To be fair we've never ever got ST's out early whether under the Walker Trust or Venky's. The new kit situation is usually even worse. We're lucky if the new strip is available before the new season kicks off normally, let alone have it in time for the summer hols. Why this has always been the case I've absolutely no idea when other Clubs seem to manage to get them out early without any problem.

Dack hasn't looked properly fit to me since afterthe (second?) international break and Preston away. Was speaking to a Leeds fan a few days ago who said that if Dack was at Leeds, Bielsa wouldn't accept him in that condition and it would take him 6-8 weeks to get into shape to play the way Leeds do. I thought it was a fair point and I think that if Dack was under a manager like Bielsa and fully bought into the ethos he could be scarily good and add another ten goals at least on top of this season's tally. Not that I'm advocating it mind. I want to see BD at his best all season here not anywhere else.

Do give over, I like Rothwell but if Dack is properly fit, motivated and on his game he's on a completely different level to Rothwell. Admittedly that has been quite a big "if" this season though. it's pretty pointless trying to compare Dack and Rothwell and claim one is better than the other imo. In our context we desperately need them both and to try to denigrate one at the expense of the other is about as pointless as debating whether Messi is better than Ronaldo or vice versa.

I agree he came out with credit for being sporting but I'd have been happy with whatever he did either way. In many ways I'd have admired him equally as much if he'd stuck to his guns and carried on as normal and insisted afterwards that Villa should have played to the whistle. I think I'd have preferred it if he hadn't ordered the equaliser but hooked Bamford and refused to put a replacement on in recognition of his disgraceful behaviour. Every time there's a vaguely contentious goal now teams will be expecting to be allowed an unopposed equaliser. Dangerous precedent.

Didn't actually think Leeds did anything at all wrong initially. The Villa player clearly wasn't seriously injured, and imo the ref was quite correct to wave play on. Villa should have played to the whistle. I don't like this presumption that the ball will be put out the second anyone goes down, it's a cheats charter imo. Thereafter Banford's reaction was a disgrace and hopefully the Villa player's ban will be overturned allowing him to feature in the playoffs and Banford will receive a ban of his own. I thought Bielsa was being overly generous by instructing his players to let Villa score unchallenged but then again it was easy for him to be magnanimous when there was nothing much at stake. Would be interesting to see if he would do the same had that been the first leg of the play offs. Somehow I doubt it.

Realistically, if prices increase or decrease slightly it provides the potential for a few more staff around the Club or jobs to be done around the ground etc. The impact on the playing side is negligible.

Haven't seen anything at all from Waggott that suggests he is worth his salary or a skilled operator like Williams, am only comparing them on this particular point. I was paying quite a lot for my ticket in JW upper 15 years or more ago, just shy of £500 I think. Then crowds started to drop. Williams was initially most resistant to the idea of reducing prices, he didn't like it one little bit. He thought fans should just keep piling in out of blind loyalty irrespective of price. However he eventually did it screaming and kicking and to his credit the Club stuck with the lower prices. I agree Waggott seems to be a one trick pony whose only strategy appears to be testing the loyalty of the ever dwindling hard core to the limit and squeezing every possible penny out of them. You'd have thought he could come out with something a lot better and more customer friendly than that. His primary remit should be getting as many people into the ground as possible as opposed to merely squeezing existing customers until the pips come out.

Agree with a lot of what you say above, but would make two points, firstly I don't see any reason why we should automatically be the cheapest (or close to it) and secondly I spoke to Preston and Leeds fans this season who were very surprised by how cheap our ST prices were. That may all change of course next season if a price increase comes in and if it does it will be an ill judged move imo. Waggott strikes me as being very much like John Williams in the sense that it seems he would much rather take the easy option of filling the Darwen End with away fans than take the far trickier option of taking a short term hit on income whilst trying to figure out how to fill those areas with home fans ifor the long run.

I voted "yes" but my exact position would be "yes but I don't like the manager/football/atmosphere/matchday experience"! If I was a floating fan and not a dyed in the wool nutcase who renews come what may, I wouldn't need much persuasion at all not to renew and do something else on matchdays.

As far as the Swansea game goes, I don't really see why the "pop down to Ewood once a season because the tickets are cheap" brigade should be rewarded once again but if you're going to do it you might as well do it properly, let everyone in for a quid and compensate season ticket holders by reducing their ST prices for next season accordingly. As far as prices for next season are concerned, I don't see price as an issue per se unless there is a massive increase, but imo I do find the decision to increase prices a rather strange and counterproductive one given that this season could be described as drab at best and entertainment levels at Ewood (four or five games apart) have been fairly dire. A price freeze would have been the way to go for me.

