Mattyblue

"I shouldn't have to answer every question that comes along on my decisions on my players and as I have said before if we get it wrong too often you lose your job in this business. When you are a manager of a football club you make decisions and live and die by them and that is what I am happy to do.” Just shows how often he gets an easy ride by our local supine media, that when he gets even a slightly pointed question he reacts like that.

Behind closed doors is supposedly against EFL rules... so yeah you are probably right.

What do you like about EB at right back? I’m intrigued.

Don’t think some people up here realise that we have a large number of southern based fans. The Rovers London Branch is probably our best organised supporters association. So that’s why we always have more fans at say Brentford than Middlesbrough. Even the likes of Neil Yardley will say something like ‘the 1700 who have travelled from Lancashire’. In reality I bet not far off half of the away end will be folk that live down there.

They would’ve minded. I’ll tell you now those Bolton fans that usually walk on would largely have turned up. Whilst a hell of a lot of their long standing ST holders won’t have bothered. We see it with cup ties. Sunderland couldn’t believe they had their lowest gate of the season for their play off semi - why? Because loads of ST holders don’t buy match tickets. All part of the reason they won’t be £24 when they go back on sale.

Well obviously! But £14 a game ain’t £24

Season ticket holders aren’t used to having to cough up standard prices at home...

Tickets didn’t actually get put on sale this morning...

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?