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Some of the sponsors are subsidising tickets too for example if you work at Totally wicked; you get £100 towards your season ticket

Id be astonished if we have 1600 new season ticket holders, there is nothing in this seasons gates in general to suggest so many new ticket holders

If the club are saying we've sold around 7000, how do we get to the 8600 number? We cant possibly of sold 1600 tonight. Also worth noting we give a number of season tickets away

Steve, Trust you are well? I'm writing regarding season tickets, The season ticket prices coming out earlier than in previous seasons was appreciated, as this allows people to budget. However the ability to budget has been taken away from the most of the population of Blackburn with todays news that season tickets will increase by £50 From those of the early bird price. Blackburn as a town has statistically one of the highest rates of unemployment in the country, whilst its widely regarded as one of the poorest communities in the country. You market our club as a community club, a club which is inclusive to all and a club where fans matter. As part of this charter, do you consider the affordability and the very demographic in which the club claims that matters? I'm sorry but for more times than I care to count the club has once again showed that getting supporters through the turnstiles is low on the agenda. The last ball was only kicked yesterday, the new season is over three months away, yet the club expects supporters to pluck money out of thin air. I appreciate that less than 7000 have renewed under the early bird price (We do have a 32000 stadium you know), this will be a demographic of those who can afford, or those who can get credit to pay via direct debit. Of the ones who have yet to renew in many cases its not a choice. 1. People need to save, we are in a cost of living crisis where Mortgages, rents, council tax, Energy bills are off the scale. 2. People have families, buying one ticket is expensive, try buying 5!!! 3. Some people just cannot get credit with V12, Which takes away their ability to pay in instalments. When people cannot get credit, in most cases they need to save harder than most, as disposable income is likely to be less, hence why they cannot get credit. Where is the logic in increasing the ticket prices now, so in affect penalising those less fortunate than those who could get credit or had disposable income to buy a ticket? I myself was saving for my season ticket as I pay for mine cash every season. Next season it was my intention for my wife to renew for the first time in 5 years, and my kids to come with us. (Having kids makes going football very expensive). For over 40 years I've watched my team from one coast to the other, renewed each season despite some of the darkest times in our clubs history. Have put hours upon hours into my club, supporter base, community in trying to rebuild those bridges which have not only fallen down, but have been cruise missiled through gross mis-management of the club our community once knew. We are told on the website this is now phase 2, which suggest perhaps another increase in phase 3? I fail to understand how the club cannot see, that those who renew later is due to funds and affordability. How does the club manage this? Yes that's right lets increase the 2nd week of May and make it even more unaffordable and drive away more supporters from the club, but this time through affordability. Getting supporters is one of the hardest things to do, losing them is one of the easiest when the club is out of touch. The marketing and pricing has been a shambles again. Not only are we the most expensive of the local clubs, but we have the early bird that expires at least one month before others and in some cases 8 weeks. When we met last year, you suggested that you need to hit a certain revenue on season tickets. If you got the same revenue for 20,000 tickets than you got for 8,000 tickets you was happy with that. What I see here is lazy pricing and the marketing/commercial team should be ashamed. Rather than attract supporters, which quite frankly I could of done their job for free and sold more tickets and increased revenue, they've opted to go down the safe route that 95% will renew maybe 5% new supporters, and with that generate the required revenue which has been forecasted. It lacks imagination and begs the question why have we not changed the personnel and strategy? Its the 9th May 2023, I never in a million years thought I'd be one of those supporters who does not renew. However £1200 for 5 Season tickets is a lot of money to save. I don't do credit cards, or credit, we was brought up to save and had every intention of renewing at the end of May 2023. The club has made this impossible, by penalising me further and increasing this to an unaffordable amount. Each match day I pay £10 to park my car at Ewood (£230 a season). I spend around £35 per match day in the blues bar. I buy 10 replica kits, home and away (for my family and I). I buy various things from the club shop, and also become an 1875 member, I travel to away game at great expense also. I have a shrine of memorabilia which would be fitting in any museum. I'm now 45 and my time and money has always been invested in my football club. Is this really the type of supporters the club wishes to drive away from the club. I will not be renewing next season, unless a complete rethink is made on this early bird. This should of been until the end of June, not the start of May. Where is the statistical data that those who cannot afford at the start of May, can now afford to pay more just a few weeks later? I'm truly ashamed I'm having to write to my club over the affordability of a ticket for a season three months away, I sincerely hope you can look at this, and not use the word "sympathise" in your response. The players and high ranking staff will be celebrating their summer break on a beach in exotic places, putting their pictures on instagram/twitter. Whilst some of the town's population will worry about how they feed their families, how they put school uniforms on their backs, how they buy them clothes, You know, the things which hold a far greater priority than trying to live beyond their means by trying to grab together season ticket money. When you return home, please look at your surroundings (You have worked hard for) , then spare a thought for the supporters of the club in which helps you maintain that standard of living. Think of those less fortunate, then please ask yourself, have we done the right by the fans here? Are we setting out to fill Ewood or setting out to empty it further than we have before? I look forwards to your action and response , Regards Glen Mullan

