I still think it’s a PL player mentality. As soon as a club brings in big money I AMS it’s much more difficult to deal with them. Lower down the arrogant, bully manager will get results. Just look at Paul Ince at Macclesfield and MK.

There are a few with worse records, including Billy Davies and Paul Jewell but also, more notably, Mick McCarthy with 2 wins in 37 for Sunderland. Davies had just got Derby promoted as well before his 1-win-in-14 record got him the bullet. Maybe Lambert just isn’t a PL manager. No shame in that, a lot aren’t.

I think there’s something very rotten at Stoke just now. Needs a clean slate. Very much sum up the PL for me. Massively over-paid, ridiculously expensive mediocre players, with agents laughing their socks off. The sooner the money balloon bursts the better.

How many of the current players are Lambert’s? (I don’t know by the way, genuine question).

Surely in Venkys world of false economies, it was all about his wage? “He wants nearly as much as Allardyce! This Coyle fella will work for a third of that - and he seems like a nice man.” Nutters. If Cheston has any dignity and ability he’d have walked after being over-ruled - allegedly.

Have you been on the bank holiday vino or our in the sun too long? I can’t make head nor tail of that post. But no, I wasn’t “one of those praising Robinson yesterday” whatever that even means.

Bolton got the massive stroke of luck that deserted us in similar circumstances last season. Don't feel at all pleased for them. One think that does seem to have passed us all by us that Wimbledon are now a division higher than MK Dons. Karma biting them on the backside.

Exactly what Andrew Evans would say... ?

Congratulations, your secret’s safe with me! ? And about 100 or so BRFCSers!! ? All jokes aside, I’m pleased for you pal.

Precisely. I think Chaddy has got carried away with his own fandom on this occasion. He has explained in the past that he has missed games when his wife was unwell. Quite right too.

You sure about that? I don’t get notifications when people on my ignore list quote me. I have to peek.

It really really doesn’t. The total revenue could be balanced out though. As several posters have intimated, double the fans at half the price would be the same cash in the door but the extra footfall would help on the pitch as well as sell more match day sundries. We will be reaching the limits of some fans’ budgets and certainly will next season if the trend continues. We just have to hope the club have got this right. Personally I think they’ve just put an unnecessary cap on attendances and exploited loyal fans whilst chasing the floaters by marketing the team as being better. In reality the team is the worst we’ve had for nearly 30 years. Even last season’s was better but we had that plant pot Coyle directing them. Even the most ardent of supporters thinks we need 7/8 new players.

This is actually a big part of the experience. Hope you enjoy the game today gb!

Sorry. No negativity today please. The sun is shining, there’s a full afternoon for certain folk attracted by cheap tickets to get ranked up, and a dead rubber draw to achieve. (Only kidding Joe, go back to your Guardian) (As in newspaper, not carer )

Indeed. But everyone has their limit. Waggot is gambling on the good times continuing.

Thanks for supporting the club, without hesitation, post-relegation last year Matty. Your unflinching loyalty and support was one of the key factors that promotion was built on. The club, manager and players have been saying so all season. Now pay up.

Some good points. I think if the DE had been full to bursting with home fans every week with then they wouldn’t have closed it. It should also be noted though that this has been our lowest ST / attended season for many years, not just the DE but all over the ground. The club could still have capitalised on the (few) revenue opportunities by moving the DE for three or four games like they always used to so that shouldn’t be cited as a reason. Giving 18 or 19 opportunities to move back there is counter-intuitive and creates more admin and likely less demand. Losing an unreserved seating area is a backward step but if they don’t want to keep the DE going then they are going to have to upset even more fans to do it. In a season of “customer service” awards galore for the club they have dealt with this badly.

I fear that we haven’t seen the last of Gladwin. He needs to go the same way as Sam Hart.

?? The worst thing is, for most fans there has been zero advantage of the 1875 club membership. Not even free entry to Blues. It was like buying yourself a gift voucher for the club shop.

Indeed. Although the family stand moving from the BBE upper to JWL has definitely been a success overall, there will be people who were moved against their will that will disagree.

That doesn’t help your case. You need to see it from @roversfan99 perspective. He is being impacted by this change so he will be upset. You are not so you won’t be. It was the same with @gumboots when they kicked her out of the JW Lower to make way for the family stand. Over all a massive success but it negatively affected her.

One thing I would add - again from the club’s perspective - if the rest of the ground was sold out then they could restrict away fans to the upper tier and give home fans the lower. But it would need home areas to sell out first. Singing aside, the current spilt does mean lots of empty seats gaps in all stands, which does ipact the atmosphere. However, I can well imagine that it will look very empty behind the goal for certain games.

It told me we are expensive. Even London prices are cheaper! We certainly can’t expect gates like tomorrow for next season. Not for £15 per game if you buy a 23-game offer early, and the wrong side of £30 walk-on for the more attractive matches. It comes down to the old chestnut of, for example, £349 x 10,000 plus £75 x 2,000 (£3.6m) v 14,000 x £299 plus £75 x 3,000 (£4.4m) and finding the most likely number between those two estimates. But using those those numbers, we’d lose £800k but gain an extra 5,000 every home game. A loss already made up in ground purchases, surely. Waggot must think that he can entice those same fans at the higher price and feels little need to reward loyalty. We are only customers after all. Whilst the football has been more enjoyable this season, with the players happier, and the social media more quirky I don’t feel that much has changed between the club hierarchy and the fans.

I can see your point of view yes. You’ve had something you enjoyed taken away from you. The thing is, you have no ‘rights’ with regards seating. And you definitely have no ‘right’ to stand in an all-seater stadium. The club can put fans where they want, it does work like that. That’s not a pop, those are just the facts. Apart from being kept reasonably safe, your only ‘right’ is the right to not attend. I don’t think that the idea of merging the singing fans is a fanciful one, it just seems that there is a reticence from some fans to join together at all - possibly from the anti-Venkys protest days. Where I do sympathise is in that the club have withdrawn the unreserved seating arrangements. Although I expect most people will have a ‘usual’ or ‘preferred’ seat, it does give flexibility to bring friend with you on a walk-in basis that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to do. In that regard it’s a retrograde step. The club should have tried to find a way to keep an unreserved seating area at the rear of the Blackburn end. The really disappointing thing though is the apparent lack of consultation. It would be interesting to get a FF view - if they are still invited to meetings.

Like I said, it’s a shame. I can see why they would make the DE away fans. I see positives from all the singers together. The way this becomes a winner is if the back 8 rows of the BBE lower becomes bundesliga-style safe standing. Sadly we are a long long way from that because of the political implications (due to misconception and lack of imagination). I would love to see Rovers leading the way to pilot / trial such a system.