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Our wage to turnover rate is 200%. Sadly, something has to give. Breaking our wage structure for several players is a massive risk. Let’s hope we can keep the run going and the players choose to stick around on terms we can afford.

Who cares what he says in a post match interview? Of course he’s not going to say that we should get carried away. It’s completely irrelevant. Phenomenal run of form. We will have a blip at some point so let’s enjoy it while it lasts. Hope COVID doesn’t disrupt things further.

I’d argue that TM’s transfers have been one of his stronger points, particularly now Brereton has come good. Every manager gets a few wrong but TM’s hit rate isn’t that bad. How he uses them is a completely different matter. Last season was a disaster because we’d had a really strong couple of transfer windows and he wasted it.

If we break the wage structure for one we’d have to break it for all. That is the problem. Brereton, Nyambe and Lenihan would all demand the same.

It’s games like these where we see the scale of the situation. No ticket deals, not a local derby. Just a mediocre game with averagely priced tickets. You’d hope that being in great form will entice a few but it will be nowhere near the PNE gate (regarding home attendance).

The summer was where the damage was done, not helped by the apathy following last season. I’m not convinced that reduced match day ticket prices would do too much based on games like this weekend. Tickets are £25 and we’re a top 4 side right now yet as it stands we’ll do well to get over 10k home fans on.

To help the club financially survive? I hope we don’t sell and on current form it would need to take a crazy offer. But if a crazy offer was to be made then the club would need to seriously consider it. It’s the only way we can operate sustainably.

Then be angry at the entire football league. You can’t simply blame Rovers for charging over £20 when it’s the norm at virtually every club in the EFL never mind the championship. I find it sad that some fans still choose to boycott. It’s their right to do so but imo, support shouldn’t be conditional on who the manager is or the owners are.

It depends on the deal. If clubs are throwing £25m+ at us then we’re not in a position to turn that down regardless of our ambitions.

What is going on. Crazy. Phenomenal result.

I think we have to come to terms with the reality that Brereton will likely be gone in Jan, although I can’t see why we’d accept an offer now when it seems inevitable that there will be a number of bidders when the window opens. If we get offered £25m plus then I can’t see us turning that down. Buying low and selling high is the only sustainable way this club can operate and it’s unlikely we’d see that money in the summer unless we secure promotion which is still a long shot (even if we make the play offs). We survived Armstrong’s departure and Brereton has only sparked into life in the last few months. Every player has a price tag etc. Who we get in to replace him will obviously be critical. I don’t think it’ll torpedo our promotion chances provided that we recruit well and strengthen across the board.

I can fully believe that we would accept £20m and it may be advantageous to at least get it sorted with enough time to find a decent replacement. I think we’ve got a lot of this sort of speculation to come so I’m reserving judgement until we hear that a deal is done.

If the money is right, he goes. I don’t know why we would agree a deal before the window opens though so not buying the Brighton link just yet. If he keeps scoring, there will surely be other clubs interested in Jan.

Extra office space, retail and hospitality? We barely use the available hospitality space in the stadium as it is. The Darwen End hospitality area has been empty on match days for years. A hotel is the only idea I’ve heard about but until we’re back in the pl, we can’t justify a new riverside.

It’s incredible to think that he has a more all round game than Armstrong and is arguably a better player on current form. The massive plus with Brereton is that he’s shown he can cut it at a higher level whilst under pressure (international football). How many Championship strikers are scoring regularly for a decent international team? That may convince a PL club to go in for him in Jan but it would take silly money to get him as it stands.

Need to keep our feet on the ground with this one. A defeat wouldn’t be the end of the world provided that we’re competitive. That said, any positive result would be brilliant. A win and expectations might start to get seriously dizzy.

We’d want big money for him in Jan given the contract extension option and our season so far. Given his international exploits and cult following in Chile, I can’t see him going for less than £25m. In the summer it will be different as the situation will be akin to Armstrong and we’d be more willing to accept a lower offer to avoid losing him for nothing.

Of course it’s relative as to what people consider to be expensive. I’m not suggesting £30 is cheap and I agree that it’s too much for a second tier football match. However, £30 is roughly the going rate these days so I don’t consider it to be an outrage. £25 for the weekend would have been about right but I’m still not sure we would have seen a significantly bigger crowd with that.

The mistake was made in the summer with ST prices. The club are now locked in to ensuring the ST remains value for money and they can’t therefore discount match day tickets each week. I’m pleased that the club have at least done something with midweek pricing and the Sheff Utd game discounts but that can only go so far. I feel that the reaction to the Preston pricing was a bit much. £30 is about the going rate for a Champ game these days. Bournemouth is the same next weekend. I don’t agree with it and wish we could be more creative and ambitious with our ticketing but at the same time, I don’t think £30 is scandalous.

Statements in the media have no relevance at all. You’d rather have a manager who got worse results but delivered more interesting comments in the press??

One of the daftest posts I’ve seen in a while.

Based on what? We didn’t often get 25k crowds in the PL. The prices were £15 for Sheffield United and we got maybe 13k home fans on. Let’s not pretend that there are c10-15k out there who would be attending if not for the ticket prices. Tickets for today are more expensive than they should be and the club need to be far more creative/brave with ticketing in the future, but until we get back to the PL, we’re not seeing regular 20k crowds at Ewood regardless of price.

Sheff United ticket prices were £15 so It’s understandable why it wasn’t cost effective to open the upper tier. Rolling out the red carpet? I thought we were charging them ridiculous prices?

I think it says something that he has yet to score for the club. You don’t expect a full back to be prolific but over the course of 3/4 seasons you’d think that he’d have at least got a couple. Pickering is a good example already.

But there is no guarantee that we’d sell more to bring in the same cash. The Sheffield United game had maybe 2/3k more home fans on and tickets were down to £15. The weekday fixtures are at £20 and we’re getting sub 10k attendances. I’m not defending the current price structure and I wish they had reduced ticket prices this season but I don’t think it’s as simple as some fans make out. Clearly stock levels have been impacted by wider retail delays and the apparent high demand for the shirts.