Mattyblue

6,900 Bolton fans present and that was for an opening home game with a real novelty factor and loads of publicity. I imagine well over half of their regular season ticket holders didn’t bother buying a ticket.

Ive no issue particularly with TM, he’s ‘doing ok’ to use a Mogga-ism. In my opinion however, he often does take the easy option in sidelining the likes of Nyambe and Rothwell over ‘men’ like Bennett.

He infantilises these players. Hart is nearly 23, he does it with Rothwell who turns 25 in a few months. Nyambe another, who is 21, so fairly young, but has over 100 appearances. These are not ‘young boys’ and should not be treat as such, obviously does it so they are easy to sideline, but can’t help their development.

‘Deadwood’? Why come out with Dingle shite like that?

Pretty much every town in England now has a chronic glory hunting problem, especially with kids. Some worse than others. Absolutely terrible for the future of match going support in this country. However, Blackburn is nuanced. I will tell you now there will be far more young Rovers fans at say St Bede’s than at Pleckgate High. Though even at Bede’s the percentage of Rovers fans will be substantially lower than 10/15 years ago.

Neither have anything to crow about, obviously!

I always expected a decent crowd for this. One of those ‘I was there’ odd events. But as I said, the novelty will soon wear off, how many match tickets will they be selling for midweek games etc if they don’t get STs on sale? Not many, I would wager.

9 clean sheets! Our horrendous defence managed 12. ‘Class’

Aye, enjoys living on the Fylde Coast by all accounts, lives in Wrea Green, kids at Kirkham Grammar, lucky for him that the opportunity arose so rapidly.

When has Walton ‘shown he’s a class keeper’ in the Championship?

Real novelty factor for this game. Think they have a midweek home game sometime in August, be interesting how many rock up and buy tickets for that if STs don’t get put on sale...

Who’s on League 1 deals? Gladwin aside, they’ve all signed new contracts since we’ve been back in the Championship.

Their training ground is the one they nicked off Bolton in the fire sale. Seriously doubt it’s Brockhall standard.

Now on sale at £20. Today only, no sales tomorrow.

Scottish clubs just can’t pay the wages (Celtic and perhaps Rangers aside - and he wouldn’t ever go to Ibrox!).

All due to being a few blue and white shirts knocking around Preston in the 90s, including areas in south Ribble like Bamber Bridge that has always contained Rovers fans anyway. The only ‘plastics’ in Preston are the thousands of football fans wearing Man Utd and Liverpool shirts, maybe if some of those supported PNE they’d have made it to the PL by now and may have lost at least one of their chips from their shoulders.

I heard no criticism of Mowbray last season at Ewood, when there was plenty on here. I do sense some discontent now though. Around the bottom 6 by November time and he will be receiving plenty at the ground:

Concentrating solely on the left back position, a definite positive. Absolutely no way we can carry on with Bell. Just a shame he’ll need weeks of acclimatising like Tosin, I mean if he’d have been picked instead of Charlie, it could’ve turned into a debacle of an afternoon...

If he’s actually gone or not, yesterday just proves what absolute folly it was to give him a new 2 and a half year deal a few months ago. An 18 month deal would’ve been bad enough, but at least after a season’s loan he would be off. Now even after that he’d be back, as one of our big earners and egos with a year left. Then this circus starts again. Another loan? Paid off? Last season’s liberal allocating of new deals has come back to haunt us... just like we said it would.

Lack of sales? We’ve sold our standard amount. Why would last season’s 15th place finish and average to poor window have led to flogging more?

Now it gets interesting. Sale blocked by High Court. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49286229

£13 on footballkitsdirect.com. https://footballkitsdirect.com/collections/umbro-stadion-jerseys/products/umbro-stadion-jersey-ss-tw-navy-white?variant=13022404083755 Slap a Rovers badge on... £50 Shameless.

From the EFL regs: 33 Conduct of Matches 33.1 Behind closed doors. Save with the consent of The League or as a consequence of any disciplinary or regulatory proceedings, no Club may play any League or Cup Match behind closed doors so that the public are excluded from the ground. So every chance it goes ahead behind closed doors...

Yet he lamented on his Coventry sacking that not bringing in a hard bastard centre half cost him his job. We’ll see by tea time if he has actually learned...