Mattyblue

Chapman is playing for the U23s tonight, Christ knows when he’ll be with the first team again.

That was one of Mowbray’s tales over the summer, Another was that he needed to be sold to buy Gallagher. Who knows what really went on.

Armstrong’s not a winger, he’s a front 2 striker. A poor man’s Michael Owen. He’s unfortunate to come through In an era where front 2s and in particular the big/little man strikerforce has largely disappeared out of the game.

Because of relegation and subsequent promotion. If we’d had stayed up in 2017, and plodded along in the Championship since he’d have been given plenty by now (if not already potted).

Do we play ‘good football’, chaddy?

The fact he openly lamented that not buying a big, ugly centre half cost him his job at Coventry, yet what we’ve just witnessed in the last window says he has alarming blind spots that could well cost him another.

Of course they do, we ground out a load of wins in our title winning season. You don’t get 90+ points just playing sparkling football.

No budget? We’ve spent £12 million on two young strikers, we’ve a Category A Academy. Of course the club is big enough and it’s the way the Championship is going. Forest, Brentford, West Brom, QPR, Huddersfield, Stoke, Reading, Wigan have them at least from a quick google search.

Him and Waggott run the club between them so obviously not, this is the hypothetical post Mowbray set up.

A bloke called Bernie Horne is an avid collector. He goes all away and youth games. Possibly someone like @Parsonblue may know him fairly well?

£12 million on two raw lads is enormous money for this club. It doesn’t work out for Mowbray and those two decisions could seriously restrict his successor and our future progress. In these times of FFP, a Director of Football has to be looked at going forward.

Up until the transfer windows came in a decade or so ago, you would have players signing at any time up to April. Many would go straight into the side that weekend. These days most players sign in the summer and you obviously have the luxury of weeks on the training ground with them. That’s all that’s changed, good players adapt quickly.

I don’t think there’s any talk of a boycott. On their forums it’s more about Churchilllian speeches about ‘now is the time your support counts’ and such like.

Always makes me laugh when folk let everybody know they drink French wine like it’s the height of sophistication

A manager who had a poor second half of a previous season don’t usually start with a total clean slate in August. Their card is marked to a certain degree. Kidd, Harford, Hodgson et al weren’t potted just for a poor start to that season.

Of course. Point being if they don’t get STs on sale quick that kind of crowd will be as good as it gets, you just don’t get 10,000+ people buying tickets game by game for clubs like us and Bolton.

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.