Took Evans off instead. Half an hour left. One sub left. What odds on Brereton replacing Graham on 70 mins...

Pish. Wallett failed again.

Williams on for Mulgrew.

Nothing on the big screen for Evans. Ref spoke to him and it looked like he had been though.

Norwich are the biggest bunch of moaning wimps to come to Ewood this season.

I thought you’d put the farm on Rovers? No wonder you are always winning if you back both horses.

He’s the new Alan Judge.

We need to aim to win 5-4 today, if we try to park the bus we’ll get Mourinhoed.

Once again, Mowbray says one thing and does... nothing. Smallwood and Evans at the heart of a 6-man defence. Same as it ever was.

You keep saying this. They weren’t Mowbray’s players. They were already established.

Steve Wallett is bringing back ill-feeling when the chances have been there to maintain last season’s feel-good factor and get numbers back through the door. We have been well in games this season and a rousing Ewood crowd could have been the difference in some matches. We used to have “Be the 12th” and “Take back Ewood” along with imaginative offers. Now we have the patronising “Richie Smallwood has committed, have you?”. (I’d love to know what pay-cut he took in order to demonstrate his “commitment” to the club). Players got us relegated and had clauses which reduced their wages and yet prices went up. Players got us promoted and they got a wage rise and prices went up again. If prices are to continue to rise then the quality on the pitch needs to increase as well, not just paying existing L1 players more money. It’s hard not to feel short-changed when fans have to pay more to watch the same L1 team in a division higher. Especially when the “offers” being marketed are no longer really offers but simply normal prices disguised as cheaper than the increased prices. That’s just treating fans with contempt. Plus, take Reed and Dack our of this squad in January - a distinct possibility - and we will struggle. So we have the double-bubble of an uninspiring strategy on the playing front, unhappily married to an unrealistic strategy on the pricing front. If your approach is an uninspiring softly-softly rebuilding approach then you need to have the fans onside to make it work. If the club really do want to make lapsed fans feel “left out” then market the benefit/value perceived or otherwise about being “in the ST club”. Right now I’m not sure what that is apart from not having to pay the really stupid walk-on prices.

We should have kept Lowe. Passing backwards is mandatory!

When did you last hire one, ‘83?

Looks like the wrong sport!

What are you on about with ‘veils’? There’s no veil. I post my opinion. The end. Stop trying to look clever, it doesn’t suit you.

Fully expecting Rovers to take the lead. Danny Graham Scoring “when he wants” rammed down Rhodes throat (again). And Norwich to equalise late on to ruin Christmas. 75% of BRFCS posters to be disappointed - and disagreed with. “It’s a point gained not two lost”; “we’d have taken that before the game”; “get a grip” as we slip into the bottom half “only 8 points off the play-offs” Mowbray to tell fans how disappointed he is - and be agreed with - without a hint of irony.

No, you challenged my motives. Not really the same. If you don’t understand that, no worries.

Exactly Rev. One day we hear tha we need to get to the PL as soon as possible the next we hear how 12th is a good season. When the league is tight a few points here and there can make a difference. Are we throwing money at it (illustrated by BB) or are we ticking along. Building a team capable of competing for promotion, vs being in a position where a couple of astute signings could be the difference between 12th and 6th? There is no benefit to a slow build approach while Venkys are still propping us up with £15m added to our debt each season. It is just going to take longer to be rid of them.

Maybe you two need to get a room!

I’d prefer you to debate the topic rather than aim swipes at me. But I have to confess, I usually read the first few sentences of your posts and then skim read or ignore the rest when it becomes apparent it’s just a dig at me. There’s just no point in getting het up at your posts any more because they are just so predictable. No mention of Dack? Third paragraph in the LT link. “Higher revenue higher spend” - this is in a normal business. At Rovers nothing is “normal business”. If it was we’d have already folded. Do you really think that any of our gate receipts go towards our transfer spend? The strategy behind our ticket pricing absolutely has to be about getting bums on seats because thanks to Venkys this is the only meaningful contribution that our fans can make towards Rovers success. I stand by my post. If you really do have to use the emoji to laugh AT people than with them then that really says more about you than the posts.

He had me at “Mowbray wants to improve on ‘okay’ results in the second half of the season as Rovers reach the halfway point with tomorrow’s home game with Norwich City.” The ambition is palpable. “The plan for this window is to try and see whether we can help the team on the pitch and improve the results from being okay to pretty good,” Mowbray said. Be still my beating heart! In summary: - January not a time to buy (we aren’t thinking about the play-offs) - Name check for ✌?unwelcome✌? West Ham Dack offer (let’s talk up the price) - extra quality might make us better - season target at halfway stage is 12th (wooo) - Onlu Reed has been a Mowbray signing of any use (slight LT dig at Mowbray) - “My thought pattern was always to give everyone an opportunity to see how they could cope with life in the Championship” (this guy should be coaching Under-11s) Thoughts on reading that... If I’m Dack or his agent, this club does not match my ambitions. Mowbray has put all of his faith in Dack being loyal due to the court case. Some vague comments about our business in the Summer may mean he has asked Dack to stick it out until then (in a team going nowhere). We appears to make playing “make do and mend” with an inferior squad to stretch our budget further. If that’s the case, why the hell are we spending big bucks on Brereton? (A Balaji/syndicate signing?) With prices being what they are, and having a manager with no ambition and/or no money for new players (and TM is putting on a brave face) we aren’t going to see an upturn in ST sales or attendance. No wonder the club is going down the guilt trip route - as though lapsed fans owe the club. On the contrary, this club owes the faithful fans something - other than a price increase. The best ticket offer for Rovers fans this season has been made by Newcastle! This window is going to be all about Dack. With him staying being “like a new signing”.

I don’t think there is a huge problem with screening away games tbh. That’s probably a selfish view but the away match is ALL about the experience, it’s a day out. Home games are a different story. Although every home game is someone else’s away so...

Waggott is way ahead of you @Mattyblue

It’s ok, Matt. They don’t represent fans.

Waggott has missed a trick twice now (at least twice). Not getting keenly-priced (or even loyalty rewarded) STs on sale for the Oxford game and now not putting a £10 game on the day after mad-Friday when everyone has spent up or putting a deal on half-STs attached to the ticket price for Saturday. Crap pricing strategy; crowds remain static or below forecast; blame fans and question their commitment; FF members nod sagely.