Disgusted that Rovers have furloughed staff. All of Venkys cash and we as tax payers are paying instead of them.

If the season isn’t finished or is cancelled then there can be no champions, promotions or relegations. Very simple for me.

The one bonus of him having a socialite girlfriend. She wouldn’t put up with a Flabby Dack!

I tend to go off his actions. I’ve yet to be impressed.

I agree. By recompense I don’t necessarily mean getting my money back. If not refunding ST holders means we get to keep the club in business then I’ve no issue with that (even though Venkys could easy foot the difference). If people have already paid for a ST then streaming home games free to them via iFollow would be acknowledgement enough. (Away games would be a Brucey bonus but I wouldn’t expect it). One of the unintended consequences that will be interesting to keep an eye on would be whether 46-game UK iFollow subscriptions might be available in future - which would include 3pm ko times. The money they could have made from such a scheme might have saved football from its current perils. I’d like to see an imaginative/aggressive post-COVID-19 match pricing strategy, for example: * iFollow-only 46-game deal - £299 (or 20 games of your choice for £149 plus PPV option) * 23-game Home ST and 23-game Away iFollow inclusive (plus optional 6 home games of your choice but ST not valid for those games) - from £349 (£299 R/S) (ST details required to log in) * 23-game home game ST only £249 (£199 R/S) + iFollow Away PPV All cup games would be PPV options with match discounts for full package holders. Personally I’d still go to home games and take up the iFollow. I don’t/won’t attend away games but would watch them on TV. (For iFollow, you could substitute ‘Rovers TV’ if they were prepared to make it a media enterprise on its own). In reality, 12 months on from now we will be back to the usual routine with the same lack of options. In fact, prices will likely rocket due to COVID-19 losses. “We’ve done all we can”.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2020/april/efl-statement-coronavirus-update2/ Looks like player testing will take place but only after NHS staff so could be a while. Supporters mentioned in passing and a hint that games will be closed doors but with TV coverage although “there are a range of opinions” still. I wonder if the insistence on getting the season finished would have been there if City were top and not Liverpool. With time ticking on and precedent being set in Holland, I’m leaning towards a complete scrap at this point. If it does go ahead then I think that there needs to be a recognition of fans (and the lockdown) for televised games). PPV could encourage people mixing in groups - which is maybe why the water was being tested yesterday about “extended household” or “bubbles”. There should be some free to air games to encourage more to stay in their own home. I also think there needs to be some acknowledgement and recompense for paid up ST holders.

https://the72.co.uk/159547/how-championship-table-would-look-if-12-match-ppg-total-decided-2019-20-campaign/ Rovers 8th if a ppg calculation ended the season. PNE 6th. I don’t see how we can ever have football (or any public gatherings) for the foreseeable. No acquired immunity, so even if you catch it and recover you can catch it again so testing is pointless. Asymptomatic contagion means anyone can carry it. There is no vaccine for at least 12 months and to vaccinate everyone in the country (67m people) at a rate of, say, 100,000 per day would take just shy of 2 years. A second peak seems inevitable - while a further lockdown will destroy the economy. Thoroughly depressing.

I guess it depends on how the rules are enforced. For your plan A the rule would have to be a ban on gatherings over a certain number but which doesn’t require people to be 2 metres apart. Still seems unlikely. But personally I would feel safer in an open air stadium than in an enclosed pub. Maybe the short term need for pubs then is beer gardens with big screens...

Doesn’t make sense. If the pubs are allowing crowds then so will the stadium. Unless you have no intention of going to Ewood anyway. In which case, fair enough.

If stadiums remained closed due to social distancing why would people be allowed to mingle in pubs? All EFL clubs have iFollow accounts and there are cameras at every match. They just need to provide free log in details to people who have already paid for tickets and charge for those who haven’t. The bigger worry (smaller than the risk to life) is that many clubs won’t survive this.

I’m really struggling with the idea that in order to live we have to avoid living. It can’t go on indefinitely. Diseases and infections have been the enemy of humankind since our species began. We need to protect the vulnerable but we need to get back to life. At some point. Soon. There will be a lot more pain and suffering in a huge economic crash. It’s already going to be bad enough. Yes, football as a spectator sport is luxury but without spectators it is utterly meaningless.

Maybe the admin is stalking you! Which site is that, btw? I’m on several of those but haven’t seen that pic.

All this was a novelty a couple of weeks ago. Week 4 is going to be a toughie.

Now that is web analytics - as well as a thousand other companies tracking you after you click “Accept Cookies”. (Something very Hansel and Gretel about that phrase...)

I’m sure it will still benefit the top flight. Leeds will almost certainly be beneficiaries, despite their tendency to balls up a league lead. West Brom look set. So if a couple of current PL clubs go into administration they will lose a few points and potentially be relegated. If a couple of sides do go pop - which I still feel is unlikely - they’ll just cancel relegation and rumble on. In fact, this could be the time for an 18 club top division, something mooted in the past. Sky will look after the teams they want to see in a “populous-rich PL” and the rest will be left to quietly rot. Meanwhile behind closed doors games will be devastating for lower league teams - as Tyrone points out.

I don’t know why but I think it’s more likely smaller clubs or non-PL debt ridden clubs will suffer most. They’ll probably stop the solidarity payments first as they tighten their belts.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we end up forming our some daft fee for him on a permanent. Although that sounds like we’ve enquires about a further loan.

It does make one feel that it is deliberate. Nobody will keep doing the ‘wrong thing’ indefinitely. Keep crowds low, keep expectations low, blame lack of supporter commitment, self-fulfilling “justification” of increasing prices, keep milking the faithful, keep taking a salary: “We’ve done everything we can”. ??‍♂️

Update on our friend... Great news, folks. Thanks for all of your well-wishes - all of which were passed on to Paul (and his very worried mum).

During the height of the anti-Venkys feeling and ‘us and them’ beteeen fans and club (around the time of Kean/Shebby/Aggers/Shelvey) it was widely believed that the LT sent in its stories to ‘the club’ for... let’s say.. comment (rather than approval). In one article the editor, seemingly, hadn’t spotted that ‘someone’ had scribed “please take out” - presumably next to a line that ‘the club’ wanted removing fro the article. Infamously, and to my recollection, the line “please take out” made it to print! (Or maybe it was leaked - I can’t remember 100%).

Ha! I didn’t even think of that. Mirrors perfectly.

Looks as though the LT has taken the decision to set up a paywall for online access, moving away from the ad-driven model. Such a poor quality rag, it will have to seriously up its game in terms of, y’know, actual news if it wants to stay in business. Maybe replace ‘reporters’ with proper journalists, who knows... First they took the journalism out of the newspaper, then the newspaper out of the town, now they are taking the entire brand. I won’t by that Newsquest Manc rubbish in print, I certainly won’t be paying for it as pixels - especially in the era of the great GDPR con. Blackburn’s “news” managed from Bolton! RIP Lancashire (Evening) Telegraph. Keeping Blackburn folk in the dark since May 2000 and now locked out. P.S. Did you spot it? Your £5 per month will get you “advert light” content. Not ad-free, ad-light!!

Get well soon Kenny

That’s not a dreadful idea but would other Summer sports suffer? E.g. Cricket.