in mansions, it doesn’t take a genius to see why the club’s are in such a mess. It is the disingenuous utterances coming out of the authorities about ‘fairness’ and ‘integrity’ that riles, it’s about the money, pure and simple (otherwise they’d have followed the approach of League 2), and that’s fine, because the alternative isn’t worth thinking about, but don’t insult fans’ intelligence.

Fair play to you ‘99, indefatigable.

It has. But the football authorities continue to bang on about ‘sporting integrity’ It’s a load of bollocks, any chance of that has long gone whatever method they use. The top two divisions will re-start to ensure the cash keeps rolling in - which is a perfectly legitimate reason to get back on the pitch, considering what could happen to clubs if we don’t - but just stop with the pretence it’s for any other reason than cold hard cash.

I get why they feel they need to use that points per game method, but it massively against the spirit of a football league season. Club’s can charge towards promotion, play offs, relegation late in a season or vice versa can collapse in form. Yet, competing the season on the pitch in empty grounds also impacts this famous ‘sporting integrity’ as they are conditions different to what went before - I.e. the Bundesliga is showing that home advantage is now diminished etc. Either way is inherently unfair to me, but we are where we are.

Great! Let’s hope you keep to it.

Jack added a good point about Mowbray that expanded the debate from yesterday. Myself and Vinners then added our view, was ever thus on here that we will digress from a thread title (especially in a lockdown). No idea what your problem is, but you really need to stop being so thin skinned and roll with the punches, something you’ve struggled to do since you joined.