Sublime touches?

Really happy with that today. Thought we played well, Brittain looks promising and Vale didn’t disgrace himself, but needs more minutes I think. The main positive for me- last ten minutes, normally with Rovers, I’m bricking it and expect us to concede, but was the most contented in ages, as we were so comfortable. Let’s get some new bodies in and build on this. Onwards and upwards.

Delighted there’s real football back today. Just so we’ve something to talk about other than meltdowns, people’s need to relax, confusion about why people are so relaxed, not judging until the end of the transfer window and last but not least…. People on Rovers’ Facebook page angry reacting to the fact Ewood is cashless. The football club we all adore is what unites us and thank Christ they’re playing again today!

I think too much is being made of Dack being able/unable to play the pressing game tbh. JDT was a very good player and I imagine he will appreciate the talents of our number 23 on this basis. Dack can play a bit himself and has consistenly shown himself (when fit) to be the best finisher at the club. I’m sure our manager will be able to squeeze him in, with this in mind….

Cheaper tickets in the middle of a cost of living crisis and a poor area wouldn’t hurt, would it? Bigger picture is that means more bums on seats, more money spent on the concourse, therefore, more revenue. It’s a poor do when PNE and Bolton are selling far more season tickets than us in comparable areas. Made even worse by Bolton being in a division below!

If you’re gonna make wild accusations like that, you’re going to need to give some examples.

I’ll raise it again at the next one in September for sure. I was going to go with it myself, but another forum member got there first and asked the questions I wanted to ask!

He was, but, to be honest (and I don’t agree with this at all for the avoidance or doubt), he wasn’t really for budging at all on that!

Minutes from last meeting available here- https://www.rovers.co.uk/fans/fans-forum.

As long as we have no injuries, they are still a thing….

I’d say it’s more concern that the season starts in three days and we haven’t replaced experienced players that we lost at the end of the season.

Of course they do, some don’t take it far enough either. The more extreme views on both ends of the spectrum stand out more because they’re exactly that- extreme. In any case, they’re only opinions and pixels on a screen. The majority of views are somewhere in the middle.

We need to move away from dismissing people’s legitimate concerns as them being negative, as much as we needed to move away from calling people happy clappers because they were seen as blindly praising the club no matter what. We have lost a lot of first team appearances from last season and the new season starts in four days, that’s a fact.

Pretty harsh to call a manager with two seasons and two league titles under his belt a rookie, no?

Dick tease….

To be fair, I and many others refer to Rovers as ‘we’ or ‘us’. Guessing it’s to do with feeling some sort of connection at some point throughout my life?

Just what I needed to hear, thank you!

In fairness to 1864, I definitely remember a post where he revealed all not that long ago. Probably would have helped the mods a lot more if that had come earlier, but he spilled his guts, that’s for sure!

I am serious, sorry Shirley. For real though, I’ve always just gone off positions and not numbers. I.E- defensive mid, box to box, attacking mid etc.

What’s an ‘8’ and what’s a ‘6’? (Not aimed at you Jimmy, more the author of the article). This ain’t rugby!

Reminder about point 1. We aren’t having people being accused of being fans of other clubs, just as we aren’t having people being called club plants. Just stop it.

Bradley Orr & Jason Lowe were better than Nyambe?

And have you ask me to reinstate it, because you’re a glutton for punishment? Nah you’re alright mate.

Probably wouldn’t kill you two to leave each other alone would it?

I like to think he’d been given many examples of why he was wrong since tbh (Roy Keane etc). Either way, looks like the ban hammer will have to be woken up, which is a shame.