Anyone heard the rumours of sammy to Palace, let’s hope he is not sick tomorrow.

I remember in the 70s Burnley putting on a golden gate, supporters who went through agreed to pay double entry to help support the club. A far cry from today when everyone asks (us included) what can the club do for me and not what we can do to help support our town teams, support like that at Bolton is something the club don’t need at this time.

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

There seems to be an acceptance from some that gates will never improve no matter what the club do. I think that is nonsense. The same things were said before Williams slashed the prices way back when. 

What the club has to do is make Ewood Park on a match day an attractive proposition. They won't do that through surcharges, closing stands to home fans and moving families round. They'll only do it by making it affordable to EVERYONE and making EVERYONE feel valued. There isn't enough goodwill knocking about after the last 8 years to make pissing people off acceptable to anyone. 

The club needs to start by attracting young adults, the ones who actually sing and make the ground a vibrant and enjoyable place to be. This takes us back to the Oxford game. It was full of young people and they were Rovers fans. Fact. They won't all come back but the really sad thing is NONE of them have come back. That failure can be laid firmly at the feet of the club.

I have been a site viewer for years but just signed up, because I think roversfan99 has hit the nail on the head. We need to attract the younger fans with attractive ticket pricing, and when I say younger I mean under 25. scale the pricing from 16 -25 but keep it low.

The club also need to attract more older fans by providing low cost transport from the surrounding areas by putting at cost buses on from ie. Accy, Darwen,Train station, Wilpshire and other areas, with buses going back.

I know buses go from Darwen but only a few pubs. This in the overall scheme would be cost neutral for the club as the extra income from more supporters spending at the ground on anything would pay for this.