Mattyblue

Whoa, hang on. Look what the women’s first team still get, not sure what all the drama’s been about: All players chosen to play for the club will receive official 25/26 Blackburn Rovers training, travel and match day kit.

One set of lads fresh from Heaton Park put in on a flag and now the club’s trying to co-opt it. Very cringe.

Another club with momentum and the fans just can’t get enough of it. Nobody is interested in buying us though, we’d be the next Bury Morecambe.

As said many times, the ‘governing bodies’ and leagues of English football are purely competition organisers, nothing else. They don’t ’safeguard’ the game one iota, as long as all the teams turn up 46 times, they’re happy.

Be great across the pretty full Blackburn End - oh yeah, that’s right, they hiked up prices and have done their best to thin it out… they’ll have to use the stewards to stop it falling between the empty rows.

Terrible owner = but they’ll go in the short to medium term. Proper football club like that will recover, perhaps strongly. Terrible owner = They won’t go and they are happy to see the club further and further ‘cut its cloth’ until all’s left is a raggy piece of string.

His garden will be looking nice.

No I don’t get seven TV games kicking off at half 12 either, can you explain the rationale?

Ribble Valley, that. Clitheroe FC’s patch.

Yeah Blackburn and Darwen obviously now Burnley marketing territory - they are a PL club, after all.

Low crowds due to years of going nowhere due to poor ownership and management coupled with high prices is not a boycott.

I used to think they were just being disingenuous with this ‘BwD focus’ as their own database would tell them that the majority of fanbase certainly now resides outside the town of Blackburn if not the borough as a whole… but that post from Mike about them not knowing which post codes are even in BwD sums up what we are dealing with

‘Think big 1970s civil servant drawn line around Blackburn and Darwen’

I think we were planning to, on the way to, then the ‘99 relegation happened and we never quite recovered - plus the other Lancs town clubs started to improve from their third/fourth division berths.

What a club we had… and could again if they just. fucked. off.

I think the official attendance figures will still tell the story as fans will have had to have made an actual decision to buy one this summer on the back of last season’s ridiculous number of moves - if they still have, but don’t come to half 12 KOs, so what? The clubs would say, money in the bank from you and Sky, ta very much.

End of the day the proof of the pudding will be ST sales (and attendances in general) across the division. My gut feel is the clubs have got away with it.

Is it clear that it is kick off times that are actually putting folk off? By the time they go off sale in September we’ll be around last figures total. The main reason we will be down at all (couple of hundred probably) is more the debacle around March time as they went on sale (as roverblue alludes to), plus whacking them up 50 quid. We’ll see across the Championship this season if ST and match day ticket sales are actually down. Maybe they will be a bit, maybe they won’t at all. If not, the clubs have got away with their greed as the fans have just taken it and opened their collective wallets regardless.

*18,000 https://www.brscn.no/Fans-Forum---August/Nyhet/4895

What’s that? The non-existent boycott?

You are confusing brfcs with the actual fanbase again.

Yes I expect these kinds of sales too… doesn’t mean they are anything but appalling.

So another summer of appalling ST sales it is… but least they’ve sold some kits (before they run out of stock for months, apart from infants as they now don’t stock them to start with).

We didn’t even reach 7,000 in the summer of 2021/22… nothing stopping us hitting that level (and below) again in future seasons.

Post back to back Euro wins feel good vibes at Clitheroe FC for the big game against Norton & Stockton Ancients.