Other clubs of all kinds are looking at initiatives to improve crowds. Season tickets at Clitheroe were reduced to £30. Yes its non league buf its increased crowds by 10% this season. Sale offer their free buses. They're riding the wave of good publicity from allowing Ben Curry to go and watch his twin play in Japan. Clubs like Accrington have been quoted before as doing drinks at cheap prices, giving schoolkids shirts etc. Rovers have to look at ways of doing things differently. Crowds have to be wooed and won nowadays. Its not a given that your dad takes you when you're little and you become a fan for life as used to happen. Good initiatives can improve situations even when the team isnt doing great on the pitch. It's all about the all round experience which has to draw you in. Success on the pitch is part of it, but better crowds can help performance so you have to get people in and improve your chances of success.

I said I wasnt advocating a bad change. However, if it brought more points than not changing did then where's your problem?

Even a bad change could be decent. A change nearly always brings some kind of reaction. I'm not advocating a bad change, but we need to do something different because what were doing now is not working

I havent but feel free to on my behalf

If change needs making by christmas then we might as well get on with it. It could take till christmas for a new manager to get in and assess the situation and try to do something about it in the January window. If we wait till christmas to change then well miss the window or rush and make stupid mistakes again. Get it done now and we have a chance of doing a bit better than just surviving

If England get anywhere near yesterday's performance they have nothing to fear in the final. Plenty to be wary of but nothing to actually fear.

I think SA would be a more exciting match than Wales. The Welsh are niggly and difficult to play against. Would be a feast of Sale players on show too, so I wouldn't feel as disappointed if England lost as I would if we lost to the Welsh, although if we can find a performance like yesterday's we wont lose to either of them. Tom Curry has been immense for England so far.

Put it back in then because Rangers are, like if or not, atm a much better job and why give up the crowds at ibrox for the morgue that is ewood

We were out this afternoon. When we left the house it was half time 2-0. After we'd walked round Dunham massey my husband asked me to guess the score and without hesitation I said 3-2. So predictable.

I just dont see it as a model Venkys would go for. It would mean getting 2 appointments correct and what chance is there ov that, given their past record of not getting 1 really right

Who did the survey go to?

I'm with you on this. I don't know who'll come next. We take a huge risk getting rid of Mowbray and in many ways I'll be sorry to see him go but the time to change manager is not when things are so bad they can't be redeemed. You have to give yourselves a chance of improvement. Are this squad going to improve under Mowbray? I doubt it so we need to do something now

Faf de Klerk was superb today too. Two Sale players motm in the quarter finals. Brilliant stuff

Tom Curry was immense. Every minute of every game so far I think.

I wanted to get a season ticket this year for the first time in ages. I know I've mentioned this loads of times but this year, for the first time, i was very serious. I got as far as filling in an application. But my husband was less keen although it seemed a very reasonable price to me. We didn't do it. But we did attend the Luton game, the first game wed have been able to attend anyway as we didn't come home from holidays till mid september. How glad I was that we hadn't committed to watching that every few weeks. As Dolly Blue says, it's not winning every match that matters. Its watching 14 guys across a match on the pitch where you feel every player has given everything in a system that suits them so that you feel you have a chance of winning. Premier league or not, many fans would want to watch if the team looked to have a coherent pattern of play and looked fit, ready to play for one another and won or drew more than they lost

Actually many players aren't like grown up sensible people because they dont have to be. Many are looked after so thoroughly from the moment they sign for a club that they dont realise they have to be sensible for themselves. And they're young. They have the money and the lifestyle at an early age and they aren't necessarily called to book when they step out of line. We all occasionally need someone to remind us that our behaviour is not acceptable. How that needs to happen may be different for each of us but we still need telling and showing. Looking after a squad of footballers is exactly like being a teacher. You have to gain respect and show care but know when to put your foot down. That's what people managing is about

You're right. It's more about making them aware you are serious about what they've done. As a teacher, I often kept kids in detention not because I really wanted to go through it as it mucked up my break or lunchtime, but because I needed to make a point, and hopefully make them less likely to do it again, therefore giving me an easier life

And you know well get none of them because goodness only knows who the powers that be at Ewood listen to but it's certainly not you or any of us

Dont disparage pensioners. Were not all irrational.

It's not what you say it's the way that you say it.

The Pink was first brought out by the Evening Gazette on Teesside I think. We used to buy the first edition as we left the ground but when we got home I quite often found my dad had bought the late edition and the end of match report would be complete in that

People dont mind being bored if they're winning. The 3 points mitigates the boredom. The problem is that it's not only boring; its losing or at best drawing football, so the boredom is what you remember.

Why not, none of these. There are some I'd take but surely A N other ought to be a choice

I think we all worry about what next if Mowbray goes, but now would mean we could get on with whatever comes next instead of leaving Mowbray in situ until it's too late for any incoming manager to sort things before next season. We all know that Venkys will likely leave it until preseason has started or whatever and then expect a new guy to come in and have an impact

You may not have heard them say it but that's not the point. Fans of Rovers call them Rovers and outsiders who know anything about football generally know which Rovers