WATP, No Surrender  etc 

Aye, had a great craic at 1860 Munich in the Hughes days.

Didn’t Mowbray say in his first summer that just playing lower league sides was not the his preferred way to do pre-season?

Ergo last summer we played Liverpool and Everton.

‘Premier League giants Bournemouth’

‘Rovers are where they are now because of Jack overspending’ was another tweet.

We had a small, manageable debt and were a comfortable PL outfit when his half wit family sold us for a pittance.

Total ignorance of our situation. The Twitter-fame has gone to his head.

Bryan Robson at Boro.

Pretty much died as a thing post 90s. 

On what would be Jack’s 90th birthday, Holt decrees him not a ‘fit and proper owner’

’Plucky little Stanley’ ‘love to see them do well’ indeed. About time a few Rovers fans woke up with regards to that club.

Stanley have real ale marquees, live bands, £1 a pint after a win, an ‘ultras section’ where the club work with the fans on flags, banners etc. Free shirts and tickets for every kid in Hyndburn.

Not bad for a club struggling to attract 4 figure crowds two years ago. Good job Holt didn’t just think ‘bugger it, we are a small club, nowt we can do’

Just now, arbitro said:

Although the bus doesn't pick up anywhere on the way the driver usually drops off several people close to their homes on the way back. It's a really good service and the Heifer bus is usually full. I have to stress though that these buses are organised solely by a couple of supporters with no input from the club.

A lot of this goes back to when the club decided to de-affiliate from supporters clubs 20 years back of whenever it was. Most withered on the vine, losing that connection to the club in the region.

Most decently sized clubs have a network of affiliated branches, London Branch aside, we have nowt. 

I’ve been at Ewood every step of our decline, like 10,000 or so others. I’m enjoying our recovery (of sorts), and wish there were more there to see it. But I’m aware that there is also the floating fan that isn’t as committed as me, chaddy, JH, Paul etc, so they need enticing in.

As ‘well, they should just turn up, I do’ isn’t a solution.

No surprise with our lost decade.

Should’ve been the first...

Considering we had gone down to 8,000 season ticket holders under Coyle. This season, for a mid table campaign, the crowds were fine and a good recovery from that clownshoe's time.

But now it's time to push on. We won't see dramatic increases in this league but we certainly can add to the season ticket holder base.

*Sigh*. OK, 90s aside, as we won’t be filling coaches from Stroud anytime soon.

Im taking about our core, still extant support, the support that was largely concentrated in the town of Blackburn.

A decent percentage of that core is now in Chorley borough, South Ribble, Ribble Valley, Preston and so on.

Yes, we’ve always had support in those areas, but due to demographic change in Blackburn, it is becoming an ever larger percentage.

And we now draw our support wider than BB1 and BB2 than we ever have previously. 

Went on Charlton’s website to see how many tickets they got for Wembley (the life I lead ay!)

I noticed they do a Valley Express to every home game. They do 8 routes (just two are pasted below).

They generally get similar gates to us, yet realise that their particular neck of the woods has changed demographically, with much of their fanbase now outside of south east London and in Kent and Sussex - with coaches having pick ups throughout.

Rovers need to wake up to where more and more of our fanbase reside - and it isn’t within the borders of Blackburn.

So there is a worse sponsor than 10 Bet...

Watched it last night, never seen so many orcs in one crowd... and I’ve been t’Turf.

I just enjoy watching ‘big clubs’ fail.

Im obviously a bitter bastard, but so what 

A 'football man', ain't he!

So if it isn’t costing the club a penny, the club doesn’t need to be ruthless and by the same token isn’t acting altruistically either.

So, what are you ranting about?

16 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

I applaud the club's decision to give Gladwin some security over the next six months to get his life and career back on track. He's had an horrendous two years and that must take it's toll mentally and physically. I don't think for one second this is about giving him a chance to get into our team, it's about doing right by the player. He's unlikely to play again until 2020 so that would be many months without any income for a player who I doubt has earnt that much during his career so far. Give him a chance to get fit and play some U23 games on a very low wage and hopefully he can get himself noticed by another club. If we don't do that then his football career is potentially over. I think it would be different if it was a player like Rodwell who has millions in the bank, but this is a player who has predominantly played in the lower leagues all his career. 

Lot of assumptions on contract length and wages there.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

I would say he will take what he can get under the circumstances 

In the real world, yes.

Makes me laugh this, if he’d not have been retained yesterday, I doubt I would have read any posts bemoaning TM’s lack of morals for cutting him loose!

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

I am guessing how much the deal will cost. Do you know something different? 

Because Mowbray said he is out til January and the situation will be looked at then. 

I would presume he would expect to be paid more than 16 grand in 6 months!