If they are more worried about Gallagher I presume that’s because they still believe he is salvageable? As ,well, what else can be said about the whole BB debacle?

Absolutely no chance he’s sacked. None. So I’m not getting worked up about it. Always a chance he walks though, but why would he when he is so deeply entrenched with real authority and no real prospect of a similar level job? We’ve no choice but to hope with the festive period out of the way he stops fecking about with half a team of changes every game and he stumbles back on that winning formula from just 2 weeks ago. As always, the buck stops with the owners that allow such dysfunction to take root year after year after year.

Only difference being back then we were owned by locals of modest means, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers doing their bit for their club and community. Certainly not comparable to being owned by a billionaire conglomerate .

Our bowlers can’t bowl anywhere apart from English seaming pitches with cloudy skies.

It was around the mid to late 2000s they had it.

‘Slow build’ is always a nonsense in this league. It is far too fast moving and fluid with club’s gambling on promotion with a big turn over of playing staff. A ‘slow build’ needs those gamble signings to actually come off and thus able to replace those dropping off at the other end - I.e Gallagher/Breteton for Danny Graham. That’s before seemingly having all FFP avoidance eggs in the basket of selling off one player (now sidelined and diminishing in value by the month) to offset. But as they are gambles, they are just as likely to be expensive mistakes, hamstringing the club in an FFP world, that then has to sell off its assets, a fall down the table (or leagues) and the cycle begins again.

Silverwood is currently head coach and bowling coach, a lot on the plate for one guy, especially with a piss poor captain.

If TM went today and a new fella led us to wins over Forest and Preston, the ‘just get behind the manager, who else we gonna get?’ crew would be stating with absolute conviction that it was ‘time for a change’ and ‘Mowbray had taken us as far as he could’. So take it all with a pinch of salt.

You’d imagine they’d give it to Burns, now established in the side and has actually captained his county, which is a rarity these days. Will mirror Australia and Tim Paine.

His mum and stepdad used to run the now gone Sportsmans pub at Four Lane Ends, so certainly connected to Blackburn.

Oxford was a one off game. Bank holiday, nice weather, £10 a ticket, late KO that allowed a day on the ale, promotion party with an outside chance of a title win. Liverpool had around half a million lining the streets when they won the CL, are all of them committed fans that would go every week? No of course not, just there for the craic most of them. Thats just how it is. When John Williams took over as Chief Exec in 1998 the board told him ‘you have 8,000 fans’, Williams replied with ‘but we have 20,000+ home fans through the gate every game!?’. They meant that we have 8,000 that will turn up, no questions asked, however dire, the rest have varying levels of commitment. Some will pick their games, some will buy a ST on the back of a good summer in the transfer market or a strong end to the previous season, some will only turn out for £10 or a glamour cup tie or Burnley games. And yes some are just PL fans. We are not alone in this, Burnley’s gates have doubled. As will Preston’s if they go up. Just par for the course for a club based in a deprived town in east Lancs with little in the way of catchment area, challenging demographics and the most competitive region in the country for professional clubs. So with all that being said average crowds of 13-15,000 when we’ve spent the majority of the decade in the doldrums in the second tier (and third) ain’t too bad.

Ever? In this league, I presume you mean? We had 20,000 ST holders in 2010. We still had around 15,000 under Ke*n.

At least they give the fans what they want...

The reality is that he’ll have 12 months left in the summer. So his value, not withstanding how much of an impact this injury will have on him, is now on the slide. The days of hoping for £10/15 million have gone, unless the club pulls a rabbit out of the hat and agrees a new deal. So not sure how much of a knock on this will have on our future budgets as the mood music from TM in recent months was that he’d be off sooner rather than later with that fee to be used on a re-build.

No. The Hudds and Forest games are though...

Amazing people still come out with this. Established Premier League side full of quality footballers. ’Dire’ indeed.

Nowhere near 3,500. 1500 in the upper and about 7/800 in the lower.

There were 16500 home tickets bought for last night, the most we’ve had for a Championship game since 2012. A night match on Sky to boot. Considering we’ve 8,500/9,000 season ticket holders. That means 7,000 people bought a match ticket, these are figures we NEVER get close to getting, even in the Premier League days. £20 in the Blackburn End, £25 in the Jack Walker wouldn’t have seen much of an increase on a normal game. Of course crowds would fall back if you did it £10 every week, but last night was not ‘poor’ whichever way you slice it.

They probably do and I think it’s really sad, especially as you see how strong Yorkshire identity still is, which is no surprise as when their county was split up in the 70s, the new ‘counties’ were known as North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire etc, whilst we got lumbered with ‘Greater Manchester’ and the like.

Nope. All part of the Lancashire palatine, unaltered for 800 years. All Lancastrians should be proud of it, not trying to diminish it to that pathetic rump on the map that was only created in 1974.

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I can’t work out if Williams was just rusty or because we’ve quickly got used to Tosin’s quality that was just a standard performance from a lower league clogger.

It did in the run up to KO... so of course we put in that stinker of a first half performance and it soon dissipated. Par for the course here!

I meant tonight, always a chance we’ll hit 20,000+ with a full away end.

Similar story to us re owner issues. But it’s been exacerbated there with them scrapping season tickets in favour of memberships, with no concessions at one point.