Once the season gets going you’d only have a match thread and maybe a podcast pinned. Plenty of room for a pinned thread celebrating the heritage of this fantastic football club, no?

Rich Sharpe is regurgitating Waggott’s line for a second article that we only sold 8,750 season tickets last season. Even though on Twitter Sharpe said he would be asking him why he was saying we had sold 10,000+ a few months ago. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17694740.finances-show-importance-of-season-ticket-sales-to-rovers/

You’ve proven nothing, but OK. In fact by bringing Allardyce into it, you’ve given TWO examples of over-achieving teams over this lot, so nice one!

You are now talking about Mowbray as a manager. He came second with the biggest budget by the way and then finished 15th after spending over £10million quid. But that being said I think he’s done well - but he’s no Mark Hughes - one of our all time great managers. Thought your ill thought out point was this was unequivocally the ‘hardest working team we’ve had for 25 years’? We’ve ‘pretty much proven’ you are talking tripe.

Bellamy played 20 odd matches. You seem to be comparing the teams. Of course that team had far better players than this lot. I am comparing getting a team containing Kuqi, Todd, Savage, Mokoena, Dickov et al to top 6 in the PL to a team with average Championship players finishing in an average position in the Championship.

First game of the season shortly before he left. Even the players that stand out were past it - Amorouso, Yorke (Soon to leave), Short. Ferguson was dreadful and shortly left. The quality of Duff, Dunn, Jansen, Cole, Berg long gone. Hughes had us top 6 in the Premier League the season after.

Personally think Hughes had inherited a team on the way down in October 2004. Souness has totally lost it by the stage. The quality of the 2001 - 2003 period had quickly disintegrated.

Was Nelsen a top 6 player on ability alone? We had Bellamy one season and he missed a third of that. We had the likes of Savage and Andy Todd in there. Our other strikers were Dickov and Kuqi. Of course we had good players, the crap we’ve had this past decade makes us lament such players even more. But that team was far more than the sum of its parts. Is this team?

Every post on here is an opinion, but I believe yours is tripe, as I said. I know who Id want to be in the trenches with and it would be that Hughes side any day of the week. Top pros with an edge. Mogga’s lot don’t come close. Yes Hughes’ team had better players, but we were in the PL - were they a Collection of players that were 6th best in England on paper? No chance, it was the graft that got them there. Is this team achieving more than it should through hard work? I wouldn’t say so, it is a bottom half quality team in the bottom half.

The Hughes team lacked quality in the context of the top 6 of the Premier League, but that’s where they ended up. Through sheer guts and hard work. Dont talk tripe Paul.

Mulgrew starts. First time he’s been on the pitch since going off at half time against Stoke at the start of April.

I often am on Attendance threads...

Why have my and OldEwoodBlue’s posts been deleted? There was nothing remotely antagonistic in them?

This scouting operation has been ‘building up’ for over two years now. Was Bowyer’s dad a one man band or what?

Are they hell! A lot of those fans will go to games up north and the midlands for a day out on the ale. You honestly think they give a shite about the owners either way? They think Ewood is a crap experience in a not much more than third full ground. It’s your Birdy’s that win any ‘commitment’ competitions hands down.

Something we’ve been calling for on here for years. ‘Negative brfcs’ ahead of the curve... again.

Sharpe still parroting the disproved line that it was the police that asked for noon KOs last season... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17691039.rovers-looking-closely-at-home-and-away-ticket-prices/

Two groundshares in 5 years. Horrible situation. They should never have left Highfield Road.

Is it just me or do you only say negative things about Rovers, but only positive things about England?

December 1994... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kKoaGR0-cnAC&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=romario+blackburn+rovers&source=bl&ots=xEdmId8CvN&sig=ACfU3U3k8hFFsnDsaLcO0Ao460vaD5W4cw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8kPm2wtXiAhUtSBUIHUEnB6kQ6AEwEHoECA0QAQ#v=onepage&q=romario blackburn rovers&f=false

Wasn’t in randomly in November or something like that?

Great this benefactor model. Re-laid pitches, scouts with passports, the lot.

Soccer Schools in Whalley, so near enough. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/business/east_lancashire_chamber_of_commerce/16061903.psg-academy-england-easter-camp-at-oakhill-school/

We’ve been here before. ‘The family have received no offers and are committed to the club and it’s return to the Premier League’ END

I’m not getting that feeling this summer anecdotally. I could tell pretty early on when Coyle was appointed that we’d lose sales.