So they’ve found money for Friday’s payroll then?

You’d imagine without an EFL or match income they’ll have to liquidate?

Me too! Shame it’s not this week as a fair bit of rain next few days.

Did he have ripped jeans on?

The FA are the ‘governing body’ of the game, yet have been entirely absent.

I want the best for the club, always, so I will carry on. Cheers.

Jim White is putting on his best faux concerned face. Like Count Dracula. In a sport full of compete tosspots he’s got to be right up there.

End of the day I don’t think most clubs take this competition particularly seriously in the early rounds as you’ll see with the changes made tonight. Sad in many ways as why do any of us bother if not to see your beloved club actually achieve something? Probably more of a pertinent question for mid table PL clubs that make 11 changes, lose and still finish 12th. But get to the last 16/QF stage and it focuses minds a bit.

Since the opening day Bolton haven’t been allowed to register players, so no other clubs can ‘help’.

Thought they weren’t allowed to register any more players? Their centre half Hobbs re-signed a few weeks ago but the EFL won’t register him. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17822667.amp/

Just under 15,000 at OT today, a non Roses game crowd record broken for the second time this season. Definitely need to invent a fourth format of the game and scrap the counties to drum up interest

No problem, any excuse to get gabbing about my favourite topic

Good article on the travails of Stoke. A lot of similarities to us in 2012/13 time (without the crooks). https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nathan-jones-faces-challenge-to-restore-stoke-citys-sense-of-identity-mzswqsftw?shareToken=4a681dd1a6397bdb3dd4061e198fc1d4

When did you meet all these Bolton fans? In the 90s PL days certainly, we had non Rovers fans from all over who wanted to take in the top players, and in the olden days fans would often watch one side one week, another t’week after. Football is much more tribal now. Doesnt matter if they can’t get in to the Manchester clubs, the kids will ‘support’ them anyway. Many Bolton supporting parents would much rather buy their kids City shirts then go to Ewood. Look how narky Nob Enders get about an odd Rovers fan over there, yet have no issue with the literal thousands of Liverpool and United ‘fans’ in Preston. Sad but true. Is it worth doing? Yeah why not, but I doubt much take up.

The vast majority of current match going Bolton fans wouldn’t attend Rovers matches in the Championship if you let them in for free. I certainly think the club should be in the schools, big old area is ‘Greater Bolton’, I.e the town itself, the villages near Darwen, Horwich, Lostock, Westhoughton Etc. Like vultures, aren’t we...

I think the issue is the administrators don’t think the club have the cash to last the two weeks with wages for 150 staff due on Friday.

The issue is always tribalism. Would I go watching Bolton if roles were reversed? Would I hell! I’d be trying to get FC Rovers off the ground or I’d give up on the game entirely. However, if the worst happened to Bolton you can get into the schools. Especially in areas like Turton, Belmont and Bromley Cross that are very close to Darwen, indeed large parts of that area are in BwD borough even if they see themselves as Boltoners. But in reality the kids of Bolton will become even more City/United than they are already.

Clubs like the old Accy Stanley, Maidstone and Aldershot going are one thing, but a club the size of Bolton? We’ve never seen this before. A fair bit of brinkmanship going on but remarkable all the same.

Repeated hamstring injuries for a winger could well mean he never hits the heights we briefly saw again. Worth a punt, but no surprise he was readily available.

Will be on peanuts, fairly low risk for a lad with potential will be the thinking. But it says a lot that another middling Championship club in Boro were happy for him to go.

Administrators say do the deal in days or liquidation. Anderson still the issue by the sounds of it... https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17860814.amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Darwen and Lower Darwen (BB3) and south Blackburn, so Ewood, Mill Hill, Livesey, Pleasington, Feniscowles is largely BB2 and full of Rovers fans. BB1 is north and east Blackburn and that demographically is a different place than it was in the 90s, much fewer Rovers fans in those areas.

My point is, a lot of our fanbase has moved further away than a 5 mile radius to Ewood, not that the fans no longer exist. Why crowds have dropped is a different issue.

I don’t think so arbito, BB2 and BB3 definitely still full of Rovers fans, however large swathes of Blackburn, particularly the BB1 area has changed massively since the mid 90s and won’t house anywhere near the amount of Rovers fans it did then.