Mattyblue

It depends. If you think the manager is merely on a bad run, then of course sacking them can be counter productive, but it shouldn’t be a mantra for all circumstances. How much time did Coyle need?

For all the limitations of Smallwood, he’s still twice the player Lowe is.

Looking at social media over Christmas, the problem Blackburn has is that as its nightlife declined from the back end of the 2000s onwards loads of other places around here improved. I saw folk out in Clitheroe, Whalley, Darwen, Preston, Burnley and obviously Manchester for a big ‘un. A lot of those people would have been out in Blackburn a decade ago, now they wouldn’t even think of it. It’s a vicious circle, despite the marginal improvement this past couple of years, folk still see it as crap, so don’t go, not enough decent bars open. As there’s not enough footfall, not enough decent bars open.

Thought Cook was the best thing since a pie sandwich over there... https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/threads/surely-dead-man-walking.89371/

Rovers fans don’t really do cup ties (unless it’s Liverpool). Usually because the majority of season ticket holders don’t bother with them (and don’t get counted in the crowd anyway like a league match). We’ve had some real poor turnouts in recent years even for quarter finals and the likes. So for a January midweek I think we’d be struggling, though possible if Newcastle brought plenty.

Sell out? For a midweek third round replay against Newcastle? I wouldn’t imagine more than 7/8000 home fans, even at a tenner.

It was Cat A today because the club imagined West Brom would bring plenty of fans to rip off - they didn’t, so the whole business plan for today went out the window. What should have happened is £15 tickets anywhere in the ground. We’d have sold a fair few more and so would WBA. Of course we never do see such initiatives and I do worry that the all important window of season ticket sales in the summer will see more of the same - price rises, late to be put on sale, no thoughts of how to get folk back in the tent.

I remember a fair number of Forest fans being fairly gutted by him leaving (some weren’t particularly arsed mind). So they must have seen something from him far and away over what we’ve witnessed thus far.

£30 a ticket for mid table second division, no wonder. Though at the end of the day it’s all about season tickets at Rovers and we just didn’t sell enough in the summer.

Still looking to loan him out... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17328252.lewis-travis-has-a-big-future-says-rovers-boss-mowbray/

Oh for a new burger van!

Also ideal for a proper raised view disabled section.

We hoof up to Graham too much to be seen as a neat and tidy passing team.

I’m not sure we do look particularly ‘neat and tidy’ usually. We did on Saturday because of one man- Travis.

No timescales unfortunately it was second hand. But next time I see the person in question I’ll try and find out more. But the plans are for what JH describes in his second paragraph.

Heard a rumour yesterday from a decent source that there are plans for it to be knocked down and replaced. Though no bigger capacity wise.

They’ve spent the past 15 years bobbing around the third division and Championship mid table. They aren’t Cloughie’s Forest!

1400 sold. Good effort with 3 away games in 10 days and no trains back and it’s £30.

The thing keeping Armstrong around the team must be his pace (not that he knows how to utilise it), as we are otherwise a painfully slow side.

About 100,000 people watch league football in the north east out of a population of 2.6 million. What a hotbed!

For Boxing Day after a massive marketing drive. Since relegation from the PL they usually have 25,000 to 28,000. In a 49,000 capacity. Old Lancashire is the heartland of the game, not the north east.

When Neal of this parish’s dad ended up chatting to Mowbray after the Wigan debacle. He was fuming and ranting and said ‘we WILL beat Sheff Wed, don’t you worry about that’ Now that may be because Sheff Wed were shite at the time, but it isn’t something you’d hear ‘on the record’. All that matters is that he actually changes things, so the next month will be telling...

I try not to look too deeply into the public comments of managers, he is probably right to avoid publicly roasting the players, if we think back to the anger he showed to Neal’s dad at Wigan tells me it’s a different story behind closed doors. It’s all about action, so it is certainly time to get worried if the likes of Williams, Smallwood and perhaps even Lenihan aren’t replaced over the next few months.

He’s hasn’t generally been terrible, just very raw. However, Norwich was terrible, utterly. First time I started to seriously think we’ve got an issue here.

They usually have around 20,000+ empty seats every week, that just doesn’t fit the narrative of the ‘passionate north east’ (three league clubs in a whole region and we are supposed to marvel at the fact decent numbers go to those 3).