7 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Also there’s a fans forum on Monday so it will be interesting to see how close you were to the official figure…

I'm fully expecting them to say 7,500 🙈😆

Season Ticket Estimate

Latest: 8,659 (+31)

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.

3 hours ago, Ricky said:

More proof that social media is used by many to say the most binary, thoughtless, and controversial things possible for attention and clicks.

6 minutes ago, TheSlug said:

Any indication of what colours will be used for Away & 3rd Kits?

Somebody on here mentioned black/grey for the away kit (possibly similar to "that Steven Reid goal" kit), and yellow for the third kit.

4 hours ago, Mellor Rover said:

All aboard! I noticed on the seat map the Blackburn end looks a lot more sparse than normal... what's the % in there Gooz?

N01 68%
N02 82%
N03 82%
N04 76%
N05 61%

I wonder how he'll get on living abroad. Believe it or not, it's not the dream that many think it is. You're not on holiday. You work as normal. You have to sort out a whole heap of admin-type stuff and get yourself set up all over again with anything and everything (I've been doing this for years, and it is ongoing). The language barrier can be difficult, which can make life a bit lonely if you can't converse properly with locals. Also, many expats/immigrants just come and go because they are on some "finding my soul" type of spiritual journey. I really struggle to connect with those types as they are full of pretentious shit.

Of course, Ben will no doubt be in and amongst English speakers who have also moved to Villarreal from another country, which will be a huge help, but adapting and sticking through the rough bits isn't straightforward. It's basically a big upheaval of your life, no matter how fanciful it might look on paper.

All the best to him. He did well in the end for us after a very rough start to life at the club. It's a complete failure of the club to have spent so much money on him, only for it to never come to anything for us other than a couple of outside shots at the play-offs. Forest will be even more pissed off with us due to not getting a slice of a sale!

Just now, BigUts said:

Trick is not to use any fabric softener and wash on a cool one

Hmm, fabric softener might have been the problem. I just chuck it in with other clothes at 30 degrees (yes, I'm the designated clothes washer, drier, and ironer in the House of Burger).

A bit odd, though, because the other two shirts were fine with the same type of wash, and I never wash them that often as a precaution. It's just the home shirt that suffered the crest-peeling problem.

Is the club crest embroidered this time? My home Rovers shirt from last season is ruined after the rubber (?) crest started to peel off after going through the washing machine. I can perhaps glue it back on, but I read at least one other poster on here that had the same issue.

It looks great. The Totally Wicked logo looks far better than in seasons gone by. I like the dash of light blue rather than the usual red. It's one of our historical shades of blue, so why not?

Like last season, I'm not massively keen on the curvy shape below the neckline. I think it looks cheap. somehow, and reminds me of the Lonsdale kit from the mid-2000s.

When does the online shop open? 😀

Season Ticket Estimate

Latest: 8,628 (+22)

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.

Season Ticket Estimate

Latest: 8,606 (+17)

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.

On 02/06/2023 at 21:48, goozburger said:

Daniel Farke.

Aye ✅

Season Ticket Estimate

Latest: 8,589 (+36)

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.

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

I'll look out for you as you should be easy to spot. You'll be the one counting the crowd 😂😂

When there's no seat map, what can I do other than turn up and count? Someone has to do it.

Hotel booked for me and the family. 😀 It'll be the first Rovers game I'll have attended for eight years. Oh, wait. The first TWO Rovers games I'll have attended for eight years! 🤗

Mods, can you remove the "confirmed" tag from the thread title? I was getting excited when I first saw this at the top of the forum. 😩

5 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Mental that football clubs don't just make there own shirts, we could increase margins massive and sell for half the price of what we currently charge.

When you say clubs should "make their own shirts", I assume you're talking about the design, and not a loom that we spin up every twelve months. 🤔

6 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

18 (EIGHTEEN), on a Sunday! 🚀

Sorry, I've just got back onto my chair. Yes. 18. The sky is the limit, Matthew.

Season Ticket Estimate

Latest: 8,553 (+18)

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.

3 minutes ago, Gav said:

We have had our company contracts rewritten recently, we follow the government guidelines, which are:

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off-

The general notice period for taking leave is at least twice as long as the amount of leave a worker wants to take, plus 1 day. For example, a worker would give 3 days’ notice for 1 day’s leave.

Get them contracts checked is the moral to this story, I hear Austria is a picture at this time of year.

Not many companies do what yours do in my 20-year experience (nor do they have to, and understandably so because companies, particularly smaller ones, have to plan around absentees). It's difficult for people working in companies that I would say normally set these four-week notice periods. I worked for around five companies on a permanent basis, and they all had exactly the same stipulation.

Yes, it would be great to go to Austria! Do I go solo? Or drag the family and make them wear one of my many Rovers shirts? 🤔 Collating... 🤖

12 minutes ago, Gav said:

I’d move jobs, the rules are, last time I checked, 11 days notice for 5 days off.

Employers can refuse that request for leave, provided they notify the employee on the same day.

Basically, refer to the work contract, where employers usually put in a period of notice for any holiday leave (usually four weeks). Employers can, of course, just use their discretion and allow leave at shorter notice, but that's up to them.

I'm giving serious thought to going to the game in Hartberg. It's a 2.5 hour drive from where I am, and it's certainly do-able with it being on a Saturday. Hartberg looks like a really nice town, too.

I'm extremely lazy to be looking at the moment, but is it just pay-on-the day for tickets?

I saw a bitcoin ATM the other week. It looked more like a gambling machine than something that you withdraw money from. I think you can do all your "trading" on it or something.

I don't know if I should be embarrassed or relieved by this, but as a techie, I still do not really understand crypto-currency; how it works, how you get it (with real money? with "selling" your computer processor power?), what it's real purpose is, where do you spend it, etc. I'm a bit of a Luddite with this and, in fact, my monthly budgeting is done with a real pile of cash so that I "feel it" when I spend it and that pile is the be all and end all of a food budget, for example, rather than a number I don't bother looking at on a debit card. I don't know enough about crypto-currency to say whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, but the term already has a negative stigma in the media.

Perhaps it's just not worth thinking about. 🤪 As you were.

I use Twitter to post the season ticket estimates, and while I follow a number of football related accounts, I generally don't keep up with them because it can be overwhelming. Instead, I subscribe to a handful of RSS feeds and digest the news in that way. Those feeds are so underrated, especially in this day and age where likes, retweets, sponsored content, algorithms, and all that other nonsense takes precedence over real content. BRFCS has one, by the way. 😀 I wish the LT would fix theirs, however. 🙄

The problem for Twitter is that they appear to be a financially unsustainable company. As an economic dullard, it amazes me that companies like this make billions upon billions of losses. There can't really be any denying that they have been poorly run in the past. Musk is attempting to balance it all with sheer ruthlessness. Will it work in the end? Or should he just slow the pace down and lay low for a bit while his reputation is taking a bashing in the media? Time will tell. Frankly, I don't really care. Mastodon and RSS for the win. Digitally detox your life if you can.