Super 6 ticket launched again. They never sell, but they keep on doing it. Though I suppose at £99 to £140 it’s a quarter season ticket, in reality, with prices extrapolating between £380 and £530 if a full season ticket. Make West Brom a £10 on Easter Monday would be a much better idea, but there you go. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2020/february/introducing-the-super-six-ticket/

Free travel is best used for a local/local-ish game, with something riding on it like a promotion push run-in. Barnsley in March is perhaps a bit early, say it was at Easter and we were well in the mix for top 6/top 2, then free travel would be great to help fill that large away end at Oakwell.

I’m pretty sure this game would’ve been Andy Gray as it was a Sunday afternoon. Sure I can recall his commentary as it’s on the Premier League Years rotation on Sky!

First day of the season 2005. MGP scored a cracked that day too.

He’s got very Mary Whitehouse, has our chaddy.

Worse than Steele? Get out of it, Rev!

We are mid table for both budget and following, which would then of course make a play off push a good season. But let’s not pretend we are the paupers of the division.

Considering we haven’t been in one since 1992, no idea of Rovers policy, but usually they aren’t included at other clubs.

Obviously theIr owner does want better than what Grayson is serving up... sacked. https://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/2020/february/club-statement-simon-grayson/

Think it says more about how far we’ve fallen as a club that there is such a song and dance over a journeyman from Peterborough every window...

2022 it runs to.

That’s a football crowd. Always some people who love to boo/get on the players back. I’ve known better players than BB get it in the neck, difference is these days is certain social media types will use said small minority to paint our fanbase as ‘horrible boo boys, think of his mental health’ and other such bollocks. Others read it and fall for it and it becomes gospel that he gets a load of grief.

It was 0-0 when he was warming up and in his first 15 minutes on the pitch when he was being roared on.

From the minute he was spotted warming up the fans were cheering him on. 18 months on that’s testament to a very patient, supportive fanbase. I presume the Twitterati will be making note?

Amazing what Graham must have to do to get a game.

They only usually have around 17k home fans in the ground though. Not a million miles from us now and we have spent a decade in the doldrums whilst they are in their longest spell as a top flight club for half a century.

Not so. Brentford had a net spend of £-8 million in the summer, £-25 million the summer before. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/brentford-fc/transfers/verein/1148/plus/0?saison_id=2018&pos=&detailpos=&w_s=

Not bad luck though is it, as he’s known him since he was young. More it was worth a low risk punt as he’ll be cheap.

How blasé of him. ‘Ah well, £12 million down the toilet, I’ll have a look at Europe next.’

What other mid table/bottom half club’s have had a higher spend on players? It’s all well and good pleading poverty, and bemoaning greedy agents and wages and the like, but that’s the marketplace we are in, so we need to find a way to compete. Blowing pretty much our entire budget by splurging £12 million on two unproven forwards seems an odd way to do it.

Our wage bill must be bottom 6 level then to equal lower mid table for total budget , as we must have a higher transfer fee net spend than most this past 18 months.

If it’s on it will be our lowest actual home league crowd for a looonnngg time, I’d wager, early 90s perhaps.

Bowyer was largely slaughtered for his later signings - Koita, Feeney, Delfounso et al. Bargain bin transfers after the taps had been turned off and we had begun flogging off some quality players. His earlier signings of Cairney, Marshall, Gestede etc. were excellent .

12,000 or so Home fans for Saturday games is the norm, last season was the same. Be interesting to see if we maintain it next season (as we won’t be flogging any more season tickets) or if we fall back to the Coyle season in which we scraped five figures (total crowd) most weeks.

His 3 year anniversary is next Saturday. Rightly or wrongly, that IS a long period of time at this level. He’s the second longest serving manager in the league. Now if he improves on last season’s finish, then, of course, he goes nowhere. We struggle next season and he should depart as that’s just the natural lifespan of a Championship manager and this club cannot afford another stint in the third division (he’ll have had much longer than most, in to a 5th season, so a very fair crack of the whip).