Think he means PNE roll over and both themselves and Mowbray have a laugh at Rovers

Imagine we end up losing JDT but the thief on £300k stays around for a few more seasons. Someone of JDT’s stature getting called into the car salesman’s office is something that makes me feel sick!

I think Carter is fine to start. CB defo isn’t a priority. Others I agree with both. Need a full new front 3 (or 2 alongside Sammie depending on formation), and a new midfielder next to Wharton, and new LB if we’re really wanting to be serious. Today has me settled on my opinion that Travis isn’t good enough for a promotion starter, and he certainly is anything but a captain! He goes into his shell if a game ever matters.

Borderline gross misconduct from JDT that Ben Brereton is still starting matches.

£6.6m over a year - Equivalent of 7 x Ayalas…..crazy. Must be some serious non-playing wages getting spent at Rovers, as outside of Ayala/Dack/Gally (maybe Diaz on the year extension) I don’t think we’re paying very much at all. If we got rid of those 4 and replaced with nobody it would still be like £3.5m more than Luton

I always feel like if we had some sort of amalgamation of the last 3 years we’d walk the league, but it’s never clicked each year. Adam Wharton with Harvey Elliott pulling the strings and Diaz (not Brereton) and Armstrong 2nd top scorers in the league. With Van Hecke and Hyam at the back and JDT in charge. We’ve been unfortunate that all those league leading stars/moments/positions we’ve had haven’t overlapped in the same year and it’s led to a lot of 8th-12th style squads. Maybe next year will be the one, though I won’t hold my breath for the transfer window.

So now all rivals have played: Have to beat Millwall no matter what mathematically, otherwise we can’t surpass both themselves and Coventry (regardless of Luton result) So 3 scenarios from the Luton result: Win: It’s fully in our hands, not reliant on any other results. Beat Millwall and in. Draw: Still in it, need to beat Millwall, but now reliant on Sunderland not beating PNE and WBA not beating Swansea too. Lose: Season over, nothing to play for against Millwall (unless we beat Millwall by 6 goals, Sunderland don’t beat PNE and WBA don’t beat Swansea)

Nothing to do with our 5 seasons. You were comparing Mowbrays Sunderland to Lowes PNE, this season It’s easy to know which of them are more entertaining, PNE had scored about 2 goals after 12 games and 10 0-0 draws! Whilst the other has scored the 4th amount of goals in the league (all without a striker for the majority of the season)

Makes no difference - WBA win 2 and we win 2 and we finish above them

Whatever you say mate but Sunderland and PNE are like chalk and cheese. Unless you’re so dim you don’t understand the definition of entertainment.

Mid-table with -11 GD - he’s got PNE no where near the playoffs. Mowbray has done a far superior job to Lowe, both position and entertainment wise.

I didn’t realise until I read that article that there is ANOTHER price increase after playoff final. So the £429 price is only between 7th May and 26th May, then it goes up AGAIN. Get out of our club you useless useless Brent impersonator.

Keep fighting the good fight mate! From memory there was no actual saving for it. 6 matches for £150. Of course no fucker took it up. £25 a match when that’s the going rate anyway. It’s actually more expensive than the average price per ticket before you even acknowledge match by match offers. They’re just absolutely clueless, as always with Rovers these days, a novel idea, but awful execution.

Looking ahead to next year, looks like there will be the least amount of Parachute Payments flying around since I can remember. Only Norwich and Watford will have them who are in the league currently, and they'll be on their final year too due to 1 year relegation. So 5 teams overall with the relegated 3. If there's a few basket case clubs in that then we'll probably never see a better time to compete. So if the 3 relegated clubs (lets say Saints, Everton, Forest) all got instant promotion back we'd be down to no legacy parachute payments and just the relegated 3 teams in 2024/25 as it'll be dried up at Norwich/Watford (as well as WBA this year). In our last year of payments, 10 different clubs were receiving them, a lot more competition. Even going back just 3 years there were 8 different clubs receiving them.

