Season Tickets 2025/26

[Mattyblue]

I’m talking theoretically. However, you are conflating a few dozen folk on here with real life. We somehow ended up in the PL with ST prices around what we had in the Taking Back Ewood era and crowds would be huge again. There is no mass ‘boycott’ and there never has been.

But we won’t end up in the PL and we won’t see those prices so c9k it is. 

[Crimpshrine]

10 hours ago, M_B said:

It's such a contradiction on here, the same message board has a daily barrage of people saying they won't be back until Venkys have gone, and urge others to do the same.

Then we have the never ending conversation of why ticket sales are so low. 

I am actually amazed that ticket sales are so high after 15 years of occupation. 

[47er]

12 hours ago, M_B said:

It's such a contradiction on here, the same message board has a daily barrage of people saying they won't be back until Venkys have gone, and urge others to do the same.

Then we have the never ending conversation of why ticket sales are so low. 

You think season ticket sales are so low because people on here urge others not to buy one?

I rather think the performance of the Club (in the widest sense) accounts for low sales, whatever is said on here.

[M_B]

7 hours ago, 47er said:

You think season ticket sales are so low because people on here urge others not to buy one?

I rather think the performance of the Club (in the widest sense) accounts for low sales, whatever is said on here.

I said some have chosen not to buy one, and urge others not to. I'd imagine people choosing not to buy tickets probably affected numbers. 

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, M_B said:

 I'd imagine people choosing not to buy tickets probably affected numbers. 

And here I was thinking it was all down to bad luck.

Edited July 1 by Upside Down

[47er]

13 hours ago, M_B said:

I'd imagine people choosing not to buy tickets probably affected numbers. 

That's tautology isn't it?

[DeeCee]

8 hours ago, 47er said:

That's tautology isn't it?

Had to look it up but yes!

[M_B]

11 hours ago, 47er said:

That's tautology isn't it?

I don't know to be honest, I had to look it up but I'm still not sure.

Interesting though, never actually heard of it before. 

[Penwortham Blue]

On 01/07/2025 at 19:43, M_B said:

I said some have chosen not to buy one, and urge others not to. I'd imagine people choosing not to buy tickets probably affected numbers. 

A season ticket holder > 40 years and I have renewed, mostly out of a perceived and misplaced sense of duty. However, had there been a public call from the coalition / Trust to boycott, I would have observed it, indeed, I was just waiting and hoping that would be the case but it never materialised. The only chance we have to save our club, is to act together but we need some joined up thinking and leadership to move on mass as a coordinated fan base and for the greater good rather than individuals, for their own reasons.

[M_B]

18 hours ago, Penwortham Blue said:

A season ticket holder > 40 years and I have renewed, mostly out of a perceived and misplaced sense of duty. However, had there been a public call from the coalition / Trust to boycott, I would have observed it, indeed, I was just waiting and hoping that would be the case but it never materialised. The only chance we have to save our club, is to act together but we need some joined up thinking and leadership to move on mass as a coordinated fan base and for the greater good rather than individuals, for their own reasons.

To be honest, I wouldn't consider not renewing, but obviously acknowledge people's reasons for doing so. 

I was just pointing out that the comparisons with other clubs' ticket sales aren't really comparable to ours when there's a lot who are boycotting. 

[Mattyblue]

We can compare as there’s no mass boycott and there never has been.

(a dozen folk on here does not a boycott make).

What did happen is c10k walked away between 2010 and 2012, most of them have gone, full stop, regardless of owners.

However, that was a generation ago, we get it right on the pitch, along with sensible pricing and crowds will grow exponentially… but we won’t do either of those things, so they won’t.

 

Edited July 3 by Mattyblue

[Tomphil2]

Also a point worth noting we are quite unique in terms of we have one of the biggest stadiums in the Championship yet one of the smallest towns but surrounded by plenty of places people used to travel from to watch.

Now if you can't offer Prem football or even a top class Championship team - despite 200 million and billionaire owners - you have to do something radical to get more in regularly, because they are out there, thousands of them.

What do the clowns running the club do ?

Everything possible to shrink the fanbase and token gestures just to try and maintain what's left of it.

Fans on social media need to consider this instead of just slagging off the attendances for 'likes'.

