There is! For a standard 3pm away game in the north or midlands there will be ‘many’. I know loads, plenty of other posters know loads. I’m surprised you think that it isn’t the case?

I would assume it will be because Leeds expect to sell out home areas before match day...

£13-15 million. What can you do in this daft market ay? Going rate for promising teenagers. I mean if you wanted to buy players performing at the very top level, like a Shaqiri, theyd be miles out of our price range, costing... oh!

Home support is up by about 1300/1500 on the first half of last season, couple that with generally larger away followings and the average crowd will probably end up around 14/15,000 which will bring in some extra income. But in reality it is all buttons in comparison to TV income. The club will never, ever ‘wash its own face’ outside the PL. Well it could, but it would not be with the league position or infrastructure the club currently enjoys.

The way I see it is Mowbray knows the score at this level, he knows where we are lacking and the type of player we need to improve. I just do not see him wanting to spend 7 million of precious funds on an unproven teenager. How this transfer came about is a mystery to me. Is it because Venky’s will only release cash for young English talent, i.e sell on potential? This summer’s transfers suggest so. Was it a case of spend it on BB or lose it? If that’s the case and ‘there’s more where that came from’, then fine, I suppose. But 7 million on 2/3 proven pros could have seen us right up there in a wide open league, instead we’ve bought ‘potential’, that yes, sometimes works out a treat, but often these lads just don’t kick on like people hoped. It is a hell of a gamble for the modern day BRFC, so lets hope it’s the former for our and this ‘project’s’ sake.

Brereton has offered nowt thus far, but at 22 years old, I would say Nuttall is crying out for proper ‘mens’ football, so get him out on loan in January.

Difficult politically or not, surely he has to play in the under 23s? 15 minutes here and there won’t be doing anything for his sharpness...

Heard Mowbray’s interview in Radio Lancs, he said something like ‘that shouldn’t happen, but maybe it shows where we are’ It does and the manager obviously realises we need to improve the squad. Full backs would need to be a priority.

As I said before, depends on the game. Night match at Derby? Largely ST holders. A game like Preston there will be a shed load of non home attendees. Take my cousins as an example, they like ‘events’. Juicy away games with a day on the ale, Burnley at home, a big cup tie etc. As much as it annoys me they would never go to Ewood at nearly £30 for a run of the mill Rovers v Sheff Wed . There are loads like that.

Is he the kind of player Pellegrini would want? I’ve no idea, but looking at who he’s signed thus far and the surge up the table they’ve had, I can’t see them shelling out big money on Dack.

Local rag (or at least the Bolton reporter) now banned from the club... https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17299203.bolton-wanderers-ban-the-bolton-news-reporter-from-university-of-bolton-stadium/

Please no, then it’ll be ‘SIXTY THOUSAND screaming, passionate Geordies’ instead!

Still vast areas to draw from in that region, The city of Birmingham is a milllon people with just two clubs within the boundary, the West Midlands ‘county’ has 3 million people, plus those clubs draw support in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire too. Brings home that if we can get our home support up to 13/14k that’s a good effort for us at this level with our demographics and hemmed in catchment area.

Always a nice gesture, my mate’s dad was up there a few years ago. But hasn’t this been a thing at Ewood at this time a year for yonks?

As a player, I can take him or leave him. However, bigger picture, the fact that the highest earners at the club (players brought in at a time of relative largesse) have been signed up on new deals tells me that we are competitive in this league again and that is a positive.

Depends, if they are expecting a gate of 30,000 or so, there’s a good chance they’ll have the Up int Gods Tier closed...

Birdy's Ewood Blues bus from the Fox & Hounds. He usually goes via Intack and Great Harwood on route for pick ups, mark1875 of this parish, who used to run the Brown Cow bus now goes from The Observatory (next to Blackburn Royal), I believe. Craven Heifer from Darwen.

Ours are £250 for 11 games in the Jack Walker. £23 a game Boro’s are £275 for 12. Both seem dear to me and if I was a floating fan who wasn’t sure I could make all 11, I’d carry on buying tickets game by game.

10s as in who you know? Or only 10s of the total away support will be non season ticket holders? If it’s the later, you are way off for games where we are taking a decent following.

He’s got himself into a nice position now. He’s played a hell of a lot of games at Championship level (and some PL), so will be picked up by others as a ‘steady pro at this level’ with a decent wage packet to boot.

Depends. I’d say an ‘unattractive’ away game where we took a small following, say Boro last week or Derby earlier in the season on a Tuesday will largely be committed season ticket holders. However for games like West Brom and Stoke where we had a couple of thousand or local games like Preston will have large numbers of non ST holders.

In the ‘temporary’ stand too. Oyston’s obviously made sure it’s got its safety certificate back for this earner (or not, knowing that lot).

Great to see from the club, much better than the usual ‘well what else can we do?’ line we hear. We have an over abundance of supply, so why not try and entice long standing fans back? What’s to lose?

Ah! There’s a filter correcting the name, that explains it. I thought Merce must have had a falling out do with McDonut...

Looking like another season in which you need nowhere near 51 points to survive...