It’s the competition the media want. A European Super League in all but name for big city clubs. They never wanted us, league champions, in it in the first place.

A new striker ready to play has to be the priority. We don't get one in and Graham breaks his leg after the window shuts, we would be seriously up against it. We got away with it this season, as he was surprisingly robust, but he'll be 34 in August.

10 years ago we didn't, shows how small time a lot of our fans have become -mirror image of that lot.

Go on Tottenham, you can have this one after Cardiff 2002.

Amazing that they would willingly throw away our heritage https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2019/mar/28/fa-rebrand-efa-arrogant-2030-world-cup-bid

That’s happening

Bloody hell, it was only a youth game!

What happened to it? Probably a bit before it’s time, would do great in that position now, close to Darwen/Lower Darwen folk too.

Didn’t the Darwen End have a gym when it was first built?

When Luton were stuck in administration, on top of breaking third party payments rules they got a 30 point deduction...

That’s me off social media for a while... well until 5pm on Sunday.

Third of the gate the U23s had against City at Ewood. Nice one LFA!

Thought charging a tenner for a youth game was taking the piss.

I thought the new ground had been scrapped for the foreseeable?

Brighton have an enormous and affluent catchment area to themselves. However, theres no reason why northern club’s can’t match Bournemouth or Watford, they have standard crowds of 10,000 and 19,000.

Not the point you are making, but a fine example of how Rovers MUST engage outside the borough of BwD, as more and more of our support now lives outside the town of Blackburn. My own group of mates from school are another example, out of about 10, two still live in Blackburn and one of them is about to move. Surely the club's database must tell them that but they don't seem to have grasped it.

The county palatine of Lancashire is the heartland of the game. North east doesn’t come close.

Remember when you lot used to call us ‘bandwagon jumpers’?

Sympatheticclaret - Considering you attract support from Blackburn’s border all the way into Yorkshire, any ideas why you struggled to attract five figure crowds when Dyche first took over?

Well yes, but it seems to be much more prevalent than it was. Maybe it’s my paranoia as we spend more and more time in a lower division.

Out of interest, in places like Ossy and Rishton, literally on Blackburn’s border there seems to be far too many Dingles for my liking. Yet I get the impression if you went to say Colne or Padiham you wouldn’t find too many Rovers fans. Any reason why apart from folk wanting to escape Dingleville?

Think he did

Reminded me a little of Scholes when he crunched into a few tackles.

Think a similar thing happens at Milwall and Sheff Wed, as they also have away fans in the upper and an empty bottom tier. Agree it must be a pretty crap experience for them.

My point being, if away fans started this season in the bottom tier Riverside half, that left the JW side empty for Rovers fans. It was a cost saving measure, or Waggott really was daft enough to think half of the second division was going to be bringing 6,000 away fans. Though considering they are now opening both tiers of it every game (bottom tier for disabled away fans), I’m not sure what’s going on.