[M_B]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

We can compare as there’s no mass boycott and there never has been.

(a dozen folk on here does not a boycott make).

What did happen is c10k walked away between 2010 and 2012, most of them have gone, full stop, regardless of owners.

However, that was a generation ago, we get it right on the pitch, along with sensible pricing and crowds will grow exponentially… but we won’t do either of those things, so they won’t.

 

You're miles off on this one, show me another forum where it's own fans are staying away and urging others to do the same and we can do a comparison. 

[Mattyblue]

It’s an obscure messsge board with a handful of folk coming out with that stuff, means bugger all. But yes, if you went to any club forum with terrible owners of course you’d read such things.

It means bugger all as most fans aren’t the obsessives you see on message boards. They just see a middling, poorly run second division club with dear tickets and they swerve it. Get it right on the pitch (especially with decent pricing) and they won’t be able to get on the ticket site quick enough… and the fact a half dozen folk on here were going on about boycotts would mean what exactly? 

 

Edited July 3 by Mattyblue

[M_B]

The number of times I've heard it, "I'm not going again until that lot have gone" .

You're kidding yourself if you think it isn't having an effect. 

[Mattyblue]

A ‘boycott’ means you are withdrawing your support/your money in principle  against something and when your terms are met, you return. There is no boycott of any note here as the vast majority of the 10,000 that walked away between 2010 and 2012 won’t ever be buying a ST again regardless of who’s name is on the door, they’ve gone.

Has that had an effect on gates? Of course it bloody has, we’ve never recovered, just look at the place on a match day, couple that with a decade without even a single play off campaign and ever increasing prices and it’s no wonder we’ve been bouncing between 8k and 10k STs for over a decade.

The point I’m making (that you are ignoring and just repeating your own in classic M_B style) is despite all that, a lot of water has passed under the bridge, some enticing pricing on the back of a a bit of success, some ambition in the transfer market and, yes, a promotion, and crowds would rocket, no question - but like I also said as none of that will happen, there will be no rocket and we stay in the post 2012 doldrums rattling around Ewood for ever more.

Edited July 3 by Mattyblue

[Mattyblue]

What a bunch of grifters they are down there.

£33 to £38 on a weekend to sit in the Darwen End Upper ‘central’ (whatever that’s supposed to be?). Obviously spotted it’s something QPR do.

 

 

[MarkBRFC]

Who do we think will be Category A next season?

Obviously North End, could see Birmingham in the opening home game too with the momentum behind there fanbase.

Wrexham maybe with it being on NYD? The anniversary game?

Edited July 8 by MarkBRFC

[JHRover]

Can guarantee that they will look to fill the void of no Leeds or Dingles Cat A games by creating a couple more. 

If Wednesday remain in their current turmoil they can also forget about that one being a sell out away end.

I think embarrassment levels will totally go off the scale if we make Wrexham Cat A and use some really cringey marketing nonsense about their Hollywood owners, but I wouldn't put it past this lot. Totally shameless if it means shifting a few tickets to the tourist fans around town. 

They'll probably make the 'anniversary game' Cat A mistakenly thinking that hoardes of lapsed fans will flock to Ewood at any price to celebrate the 150th. That won't happen as most of us know, infact I can see barely any change to the usual sort of attendance and a mutinous atmosphere if Eustace comes back to haunt us. 

[Mattyblue]

The 150th should be something like £15 an adult, £1.50 a kid (or whatever), try and get as big a crowd as possible… but yeah this lot, they’ll make it Cat A and then be amazed that having Kevin Gallacher et al walk around the pitch pre game and some other naff stuff doesn’t lead to a bumper gate.

Edited July 8 by Mattyblue

[Hannoverover]

Does anyone know how many season tickets we have actually sold? The online map looks very sparse.

[Mattyblue]

Think the FF is either this week or next, so presumably they’ll give an update. Looks like very few have been sold post phase 1 (quelle surprise), so 8 thousand and something?

[only2garners]

The next forum is next Monday night 14th,

[CA1Rover]

Expect the majority of midweek matches will be CAT C? Not a big deal but they should release the CATs before a ball is kicked.

[arbitro]

30 minutes ago, only2garners said:

The next forum is next Monday night 14th,

Do you get to know in advance who is representing the club?