They are going to have a season like us in 2012/13. Get relegated in a mess (Stoke’s second season down here but still have a lot of baggage) with over paid, demotivated players.

Of course in the 90s/early 2000s there was a gym in the DEnd. Perhaps it was before it’s time, as it was pre the explosion of gym chains we now see.

I don’t think this place is particularly ‘balanced’, as in a wide cross section of views. Opinion on here more often than not matches mine, certainly more than the Uber positive Facebook groups and LT comments. But I would say this place is more ‘negative’ than the usual consensus at the ground. So take it all with a pinch of salt.

End of the day this is a forum with about 50 regular posters. Forums generally are less ‘optimistic’ places than ‘real life’ or Facebook etc. Same everywhere. In real life he’s hardly had a word said against him in 2 and a half years, so no idea why anybody would need to ‘cringe’.

This run of fixtures between international breaks were pivotal. Flunk them and it would be another season of mediocrity, get a few wins and we will be well set. Two wins so far with back to back home games to come (struggling Luton, a decent Forest side) and a trip to QPR which is certainly winnable. We’ve seen so many false dawns since the Bowyer era with regards to even getting in the top 6 for a week I’m not getting giddy, but at least we’ve a bit of that hope thing for once...

End of the day all you ever hope to see from a team is improvement year on year. I think we are now starting to see it. Players that are not of the required standard or over the hill are being phased out (would’ve been easier without that round of fat contract renewals last season, but hey ho), and players with experience and improved quality are being brought in. He (or club policy?) has made some almighty ricketts, BB being the prime example, but can I ‘see what he’s trying to do’ with the other ins and outs and systems? I can. Are they a together and committed unit playing for their manager? They are, and with no other managers on the horizon and no confidence in these owners appointing someone suitable either, that will do for me.

Though a bit like Dyche, Preston have stumbled upon a good manager, let’s hope he fecks off quickly and they go back to appointing the Darren Fergusons and Graham Westleys of the world.

The fact we now have better quality and more experienced players in key positions is beginning to tell, we are seeing games out in a much more assured way this season. Adding a player like Holtby can only improve this further.

The Fernhurst Hotel and Lower Darwen Premier Inn seem to do well...

It’s now pretty much just the general managers thread, up to the mods to amend the name.

You would need to offer the Riversiders as best as equivalent available seats in the JW, as you would imagine they would want to keep a side on view. Look after them properly and most would keep going as they would know the club are being accommodating and it is just a temporary measure for the good of the club. However, behave like they have with other closures and just shut it and plonk them, say, behind the goal in the DEnd and yes you are right you’d see a load of non renewals.

Bolton would usually have seen a gate of about 1,000 for a Checkatrade game. nearly ten times that turned up, so that’s a daft game to use as an example.

Not true. Two games were moved BY Rovers last season, not a police or Sky request. The Fans Forum minutes confirmed it and they stated they won’t do it again as it led to a lot of complaints - ergo PNE and Leeds are back to 3pm this season.

It sure is, and you’ve been very disrespectful to concerned, long standing Rovers fans.

As seen with some of his silly responses in his documentary thread, I think he has a lot of growing up to do.

The club did move two games off their own back last season - PNE and Leeds to noon. They have realised that it was unpopular and won’t be doing it again - hallelujah, they listened for once. Why will April help? Because people are in football mode, those buying half STs or fairly regular match tickets may be tempted, as would wavering ST holders unsure about renewing. Wait till the season has finished and people have switched off. It ‘literally’ must make sense or all the other clubs wouldn’t bother. Dirt cheap? A game against the likes of Birmingham or Wigan costs £28 in the Blackburn End or £32 in the JW Upper (two most popular stands) and that is buying in advance. 1875 a ‘big success’? There’s hardly any bugger in it! Supporters branches are a great way of keeping fans out of the town in touch and also a good way of organising coaches etc to the ground. A good example being Darwen pubs. We had a great network of them until they were disbanded - most other clubs of decent size utilise them. A lot of those above and the other little initiatives suggested can all aid in a small way, making Ewood as accessible and welcoming as possible, by dismissing them like you do you are showing your own ignorance. Oh and it’s not ‘Blackburn’, it’s ROVERS.

Good a place as any. Official team picture. Is that the lesser spotted Coar I see next to Waggott?

Ideally Evans and Smallwood to go. Alas they won’t be going any time soon due to nice contracts (though a possibility for RS in January). So the usual way of successful teams, getting shut of deadwood and bringing in improved players isn’t really happening here , but that goes back to the folly of handing out contracts to third rate/past it players last season.

To progress on the pitch you need to keep bringing in superior players and jettison the ones no longer up to it. Simple really. So I like the sound of this move a lot.

Think Cowley has made the wrong move. Some clubs nosedive on PL relegation and that negative atmosphere on and off the pitch is fiendishly difficult to turn around in the short to medium term. Jones at Stoke is another example. Sure they’ve got nice contracts, though.

Waggott said in early August that we were just 250 behind last season’s total. And he said that with six weeks of sales still to go, so a fan reading those comments could make a fair assumption that we’d be pretty much matching last season by the time they went off sale ... obviously not. So lies from the club? https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17812362.rovers-couldnt-done-more-push-season-ticket-sales/

I’ll be there.

I’m talking about us in the PL (as you brought it up) and the short sightedness of the Walkers who gave away a fantastic football club. Someone to take over this hollowed out husk of a club in the Championship is a different issue.

On a Saturday, perhaps.

Aren’t we? I was hoping to wake up from the nightmare, Dallas style, any day now. You said the club wasn’t even sellable as a PL club, I said the PL has completely transformed in 10 years, as proven recently with an 80% stake of a mediocre club like Southampton being sold for over £200 million. 10 years ago we were sold lock, stock and barrel as an established PL club, debt free for £20 million. So just maybe there’s a little bit more interest and a market for buying PL clubs these days, what do you reckon?