Mattyblue

Artey the Badge!

Buckley, err, ok.

Starts at 5pm too, so get clocking off early folks!

Desperate for cash. Noticed a lot this season, an event that might have cost a tenner with a pint thrown in is now 30, 40, 50 quid.

£35 to spend an evening with that obnoxious fella?!

Season tickets, season tickets, season tickets. If you only sell c9k of them, your 31,000 ground will always be empty for midweeks, in bad form etc as the walk ons just won’t be there. Now, you sell c12k STs and straight away their is a decent base to build on.

Demographic change is a big part, there’s no getting away from it. The Venky destruction of the club came at the worst possible time as the 2010s saw a big chunk of the fanbase move further away from the town. Now that isn’t an issue in itself, many clubs have seen their original patch change and fans spread further out, I’m thinking West Ham, West Brom, Bradford, Leicester etc, those clubs are still pulling in the crowds despite the fanbase generally being more disparate. However, here the owners have deliberately dismantled the club *and* the fanbase has moved, it becomes harder and harder for fans living 20, 30, 40 miles away to make the effort when the regime doesn’t.

Can put a decent first XI on the pitch for this level, wider squad? Dreadful, simple as that and that’s down to this disgraceful regime.

There’s no point of a four game bundle if it’s no cheaper pro rata than what you’d expect a match ticket to be anyway (I.e works out at £27 to £30 a game in the JW) as you only need to miss one for it to be terrible value. Also logically if you are somebody that doesn’t buy a ST in the first place then by default you don’t want to commit to multiple games in a row. Waste of time from a regime that is cynically using crap deals that will get no take up in order to go ‘see, told you so’ in FF meetings.

Just by way of comparison you could've picked up a half season ticket at PNE for £170.

£25 a game in the Blackburn End, £27 to £30 in the Jack Walker, what a deal!

Though the Sky guide for Sky Sports + isn’t listing it, but then there is a PL game on there, so yeah, presumably red button.

Let them off that one, doesn’t come in till next season… wrong day

So slapdash down there, it’s spot the error in pretty much every comms.

Will the mythical 150th kit be in the tombola?

Fair enough, @Parsonblue. I recall you being quite anti-regime a few years back, but yes, I get it, last couple of years, I’ve become more Serenity Prayer myself due to life events. But unfortunately I find my approach is becoming less ‘just watching the lads’ but just instead slowly switching off from the whole thing.

Fair enough, but why does it need connecting to your ST? You would tell him anyway if it was a tenner and the vast majority of folk that do follow the club via the Telegraph, social media, email, the internet in general can just get one without fannying about trying to find a ST Holder to buy them one.

Of course a casual fan would know if a game was made a tenner a ticket. How do you think people get their Rovers news/info these days? It certainly isn’t largely by having a chat with a season ticket holder over the garden fence.

An away end like PNE has a high percentage that don’t go to home games very often, though the ones that actually do may get together with pals that sit in different areas at home matches, plus beer and no wonder it’s far more raucous than a sparse Ewood.

You’re probably right, it will be in Yasir’s Marketing for Dummies. Though what it won’t say is that football (and especially here) is a very different animal than most marketable commodities/events, but it would help if anyone down there actually understood the fanbase.

I’ve never come across a ST holder that minds an odd offer, ‘just don’t take the piss’ being the mantra. We offer very little these days (apart from half arsed stuff like this)

Moi? on his ignore list? Say it ain’t so, I have his books!

Lucky it’s a day early that’s been forecast as a day of rain…

Great to be the manager at Chadster FC, never get the sack… hang on a minute, sounds familiar.

Obviously you wouldn’t pick this game to start with, Millwall pre Christmas would be the obvious one (if not Wrexham, but no chance of that as they are under the illusion there will be 7,000 in the DEnd to fleece).