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4-0 thrashing for PNE… but didn’t they know it was Gentry Day 🎩 😫

What’s a cheap ticket for walk ons got to do with any of the points I was making? *Sigh* please try reading, Chaddy. Nobody has issues with some games being moved, that’s just how it is, just going SIX MONTHS with only one Sat 3pm league match, but anyway there might just be a slight difference in folk’s priorities if we happen to be miraculously back in the PL… oh and we wouldn’t be going six months without a 3pm Saturday game in the PL either! There are reasons for the absurd amount of moved games this particular season, but that doesn’t stop the inconvenience and the decisions some ST holders will be making on the back of it this summer.

Missing the point as usual, Chaddy. Of course games will be moved, of course Sky calls the tune, of course it’s been going on for 30 years, of course us fans just have to put up with it. However, *this scale* of games being moved is not normal. One 3pm Saturday game in *six months* is unprecedented and will do nothing for ST renewals, as guess what, other people have other priorities in life and unlike you (and me for that matter) they can’t/won’t drop everything to get to Ewood at all manner of times when they can just plonk in front of the TV.

Good football city though. In the second and third tiers, neither have done anything for decades, yet they attract c55k–60k between them, and they get very little acknowledgment for it. Compare and contrast that to the constant smoke Leeds and Newcastle (and their fans) get blown up their collective arses. They are the only clubs in their big cities, so it’s not particularly impressive for them to be having Premier League gates of 37k to 50k but bloody hell you never hear the end of how great their support is.

‘Not a football town’, though…

One Saturday 3pm game in 6 months? That isn’t normal even if you are having a decent season and doing well in the FA Cup, word being *decent*, we are fifth in the second tier, not charging to the automatics. Whatever the reason, and there are a few this season, the end result will still be many fans thinking twice about a ST at our prices.

Exactly the kind of bollocks that will make folk think twice about renewing STs. Between Huddersfield on the 5th November and Luton on the 29th April (and obviously every chance that moves too) we will have had *one* league game at Saturday 3pm.

Still, at least we got to find out GB’s a Luton fan (again).

Could well be, but not sure Joe Bloggs in the Blackburn End or roverboi95 on Twitter will be in the loop either way…

The ‘Morton Clause’ is one of those rumours/putting 2 + 2 together things that has become a fact. Hear it all the time and not just on here.

From what I remember they thought he was a good player, however they believed we had overpaid. Up until recently it may have looked like they had a point, but he’s obviously improved markedly in recent weeks.

If there was another league game in midweek (or even next weekend) then maybe they would be thinking of priorities. But with a two week break after Sunday I don’t see why they wouldn’t be going for it. It’s an FA Cup Quarter Final, at home, against a side lower than them in their division.

Prices should have been the other way round with the Reading game. But still, £20 in all areas for a play off rival clash at Easter is an enticing price.

So Buckley and Travis (and BB) should’ve been given a shorter deal?

Hopefully something has been lost in translation, but please don’t tell me that the forum were actually *encouraging* the club to introduce another price hike as long as the Riverside was a bit cheaper?

We’ll never know if without lockdown the fans would’ve turned. But there can surely be no arguments that he received very little grief from match goers over his tenure. Like I said JDT has had more pelters already. Very lucky guy. But anyway, let’s move on from the miserable sod.

Of course managers should get cut slack depending on the circumstance of the club at that time. But I’ve never known such a middling manager get such an easy ride from fans over such a long period of time. JDT is certainly not getting such a luxury after only months in situ.

Midweeks always are (everybody expects it to be anyway), even a deal doesn’t really move the dial. So don’t waste your one tenner offer of the season on it. As morten says, we have two tasty looking 3pm games against promotion rivals in the run in, no brainer to pick one of those (well, it should’ve been).

There you go then, as I said, poor decision to choose this game.

Not a negative. the crowd will be c15k, which is obviously better than a standard midweek and can only help the atmosphere. But it was just the wrong game to pick. As midweeks will always have limitations with a lot of fans being unable to attend. Instead, if you choose a 3pm game in the run in and you will have 22-23k+ . If you are only doing a tenner game once all season, you obviously need to target it at a game that will pull the most folk in. A Wednesday game, in March, against a team fetching about 300, isn’t the one.

It’s a figure of speech, UD. 30 Years a Slave, football ain’t.

There isn’t even enough for the mascot, never mind anyone else. Kit man takes them home to wash every week, I take it?

It certainly is, but considering you have never outlined what has improved on the commercial side since the maggot days (and on the surface it certainly doesn’t look an improved commercial operation) then folk will take it with a pick of salt.

We signed Buckley and Travis up on long term deals last year. And quite right too, their wages won’t be breaking the bank and it protects our assets and helps future planning. No reason Dolan, JRC and Carter shouldn’t follow.

You guys 💕