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This one not on sky? Swear I saw it was months ago 🤔🤔

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/29/wrexham-afc-receives-18m-from-government-despite-hollywood-backing

Get all that Parson, Sky etc, same everywhere, but you don’t see some unique issues here? I.e. why has the rest of league and non league football boomed crowd wise (up to 1950s levels), yet not here?

Not confident for this. Terrible record against newly promoted teams, Wrexham are in decent form, and Rovers missing several key players still. I sense a Charlton away style result, hope I'm wrong! Same team as Wednesday night probably, as there's not really much in the way of other options!

I guess I'm very fortunate, or unfortunate depending on your point of view, as I still get the same buzz going to Rovers - home and away - as I did as a kid at the start of the sixties. I'm well into my seventies now and recent health issues have made me realise that I'm not going to be here forever, so I'll continue to go and enjoy it as long as I can. As Herbie said, meeting up with friends makes it a social occasion and that's all part of the day. However, I agree that for many supporters there comes a point when it's difficult justify the cost of football, particularly if you have a Sky subscription. Also, the TV deal is not really helpful to those who go to away games in particular. Within a matter of days we have Ipswich Town away at 12.30 pm (meaning a 4.30 am start from Ewood), and then Swansea City away as an evening kick-off. Not to mention that these are quickly followed by Norwich City away at 12.30 with another 5.30 am start from Ewood. It's almost as if the EFL want to get rid of away supporters altogether. Around me, the other night, there were a large number of season ticket holders who opted to watch the game on TV rather than travel to Ewood on a cold, wet night in November. Ultimately, everyone makes their own choices for their own reasons with regard to attending football matches.

Plenty of the 8,000 have gone way past the sell the granny stage. Some midweeks you are well below that and generally many ST Holders have no qualms in missing plenty, you see that all around you. Take me, I’ll have missed five by mid December and Ipswich will be the first night game I’lll have been to all season and that’s only down to being fairly close by on Tuesday due to a work thing - I certainly doesn’t prioritise it anymore.

I watched Oxford beat Ipswich last night and I have to say their game plan was executed so well. They had a high, energetic press which brought about the first goal and also a couple of other chances. Ipswich just couldn't get their passing game going. Ipswich came back into it in the second half and equalised as they played a bit higher up the pitch. Oxford countered this with some clever substitutions and this culminated in the winning goal. Oxford were everything we aren't at home and despite them clawing back a few points on us it was pleasing to see a manager with a clear plan and players carrying this out. I hope Mr Aloof was watching and took note with Tuesday in mind.

This is the crux for me. Finite disposable to spend & priority calls to be made. I weigh up which matches to go to based on my personal xE score…Expected Entertainment..! If it’s a new ground, an exciting away day, involves meeting up with friends/family…the xE rises. Rovers playing well contributes to the xE but is no longer the key contributor. I’ve found I’d rather go to fewer games (invariably away) but wrap something into the day beyond just the football. Once that habit is broken & you start justifying the spending then it’s easier just to watch on TV. That explains the missing 13,000. The 8,000 are like I was in the 80’s…I’d sell my granny to go to Ewood. My tipping point was Owen Coyle….the closest I got to buying a season ticket again was after meeting JDT at Brockhall…!

Can only see a Wrexham win. A well drilled outfit with squad depth and more than finding their Championship feet. Think Keiffre Moore will terrorise us. This could end up a 3 or 4 goal defeat for, IMO, our largely unproven, thrown together band of relatively cheap mercenaries.

We’ve spent three out of four years knocking on the doors of the PL, ST sales haven’t budged. Indeed average crowds have hardly moved in a decade - whereas the entire game from the top flight to well into non league has boomed, so why not here then? As on the pitch it has been not bad at times. These owners are the anchor around the good ship Blackburn Rovers.

Of course attendance is higher when the team is winning - you're more inclined to go if you're more likely to have a good time, rather than a waste of time. The other factor is cost - I can only speak for myself but with everything costing more these days, I've far less disposable income for leisure and many are likely in a similar position. Combine the above and it's not tempting to use your money on the 'product' at ewood. In 22 years (since I've been driving, I live 35 miles away )this is the longest I've gone into a season without seeing the team.

Rigger painted himself into the Markanday corner (now in the fourth division) and still won’t put his hand up that he got that one wrong.

You don't fake Dolan's abilities. You coach him to produce his best consistently. Playing with and against much better players in La Liga is getting far more out of him than we did at Rovers. The experience might also be instilling the footballing brain that was all too often lacking at Ewood.

Random number generator needed to forecast which Rovers show up. We have beaten better than Wrexham and lost home to Norwich and Sheffield United. Don't have the same foreboding as I had pre-QPR and at least the fans will be solidly behind the lads and not as silent as Ewood.

Agreed, I'd rather spend that money on hiring reasonable serving staff for the concourse who aren't all kids and can serve at a decent pace.

Probably closer to 14000 given we 20000 season ticket holders when they took over. There's a couple thousand casual fans that will have been driven away also. The fact that 8000 still tur up week in week out after all that's happened shows what fantastic support this club really does have.

I wish we still had him.

Not sure if it counts as I don't think he had a pro contract at Rovers, let alone an appearance for the firsts, but Flavien Boyomo is racking up appearances in La Liga. He turned down a pro contract here, moved to Albacete and got a move to Valladolid and now at Osasuna. Villa and Fulham are rumoured in the online mill to be monitoring him. Though, Osasuna are struggling, so not sure how he's doing individually. Back on Tyrhys Dolan, he'll be in Turkey, Cyprus or the UK in a season, I would think, but good luck to him.

We’ve probably lost 12,000 fans in the Venkies era. No matter what we do 6,000 of them at least will never set foot in Ewood again unless it’s a prime event

At least two people have failed to vote for Dalglish and Shearer. Words fail me 🙃

Jalil Saadi was given a one-year extension and Jordan Eastham, when neither had any future at the club. There's many others - Harrison Wood, the forward who is on the books now. I think it is about numbers and maybe, in some cases, about maintaining good relationships with agents, perhaps.

We' re now only a point ahead of Oxford albeit with 2 games in hand. Temporarily.

Well that win for Oxford was not a good result for us, but it gives a glimmer of hope that maybe we will be able to get at Ipswich again.

A point closer to the trap door following Oxford’s 2-1 win over Ipswich.