4 hours ago, goozburger said:

Season Ticket Estimate

Latest: 8,197 (+12)

Notes:

• The estimate is based upon the total number of saleable seats to home supporters (18,210), minus the amount of unavailable (sold) seats.
• (+xx) represents the difference in season ticket sales from the previous estimate (usually 24 hours).
• 159 seats in block W01 are marked as unavailable (sold), but are not saleable due to being cordoned-off. These are therefore excluded from the season ticket estimate.
• 376 seats for supporters requiring ground-level font-row access are marked as unavailable (sold), but appear to be block-reserved rather than fully sold. These are therefore excluded from the season ticket estimate.
• A seat is marked as unavailable for up to 28 minutes when added to the basket. It is not possible to exclude these from the estimate.

How does the current figure compare to this time last year Gooz?

On 16/05/2023 at 22:17, Mercer said:

We will see.

£50 says either Potter or Rodgers at Southampton.  Are you on?

I’ll take you up on that 👍🏻 No chance either of those two end up there. 

4 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

One point is all it needs ..... and it was Rovers who missed out again. Their players weren't much better than ours (if at all) but they had a hunger and desire and sheer guts to get the job done that we clearly did not

It's been said many times. We have too many nice lads 

 

I don’t think we lacked in hunger and desire if I’m honest, I think we lacked goals. What I’d do to have had Carlton Morris or Viktor Gyokeres up top this season. Not signing a striker in January was what killed us. 

1 minute ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

We've finished seventh in the league. Do clubs with ambition go for that manager over , say, Mark Robins who has finished higher ? (if Coventry don't win the play offs)

Think there will be attractive jobs in Europe out there for JDT, depends which ones come up. Be such a shame if he was to go because we are literally 3/4 players away from finishing in the top six, wouldn’t blame him if he left though. He’s got more ambition than any of the stooges involved with running our club. 

We sign a striker in Jan, we’re sat comfortably in the top six right now. Simple as that. I’m actually excited for next season, we bring a bit more quality in, in the final third of the pitch and we’ll be a force. Rest of the team is good enough for me, tonight showed that. 

8 hours ago, tomphil said:

Yes i remember both, the City one was a rearranged game i think in the middle of a bit of a fixture glut. We'd sold 450 tickets beforehand, probably not many more there on the night.

Bolton it all went a bit silly with them with ticket price shenanigans and live tv we always seemed to be there on Sunday lunch. Think it was the same season they had 900 hundred at Ewood, just great examples of prices and SKY ruining derby games even back then.

End of the day we have and always have had a limited hardcore fanbase and people have always picked and chose. Very hard for us or that lot down the road to maintain consistent big followings outside of being successful when more casual fans tag along.

Some of our fans especially the young ones just don't get this.

 

The city game was a Saturday 3PM, would have been 500 there at an absolute maximum, I doubt even that. 
 

Agree with everything else you’ve said mate, spot on. 

3 hours ago, tomphil said:

Iv'e been at Brum in the Prem more than once with 5/600 hundred and seen them up here with not many more.

Funnily enough we've not done too bad for followings down there in the Championship 1 to 1.5k being pretty standard depending on form.   That's decent for us for midlands games where most will have gone down from the North rather than London games where we get a lot from the South.

Yeah I was thinking the other day our away followings these days are better than they were during the mid 2000s in the prem. I remember being at a 1-1 draw away at Man City where Kalinic scored, I reckon there was about 200 rovers fans there. I also remember games like a Sunday away trip to Bolton, a Jason roberts solo goal to win it late on I think there would have only been 700/800 of us there. 
 

For whatever reason our away following is a lot better these days, maybe we were just to comfy as a mid table prem side, if only we knew what was going to come. 

1.5k+ is a more than respectable following this weekend, I’ve been at Brum on a Saturday with 500 there. Obviously the Sheff United game was always going to be a big turn-out because of the magnitude of the game, it’s just common sense.

1 hour ago, Displaced Rover said:

Eye for an eye. Very simple, they took a small minded view in the away fixture. As others have said, shame they aren't up in the top tier.

They gave us all they could? Not that I’m bothered about them getting 2k but they couldn’t have given us any more for the reverse fixture. 

If the game was at Ewood I’d feel a lot more confident. They usually have our number at Bramall Lane. You never know though. Head says 2-0 defeat, heart says we snatch a 1-0.

1 hour ago, Mercer said:

A Pinot Noir is terrific with a lamb curry!  Though started with a Guinness particularly after Captain Guinness romped in at 12/1 at Cheltenham!!

