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Hopefully out the door with Waggot then and some extra incentives to get a ST. New manager, new ideas. Slash £100 off a season ticket to get Ewood feeling like it has at points this season. It has been great to see crowds of 18k+ on a few occasions and that should be our target now for every home game. In Glen I trust. Don't let me down, sunshine 😉

If it's Micky Mellon I will literally gouge my eyeballs out

What?

Its an incredible story that they were saved in 1997, and huge kudos to the small number of fans that they survived and retained their club. It still isn't a fairy-tale that they ended up in the PL. A fairy-tale is Leicester winning the PL in 2015 - a team tipped to be relegated defying literally all odds to win a title, or to a lesser extent us winning it in 1995 - fulfilling the dream of a fan who put his own wealth in to bank-rolling success. Would you agree then that Man City becoming European powerhouses and dominating English football is a fairy-tale? After all billionaire owners don't guarantee success...

Not if he costs £3.5m!

I don't think this changes the fact that the club has been bank rolled by some oligarch that has no prior connections to the club, in order to reach the PL.

The 'Bournemouth fairy-tale' is a HUGE misnomer. Money talks.

Bristol City was a disaster too. They were basically baying to be beaten and Dack's penalty miss was another kick in the bollocks. Always amazes me that our main set piece taker (Rothwell) never takes pens...

Don't reckon this will pass. It'll kill club attendances even further

Uninspiring and unimaginative as usual. As others have said I'll be getting one depending on the manager situation. I'd sooner pay £30 more knowing my investment was sound rather than pissing it against the wall if that miserable prick is still manager.

This was excellent. Linz hit so many nails on heads and really summed up a lot of feelings around how we have performed and how the season has somewhat disgracefully petered out.

Glad I read this as the flicking between colour and B&W on here whilst working was in some way hurting my aging eyes 😆

Glen I note here you used the word diagnosis. We don't know each other (and I wouldnt expect you to divulge any information so please don't think this is me fishing) but I wanted to wish you good health and say I do hope it's nothing too serious... and somewhat enviously also praise you for following a dream! Nothing in life is an extravagance if it makes you and others very happy and I'm very guilty of hesitating when it comes to spending money, so it's nice to see something positive on here which is real life rather than the miserable shite we are all discussing at the moment about sport. Peace and love

I posted the above on another thread. I think it still stacks up and is relevant here. The squad as a whole is improved since Mowbray took over (currently; not at seasons end when some are likely to walk for nothing), and getting the squad in to the top 6 would be an achievement that would rightly, IMHO, be lauded. However; top 6 isn't going to happen now. Despite being a season ticket holder I swerved going yesterday and instead spent the day painting my new kitchen and some time with the kids. The current death spiral is nothing short of an absolute disgrace. Last seasons was horrific enough but the current one is nothing short of criminal. We should EASILY be in the playoffs now. I make it an easy 21 points we should be better off then we currently are after the last 2 defeats. If we had a competent board in place, Anthony would be out the door this morning and should have been out the door this time last year in reality. I'm also not even angry now. I'm just genuinely sad. The first time in over a decade it felt something could genuinely be achieved. It was palpable, in our grasp and it felt like everyone was pulling in the same direction. Now its just the same shite again. I certainly won't be investing in a season ticket next year if Mowbray is the manager and I hope the club are reading these comments as a great deal others have said exactly the same.

At least I don't need to go Monday now and can get some painting done. Pricks.

Had the exact same thought flash through my mind

Season is completely over after this one. It really is criminal how this has slipped between our fingers. Sheff Utd Bristol City Reading Blackpool Coventry We SHOULD have 15 points from those 5 after the way the games transpired. Instead we have 2.

Ainsworth would be an excellent shout anyway. He's plaited piss at Wycombe for a good while and deserves a chance at a bigger club with better resources. The fact he's a Rover just adds more weight for him to come here. Imagine how sensational it would be to know the manager wants the same us rather than the dour tit we've got now.

We all know one

JRC yet again looks like he's running backwards. 4 at the back please

I also do this, but its MUCH easier then what you think it is. Indeed I did this for the game vs Bristol City. Simply forward the email you receive and the recipient can open it on their own phone. Easy peasy!

Just listened to this. I thought that this was a good listen and Craig comes across as a decent enough person. I know nothing about agents but they appear, a lot of the time, to be the scourge of football (i.e. taking money directly out of the game for their own gains and minute input). Myself and Craig share the relatively uncommon surname so maybe I'm a little less cynical in this regard. Its certainly odd though that club still lean so heavily on HSH especially given the direct links to SEM, who if we are led to believe pulled the wool of the Rao's eyes in regards to the best interests of the club...!

Fucking embarrassing. Sick of using that word.

IMHO to achieve a top 6 finish with this squad would be an excellent achievement. The consensus amongst the fanbase at the start of the season seemed to be that a relegation dog-fight is what we were in for this, when in reality (and now somewhat disappointingly) we probably should have been pushing Bournemouth all the way. Does that show how far we have come or a real falling part?! I think Tony rolled the dice a bit in January on the hope that BBD would stay fit for the remainder of the season and keep up his goal scoring form. It was perhaps a lazy decision to make but it appears we had basically zero cash to spend. The signing of Hedges for any fee seems to be a bit of a panic to me due to Markanday's injury taking place. Tony deserves a hell of a lot of credit. From where he picked us up 5 years ago to now is chalk and cheese. It has at times been excruciatingly slow and painful but in the cold light of day I think it's an achievement. If we are able to hit the play-offs this season then I would give him a 12 month rolling contract with perhaps a break clause at the end of each season and see how next season transpires. If we do miss out, its definitely time for a change and some new ideas. Who we would be able to bring in though is a completely different story and would probably require a huge overhaul of lots of staff.

I understand the criticism for the obviously flawed decision and I agree 100%, but similarly I think he deserves credit for making a good decision, however obvious that may seem which is what your original point was trying to say shouldn't happen.