Season Tickets 2025/26

[Mattyblue]

I see, crowds are booming across England, but weirdly they uniquely aren’t here due to ‘family’ ‘work’ and ‘budget’ commitments. Not issues that seem to be impacting other clubs as they report crowds they’ve not seen since the 1950s.

Obviously a shambolic 15 years that began with them driving away half our ST base at a stroke has nothing to do with it.

[roversfan99]

25 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

do you know how much energy cost and NIC increase have gone up for Rovers. 

Our fan base dwindles? really? The fan base is there but fans won't commit to ST for a range of different issues like work commitments, family commitments, cost of STH, Budget reasons. Not everyone works a 9-5 job like yourself but many people work nights or weekends. I currently work nights and have done for the past 5 years as it suits me, my family and my commitments, nights games are somewhat a problem for me given I would have sleep 3-4 hours less in order to attend home games but I just get on with it and attend the games cos I loved Rovers and watching my team play. We seen fans turned out for games like PNE, Burnley and Derby home games, the home game against Derby was a great atmosphere 

Our season tickets is roughly the same it was back in 2017. I was pleased to hear Yasir Sufi mentioned during his interview with Elliott Jackson mentioned about having different ST's coming soon where it was for example 15 games one for people who can't attend 23 games a season like myself. 

the fanbase is angry? is it? based on what? Some fans aren't and some are. some fans think we massive over achieved this season and some are looking forward to next season. 

I genuinely dont know where to start with this. I dont know what world you live in.

Anyone who just sees last season as a massive overachievement with absolutely no dissent towards anything else regarding the club clearly hasnt been paying attention. 

But that doesnt take away from my point that hiking prices here at this particular football club as a second phase is IMO a terrible commercial decision. The commercial side was the one aspect of the club you would willingly criticise and even then you are now back to defending the club on that. Wont someone think of the increasing prices of gas and electric?!

[Mattyblue]

Anybody explain how this is a good marketing post that will encourage ST sales? Doesn’t it just remind folk that we hardly have Saturday 3pm games anymore as most matches can be seen on Sky at all manners of other days and times?

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Mattyblue

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

I genuinely dont know where to start with this. I dont know what world you live in.

The real world RF99, some people on here know what I have been through personally with my missus illness and still going through now even she is getting better and the mend slowly, so I would be very careful with your comments like this.  I also know that the NIC increase has hit jobs and investments into businesses as I know from my own personal experience recently. Rovers are a business at the end of the day. Time you learn this

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Anyone who just sees last season as a massive overachievement with absolutely no dissent towards anything else regarding the club clearly hasnt been paying attention. 

We almost went down 12 months and now we almost got a playoff place 12 months on a £4-5m spend. 

Yes we all aware the issues behind the scenes/ownership

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

But that doesnt take away from my point that hiking prices here at this particular football club as a second phase is IMO a terrible commercial decision. The commercial side was the one aspect of the club you would willingly criticise and even then you are now back to defending the club on that. Wont someone think of the increasing prices of gas and electric?!

every club does phases regarding ST cos they want that early cashflow in the summer when there is no income from match days revenue. Rovers ST sales are been similar over a number of years and they haven't changed much. 

Yes I have criticise the commercial side of the club and will continue to do so when it is justify to do AND I WILL DEFEND MY CLUB WHEN JUSTIFY aswell. 

 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Yes I have criticise the commercial side of the club and will continue to do so when it is justify to do AND I WILL DEFEND MY CLUB WHEN JUSTIFY aswell. 

 

Chaddy..defender of the faith till the bitter end!

[Athlete]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

every club does phases regarding ST cos they want that early cashflow in the summer when there is no income from match days revenue. Rovers ST sales are been similar over a number of years and they haven't changed much. 

Yes I have criticise the commercial side of the club and will continue to do so when it is justify to do AND I WILL DEFEND MY CLUB WHEN JUSTIFY aswell. 

 

we arent bothered about any other clubs..season tickets stayed the same FFS they've gone up just over 50 quid

You are in a different universe chadster

[RevidgeBlue]

£449 for a ST in the BBE in phase 2.

Absolute insanity.

Why are they trying to empty the ground?

[Mattyblue]

Because otherwise there’s no cash flow to pay anybody in June, or something.

 

[MarkBRFC]

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Anybody explain how this is a good marketing post that will encourage ST sales? Doesn’t it just remind folk that we hardly have Saturday 3pm games anymore as most matches can be seen on Sky at all manners of other days and times?

 

That's 7 games out of 23 then if this season is anything to go by.

[Exiled_Rover]

12 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

No chance we’ll see cheap kids season tickets again after last season - the 4,000 full price sales and plenty of adults seemingly going to Ewood on concession tickets instead.

I think that is why they were checking tickets for months - they were adamant that people were cheating the system. 

[Mike E]

24 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

£449 for a ST in the BBE in phase 2.

Absolute insanity.

Why are they trying to empty the ground?

Must be.

The season they rocked up, we had an average attendance of 20k+ and the highest prices ST in the BBE was £199.

Funny that.

[M_B]

57 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I think that is why they were checking tickets for months - they were adamant that people were cheating the system. 

£40 for the grandson in JW lower, I know it's gone up a bit but can't really knock that.

[Mattyblue]

Yes, an under 12 price isn’t breaking the bank but it has still not far from doubled in price - as has the over 12 price, £50 to £90-£100.

 

[bluebruce]

I found myself highly irritated by these comments from Yasir Sufi (who once had a great reputation for doing sterling community work, and shouldn't have moved into this commercial role):

“So we can't afford to lose a quarter of a million pounds in season ticket income to be competitive on the football pitch."

Yes we fucking can! We probably spent more than that on the pointless Dennis loan. We threw away orders of magnitude more than that by letting the contracts of numerous saleable assets run out over the last few years. We brought in even larger orders of magnitude more by selling Wharton, Szmodics, Gallagher, Raya's sell-on clause, the impending Wharton sell-on clause, etc. The owners are fucking billionaires who are allegedly happy to fund us and only held back by that pesky FFP (or I would say that pesky perpetual court case, but we've been assured that's not an issue even though their funding has now become the minimum).

On top of which, the reduced ticket revenue is hardly just down to a lower price. Every year, the fanbase becomes more and more disillusioned with the farcical cancer that presides over the club. Every time we are poised for the playoffs in January and the board and owners sabotage us with incompetence and a vacuum of ambition, more fans finally think 'fuck this I'm off'.

But no, fuck all that, lets suck every penny out of this deprived northern town and chase more of our dwindling fanbase away forever because 250k is gonna make any fucking difference to our competitiveness, when sales amounting to tens of millions don't impact our fucking budget!

[roversfan99]

The thing is, it implies that their current ticketing policies will definitely generate more income.

For example, abolish this early bird shite and you would have a full summer whereby its much more likely that people will eventually decide to buy season tickets.

Also, you are always battling quantity v price and hitting a sweet spot. Reducing prices will increase quantity short term, so its getting not only that balance. But realising that increasing numbers short term will likely get more people in the habit to then buy season tickets going forward, as well as more additional purchases eg things like food/drink and merchandise.

[Upside Down]

9 hours ago, M_B said:

Know when to stop digging, there's a lesson.

Yes exactly, stop digging.

What you said made no sense.

What are we supposed to do with Preston North End? Swallow them? Grind them up into a powder and snort them? Inject them into the vein in our neck?

It made no sense, but we got what you meant. Why you wouldn't just accept that I don't know.