Presume you'd be the same if you got to Ewood with your season ticket and they'd miscalculated and wouldnt let you in due to over expected demand.

It's not very good if the club has again embarassed itself turning away customers with tickets! It takes really strong principles to not go to games despite clearly retaining a strong interest and passion.

You could say the exact same about expectations last season though. I suspect that next season will likely feel like a transitional one with our main goalscorer leaving for free, a reliance on begging and borrowing in the market and yet more kids breaking through. If we fail to make the play offs having been in there for most of the season, I wouldn't consider it a success really, just like I didn't last season.

Going to this having splashed out prior to seeing us fall apart as we did last season. No faith in a win to be honest, why would I when we have gone on such a long winless run, seldom even looking like scoring. And even if we do, I can't see the 2 other teams failing to win. So going down with little hope but hopefully I will witness a huge shock.

Why does buying one remove all scope to be able to criticise? Are we allowed to moan when we play shit considering we chose to support the club in the first place?

They aren't good enough to get people to overlook inconveniences. I would prefer 3pm on Saturday, half 5 is probably the best alternative. They should bring in limits. No more than one televised game per team per month.

We already know that ST prices aren't attractive which now limits scope for match day offers. But its beside the point, it isnt the cost that will stop people attending moved games.

But again, those parties and their primary focus isn't the potential inconveniencing of match going fans.

I know there is going to be more notice, but it is still that same huge inconvenience when they move so many games.

And the fans and how they are inconvenienced is an irrelevance to Sky and the EFL.

The lack of notice is a problem but not the main one. The main one is the quantity of games moved, the lack of 3pm Saturday games has been an absolute joke this season and the problem will get worse. I cant blame people deciding to keep potential season ticket money in their pockets.

What prevents us is having owners who undermine by rejecting offers which allow contracts to run down and prevent reinvestment.

Moving kick off times regularly.

Sky can fuck off. No thought for match going fans.

Lucky or not, the subs invited further pressure and we conceded in both. They may have been accompanied with bad luck and/or individual decisions but they didn't work. If we were winning and then didn't see it through, they weren't the "right" moves.

No he didnt do the right thing in my opinion. And we lost leads in both following those changes so hardly an unjustified opinion. We invited pressure and lots of late corners v Coventry and a rusty Wharton slipping didnt help v Preston.

Even for modern day Rovers it would be illogical to pick our second best goalkeeper to try and generate a fee in the summer when we have been trying to secure a top 6 finish. Pears won't generate a significant fee, it will surely be a couple of hundred grand max for someone who could potentially be a regular in League 1 or at a push at a lower Championship side. Tomasson said he was carrying the injury before he broke down with it fully so it must have played a part. I would agree that it doesn't add up why Kaminski hasn't displace Pears who has been ok but not undroppable. Hopefully there is no intention to sell Kaminski in the summer but I do fear that. The only other thing I could speculate is maybe Pears is popular within the squad and it might impact the dressing room? Kaminski is undoubtedly the better keeper. If it is because Tomasson wants players to buy in to the idea that as long as your form doesnt dip then you keep the shirt then it isnt a policy that has been consistent.

Getting rid of an experienced, reassuring goalkeeper that has won us many points and would have won player of the season by a landslide had he not been hindered by an injury for a few weeks that eventually caused him to break down in favour of a bang average keeper is modern day Blackburn Rovers to a tee. Especially when we could potentially downgrade to Pears AND be left with totally inexperienced alternatives should Pears start to make mistakes leading to goals or get injured himself. I feel like a mistake with Pears is in the post, very lucky that it didn't come v Luton when he totally misjudged that cross. He has been in the main well protected but he doesn't keep us in games and there are often moments of indecision that have tended to thankfully only result in unnecessary throw ins and corners conceded amidst anything but total confidence in him from his defenders. He is a good solid back up, is it asking too much to have a good keeper in Kaminski and a reliable stand in?

Good luck to them?! Do you have a desire specifically for Chelsea to push on? Funny watching them toil. Would agree with that, I think they were perhaps hasty to sack Tuchel who unlike what has followed IS a top class manager. I get that Lampard inherited Chelsea not at the top but he has actually made them worse, and seems to pick his teams and systems out of a hat. 6 losses from 6 is laughable. Stick to punditry, you are not cut out to be a manager and have failed at 4 clubs now!

Our possession has increased but it hasn't made us any more threatening in my opinion. We are the type of team that creates a couple of decent chances a game. Coventry, Burnley, Luton and even Preston, keep the ball well enough but not manifesting into much of substance. Hull, Birmingham, not even that. Often come off games thinking we wouldn't score if we played all night, therefore whilst I appreciate that everyone knows that we need attackers, I can't judge us as progressing much when we create little and are so dull. We have even lost some of that control we had earlier in the season whereby we equally struggled to create but we could see out games with far more control, Tomasson has hindered us numerous times in recent weeks by inviting pressure with a 3rd centre back.

How does your opinion on Lampard stand having been such a keen advocat of his appointment? What next for him, still a Premier League move?

But equally, I can't deem us (in my opinion) as improving if we aren't creating chances. You could put a top striker in any team and they would offer more of a goal threat. I don't believe that as the season has come on, that our tactics have developed in a way that has seen us improve at all from an attacking perspective.

This Chelsea side is so poorly organised.

I dont think anyone has implied that we would be better off with Mowbray now.

We scored a goal against Brentford that was very similar to Pickering v Sheff United. Mowbray's possession focused team was ineffective, we finished 15th. Tomasson has had more success with that specific tactic, but I don't agree that this season we have been any better than last season, the league table cannot be argued with. We did also put in performances last season that were a million miles more entertaining than last season, think at home to Birmingham, at home to Peterborough, away at Preston, totally battered all of them. Bournemouth away, comfortably saw off the 2nd best side. Rankin Costello's development is definitely a huge positive tactically by Tomasson, but I don't think that his transformation has been matched by the team. The way he slots into midfield is such a useful asset to the point that even though Brittain is okay, we cannot think of moving him. But there were tactical nuances last season that worked, notably Brereton playing left of essentially a front 2 with Buckley floating between him and Khadra. Since the international break, the one performance that impressed me was Huddersfield away, domination and crucially loads of chances. Burnley didnt offer much, but I can barely remember a chance we created.