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One other thing to mention here, especially if we lose. Why have we not thought of a way to fill the lower tier of the Blackburn End, instead of emptying it. Surely taking full advantage of being drawn at home, should be explored, as a place in the next round could be worth 10 times more than the saving, he is making here.

Great response that and thanks again for sharing. The figures he provides in response, should be interesting. I am sure with a bit of innovation and competitive pricing, we could have got to 10,000 for this.

Thanks for sharing. Perhaps the next think to ask is given that he was expecting 6,000 and also given the quality of the opposition is better, will he accept responsibility for this being a financial own goal, if we end up with 4,000 or less? Also, how will he feel if this leads to some fans deciding enough is enough and giving up on attending, due to this tipping point. I think more than one poster on here, has suggested that is the case.

What next. The game is only available on line.

After seeing that yesterday, it almost makes me sick to the stomach. What is the point in pitting the likes of Newcastle, City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, United (when stable) and even others, up against teams like Luton, Sheff U and the Clarets (despite this years spending for them)?. If Rovers were to go up, we would simply endure that type of battering ourselves and apart from the odd victory against the teams around the bottom 5 or 6 would we really want to see that kind of slaughter most weeks? So what are we playing for right now, the right to play in the big league for one season, so that our owners can claw back a bit of the money that have put in? It all seems a bit pointless right now.

I fully agree with that, but that’s the conundrum. We don’t know how good or bad the new keeper is yet, but he is going to need to be very good to stop us conceding as many as we have. Granted there were 3 yesterday that he could have done better with, but Ipswich had 36 attempts on goal. We need to shore up the midfield and get our act together defensively too, as we are just relying on being totally kamikaze. The attacking play has been exciting and the football nice on the eye, but even as a spectator, I’m knackered after every match. Get the new keeper in, perhaps go 5 at the back and maybe temper some of the forward play a touch. I rate JDT but his philosophy of preferring to win 5-4 instead of 1-0 is costing us what could be vital points right now. Leicester up next, so we need to implement some changes in the personal and style to get a result. Grinding out a scrappy 1-0 will be fine by me, but I sense that will not be the order of the day.

Watch him get our winner

Yeah it on Rovers TV for overseas fans.

I agree. No way is this an easy win for them. Kets go at them and be a bit cooler in front of goal. No reason why we can’t win this.

It’s such a massive own goal this. Even something as simple as buy one get one free would have worked a treat here. Maybe we can’t offer cheap tickets for the Leicester game, but what about, buy a £10 ticket and we will offer free/reduced tickets to anyone buying one, for the next cup game we host at Ewood.

Don’t give him ideas. He will be switching games to the Wham next, or even considering ground sharing for the 24/25 season.

Announcing they were closing the Blackburn End, seems to have taken 4,000 off the attendance. Waggott is a total sham, doing that.

I guess that compounds the situation with cost cutting and reducing the wage bill. It's a same they don't put an age limit on CEO's and boot the current one out.

Interesting that as that is 43 wins in the whole division out of 380 games. It bears out what I posted about it being fairly rare.

I forgot about that one. I wonder if it happened at all last season, as I don't remember one.

I suspect the same might apply to us going ahead too. I can’t remember when we last lost, after going ahead.

Based on the odds, I have pasted below and taking a snapshot of our games, since Millwall last season. We were behind in that and won (granted it didn’t matter in the end) and we were behind at Rotherham and drew. That’s two in the last 8 where we didn’t lose after conceding first. I’m not trying to defend our record, but if the odds are around 14/1 then it’s going to happen 3 times each season. Statisical analysis, shows it’s not a common occurrence in football.

So the directive is, we are not allowed to play/buy players above a certain age?

Perhaps it’s not just a Rovers thing. I’m not too sure how many bookmakers offer odds on this, but William Hill do. I just checked and for Ipswich to score first on Saturday and Rovers to win, it is 14/1. Just to check the same thing on another game, I tried Norwich to score first and Plymouth to win, which is 12/1 and the same odds apply to Preston to score first and WBA to win. Find a double like that and a £1 stake would return £170 so it’s probably a rare event at most clubs.

Maybe get a quick bit of marketing out to sort that. The acronym to start this is SWIMS. Steve Waggot It's My Seat.

It’s a very frustrating night tonight. As in most Revers games, over the last 2 - 3 seasons, the first goal was crucial. What a pity we couldn’t turn that blistering 25 minute start into a 2 or 3 goal lead. The pen and their goal changed the game and conceding the second, when we did was also a killer. Some good performances tonight from Moran in particular and Hyam and Carter. It feels like small margins, but there is a long way to go yet. Unlikely as it feels just now, a win on Saturday, will make tonight a faded memory and I think we could surprise a few there.

He's fat, he's round, he watches every pound, Steve Waggott, Steve Waggott ♬ ♬ ♬ I am sure there is better, but this is my lame effort.

I think we need to hijack a song and fit Waggotts name into it. I am sure between us, we can get something sorted, akin to cheer up Kevin Keegan to the sleepy Jean monkeys song. Best suggestion on here gets an airing on Wednesday.

I hope the Blackburn End carry on the tirade against him, until he quits in shame. The man is an embarrassment, to our club.

If Jesus has been giving him lessons, he should be able to walk on water.