I don’t use it any day, so let’s shut it.

And this is where we usually fall away, as the players don’t get the rest and help they need due to the powers that be having no interest in achieving something Though with it being on the record that there is no impediment to the owners spending money and as we are a mile away from FFP concerns, this January will be different, won’t it…

Shut the shop completely then.

Or leave if closed and put Rovers fans in the Darwen End like in 2008/9… can you imagine the faces for the simple life crew down there if that was offered as a solution 😱

We have 9,000 ST holders, if we did end up with 17/18k home fans in total on the day that’s a good crowd when you consider the low base we are starting from. We want higher than that? The answer to that, as always, is ‘sell more season tickets’.

What always amuses me about 90s clips is that away fans always obediently sat down in these new fangled seated away ends… not quite the case now 😅

I’d say 15/16k or so home tickets, but presumably with a full Darwen End so a decent looking Ewood.

Unfortunately we just won’t get close due to having so few ST holders. We’d need to sell 14,000 walk ons at £25-£35 when on Sky to boot, Boxing Day or not it ain’t happening. But as you say price it at £15-£20 and market the hell out of it and you could see it as whole families, kids bringing their mates etc etc, alas this set up can’t be arsed with all that.

Of course Southgate would’ve turned down Man Utd to do some TED Talks.

He obviously watches Tronstadt like a hawk so every mistake he does make (which of course he will over 95 minutes, a misplaced pass here, a tackle that doesn’t quite do the job there) he’s going ‘shit him’. Contrarian Rev being Contrarian Rev

All the players in 2011 and 2012 said a certain S K*an was marvellous too, player comments to the media mean feck all.

There will be c4,000 empty seats in the away end yet you can’t make a last minute to attend… nudge nudge.

The players weren’t very good at it last season. It’s all on Eustsce as players need drilling, drilling, drilling.

Sure they can get together on LinkedIn and write a leadership book for CEOs or whatever.

Yep, the social media age has spawned this weird phenomenon where folk just can’t cope with ‘negativity’. That merely ‘being positive’, ‘being kind’ on the internet will materialise said positivity somehow, even for a football club with distant, rogue owners that we as fans have zero influence over. Now I’m buzzing with what Eustace is doing with this limited squad, what a potential club transforming moment we could be in as the window opens… alas, after seeing three January debacles in a row I sadly won’t be putting my head above the parapet expecting something different, especially when the owners are currently in court for financial irregularities every other month, that doesn’t scream January war chest for their neglected football club half way round the world to me… but if people are happy to ignore all that and to utilise some wishful thinking until 1st February before the inevitable let down, go for it, I suppose, but don’t try and paint those that have seen this story a fair few times as ‘negative’.

Great deal for the Glazers… not sure too much of one for Ratcliffe.

Ay listen both of you are nothing but courteous with each other which considering you go for it day after day says a lot… you don’t agree on much though!

First time I’ve seen that on any social media this December … now I have Christmas has officially begun 🎅

It’s obviously always a short gap for both teams on an away Tuesday, we however have made a dogs dinner of what feels like the vast majority of them since 2012 regardless of opposition and their tiredness/form. If JE can sort that out then maybe we could do something this season…

Yeah the football he plays though 🤌 Still must be in pole position for the Barca job.

Looked a pretty poor side for long periods of their game yesterday. PNE bossed most of it… but Tuesday night away after a tough game a few days before? We know the script, but Eustace has instilled a discipline and desire we’ve not seen under many managers here since this lot darkened our doors, so who knows.

Is it actually two people? Have they ever been seen in the same place?

Do you ever just agree with a ‘99 opinion? (I imagine if you do you keep it yourself, need to keep up appearances! 😅)

I’d imagine most folk will have their big coats on in January. Also mods, could this just be merged with the existing Dingle game thread?

Don’t know about being an arse, but all such phrases do is shut down debate. Tell posters they are ‘wrong, because…’, not ‘you are ‘negative, be positive’. But anyway let’s leave it there I’m not ‘99ers dad.