The train from Southport to Blackburn now takes about 2 hours with 3 changes and costs about £23 return!

I keep chewing over this. First I was somewhat despondent at the prices and the ensuing debacle of a manager search, and now I'm just worried about actually getting to a game. (Without being a big headed t*at) I earn a good salary and live in a nice house and could probably stomach the cost, but that coupled with the cost of everything else and most pertinently fuel (travelling over from Southport at soon to be £2 a litre diesel) makes it too much for me now. I genuinely fear there will be around 6k season tickets this season if nothing is done about the current pricing. If nothing else the price is actually embarrassing.

I hope we don't "emulate Brentford" as that would mean disbanding the academy...although with the proposed sale of the academy last year maybe this is all part of a longer term plan to "streamline" and cut costs?!

Without trawling back several pages of posts; has there been any further input from @glen9mullan since it was revealed Farke has gone elsewhere? Would be interesting to get some insight in to what appears to have gone on there!

From what somebody said on the Manager thread its a different Steve Walsh...although I could be wrong! Walsh had a great record at Leicester and although it's gone to pot at Everton, I wouldn't hold that against him. Its well documented that his reign there was basically null and void due to the crazy nature in which their owner decides to operate!

With this seemingly imminent, what are thoughts on who or what's happening? Pearce has been mooted as has Steve Walsh (who seems a sensible appointment to me).

Good job we are all married parents with 2 kids too. #wholesomerovers

@darrenrover was this a wind-up or were you being serious?

Agreed. If the ticket was £299 instead of £399 it is actually and also sounds more palatable. I hadn't had a season ticket for 6 years before last season as I deemed my son now old enough to attend regularly. I absolutely loved it even the games I ended up attending alone, but the price with all of life's other increases and trimming back going on feels like a lot to fork out now. I'm on the fence so I really hope what @darrenrover said above comes to fruition...and pronto!

He has added under his other, more high profile pseudonym.

I'm sure Critchley would have a buy-out clause in his contract; I would be certain all but the very top managers would have the same. Would we be willing to pay a fee? Probably not.

Done an amazing job at the lashers. I would happily renew my season ticket based on this appointment.

The notion that the Rao's never refuse to sign things off sounds a little fanciful to me. Why would anyone, including Waggott, not ask for more money if they're ever so happy to do sign cheques? Surely that would mean that there would be no problem in asking? There are HUGE issues at the ground that need addressing and wouldn't fall under FFP. Waggott et al. will be aware of all of these issues and I would assume that the Rao's man on the ground Suhail will be too. You'd have to literally be blind to not see them. I don't doubt at all what you think you know @glen9mullan and I know you aren't one to pass on information or rumours without it coming from a credible source, but it makes zero sense.

Sorry @Mercer this wasn't directed at you or anyone else in particular. I actually enjoy the speculation its just a little reminder that we should all take hearsay with a pinch-of-salt and in reality we all know absolutely zero about what's occurin'.

To summarise the last 10 posts; Nobody knows anything, other than those in the know who know something but won't knowingly say what they know about knowing something.

Hopefully out the door with Waggot then and some extra incentives to get a ST. New manager, new ideas. Slash £100 off a season ticket to get Ewood feeling like it has at points this season. It has been great to see crowds of 18k+ on a few occasions and that should be our target now for every home game. In Glen I trust. Don't let me down, sunshine 😉

If it's Micky Mellon I will literally gouge my eyeballs out

What?

Its an incredible story that they were saved in 1997, and huge kudos to the small number of fans that they survived and retained their club. It still isn't a fairy-tale that they ended up in the PL. A fairy-tale is Leicester winning the PL in 2015 - a team tipped to be relegated defying literally all odds to win a title, or to a lesser extent us winning it in 1995 - fulfilling the dream of a fan who put his own wealth in to bank-rolling success. Would you agree then that Man City becoming European powerhouses and dominating English football is a fairy-tale? After all billionaire owners don't guarantee success...

Not if he costs £3.5m!

I don't think this changes the fact that the club has been bank rolled by some oligarch that has no prior connections to the club, in order to reach the PL.

The 'Bournemouth fairy-tale' is a HUGE misnomer. Money talks.

Bristol City was a disaster too. They were basically baying to be beaten and Dack's penalty miss was another kick in the bollocks. Always amazes me that our main set piece taker (Rothwell) never takes pens...

Don't reckon this will pass. It'll kill club attendances even further

Uninspiring and unimaginative as usual. As others have said I'll be getting one depending on the manager situation. I'd sooner pay £30 more knowing my investment was sound rather than pissing it against the wall if that miserable prick is still manager.