Cheers Miller, much appreciated (I’ve not quoted your looonnnggg and detailed post for the 5th time ).

Reading through Miller’s write up of the consultation meeting. I thought it was interesting that the club are looking into putting home fans back in the Darwen End - surely it has to be promoted heavily as a singing section?

Should these meetings be only consisting of ‘Rovers ra ra ra’ season ticket holders or a cross section of the fanbase that includes lapsed/disillusioned supporters? Wouldn’t the later be more helpful to the club when it comes to engagement and future strategies to get folk back through the door?

Hang on it was you that said because he’s so passionate, ‘he can stay as long as he wants as long as he has the desire’. I’m glad the club is more sensible and sees results as number 1 priority, it should always be so.

We have that already with street names on the Fernhurst estate. You’d think the chief exec of the football club would have more imagination for its legends than a house building firm (obviously not).

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, if he means the training complex, I.e. ‘The Tony Parkes Senior Training Centre’, ok, that’s an idea. A ‘pitch’? He can feck off and delegate this to fans groups who should decide. It’s OUR club who will be here long after he’s pitched up somewhere else.

Without doubt, but they ain’t Bolton.

I’ll tell you now Sheff Wed won’t be in the fourth division in the next decade. Anderson stripped that club unlike anything we’ve seen in a long time.

Would I buggery feel embarrassed, it’s a message board. Most fans are ‘respectful’, think you’ve read to many sport management/psychology books.

Sheff Wed and the like won’t end up like Bolton.

Does make me chuckle how star struck and proud as punch Paul is just for spending some time with club employees, I thought it was a regular occurrence?

I don’t expect him to have any that’s the point. Dry topics, yet vital ones and it seems that TM is wheeled out to take up half the meeting with his ‘jumpers for goalposts’ routine and what fan wouldn’t love to hear it, even if you went with the best intentions to talk about other matters.

He is a passionate football man, I’ve always liked that about him. As usual his charisma at these meetings come in handy for Waggott and Cheston. But he is only ‘absolutely the man to take us on for as long as he has that desire’ if he gets results, his ‘desire’, his ‘honesty’ , ‘his passion’ are not how he will be judged (or shouldn’t be).

Paul will just drip feed it in... ITK ya know!

Some supporters. Was the same here with Allardyce. Pulis is another.

Generally same old stuff, ‘we’ll look into it’, ‘we did have a budget, but no value’ etc etc. However, the Academy comments did seem a departure from the norm. These meetings have previously been an opportunity for Waggott et al to give full throated commitment to Category 1 status. Indeed, from the owners down to us fans, I thought it was accepted that in this FFP world, the Cat 1 Academy of ours is a real string to our bow and is vital to our entire future as a club. It is certainly something all of brfcs agrees on (a real rarity In itself!). So this comment... ‘At the moment we are carrying on as a Cat 1’ Was most odd, unless misquoted? Can any attendees clarify?

‘At the moment we are carrying on as a Cat 1’ That isn’t the most re-assuring of statements...

Official opening of ‘The New Ewood’ that day, Jack himself cutting the ribbon... so obviously we spanked Forest 7-0! If you go to the main reception of the Jack Walker stand there is a plaque commemorating it.

Derby away now moved back a day to Sunday 8th March as their cup tie against Man Utd is on the Thursday before.

Strangely even after losing Dack, Holtby and Rothwell I still feel more confident in picking up results then when we lost just Lenihan at the back. Our results fall off a cliff every time he’s out.

And there it is...

I don’t know, between sips of his brew TM often just drops bombshells in pressers like ‘it’ll be a month or two before he’s back on the grass’.

About what I thought. Just unluckily timed both with our results tapering off and train prices. Only the away day regulars would have snapped up the 12 week in advance cheap trains, nobody knew about the £5 offer then. Match tickets aside, a few days after they went on sale trains were shooting up towards £60/70, add your spending money, that’s a dear do for an away day across the country to watch a team fairly innocuously plodding along in mid table.

I think what makes this even more poignant is the fact he’s now a bona fide Blackburner too, along with his family. A lot of legends, your Shearers, Kennys etc, come and go and you just have memories (great one’s like!). Tony spent not just 35 years at the club, but lives amongst us too. Anybody that lives around Wilpshire and Brownhill can testify to that.

We’ll have had 4 night matches at Ewood between late December and late February. QPR aside they will all have been available on Sky. Also a good chance that with them fighting for automatic, either (or both of) West Brom and Leeds will be shown. So that would be pretty much half of our home fixtures from the Christmas period onwards to be shown on Sky. End of the day Sky coverage is the deal with the devil football has made in the top two divisions, nothing new, but now also having all night matches (unless a re-arrangement), of which you play plenty of in the Championship, shown on TV, plus a few more through the season can only make non renewal of STs and non purchase of a match ticket at up to £30 a pop easier and easier as time goes by.