Just what I thought pk was insinuating...

Safe standing on the Darwen End? Interesting development, but it doesn’t change the fact that it won’t happen overnight and even if it did we won’t have different stands with singers in decent numbers until we get numbers significantly higher than 11,000, the ground is just too big.

Local rag’s take on it: https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/football-news/something-ben-breretons-nottingham-forest-1947752 ’Premier League now firmly in Forest’s sights’ 1 win in 5 and is their squad noticeably better than when they struggled last season?

End of the day, Gladwin, Whitts, Caddis, Hart will be out of contract at the end of the season, so it’s not like the days of old in which clowns like Leon Best were given 5 year deals on 40k a week or whatever it was...

Why do you care what a few people on social media think? Most people in the Blackburn End will have no opinion at all about other stands, and certainly won’t be talking about it on Facebook or anywhere else, can’t say I’ve overheard anyone with the slightest interest or think there ever was a ‘rivalry’. 100 people in the corner of the JW can’t make a decent noise and until we get considerably more than 11,000 home fans on the ground, it will be difficult to create different areas with full throated singing. Seems like you are grasping at reasons not to help create a proper end, when currently it is the only solution.

Err the mighty Richard Brown anyone?

Pretty sure I just saw Caddis walking out of Costa in Lytham (hobbling slightly - not used to 90 minutes obviously!). I cant confirm or deny if it was a ‘skinny’ latte in his hand, but it’s funny he just looked a normal, relatively slim 30 year old bloke - just shows what condition most professional footballers are in, in comparison!

As an aside when did we last have a squad as British and Irish as we do now? Even Raya and Nyambe are academy graduates. Oh and the Canadian! Early 90s? Prior to signing Berg and Patrick Anderssen?

I thought I remembered reading once that Edgbaston got it one year to make up for not getting a Test, but now they get a Test and finals day every year! Manchester is easy enough to get to, so no idea why OT never gets a turn.

The club must realise the demographics of Blackburn have changed enormously over the past 25/30 years - though we’ve always had a good support outside the town boundaries, I would wager the percentage of ST holders that reside outside of BB1 and BB2 are increasing every year. The club are starting to work on the Asian population, as they must, but they also need to focus on a fan base that is stretching further and further out, as it is only family ties, not civic that keep these fans coming.

Anyway we best stop with this debate as we’ll have the thread policeman out again...

The hard core buy season tickets in the summer, out of habit and convenience, so they can keep their seat and because they are saving on match day prices. I don’t think ST holders will have any issue in a pro rata ST being released as long as those purchasers aren’t getting a better discount than what they have - we see that with half STs and the Last 10/6 tickets released last season.

We paid for Bowyer’s inexperience, as he was essentially leaning his trade in the top half of the Championship. I imagine he looks back at that period now and wishes he had trusted a cracking set of players more - who knows where it would have took us (and him).

I hear you Paul, but the club has them on sale until around the first international break every year anyway, but who will be currently buying a product in which its value is decreasing by the week?

What do you reckon Mark? There was seemingly no issue with giving Man Utd the full end at 4pm in the same season PNE had to kick off at noon...

They’ll get away with it for a while as the next few games will see better away followings, but there’s no doubt it is a pretty demoralising sight when there’s just 300 southerners in there and over 7,000 empty seats...

They are still on sale but at non early bird full whack - I.e £400 in the Blackburn End, pushing £500 in the JW. Surely do a pro rata offer with three games already played?

6ft according to transfermrkt and wiki, also went to check his profile on Forest’s official site and got a 404? ?‍♂️

It will be £7million in January according to the Nottingham Post and Forest will have a sell on clause. https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/transfer-news/ben-brereton-blackburn-nottingham-forest-1946184.amp?__twitter_impression=true

A few people on here don’t represent the Blackburn End. The only place that it is now possible to create an atmosphere is that End, N01 being the prime area - that ‘top corner’ as you put it, a bit like the DE top corner then, no? It is starting to improve as folk from across the ground are noticing. Can’t speak for what happened to you personally, but again that doesn’t represent 4,000 people. Just all seems very petty and creating divides that really don’t exist, surely as a fan base we’ve moved on from all that?

Why?

Same to those thinking he will be a hit. We are buying potential, and plenty of these signings don’t work out. Tyrone and everyone else obviously hopes it does, but it’s a gamble for the modern day Rovers, if that’s a ‘negative’ viewpoint, then so be it.

Fair enough, sounds like plenty of reasons for it to be Sunday then, BCFC are just being a bit disingenuous taking about moving it to Sunday for more rest (when we are just leaving August!).

To be fair, after he said the last thing he wanted was to spend big money on one player (as he never thought we would), to WE MUST buy a 19 year old for millions, (because he now thought we would) and if you don’t agree you’re negative - is exactly why he winds the board up !

From the Forest forum it sounds like he has all the tools to be a quality all round forward but just doesn’t (as yet?) get the goals.