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Definitely! I presume the club will have photographers there. We will too.

It is a shame. It’s also very frustrating.

Looks like we will be seeing some of these youngsters a lot more than anyone bargained for.

I’m guessing it’s more about consistency of message than keeping secrets. If one of the attendees had come in here and stated “Waggott said there is some truth to the reports” any finer points would’ve been lost and there’d be mass panic.

Nice tune! Yes, I will!

The pre-match playlist is really taking shape now, and post match we bring you 3 MEN GONE MAD. Their single You Try was a big hit with John Peel who stated “This will take your breath away”, permiating between music for rock purist and rave and balaeric connoisseurs alike. The band have been described as “Carrying the energy of The Clash, the depth of Joy Division, and the rhythm of Talking Heads”…. They are fronted by a life long Rovers fan too!

I’ll play it at the Girona game as long as there is a solemn promise of starting a singalong to the appropriate bit!

I’m certainly not against the idea. A slightly edited version would be ideal. Have you heard the Fall’s version? It’s quite a bit shorter, although Mark E’s vocals aren’t everyone’s cup of tea!!

The big issue is the 3 minutes of acid induced experimentation before that line kicks in. Not sure it’s be an instant hit with anyone not in the know.

I dunno… Down Down at full time against Wigan in 2012 might have caused a riot!

Requests are now live! Have a look at the Walkout music thread.

This seemed like an appropriate thread to resurrect…

2,000 would be a hugely disappointing turnout, it’d be a similar number to what we took to Stanley. It’d also be very damaging to any future case we put forward that “cheap tickets = bigger attendances”. To be clear, 10,000 would be absolute an absolute dream world scenario. Half that would be a success. There’s already some massive positives I’ll take from this whatever the attendance is. Due to the generosity of people on this board and in the wider fanbase, some kids will be experiencing their first ever trip to Ewood, and families who are really struggling at present will be able to have an afternoon out at the football.

For me there are a few aims… There’s always criticism from within the fanbase that our own fanbase is splintered, and there are “too many groups”. Actually I don’t think we have enough groups in all honesty, some more organised regional supporter groups like we used to have would be good! We’ve tried to bring together the various open member groups which each have their own area of interest and focus, along with the main supporter communities and content creators to show the club, and the fanbase, that we can all work together and provide something good. From a Trust point of view, we want to give something to our existing members and provide potential new members with a reason to join up. We need to up our membership numbers and to do so need to raise our profile, get out there, and engage with and listen to the fans. From a personal point of view there are loads of little things I’ve moaned about. The scrapping of the printed programme, the same old dull music pre-match, the fact Ewood is deserted 5 minutes after the full time whistle… I’m happy we are being able to try something different! Promotion for the event and advertising of the game will ramp up over the next week, both from the supporters end and the clubs. 10,000 is blue sky thinking for sure, but we want to see a bump on the number the club would ordinarily be expecting, we hope the feedback is good to. Specifically in response to @Mattyblue, I don’t feel we have made ourselves hostages to fortune. I do feel that we (Trust, BRFCS, Rovers Chat, and other groups) have more faith in our fanbase than the people in charge of the club do. With many of our discussion with them, the challenge presented to us has often been to prove their is an appetite for some of the things we’ve discussed. We’re trying. @chaddyrovers there will be the footy curry and bar stalls open around the fanzines, along with the Sodexo offerings in the ground (hopefully with some deals on). Is there anything specific you’d like to see? No promises, we’re bang in the middle of festival season so it might be tricky, but we can certainly ask the question.

You’ll have to wait til next week

That’s an amazing response in just a couple of hours!! Thanks to everyone who has reached out to Josh. The Trust also have funds allocated for this purpose - we really want it to be a day for the supporters with nobody being priced out. To echo what Josh said in his earlier post, the success of the day will be judged in no small part by the club by the number of fans in attendance. Please get behind this if you can, and have a word with your friends who might not normally attend. We want to make it a really great day… plus if today is anything to go by, the footy will be well worth a watch too!

A lot of U21s who weren’t on the published list have also gone to Austria apparently. Steve Waggott told me this afternoon that JDT has taken 50 players.

It all depends on our remaining transfer business. Buy a good centre forward and keep Adam Wharton and JRC and there’s no reason we can’t get promoted.

Just got home. Nice to have football back, and I know it’s only pre-season but that wasn’t great. Fist game we were pretty comfortable. Phillips was absolutely flawless. Won everything in the air and on the deck, good in possession, looked more than physically capable. Needs keeping round the first team and on todays showing will soon be the first name on the team sheet. Pickering took up the JRC role of coming inside, did it pretty well too. He was up against a tricky winger who went off injured who looked like he might cause us some problems. Szmodics dropped deep a lot and made very intelligent forward passes. Tronstad looks a player, very neat and tidy, gets stuck in, can play on the half turn and get us forward. Hyam was typically solid, Buckley didn’t really shine and was sloppy at times. Brittain had a quiet game but was wasteful in possession and didn’t exploit the acres of space he had in front of him. The big issue is that front three. We will do nothing with Gallagher, Vale and Markanday. Gallagher was Gallagher… should’ve done better with a couple of headers, kept coming short for a pass into feet rather than being a nuisance in the box, didn’t do much. Markanday made a couple of crowd pleasing tackles and broke away, but his end product was severely lacking. Both him and Vale were rubbish in the first period, Vale is not an option out wide at all, that rumoured loan is the correct decision. Second game was worse. We looked all over the place for large periods and the young lads really struggled. I was looking forward to seeing O’Grady-Macken, but he was anonymous. Zak Gilsenan was a marked man and got badly fouled and kicked a few times and it seemed to force him into his shell… he’s a good looking bugger and should probably wear shin pads against league 2 trialists in future. Batty struggled too but did grow into the game, he was a bit unfortunate as he kept looking for an out ball down the wing but nobody was there. Our formation was confused and ragged. I thought Garrett looked good, perhaps not being the kid of the group has helped, he looked more confident on the ball. Dolan has hit the gym hard. He’s still got that explosive burst of pace, but he’ll still be outdone over long distances, he won’t be knocked off the ball easily though and was pretty lively. Wharton started pretty well but got done badly for their second. Leonard didn’t shine, but he didn’t get a lot of service. JRC looked a cut above, proper classy player. We looked a lot more cohesive when he went further forward and got involved. At present he’s probably our best bet to replace Brereton (until Sigurdsson is ready at least). Final thoughts… every corner was short and shite! Kaminski looked the better of the keepers. The crowd were getting really wound up and were loudly urging players to shoot on sight, whether our reluctance to get a shot off is down to tactical choice or personnel, we will have to see. It will have been as obvious to Broughton as it was to everyone else we need some attacking players in.

I’ve got 2 spares for the Stanley game if anyone is looking for tickets One now available

A few points of order on this thread… Rovers colours are halves, and halves should be the opposite way round on the back. Bristol Rovers play in blue and white quarters. Horizontal stripes are called hoops.

Collar is weird, sleeves are right. The light blue and the red sponsor makes the women’s kit look too busy. Get rid of the devils head in the men’s and it’d look miles better. I think I really like the Rovers FC pattern. Halves need reversing on the back.

From a user point of view, premium is absolutely brilliant! I couldn’t go back to the ad version now, well worth the small fee for the convenience. Trust me regulars, you won’t regret it!

Just a reminder of our AGM tonight… All welcome! Come and hear what we’ve been doing including updates on the fan led review and our meetings with the club, and learn about our exciting plans for the next year. We’d love your input! Plus there’s a chance to win a match day hospitality package for those in attendance!