Mattyblue

We’ve been in this league for donkeys years and still a load of posters on here don’t recognise what a Championship player actually looks like - and TD is and will be one, regardless of how inconsistent and frustrating he can be.

Qualification games provide all the low risk matches England need, then a few warm ups before the tournament to top it up.

Hmmm, appeasement was nothing to be proud of, but ‘allies’ is a pushing it just a tad.

I don’t know a single person that has an issue with Germany or Germans. And when you go there they love speaking to Brits. Culturally very similar people. Long standing allies pre and post a couple of rather unfortunate incidents in the first half of the 20th century.

How about they just get rid of it and don’t replace with friendlies either? Ideal all round for the 99% of football fans who don’t give a toss about international football outside tournaments.

You love the Nations League, roverandout? If it was scrapped tomorrow nobody would even remember it existed in a decade’s time.

How about not replacing friendlies with anything and just play less internationals? Lets be frank all that matters in international football are the tournaments. The fact San Marino now get to play Andorra on a regular basis is neither here nor there, they could set up their own annual ‘Minnows Cup’ or something instead. We then don’t need to stop the season three times between September and November to play irrelevant games that I’d wager most fans, managers and players don’t give a monkeys about (of course they won’t just have the summer tournaments and their qualifiers, as, you know, UEFA want the cash).

He’ll be in the Championship next season one way or another.

‘Err think you’ll find he still lives in west London and his son goes to school here.’

‘Well, err, I didn’t want it anyway’.

So pretty much like every season then?

A good writer, compare and contrast to the lad in situ.

That’s the 22/23 figure, not 23/24.

I don’t think they are, not possible if U12s have gone up 40%, but the total figure remained the same.

As ST sales have been poor since Covid, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out adult sales have been poor since Covid. But they are obviously now poorer than ever, Why? Because under 12s were up 40% but the overall figure stayed stagnant, ergo adult sales have gone down, significantly. It’s piss poor, you know that’s the case as you are always banging on about the club needing ‘better commercial and marketing’, about not increasing prices mid summer etc.

I’ll answer, even though you only ever seem to ask ‘99 questions. You *don’t* think just four thousand adult ST holders is a bad return for Blackburn Rovers?

No as they have never previously split up the sales figures by price category in the FF meetings… question being, so why this time? I’d say it’s because next summer they can say ‘look we tried reducing adult prices [by twenty quid BTW], and we only sold 4,000, so we have to now increase pricing in the current climate.’ A stance that, of course, will be warmly supported by the clapping seals on social media.

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End of the day he’s a middling Championship player playing for a middling Championship club. Just like Hedges, just like Hyam, just like Travis and so on and so on. Next season one way or another he’ll still be a middling Championship player at a middling Championship club.

But nine games is The Big Picture!

Yet it is all still there, dormant, but there. I bet if you had asked around in the away end at Deepdale the other week what folks’ postcodes are I imagine you’d have heard a majority (or damn close to it) of them not being a Blackburn (or indeed a Darwen) one. Yet the club does nothing, nothing, to harness that.

Tim Sherwood was a cracking centre half, to be fair.

How’s that worked out?

Irony lost on the Chadster as always 😅

We won’t be looking for a new manager this season regardless of if he ends up looking good, bad or indifferent.