matt83

Yeah I wouldn’t say integrity is a word I’d use to describe him. He’s done very well for himself out of rovers last season particularly he used every trick in the book to cling on when he’s sensed the gravy train was ending. Im sure when things get tough again he be back lecturing the fans about how it’s not 1995 and encourage a few altercations.

Listening to moggadon for 5 bloody years. Jesus wept.

It just seems too coincidental that when we were a properly run club these issues didn’t seem to happen. In fact I’m sure the pitch used to win awards. Now we’re a tin pot seat of our pants organisation suddenly we can’t get the pitch to drain and the playing surface is far too often a topic of discussion. It’s the same river behind and the same drainage system. So what’s different other than 12 years of neglect in every aspect of the club.

Paul ince is such a mental appointment. He’s a terrible manager and when he fails and they sack him they’ll be accused of racially motivated decisions.

Whilst it’s embarrassing we couldn’t get a surface fit to play a game football on shafting both sets of fans. From a footballing point of view it is probably better not to play today with the injuries and play later when hopefully injuries have improved. Silver lining to this shambles.

A sentence not many fans have ever uttered but I feel tremendously sorry for millwall fans. It’s not as if there’s anything to do in Blackburn either. Barely a pub and naff all else to do.

Shambles. Probably forgotten to turn on the under soil heating knowing them. No way the pitch should be frozen otherwise. Even looking at a smattering of snow on the pitch do they not own covers. It’s not as if there was a possibility of a storm mentioned once or twice in the news.

So another failed bundle deal initiative then. Absolutely shocking.

They’re already on general sale I think.

Wish I didn’t know that.

They won’t do that. I did make strong enquiries. All new parents want the young uns to have the best start in life and most east Lancs parents have to saddle them with a born in Burnley stigma.

Re Neil Ramsbottom. I remember my dad telling me once he drove past a newsagents and on the a-board it said “Blackburn star in shock transfer”. So he thought Christ we only have Stuart metcalfe who’s of any value so pulled over to buy the paper but couldn’t see anything. Checked the back page nothing, so looked at the front page and nothing back to the back page and on a 2 inch column was Neil Ramsbottom the bury reserve keeper got a transfer to Plymouth argyle. Totally done. Neither a star nor shock but got him in and he bought the paper.

About time someone took a punt on dyche. Just not sure who in a way the prem needs a Bolton, Stoke, Wigan, ourselves. As much as I want Burnley to go down and as bad as they are in the prem if they keep dyche and the likes of pope, tarkowski, the Dutch lad they’ll walk the championship. Plus should have far too much for rovers which will be a couple of depressing weekends.

Thats Burnley sorted now. Surely. Only problem is I think they’re still streets ahead of rovers and next season may bring some derby day misery.

Yeah I fear you’re right. Currently it’s just a dip in form rather than a full blown death spiral but to date Mowbray has never been able to prevent a dip of form from turning into a proper death spiral. He often exacerbates it by going full on Tony tombola. He needs to resist every one of his natural instincts.

I also think for a lot of fans the Spector of Steve Kean looms large over the football club. So Mowbray is afforded so much wiggle room for the reason that the benchmark for success is that at least things aren’t as bad as under Kean. Perhaps when a new generation of fans come through who don’t remember it things will be better but the flip side of that coin is they’ll have only known Rovers as an abomination of a football club. Rock and a hard place.

I can’t abide Mowbray as a person I think he’s conned a few with his I’m just a nice stupid working class man from boro routine. When things are going well he’s just about barely tolerable but when things start to unravel, even in a small way, he shows his true colours. My main criticism of Mowbray over the years is his commitment to delivering mediocrity. It’s a results business so when he was prattling on about performances in the face of defeat after defeat last season (and pretty much every death spiral been on) many were quick to point that out. So it would be unfair to get rid of a man if he got us promotion or even the play offs. So when we’re out of the other side of a Mowbray death spiral and the play offs were a distant memory I pray it’s the end of him. Clearly this season has been a pleasant surprise to everybody but unlike Brentford who were building towards promotion I believe we’re this seasons Barnsley having a freak season and no master plan from the manager.

For me personally having a season ticket is a huge psychological impact on going. Even though no one is pointing a gun to my head to attend if I’ve paid for it I feel the necessity to drag myself to the ground even when I don’t fancy going. With a season ticket I’ll only miss a handful of games without one I’ll go to a handful of games. Season tickets sales are so important. Otherwise the lure of the firestick or the pub is just too much. Even on the odd occasion I’ve fancied going but won’t pay over £30 to watch rovers in the championship out of principle.

I don’t know whether rovers are guilty of under thinking or over thinking ticket sales. I suspect the former but there’s been a couple of goofy promotions this season that have felt like some marketing department spiv dreaming up nonsense (perhaps even Swag himself). ‘London double decker’ and marking a 147th anniversary with £14.47 tickets or whatever it was. Here’s an idea free of charge sell season tickets at £15 per game so £350 ish, perhaps slightly more in jw. Then make walk on prices £20 regardless of the opposition and regardless of the day. Then occasionally pick a drab old game make tickets £5-10 or kids for a quid and advertise it all over the shop. Or better yet instead of speculating why the numbers are significantly down they have a ready made database of fans who buy tickets or used to buy tickets but aren’t season ticket holders or no longer go at all. Pick up the phone and call them. They might just convince a few floating fans to commit or at the very least build an accurate picture of why a lot of fans are no longer committing to season tickets - whether it’s the Venkys, cost, relocated, Mowbray, lost interest, only interested in the prem, etc. Whatever the reason they’ll know what issues to address in the future.

He’s an indoor cat now he couldn’t survive in the wild.

I can’t see West Brom coming in for Mowbray nor Mowbray leaving. Wouldn’t be surprised if his agent has touted his name about to get him a nice new deal. He’s seemingly got no particular targets here good bad or indifferent, been backed by the owners in the transfer market and allowed to operate at a £20 million loss a season, one of the highest paid managers in the championship and has his mate as the boss, a fairly apathetic fan base and his own personal a cult following here. He’s not getting that peculiar package anywhere else. Although in the strange world of rovers in the first season he’s looking like overachieving he eventually goes. West Brom are clearly a team who want promotion ASAP do they even have time for a Tony journey.

For me there’s not enough European nations. Likes of Holland and Czech Republic missing out for the likes of Egypt and Panama. But I appreciate it wouldn’t be representative of the world if went down a quality route

At the start of the season we were planning to go to kennilworth road on a beano had a good crack there for sambas debut in a 4 or 5-0 cup win 15 ish years ago. Didn’t think there’d be a scenario at the end of Jan where would sell 1,000 to season ticket holders in a day.

To be fair even going into this season there was far more evidence that he was a total waste of £7 million. With only the merest whiff of a competent championship level professional for a few months around the time of the first covid lockdown. Very much up there with the other £7 million flops like grabbi and Davies. Whats happened since is one of the most ridiculous stories in football. If read it in Roy of the Rovers you’d roll your eyes about how far fetched it was.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2022/jan/23/joe-root-how-about-captain-stuart-broad-england-test-team?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other