This is the real issue. “Equality” in general is very much linked to financial or personal gain.

Covering injuries is a recurring theme with Mowbray’s few player-positional successes. I guess necessity is the mother of reinvention.

24 is a mere child by Mowbray’s measure!

You don’t have to lie necessarily. You just have to offer justification so as to agree with the manager.

Very well put. Increasing our crowds is hard work but it must be done. Asking the hardcore to dig deeper and deeper each year will result in a lot more dropping out. Particularly as Mowbray’s 2019 brand is so much less exciting than his 2009 one was.

You honestly have no imagination so I’m not surprised that these ideas go over your head. In one breath you good idea and in the next undermine all of them with some safe option. I thought after your lengthy ban you had woken up a bit but you are a slipping back into your old habits. Where have I blamed fans? The blame for our loss of fanbase lies squarely with our owners and those whom they have listened to - and now employ. Waggott is paid big money to understand his stakeholder needs and wants, and to incorporate this into a successful business strategy, not just keep squeezing while ignoring us. You need to read back the last sentence I’ve quoted above and have a little think.

Don’t think me and Steve would hit it off somehow! Feel free to steal it and send it on by all means. I’m sure people at the club monitor these pages anyway. 100%. You have to blame the parents ultimately.

Bringing ‘em up right!

This is a great idea but which of the stands do you displace? It would be best suited to the BBE but I would love to see safe-standing be a central part of a redeveloped Riverside. Generate an away atmosphere in the home end. Away fans generally stand and sing and create the best atmospheres. Bottling that an importing it to Ewood needs to be the aim. I just don’t think that our administration has the imagination, ambition or appetite to attempt it. It can be done - as it is in Germany - and someone has to be first. We have a stand in need of redevelopment and a demand for it. It should even be possible to include similar facilities for away fans. In the DE side of the Riverside and look to offer the DE to Rovers fans when there is a small away following like yesterday. Eg.

He’s still better than Armstrong. I’d argue Armstrong should be a better impact sub.

It’s been said a lot but the Walker children couldn’t have sold the club at a worse time. Venkys have been an unmitigated disaster.

Our squad is not paid by ticket sales, it’s paid for by our jailers. Nice to see you blaming Rovers fans though. You’ll get on well with Waggott. The fact is that we have thousands of empty seats. If you are happy with that because it makes you feel like a ’good fan’ who can call out ‘bad fans’ who look for excuses not to go (which I nonsense by the way) then fair enough. Personally I think that large crowds are good for success on the pitch - even if a club doesn’t have the best players in the division. It might also be good for attracting new owners. The trouble is, as we’ve found over the last 10 years, some very mediocre individuals indeed have done very well out of keeping Venkys just where they are. The status quo works well for them - as long as they can keep making excuses. Like blaming fans...

But as we remarked at the game yesterday, who would he be crossing to? Armstrong? Without Graham we are bereft of a target man. Gallagher is relatively tall but needs a lot of work - and would need to be played where Mowbray doesn’t want to play him.

Which is what I’m saying. 16,000 ST sales should not be beyond us. But they are with Waggott’s current strategy.

I don’t think 18,000 is pushing it but it will take more imagination than freezing earlier price rises. We aren’t going to compete with City, or Liverpool, or United for quality and level of competition but we should be able win hearts and minds in terms of what it means to support your home town club and have the club mean something to the town (ideally without a disaster). How often do we hear stories of how people came to a game and were hooked - by the atmosphere, excitement on the pitch or even a particular player - but we have to get them into the ground first. Our most exciting player currently doesn’t get on the pitch until the last half hour. I’m sure many of us have had the dreaded conversation with our young children about why they can’t support United or Liverpool, and calmly and sincerely explaining about how you don’t pick your team, it picks you. “You are from Blackburn which makes you a Rovers fan” (although birth certificates are probably being misplaced at the minute). Those conversations for 1st gen fans to 2nd gen fans will continue to be a long way off unless we get people down to Ewood in the first place.

Club. It comes before players, managers and chief execs.

Now that Evans and Smallwood don’t play, we look competitive in the Championship and have far more say in the midfield battle. Took Mowbray far too long to work that one out - loyal to a fault and to Rovers detriment. Armstrong has been poor for weeks but apparently runs around a lot while Rothwell is benched despite performing. I’m more and more convince that Uncle Tony likes to keep outspoken players in their place. Dropped Travis yesterday for reasons unknown and we were very lucky to be ahead until Rothwell came on. There was a rumour that surfaced after the last game the their were words exchanged and half time (confirmed by Dack) but that the players decided how we played in the second half. That undermines the manager - did we see a reaction to that yesterday? As long as we keep getting three points, performances like yesterday will be ‘acceptable’. But heaven help we don’t have an injury to Williams now because our unbalanced team is relying on a defence short of depth. Mowbray still isn’t the man in my view.

Maybe some clubs don’t use sentiment as a justification for playing certain players? Very difficult situation at Bolton now. Maybe they need to accept relegation with a bit of dignity and reward some players for keeping the club from folding last month but I expect Hill will want to try to stay up. Football is a ruthless business - except at Rovers.

Waggott is to blame for our low attendances. Failed to capitalise on a huge feelgood factor - potentially even a turning point - and instead turned fans off. Never rewards loyalty and doesn’t do enough to attract new fans. He will say he does (like sending a delegation to the Eid in the Park event) but as long as he thinks he has the right pricing structure, it’ll be the long-standing fans who, quite literally, pay for his failures. I also think that the football offered by Mowbray isn’t inspiring and every game we are questioning the logic of his line-ups, game plan, and substitutions. Such is the mediocrity of the football that even winning doesn’t feel like it will bring in the 18,000 crowds that we should be able to expect. Not unless it ends in promotion...

Didn’t play well today but scored 2, clean sheet and 3 points is what successful teams do so I’ll take that.

We changed to four at the back amd looked like a football team when Rothwell came on. Worked a treat.

Unbelievable pace but he should have finished there. He has contributed more in 10 minutes that Arma has all match so I’ll let him off.

Rothwell has changed the game. Again.

Get Armstrong off!