Mattyblue

Paul - Audience with Mowbray in Blues Bar.

End of the day if you’d have bought 23 match tickets (including an odd offer like this) it would cost you far more than a season ticket, so it still pays to be a ST holder. But you’re right, ‘we’ve made it £15 to thank you for your support’ is badly worded as half the folk who end up buying one probably haven’t been to Ewood since the Oxford game.

Wonder if he’ll be telling Venky’s to ‘slow down’ again this summer?

QPR and Bolton are ideal games to blood a couple, both dead rubbers (I imagine Bolton will be relegated on Friday - if they can get the game on!). Plus Chapman has surely had his in-season pre-season by now and must be on the bench at least - if not there must be something in this contract rumour.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/april/special-offer-for-swans-clash/ ‘We're hoping to end our first campaign back in the Championship on a high note and we want as many fans as possible in at Ewood Park to make it a day to remember. More than 28,000 were packed in for the final game of last season against Oxford United and we want to top that this time around!’ Good luck with that!

It is. Looks like Easter Monday isn’t though. Good on the club. https://www.skysports.com/watch/football-on-sky

Great win and 1,215 there too.

JH for Director of Football!

A lot of evenly matched sides in the Football League, in contrast to the top flight.

Hasn’t stopped Steele making a nice living...

Done a cracking PR job has Lambert... It's been a difficult season, nobody can deny that," said supporters' club chairman Mark Ramsay. "But the fans are optimistic. We're looking to the future and moving forward, not backwards. "The football's been far better this season, far more attractive to watch. "We like Paul Lambert, he likes us and we want him to become the modern-day Bobby Robson and move forward with a young squad coming out of the academy."

Fine with Smallwood staying, ok as a squad man and only contracted for another season. Signing up Evans and Mulgrew, on presumably some of the biggest wages in the squad, until 2021 will be much more restrictive for the club.

The Rothwell thread is near the top, because he was very good, again. The BB thread is up near the top because he was very poor, again. That’s what happens on a messageboard.

Noticed they’ve slipped Rothwell’s cracker into the GOTS competition... https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/april/goal-of-the-season-2019/

I won’t be full of the joys of spring for winning a few dead rubbers. However, teams that end seasons badly, often start the next one in the same vein, so a potential charge to 12th can only be a positive... not a bad thing for season ticket sales either.

Stokes... quick google. Now playing for Tractor Sazi in Iran.

If BB has been brought in as a ‘wide forward’ that makes the lack of cover for Graham even more pronounced.

End of the day we’ve dodged a bullet this season due to the resilience and enduring quality of Danny Graham. His ‘back ups’ just aren’t at the required level, not their fault, they are largely inexperienced/young lads, but that’s who’s been recruited, and a bad injury to him at any point would’ve have left us seriously exposed. More experience must be brought in.

Money and saving face decisions you would think. Much easier to jettison Nuttall back to the under 23s or sell on than BB

You reckon Nuttall will make it at this level? Nowhere near for me. I would imagine he’ll be sold to a League 1 or 2 club in the next 12 months.

He was. I get no pleasure out of saying it, but it’s painful to watch the poor bugger.

Ergo a ‘cameo’. The lad is shot and such appearances, even if only for 10 minutes can’t be doing anything for his state of mind.

BB didn’t cost ‘anywhere near £7million’. I thought the most recent accounts stated that he did?

Henning Berg or Colin Hendry over Dunne. He briefly played with Le Saux, who was a far better left back than Ian Harte! Andy Cole as his ‘sub’ over Bobby Zamora. Tugay over Dembele Friedel over Schwarzer. By the way, I wasn’t particularly arsed about the team itself, sure there was some close calls, he’s played with some top players and as I said It’s all subjective. More that he rattled through numerous names for every position before choosing one and not a single Rovers player was even mentioned. Not about ‘Rovers glasses’, just a very stark omission.

Neither were the Ireland players or Fulham ones world beaters. Which makes it subjective, so he’s made his choice not to consider a Rovers player.