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Correct they are a bunch of small time operators who get paid their vast amounts whether there is 8k or 18k in the ground. I think £10 is a great offer for any Championship game but here i think it's being done more out of desperation than anything generous. They've only done it on the back of the recent atrocious midweek turnouts otherwise it would have been on offer weeks ago. C##ts. Again the perfect game for a total boycott but has anybody called for it ? No, so apathy will reign again and that is all the powers that be will put it down to.

But if it was £20 all round the stadium we'd be looking at 20,000 + probably.

I'll have a moan when the regulars don't turn up and when tickets are available cheaper but in terms of the Wrexham and Sheff Weds games they deserve everything they get. Which will be about 10k in the home sections. Then they have nerve to moan about lack of crowds and atmosphere FFS, it's enough to make you give up like thousands of overs.

The one's who don't go don't wanna know unless we are winning every week and then they suddenly forget the Venky hate. The one's who do go don't want to know real boycotts even though most of them hate the owners and those running it and can see the damage done. Catch 22, bizarre club and fans you lot. That's from a Bolton fan looking in from the outside.

Don't ask me, i was a happy clapper for a day. That's over now. Sack the board - If you can find them.

We are being run as if in admin without actually being put in admin, for now. If they don't return to the previous funding levels and nobody turns into a 10 million quid player pretty soon then more shit will hit the fan. More downgrading.

I wonder if they realised early on they'd dropped the ball with Sid so went all out for this guy to plug that hole ? Or more likely they were prepping to lose Cantwell and/or Tronstad.

Sell it for a quid and add in a £1 million a year payment for 150 years !! Might shift it and it's the only way that company will ever see its money again.

I think they are trying to head off a disastrous actual bums on seats attendance and try to cover match costs at the same time.

They can only say i told you so if they have the opportunity. How anyone can turn their nose up at £10 is beyond me we really are proving the constant shit passionless support' jibes true if there's less than 10k home fans in for this. Not that it'll happen but if every ST holder got another non holder to buy one there's potential for 16-18 thousand home fans. That would make a change from the usual eerie bollocks and should give the team a bit of a lift. As it is i'll settle for ten thousand on instead of 6 or 7k !

They don't look at club value they seem to look at their company balance sheet where it's worth 150 million to them. And of course the fact that one promotion however fanciful it might seem wipes that out and staying in the Prem would deliver a profit. Fantasy stuff obviously but they probably are fantasists.

Good effort fair play they are listening even it it's a bit of a free hit because it's a second running of the same game. Bums on seats please, no excuses support the team regardless of what happens at Wrexham otherwise they'll not do offers. Prove it works and stick it up em.

He's just bang average working with a light bang average squad. When everyone is fit and the opposition is similar we'll get some results but whenever people are missing or questions are asked by another side that need answering he won't deliver. As pointed out his core style is more suited to counter attacking away from home and we have no flair whatsoever at home. Hopefully adding the set piece coach starts to add something regularly at both ends.

Normally i'd agree but my point here is it looks like the finance guy V's stuck on the board quite recently is just here to run the lowest budget model possible for them. Whilst keep us just above the admin line and second or thirdly keeping us in this league in order to maximise future player sale prices. I genuinely think the dwindling crowds will just be seen as - or should i say passed off as - a combination of collateral damage from cost of living crisis,fan favs wanting out, weather and oh just Rovers typical support (they used to get 7k) etc. In short anything and everything they can blame except the main drivers of it. So to counter this prices go up, more silly cat A games like Wrexham and come Jan he'll look to shave more thousands per week off the wage bill. Because that's his job nothing else, a reactionary to the balance sheet not the football. The lack of footfall just justifies his position imo and that's what i'm trying to get across. These loons will run the club into the ground in front of 5k if that's what it becomes.

So they are saying aside from QPR's merry band 4 k bought tickets ? There needs to be some serious questions asked now about what they are fabricating down there. The last crowd almost identical to that in the home sections was about 11k ish i think. The JW holds what 9.5k ? Could easily group everybody in the ground in there last night including the away fans. The actual number of turnstile clicks in the 3 home stands must've been sub 9k.

The heat from the pies is the best bit of the evening.

Was never expecting a good crowd but on the back of Friday i was expecting a few more of the loyal hardcore to be in there and a bit more of a positive atmosphere. A bit more of a normal feel to it is the best way to describe it but looking around and the vibe you'd have thought we'd just been hammered off Burnley again. That doesn't help the players and if you with all your Rovers experience can't see that then i'm surprised. As iv'e pointed out repeatedly my main concern is it gives those implementing the managed decline more ammunition and gives the coach ready made excuses. For the record non of that washes with me it doesn't matter if no one is there the players are paid to put a shift in and the Head Coach is paid for selection, tactics and use of subs. All poor yet again last night and naff all to do with the crowd or lack of it but if we as fans want intensity on the pitch we have to do our bit as well and howl them into it. That isn't happening either.

Yes all roads lead back to the poor unambitionless handling of season tickets.

I think my points about it adding to the problems instead of fighting against them and playing into the hands of the excuse makes and cost cutters are very valid ones. I know i'm not alone on that outside the confines of this board but yes we know the root cause and they are reaping what they've sown. They'll never own up to it though it just provides more ammunition to blame the lack of crowds for further managed decline.

£18.75 v Derby and about 18750 home fans turn up, live tv stupid early kick off, added appeal of trying to put one over former manager. Weds night, no tv, on back of beating local gobshites and probably a seasons best performance, so called winnable game and thousands of tickets available at £17 on one stand, CHEAPER than the Derby game. About 8.5k actually turn up. Make it make sense please, somebody.

As iv'e said silent protests are pointless and just damage the club further there is nothing impressive about it and the victim mentality is nauseating now. I've long called for a single match protest to drive the message home this is what will happen if you don't start running the place properly. That never happens though it's just the slow demise that now provides excuses for manager and players as we are now seeing. And it provides more excuses for the cost cutters. They long gave up and trying to build this club up it's so much easier to go through a period of managed decline and end up in a situation that is cheap to run and requires easy low funding. That's where we are heading on all fronts and the only thing fans can do is either boycott properly to try and force a regime change or continue turning up in the usual numbers and try and help the team stay in this division. That isn't happening now.

Nobody wants to come.

Wasn't it £17 for adults bought online last night in the riverside ? They really need to do something similar in the Blackburn End because they've killed it.

The turnouts or lack of them aren't helping anybody, come on 7-8k turning up it's pathetic. Yes we know all the issues but this is dire now if we want the team to win we have to give it all the help we can because by god it needs it. Back the team NOT the regime supporters are supposed to support other teams fans seem to manage it but here people are just staying away because we aren't winning. I'm talking about the 12k we usually get not the missing 10k from 2012. All that it will do is hasten the clubs demise because some of those in power are looking for any and every excuse to cut back even more. These are league 1 crowds and the least we can do is try and fight that off instead of contributing to it. Not meant to offend anyone but cold hard facts are sometimes harsh although non of this detracts from the poor efforts on the pitch at home which are inexcusable whether there is 5k or 25k there.

They aren't bad they are being pushed towards the door for more cost cutting whilst De Neve is the number 1 back up option. It's called downgrading.