Attendances

[DeeCee]

Whatever happened to the whole Blackburn End singing and the Riverside stamping their feet?

[Stuart]

39 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

Whatever happened to the whole Blackburn End singing and the Riverside stamping their feet?

RIP The Riverside Rumble. Died 07/05/2012.

[darrenrover]

If this apathy continues until the end of the season, we'll be lucky to sell 5,000 season tickets for next season, irrespective of price.

Privately, everybody is becoming pissed off and bored, if they weren't already.

[DE.]

I think we'll always sell around 8000 no matter what. These are the hardcore supporters and will go to matches irrespective of manager, performances, owners or anything else.

We will struggle to get any more than that as long as we're floundering in mid-table with no obvious ambition being shown in the transfer windows though. Big summer coming up. 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Even that hard-core will eventually start to drop off with the dross on offer..folk will find better ways to spend their hard earned cash.

[chaddyrovers]

49 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Even that hard-core will eventually start to drop off with the dross on offer..folk will find better ways to spend their hard earned cash.

Will we? 

Over 12k Rovers fans there today. 

[tomphil]

17 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Will we? 

Over 12k Rovers fans there today. 

Come on you know damn well the few extra will have turned out because of Tony Parkes, without that today there'd have been sub 11,500 home fans.

On the subject of falling crowds at similar clubs we only have to look at Hull and Stoke.  Look at the size of those places but it's still the grind of championship football.  It doesn't take people long to get fed up of their team going nowhere in these Northern working class areas.

Edited February 8, 2020 by tomphil

[chaddyrovers]

3 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Come on you know damn well the few extra will have turned out because of Tony Parkes, without that today there'd have been sub 11,500 home fans.

On the subject of falling crowds at similar clubs we only have to look at Hull and Stoke.  Look at the size of those places but it's still the grind of championship football.  It doesn't take people long to get fed up of going nowhere in working class areas.

Who knows why people bought tickets. Rovers only announce the Tony Parkes coming on pitch on Thursday night

[tomphil]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Who knows why people bought tickets. Rovers only announce the Tony Parkes coming on pitch on Thursday night

Must've been a good walk up today then, i know a couple who made the effort to applaud Tony who wouldn't normally have gone.

[chaddyrovers]

2 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Must've been a good walk up today then, i know a couple who made the effort to applaud Tony who wouldn't normally have gone.

Great to see that for Tony Parkes 

[darrenrover]

I had a season ticket in the seventies when 5/6,000 gates on Ewood wasn't unusual. The apathy and everything else has got to me, I don't mind admitting it and I know I'm far from alone.

Mark my words, unless there's something to rekindle interest, 8,000 gates won't be unusual next season, never mind that many season tickets sold.

It's not the manager, owners, poor entertainment or anything particular in isolation: it's the whole 'shit package' over the past 10 years.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

43 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Will we? 

 

Without a shadow of a doubt...as its always been.

[47er]

4 hours ago, DE. said:

Big summer coming up. 

Unfortunately that means another disappointing transfer window these days. Given the sheer size of the task I'm not looking forward to it.

3 years on and we need more "rebuilding" than ever.

[Leonard Venkhater]

On 08/02/2020 at 22:18, 47er said:

Unfortunately that means another disappointing transfer window these days. Given the sheer size of the task I'm not looking forward to it.

3 years on and we need more "rebuilding" than ever.

If the message is lack of ambition, then interest and attendances will only drop.

Managed decline...

[tomphil]

Apathy spreads in Blackburn quicker than the plague when it's obvious there's little ambition other than just to tread water. Sadly it's one of those areas you have to keep spiking the interest alongside keeping it affordable and what's affordable round here is often viewed as cheap in other places. 

It's never been any different you need a manager with profile and ability to get a few players in that catch the imagination. Especially when you have a half decent source of finance. I know Archibald type signings are impossible these days but those who remember how Don Mackay breathed new life back into the club when he first came, with very little finance, will understand that's what the club is crying out for these days.

Just something to jerk it back into life, TM 7 co threatened that with bouncing back from lge 1 but it quickly became job done. Back where we were so foot off the gas. Lambert threatened it when he came in but it quickly fizzled out with the Rhodes fiasco etc but as the Oxford game showed there's enough out there to get far better gates than we are doing.

They need something to buy into though, buying crap players and wasting money then looking for every excuse in the book doesn't cut it.

Edited February 10, 2020 by tomphil

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Quite frightening when you think Ewood could have just the JW stand open tomorrow night with probably room to spare.

Sad times.

[Mattyblue]

The upper tier would do.

[Blue blood]

If we were City and Liverpool esque assuming Sky didn't sabotage us then yes we would sell out the stadium. Tons of plastics support both clubs on top of their core fan base and no reason to suspect it would be otherwise for us. 

Just look at the promotion from League 1 - a full stadium. If we were winning things and battering teams I'm sure fans would come back/attend more regularly. However since this isn't going to happen I wonder what a more realistic target would be for Rovers to aim for. 

Edited February 10, 2020 by Blue blood

[Mattyblue]

The town of Blackburn would never fill the ground, it was about growing the club across the region. We had a chance in the 90s to permanently increase our fanbase to a level in which as a PL club filling the ground week in week out was a reality.

Indeed in the late 90s it was bearing fruit, coaches coming from all over. Alas, relegation, and the rise of other clubs meant our time at the top was short and we never recovered.

[Inglorious basturk]

More people will start going if they are offered something to believe in , something to believe in . Currently it’s nothing more than to contribute to a business model 

[JHRover]

Anyone know how Waggott's 'looking into' putting coaches on from South Ribble is going? 

[OldEwoodBlue]

Anyone know if Waggott is going to announce the abolition of the Waggott Tax ?

[Hasta]

1 hour ago, Blue blood said:

 

If we were City and Liverpool esque assuming Sky didn't sabotage us then yes we would sell out the stadium. Tons of plastics support both clubs on top of their core fan base and no reason to suspect it would be otherwise for us. 

 

Not sure we'd be selling but it would be a lot healthier with local support returning plus the floating 'Premier League' fans. I know someone (Man U fan) from Pendle area who has 3 season tickets at Turf Moor because it's relatively cheap to take his family locally to watch Premier League football.

Edited February 10, 2020 by Hasta

[Athlete]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

The town of Blackburn would never fill the ground, it was about growing the club across the region. We had a chance in the 90s to permanently increase our fanbase to a level in which as a PL club filling the ground week in week out was a reality.

Indeed in the late 90s it was bearing fruit, coaches coming from all over. Alas, relegation, and the rise of other clubs meant our time at the top was short and we never recovered.

Completely killed off with the takeover 

[tomphil]

A realistic aim is 13k + regular home fans just like a realistic aim for the team is in the 10th to 6th place bracket. Given what we went into the summer with and the ability to build on it.  Neither has panned out that way and the two are inextricably linked.

Food for thought for those in Pune if they take any notice.