Despite the respectable scoreline that was an absolute tubbing, six or seven one wouldn"t have flattered them in the slightest. We were so far behind a vibrant Norwich it was embarrasing. We are so going nowhere under Mowbray. Leutwiler, Bennett, Williams, Conway ,Graham (Did he even touch the ball?) The point was merely underlined when at 2-1 down we substituted Dack for Chapman. You can't have two flair playets on the pitch at the same time, oh no. Will be renewing my ST but not looking forward to next season at all and fear we will be relegation fodder unless there are massive changes, starting in the dug out and continuing down the spine of the team.

Apart from the keeper, extremely happy with that line up. Hope we win 6-0 with hat-tricks from Nyambe and BB then they might have a slight chance of retaining their places for the next game!

Tying Travis down to a reasonable deal will (or ought to be) very near to the top of our list of priorities this summer.

Didn't go to Forest but certainly didn't think he played well against Derby. Not as bad as he has been but still looked exactly what he is, a player playing out of position. Think we can see from this 18 that nothing much will be changing next season.

Hmmmm.........

Been asleep all afternoon, good win but why was Evans back in in favour of Reed? Also see the guy Mowbray has left out all season scored again....... What might have been with a decent manager.

x 1000.

Everyone wants us to win every game. Everyone wants us to continue playing like we did tonight. I'm assuming no-one wants the manager to revert to his previous selections, most would probably like to see a couple of further tweaks in that respect and despite a great performance tonight it is still only 7 points out of 36. I think that just about covers it. I don't think anyone is upset we won.

Who on the evidence of tonight has obviously been picking completely the wrong personnel nearly all season. If lay people, the fans, can see that why can't a highly paid professional? I'd say a "good" manager identifies his best team from the off and the fans are astounded by how well the team plays. He doesn't pick the wrong team all season then stumble almost by default on something that works because he has been forced or shamed into it by his previous poor selections!

Great performance tonight. Guess what? Pick (some of) the right players you play well and win. Only about the 4th or 5th home game I've enjoyed all season. All this really proves though is the manager has been picking the wrong team all season by persisting with at least one of Evans or Smallwood or both, ignoring Rothwell and playing Reed out of position as a resilt of which we'veprobably lost all chance of signing him. From that side if you put Nyambe in for Bennett, Chapman in for Conway a decent striker up front and a big nasty centre half next to Lenihan you'd be cooking on gas. The pressure is now on Mowbray to develop what we saw tonight and not revert to type.

Mr. Screenshot?

? Bloody Hell jimbo, do you log everything I post? Good spot, memory like an elephant! If I recall I merely pointed out that Katie Price came across fairly well in the jungle in "I'm a Celebrity" totally removed from the Jordan persona. Since those days she seems to have retreated back into the Jordan thing and become a total caricature of herself as she has lost the plot and her career headed South along with said boobs. Sadly for her.

I know TM is limited in what he can say to the Press but I find it very patronising when he treats everyone like mugs. Its something like 21 or 22 ppints from 25 games now and 4 points out of the last 33 so to insinuate we've been a bit unlucky and that there's nothing really to worry about is insulting everyone's intelligence. He could at least concede it's nowhere near good enough and say they're going all out to turn it round etc etc

The most depressing thing about that article, other than the fact that she walked out on Bradders a few days after he gifted her a 99k car ***, is that 1.6m people apparently actually find the vacuous bint worth following on Instagram. "We're doomed Capt. Mainwaring, we're doomed I tell you." *** Mind you, you can't really blame her. She has a lot to put up with. The seats were probably the wrong colour.

Great post. To use the famous turn of phrase it was obvious to a blind man on a galloping horse that we needed to bring in at least 3 players last summer to go straight into and improve the first eleven. If that had have happened then one more of similar ilk coming in in January would have freshened things up and kept everyone on their toes. Then two or three more top quality additions again this summer and we're good to challenge at the right end of the table. None of that has happened and indeed quite the contrary has happened, a raft of players who should have been moved on have been handed new deals. As a result we're in a right mess and imo Mowbray's handling of the playing side of things has been criminally negligent. Yet we do have some promising players at the Club, albeit Mowbray refuses to play them. Bring in a vibrant younger manager with a more positive outlook and sign a couple of actual centre halves, a dominant midfielder and spend big on a proven striker and all may not be lost. There's little doubt in my mind though that if nothing changes we're heading straight back to League 1.