Championship 24/25

[Mattyblue]

What’s your point? 

End of the day Ewood was re-built for a club at the top of the Premier League. We will never, ever fill it completely (so say 28,000 home fans with 3k away) with our own fans week in week out even if we ended back in the top flight. The fanbase isn’t big enough. So if it takes a ticket offer to do it, so what?
 

[chaddyrovers]

apart from the odd game we will never fill Ewood again

[Hasta]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

apart from the odd game we will never fill Ewood again

Yep. That’s the Rovers attitude alright.

I’d prefer to think if we were in the premier league again under new owners and tickets priced sensibly, then with the modern boom in football attendances and a connection with the local population, we could get back to previous levels. Think big.

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Hasta

[rigger]

4 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Yep. That’s the Rovers attitude alright.

I’d prefer to think if we were in the premier league again under new owners, tickets priced sensibly then with the modern boom in football attendances and a connection with the local population, we could get back to previous levels. Think big.

 

It's not just thinking big, it's thinking positively.

[Mattyblue]

Previous levels without a doubt, the boom in crowds across football coupled with the scale and profile of the PL (that has gone up a fair few levels since 2012) means we’d do that no problem.

[Upside Down]

5 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

A career in politics awaits you pal.

He's got the brains for ot judging by the current crop.

[Tomphil2]

3 hours ago, Old Rover said:

yeah, when in 1978 the crowd was over 27000 , not many were supporting us, things change, a few years later we won the league , ups and downs, the biggest home support i remember-after we won the  league cup in 2002, against Fulham, 10 pound a ticket , we also got 26700 against Oxford, in 2018 guess what, 10 pound a ticket

The people at the club now are just ignorant to the local market and too spineless to present anything radical to the owners in case it threatens their own position.

The only focus is squeeze and ever dwindling fanbase to the max to ensure a certain static level of income per season. There have been multiple missed opportunities to get thousands back in overnight and at certain times the finances would've allowed it.

There is zero real desire for it though in head office.

To achieve the gates we did under the Souness/Hughes/Allardyce era we still had to price tickets very competitively because quite simply that is what the local market required it was the only way it would work. If these lot were in charge then we'd be averaging about 18k given their attitude to pricing.

It was just the same for Wigan and Bolton by the way, just as it still is now so anyone who constanly cries about crowds and we don't get 20k a home game like we used to because 'shit fans' seriously has a hole in head and a grape where their brains should be.

It was never happening at this level and certainly not the way the clubs been run.

[Wheelton Blue]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

apart from the odd game we will never fill Ewood again

Nonsense.

That's exactly the sort of small minded mentality that those who purportedly run our club have.