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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...

Just eight out of the 32 ties are at 3pm...

The full list of them... Crazy!

It’s started this season by the looks of it... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37752728

Remember that, but for a domestic game?

Changed KO for purely overseas viewers, is this new? I can’t say I’ve ever heard of that?

Had a good chat with him at the Cheltenham Festival a few years ago, couldn’t speak highly enough of Rovers.

Thought I’d woken up in 2016... https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17278792.bolton-will-stick-together-at-norwich-says-jason-lowe/

Not something that led to Kenny leaving was my point, as it was 1992 (unless he was still bitter about it three years later?!).

I thought we almost signed Thomas in the early PL days, long before Kenny went?

You reckon? Been a good while since I’ve felt any at Ewood.

I’m sure I remember their fans saying what a great signing he was when they went on that not to be sustained run in August.

The last two crises have been averted by selling Gary Madine and former owner Eddie Davies sorting out the last cash flow issue just before he died. Not sure how much longer they can keep pulling these rabbits out the hat...