It will be interesting when season ticket prices are announced if Swag has put the prawn sandwich brigade prices up too. Perhaps he feels he can entice a few more to take them up for the opportunity to sit in the JW Upper.

Would that be to buy or loan?

It is probably a poorer reflection on Mowbrays inability to bring in defenders. As has been quite rightly stated there is a distinct possibility that three of the back four on Saturday started in Mowbrays first game over three years ago. Despite his bluff and bluster which is swallowed by some it is poor management.

Your post really saddens me Parson and really reflects poorly on the club and the way they treat loyal, dedicated supporters who were here long before the current incumbents and will almost certainly be here long after they have gone. I don't think there has been any consultation with supporter groups or even affected individuals, it's just another announcement without too much thought for the consequences to look after corporates of whom many don't support the club and are essentially on a jolly up. How many of them go to Swansea on a midweek Winters night to support the team? I have said before I know a couple of posters who frequent this board who could do a far better job than Waggott largely through understanding how we locals tick. I get these are unprecedented times but having our collective noses rubbed in the dirt by Waggott is just not acceptable.

I'm not too precious about my own seat or even sitting in the JW Upper as we have for some years but what really irritates me is that the whole stand is being given over to the prawn sandwich brigade many of whom only go to a few games as guests. Also a lot of them don't even enter the ground but prefer to stay drinking in the lounges. But as they pay more then they are treated better than us ordinary fans. And Waggott and his cohorts will still get their free admission to the best seats in the house.

It's interesting that Waggott talks about a salary cap after the money that has been wasted recently. Aside from overpaying for players (and presumably salaries commensurate with those fees) we have (and still are) paying players not to play, £1.15m in agents fees and ridiculously £30k to fly the team to Cardiff recently. The buck stops with the management team. By the way Swag Tax has a nice ring to it ??.

What annoys me Andy is the many people who are excusing them because of their age. Arrogance sums them up pretty much but I detest this above the law attitude that some of them have. As you say Rashford has been a beacon of humanity in the recent past and the likes of them two have let him and their profession down.

True and all with a common denominator of desperado about them.

That makes perfect sense as to why this window has such a scatter gun feel to it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this was their approach to every window in the last decade given the reported targets we've missed. If it is true why would any manager work for them?

Absolutely correct. If Brereton is selected and he plays well then he keeps his place. If not he is dropped. I wouldn't be comfortable weakening the team to simply build up a 'project signings' confidence. That simply is unfair on other players and the fans.

A decent performance which got far better after the raft of changes which really exploited the Leicester midfield and defence. Suddenly we pressed high and looked likely to go on and win, prior to that we were sedate in the final third although to be fair once again the forwards looked uncomfortable in the positions they played. Travis still looks slightly off the pace to me but I'm confident he will come good. Hopefully there will be another game next week to fine tune and give Mowbray a chance to play the team he intends to start at Bournemouth with.

As I said joined up thinking. It's not difficult.

The managers don't get a say in it. The referee decides and he is informed of the colours in advance and he makes the call. Last seasons at West Brom we wore our off white/light grey number and on a sunny day it was difficult to distinguish between us and the broad white stripes of West Brom. Clearly we couldn't have played in our first and third choice as it would have been even worse. It just takes some joined up thinking, something which has been in short supply for the last decade.

On the few occasions I saw him for Newcastle and Norwich he didn't appear to have kicked on and still looked like he had errors in him, albeit against a better quality opposition. In the five seasons since he left us he has played 66 league games, no doubt a chunk of them missed through injury but some were because he struggled for form. However it might come down to Hobsons Choice if the intended targets keep being missed.

He has a big, hard top though.

The notion of Hanley coming back is fanciful and I think tinged with sentiment. I remember him as an average player but headstrong and far too error prone. Why would he (or anybody) take a huge pay cut? Also what about Mowbrays footballing centre half philosophy? With Lenihan and Hanley together the ball would spend more time in the Riverside or JW Lower.

If Waggott earns the reported £300k per annum we will have to sell 1,000 at an average of £300 each just to pay for him. That is probably ten times the average yearly earnings of people he is expecting to pay more. He has some gall to prey on our loyalty by increasing season tickets whilst taking a huge amount of money. I can't think of one area of the club which has improved during his tenure, not one. In December he will have been here three years and taken the best part of a million quid out of the club. An expensive flop.

Are you Ian Holloway?????

But if the answers to your questions aren't satisfactory to you will you still buy one?

Thanks Ian. 'Twas a fanciful notion ??

I don't know if this is feasible Ian but a thought occurred to me today but I haven't a clue about how it would impact upon P&S or club finances. Could Venkys purchase a few thousand season tickets using their own money and perhaps donate them to various groups such a schools or youth organisations? Sorry to burden you with this but I get the impression you know your way around finance and regulations.

I find some of your comments disingenuous to be honest. I am certainly negative about lots of things at the club and this price hike is one of them. Why should it just be accepted and we try and be 'supporters' as you patronisingly put it. I would have thought in your position as Chairman of the Rovers Trust you might have made some representation to Waggott and advising him how this would go down like a lead balloon. We do want the same thing but milking loyal supporters is not the answer. Waggott should've looking to increase the supporter base, with todays announcement it's much more likely to decrease it.

That is sad my friend but you really should write to Waggott to express your views. If there is a groundswell of opinion and he knows why he can't use the 'what more can we do' line.

What price loyalty? I know that lots of hard core, long time loyal supporters will buy one. I know because I am one but what really irks me is that Waggott also knows this and his duplicitous message tells me as much. If I shopped regularly at Sainsbury's and noticed that my weekly spend was rising way above the inflation rate I could go to Asda or another supermarket. Waggott knows that lots of us won't or can't do this in a football sense, our club is for life. However for many of the less dedicated it might be a different story and potentially they could be lost forever. I really see this as another nail in the coffin of Blackburn Rovers, far too many in the last decade.

Charlie Mulgrews wages/pay off will eat up a big proportion of season ticket money let alone the money on a price increase. Who answers for giving him a 3 year deal on big bucks and part way through decides he's not good enough? That is gambling on the future of our club.