Mattyblue

12.30

If FFP didn’t exist I’d by happy enough for the owners to throw 7 million on as many ‘projects’ as possible, if some flopped so be it. But surely in a FFP world and the parameters it sets on the club we don’t have that luxury and it isn’t just simply ‘the owners money’ anymore.

Just leaving Ewood. Matt spoke with real honesty and told a few cracking tales. He got a fantastic reception and it made me proud to be a Rover

I was a big fan of Nyambe, for a teenager he looked to have the lot. However there is no doubt for me that he’s regressed as a full back. Now you could well blame TM for that as he was unceremoniously dropped back end of last season when he was no worse than the rest of the defence, but currently I wouldn’t be starting him as he seems to be bereft of confidence.

Of course, but don’t take the moral high ground with others if they haven’t as yet changed theirs too.

Ha I skipped past that bit as I wasn’t sure what he was getting at. I enjoy a good trawl of old threads to back up my point as much as the next man.

‘We may all want him sacked’ sure sounded like you agreed with the sentiment? The rest of the post above is generally fair enough, but then surely you should be cutting some slack to others who haven’t as yet been on the journey and reached the same view you have over the past six weeks?

Hang on a minute Dreams you were happy for him to be sacked after TWO GAMES this season! So all a bit rich for you to now accuse other posters of being unreasonable and one eyed, unable to see the long term plan and development of the squad under him etc etc.

Edit

Outside Blackburn and Darwen the towns and villages of Hyndburn have been a bedrock of our support for generations. Kudos to Holt, but it is extremely worrying. It is getting to the stage where only long standing Hyndburn based Rovers supporting families are coming to Ewood, not that we are the natural club for Ossy residents etc.

Sold around a 1,000 so far...

Oh of course. We would sell plenty more than the usual few hundred.

Crowds may rise a little on good form and they do generally as the season gets properly going. But we are talking hundreds. Its only a decent season ticket sale rise that will lead to a proper increase, and Waggott just flunked that (again).

In talks over a new deal... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/17919627.rovers-talks-bradley-dack-new-contract/

Other clubs go on the train. Two hours or so to London from Preston and then a half hour train to Reading. Got to be preferable than a 6 hour coach journey trying to get down the M6/M40/M4 on a Friday afternoon.

The Tom Finney holds about 8,000. Any new stand would be more akin to the Invincible's stand opposite, you’d wager.

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...