Mattyblue

A journalist by trade too, real solidarity there. That said he does seem to get a perverse pleasure in screen grabbing every typo he spots in the LT. Odd (and seemingly very embittered) bloke.

End of the day pretty much every team in the top half are in with a shout and all are dropping points, seemingly every week. We are frustrated, as they will be. We’ve all a chance to make it because there’s nothing between a mediocre bunch of sides.

Owners that have washed their hands of it.

A 4 point gap going into a February home game isn’t ‘a glimmer of hope’. We won’t be in the top 6 by May, as for me we just aren’t good enough, but it’s some serious mental gymnastics to call a game right now with the table as it is a ‘dead rubber’.

Serious collapse from Hull. A point from the top 6 on New Year’s Day to a relegation battle.

It literally makes no sense as your pay on the day away fans are a captive market. They aren’t going to trek all the way to Blackburn, not see an enormous sign saying AWAY TICKETS, so head back home!

Why?!?! The away ticket office was already clearly signed. @only2garners Can this be brought up at the FF? Believe your pre-meet is next week. Mind boggles with this regime.

The timeline?

It’s not ‘Uber positive’ to not believe a February home game with a 4 point gap is a ‘dead rubber’. Just common sense. You may not think we’ll get there in the end, I don’t. But you are just posting for a reaction.

Fair play to you BB... but don’t waste your energy!

He did have a break and came back a different poster. He’s regressed into Chaddy 1.0 again recently, alas.

Thanks for that. So why is today an example?

Home game with us 4 points from the play offs with a decent goal difference in February. Why is it a dead rubber?

To be fair it’s only been open a day. I remember not that long ago when a match thread wouldn’t hit page 2 before the team was announced...

Go on then guru, what position is Gallagher usually playing?

Him and Waggott still bang on about the slight bit of grumbling in the stands against Barnsley. The only bit of grief he’s had in three years. Very tame in comparison to what he’d have got elsewhere for some of these horrendous runs we’ve been on from time to time. I suppose when you run a club between you with no pressure from owners, you’ll be completely oblivious to the normal pressures of getting results and won’t take kindly to the oiks in the stands pricking their bubble.

He can write what he likes, when he likes. His job isn’t to be a club cheerleader.

Only the Old Firm could afford his wages and you can’t imagine him going back to Celtic and he certainly wouldn’t go to Rangers! A move abroad would be my bet.

Another textbook case study of the crackpot world of social media. All nuance has gone. You either get folk saying: ‘he’s fucking shit’ ‘hope he dies’ or: ’I stand with Sam’, ‘disgraceful SO CALLED journalism’ #cancelsharpe A majority of either side won’t even have read it, just seen a headline and an intervention from DG. Really is the curse of our times (but I bet the LT click rate has gone through the roof and they’re delighted*, and isn’t that what all media is now all about?). *Until Sharpe’s banned from the club, of course!

The fact young Carter has been our only defensive cover in recent games, with a fully fit Mulgrew in the wings, tells you he’s finished at Rovers.

@The HypnoticI noticed the other night that The Wellington on Livesey Branch Road has re-opened, you may want to start your crawl there as it is just up from the Raglan (it will make up for the White Bull further down that’s closed).

‘Standing up for him’ Was Sharpe wrong to write the article, Chaddy?

Thin skinned buggers, aren’t they! Very tame piece from what I read Bloody hell, somebody send DG a link to here! We’ll storm into the top 6 after a scan of this place . #siegementality

I’m not that down about it because I knew we wouldn’t be getting 6 out of 6 from these two games. I currently have more confidence in us as an away side, trying to break down struggling sides at Ewood is something we are piss poor at. Lets see where we are going into the late March international break, these are the games running into it: Swansea H, Derby A, Bristol City H, Wigan A, Barnsley A That’s a run of fixtures that says we could be in the mix by Easter. If we aren’t then that’s that and we obviously just weren’t good enough, but there’s no point chucking in the towel with a 4 point gap in February.

If you’d have said when we went down with Forest in 1999 and then when Sheff Wed followed in 2000 that they wouldn’t be back up to the top flight for at least 20 years, you’d never have believed it. They were two big, traditional clubs that had been right up there for a lot of the previous decades. It’s been 16 years for Leeds now too. That’s why I was so angry to what we inflicted on ourselves in the 2010-2012 era, it’s bloody hard to get there, so don’t throw it away!