Mattyblue

Not at all, Mike. I’m just asking you to expand on your view. I have seen no improvements in the ‘consumer’ offering in his 18 months plus here, but maybe I’ve missed something.

I asked Mike what has improved marketing /sales, sorry ‘consumer’ wise since he arrived… I didn’t get a response.

A ‘thriving marketing department’, good to know, bet we’d be seeing a right shambles otherwise…

Balls weren’t a ‘sodden leather lump’ ten/twenty years ago either. You telling me that an unchallenged professional goalkeeper should be punching a floated in cross?

Not how it works here. We have a core of 2/3k that buy matchday tickets, that doesn’t particularly change if we have 8k ST holders or 12k. Our average gates wax and wane purely on the back of ST holder numbers. Which makes sense as I know plenty of folk that just aren’t interested in buying a ST and others that just wouldn’t bother at all if they stopped their ST. Indeed it isn’t unique to Rovers. Bolton’s gates have boomed purely on the back of much higher ST sales.

West Ham? When?

Yep, some fans honestly expect Ewood to be full for offers like this. Suddenly 20,000 walk-ons are going to come out the woodwork for a mid table second division game.

It won’t be half empty. But generally yes it just shows how difficult it is to get a 20,000 crowd with only 9,000 ST holders. But to pretty much fill the Blackburn End lower and a giant stand like the Jack Walker (as well as far more in the Riverside than the standard one man and his dog) from such a low base will be a big success. Now if we had say 12,000 ST holders (like we bloody well should have) and then sold 7/8k walk ons all of a sudden the place is looking very well populated. Sell more STs, sell more STs, sell more STs is always the answer to the perennial crowd question at this club.

Just spotted it on the website. Yep still is going on. £150 and you have to provide your own kit. Please note, your child will need to be in a 23/24 Rovers kit (either home, away or third). This will not be provided by the club. Maybe that’s something the ‘Head of Consumer’ should focus us on instead of taking a load of ‘digital’ twaddle.

Surely having a year in the PL would be great for the club regardless as we’d come down a far stronger outfit - case in point the Dingles are a top Championship team when down here despite the fact their crowds, revenues etc are nothing to write home about. Parachute payments are absolute game changers.

Presume they would, they did for Oxford. But as the Riverside still has whole blocks pretty much empty I doubt it’s going to be required.

‘Head of Consumer’, what a cutting edge Commercial operation we must have!

Educate yourselves!

Because it’s a rudderless ship. Naive young staff getting to indulge in silly pet projects based on vague buzzwords they received in an email from the EFL, I.e ‘green’, ‘sustainability’ to the detriment of your actual customer base. Obviously egged on by a CEO that has worked out it will save £47 on paper and ink cartridges. Where are the adults in the room at this club?

Initial thoughts is that UEFA/FIFA are in big trouble. The ESL aren’t going to repeat the mistakes of the initial launch (closed shop etc) and will look to mirror the existing structure of the game but with them pushing UEFA out the picture.

Aye, a bit like me also pining for wingers going past a full back and putting a cross in. Dinosaur, think of the data!

If fans don’t like it they just stop going, that’s the best form of protest any fan/customer has in their back pocket in any walk of life and we’ve seen plenty of that here since 2011. Unprecedented thing here is they don’t even care if folk bugger off, just an excuse to merrily close more stands/amenities, come up with ‘initiatives’ to tick some box, well, 4k will buy an e-ticket anyway feck the rest, and charge more to whoever’s left the season after.

For all the cracking work the fans have put into the Watford game, it shows the biggest obstacle to any progress for Blackburn Rovers is the senior management that have somehow got themselves into position of authority at this great old club and, of course, the owners that keep them there.

‘MU & LFC banter page’ can you imagine. Dave from Hemel Hempstead and Rob from Guildford having the bantz. 😒

A decent percentage of folk don’t have smartphones. I suppose when you have a lad in his early 20s as Head of Marketing it’s no surprise we see this kind of ‘initiative’.

When was the last time we put in a good performance/win in front of a bumper home turnout? Always a load of anticipation for games like this… then let down.

It’s both him and the subbies. I kind of understand why he does it, as I’m pretty sure you are taught in journo school to not keep repeating the same proper nouns. So not ‘Rovers’ over and over again. OK, so mix it up with ‘the Blues’, ‘the club’ then. Though Sharpe just kept it to Rovers. The headlines are the job of the sub-editors and they won’t have a clue either way.

I’ll go 18k. 16.5k-ish home fans. Which would be 7,000+ walk-ons, more than double what you’d have had for a £25-£30 Category B game. As always, we won’t be seeing really big gates (I.e 20k plus) for such games until we have a bigger ST base to build the gate from.

‘Blackburn fans’ in the headline there, you can tell that the LT is sub-edited nowhere near East Lancs these days (south Wales).

He probably drew a few too many, but to be expected with inheriting a poor, unfit squad lacking in confidence. However, a bit more time for him instead of having to pick up the pieces from that clownshoe in almost March and he’d have done it. Obviously should never have been appointed in the first place but if they’d have sacked him post that debacle at Barnsley on Boxing Day when he got dogs abuse from the away following we’d have stayed up comfortably.