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Main question for me today is: Will we witness the long awaited re-emergence of the lesser spotted Cantwell? Somehow I doubt it unless he wants to build up a bit of match fitness ahead of a January move.

Think you've nailed it there. I caught the last 10 mins of the Oxford game and they were absolutely under siege by that point but the keeper pulled off a couple of phenomenal saves, they were putting their bodies on the line defensively and generally they had a fire in their bellies you don't see from our lot, certainly not at home. It was stirring stuff but not particularly encouraging for our prospects when push comes to shove at the business end of the season.

Recruitment of good experienced players? Nah, that's so yesterday. You have to scour obscure European Leagues for players, preferably ones whose Club have just been relegated.

We' re now only a point ahead of Oxford albeit with 2 games in hand. Temporarily.

Let's see what happens. It'll all come out in the wash.

That's the crux of it, despite what JH said above which I entirely agree with, the Stadium could be falling round down round our ears (we're not quite there yet) but if we were ten points clear at the top of the League everyone would be relatively happy.

Ismael "So remember team, don't forget what I told you this morning and let's make sure tomorrow we are fully aligned." Montgomery "What ev's boss. It's 12.30 already and Im famished bruv. Im off to Nando's innit".

Great post. The over-riding feeling to it all has to be "What's the point?" The goal seems to be (at best) not to go down.

Exactly - take a weekend game and make it £10 for adults and £5 for kids. Then we'll see whether offers/ competitive pricing work or not.

Ah, yes of course, wasn't thinking about that! Makes the offer slightly more attractive for the floating fan that's desperate to go to this game then. Trouble is, after one win in eight, I dont think there'll be many if any at all.

By getting on the front foot from the first whistle and winning a few games. Until that happens the atmosphere is bound to be shite irrespective of how many are in the ground or what gimmickry you can come up with pre match. You can put lipstick on a pig but............ As the old saying goes.

You'd expect this run of away form to end at some point, let's hope it's not tomorrow. As far as Wrexham are concerned what must it be like to follow a Club where the owners are ambitious and want to win promotion? Has no-one told them the idea is to sell all your best players and try to become "sustainable"?

It was a bit unusual last season though with Leeds and Burnley both amassing 100 points and Sheff U 90. 🙂

No, if you opted out of buying a ST in the first place, the prospect of paying a tenner for this particular game when you can watch it for nothing on the red button, is unlikely to have much appeal. If it was towards the end of the season and we needed three points to guarantee making the play offs or something then obviously it's a completely different proposition and that would be a great offer.

It should be "Bring a friend for free" or at most a fiver. The red button costs nowt if you already have Sky or Virgin.

You seem to be on one at the moment about the crowds. I have to say that isn't a particularly enticing offer. Id almost go as far as to say they're making offers they know won't be particularly successful so they can say "Told you so".

No idea. They paid £23m for it didn't they? (and assumed the £15m bank overdraft) so with the debt waived Id assume they'd want more than that. The going rate for Championship Clubs seems to be £40 - £50m these days with the possibility of promotion to the Prem, however remote.

If we carry on in the current vein at home for the rest of the season we'd end up with about 12 points from our 23 home games. Meaning we'd need at least 38 points from our 23 away games to be reasonably confident of staying up. I'd imagine that's something akin to automatic promotion form or even better required away from home.

Looked like there were about 6k on on TV.

Just to reinforce the above, I checked and we've only been in front in ONE out of 8 games at Ewood this season at HT. (Sheff Utd. which we went on to lose 3-1) The one game we won (Southampton) we were behind until the 76th minute. Put another way we've only been ahead for 74 of the 720 minutes (plus ET) of League Football at Ewood Park this season. 40 of those were in one game (Birmingham) which we contrived to lose right at the end anyway. How on earth is the atmosphere meant to be rocking, or even vaguely positive, under those circumstances?

Again, I dont think that's fair. A core group will always go no matter what - whether it's 3k or 8k - and I applaud them for their loyalty and dedication. I mean 2k even bought tickets for a season they couldnt attend and even after Waggott put prices up.! Arguably however, having a smallish number of fans in attendance who've been brow beaten into submission by watching absolute shite over a period of years and knowing that at the end of the day there's no ambition within the Club for things to improve is the worst possible situation. Hypothetically a complete boycott might have a better chance of shifting the owners and their acolytes as might a stadium packed to the rafters every week with 30 thousand people screaming non stop dogs abuse at the 2 stooges and displaying anti Venky's messages. For the present however it's 100% for the players to entertain the fans and give them something to shout about, not the other way round. The players are being paid very handsomely to do a job and the fans are paying good money to watch them. At the moment they can't even be bothered putting in any effort in the first half of games at Ewood and any improvement generally only comes in the second half or late on in the game when trying to retrieve the situation and salvage a result. At least, regardless of ability, come out on the front foot and give the fans a bit of something to get their teeth into.

They started the ball rolling in that respect.

Disagree. Appointing someone who is a cut above the norm is the only way we'll keep our heads above water in the short term imo. Stick with Ismael, a guy on the downgrade who was never all that to start with and we're looking at League 2 or beyond imo.

My comment about feeling sorry for fans who have bought a season ticket wasn't intended in any patronising or critical way whatsoever. I have the utmost respect for the dedication of those fans who still go down to Ewood to witness such rubbish. You all deserve so much better. Personally Mowbray and Waggott finished me off, the sense that we were no longer a normal Club with any aspirations of success was there even then. There were only so many annual collapses starting every December and instances of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory I could take. Despite it all if proper people were put in place and I felt there was a genuine desire somewhere within the Club to succeed I'd probably be back. I nearly bought a half season ticket twice when we were going well under both JDT and Eustace and ended up being exceptionally glad I didnt after the twats in charge effectively forced them out.

I'd say so yes. They've gone from a position of "We will never ever sell this Club" not that long ago to Suhail conceding that Clubs are always up for sale at the right price.