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Despite frequent claims he has been played out of position since the day we signed him, he appears to only have the inclination or ability to play as an inside forward/wide forward. For me there are several better options than him in that position. Doesn’t look like a centre forward in the slightest.

Really nice way to sign off the preseason. Excellent performance and very pleasantly surprised with how solid we generally looked defensively. If you were basing it solely on today’s game you’d say we were in urgent need of a centre forward before any defensive reinforcements. I think Gallagher with JRC and Armstrong either side of him would be our best front three. Ideally we would add another striker who can be that central focal point.

I’d love to see @JoeH do a heat map on Brereton that half. He must’ve spent a total of about 12 seconds in their box and never got beyond the penalty spot. For all the talk of him needing to play as a centre forward, it just doesn’t look like that is his game.

They look great!!

I thought about something similar a while back... If you know in decent(ish) time you can’t make a game you could effectively give up your ticket for that game. If 20 people registered to do so make 5 family tickets available, Ideally to families who are struggling financially. We aren’t pushed for space At the best of times so there shouldn’t be a problem in finding a spot for them. A simple ‘register your interest’ or waiting list scheme shouldn’t be too arduous for someone at the club to implement.

I was fully intending to end my boycott this season and buy one. Covid has put a stop to that. I’ve effectively lost my livelihood, although when I’ve been in a tight spot financially before I found the money and could do again, but after 6 months of shielding due to a health condition I’m not going to be entering the ground for a while. If I was buying one effectively as a new customer, I’d be ok with a modest price hike... I’d question the logic and see it as typically short sighted, but I’d grin and bear it. If I was renewing I’d be seriously pissed off. The entire tone of that message from Waggott is dreadful. Illogical justifications, deliberately provocative and divisive, and generally incompetent (telling people to go out and buy shirts which aren’t even on sale yet).

It’s not as simple as comparing us to PNE or anyone else John. We’ve been pretty uniquely messed around by our owners for years, and it’s resulted in plummeting attendances and a lost generation of supporters. The club need to be coming up with radical ways to re-engage with the disenfranchised and attract new fans. Price hikes, however modest, are never going to do this. And while the current climate is certainly impacting the clubs finances, it will be impacting the day to day finances of people already living in an economically deprived area, that just so happens to be about the worsting hit place by the pandemic in the country, even more.

I don’t know why I’m bothering. I’d get more joy from a brick wall, but here goes... Is your daughter paying for her own season ticket? If they had increased hers but frozen yours would you be having second thoughts about taking her?

Ah I understand, you are making as much sense as ever! Well thank god they haven’t hiked the price of kids tickets then, just yours.

Why are you pleased? Do you think we are going to see a massive increase in kids attending games? If so it is going to look like something out of Lord of the Flies because their parents, the ones who pay for the tickets and take them may well be priced out! Waggott is talking utter shit!

For a man who’s come out with some utter bollocks at times, I think he’s surpassed himself with this one... “To counter balance the price freeze for Under-18s, we will be having to make a necessary upward adjustment to the prices of other Season Ticket holders”

I notice the statement fails to mention the impending layoffs and redundancies.

I’d suggest their power is pretty minimal. Remember Venky’s have installed Suhail at Ewood as their representative. Nothing happens without Venky’s green lighting it.

You are expecting a level of autonomy that only Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Dario Gradi and avid players of football manager games have had. “Who needs Zidane when we have Sherwood” springs to mind. Owners, chairmen, directors, recruitment teams, heads of recruitment, global advisors, trusted partners, agents and high profile disgruntled supporters have all had a say in transfers in recent years. Managers aren’t simply given a budget to spend as they wish.

Because every manager who has had a summer window under Venky’s (except Mowbray once) has struggled to bring in players in a timely manner. Come off it, you aren’t that naive to think the buck stops with him.

