And you can't even use the 10% off in the Roverstore to knock a bit of money off the new kit! £5 price increase on last season and fewer benefits. Waggott out.

12 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

 

Yet the irony was last season our early round crowds in both cups were our highest for donkeys years.

Probably because it wasn't a guaranteed embarrassing defeat like it was under the previous manager.

1 hour ago, rog of the rovers said:

Flight to Vienna the best bet?

Looking more out of curiosity than anything else!

Think a few are flying into Bratislava. Graz is the closest airport but no direct flights.

As much as a handful of Rovers fans wanting to watch Rovers in a friendly in some Austrian backwater is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, this is just the latest in a long line of examples of Rovers showing sheer contempt for the fanbase.

4 minutes ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

04/05, 91/92. I know historically it was one of our first kits but I still strongly dislike it when it's been done recently. If they did it again now it would be way too soon.

If we're classing 04/05 as a lighter blue kit then most of our kits fall into that bracket!

On 25/06/2023 at 21:25, BlackburnEnd75 said:

I generally hate it when we go for the lighter blue. It's not Rovers blue. It's okay every 20 years or so but feels like we've seen it a lot more frequently recently 

2014/15 and 2018/19. Before that was the early 90s. Most of our kits in our early years used the lighter blue.

10 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Same club that's seemingly in awe of our scouting and recruitment as they piss fart about with no signings.....

I mean in terms of priorities I know which I'd take over a coach from Benidorm 😵‍💫

It's not a choice between the two though is it? Just like with the season ticket pricing structure, though no doubt someone will be along shortly to say that we wouldn't have been able to sign Tronstad or Sigurdsson if we only charged £280.

2 hours ago, neophox said:

Where in Austria will it be and when?

I don't think a location was ever rumoured but the rumour was 2 games, one on Friday 14th and one on Saturday 15th. The rumours have now dried up and there's radio silence from the club regarding it.

Meanwhile a club 10 miles west of us have laid on free coaches from Benidorm to their game 90 minutes away. Chalk and cheese compared to the shambles behind the scenes at Ewood.

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

We did but lots of teams who were in similar positions reported an increase. As the report says many clubs came out of Covid into a stronger position primarily because fans were eager to get back to watching football and had some spare cash. We simply didn't. I recall vividly some dialogue I and several others had about refunds for the aborted season. These were dismissed out of hand by Waggott who felt that an iPlayer subscription would provide an adequate alternative. Lots of clubs reduced the price of season tickets for the following season accordingly and reaped the benefits. Again we didn't and that falls straight into the lap of Waggott. 

Where Waggott really got me was his treatment of young adults during the Covid season and the season after. I paid £179 for a season ticket and didn't see a single live game. When the next season rolled round, any adult or senior who bought a season ticket in 20/21 got a decent wedge knocked off. Young adults got absolutely nothing, because we got iFollow. No consideration given to either any games on Sky, or households with more than one season ticket (or how easy it was to watch games without an iFollow subscription, but that's a fine line to tread). It stank. 

It isn't unknown for both us and Burnley to be at home on the same day/night... it's normally avoided obviously but it's happened at least once recently.

36 minutes ago, Mike E said:

And another generation (anyone about 18 now) believe THESE are the good times…

This. For anyone under the age of 21, the only piece of success they've been around for was the League One season. A group of people who are too young to even remember the relative heights of the mid 2000s. Admittedly the ST prices for those under 23 are good compared to the adult prices, but when these young adults turn 23 and their season ticket more than doubles in price, plenty will think twice about renewing. The cut off was 25 for a brief period but this was quietly changed; another one of Waggott's bright ideas. 

IIRC the Blackburn End was single seats only above about row 12 before the 'save your seat' deadline. Just look at the state of the seat map now. Hundreds of non-renewals. Waggott out.

Barring some radical change both on and off the pitch, I won’t be renewing for next season. Been a season ticket holder since I was 8 years old but I can’t justify spending hundreds of pounds on something I simply don’t enjoy anymore.

