Mattyblue

To be fair Mercer you’ve been saying this since the day you joined.

Alas the vast majority haven’t...

Lenihan has a bit of gravitas, presence about him. And some real bravery and aggression. Ideal captain material. Bennett is Jason Lowe without the bleep test records.

25% capacity is just under 8,000 at Ewood, so around our current ST numbers. With a fair few not renewing, we’ll be one of the few clubs that will have no real issue accommodating those that want to go, notwithstanding the need to sort out social distancing within relatively busy areas like the BBEnd lower.

Element of truth in those observations of social media. However, in ‘real life’, at Ewood, TM has always been highly popular, I can only compare the adulation he receives to that of Mark Hughes (!), no one else since Sparky comes close for blind support. It all leaves me a bit bemused, not withstanding the overall decent job he’s done, but shows what ‘success’ can do to the mindset of fans of a much diminished club, even if that success is second in the third division with a Championship budget. But there’s certainly no groundswell of pitch forkers after his head, though it was building in that Barnsley home game. A poor start to next season and that could well change, but Waggott would be well in his rights currently to tell the owners he has the fans onside.

From memory Raya had two years left.

But with letting his contract run down, we’ll get very little for him with only 12 months left.

Is it the second season in a row in which we are the first side to know we will be in the Championship? PROGRESS.

Unfortunately a lot of people have forgotten what good, forensic journalism should be. Remember the grief Sharpe got earlier in the season for a perfectly fair (and mild) critique?

He’s been playing well, still a lot of work to do on end product, but he certainly wasn’t an area of the pitch anybody was worried about. But he’s obviously not the most demonstrative of characters... just imagine how good he could be if he had a manager that believed in him.

As always with Rolo! And he touches on why I just don’t bother getting wound up over managers with this regime. Nobody at the club is striving for it to be the best it can be, so why will anything change? We are a zombie club, from time immemorial we have been run by what I saw as ‘Rovers people’, even if they weren’t local. From John Williams, Jack, of course, and before that decades of the butcher, baker and candle stick makers of east Lancashire. All understood the club, the town, the fanbase (debacles like 1960 aside), making the very best of what we had, even if the club was that skint it had the manager himself fishing balls out of the River Darwen. Yet now, with the richest owners we’ve ever had, I look at it and the club feels something like a forgotten bowling alley franchise, a neglected part of some big corporation’s portfolio left to slowly rot away (quite literally when you look at Ewood). I see no drive, no vision, no passion for Blackburn Rovers. Club management akin to the brewery appointed ‘pub manager’ who ticks things over until he goes somewhere else as punters drift away and the landlord down the road sees his pub boom with his innovations and passion. This pandemic is an existential threat for this club, a club that had already lost half of its match going supporters in recent times is now pretty much the only club in the league going into August with 0 season ticket holders on the back of a poor season end as we enter a once in three centuries recession. We are in a big hole yet who in the club even realises, never mind is going to get us out of it? To paraphrase... ‘I’M committed, but are they?’

Hmm, not sure about that. He’s missed a few fair spells out injured since becoming a regular. Indeed, the LT actually did a piece on it earlier this year... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18155315.mowbray-offers-explanation-nyambes-recurring-injuries/

Has a pen pal from King’s Lynn..

He’s getting himself tied up in knots again... a bit like when SG wasn’t a wide forward... until he was.

Well you posted a fans opinion from a forum I’ll discount his view then. So you know the thoughts of Norwich’s big fanbase how, exactly?

But I thought you said their fans were happy with the owners and their decision making? Plenty aren’t, obviously, as the replies show...

They haven’t, see my link above your post. A load of them want the lot cleared out. Though I defer to Chaddy who I believe met a Canary down Great Yarmouth last year...

They are delighted, they’re organising a (socially distanced) open top bus ride through the non pedestrianised parts of Norwich as we speak... https://forum.pinkun.com/index.php?/topic/138551-why-do-people-hate-delia-so-much/#comments

Eh? He misses about a third of games every season.

Mates with Norwich fans, are you?

Very simple. Norwich were happy to go down and take the dosh, and as they’ve not overextended, they’ll be back up the top end of the Championship next season. Fair enough, business wise a fairly sensible decision. And this approach seems to be working for Burnley. But it’s all a bit sad. Kind of negates the romance of football, the joy of promotion, pitting yourself against the best . But that’s modern football.

Would be a new ground for most, as I’m pretty sure we’ve never played them in a competitive game? But of course, even if supporters do get back in stadiums, will away fans be allowed in grounds next season?

You can tell his low the ‘real’ crowd is for some midweek games these days. I can leave after the whistle, saunter up Livesey Branch to my car and then not see a bit of traffic...

Excellent to hear Tone, good to know we will be strengthening the back line instead of the usual summer conveyor belt of incoming midfielders...

Just saw a tweet that says with 3 games to go, no club is mathematically guaranteed to be in the Championship next season. Without doubt the best competition in the country.