Was it not because yesterday was the global EFL live game?

Get away! Was it?

“Who needs that Yank when we’ve got John Phelan?!’’

Of course, probably not the best team talk though!

Just spotted this, not the greatest man management from Lambert... http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/16389387.Ex-Rangers_star_Charlie_Adam_hits_back_at_Stoke_boss_Paul_Lambert_for_Shaqiri_swipe/

QPR too, only open the bottom if demand.

Loads of Championship clubs have the capacity to give bigger away followings than the standard 3k maximum, but it only seems to be the Lanky clubs that actually do - Rovers, PNE, Bolton, Wigan.

If an away side sell out the top tier at Millwall, that’s it, you don’t get the bottom tier too. Now that’s partly down to ensuring the Bushwackers don’t have a ruckus, but it also means the away side don’t attack a packed end of their support. But that just doesn’t come into the thinking with us, as Stuart says a full Darwen End 4/5 tines a season will be part of the club’s budgeting for the season.

So we don’t just get a total budget that’s agreed at the Pune summer meeting?

Thought I was watching the highlights on one of my old Scotch VHS tapes.

Alex says it just ‘feels like it’ and asks for the stats, he isn’t saying anything untrue. Is debate allowed?

I haven’t seen any mass hysteria, just disappointment. We looked ok until the subs. Lack of strength in depth, as we all know, need reinforcements seems to be the general consensus. Didn’t expect one of those silly ‘hysteria’, ‘negativity’ posts from you Mark.

UK Conquest... sorry Quest

You’ve got to be very careful taking off your best players as early as we did today. 68 minutes is far too early to be replacing Graham, he is invaluable in holding on to the ball and releasing pressure. Now if it’s that he can’t last much longer than hour, we are going to have problems...

Every message board in the country reacts the same way to conceding a last minute equaliser. Folk are extremely frustrated and say so. They then move on to suggesting why their club didn’t win the game. You know how it works, so what do you expect to see? 10 pages of ‘ah well’. ‘It’s a point’, ‘we move on’. ‘Never mind’ ? Do you try and shut down debate in the pub, at work, wherever if someone has the temerity to make a point you deem ‘negative’?

I’m easy with whatever and wherever it is, it just needs a bit of help to get going.

Called John ain’t he?

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/16394069.unknown-adds-to-the-intrigue-of-rovers-championship-return/ Sales approaching 10,000 according to Rich Sharpe, right who’s doing the counting in JH’s absence? AAK?

I would say football fandom has changed this past 5 years or so. Along with the clamour for safe standing, there has been a move to ultra areas, so I think we could get a decent group together with a bit of organisation.

If Huddersfield bloody Town can muster a 1,000 singers, we must be able to!

Difference is a lot of other clubs have embraced those ‘giving it large’ groups and helped create ‘ultras’ sections if you want to call them that. Boro are a good example, they moved away fans to a corner of a side stand and promoted the old away end as a singing section with all the banners and flags. As usual, we just let these things wither on the vine.

And Michael Owen etc. Problem is they all largely played in a front two, the game has now changed and few teams do. So you just won’t see as many little strikers as you once did. Edit - Great minds islander!

Bit of a red herring calling it a UEFA regulation, as it is only the UK and Montenegro (!) that has a blackout. It goes back to a Bob Lord proposal in the 1960s which was backed by the Football League.

A load of young fans drop off at that point when parents stop paying for their ST. An incremental rise in price, like the Forest example would help keep those fans in the tent. Cue Rev’s entrance - “18 year olds are able to get tanked up at the weekend, so feck ‘em make them pay £200-£300!”

Little in stature but what a presence! He drove that promotion team on with his will to win. Kicking Newcastle players in that bounce ball, to giving their fans abuse in the Darwen End to booting the ball out the ground at Tranmere, hat trick at Plymouth to save the season, bringing us back from the dead in the play off semi, to ‘winning’ THAT penalty. All in 9 months! Legend.