Not saying it is. Just how I foresee things turning out. Things may be different if money is consistently spent on improving the squad. However, the rub is, you can end up chasing your tail as it’s a two way street and our better players end up over the hill and/or sold.

Nearly men for a season or two , then a decline is my prediction. 2013-2015 version 2.

I don’t think we’ll do it, loads of sides around the top 6 and I foresee further slappings away from home. But, if we do finish fairly strongly, top 8 or so, and continue to improve the squad, then... ‘this time next year Rodders...’

I’ve no problem with that. However, the facts are that Graham’s back ups are two raw lads. Not their fault, of course, just a result of some strange recruitment policies.

Oh Bizzle, ‘twas just said in jest. Thought he looked ok yesterday, let’s hope it was the start of something for all our sakes.

Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the flex!

It is what it is. But seeing the young lass in front of me being confronted by a steward and handed a letter with a load of fans gawking seemed a little sledgehammer to crack a nut-esque to me. Could they not have just posted it? Or invited her in for a chat?

Without doubt. It was a game that needed the sting taken out of it. Get Smallwood on and shore up the middle of the park. Instead Conway gets brought on, two young strikers are chucked on and unsurprisingly we quickly descend into a rabble.

18,000 Dingles at t’Turf yesterday, that’s for the Premier League and on the back of their best season for 45 years. Goes to show our current 12,000 or so home fans we attract after the decade we’ve had and for a current mid table Championship side isn’t terrible for a club with our demographics. It is just magnified by the size of Ewood. We need to start by pushing that 12k up to say 14k and on it goes. Big summer ahead.

his Instagram...

I didn’t. Birmingham next.

Too much Bordeaux obviously.

Bored you to death. Indeed it did and here we are.

Me. We had a team of quality players and I watched my town club with little money as an established PL club. After the near decade we’ve had, such statements still amaze me.

??? Two completely wrong statements.

For the first time since John Williams, to me the club seems a much more professional, joined up organisation and I am more than happy to give Waggott and Mowbray all the praise in the world for that. However, for fan experience there has been nothing, well stuff has actually been taken away; Darwen End, Radio Rovers, shoddy programme etc. Indeed has there been anything since the fanzone was set up outside the Blackburn End about 8 years ago? To me Ewood is a very stale and neglected looking place. Luckily 18 months of winning matches at Ewood has made it moot, because at the end of the day it's all about winning games of football and we all skip up Livesey Branch Road at 5pm. Other clubs are embracing fan culture - singing sections, craft ale bars and on it goes. Look at Stanley, there's less than 2,000 of their fans at matches, yet they have well organised displays in the Clayton End and a real connect between the fans and the board.

Oh yeah! I obviously don’t get many requests ?

Don’t leave your possible 3 new friends hanging Dave!

Most people get behind him. A few loudmouths don’t.

Every player, especially a struggling player will get some verbals from a few folk in the crowd. Always have, always will. Even future title winner Jason ‘Handbag’ Wilcox used to get a load of it from the Riverside in his younger days. From the vast majority of the ground, BB has been given time and support - much more than Kevin Davies did, for example.

Total hatchet job with the editing.

4 million for Wil Grigg?? The bloke has hardly scored a goal outside League 1. How much is Dack worth?

Sales have risen, but only to the level we were at before the appointment of Coyle, as that summer saw the largest number of non renewals since relegation from the PL. So just a reversion to the mean, perhaps

You make Bristol City a tenner next Saturday (or any other game that isn’t a promotion party or pivotal end of season game) and there won’t be anywhere near 27,000 there. But there would be a decent increase, especially when the team is on an upswing like at the moment. Surely those extra folk can help roar us on into the top 6? So it was a unique set of circumstances that day. However, that doesn’t mean it should be Oxford and then nothing at all the season after. 18,000 empty seats every week...

Aye, didn't he come in at the same time as Nathan Blake? Then Ashley Ward not long after. Premier League champions to that in 4 years