Can’t see Graham starting both away games. If we are looking at pressing Swansea, you’d imagine Gallagher will start...

His passing and general class on the ball has never been in doubt, but his actual defending was top drawer too yesterday. He got his head or one of those long legs to everything. Reminded me of Rio Ferdinand.

Careful now you lot, the screen grabber is prolific at the minute...

We’ve all been here before. However, we have remained a decent side going forward and have largely got away with the fact we’ve rarely paid money for a defender/keeper in years. If he now strengthens us defensively we really could make a move in the second half of the season... so prepare to bang your head against a wall on the 1st of February.

I doubt we’ll have a thousand this near Christmas, but you never know if plenty of our southern based fans attend...

For mental health awareness, I believe...

Bang on. 12.31 KO on the Saturday https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/december/fa-cup-tie-confirmed/

His contract is up in the summer so that should be that, you never know here though...

I reckon we would’ve took plenty to Huddersfield at £20ish for a Christmas game. £30 will put a lot of folk off unfortunately.

in the 70s, post the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars, quite a few Arab nations refused to play them, so they left the Asian federation for UEFA.

Possibly. But frustratingly, our runs of form always seem to peter out just as you can sense a bit of momentum and interest stirring with the floating fanbase...

I'm not complaining, as it's better than doing nothing and there was never a chance that Boxing Day was going to be anything but Category A. The seed was sown for that when there were queues the length of the Blackburn End for Rochdale two years ago. However, we've got to be realistic for a night game.

Our final home game in the relegation season was £10. Danny Graham winner kept us alive for Brentford - so a properly vital game. It was a 3pm kick off, nice day, and it only attracted about 14k home fans (with a sold out Darwen End by Villa). Still plenty more than we were attracting generally that season - Coyle induced drop in crowds, but no Oxford. So, I'm not holding out much hope for a Sky night match in December.

When I was a kid I'm sure the John Lewis suite was open for Sunday lunches, Mothers Day etc. There is all sorts the modern day club could be trying with the plethora of hospitality/catering we have, yet just scale everything back to cut costs is the seeming modus operandi.

They might bring a couple of thousand on Boxing Day, which coupled with some extra home fans for that fixture meant Cat A was a certainty.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/november/ticket-news-wigan-athletic-h/

I’m glad they are doing the Wigan game, it’s what I’ve been asking for, £10 anywhere, no strings. However I would wager that it just won’t sell particularly well, as it will be a December night game, live on Sky, even if it is near Christmas. A festive weekend game and it would sell really well. I just hope Waggott doesn’t use a relatively poor turnout as an excuse to not bother in the future.

So work on it. New menu’s etc. Our approach is to just shut stuff down. Fair enough, but don’t then moan about not having enough revenue streams.

Town centre club shop and cafe too...

The FORL work tirelessly to get the towns and cities outside the modern rump to fly the flag on Lancashire Day and they are pretty successful. Think I read yesterday that only Bury refused. Bury, a total quintessential Lanky town! 1974 has a lot to answer for.

Usually about 12k Rovers fans in the ground, but we are a dormant football club. Burnley struggle to attract 18,000 home fans after years in the top half of the PL...

As other club's look to constantly boost their income streams, we downsize and downsize. AFC Fylde, currently bottom half of the fifth tier rake it in with their conference centre, hotel, cafe, sportsbar, Italian restaurant. Yet, we are pretty much a shell operation. The 'Club that Jack Built', ay?

Midweek games amplify the emptiness, as probably a quarter to a third of season ticket holders also don't show. So the 11,500 'attendance' (our lowest of the season anyway), is in reality 7 or 8 thousand.

£10 for Wigan though on the 23rd. Personally think they'd be better doing it for a weekend, not a December night match live on Sky. But hopefully it will still attract a decent Christmas crowd.

Contrast that with the youth cup game of 2011, when we promoted it extensively and attracted 10,000. It ended up in the media as an example of one of England's oldest and greatest rivalries and a showcase for the passion of east Lancs fans. You can't buy that kind of PR, alas that club has long gone.