Why did they extend phase 1? Did they not pull the numbers they thought?

No. We shouldnt be signing a striker who was 5th or 6th choice for a side in League 1, behind players like Jay Rodriguez, Steven Fletcher and Jack Marriott.

The TV money keeps going up, at the inconvenience of the match going fan. Those increases far exceed minor increases relative to a football club such as energy and national insurance. Dont let the sob stories from Waggott and Suhail fool you. Problem is that clubs pay far too much in wages, its not an increase in gas and electric or NI that is causing football clubs to be so reliant on owner investment year on year. But either way, whether other clubs do it or not is not the point. Those clubs are in totally different situations to us. Our fan base dwindles and dwindles, those other clubs can do it because their sales are higher and their grounds are far more full therefore its far more justified. We also have a lot of angry and unhappy fans who may have cooled off in the summer or decided that they missed going. But now, they will be much more unlikely to then buy at a higher price. If you sell 12k or more of say a possible 23k season tickets at the end of a first phase, with a fan base that isnt full of unhappiness. Its fine to then not necessarily sell many more after it, for it to just tick over with a few more sales after which is more likely if the fanbase isnt already angry at having the piss taking out of it. If you sell 7.5k (and boast about it) of a possible 23k season tickets, with an unhappy fanbase. To then bring in a second phase of higher prices is just preventing that majority of empty seats from being sold. Its such a flawed mindset to shrug your shoulders and say well some other teams are also doing it. Its simply not comparing like for like. If we scrapped the phases at our club, I would be pretty sure that yes cash flow in might become slightly more staggered across the summer, for the sake of a month or two, but the overall sales income would be higher.

Just throwing it out there, anyone think Paul Mullin could do a job for us at this level with him being out of favour at Wrexham?

It's every club who does Phases regarding ST and the prices go up in each Phase. This entire football issue. Most people and football clubs are feeling the financial pressures at the minutes with energy prices going up and NIC rise

No thanks, high wages and coming to the end of his career.

Rovers have one "plan" only---to fleece committed supporters for as much as they can gouge them and to fail to even attempt to attract new ones. This is a sure-fire recipe for a long lingering death as the supporter base continues to age. Of the 7500 season ticket holders we have at this minute, what % are non-concession holders? I bet we struggle to reach the pathetic 4000 we had last season.

What was their phase one price and how many did they sell in that phase? CONTEXT

I dont really care about other clubs, it doesnt excuse our shitty policies. Other clubs are in different situations. Not the same supporter unrest, not the same whittled down fanbase, not the same economic conditions in those areas, not the same lack of demand and number of empty seats. Bolton for example will have sold miles more in that first phase than we will.

All football clubs have these Phases when it's to season tickets. Bolton phase two started before the season ended.

Don't get it why people want to sell Pickering. We need 2 left backs in the squad.

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They tend to stay away from the ones that have been dropped repeatedly.

So they'll limp to 8k then sell about 200 more before the season starts and land somewhere near last seasons summer figure. Again all they've done is stopped an exodus and covered their arses to hit their min sales target and guarantee the usual income that keeps them in a job. No wonder this club never really moves forwards.

Both.

I think point number 5 is the most important of them all. The club is a cornerstone of the Blackburn community and venkys have utterly destroyed that. That's the reason I won't stand for anyone defending them. It's not the damage to the club, it's the detrimental effect they've had on the community and town. That's the reason I strongly believe there is to be no compromise with them. The only way this ends is with them selling.

Disgraceful pricing, these phases are a joke. Just ensuring that from a mere couple of weeks after the end of the season that no further sales will be made.

Wish I'd a quid for every time I've read that!

You think we're doing that already? Easy to please aren't you?

Ok thanks for reply. Hard decision or was it easy one for yourself?

It was a really bad, out of control, tackle that put him out. Their guy didn’t even get booked, I’m not sure we got a free kick !

I'm afraid not

Have you renew?.

Exactly. People will now say, fk that I'm not paying that.

Ballard deserved his MOTM award. Rovers tried to sign him before he joined Sunderland on permanent deal