Looking at 2018's madcap marketplace makes Armstrong at £1.75million look the deal of the century.

Always annoys me that a lot of Rovers era Shearer is edited out of highlight reels. 'Geordie Hero' etc. WE had the ultimate Shearer, our edition had everything the later version had...plus pace. Injuries robbed him of it, turning him more into the target man that a lot of folk only seem to remember.

Yes boss!

Well I can only apologise chaddy. P.S. can you sort them out on the Kasey Palmer thread while you’re at it, they are not discussing the Chelsea loanee, which is a strict violation to the very clear thread title!

Sometimes topics move away from the thread title, so what? If anything happens transfer wise the thread and it’s contributors will be all over it. I enjoyed a trip down memory lane, made a dull thread a bit interesting on a Tuesday afternoon.

That says more about the footballing nous of those people, I would suggest!

I never expected any different away followngs wise. We've just had a season with a load of new grounds, loads of derbies, big boys in a league, going for promotion etc. Going back to mid/lower table at a level we've been used to, at grounds we've played at year after year means they will simply drop back to the standard.

Not sure about that, my impression this summer was that it was all a bit tongue in cheek...

In a nutshell, how we went from English Champions to relegation in 4 years...

Me and my Dad came away from Highbury thinking we were on the verge of something, battered them. We played some great stuff in the first half of 97/98, alas 1998 as a calendar year was a disaster for Roy and then Jack made a horrendous decison in appointing Kidd. Jack was spedning big trying to catch up, but it was two years too late

Don't blame you one bit, but the reality is that crowds are going to be hit across the board, especially in winter. We have a sizeable percentage of our fanbase that live away from Blackburn and travel fair distances, a decent proportion just won't bother now for night matches, which then starts to impact on how valuable their 23 game season ticket is too. Very short sighted move from the EFL.

No, only league games.

Oh I do, well worth a gamble for me, but just not sure TM will...

Excitement and flair, simple as that, our fans have been starved of it for so long that when they watched him in full flow, however fleeting, it was a joy - bums off seat player. Not sure he'd be reliable for a tough Championship season though and as Mogga likes his 'defensive wingers', not sure he'd want him at this level...

Sorry to quote you Rev, but I just remembered this post from the time. Looking at the figures from open day I estimate we've probably sold an extra 1,000 or so. Thinking back to the buzz around the club from Doncaster through to Oxford, for me the club has missed a big opportunity. I wasn't expecting sales of 12,000; it's mid table Championship at best for us at the moment, so it's not going to pour them through the gates, but I certainly had hopes for the 10,000+ that Waggott himself was targeting. But why? - Price? - Delays in getting them on sale? - Has the whole database been targeted to get them back in the tent? - Lack of signings? Combination of them all?

The bloke should be one of the biggest names in English sport, but show a picture of him to youngsters and I bet most couldn't even name him. That's what hiding cricket away for a decade and a half has done to our summer game...

Hundred folk gathered in a corner, surrounded by empty seats is far superior than NO1? Where it’s fairly full, people do sing and stand up and you’re in a stand with about 4,000 people. Come on! It was pretty good in there on Saturday, so stop with the excuses and get yourself down!

Of course the 2000s were better than now - much bigger home support, much bigger away support (generally), much better players on show, a generally content club/fan relationship, that buzz that only the PL brings. But run of the mill games against say Charlton with 16-18,000 in the ground weren’t raucous occasions with Ewood in full voice, but we forget those matches - indeed in those days you were probably more likely to get a ‘sidown!’ than you are now. Our memories always takes us back to the grand occasions that we saw maybe a third of the time.

Fair enough, but Ewood really really hasn’t been like that for donkeys years, well apart from odd pockets like the hundred or so in the Darwen End or N01 at one time. Most grounds haven’t been how you describe for a long time, folk just watch the game and you hear that general murmur sound of chatting. Great performance or terrible ref or big away following often got the place going, but I’m not having that Ewood was a cauldron every week in the 2000s, because it just wasn’t.

Still room in N01, why not move over? The Crystal Palace singing section is in the exact same position in their main end and they are known as the best in the Premier League.

I don’t take it personally I like a good sing song as much as the next man. I just don’t see how labelling fans who don’t sing as non supporters helps debate? I thought the BBEnd made a decent noise yesterday, as did the Millwall fan at the other end of the ground, as it goes. But I’m not sure what else people expect in a less than half full all seater stadium in this day and age, Ewood, like most grounds is fairly quiet unless roused - a 0-0 against Millwall isn’t going to get thousands of people engaging in 90 minutes of raucous chanting.

I would say Bennett’s work is very noticeable, unlike Lowe he actually makes tackles. I really do think we are missing a trick in not getting him in the middle, his extra pace over Smallwood could make a difference.

That looks like a 4-4-2 formation, how quaint!

I’m pretty sure when it’s a live Sky game the angle is higher.

It was still announced as Peter Jackson’s MoM from what I heard...