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Sheff Wednesday is the first of December. And I agree completely with your second line. 100%. Your spot on. Absolutely And that's why we should do a cheap special offer for a big game.

That's true. Thats what happens when you google something quickly and don't realise we play on the 1st of both months !! Although we could have done the same offer for the Sheff Weds on 1st December which is a 3pm kick-off (unless Wednesday sold out the entire Darwen End in which case the police will get it back to 10.45am.) I see the chuckle brothers liked your post although have made no comment on this proposal which will try and actually engage more fans with the current team.

Player of the season in 2017 is now shite. There's not a lot in it in my opinion, and Bell will only get better, but due to the lack of presence in the air at centre half I'd prefer Williams at this moment in time.

I watched Croatia V Spain on Thursday night and that was a belting game. As was the England game yesterday. The Wales V Denmark game over the weekend was also a cracker at the end with a lot of bad feeling / tension on the pitch. This tournament has been great in replacing the meaningless boring friendlies with games which matter.

To the first line, that's irrelevant. It's ripping off your own fan base just to get more money in the coffers. And according to you, it seems like the surcharge is not having the desired effect it was introduced for. Second line, many people have given up watching Rovers over the last 8 years through various reasons. You aren't going to get the Premier League fans going at the moment. However others have just stopped going because they stopped enjoying the calamitous sideshow off the pitch whilst a revolving door of mercenary, has beens or half-decent players came and went. People have disconnected from the club. As others warned, these ex-supporters have probably found other things to do and don't sit there regretting not going to Ewood anymore. Now this is a shame because we have a manager and team showing "Total Commitment" (© Rovers Social Media and Advertising Depertment). For the first time in years there is a connection between the the fans and, not just one or two, but practically all of the team. However the people who aren't attending don't feel this. They aren't interested as they currently think whatever they do on a Saturday is more enjoyable than going to Ewood based on their last experiences. How do we get these people down to Ewood to re-engage? By making the Sheff Wednesday game on New Years day a tenner. Most people are off work. Whether its people buying tickets or getting tickets as Christmas presents, if that game was a tenner and well publicised we would get close to or above 18,000 home fans IMO. Sure we would lose money than it being full price, but if just 500 of these fans came regularly for the rest of the season the club would be better off.

As Gumboots says, you need to get people to engage in the first place. Therefore we are back at why not do special offers for Big weekend games rather than the usual ones which don't grab the imagination.

If you want a pint at half time, you now need to book it online the day before. Otherwise its subject to a 70p surcharge. I don't see this avoidable surcharge as a barrier but that's just me.

The fact is we don't have the demand required to fill the ground to generate revenue to compete at the top of the league we are in. Unlike last minute airlines, we are not a necessity like if you decide you want to use them last minute. Cinemas may do discounted tickets for advance bookings at non peak times but they certainly dont put their prices up in the last hour before the film starts. Whether it's to save on staff costs or not have too many pies left over, the surcharge penalises casual fans who decide to come at the last minute in order to make the club a bit more money. All very good on a balance sheet but it doesn't promote brand loyalty or good will, something which they have lost a lot of over the last eight years.

Good preview. Thanks I like the fact that on their bitter forum thread they are all having a bitch at us until somebody posts:- And then it goes quiet.......

I guessed that is what they had done when I got a pint and only got charged £3. Well done for the club for doing it. However they could have put something up to advertise the fact so people knew. I certainly didnt see any signage up around the concourse or bars, and your post is the first confirmation I've seen. They haven't cut the prices across the board on food before but they have done "Free pie with a pint" offers etc..

Personally I've not said it does. In fact I said it probably isn't affecting crowds significantly. But it's only purpose is to get extra money in the pockets by ripping off those fans who chose to attend last minute.

Ripping off is the exact phrase I nearly posted last night. I don't think it's exactly the same as when we travel by train to London or Glasgow for work, aswe get the train as we can take calls, work on laptops etc.. Therefore we have little alternative. These journeys are generally paid for by the company as well so they get less resistance. Same with flights. Sometimes they say "We realise you have a choice of airlines ....." when they land but in reality there is often only 1 choice to get you from A to B at the times require. Generally the customer who pays these late surcharges has to travel.. These companies don't realistically expect to hold any brand loyalty with their customers and know that the travellers are desperate so will have to pay it, therefore they introduce rip-off higher prices. Football is different. We are trying to encourage people to come here rather than spend their leisure time elsewhere. As far as I am aware, you don't turn up at the cinema and have to pay £2 more than if you had booked it online a few hours earlier.

Whilst I don't think this is preventing huge numbers of people from going, I still don't get the logic. Has anyone got a link to Waggors comments because I know people say he's addressed this but I can't recall his answer. I'm presuming it's because they need more staff in the ticket office on match days, I went in the club shop before last Saturdays game and it was packed. They had to put lots more staff on otherwise it would have been queued out of the door. So why aren't the scarves £11 instead of £9 to pay for these extra staff? The staff required on a match day is there to take increased sales revenue from customers. The extra tickets you sell on a matchday should pay their wages. Now the club will say you can go online and pre-book your tickets. Get rid of the need for staff completely. But before we know it we will be buying pies and cans of fosters out of a line of vending machines at half time, and Mowbray will be replaced with some kind of Artificial Intelligence prototype designed by EA Sports.

Agree on all your points apart from this one, They had two free headers in the first half which they should have scored both. Corners and high balls still worry me.

Yes I've seen most games and I disagree. The only thing we probably agree on is Nyambe should be back at right back at Deepdale

Because I thought Bennett was better than Evans when they both have featured in central midfield this year, and apart from the first 45 minutes at BoltoN I've not seen much of Rodwell but I believe we need pace and mobility in there and Bennett has that more than JR.

I disagree completely on almost all of that and would have him in central midfield over all those you mention apart from Reed.

The guy was excellent earlier this season but has had to be moved out of position to cover Nyambe's injury. He's still done well but you want him dropped? Today reminded me of Plymouth last year. We dominated that second half but it just didn't happen. However I was far happier with the performance than I was for the qpr game. I thought everyone played well apart from DG and whilst the result is disappointing, I'm not too downheartened.

If I manually selected any block it said no tickets available. If I chose 'choose for me,' it defaulted to front rows on block M. I was trying most of the day. Got sorted eventually on row 14, block M.

I know several season ticket holders going who want to go with people who are non-season ticket holders. Therefore they are hanging on. I'd expect it to be quite busy tomorrow and then before the game on Saturday.

I saw my first positive attribute on a Saturday. He's direct. He got the ball, wanted something to happen and drove in to the penalty area forcing the penalty when others would have stayed wide waiting for support. However he still doesn't look a natural dribbler and don't show enough to change my opinion of what he has co tributes so far. For the record, you can actually think that Mowbray is doing a great job and think BB has been poor so far. The opinions aren't linked.

Because of the fireworks I would imagine. Also well done to whoever decided to reopen the concourse kiosks for refreshments again after the full time whistle.

I'd say whoever thinks we played Swindon in league one last year doesnt have a clue!

Poor, poor game with no standout performers outside of the defence. 0-0 would have suited that game to a tee but it's a massive 3 points. Looking at this game and the Bolton game, we are beginning to win ugly - and that cant be a bad thing!

Just watching the fireworks. That's the transfer kitty blown.