Would you have preferred to come first or second?

We’ve trialled members only before - it means that essentially we have to approve everyone that signs up (which isn’t instant) and we found a lot of people just don’t want to sign up, they want to read only. We lost circa 100 viewers a day and gained about 20 members - who carried on viewing and not posting. The site relies on viewership, not membership - it’s ran for free by volunteers and we don’t ask members to donate. If we lose viewers we would go under in about 4 months. That’s just the reality. As I understand it - off the top of my head, we (BRFCS) don’t own any copyright to our members posts, each poster retains the copyright to their own posts. This is because we can’t accept responsibility for what people post, but we can act on any rule breaks. Essentially, if someone was to say “XXX is a criminal”, we aren’t responsible legally - the poster is. We only are if it’s reported and not acted upon. So theoretically, if you are offended by Jim tweeting your posts - the responsibility is on you to chase him for copyright infringement, not us.

As the son of the author of this post, I’m all for him having a regular BRFCS podcast slot. “The view from the Forest Of Bowland” - I can see the feature now!

I’m very much against making BRFCS members only. It feels a massive waste to stop Rovers fans coming across the forum or restricting access for fans that read but don’t comment, just because a lollipop man from Preston talks badly about it on Twitter.

Well. We didn’t win. You know what that means...

Christmas in Essex for Dacky. Probably deserved it. That’s Christmas off he deserves, not the red.

It goes to matches played against each other, then if they’re drawn too, who scored most goals against the other, then to alphabetical, I believe...

This is not the usual opening post from opposition fans we are used to. What’s the catch?

Their keeper is fantastic!

Dack should be scoring that. You’ve got to wonder how on earth Nyambe and Rothwell aren’t the first names on the sheet. Nyambe especially, so athletic, strong, quick... and a natural right back.

Rothwell is terrifying to defend against. Head down, close control, running directly at defenders. Yes it doesn’t always pay off and he holds onto the ball too long, but it’s such a threat.

This isn’t something we have the infrastructure to set up so not something we can do - sorry!

Can we please start calling Lucash by his proper name?

Will you stop posting these threads which act as statements without any form of discussion please? This isn’t twitter.

There hasn’t been a single report of personal abuse in this thread. I’ve just seen Simons tweet saying he’s leaving the LET, which brought me to this thread - I’m now trailing through it to find any abuse, then get the context, then start issuing any bans. Please can we start reporting things that break forum rules? It’s so much quicker and easier.

I was sent it today - not sure where it’s from, suspect it isn’t true.

This forum can not afford any legal fees. We only just survive as it is (side note, please buy from the terrace store and put our discount code in to keep us alive!). in the meantime, if anyone carries this on past this point in the thread, I have no other option but to hide your posts. If you continue I will have to put bans on accounts.

I believe they’re in a lock up in the Darwen End?

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León, Guanajuato, no less.

Firstly, well done to everyone for discussing something they disagree on without this resulting in chaos! For what it’s worth, I think TM is far too conservative and often seems to play players or use formations which I think worry too much about the opposition rather than concentrating on our own positives. An example of this would be the “two and a half strikers” which he insists on playing no matter who we play, whether it be league or cup. Do I think TM is a coward? Absolutely not, I think he’s a very genuine man, a successful manager and clearly a family man after reading his interviews. I’ve never met him, but I suspect he’s extremely intelligent and full of knowledge. Do I think his approach to football has, at times, been cowardly? Yes, probably. An example of being Charlton away last in L1, when a win would have resulted in us winning the league - TM put out a stinking team and we rolled over. Equally, playing some of the lesser quality teams in this league and worrying in the press about them drives me absolutely insane.

I hate to go all Mercer on you, but I think we will win convincingly tonight. 3-1 or something similar.

Fair play - I’ve asked them to try and understand their audience for years now and they never seem to have made an effort to. I’ve filled in quite a detailed response in trying to improve the experience at Ewood as that’s one thing that can’t be replicated anywhere else. At the moment I believe most people aim to get to the ground 5 minutes before kick off and leave immediately after - Jacks Fanzone needs to sell good drink at local pub prices. The concourse needs to be encouraging support, affordable drink and food, replays of better time, atmosphere pumped into it through the speakers. Nobody gives a damn who has won the bonus ball!!