Mattyblue

They’ll be paying £28 (Cat A), all games are priced up already. Any side expected to fetch c2000 and upwards will be A (or A+)

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/july/matchday-prices-2019-20/

£20 for West Brom.

Shame they’ll be paying £28 when they come here. This ‘reciprocal policy’ only seems to come into being when it is to rip off Leeds and Sheff Wed fans.

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

21 minutes ago, 1864roverite said:

No good whining about Raya being sold he asked to leave end of! 

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.

Just now, LDRover said:

For me, the manager gets a free pass from many despite spunking close to 14 million on 3 shite strikers. With recruitment that bad allied to a complete lack of tactical nous or style of play I cannot see how there is an argument for him to stay.

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.

Just now, Tugay-is-God said:

It's really not. 

That's just the inverse of the tired cliche that "playing badly and still winning" is what title winning sides do. 

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.

Just now, AllRoverAsia said:

There will be no DoF at Ewood whilst Mowbray is the manager and I don't want him moved into that position.

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   

Just now, Exiled in Toronto said:

He’s not going to get fired for a bunch of defeats that were mostly in Feb/March.

If we’d added the second half of 93/94 to the first half of 94/95, we’d have won the league by ten points. Second half of 94/95 and first half of 95/96 and we wouldn’t have been in the top half.

The only stat that counts in P2 L2.

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. 

36 minutes ago, Atko's Engine said:

I think the way he speaks about young players is more just his way of talking and / or a sign of him being from a certain generation, rather than anything malicious or anti-youth. I think picking on his terminology in this context is just another example of certain people having decided TM is no good for us & using it as another stick to beat him with.

We had one of the youngest teams / squads in the league last season, and that's even when you consider that Mulgrew, Graham, Conway, & Bennett were all well over 30 & got plenty of appearances. In his time he's given Championship debuts to Raya, Rothwell, Butterworth, Travis, Magloire, Davenport, & Buckley, and has since brought their U23 manager into the first team set up which must be to assist their further integration into the first team squad. 

I agree that his use of Nyambe & Rothwell was a bit disappointing / surprising and certainly don't think he should be immune from criticism in some respects, but such criticism should be balanced. Overall I think the criticism he gets for his treatment of young players is overhyped & over analysed by some on here.

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.

1 hour ago, 1864roverite said:

still they only conceded 64 whereas our solid defence and greater keeper shipped 69 !!

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.