A terrific day, great win at Cheltenham, Rovers' win, bookies caned and super Indian and Pinot Noir. 

A place at 12/1 is hardly breaking the bank Merce but I’m sure you invested all your profit on the Blues tonight. Stick it all back on us to qualify on Sunday, believe 🙌🏻

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

The rules state it must be at least 2,000 visiting fans, or 10% of certified capacity if less than 2,000.

If it was at least 10% then away teams would have had nearly 4000 at Elland Road and 5000+ at Newcastle in the Championship but didn't.

Fair is fair - I'd give them the exact number they gave us - and if they don't like it tough. I didn't like paying £30 odd to stand behind a pillar and not be able to use the toilets.

 

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

I think we’d be able to block a few hundred off the capacity and therefore their allocation with some “segregation” 

2 hours ago, 1864roverite said:

If there is a safety issue then Rovers can limit the number of tickets to away fans 

I see, trust me the last thing I want is 8000 of that lot celebrating promotion in our back yard. Let’s see what happens! 

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

I would limit their ticket allocation to the exact number they gave us. I would be petulant and charge them £1 more than they charged Rovers fans, which is the least they deserve for far superior facilities (only one toilet block at Turf together with obstructed views).

I would put them in the upper tier only, no flags permitted, and then cover the entire lower tier with Rovers banners/flags which would look better on TV than simply empty seats.

I would charge Rovers fans £15 a ticket and try to fill the other 3 stands.

People will say we aren't allowed to charge home fans less than away fans. Well we are are there are 2 ways of doing it:

1) Do what Bristol City did the other week and run a special offer for 'members' whilst away fans get charged full price (£15 for Bristol whilst £33 for Norwich)

2) Or instead designate the upper BBE and DE as premium seating and charge higher prices for those seats, which is effectively what Leeds do with away fans being ripped off sat in the main stand.

If rumours are to be believed, and I hope they are, they are getting less than 3000. I hope this is the Club recognising the risk and drawbacks of handing them a huge allocation in the current climate but suspect it is just as much a police decision as anything.

Not sure they can get less than 3000, club has to provide 10% of the ground so that’s 3000+ already minimum. I imagine they’ll get about 4k. 

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

There is person who says he doesn't like JDT cos he is far too arrogant and he also think Mowbray should still be here and he is the best thing since slice bread

Brian Kenny, that guy has a shrine to Mowbray in his house. Proper strange guy 

4 hours ago, Mercer said:

Not a chance tomorrow.

Threadbare squad at breaking point and too many key players missing.

The Ainsworth factor...........!!!

Gone for QPR at 6/5 and more than 2.5 goals at 13/10.

At least recent winnings have ensured I have copious quantities of fine reds to dull the pain of a Rovers' loss.

1-0 win to Rovers confirmed. Cheers for that Merce 😃

6 hours ago, JoeH said:

I thought Vale had a good game and was definitely better than Gallagher. Whenever we actually got the ball to him in the final third he did well with it. A player who deserves the opportunity to play with Thomas who will actually get the ball into him. 

Did you think Gallagher offered more or less?

I’m always interested to hear your view on players and stuff but saying Vale had a good game is absolutely crazy. He was invisible throughout and once again struggled to get involved bar one moment where he laid it off to Thomas which was the first time I’d seen him hold the ball up successfully full stop.
 

Gally wasn’t much better when he came on granted but Vale was still really poor, he needs a loan to league one or two next season. Criminal we didn’t bring a striker in, in Jan, it really is. 

25 minutes ago, Ricky said:

Was there a link to Mullin in the window?  Looks far better than our forwards again today. 

No, don’t think there was. Good player but not championship quality for me, he’d have still been an improvement on Vale and Gally though!

1 hour ago, Neilbristol said:

The Venkys are not. We should be chanting this but it won't do much sadly

The atmosphere was bad last night even by the usual dead Ewood standards and the football did nothing to help on that front, it really is the most depressing place in the country to watch football and has been for 10+ years, we only make any noise when we want to do a bit of booing. 
 

Venkys really have killed this great club. 
 

32 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Dack is an experience player so the comparison is unfair one for me. Vale is at the start of his playing career

People can keep going on Vale but I won't be changing my opinion on Vale

Vale wouldn’t score goals in the conference, simple as that. 

Mark Harris?! He’s shite. 

Has anyone seen @chaddyrovers?