Mattyblue

They have 18,500 home fans in their hovel most weeks, so 👏 all round for such tremendous figures at a club that’s spent years in the PL with an odd season winning the division below. We have about 12/13,000 after a terrible decade. Maths also not a strong point over there.

‘This summer window is massive… err forget that all about January… err no big moves happen in January… NEXT summer is the one!’ ”This time next year Rodders…”

It’s the way this club is operated. Have a look at the latest Fans Forum minutes as proof of that. Tony Parkes tribute? Still being ‘looked into’ four years later. Engaging fans in outlying areas? The FF members themselves have to do the donkey work. So of course matchday initiatives have to be sorted by fans too. Some number they have down there…

Well we played this exact opposition in 2016 and there was a crowd of 2,100. So if double turn out this time, ergo it must be deemed a success.

He’s one of those pub bores, I imagine; ‘well acthhhully…’

Pretty sure that never happened and why would it. He was a 21 year old who’d just made 31 appearances the previous season in the Dutch top flight and cup (and was on the bench for all other games, so missed zero games through injury), so why would he be written off as a ‘total crock’?

Classic Chadster goal post moving. 👌

They’re good at that!

So they are *still* looking into a Tony Parkes tribute about four *years* since it was first brought up.

There’s barely enough toilets without the scaffolding stand, ridiculous when it’s up. About 10 extra portable loos with 15 minute queues even during the sessions. Dread to think at the intervals.

With 7,000 seats at £45? No chance.

Cheers Willy, nicer send off than the missus gave me. 😁

They’ve accepted that Crawley will have a fair few poor innings as around the corner is a match winning one. Playing the percentages and all that, Baz and Stokes are obviously more data driven than they let on! I’m off there shortly… at least I chose Friday, Saturdays forecast! 😩

But 4 whole hundred up on this time last year. What a salesman he is 👌

Yeah as no other club will be offering Leeds 7,000+ tickets, there’s no chance Swag will be turning down a £45 a pop Darwen End… Rovers fans? Feck them.

What a guy he is, always thinking of us Rovers supporters. 💙🤍

He’s looking into it! It will soon be in the long weeds at Ewood with all the rest…

Hope you’re right, I can see 3/4k or so, which is plenty when you look at previous Ewood friendlies.

Birdy will, Chadster, that bloke on the FF that is obsessed with player postcards.

You have to post it on the non football board, the thread was moved there, not very progressive of the Mods, is it! 😁

That’s always been the rationale, not much of a secret, they’ve just never been particularly arsed in getting round to it. Maybe if they had we wouldn’t have had this debacle of a decade.

Still think we might have done, by a fortunate coincidence there was a FF on the exact same date last year, 18th July, and we had sold 7,800 then (see screenshot), so a few hundred up seems about right. (🥳 stretch bonuses all round!)

Yeah waste of time, I mean what has the Academy ever done for us, well apart from Wharton, Wharton, Travis, Carter, Buckley, Rankin-Costello, as regulars err, right now…

Not sure about that, only one Test and Trent Bridge (smallest of the remaining Test grounds) was not close to full on any of the days, whereas they were hitting 20k crowds for some of the limited order games. Obviously there is a place for a Test, but it won’t be mirroring the men’s format any time soon.

What do you reckon? 😏 But I suppose at least we’ll get an exact number.