Mattyblue

Does it not feel much longer in many ways? Amazes me that we’ve only been out of the PL for six years, feels a lifetime.

Not everybody charges Bolton prices though. £20 at West Brom next month. Still many clubs charging reasonable-ish prices, a certain few have lost the plot. On your general point, who knows where pay TV and Sky in particular now goes in regards to football with Murdoch gone and a US corporation now in situ.

But middling Championship clubs don’t, they make just as many changes as PL clubs now. Totally get your point Gav, the modern game often makes me ask ‘what’s the point?’ What do clubs exist for now, if not to try and win things or even enjoy a cup run? Mid table Premier League clubs, say Everton, for example, will make 10 changes, get beat, for what? So they can still finish 9th? The authorities are trying, getting rid of extra time, replays etc. But it’s just ingrained with clubs now, so you just get on with it and enjoy seeing some fringe players, though the collapse in FA Cup crowds over the past 15 years says the fans aren’t mugs.

Good chance it will be one season as it’s 3 up next year.

Mogga’s presser: Mulgrew’s playing as long as he gets through tomorrow’s training.

‘Felt contact, entitled to go down’ Total nonsense, often said by pundits who played in an age where players did the exact opposite.

Though that could be a red button job as it’s not 3pm...

Leeds away has been ruined for years because of pricing, shame because it would be an away loads would look forward to. Either into the city centre for a few or go to the likes of Holmfirth.

Psychological thing, £27 and you’d sell more. Three quid extra and break the thirty barrier and it’s ‘’OW MUCH?!”

Roversfan99 and chaddy have sparred daily for as long as I remember, neither of them ever gives an inch! Always give 110% Great stuff!

They do Jim, but we rarely sell more than 2/3 thousand walk ons, never have, especially in this league. Makes those poor season ticket sales even more noticeable.

Realities are they won’t be, you’ve been a Rovers fan long enough now tomphil to know how our fan base works!

On general sale now with only 600 sold to season ticket holders and 1875. As I said on page 1, Rovers fans just don’t pay £30, especially not when on Sky (plus train issues this time to compound it). Looks like the good numbers we had at Stoke won’t get close to being matched down the road at Bolton - says a lot.

‘Hater’ and ‘hating on’ can go with ‘my bad’ to English Room 101.

Caddis that desperate for a club he’s been editing his own wiki ‘He predominantly plays as either a right back or right winger, but due to his versatility, and having two good feet, he can also play at left back and anywhere across the midfield.’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Caddis

It’s an interesting debate. Resting half/the whole team used to bring howls of derision, it is now largely just accepted, even encouraged. Indeed a lot of fans look forward to a cup tie purely as a chance to see some emerging players. The stakes are now so high in league football, a promotion or relegation can completely transform/ruin a club, so the chance to actually win something or even just have an enjoyable cup run is down everyone’s priority list. It’s sad but it neatly sums up the modern game.

*Ahem* 500.

I’m not as worried about the centre half issue in the short term mainly due to Williams. I personally think he’s got more attributes to be in the middle than as full back - he’s good positionally, plus strong in the air and can tackle, but just doesn’t really have the mobility a modern full back increasingly needs. If we can try and get through to January relatively unscathed, obviously no guarantees with the injury record of Mulgrew and Lenihan then we can try and get this Bauer at a knock down price or look elsewhere for reinforcements.

Two bookings in the Cups equals a ban.

Williams definitely, but I believe the new rule is yellows only count in each competition they are received in, so Lenihan won’t be impacted. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/7002974/yellow-red-cards-count-across-all-competitions-efl-rules/amp/

Jennings only batsman to average 40.

The Observatory has been taken over by mark1875 of this parish, I believe...

Rowett... ‘Blackburn showed a massive amount of fight. I think Blackburn gave us a bit of a lesson late on under pressure when they are throwing bodies around and being aggressive and doing everything they can to stop a goal going in.” You can’t say fairer than that.’ We shouldn’t lose sight of how committed this bunch are, obviously not replicated everywhere.

Couldn’t go as at a wedding. As the speeches started Dack had just hit the post to miss making it 4-0 and I did the socially acceptable thing and put my phone away. About 10 or so minutes later, a fella on a different table goes ‘Stoke missed the pen’, I thought ‘so?, we’re cruising’! Checked at full time to see that would have made it 3-3’!

The Fieldings at Mellor Brook has been taken over by the owners of The Butlers, we went last week and it was very good.