Likewise, Was going to get mine at end of the month and bring 2 of my kids too, However the increase has just done the unthinkable for me. I won't be renewing this season.

We agreed to pay it, then appealed to the courts to retract such agreement. Its as embarrassing today as it was back then, as following this we then went through a further tribunal with Shaw (i actually attended this one) we ended up settling out of court. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/blackburn-ordered-to-pay-henning-berg-after-case-is-thrown-out-of-the-high-court-8594720.html https://employmentcasesupdate.co.uk/content/berg-v-blackburn-rovers-football-club-athletic-plc-2013-ewhc-1070-ch.fffeef86f1274dfc98e3398b29367772.htm

We chose to to take it to court when told we had to pay up. Have the full transcript/decision somewhere including full internal email trail

We took a law suit out over Berg, spent a fortune and lost. We then subsequently ended up in the Employement tribunal courts with Shaw, and ended up paying him out a kings Ransom as we lost again. Rovers under Venkys have spent more on Lawyers and pay offs that we afford ourselves in transfer windows. Our success rate of winning 1 ???? None, lost everyone including when Action group took club to county court too. Its remarkable how people still getting sucked in, GB has admitted in his own words we got it wrong internally.

IPS we used on Berg, Shaw case, Farnell roots go back to SEM days To be clear this is who they'd likely use against EFL and im not linking them to the deals on the day, as I don't know who they used to draw up the contracts.

They will be using either IPS Law, Brabners or Forbes. I'd wager its likely the first one (Chris Farnell) a particular individual whose name will send some shivers of concern through some on here. (Just when you think they aint about on transfers they re-appear)

Lets hope they are better than the legals who tried to take the Action Group to court for releasing club documents with Caroline Mcateer (Beckhams PR) We was given a number of documents by Rovers solicitors with the strict instruction that we were to publically release and put on our website. We was then contacted by another solicitor also acting for Rovers who said unless we took them down they would sue Then Mcateer contacted us, explaining how famous and influential she was, and what she could do to me personally if I dont play ball. Needless to say, she was soon out of a job, the solicitor who tried to threaten me went away with their tail between their legs and the information remained on the website and the club ended up paying out the best part of 3.5 million in compensation to Berg, Shaw and one or two more.

