Do you reckon they've cottoned on that the new caterers have bombed? https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/september/beat-the-clock/

If the point is to prepare them for the first team, why is Chapman up front and Hart on left wing?! Samuel looking a passenger with nothing sticking. 45 mins of running I suppose. Impressed by 4. Is that Lyons?

No Rankin Costello tonight but Hart is on show. Spoilers?

A bit cheaper (not much). With it being a newish ground in the middle of the park, no options around the ground; not even a burger van.

I'm here but no-one else is! 9 people in away bar. Should be a cracking atmosphere...

First trip to Ewood this season and think I'll try out the new menu. Can't complain about prices without quality... Erm... 40 minutes to kick-off and the pies "aren't ready". I can forgive many things but 6 servers watching a stack of pies warm up? Piss take...

Who knows, who knows and yes. You've joined us right when the excitement meter went ding.

Honestly so glad I got a Fulham ticket now. One depressing way or another surreal one, it's going to be an experience...

Firstly I must admit I didn't go yesterday as Garstang Show was on. Any point I make might get countered by: "In the ...th minute, they did this...". It does seem though that the pattern all through pre-season which everyone, including Mowbray, could see carried on into the proper stuff. 1. Certain players really slow our play down. Bell and Mulgrew stood out in this for me against Bury and Blackpool. 2. The ONLY player capable of breaking past players and disrupting the opposition's shape is Rothwell. Without him they are able to sit in banks relatively easily. 3. Dack has seemingly lost himself somewhere in midfield. 4. Playing strikers on the wings in folly. They're not in a place to score (the thing they're supposedly best at), they can't cross as well as proper widemen and, MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR US, they are inexperienced at helping out full backs. This also means that full backs will hesitate to bomb on as they know the winger isn't able to cover them if they're left high up the pitch in a counter attack. 5. Point 4 would matter a little less if a decent full back was played. No-one has ever argued that Bennett is better than Nyambe. As far as I know, Mowbray hasn't ever claimed this either. WHY IS HE PLAYING?!

That's the reason why we SHOULD focus on this. This is not an easy task and won't happen overnight. This is a project which may well take decades.Parents will pay money for almost anything given sufficient pestering. We just need to work in schools and in whatever youth social activities there are to convince the young to give live football a shot. Going to a live game is always better than watching big clubs on the tv. To begin with, I would focus on this aspect and try to hook a few that way.

To be honest, I don't see ever cheaper tickets as the answer. We can demand dirt-cheap prices all we like but that would completely defeat the point of selling an extra thousand. We need finance. Either it comes from India or it comes from us. If tickets cost £15 a game, there'd still be those asking for discounts for certain games (kids for a quid is great as a one-off by the way). Those who don't go for whatever reason, be it protest, distance, price, fine. Those who go, fine. Let's not go over old, poisonous ground. There are only two ways of getting larger (I'm talking around the 20k mark) attendances regularly. One is promotion back to the top flight and the other is establishing a core of Asian fans over several years. This is clearly on their agenda and is already having an effect. It is noticeable that the number of Asian fans attending is beginning to creep up. Personally, I'd have taken the change of caterers as an opportunity to include a halal option with massive marketing of these efforts with leaflets for every house down Audley, Whalley Range etc. Same comment in Season Tickets thread. Merging?

To be honest, I don't see ever cheaper tickets as the answer. We can demand dirt-cheap prices all we like but that would completely defeat the point of selling an extra thousand. We need finance. Either it comes from India or it comes from us. If tickets cost £15 a game, there'd still be those asking for discounts for certain games (kids for a quid is great as a one-off by the way). Those who don't go for whatever reason, be it protest, distance, price, fine. Those who go, fine. Let's not go over old, poisonous ground. There are only two ways of getting larger (I'm talking around the 20k mark) attendances regularly. One is promotion back to the top flight and the other is establishing a core of Asian fans over several years. This is clearly on their agenda and is already having an effect. It is noticeable that the number of Asian fans attending is beginning to creep up. Personally, I'd have taken the change of caterers as an opportunity to include a halal option with massive marketing of these efforts with leaflets for every house down Audley, Whalley Range etc. Copied and pasted in Attendances. Any chance of combining the threads?

Anyone else go? I popped down to look at training and check out the new concourse food offerings. Plenty of families on the rides out the back. Good weather and good times had by all. We do seem to be putting a lot of effort into hooking the next generation these days, fair play. On the other hand, I did note a general price increase for food. The new menu seems a bit 'glossy'. What the hell is a Meister dog?! What exactly are 'dirty fries'? Whatever they are, they're £4.50. Chips up from £2 to £3. Wrights pies at £3.60. Think I'll stick to the van at the back of the club shop...

He'll be OK as a goal-scorer at League 1 but will still need some patience. When he got a few games for us in that league, he did score a couple but it never led anywhere. Got to be honest, he really needs a move to a club where he is undisputed first choice up front playing to his strengths in the 6-yard box. Best of luck to him. As someone who went yesterday, I thought it was a lot more even than you seem to. Our lack of energy from back to front played into your counter attacking plan and a few scrambles could have gone the other way and led to goals. Admittedly, we had an extra gear to give if we'd needed it.

I'm hoping that the full backs are cobbled together and Downing moving back affected left wing. Those 3 positions aside it looks OK. Hopefully CB gets sorted this week.

I thought this would be our first XI. I can't be right, can I?!

It's definitely the same blue. Weird how every photo looks a different colour. Personally like this blue but can't stand the away kit.

There's a rail of ladies' kits in the store with a few men's versions. The guy behind the counter seemed surprised when he went for the stock boxed kit and I wanted this version off the rail.

Just got the ladies' team home shirt (men's XL size). Identical in every way to the men's team but with Watson Ramsbottom in a pleasing red to match the trim instead of 10Bet. Quite pleased...