Yep, I'd get one and I don't even live in the country. Try and get to 8+ games (obviously more if I lived in Lancashire), have priority on aways / big cup matches. At the least I'd get one to share with family members. Like you say, doesn't need to be complicated. It's basically what happened under the John Williams campaign (was it £199 and £149 for young adult or something?) EDIT: It's irrelevant as they're in the Prem, have TV money and owned by the richest people in the world where 'financial fair play' doesn't seem to be a thing, but you can get a City season ticket in the upper tier of the South Stand as an adult for £205. Imagine, you can watch De Bruyne, Haaland, Grealish, Foden for half the price of Gallagher, Hedges, Dolan, Diaz

It's horrendous. I saw at the weekend Fulham have the self-service beer terminals in their new stand now. I used these at Old Trafford (Cricket!!) watching England last summer. You have to go down for a pint on 36 mins to get served before the 2nd half kicks off in the Blackburn End. Selection and quality on offer at Rovers is just as bad as speed of service too. The foundations are there at Ewood to have a proper enjoyable match day experience, hopefully one day someone comes in who can embrace it.

Used to be able to get tickets through my school when I was kid....in Chorley! I'd be amazed if they do anything like that now in Blackburn and Darwen area let alone in the Lancashire towns and villages where we've historically pulled in fans. Feels like we're on the cusp of something that could be really enjoyable. A manager who doesn't belittle us and youth team players reminiscent of the last wave (Dunn/Duff). For god sake we need to sort out the commercial side though it's tragic. Not just the fact we have the most expensive season ticket in Lancashire and only sell 1/3rd of our stadium through them, but also as others have mentioned, the food, the drink, the facilities, the stadium entertainment, the riverside. If we had someone who cared for the club running the show it would make the world of difference. £250 season tickets, pelter everyone on the database, bloody canvas round the town even, cheaper offer for kids through the schools. No reason why we shouldn't have 15k season tickets in this division and be getting 20k with big away followings. I think it was this year when someone posted a picture of us advertising on the bus.....for the season tickets 2 years prior!

Could do with PNE beating Sheffield United on Saturday to keep them interested against Sunderland (that is if Sunderland don’t slip up prior to that against Watford)

Beat Luton and Millwall and all we need is either Coventry or Sunderland to not win both their matches.

Do you think we’d have seen him start games if Buckley hadn’t got injured? Genuine question. I don’t. He continued playing 2 in the middle (Travis and Morton) after the Buckley injury and took multiple games to switch to 3. If Buckley had been fit, I think he’d have opted for him in the 3. Wharton wasn’t even making the squad before that. Regarding the tough few games, I remember a poor 45 against Bristol City (think it was them) - that’s it. The other 4 or so appearances around that time pre-Xmas he was brilliant again like Blackpool (Hull / Birmingham) Funny old strategy that JDT is now saying “he’s the best player on the pitch” etc. He was earlier in the season too, but back then it was “he needs to do more” JDT dropped the ball on this one, if your good enough, you’re old enough (he just played 3 games in 6 days). I do appreciate he was injured for a while too though so that was always going to play into it.

It’s a pointless argument but you’re wrong. They had 0.13 in the first half alone (not sure exact before goal yet). They had 8 shots all game. They created fuck all, we created fuck all minus 1

No, their goal was 0.02 (comms said that after the goal). They had more than that prior to the goal

I doubt Tugay gave it ten to the dozen on the bleep test. Some players are different, he’s a teenager and he’s quality and gives it everything when I’ve seen him playing. Could have been the difference this season.

Did we though? If we did, the chances were slim and unlikely so not even to be called ‘half chances’ (granted a chunk of theirs has probably come from that open goal at the end). A lot of talk about ‘taking our chances‘ again as I’ve seen week after week. I keep reverting back to the absolute diddly squat we actually created (another match with sub 1.00 xG). Happens when your ‘creative’ players are Diaz/Dolan/Hedges

I’ve seen 0 evidence of this at all. A few bizarre forum rumours maybe that in the grand scheme of the footballing world were feck all anyway.