Mattyblue

Like I said, shit flex.

I’ve heard the flex ratio is shit.

Look forward to listening to it. Really unlucky manager who did a fantastic job in the late 80s. Don’t certain voices just take you back, my first manager as a kid. You took any coverage you could in those days, can still remember him being on a Granada show with Elton Welsby or whoever taking about our ‘good foootball’.

Of course that’s why, but Stanley are taking advantage of our malaise.

On this forum I remember posting on the Stanley thread in 2016 saying I was happy they’d got beat in the League 2 play offs, as a League 1 Stanley is the last thing we need as a club. From memory I was laughed off the thread and told that they were totally insignificant to us and wouldn’t impact our fanbase at all...

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Dingles now have their season tickets on sale (frozen). Just the three months to go for us...

I assume CP is ignoring the glory hunters and focusing just on who supports normal clubs in these areas. I’m the same, if a conversation ever turns to football and it emerges that said person ‘supports’ one of the red two, I discount their opinions and make a note never to talk football with them again.

Honourable? Easy to watch clubs like that year in year out, they’re in it for the reflected glory.

Were they ever ‘their’ fans? Or was it that a few folk decided to wear a Rovers shirt instead of Utd/Liverpool? They’ve got to get over it and realise one of the main reason they’ve spent half a century in the doldrums and their ‘city’ struggles to provide five figure crowds for Deepdale is because they are probably only the third best supported club in their own patch.

‘Can’t wait to see the plastics faces at Ewood when we beat them again’ It literally makes no sense, because surely by definition a ‘plastic’ fan, wouldn’t still be going to Rovers? Very bitter bunch of people.

Preston’s biggest problem is most folk wander around with Liverpool or Man Utd shirts on, yet PNE fans have no issue with that. Yet, people like us that have stuck by our club through a shite decade are dubbed ‘plastics’. Go figure!

Interesting. Has anyone been the Clog recently?

I’d say Rishton is very similar to Blackburn. Ossy more like Accy. Preston accent is fairly similar to Blackburn, just not as carrr parrrk.

Your best bet would be to pre order, saves £3 and then you can just pick up your ticket or I think you can print at home now. As Preston may sell out the away end, they may make buying on the day only for folk already with a database record of buying tickets - so to stop Preston fans trying to buy on home areas. Give the ticket office a ring, they are always very helpful.

Doesn’t have to be. Rovers’ choice.

I’d assumed they would be, but database only if Preston sell out.

Well not on the gate, as that seems to be beyond the wit of man at Ewood. But you would be able to from the match day ticket office at the Blackburn End.

Good point you make Hasta. In relegation season (March 2017), the game was moved earlier, but it was 1pm. That hour could make all the difference for folk who work till dinner or play themselves/watch their kids play on a Saturday morning. Why stop at 12? Make it 9am next time.

I’m fascinated by accents. Even in east Lancs, where the towns generally have similar accents (apart from Burnley), there are differences. I.e in Blackburn we say ‘footbowl’, but in Darwen it’s more ‘footbaaal’. Folk from Accy way tend to say ‘town’ and ‘down’ like Boltoners. Any more you’ve noticed?

Three lads on my Facebook... with their kids.

It’s bizarre, we need to concentrate MORE on our non Blackburn fanbase, as demographic change is seeing our support spread further and further outside the town, yet as you say we do very little outside BwD.

The longer Stanley stay in League 1 and Holt carries on being this proactive, I think we will have an issue in Hyndburn. Always been a Rovers heartland, but he gives a free shirt to every kid in the borough, season tickets at a £1 a game and just generally a fun place to spend an afternoon. And we do what in the area to counter it?

Best not whack up the price again then!

Stanley have theirs on sale next week. £219 early bird. £23 for under 12s.