It’s not about the stands though really, it’s the clientele who use each. On a cup match when ticket prices are flatlined there can be a very different atmosphere in the JW with the peasants (like me) choosing to upgrade the view. I agree with your last sentence though. At least the JW upper would live up to its billing. Imagine going into the BBE and trying to convince someone how lively it is! Here’s hoping for a bad referee and some poor behaviour from opposition players to liven things up!

Everyone should experience the Riverside! Seriously though, 40th birthday present? Splash out and get JW upper tickets as centrally as possible. Your fiancée will definitely appreciate it more than the BBE. Unless she uses the C word a lot and “hates Burnley” with a passion.

Underrated comment. You must be a dad!

Fair enough. IMHO, at £10 PNE would definitely sell out ANY allocation. With large numbers of away fans, home fans would respond. It would easily be our biggest gate of the season.

What’s an “alma mata”? Is that a song from the Lion King?

Sarcasm? Anywho... 22,000. That would be a fantastic total for a January fixture, and our highest Championship gate since Boro (Christmas 2014). A £10 PNE ticket would I suspect bring about a similar gate to the Oxford game. (27k) Conversely, if it did nothing for the gate then it would prove Waggott right and we could have no further complaint about £40 tickets. (Although we all know that the sole purpose of that was/is to sell bundles/STs).

He should make the PNE game £10 a ticket and put the debate to bed once and for all...

Because it was meant to be down to Mowbray’s genius. And enough with the “we scored and we won” so nothing else matters line. If you’d seen me in the 91st minute you would be under no confusion about how much I enjoyed the goals and result. P.S. Nando’s is where KFC customers go when they feel like going gourmet.

That can’t be serious!! ?

Appleton was caught in the boardroom crossfire in my view. The fact we employed him and he had never met Singh confirms it really. What a set up that was. Thank goodness the manager now gets to recommend the chief exec and not the other way around!

Don’t worry, with Mowbray’s football and Waggott’s initiatives we’ve got things in hand. Seriously though, the nobbers in the PL would be unbearable. Meanwhile we plod along, hoping to stay in the division.

Waggott’s incentives have been poor almost 100% of the time. The only success? £10 tickets against Oxford.

Ah, I’ve missed this. You foaming at the mouth so much that you are incoherent. Only took one win for you to get back to doing what you do best. Nice to see you making friends with roverfan99 though. Mowbray out!

You see what you want to see. Yes, winning absolutely matters. Which is why having Mowbray as manager is such a bad idea. He wanted a draw!!

It mattered absolutely. At 0-0 Mowbray was aiming for a 0-0. That isn’t good enough. It really is that simple.

Without the ball we went to a kind of four with Bennett dropping in. With the ball we went to three with Downing and Bennett higher up the pitch. When Holtby went off Downing went into the centre. It’s no wonder we have no consistency. Too many clever complicated permutations.

Going to a back four at 0-0 to make us more attacking. Not sure how that works. Not sure either what you base your evidence of Mowbray doing something like that. I genuinely think that if he had lost yesterday then there would have been consequences. #bottlegate That moment (bringing Buckley on) that you see as so positive and successful needs to be a turning point in Mowbray’s approach. Because in my view it won’t and in fact may well have just relegated us due to the extension of goodwill towards him and the additional games he will now get. Starting with a freebie next Saturday and then a home game against Barnsley. Let’s hope you are right and I’m wrong. If Mowbray could hark back to his West Brom days for a bit of inspiration then it could be just the tonic.

Expectations are different though. He could be at Preston a lot longer. Howe, Dyche and Ainsworth are the currently longest serving managers in football. They are delivering but at clubs with low expectations.

It’s quite simple. Mowbray blames the players so they do too. As soon as he is gone those same folk currently saying “where are the doubters now” will say “his time was up”.

Yeah, Evans on Downing to full back is a possibility. So you agree he was looking to protect that the 0-0. We got there in the end.

One thing we can all agree on I’m sure. The celebrations when Buckley scored were something else!! Best moment in years - we really have had it bad!

This is the Better Than Kean principle.

The only reason it matters is because that result might be what keeps Mowbray here through the January window. He definitely looked under pressure from his reaction to their goal. At first I thought a fan has thrown something in the pitch. I expect he’ll get a fine for that. Would he have walked after a 1-0 home defeat in that fashion? We’ll never know.