How long have forums been around now? And folk still try and get all high and mighty miles after the event that people blow off steam in them after defeats, sometimes irrationally, but that’s just how it is. Was he supported at games? Yes, without question and that’s all that matters.

Not had one for years, then Blackburn town centre doesn’t have many of any description. Weird set up all round that brewery. Some superb bottled beers (ales, stouts, lagers, wheat beers you name it) they export in big numbers all around the world. Yet in their pubs they’ll have one cask on and a load of shit keg.

Like a sonnet from a fellow West Midlander.

Come on now he did say ‘you know’ a lot.

Imagine how good he’d be if he actually ‘did enough’!

4,000 this time. See Jackson is getting his stories from here again.

The Boxing Day gate would’ve been much bigger, I’d wager, if not for the Dingle game a week later. I imagine quite a few fans have made a choice, and have largely chosen the Derby. Of course the first weekend of January is usually cup third round day anyway.

With two and a half weeks to go the Dingle game is already looking like it will be our highest home areas Championship turnout since 2001, and that’s with only 9,000 ST holders to build from, no question the floating support is getting behind the team and turning out for it.

‘Direct long passing’

Do even foreign fans actually enjoy these tactics? Or more the fact is the Premier League, it’s a hype train, its Ultimate Team, it’s Liverpool, it’s Salah, could be any kind of tactic really, as a spectacle, it ain’t, most of the time.

We must be at crossed purposes as I agree with your point, it’s obvious why some two bit manager at some two bit club has some lumbering centre half attempting suicidal passes to his also lumbering goalkeeper, it’s also obvious why a seven year old is being taught to play that way at Reading’s academy - but why this tactic in the first place, why not the plethora of other tactical approaches pre or around the same time as Pep-ball.

Like I said I get all that and how we are now here and why all levels of the game from five year olds up play this way . My point is more a general musing as to why it this particular tactic that was to be the chosen one in the first place. It’s boring, it makes the game less of a spectacle and is totally unsuited to most footballers. Like everything football tactics always evolve but let’s hope evolution comes quickly.

I get how it’s happening/the mechanics of it and why managers feel like they have to play it, but why has this totally unsuited tactic for most players taken over the game in the first place? Because Pep can make it look good with world class players? Just really weird and shows the herd like mentality of the game.

Bigger question obviously but why is the first one now mandatory anywhere in the game apart from in the top 4 of the PL? Just bizarre as what is it actually adding to lower league football?

What’s the Rovers style of play then? As I’m pretty sure JDT plays nothing like JE.

Noticed this thread has now been renamed ‘Half Season Tickets’ from FF. Perhaps it should be renamed ‘Rovers Commercial Thread’ or something as it does seem to cover all sorts.

Initial £350 to £450, but in the run up to KO it was £450 -£555 a ST, yet the club sees no issue with this and will be offering more of the same next summer, perhaps even more this time, ergo we’ll sell 9,000 (at best) again. A lot of word salad, deflection and excuses, as always, by the club in those minutes, but fairly easy to realise that they will never offer enticing adult pricing, they don’t care about extra bums on seats, never have, it’s far too much effort and risk for their cushy numbers, they have their revenue targets and that’s that. So we can all feel free to carry on with ‘well, if we price the Riverside at this, the JW at this’ - however the club is not interested.

Birmingham definitely did…

So where is the line drawn to when a manager has strayed too far from the club defined ‘style of play’. Presumably results dictate, as if a team suddenly started playing like a Dyche side but were winning plenty I doubt there’d be much of an issue…

Noticed that a lot of clubs auto renew STs on DD or full card payment etc. Why not here? Surely that would help ‘the churn’ of non-renewers if you have to opt out instead of having to make a conscious decision every summer. I pay to watch BRFC why should it just run out? My other DDs or auto renewals don’t.

Now firmly part of the lower league journeymen manager merry go round. Very kind of Rovers for letting him learn his trade.

How about opening the end blocks of the Riverside and JW lower first. Is a 1,000 netted off seats in the Darwen End lower not enough segregation? A line of stewards seems to do the trick at most other derbies.

Come on nobody goes to the shop on a Tuesday (even if just before Christmas) Get it closed.

You must be a masochist to actually enjoy long distance driving in this country, but whatever floats your boat

What was Sellars doing about 30 seconds in there? Surely there was a safe pass he could’ve made five yards to his left?