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It is in Welsh but you can adjust your settings to get English. I have watched several LoW matches and FA Cup matches on S4C with English commentary.

Further to my post above I now have the full pricing categories and apart from the adult one they are all different with the Huddersfield ones being more expensive. I have written to Waggott asking him to explain how this has happened. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23934491.blackburn-rovers-confirm-huddersfield-town-ticket-agreement/

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/january/11/ticket-news--rovers-v-huddersfield-town/ So the reciprocal deal that Swag boasted he had done with Huddersfield wasn't exactly reciprocal. As a senior I paid £20 for the Boxing Day game but any senior from Huddersfield coming to Ewood next week will pay £16. I can't find the other categories apart from adult to compare with. It appears to be another of his 'I am wonderful looking after our fans' moments.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67417862 This is a good report although Premier League specific. I wonder if the pitches are partly to blame as the modern ones have very little 'give' in them. The harder pitches and training grounds are what the modern game demands but I have a theory that the extra pounding on a firmer surface contributes to more of the soft tissue injuries.

Livermore played against us for Watford a few weeks ago. Did you not see him.

Monday evening?

Both Ennis and Markanday were disappointing overall particularly in the first half. Ennis missed two easy chances although I suppose you could argue he got in the right positions to miss them. Markanday just flatters to deceive although he took his goal well. In normal circumstances neither would be anywhere near the first team and personally I would loan/sell both of them if our squad was stronger.

Last nights match was the proverbial game of two halves from our perspective. Poor in the first half and should really have been more than two. In the second half we got on the front foot and poured forward and although the two goal winning margin probably flattered us we deserved to win I thought. Batty summed up the general Rovers performance, poor in the first half, awful body language and looking disinterested. He was the antithesis of this in the second half and showed why he was so highly regarded up to recently. Contrary to some posts on another thread Pears wasn't at fault for their goals - it was rank bad defending. He dealt with pretty much everything particularly late on when they had a flurry of corners and his long ball distribution was really good. Ayari was taken off at half time but didn't really do anything of note albeit no Rovers player did during the first half. Finneran looks a real prospect and whilst he is clearly learning he showed some really good things and coped physically. Nobody saw the second half performance coming but credit to Mike Sheron and the players for a great comeback.

Aynsley Pears starts for Rovers under 21's tonight against Reading. Ayari, Markanday and Ennis also start.

Brighton are in the upper echelons of the Premier League for me. They play in a way that suits Moran, have a really good manager and coaching staff. His goal has to be playing regularly for them and then who knows. To my knowledge Brighton have never stood in the way of any player recently so if his potential is reached then the rest will follow.

He can become a regular player for Brighton in the Premier League as well as a regular for the ROI. His style is suited to how Brighton play and once he goes back next season I can see him kicking on again.

Far too many players have been in poor form recently so it's difficult to single any individual out. I saw enough of Moran before we tanked to see his qualities.

A few days before an important Championship match and no match thread so I thought I'd start one. The Hawthorns has been a decent ground for us in recent years with a mixed bag of results. We will be looking for our first double of the season having beaten them at Ewood of in the first game of the season. With three wins, two draws and a defeat in their last six games it will be a real test although goalscoring has been a problem for them. They will be missing arguably their most creative player in Diangana who is away with DR Congo in the ACN. Maja and Phillips are also out but Dike made a goalscoring return from injury recently and will be a real threat. Hopefully at least one of our injured players can return to strengthen us.

We got that money last season along with a few hundred thousand for numerous TV appearances. We didn't see any of it. According to Swag at a Fans Forum it went back to the owners to help service the debt.

Look at the map and where someone in Wrexham thinks Blackburn is.

It was in the Lancashire FA under 18 Cup. Any win against that lot has to be savoured so today is no different. The game didn't scale any great heights at a freezing cold Brockhall but beating them gave me a warm glow

I thought I'd read he was from Cork hence the 'new Roy Keane' tag.

It will be billed as Bollywood v Hollywood. Man boob onion Bhaji will be desperate to ingratiate himself on a couple of A listers so maybe he will put in an appearance. After all he turned up for the Queen.

Personally I think it's the best draw we could have had. At home, good chance of going through and a decent crowd. S4C should cover it and there will be lots of media interest given who owns them. Keep the prices sensible Swag and reap the benefits.

Bloody hell, who threw it? Jeff Capes 😂😂

Waggott approved contract extensions for the likes of Smallwood, Mulgrew, Bennett and Evans with at least two of them on big money. And by the way the Mulgrew one paid dividends as he went out on loan a short time after and had a foul of games in between loans didn't play again for us. The two extremes of doling out contracts to mediocrity and not tying down assets sums up Venkys and also Waggots tenure here.

I agree entirely. Surely there will be CCTV covering the back of the Riverside where it appeared to come from. There should be a proper investigation done involving the police and as you say it was just luck that nobody was injured.

Our most recent policy has been to increase the value of players and let them leave for nothing. Ludicrous decision making which has come back to haunt us.