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Lenihan has had to learn his trade at centre half, but he’s the only one back there that looks like he actually enjoys the scrap.

Is there a way of moving the posts over?

Not much difference either way. As I’ve said, £30 tickets more of an issue, I would wager.

The 12pm KO is nonsense and not something replicated unilaterally by any other club from what I can see. However, the main reason there will only be 12,000 Rovers fans there is pricing. £27-31 (£30-£34 on the day) for second division football in the two most popular stands will not attract the floating fan, the kind of fan that usually boosts the gate for this kind of game, 12pm or 3pm.

Cocaine and social media is what is fuelling the upsurge in dickheadery.

Strong batch of Columbian by the sounds of it...

Bloody right! You’ve known all season, just set your alarm for 2am.

Show some commitment! He’d quit his job before missing a midweek game with Ipswich or whoever remember!

Don’t confuse Ewood with the rest of football. Nearly every other club in England have substantially increased their gates over the past decade. We are one of the few to go the other way, put the blame for that at the door of those that deserve it...

It’s just a fact. There will be around 12,000 Rovers fans there, as usual. If you think £27-£31 for a ticket in the Blackburn End or Jack Walker (£30-£34 on the day) is in any way sensible for a mid table second division match then fair enough, but it’s a ridiculous price from where I’m standing. The club is only interested in filling the Darwen End at top prices, not trying to encourage a big derby crowd and atmosphere that could encourage our fans to return.

You can tell Mogga is a posh Teesider these days.

That is what everyone thought was the case until contradicted by Preston police. Be interesting to see whet the club line is at the next Fans Forum.

For the red button to be available for any match not kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday was absolutely crackers and why it was ever even considered by the clubs or the EFL is beyond me. We are not operating in the Premier League with its vast audience, the only folk interested in EFL are fans of the clubs involved and giving fans the opportunity to watch around 40% of home games on TV was totally bonkers and will only be the detriment of attendances. I’d hope the midweek games go next (and that’s said as someone that watched Swansea and Reading away on it, bigger picture and all that) and we can put this ridiculous development to bed.

From the day they left Highfield Road it’s been a disaster for them, to the extent that they’ve somehow ended up as tenants (via Northampton) at their ground with a London rugby club as their landlords!

But more than 5000 doesn’t require an early kick off as we now know. The club just fancies a supposed quieter couple of hours with a dinnertime match, even though it will inconvenience a substantial numbers of OUR fans, you know the ones that turn up week in week out. It really does beggar belief and I hope it will be raised by the Fans Forum.

Good insight on the 2 year anniversary... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17451074.coach-captain-and-pa-on-mowbrays-two-years-at-rovers/ The manager’s PA said how she has worked with 9 managers in 11 years. A throwaway comment that nicely sums up the Venky era.

If he really told McGinn (who Villa fans rave about) that he would be behind Smallwood in the pecking order, that’s more than just ‘being loyal to the lads that got us up’ but a real flaw in Mowbray’s methods. You should be constantly looking to improve your side and if that means players that did a job at a lower level are moved aside, then so be it. It’s a ruthless business.

Villa didn’t sell the bottom tier, never mind the upper. Our home support is fairly static, 12,000 or so. The only movement you see is due to the away following. Kid for a quid? Must be joking! The days of that kind of offer has long gone.

The only time BB has played against a Mowbray team was against us for Forest at the City Ground when we won 1-0 (Hoban header) in the relegation season.

A lot of folk work Saturday mornings too. Unbelievable really and something not replicated at any other club from what I can see.

Presumably because the stadium manager and/or Waggott would prefer 7500 Preston fans less tanked up at 12pm than 3pm. Easier to manage. Feck the home fans. Though we used to have 20 years of full Darwen Ends a few times a season with no problem. Sums up the small time operation down there theee days.

Didn’t we lose 6 in 1992? Promotion season, going from top to outside the play off places. Speedie hat trick at Plymouth ensured we finished 6th... the rest is history!

Exactly Ewood Ace. £27 in the Blackburn End and £29-£31 in the JW upper (rising to £30 and £32-£34 on the day) tells you the club aren’t particularly interested in getting good numbers of home fans through the gate, just maximising revenue from a full Darwen End. No red button helps this, of course. But still a sensible development from the club whatever the motivation.

Reading that neither will the other daytime non Saturday 3pm games. Bolton on Easter Monday and Swansea last day of the season. I thought it much have been a change of policy from the EFL, but looks like a club decision. Sense prevails down Ewood for once!

Simple stuff really, ain’t it MCMC!