Yes, prices were so cheap then so many didn't think a season ticket was worth the bother. Everybody just walked up and paid on the day.

Its the same with playing MacGloire at right-back. If we can see it why can't the "experts" see it? They do it for a living after all.

Postal applications---people who never set foot in Ewood had same chance of obtaining a ticket as anyone else. So loyayfans missed out. As far as I know all season ticket holders got one but often a standing one when they had an expensive Stand seat. Same happened with the semi too.

I do!

I.S. possibly!

All true but if the Saudis had bought us, we'd be dancing in the streets too. Fans were really disappointed that the Qataris didn't buy us and they're not much better.

The worry is that as more and more Premier League sides who are owned by fabulously rich magnates or (let's be honest---governments) the harder it will be for clubs who aren't. In a few years getting into the top half will realistically be all that's available to perhaps 10 clubs. If all clubs in the Premiership were owned by mega-rich, 3 would still be relegated----with parachute payments! This, in turn, would make promotion impossible year after year for the rest. Imagine being in the Championship and all that was open to you was to avoid relegation---year after year! Actually, I don't need to imagine it do I? Football at non-local level is going to kill itself.

Nearly choked when I read that! 2 choices---laugh or cry!!

Eh? I was grateful for the police the last time I went there! Drunken louts trying to get at us.

I don't know if this can be answered but what % of away fans are boycotting home games? Anybody make a good guess?

Bad news. We'll be slaughtered with our pop-gun attack. On the other hand our batsmen will be terrorised Need Archer wood and Stokes to be fully fit. No chance.

Well we're OK then! If your'e correct, these players of our's will have nowhere to go and they'll have to come back to us and accept what we originally offered them. What's the chances of this happening do you think?

But we're on a journey aren't we? Its taken nearly 5 years to build this squad! Surely we're not going to lose the best of them and start another journey? Let's keep Mowbray then he's very experienced at this.

Exactly, its all about what they were offered.Clearly not enough!

So true

TBF you could make that comment about most of Southampton's team.

I'm surprised at this. There is a load of evidence that Glen Mullen and others supplied to the FA and MP"s to show that the Raos were not "fit and proper owners". The issue is that there was no process by which that evidence could be converted into proof on the usual civil criterion of probability, as opposed to the criminal "beyond any reasonable doubt" because the FA haven't got one and don't want one! Simply, the FA did not want to know for its own reasons. What vision have the Raos ever tried to explain to the fans of the club? Why do we have to ask over over again, what is their aim, why do they hang on to the club while crowds dwindle, how do they intend to fix it, or do they, where do they aim for us to be over the medium term and the longer term? Can they assure us that they will never abandon the club and leave fans to pick up the pieces? Why won't they tell us all this? No-one could run a business in the way they do and make a success of it. Their attitude is that its none of our business just turn up and pay.

Well that's one way of putting it!

And some are missing the point that Rovers don't owe Venkys a penny. The debt is to various Venky companies not directly to the club. The owners choose to pay the interest on it every year while their debt mounts. They have set it up that way and that is to our advantage. The only way they could get their money back is by selling the club for over £200M (impossible) or by declaring insolvency and selling all the club's assets. Could the latter get them £200M back? I wouldn't think so though Brockhall must be worth a bit. Ewood Park not so much and there's thankfully a covenant on it. So there are 4 alternatives---we carry on as we are indefinitely, which those with Stockholm Syndrome seem to support, they accept a realistic offer from someone and accept the loss, they put us into administration and accept their losses or they invite some other entity to join with them in running the club. That latter has been touted with the targets being an IPL owner. One way or another one of those 4 will happen but no-one knows when or which. Whichever it is, Rovers will continue. If they closed us down, someone would found Rovers AFC and we'd start again in a lower league. I'm quite confident about that.

Agree Gav. In fact the sure way to see us go out of business is for our current owners to stay

Hang on, we've been assured that huge changes are on the way!

Watched and enjoyed that video clip. Nice brand of football from our boys. Its also worth watching for the miss of the millennium from a Chelsa lad. He actually gets a sliding foot on the ball when it appears to be on the line but he unaccountably screws it wide!

They beat us on Saturday and they have bigger attendances than we do. If they could do it why couldn't we? Same goes for Bolton. Can't understand the pessimism personally. The alternative seems to be to finish about half-way up the Championship every season and crowds are dwindling in recognition of that.

The problem with Nyambe is that, even if he did sign a new contract, he's injury-prone.

It wouldn't imo.