There is a big pattern here... Kean’s first full season in charge we started with N’Zonzi at centre half and Jerome’s son on the bench before we signed Vukcevic, Yakubu, Dann and Slew all after the season had started. The following Season was underway before we signed Rhodes. Following year and Cairney was very late, Marshall the season was already underway, and Gestede came in November. Duffy, Steele and Tunnicliffe all signed on deadline day the next year. The next year we were signings some real horror shows. Tom Lawrence was late, most of the others (Guthrie, Akpan, Delfouneso) were quite early. Mixed bag the next year with Stokes, Feeney and Greer being done pretty quickly, but Mulgrew, Williams and Brown all after kick off. Similar case with loan signings. League one was the only time our business was done in a timely manner. Back to form with Reed, Brereton and Rodwell. Then there was last year where despite being on the verge of signing for at least a month, Tosin wasn’t in in time to start the season. Then there was the whole Mulgrew and Cunningham deadline day stuff. This may go some way to explaining why we never start the season well. Clearly not something that can be blamed on Mowbray. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that since Venky’s came along our entire set up around transfers is clearly a bit off.

I think we can take the conspiracy theory a bit further. Remember Bowyer, Lambert, Coyle and Mowbray are all with the same agency - HSH. Guess where their registered office is?

Just catching up on the days antics... got to say I like these visual breakdowns Joe! more of these would be very welcome throughout the season! ?

You have literally cut out the rebuttals and answers to your questions to post those quotes.

To be honest I think it’s piss poor that our fullbacks are often the most advanced players in our attacks. I think it’s lunacy to expect it regularly. But, shock horror, you’ve missed the point. No, we shouldn’t consider selling him. He is worth more to us than we could hope to get. He is our only right back. We should not be in this situation and should’ve offered new terms ages ago, but it would appear we still haven’t got round to it. If Nyambe moves on then no doubt he will be viewed as ungrateful, disloyal and greedy by you and many others, just like Hoilett and King to name a couple. The fact of the matter is it will be the fault of the club. Of course his attacking game his improved. All aspects of his game have improved. My eyes tell me that. I trust my judgement over your single statistic. What on earth has the number of appearances Wilcox made got to do with anything? If anything you are just proving your own reliance on really over simplified statistics... Wilcox played in a more advanced position, for a free scoring team on their way to the title, with probably the best English centre forward of all time in his prime! By the standards you hold Nyambe to, his assist return is pitiful. I’ll presume you’ve missed the point. Again. I don’t think you’re clued up enough to be that deliberately obtuse, so I will explain it in simple terms. Jason Wilcox was extremely effective during the 94-95 season, just ask Alan Shearer. He was involved in setting up a lot of goals. He has only been credited with 4 assists. I expect Chris Sutton has a lot of assists and I expect many of these came from him nodding a Wilcox cross down to Shearer who put the ball in the net. Accredited assists are not an effective measure to solely base a players attacking contribution on.

Oh he’s definitely our first choice right back. He’s our only right back. It did take 10 games before he got a kick last year though, and he’s been inexplicably dropped on occasion since.

“I thought Joe Rankin-Costello warranted his place in the team and thought Elliott Bennett brings some character and personality to our team and takes the game-plan on to the pitch. “It was a balance of a few things, confidence levels, and the fact he’s played a lot of football, we decided to go with Elliott and Joe.” T. Mowbray 15th July 2020

This season presents an absolutely unique opportunity to blood young players. Probably the only benefit to playing in empty grounds is the fact players like Dolan can be introduced without getting overawed. Manage him effectively, and I’m not just talking Mowbray here, the senior players, coaches, his parents and all support staff play a part. Make sure he stays grounded, if he has a rough patch keep him off social media, be careful with him, but get him playing. The lad looks the real deal.

You only need to go back to the 14th of July, Millwall game, to see that’s not the case.

Funny you should mention the 94-95 season... I’ve just had a look at the stats for that season. Have a guess how many assists Jason Wilcox was credited with? 4 (four). I couldn’t possibly provide any better evidence to show that assist stats are utter bollocks.