I get the feeling that I’m far from the only person with this stance either.

6 minutes ago, Old Rover said:

Most clubs have a few thousand seats in the non popular stand at eye catching cheap rates so they can say" Season tickets from*.

The Riverside should be £329. At least it still gives people struggling a chance/option to buy one. 

£399 cheapest seat makes maybes no chances,

I do believe the Riverside price hike was brought in for the 2020/21 season under the guise of 'if we have to enforce social distancing it's easier to move people around if everyone has paid the same'. I can somewhat understand that logic being retained last summer but it's abundantly clear that all of that is well and truly in the past. But this is Waggott we're on about, and stealth price rises are his speciality.

8 minutes ago, darrenrover said:

I'm really getting brassed off with all the negative vibes and back biting amongst supporters.

Are we supposed to be happy with these prices?

3 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

Somebody will have to tell this ol’ Texan what a ‘plastic’ is

Similar to a 'glory hunter'. It's what North Enders call us. It's mainly seeded in bitterness at what we achieved in the 90s/00s, with very little fact behind it.

They call us 'plastics' while constantly complaining about the number of Liverpool/United fans there are in Preston. The irony is fairly spectacular.

8 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

All for it. Red and black, yellow with blue trim are the quintessential away Rovers colours.

But surely the yellow should’ve been held back for next season? 

I feel similar. Or given it's the 30th anniversary of the play-off final, this should have been the away kit this year with the red and black one held back for next season. I can't think of any games where we need to wear this kit this season. 

1 hour ago, Bluerover78 said:

Not counted the dots but it's going to be quiet on the terraces, hope they don't put away fans in the top tier or there will be no atmosphere at all.☹️

I do think I'd rather have no atmosphere than have the only atmosphere be generated by the away fans.

36 minutes ago, JHRover said:

This is the message I get on the season ticket page

I assume they're finally sorting out removing the hold from seats reserved for people who haven't renewed in two years.

4 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

To be fair they are still held from the summer before last so it will be correct.

Will be a much different picture when they put them back on sale though I'm guessing, will be plenty available in the bburn end.

That's poor form too IMO. It was generous holding people's seats who hadn't renewed last season in the first place. We're now 4 days away from the first home game and they're still holding back thousands of seats for people who clearly aren't renewing.

They're still on sale now, but the 'claim your seat' deadline looks to have been extended yet again. It's a shambles. A cynic would suggest they're trying to cover up the horrifically low number of STs sold this year.

2-1 loss. Arma to score his last ever goal for the club. Attendance an embarassing 9k.

I've no idea what Rovers are playing at with the constant extending of the renewal deadline, as if thousands of fans are going to have some sort of epiphany and renew 4 days before the season starts, after having all summer to claim their seat. 

Apart from the far end of N05, there aren't two available seats next to each other in the Blackburn End above about row 5. There's no chance that the BBE is >85% full of season ticket holders so I'm not sure who they're trying to kid by pretending it is. All that's happening is they're pissing off anyone who either wants to move seats or wants to bring a partner/children along, or both in my case. 

I've got a PR postcode and have to put up with this lot regularly as a result. They're like an irritating little cousin; almost wanted them to do well til they got promoted the other year and suddenly remembered their dislike towards us. Got no real feeling towards them but a win for us would well and truly shut them up for a while.

We've got the full end, since the last time we played them they've taken out a row or two at the front to get more advertising boards in behind the goals so the capacity isn't quite the ~5,900 it was.

Parking will be a nightmare given there's likely to be about 17,000 on. Trains are still running to Preston every hour, but the only one back is at 6.30 so not much time for any post-match drinking.

Even with the strike it'll be quite easy to go on the train for this one; roughly hourly non-stop. Last train back at half 6.

Not only £30 for adults but no concessions for young adults. As a 17 year old that isn't a student they're asking for £30 from me. No chance. Disgraceful pricing.