Mattyblue

Not selling well by the looks of it. As said before, Rovers fans don’t do cup ties (unless it’s Liverpool).

Different because our gates are always fairly static through the season due to our catchment area. They only really rise in the summer if season ticket sales have risen. If we ended up around the play offs in the next few weeks, our gates would rise a little, but other clubs in bigger cities or with little local competition (like Ipswich) would rise by more, largely due to the fact they have that bigger catchment area, so a bigger floating support. Our support, considering our demographics, catchment area and years of mediocrity have held up well, but we do find it difficult to increase them substantially. But none of the above negates the need to try stuff.

ANDERSON OUT posters produced by their local rag being held up in the Darwen End...

They have. We have a very loyal core, a core that isn’t dissimilar to a lot of clubs at this level, but we just don’t have the same level of floating support that a lot of clubs have (Oxford was a very specific set of circumstances) that just appear in big numbers for a discounted run of the mill game. However, we do have at least 18,000 empty seats every week, so surely we should try something, even if it didn’t result in a 21,000 crowd?

I noticed at one point last night we had Raya, Nyambe, Lenihan, Travis, Nuttall on the pitch. Great to see.

And the Conference is a bloody tough league. Chesterfield as an example, long standing Football League club. I imagine they expected to bounce straight back, they attract 4/5,000 gates and there’s every chance they’ll suffer a double relegation.

Christ we’ve had some right old shite darken our doors post 2012...

I do like that ‘oooooooooo’ war chant thing their fans partake in!

They should’ve put me in charge of a certain 19 year old’s negotiations...

We rejected £15million from West Brom in August and his profile and goal tally has only increased since then. He’s scored as many goals as this time last season - but at a higher level, so hasn’t ‘dropped off’ at all. So of course £18million+ is reasonable in this daft market.

In theory he is now behind Graham, Nuttall and Armstrong in the striker pecking order. Plus, would he even get on he pitch before a fit Samuel? Not a good look for a 7million purchase and I would imagine there are some serious concerns behind the scenes. But we are where we are and as Mozzer says he needs games ASAP, for whatever team that is.

Bloody hell AAK, if you think this is an over positive Rovers forum, Christ knows what you think of some of the Facebook groups and the LT below the line commenters!

And then a load of them had disappeared from Ewood completely by the following August...

Whereas I have no interest in any club apart from Blackburn Rovers (though wanting relegation and liquidation for Burnley, of course.)

Think I know where this threads heading . Normally every November on here, not January...

Leeds, Celtic, Rangers, I thought it was the Dingles we ‘hated’...

Quarter final and replay, and thankfully that clown shoe had gone. Was in the dying days of Appleton. We spent two games hoofing the ball to Danny Shitu’s head...

A Booby Mimms special in there...

Reading the LT piece about Nuttall and commenter in chief Beetlejuice is blaming a lack of fan patience for BB’s poor form, then goes on to ask ‘are we not the 12th man?’ Can anyone point out an occasion where he hasn’t been supported at games? Or is it internet/real life confusion again?

Strange you rarely got close to filling your ground before this season then...

If creating this ‘no one likes us’ routine helps you as fans create a siege mentality, good luck to you. But honestly, most fans couldn’t care less about you, just like they couldn’t care less about all the other ‘also ran’ clubs with fine histories and traditions you keep belittling. You’re not special, just another club, but luckily a club situated in a big city with a big catchment area.

Because it’s a song to sing! Do you honestly think fans across England really HATE, DESPISE etc. a club that’s been rattling around the second and third division for 15 years?

I’m a proud Brit too, but seeing folk from the West/central belt of Scotland and Belfast wave Union Jacks around at Ibrox doesn’t give me any interest in Rangers or a ‘soft spot’ for them. ’Aye, Rangers are me second team’

‘Despised’? By who? Don’t give them even more of an ego, apart from that ‘Dirty Leeds’ nickname that goes back donkeys years, I don’t know anyone that gives a shite about them either way.

Not really Rev. Lot of similarities in going from a very stable situation to the opposite. Totally different environment at a relegated Stoke with a lot of high earning, under achieving egos from a club like Luton that’s spent years in lower and non league.