The money they’ve spent to make us also rans in the second division. ?

‘Marginal gains’ like having 300 away fans rattling around in the upper tier instead of the lower. Yeah real Dave Brailsford stuff that Steve

Aye ok Merce! You’d have said exactly the same whoever we had next ‘If you are looking to bounce back *checks fixture list* QPR/Forest/Luton/Sheff Wed/add A N other Championship team would be your opponents’

Away at one of the favourites for promotion would be who you would choose? I know these posts are for a reaction, but at least try and be subtle!

No season tickets but matchday tickets for their home game on Saturday go on sale in the morning. £24. £12 for kids. No sales on the day. It hasn’t gone down well with their fans...

With great difficulty.

Maybe, but whatever the reason they largely aren’t interested in the Rovers.

Indeed. I was deemed a football ignoramous because I didn’t appreciate the ‘game management’ of our new midfielders.

Even the LT below the liners are on the turn...

1400 sold so far. It’s a nice place for an away, but a good following nevertheless less at £30.

Tosin given 24 as a squad number. Number 5 remains free... (I’m really clutching at straws now)

Without doubt. As said before, the Asian community are football mad these days, so it always annoys me when people just say ‘nah they only do cricket’. Completely wrong, ‘they only do Man Utd and Liverpool’ is the issue.

Yes 20,000+ gates. However, they were on the verge of administration when the club pivoted quickly to the new approach and received immediate dividends. The Championship is a constant churn. No time to ‘build’ as players quickly go over the hill - Mulgrew, or leave, Dack after this season? Young players that are brought in just don’t develop and on it goes, you chase your tail. Ergo successful clubs are usually signing up players that know the division or go abroad for bargains. Waiting years for a scouting set up? Fine, but don’t expect much progress.

Trip you up? It’s called debating, the point of a forum, get used to it! So it wasn’t just because Farke knows Germany. The Championship is a fast moving division, teams move and rebuild quickly. No time for ‘slow builds’. We work at a snail’s pace and we will forever be also rans as a result.

Surely nobody actually expected us to be challenging this season? Nowhere near enough improvement from a team that were 15th last season.

Expert on the Danish league too, was he?

How long did it take Norwich to change their approach under Farke?

Their fans seek to think it will be a pay on the gate job on Saturday. Some logistical operation that with no staff, with presumably a fair few Coventry rubber neckers trapping up too. Wonder if there will be a surcharge?

My dad always says we had a better side in ‘70. Alas an injury to Gordon Banks and the rest is history...

We’ve had many a manager that have taken poor form into a new season. I won’t mention the bald one as I’ll get the ‘YOU CANNOT COMPARE OUR TONE TO HIM!’. But Souness, Kidd, Hodgson, Mackay, Harford off the top of my head. Want him sacked or just worried, opinions don’t just reset because it’s August

Ok, that’s ‘many predicting Smallwood and Evans would be back, is it?

Nobody said Smallwood and Evans would be the two. Johnson had been repeatedly praised by poster after poster. If you have a problem with perceived negativity, fine, but be accurate.

It is a valid point. Just making a general point about ST sales v ST holders.

3,500 walk ons as in reality we have 9,500 issued STs that are counted in the crowd figure. Waggott has just decided to ignore the 1,000 complimentary STs that are always handed out and just talk about STs sold this summer. The 8,500 figure has led to much confusion and has led to a lot of hand wringing, as it sounds much lower than usual, but in reality we have sold our usual Championship amount post 2012.

I recognise that Chris Martin fella. Goes everywhere following the team, spending thousands presumably. That is fairly mild criticism to me. You need a thicker skin as a footballer, surely?