He's done a very poor job as CEO since he took the job. His approach to making money seems to be either sell it off or increase the price. It's like he's never heard of the price elasticity of demand! There's been no effort made to capitalise on the return of fans to football, no special offers, other than the feeble "Back to Live" ... campaign? Can you call a few social media posts a campaign? There should have been cut price tickets to the first 10 games, which would have seen an increase in numbers, especially given the fact we haven't had an awful start to the season. I would have made the 1st home game a "pay what you like" game, ensuring a good crowd and boosting the revenue from concessions. (Stats show that most people still pay the full price, and the increase in sales more than makes up for those that don't.) Even just the novelty of it would have brought people in. There's been no attempt to cash in on Breretonmania except a couple of piss poor t shirts in the club shop. With travel restrictions like they are it's hard to arrange a friendly but something could have been done, we didn't even have Chilean national shirts in the club shop! I would have liked to have seen a novel approach to season tickets too, rebranding them more like the "all you can eat" offers from cinemas where you get to as many films as you like. Make the season tickets a flat price (less than what they are now) and if you want to go in the posh seats you pay an upgrade per game. The new ticketing system is a disaster, I've not been able to buy a single ticket through it yet. First it said tickets were all sold out, then it kept them on sale to season ticket holders longer than it should and now it won't accept my credit card, even when I ring up and use the same one, it accepts that.

Just a quick update today to reflect the changes we told you about the other week.

It's definitely on the list, we plan to migrate to webp at some point in the future and probably use a source set to serve different versions for different devices, but at the moment our problem is sourcing royalty & copyright free images to use at a resolution that lets us do that 😞 Nerd mode off 😄

I've made a small improvement @Eddie, but it's not pin sharp just yet, it's a balancing act between storage space for large images, page speed (the quicker the better as far as Google is concerned) and having sharp images.

That, and I think they don't have much of a choice, the EFL will have signed a deal with Ticketmaster who now have a monopoly so don't care. The fact I can't buy my tickets online has no impact on them so they have no incentive to fix it or make it easier.

It'll now let you through to choose which ticket types you want (after saying they're all £5 still) but now it won't accept any of my credit card details (I say any like I have loads ... I have 2) and I know it's eticketing (Ticketmaster) but it must be the way someone is configuring it because they sell way too many tickets and if this is the nonsense everyone was experiencing the on call engineers would be all over it. What kind of checkout experience takes you to the "Proceed to checkout" button, only to have you log in (fair enough) but then NOT redirect you back to the basket you were just trying to pay for?

I'd go so far as to say there is no governance in football, it's better at a local level where it's largely run by volunteers than it is at a national or international level.

We have a very similar feature on the site now too, unfortunately the stats don't look any better wherever you look at them: https://brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/716814/millwall-blackburn

With all the money available in football, there’s no way it’s not bent, in all sorts of ways.

Just spoke to Jennifer & there were about 500 sent down to the training ground for signing and so far 30 have come back, call back in a week or so was her advice.

There was an email address passed around, but I tried that and didn't get any reply.

Has anyone managed to get their signed cardboard cutout back from Rovers yet?

Anyone here a member of Wyscout or similar?

Yes Yes Kaminski 15th Fulham

We didn’t switch the ads on, they’ve been on for years. I don’t know how long but certainly before I got involved (when the site was down and no one was around to fix it) The ads are off, for now, on the articles because google wanted to place them right at the top above the header in a very large format so I removed them. As soon as they work ok on those pages they will be switched back on. the ads are not based on the content, they are based on what google knows about your interests. the downgrades happened for technical reasons as the various plug ins and extras people had written over the years became incompatible with the forum software, and not having anyone to fix them.

*yoink*

There was a forum update a couple of days ago, there was nothing in the notes about any notification changes but you never know. Try logging out, clear the cache and all the usual stuff tech support tells you to do 🙂 Send me a DM if it's still not working.

The 92 Club is definitely on our list of things to do. It broke a couple of forum upgrades ago unfortunately, but it will more likely than not be back. Where did the other 2 used to be, I've not seen them at all, drop me a DM ....

If you're viewing the magazine part of the site you won't get any bedunks, but you should still get them if you have the forum open, I'm getting them as this thread updates.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words, it's been hard work to set this up, I know it won't be to everyone's taste but the positive feedback is most welcome, as are bug reports of things that don't quite look or work properly & thanks to those who have submitted them. Without mentioning the word "advert" or any synonym, is there anything you'd like to see on the site? Something cool another club's fan site does that we could have a look at for BRFCS?

Thanks JacknOry, it'll be fixed in a few minutes.

THAT is a nice kit! I hope they come with a Northern Bloke fitting though 😄

I want to see Pike given a chance just so when he gets booked and the ref asks his name, Lenihan as Captain (Mannering) can say "Don't tell him Pike!" 😆

Ah, the COVID passports we were told we definitely wouldn’t be having. You’re probably right. I work on the turnstile of a non league club (#UpTheBriggers) and the number of people that didn’t have a phone or said they didn’t, or who’s phone was too old for the app made up a sizeable portion of the crowd before the last lockdown. It’ll be an interesting problem for sure.

Taken out of context they are ludicrous, but they've been updated with covid in mind and given how covid is spread in moisture droplets the shouting/singing advice makes a bit more sense, even if it flies in the face of traditional behaviour at a football ground, but let's face it, things aren't normal yet. They're pissing in the wind of course, they'll never be able to enforce it. It'll be interesting to see how they enforce the photo id rule though because we don't live in a country where you're required to have photo id (I know several people who's paper driving licence is still valid) so if you don't have photo ID you're barred from football?