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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...

I’m largely with you JH. Though I don’t think we will be in any danger bottom 3 wise, I also think we won’t end up anywhere near the top 6 either. So I’m comfortable with this being a season of transition and the mistakes and at times lack of quality that go with it. I hope that Mowbray also sees what I see and those I believe aren’t good enough if we want to thrive at this level are slowly removed from the side - it’s up to the owners to fulfill the promises that are seemingly made on a regular basis to the manager. If they do, we could build to something very exciting over the next couple of years, if not and we will be also rans (at best) in this division.

And Gillespie!

Just shows it’s becoming more of a PL2. Interesting to see how crowds have increased massively in this league over the past 15 years. In 2000/01 Birmingham’s average crowd was the highest in the league with 21,000, they still average 21,000 and they now rank 11th

There’s plenty of talk about how competitive and unpredictable the Championship is, but looking at the table, is that not the top 10 (not necessarily in order) you’d expect to see, probably Birmingham aside, if you look at budgets, attendances and wage bills? Indeed, apart from Sheff Wed, it’s a top 10 that mirrors the top 10 average attendances Also, shows that we are doing pretty well to be just outside them.

Venky’s ruined something I was immensely proud of and I will never forgive them for it, so I’m not interested in hearing from them, apologies and all the rest of it. But when I read posts saying ‘I’d be happy for us to be in the Conference if we were rid of them’, I just can’t fathom it. With our infrastructure, that would probably be it for Blackburn Rovers in any recognisable form and with our demographics, we probably wouldn’t ever recover. Why cut your nose off to spite your face? As long as the club remains stable, Brockhall is kept in tact, the Academy is funded and players are bought, contracts renewed and so on, the status quo can remain for me, for now. Long term, surely we want the club sold as a going concern at the kind of level we are at now, rather then some bizarre self-sabotage of hurtling to non league? I hate what they’ve done, but they wouldn’t care less and if would be the club and us that would suffer.

I’ll give a prediction, the Charity Shield will be moved abroad over the next few years...