Mattyblue

Some massive splash of ‘look at all these games and they’re LIVVEEEE exclusively on Sky Sports’, no, maybe not appropriate. But a simple printed list on the EFLs website to help folk prepare travel etc (and keeping to their own stated obligations) doesn’t seem a particularly insensitive thing to do.

Not sure how a simple list of fixtures on a website shows disrespect to Jota, but fair enough.

…so already missed a notification deadline then 👏

A ‘boycott’ means you are withdrawing your support/your money in principle against something and when your terms are met, you return. There is no boycott of any note here as the vast majority of the 10,000 that walked away between 2010 and 2012 won’t ever be buying a ST again regardless of who’s name is on the door, they’ve gone. Has that had an effect on gates? Of course it bloody has, we’ve never recovered, just look at the place on a match day, couple that with a decade without even a single play off campaign and ever increasing prices and it’s no wonder we’ve been bouncing between 8k and 10k STs for over a decade. The point I’m making (that you are ignoring and just repeating your own in classic M_B style) is despite all that, a lot of water has passed under the bridge, some enticing pricing on the back of a a bit of success, some ambition in the transfer market and, yes, a promotion, and crowds would rocket, no question - but like I also said as none of that will happen, there will be no rocket and we stay in the post 2012 doldrums rattling around Ewood for ever more.

It’s an obscure messsge board with a handful of folk coming out with that stuff, means bugger all. But yes, if you went to any club forum with terrible owners of course you’d read such things. It means bugger all as most fans aren’t the obsessives you see on message boards. They just see a middling, poorly run second division club with dear tickets and they swerve it. Get it right on the pitch (especially with decent pricing) and they won’t be able to get on the ticket site quick enough… and the fact a half dozen folk on here were going on about boycotts would mean what exactly?

We can compare as there’s no mass boycott and there never has been. (a dozen folk on here does not a boycott make). What did happen is c10k walked away between 2010 and 2012, most of them have gone, full stop, regardless of owners. However, that was a generation ago, we get it right on the pitch, along with sensible pricing and crowds will grow exponentially… but we won’t do either of those things, so they won’t.

Come on now there will be a few 'Happy Birthday, Rovers!' videos on social media of Hendry et al filmed on their phones...

*must buy own whistle.

Don’t need pro players or head coach… definitely need a ‘Head of Women’s Football’ though.

I’m talking theoretically. However, you are conflating a few dozen folk on here with real life. We somehow ended up in the PL with ST prices around what we had in the Taking Back Ewood era and crowds would be huge again. There is no mass ‘boycott’ and there never has been. But we won’t end up in the PL and we won’t see those prices so c9k it is.

If STs don’t matter why did we have our highest crowds for a decade in the ‘Taking Back Ewood’ era? We were a mid table side yet had crowds comparable or higher than those in the 90s. 20,000 ST holders is why creating that base.

For big games in the run in, of course, but won’t be the case week to week as you just aren’t getting enough walk-ons at up to 30 quid a ticket to have decent gates every week even if the side is doing well - it’s why STs are so important as it’s a guaranteed attendance for every game, so the higher the initial base the better. Bolton are a prime example of that, stuck in the third division but c20,000 there for every run of the mill game. Why? 15,000 ST holders.

Did they agree on a mid July date for the next one? I want to read them crowing about ‘heading towards 9,000 season tickets sold’, ‘larger revenue than Preston!’

No think that’s it this time, no ‘phase 3’ where it would be a grand for the front row of the Blackburn End.

I imagine a Cat B ticket in the JWU will be around £27. But still, if the alternative is £500, when you know you’ll miss 4/5, and who knows that bitterly cold midwinter midweek too, maybe NYD, maybe one of the half dozen that will kick off at half 12 etc etc. Getting to the stage for most fans now (unless you are the uber fan that has no other commitments, social occasions, holidays, weekends away and so on between August and May every year) that you need to think, putting to one side that you like ‘your seat’, is it worth my while shelling out?

You said that wouldn’t impact match goers, nobody said that it is coming in now - fair enough if you misread GHD’s post.

So get a better CEO in than Swag and a few more press releases on egg letter headed paper and we’re happy.

Won’t be us and that’s the problem. Terrible ownership often ends just like we are seeing at Sheff Wed (see also Reading in recent times), but the apt word is ‘ends’. Here, I only forsee us limping on, zombie style, but with ‘the lights on’ for ever and a day.

A break in play for adverts obviously would impact match day supporters.

Surely January and February are the most depressing months of the year, no?

…because of the idiotic, passionless Walkers.

…it was twenty pounds.

‘All players chosen to play for the club will receive official 25/26 Blackburn Rovers training, travel and match day kit.’ Good to know as if they had to buy their own there probably wouldn’t be any left by the end of August…

To rinse the Everton young support, they’ve no interest in attracting ours.

This thread is classic brfcs, page after page over semantics and dictionary definitions. End of the day would a committed owner that wanted the best for Blackburn Rovers work within the judicial framework they’ve been placed in and still properly fund the club? Yes, but as they don’t want the best for Blackburn Rovers, they won’t, but at least now they have legalities to hide behind.