End of the day it’s a second division game, on Sky at Sunday dinner priced at £25-£30, it’s not a game that’s suddenly going to attract hordes of Rovers-adjacent folk who haven’t been in years (so no purchase record) - a promotion party game a la Oxford or a cup tie against a Liverpool maybe a different issue.

A lot of fans across the EFL might not twig this summer, but certainly after a season of the majority of their Saturday games being on TV, as well as all midweeks, quite a few may knock their STs on the head the summer after.

TM pretty much ran the place, so Academy boss too, obviously.

He was excellent at Anfield yesterday, the lad is well at home already just out of his teens - but all that matters to us is 1) was it a good price? 2) Will any of the amount we did actually get be spent on the side?

And we all know the answer to both.

£18million is pocket change for PL clubs, they had our pants down, and why wouldn’t they, it’s what you do with distressed sellers.

The ITV show started off like they gave a shit, not as good as the Colin Murray show, largely because you could tell he actually cared about the football pyramid unlike the fella from talksport they now use.

However, now they don’t even bother with guests or a studio… presumably because they are soon out of contract with the EFL and won’t be renewing it - BBQ! (Bring Back Quest)

Imagine a tad frustrating for you guys, it’s even in the tag line ‘takeover’, obviously that means different folk/fans must have been involved than the usual club operation.

Get all that Mike, but reading the EFL press release that reads as if it was a pure club initiative (which to be fair isn’t the club’s fault), when in reality if left to the club there would’ve been no initiative at all.

Glory hunters are obviously an issue here too, but the core support for local clubs is still strong.

A decent sized town in England with a league club will be well supported - the same sized town in Scotland generally won’t be as they can’t get a look in over the Old Firm, with obvious detriment to the game up there.

‘Blackburn Rovers targeted a takeover’… If only.

Bit of an overreaction from ARA there. 😅 Of course that wasn’t aimed at exiled fans that obviously keep connected/keep supporting their motherland team.

It was aimed at the towns of Scotland that empty with folk off to Glasgow every weekend as their home town clubs’ grounds (in decent sized towns) rattle around with one man and his dog in them).

Plenty of top players moved to Rangers in the 90s and early 00s when they were chucking money about.

Of course some of these die hards (specifically the Scottish based ones) could try supporting their local teams and maybe Scottish football wouldn’t be so skewed…

It’s the Championship for you, inconsistent players, that’s why they are down here.

Look at Sunderland, we spanked them at their place last week, they won at a top 6 side yesterday.

We’ve not had that kind of turn out ever since 2012 (Oxford aside) so obviously it won’t be happening on Sunday.

True Chadster, Palace had some cash, we’ve bills to pay as our owners aren’t paying them, so off he goes to the first bidder.

30k?! So the highest crowd in about 10/15 years?

Wouldn’t have been anywhere close even at 3pm considering £25-£30 tickets. The only chance go get anything like a c24k gate would’ve been tenner tickets.

Obviously no sympathy but the refs adding time for such things didn’t last long, as expected.

Waiting for what league we’ll be in? So why didn’t he sign before Christmas when we were nowhere near relegation then?

End of the day the majority of match goers at a club like Rovers would much prefer to see Eustace or Mogga football than what they deemed JDT’s to be - i’e “pissing about wi’ it”.

People on here might not get it, but that’s been my observation.

Makes a change for us to use the dark arts like everybody else does… more please!

Find some bowlers that can consistently bowl fast, that will help us to win in Australia… but yeah use their ball for a bit, that’ll do.

He’s a handy player at this level… and now the next one to leave for a pittance.

Why do people always do this on a win thread? This board’s been great fun, some good debate and discussion since FT yet some folk always have to try and derail it by pretending that brfcs is still ‘whinging’, being ‘negative’.

Weird.

It’s been boom time for attendances across the game (apart from here), so it will be interesting to see in a year’s time if the constant pissing about with KOs, the majority of your home games on TV impacts ST sales. 

You see it with the red button games, loads of ST holders at clubs sweve them, but they still buy a ST as generally there are still plenty of non-Sky 3pm KOs to go to, that won’t be the case going forward and it will give them a decision to make.