It was shit, not much more to add

My bad, forgot the early 70s, in my life time though is 3,

We don't have to accept. Lets put this differently. Rovers have made a number of people redundant over the last 8 months to help pay for Broughton. Loyal employees in some cases who were here long before Venkys. Over the Venkys reign loads have been made redundant to cover the ever increasing cost cutting exercise. People losing their jobs are the "doers" not the ones wheeled out in front of the press or holding the office in the boardroom. Rovers are in a promotion race, (how is another story) however the facts are the table does not lie. We are there and there on merit. The Raos signed off the spend, sanctioned the wages, sanctioned the compulsory purchase as our BOARD and MANAGER strongly believe we can go up this season. It doesn't matter if you or I think they can or cant, that was the business case apportioned to these signings. The Raos could claw back every penny they've spent on a £250 to £300 million promotion jackpot. Our players if we went up, rise significantly in transfer value. These signings as part of the business case have a forecasted potential sell on value. Our season ticket/match tickets take up increases by promotion. Our sponsorship, retail and marketing opportunities increase. Now lets look at the other side of the coin. None promotion, with our star assets for the second season running walking away for free means we wont have a transfer budget in the summer. We have no income to reinvest, and no strikers. More innocent lower level employees will lose their jobs. Seasin ticket and match tickets will rise, but the uptake will likely decrease. The manager unless we sack him ( unlikely to pay a manager £2 million to sack him anyway as we've no money) may walk with the knowledge not only does he have no money to spend, but will also have to sell three or four players to balance the book. Economy wise in football, wages and transfer values will continue to increase, so where rovers are currently shopping at a jumble sale, next season the one after etc, we will be at shopping at the football version of food banks. Level of players we attract becomes worse than what we have, and we become closer to being in the 3rd tier of football for only the 4th time in our history. This almighty cock up on Tuesday is not isolated to having 2 less players. The knock on affect could be terminal Why should Mrs Jones who runs the safeguarding get sacked because GB the guy who was brought in to look after transfers has royally fucked up? Why should the fans pay an extra £50 a season ticket next season to pay for this incompetence and contribute towards his £160k base salary, plus his £120k benefit package? The reality is what you see as a setback, is far more to the wider picture when those not involved feel it in the pocket. They all need to be removed, this aint championship manager, this is real life Had I cocked up a potential £250 million frame work in my own job, that would probably see 600 plus redundancies and me heading of to the job centre. 2 days a year, yes just two days, we have to be slick, punctual and get it right. On all counts we have not, time for them to go.

He was filling the paperwork in , so still in the tribunal

Question - is it a fact GB was at the match? I ask this as i read it on here from numerous posters. I also ask as his claims of being at the medical, was this a.m or p.m? If its a.m he has done a great job of making people think pm. If it was pm, he cant possibly have been at the match

He walks into the ground unchallenged every match day, strolls through the blackburn end car park into the ground at 12pm and not once has anybody challenged this fraud. He wont even meet with supoorters. He needs to start feeling uncomfortable as his uncomfortableness will bring the pack of cards of the board crumbling down. Right now by their own admission he is their safety blanket. Finally he was part if the SEM takeover discussions, and along witylh tweetie pies mate, remains a constant in this whole charade

Leak partial truths, whilst burying the whole truth, rovers PR machine at its best i suspect. No way is this the only reason, it may be one of 20 reasons, but very manipulative

Smells of strategically trying to influence a change of opinion within the supporter base. They know his article will come on here. They also know many of us use twitter and will tweet this out to followers, which will get retweeted, then suddenly its the EFL's pettyness at fault. Fair play, with the video today and these leaks, its certainly having an affect. However i aint buying it, and maintain we need to remove all responsible including broughton. At £160k a year, an important window, a circa 200 million jackpot if we go up. He should of personally overseen the operation. Its 2 days a year he needs to be there ensuring its slick. No he was at the match, leaving others to do it. His statement of "i was there at the medical, is devious, to plant a seed he was in the thick of it. Truth is he may have been at the medical but chose to go and watch the match.

It wouldn't surprise me if press warned not to cover window due to appeal (bollocks reason) and told not to ask those questions. Its very common at rovers to do this

Not at all, my stance aint changed, but good leaders take responsibility and he has done that. Does that mean sackings shouldn't occur? Of course not, someone needs potting

Saved me writing it

I thought his email had a 2 on the end, certainly the one ive seen/used?

I do think its what the Raos do next which will determine a lot of peoples thought process. If they act as a business should and hold those accountable for this mess, and actually sack them. Then their stock will rise, as they've acted in the best interest of the club, and are showing a shoot of lessons learnt