We are ‘evolving our play’ so he wouldn’t fit in to this brave new world.

The club trained all over. Even in the summer of 1994 we were sometimes on Pleckgate field. When I lived in that neck of the woods, me and my dad walked down to watch and saw a fella training who my dad was sure was Perry Groves... it was Robbie Slater.

Which is replicated in home areas (and more in the case of the Jack Walker) ’Cheap as chips is Ewood’.

Get on to Livesey Branch Road and there are plenty of decent pubs to go at. Yes, the Fernhurst will be full of that lot.

Why is anybody surprised? Category A just after Christmas. And although Preston fans whip themselves into a frenzy for this fixture home and away, it simply isn’t a game that ever gets Rovers fans attending Ewood in particularly larger numbers than for any other standard Championship game. The only game that does at this level is Burnley.

I’ve read some tripe in my time, but this. I’ve never heard a single Rovers fan that said we had anything other than the old Pavilion terrace in 2001, though there were odd fans dotted about, my uncle was in the Tom Finney, for example. As for the rest of it, just imagine being soooo bitter

Doesn’t stop Stanley putting some effort in for 2k...

Bang on. It’s a small time mentality of a bunch of fans who largely have no memory of top flight football. The Dingles had this wholly fantastical view that they had this vast fanbase waiting in the wings and they would have to ‘tarmac Pendle Hill’ if they ever got to the promised land. Not like us ‘with our crap support’ of you know, just the 25,000 average gates. The reasons you rarely hear them banging on about crowds these days is that they now realise that a) the stuff they used to come out with has been proven as the bollocks it always was as they struggle to attract more than 17/18,000 home fans, and b.) they are one of the most profitable club’s in Europe feasting at the top table, so who cares?

I presumed you were hypothesising about a potentially fully recovered Dack, as let’s be honest there’s a good chance he’ll never be the same again and we’ll be lucky to get 500k.

Bet Everton wish they’d have carried on paying that rent at Anfield...

Always a good atmosphere on a match day. Though I personally think its latest renovation has made it too generic a sports bar with a load of the Rovers memorabilia/photos that once adorned the walls etc stripped out.

Depends on how close to his contract expiry it is, though this 12 month extension to 2022 would give us some wiggle room.

Selling Dack for a Gallagher-esque fee (and considerably less than BB’s) would show up the folly of our recent transfer policy.

They started to turn against Barnsley as we were slipping towards the relegation zone. We then went on a mini charge and it dissipated. As long as we are ‘3/4/5/6/7 points from the play offs‘ and not in much danger of going down I don’t foresee the Ewood crowd turning again.

It’s all done for mutual back-slapping and retweets from that particular Twitter sub section of Rovers fans, which I suppose is vital if you want your articles read in a digital age. Nice way to throw a largely very supportive fanbase under the bus though...

Amazing how quick this sold out, I’m sure the Jansen event took a few days to sell and he was always more of a legend in my eyes...

Nice one Tom, another week of Rovers fans being categorised as ‘horrible boo boys’, though he’s had excellent support from the vast majority of fans... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18140138.a-poisoned-chalice-currently-ben-brereton-rovers/ Oh and work out what a ‘poisoned chalice ‘ means before you try and use it in an article!

Does anyone On here actually think he is close to the sack? Just wishful thinking from what I can see. Of course Venky's aren’t skint, but FFP not an issue then?

Prior to Fosun coming in Wolves’ usual home gate was around 18/19,000, ‘big city club’ indeed. If we decide that we can’t compete with standard Championship clubs then let’s get back down to League 1 and be done with it.

What I often read on social media is that Mowbray has ‘united the fans with the club’, ‘transformed the club’ and so on. Perhaps in a season when we charged to promotion in a piss poor league it felt like that. Winning game after game does wonders for morale of any football fan and club. We’ve since comfortably slotted back into being the mediocre Championship outfit we’ve largely been since 2012 and whilst that certainly hasn’t led to the toxic Ewood atmosphere we saw under Coyle, it isn’t exactly bouncing. For me, pre the run of decent results between Mid November and Mid December (and we will soon see again as we slip into mid table obscurity), the club just feels stagnant like in the late Bowyer era... some transformation.

Chorley.

Interesting on that video he seems to have some upper body strength, holding off defenders etc. Something else that seems to have disappeared from his game...

Sorry, I always get those two confused for some reason!

I saw a tweet from Linz Lewis (the ginger ninja badges lady) who said he had his head in his hands on the bench, think the crying thing is a bit of Chinese whispers that nicely starts a narrative against ‘horrible Rovers fans’ that a certain sub section on Twitter seem to revel in. He’s been here 18 months and has largely been shown a lot of patience considering how utterly dreadful he’s been.

I’m pretty sure that was the process last season... difference being they were flying then and it wasn’t just after Christmas so the upper tier went in no time...