Mattyblue

6 is Smallwood. 5 will presumably be Tosin when confirmed by EFL. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/august/squad-numbers-announced/

I’m talking about us mere mortals and the feel round the ground, not those ‘ITK’.

12pm deadline today to register players for tomorrow’s game. So with 5 outfield players on the books, presumably half the side will be Academy lads (if the pros actually agree to play) But will this be another rule the EFL bend and the likes of Conway miraculously turn out for them?

2014 felt more optimistic to me. We had put together a real good side at this level and 15,000+ turned up for a Friday night Sky game against Cardiff. A real buzz at Ewood that night. Didn't last.

Hope you’re right. We had 13,200 for Milwall last season and they brought up similar numbers. Though I suppose that was the first home game, not the first game of the season...

My season ticket went up nearly 20% last season. So not sure where you get ‘prices frozen for 3 seasons’ from.

It seems as if we’ve flogged as many STs as last season, Though hard to tell with all the different figures bandied around by the club. If so, I’d expect a crowd of around 13,000 for Charlton. End of the day, we finished 15th last season and this summer we’ve had a fairly flat net spend. So I didn’t particularly expect to see any improvement in sales. Treading water in the second division fairly consistently for 7/8 years (aberration in League 1 aside) does not lead to big improvements in crowds for a club with our fanbase.

Just rename Lancs county council as Greater Preston and be done with it.

1970s bureaucrats have a lot to answer for...

YES they are!! (Not Sedbergh). From medieval times!!! The boundary set in 1182 at the River Mersey. Why else would Lancashire county cricket club in the 1860s set up their club in Manchester!! How much more ‘tradition’ do you want! Bloody hell!

Because they’ve been out of the modern county for 40+ years, younger Scousers see themselves as ‘Merseyside’, fine, doesn’t change the facts that the historical county exists. And yes Southport has been a Lancashire coastal town for hundreds of years, despite the 1974 administrative boundary changes. Always amazes me when Lancastrians inside the ‘modern county’ try and diminish their own heritage. Anyway. Let people talk about players from Lancashire town clubs, as it could be an interesting thread.

Well it has. So stop talking nonsense.

By who? Of course they are! Just because they are cities. They are as Lancashire as any of those places. http://www.forl.co.uk

That’s not traditional! Lancashire contained Manchester and Liverpool, plus much more for a thousand years until 1974. Though the historical county still does exist. But if you mean ‘town clubs’ then fair enough.

To play for a Lancs club? Matthews was a Stokie. Real Lancs or the small modern area? So George Best, Kenny too?

‘Brigger’ made me think PNE. Though plenty of Rovers fans live there too...

Yeah keep your card... https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/june/keep-your-card/

5th? I know you were excited about Bauer, but come on.

He’s the ‘fan columnist’ Used to be RevidgeBlue and LD Rover of this parish in years gone by.

Yes they do. And no I wouldn’t.

So you CAN put a new signing in then. That’s ALL I’m saying. Though every situation is different and will be judged on its merits. Thought it was a fairly innocuous post, but obviously it makes me a ‘clueless FIFA 19er’. Fair enough, debating brfcs style

Don’t get your point? My point was simply Downing signed and played straight away.

No chance 9 days of training in an international week, the players are given a fair few days off. Seems you don’t understand training schedules. I would say ‘give him a chance’, obviously. You must be confusing me with someone else.

Oh I see. 3 days of training over about 5/6. Come off it BDS. It obviously can be done, as I’ve just proven, it just won’t be on this occasion, so maybe hold off the insults in future.

As an example we signed Paul Downing on deadline day... the following Saturday? Straight in at centre half! 3-0 win. Good job the opposition didn’t realise he hadn’t spent weeks working on set pieces at Brockhall.