Mattyblue

It always seems to take Armstrong an extra split second to get his shot off, which means they are often blocked. Another difference from League 1.

Plenty of clubs that could be going up or down this season have had them on sale for weeks/months. All the Championship top 6 for a start. I assume we have to wait for a Pune sign off.

For a dead rubber it ain’t exactly going to get them flooding in, but even if the crowd is 1500/2000 up on if it was a Cat A then great. Too much to ask for STs to be actually on sale by then?

One of those third choice English keepers that PL club’s sign to fill their ‘homegrown quota’

It’s a bit like the ‘well, at least we’ll win plenty of games’... but then you don’t.

The empty seats thing is a red herring. We will finish with an average attendance of around 14,500 which give or take a few hundred either way is pretty standard for us in this league post 2012 (Coyle season aside). Venky’s are to blame for the thousands of empty seats.

Sounds like if he hadn’t had by chance got a start against us this time two years ago he’s never have been signed. Reckless way to spend considerable club dosh, no?

Saw Charlie boy in Lytham Costa this morning. Thought he was a youth player at first glance, barrel-chested centre half, he ain’t.

Mowbray says he was allowed to sign who he wanted with the BB money, a few Championship ready players, for example, but he thought the best thing to do was to put the lot on a ‘development project’. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17568308.rovers-boss-tony-mowbray-happy-with-ben-brereton-progress/

Yeah I heard that at Ewood t’other night.

Tyrers the coach company that Bolton use for away travel are making people book with them directly for the Rovers game. Obviously don’t want any of their dosh going through the club. Can’t say I remember a situation this bad at a club so far up the pyramid for a long time - Portsmouth maybe?

Reading the full article it sounds to me that it’s now Reed’s shirt to lose. But he’s doing his ‘looking after my fellow human beings’ routine in praising the other two. I await to be horrified at 2pm on Saturday...

Quick look at their forums and half of them are happy for him to go. Coyle to the rescue!

But it’s nearly Gentry Day! ?

That massive flag of theirs often fills as many seats as the fans do.

Conway’s crossing ability makes you remember just how good he was when he had pace in the Gestede era

It wasn’t that most clubs would need it, from memory. More that they would need to be moved ‘regularly’ so not to ‘inconvenience them’. Still nonsense, as evidence from previous Championship seasons told him that Leeds and Preston aside, hardly any club needed more than the existing 5,500 allocation (half lower and full upper tier). Was always just an excuse to close it to home fans.

I thought that was a fair comment. Last night for the first time, nearly all his runs were effective and cut right through their lines. Many times before he was more heat than light. If he carries on like last night, continuing to improve that final ball/shot, we’ve got a player.

Watching the first goal celebrations, Graham looked towards the Blackburn End whilst pointing at him, ‘this lad can play’ was the jist. He did it again as they started to walk back to the halfway line. He should have been looking toward the dugout...

Not really an issue, just think it makes Ewood look and sound even worse than normal.

Playing the Dingles or someone bringing 5,000 or so? Definitely fill the top first and put the overspill on the bottom, splits up the following and is to our benefit. A midweek game against Derby, Reading etc. Those kind of followings don’t need ‘putting out the way’, get them downstairs and at least try and have the pretence that we aren’t playing on the moon.

Also, noticed they’ve just posted the goal of the season contenders. Only 1 goal out of the 8 after New Year’s Day. Says it all.

Proper rogues gallery. It’ll be like when Williams won it in the relegation season.

On a night like tonight, with presumably a two thirds empty ground and around 500 people in one upper corner of an 8,000 capacity stand, just makes Ewood look horrendous.

Derby in the upper tier tonight. Any idea why this experiment is still going on? Not exactly giving us home advantage, is it?