Mattyblue

It’s just part of the game that a keeper can’t afford to make mistakes at the rate of outfield players, as obviously they will get punished far more often. Pears makes too many basic ones and the number of them isn’t decreasing from what I’ve seen.

Money won’t be a problem? Excellent!

Will that 8% lead to a decent rise in STs sold for next season, do you think?

Weren’t you wanting a new keeper before the Leo rumours?

‘If he’s crap he wouldn’t be at this level’ Aye, certainly no examples I can think of this club employing people out of their depth.

Because it was Blackburn Rovers to Crystal Palace. Say it was Sunderland to Liverpool, imagine the difference.

24 quid off a season ticket is probably the best they could’ve got from that very strange set up down there. But once again why does it take volunteers to even get them to remotely see sense? Why are paid marketing and sales people (and their CEO) not coming to these conclusions themselves?

Anybody preferring Pears to TK sounds pretty strange to me.

BBC Six O’Clock News are doing a piece this evening on the ‘meteoric rise of Adam Wharton’… ‘Nowt wrong with the price’.

I would seriously question someone’s basic football knowledge if they for even a millisecond thought Pears was in the same goalkeeping universe as TK.

From memory wasn’t it more when TK was back fit that ‘Pears hasn’t done owt wrong to be dropped’. My view was you play your best players, end of… and Pears wasn’t one of them.

We sold 7k in 2021/22 and a standard home turn out was under 10k, so certainly will be the case next season if we stumble to that kind of sales figure again.

Kids prices, very good, no question. But a few weeks to buy a £350-£450 adult ST (before they go up 80 quid) after a shocking season and half the games on Sky is just not going to move the dial, simple as that.

Surely not, what about ‘the model’?

I’ll remind you of that when you are saying he ‘should’ve gone years ago’ in about four days time 😅

Course I have.

*£24

Obviously not a Rovers invention, but early bird what a load of BS. One price until they go off sale and market the feck out of them, pretty simple really. Here, a few social media posts and that's that before they whack them up 80 quid.

How many people do you *actually* think are ‘boycotting’ because of the owners? It’s been a minimum *12 years* since gates fell off a cliff, these ten thousand folk are still patiently waiting with their cash in their pocket? So they sell, but tickets are still priced at what they are, we are still a bottom half second division club, but gates still boom because of this army across the water?

Depends where you sit here too it’s £450 in the JWU, £555 by the 22nd July.

They’re free. Their adult is £294, (which is a slight increase on the year before from £280). So actually £588 for a family of four.

In the cheapest stand it would be £594 at PNE, £744 at Rovers.

Burnley is a red herring. They are keeping hold of the PL fans (as most relegated clubs initially do, unless you are the kind of shambolic club that decides to keep on a certain toxic manager on relegation, of course) especially when they only have under 19k home seats, so demand v supply and that FOMO that just doesn’t exist here with such a vast supply. PNE and Bolton are the only evidence you need.

So totally random then that PNE suddenly hit figures not seen for sixty years, weird. You keep coming out with this, MB, but thousands aren’t staying away because of the owners, crowds remain static because we are an average second division side charging £350-£450 (so I suppose it is because of the owners, as the said average second division side charging that is on their watch). Either substantially reduce prices or get it right on the pitch - preferably both. But as this regime will provide neither, static it will remain.

You try to be rational and think that this can’t go on indefinitely. But it’s already been FOURTEEN years, which is far longer than any other remotely sane owner would have stuck it out. These just aren’t normal people, they are like nailing jelly to the wall and I honestly can’t even imagine a day where BRFC is once again thriving under engaged, driven owners.