Pickering marked his 300th league appearance with his first run in behind a defence

Duffer for replacement if/when Eustace goes. Seemingly worked a miracle in the Irish league.

It's a first world problem but surely the club realise it's not a good look. Can't be that hard for someone to bring in a sandwich platter, a few sausages rolls and a quiche.

One of the reporters who covered the Swans game at the weekend made a comment on how Ewood Park is the only ground in the top 2 divisions where there's no food provided for the press - and even in league 2 you get biscuits! Not a huge thing in the scheme of things but a bit embarrassing and an indicator of how far the cost cutting has gone.

Even if adult tickets were £250 and young adults £175 or £200, I think most of those who buy the incorrect ticket would still go with the cheaper option and try and get away with it. I don't buy the mindset being "I can't afford the higher price so I'll chance it on the cheaper", in most cases it's "I'm chancing it on the cheaper and hopefully don't get caught".

Fully agree with the sentiment but the context of the clubs is vastly different. 2m is hardly anything to elite clubs like Bayern, whereas to Rovers it would be 10% of the annual losses (based on the £20m figure which keeps getting used). A better comparison would be Villa milking their fans for UCL tickets at £70-£100

I can see what you mean but I think they've taken that tone as there'll no doubt be some who think the club are being unreasonable - what's a few hundred/thousand quid to them etc.

Saturday's team based on tonight: Toth, duru, carter, batth, hedges, JRC, tronstadt, ACD, Cantwell, siggy, mak.

Pears might just have given the reason for Toth to be given the shirt on Saturday

Pickering putting in a Sunday league performance so far

Happens at the biggest clubs too. Last season's authentic Arsenal shirt had a tape on the inside with the results of their invincibles season. Keep in mind it cost well over £100 and didn't feature on the replica shirt version - it didnt have all 38 results, was missing about 6 from what I remember

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How nice to see Ewood full to capacity again and having been given a clean up! I gave up on seeing our home in the game and stopped playing a couple of years ago. They've done a decent job of creating the digital version.

ST pricing will always be difficult to balance. If as noted in the minutes we were the only club in the league to reduce pricing then clearly slashing prices is a punt none of the 24 were willing/needed to take. It's been discussed loads before but if we halved the price would we really double attendance? No guarantee. Yes income would increase for other match day revenue but so does extra cost such as security/staffing. A bigger crowd also doesn't necessarily result in better results - Bolton and Bradford didn't get promoted despite home support likely amongst the best within their leagues.

It would be awful man management to drop Pears at the moment. He's, dare I say it, in form. You don't drop any in form player. Rest them for a cup tie, sure, but not put someone else in their place for an important game.