Yesterday our midfield three were excellent for seventy minutes and pretty much everything that was good came from them. The balance of the three worked perfectly well and whilst Wharton caught the eye with his silky skills the hard yards that Garrett put in was really good, his two blocks in the first half exemplified his game and he was ridiculously booked for what I think is the tackle of the season so far. Tronstad is one of the cleanest tacklers I have seen for a long time. He completely disproves the theory that you need to be a brute to tackle, it's about timing. He short passing game and ability to keep the ball moving is something I really enjoy watching. There are so many good things about Rovers right now but they come from the football side through the players and coaching staff. I really dislike losing but the football we are playing at times gets me off my feet. If only the owners and hierarchy at our club could match the desire, drive and ambition of the playing side.

Firstly extremely well done to the various supporter organisations who really showed the hierarchy at Ewood what the real potential of this great club of ours has. You all did yourselves, your organisations and the club proud. Once again it was a sense of disappointment walking out of Ewood at the result but certainly not the performance. We had several outstanding players today but Adam Wharton was terrific. Ultimately we we undone by some pacy counter attacks and our own errors. Walhstedt will know he should have caught the ball instead of punching and hopefully he will learn from it but I refuse to hang him out to dry. Once again our opponents have real quality to bring on and we simply have inexperience, they had real game changers, we didn't. If anybody is looking to apportion blame it should be directed at these woeful, uncaring shysters who masquerade as our owners. The manager and players are going above and beyond in my opinion but are absolutely hamstrung by those people. I'm looking forward to Huddersfield on Boxing Day now when we can hopefully come back with three points.

Does that include corporate and complimentary tickets Mike?

Privatisation. There are several buses going to Ewood from various pubs at the top end of Darwen but these are run privately. The guys that organise these do a sterling job but one of my many gripes is that Rovers should at least be looking at and perhaps trialling such a service from the various town centres.

Great news Mike. Where is the netted area in the JW?

It was a similar picture in Darren Gav. The old red Darren Corporation buses would be queued out Woolies at the Circus and ferry supporters to Ewood. After the match the buses would be parked at the bottom of Cravens Brow for the return journey. There would always be someone with a transistor radio so we could listen to James Alexander Gordon reading the results at 5 o'clock.

It's a feeble excuse for Szmodics not to play - I bet Ismael is delighted that the Championship top scored is out. They have just had a week between games, I could understand it if he had been left out when we have had Saturday, midweek, Saturday games but not now.

This is from Southampton last week where two coaches were used along with a van to take the kit down. They are having us over.

And therein lies the problem for me Mike. In theory Waggott could sell 100 tickets at super exorbitant prices and meet his target. As well as a financial target there should be a target of the number of tickets sold. The benefits of selling more season tickets have been well documented. Giving such targets would mean that Waggott and his team would have to be more creative instead of the cut and paste offers of the last few years. With the current set up it hardly seems in Waggott's interests to sell more and reinforces my view that he isn't too concerned about the long term health of the club.

As we don't have much stock of new kits it looks like mascots for the rest of the season will be wearing their own kit. What a flaming mess our club is in.

Hatching up more plans to piss the fans off. 🤣

One of Jack's grandsons was there. It looks like Steve Foster who was the physio during Kenny's time was there too.

Good find. Staunch habits????? What an arrogant thing to say about life long supporters. He sounds like another corporate blagger.

It was pretty much the party line which has been traded out through various media. Their obstinate attitude is baffling in light of the comments he says he has seen. As far as I can see there has been no dialogue with and fan groups. They think that by offering this digital hub it will resolve the issues. They just don't understand local people and have buried their heads in the sand.

I have been trading emails with Fraser Read and the upshot is that there will be no compromise from the club. I sent him a link to this thread as what I believe to be a representation from the fans but no climb down. I'm really disappointed by the club's obstinate stand and absolute failure to listen to supporters.

It's this one size fits all mentality that I object to. There was no discussions with any of the supporter groups, it has just been foisted on everybody (except away fans and freebies, freebies which those making the decision benefit from) without exception. And I already know of a few who simply are not going to bother going, in fact one told me he won't be renewing his season ticket such is his annoyance. Just give people a choice. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, they should just swallow their pride, admit they have misjudged the situation and give us the option. However I expect some over inflated egos might just get in the way.

https://www.bwfc.co.uk/player/119

Darwen FC are even making fun of the idiots who make these ridiculous decisions.

Exactly this. At the moment the club needs every supporter it can get so there should be an option to buy online or call in person at the ticket office. Right now when buying tickets or merchandise in the shop you can pay by cash or card, it's called having a choice. It's not a difficult concept to understand that people are not all the same.

In the games you mention what would you have done differently?

Anybody who has been to the university of life will understand exactly what you and seemingly the majority are saying but it's almost like the senior employees at Ewood come up with ideas designed to piss off an already shrinking fan base. The biggest concern I have is that nobody down there is prepared to listen or canvass opinion. I have written to Lynsey Talbot as some of the quotes in the press release are attributed to her. I got a reply back from her telling me that she has referred my email to the ticket office. Personally I don't think this hare brained idea came from the ticket office at all rather it's a case of buck passing. There just doesn't seem to be any accountability at Ewood and the real worry is that nobody there sees the damage they are doing.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/richard-keys-vincent-kompany-burnley-31690695 Gray and Keys are quite scathing about Kompany with Keys implying he is using Burnley as an audition for the City job. And although I'm not keen on either of the I have to say I agree with every word.

A tough day for Rovers as, for the first time this season our opponents were far better than us all over the pitch. Two significant moments knocked the stuffing out of me. The first goal and it's timing was crucial in my view. We had only just said it we get to half time at 0-0 that would be a result in itself and then we concede a cheap goal which deflates us. The silliness of Brittain really killed us, I have no words for his stupidity. From that moment for me it was damage limitation and unfortunately we capitulated in stoppage time. In truth the score wasn't harsh on us but once again we came up against a team who eclipse us in terms of budget and quality of player and yesterday it was a chasm. I haven't trawled through the posts on here and I'm sure Tomasson is getting pelters from some but for me, with the exception of yesterday he is still getting so much from his injury ravaged squad and I will not lay any blame at his door. That blame for me lies several thousand miles away.

There was no urgency from the young Rovers team, no intensity with players happy to play at a sedate pace playing right into Wimbledons hands. I can't remember a game for a long time with so many stoppages which didn't help the flow of the game. Poor overall and not many of the players impressed like youngsters of recent times.

I'm certain in my own mind that paper tickets will be issued for this match. Complimentary tickets (of which I understand there are a lot) and corporate hospitality won't be expected to go online particularly the freebies (such as Waggott). Yet the lifeblood of the club are being used as guinea pigs for the club to pay lip service to some EFL charter.