Fans will be voting with their feet regardless.

End of the day the FF was set up in a simpler time, for a completely different football club, it was for incremental, adjacent type issues - catering, travel etc. It was not set up to take the club to task over the existential place BRFC now finds itself - that is what the bi-annual Supporter Consultation was for, until COVID was used as a neat way of quietly dropping it. If anything does need adding to the FF’s next agenda - it is to ask when the consultations are being brought back, as per EFL mandated requirements https://www.efl.com/supporters/fan-consultation/#

Swag knows full well, but as PNE brought in slightly less in gate receipts than us last season, that’s that. Short term bottom line over the long term re-building and engaging of the fanbase, just so they can show the owners that they’ve hit some arbitrary revenue target, oh and bonuses all round - and why would he care about the long term health of the fanbase when he won’t be here to see it come to fruition. A season to season existence, zero long term planning or strategy.

So behind the goal c£100 cheaper than here, the Tom Finney c£150+ cheaper than the Jack Walker. Obviously something we couldn’t possibly replicate here, though a similarly supported club with no parachutes in the same area.

First day of the League 1 season… ‘Steve Waggott get out of our club’ from a few hundred in NO1, with a response of ‘shut up yer dicks, get behind ‘em FFS’, will be about as far as any mutiny goes.

Oxford getting promoted would probably mean we wouldn’t ‘win’ that particular accolade - another Venky-era milestone .

I would say so, something else that has boomed across football in recent years, we’ve seen that with our own away followings … alas not our home crowds.

The sad thing is Swag is pushing an open door with a fair percentage of the fanbase who totally agree that we are lucky to have such fantastic owners.

It’s just weird. Do you think the PNE awards night start with ‘you do all know the Hemmings family are marvellous’, United with ‘long live the Glazers’ or Chelsea ‘Todd Bohely is the man’, just bizarre over-compensating.

Our average gate this season is around 15k, comparable to a few other seasons since 2012, but nothing to write home about as pretty much every other club has considerably increased their crowds in that time. However, next season certainly will see a substantial drop. Treading water, then a drop, then a slog back to this still piss poor level is as good as it gets until the owners feck off.

Asking fans to ‘send him pictures’ of the shit tip that is Ewood - how about you or your staff get off your arses and have a look yourselves.

‘The Owners’= Suhail is always my rule of thumb.

Cheap STs this time would just about keep us treading water… but if they actually have the brass neck to raise prices (which the FF minutes is hinting at), then Christ, it’s going to be calamitous - but let’s look at it from their point of view, think of the back of a fag packet arbitrary targets they have to hit!

Will he meet the adds on before being flogged off in 18 months? Who knows. It was a piss poor price for one of the best young players in England, and it would’ve been considerably higher in a years time… but of course none of it particularly matters as the side won’t see any of it regardless, but it does ‘help the owners’ in not needing to fund their own business, so hooray!

Indeed tomphil, tenner tickets are great to chuck in a couple of times a season - but cheap STs is what drives consistently higher crowds as you have the fan in the tent throughout not just dipping in for a game or two.

There won’t ever be one, but if we were left with an empty ground, what would it change? We’ve gone from c20,000 ST holders when they bought the club to probably c6/7,000 next season, so 13,000 lost fans, sponsorship and gate receipts have collapsed, they haven’t batted an eyelid. So why would losing an another 6k ST holders bother them? They couldn’t give a flying fuck.

Didn’t say we would have got 40/50, course not. But 18, they had our pants down - and why wouldn’t they, we were a distressed seller.

£18 million and yes - Palace will be selling him for £40/£50 million in 18 months.

What happened to working at Hearts? Bit of a comedown Barrow for such an astute lad, invented the ‘double pivot’, didn’t he?

Well they took the ‘wrong’ price for AW as soon as they could so who knows what price they’ll be happy with to bundle Sammy out the door…

To be fair to you, Chadster there’s certainly no arguments from your side these days that the commercial side of this club is anything but ridiculously poor.

Can’t believe that Joe fella who used to post on here got a job in football and you still haven’t!

Bolton ‘don’t know what league they are going to be in’ either … but they’ve still been on sale since February and they’ve sold 16,000 already.

Most round me were all ‘see you next season’, as was my father in law who comes over from Lytham and he has wavered in the past. Obviously this place we are forensic observers of the club and aghast with it all, but there probably won’t be mass non renewals as many just want to watch a game every fortnight and will just renew out of habit - the owners/‘leaders’ of this club are bloody lucky the majority of football fans are like that as they certainly don’t deserve such loyalty.

So the ‘how not to be an exec’ module of his MBA.