Mattyblue

They’ve ‘around 9,000 ST holders’, like us a few of those will be complementaries etc, not 9,000 purchases so could still be around or behind our 8,600 sales that ends up around 9,600 ‘holders’ Still a good effort by them, element of siege mentality, but also good deals like a ‘family ticket’ - adult and child for £250.

Can’t? Or won’t?

Reading Sharpe’s verdict piece, he alludes to the fact that TM was vert short with the press after the game. Man under pressure?

‘Big club’ Southampton! ’Medium’ club, err... Hull Good one. Every year we have to suffer the increasingly crap trolling of this eejit. Do the honours mods, for all our sakes, there’s weeks to go.

‘Small’. Speak for yourself.

From memory it’s one of the hardest away days to get a pint, pubs near the ground are home fans only. Folk I often go away with are drinking in Hammersmith.

If we have no identity, no pattern of play etc etc, how come you bet on us to win, usually comfortably, pretty much every game? ?‍♂️

Our London Branch luckily survived the cull of the official supporters clubs around the time of the millennium and is thriving. Regular gatherings, award nights etc. Amazing that apart from the Disabled Supporters Association, it’s the only club affiliated one we have left in this country!

First time for Luton at Ewood since the early 80s and they have a bit of promotion goodwill. No chance they bring that again. Whereas we have around a 1,000 at pretty much every south east game.

Then more fool them, as there was absolutely no reason that after yet another middling season in the Championship we would see a substantial increase in sales.

So we’ve sold 100 more; 8,600 over 8,500 last season, so around 9,600 season ticket ‘holders’ (paid, under 8s and complementaries). They’ve done well to get any increase, they are no longer bargain prices and we’d just finished 15th in the second division. It was Waggott who had the fantasy view that we’d sell an extra 1,500.

We should. Especially with Bolton gone and Wigan being a night game, it’s our only local daytime fixture. But if the results continue to be so so until the game then I would wager we won’t.

By the time it goes on general sale on the 14th there will still be thousands left, so you’ll be fine.

Worth tanking for that win at Wembley... though didn’t feel like it when Derby went 2-0 up in the first leg of the play off semi!

Same with 2001.

As an aside, I thought Neil Yardley was an excellent compère. Something others on our table also commented on. He’s been at Rovers years, obviously he has an interest in being so through his media business, but I could certainly see him presenting/commenting on a bigger scale.

The online allocation will have sold out over the weekend. They’ll add more this morning, I’d imagine.

‘Super Atko’ began as a pisstake, but promotion season onwards it became a positive chant!

Come on Dave, pre season means bugger all, it’s largely half paced fitness exercises against third/fourth division and non league sides. 8 goals in 60 games for Forest, wasn’t it? I would love him to come good, can only be a positive for the club in more ways than one, but he’s been very poor thus far.

I didn’t even realise there was any yesterday, as like most fans, I was caught in the moment going crackers. So what’s the point of it? The roar and celebration of the crowd when a goal is scored is all the sound you ever need.

Tosin looked comfortable on the ball, is a big lad and could pick out a pass, surely he should be starting if we want to be playing this new ‘progressive style’? Lenihan is committed, but cultured he ain’t.

I think it was generally better attended than usual, as all stands looked fuller, certainly less than a 1,000 in the freebie BEnd upper, so plenty of extra tickets will have been bought too. So of course, we provide a performance like that.

And both are a million miles away from DG. ‘Evolving styles’, ‘succession planning’ and all the rest of it is all well and good. But you play your best players until potential replacements are up to scratch.

One goal against an unpaid, already relegated rabble. I don’t think that tells us anything either way.

There were some Scout groups up there too. Good to see, it’s empty every game, utilise it. I could hear them throughout the game, and they were loudly booing Luton’s goals which amused me.