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Ian Rush was right.

So close… that light blue collar thing 🤷‍♂️

Doing well at Christmas has seen us sell a fair few half STs in the Blackburn End these last couple of years, I imagine quite a few of those don’t bother then buying a full ST.

Bit tinfoil hatty that, Mellor. 😁

It’s interesting, Believe Gooze has seen that the Jack Walker is considerably busier than last season, Blackburn End quieter.

Different club, Accrington FC that went bust in 1896, not Accrington Stanley.

Blackburn End? Ooh la la. Riverside bogs, obviously…

Everton were a Lancashire founder member club too don’t forget 🌹 (not relevant to this town club discussion obviously!)

Blue and white halves or quarters? 🫢

Without his backing you’d imagine it’s a one way trip back to non league (if they survive).

As you can imagine I love that site! 🤓

‘But I don’t have BT’ ‘I can afford it, so what’s the problem?’

This old chestnut again. Most clubs had low gates, especially in the 80s. UD is trying to say when were we last seeing crowds here that are pretty much below all our peers in our division.

Won’t somebody think of Swag’s stretch bonus!

Obviously the reason we aren’t seeing PNE/Bolton sales here is price. However, the cost of living crisis hasn’t particularly damaged our sales as yet, as we are looking like selling c9k STs again this time, which as shite as that is it has been pretty much been standard (give or take a bit either way) here for the past 6/7 years or so.

Those record gates are largely FA cup ties that attracted huge crowds a few times a season (hard to believe in some ways when you see how diminished the cup is now) England is currently seeing the highest average league crowds since the early 1950s all the way down to non league. Attendances are absolutely booming in this country (but obviously not here) so it’s a flawed narrative about football no longer attracting big crowds.

Now who was it that came out with all this re that lot down the M65 about this time last year? 🤔

Fill up? Stadiums are the fullest they’ve been in decades already at (most) clubs.

Put some timber on since 2014…

Yes they will increase, they always do if ST sales increase… and vice versa if we lose ST holders.

Well obviously, get promoted and this whole thread is moot.

If we sell similar amounts of STs to last season the home crowd in total will be similar to last season. Always the way here.

I wouldn't call c9k a 'success', how could having one of the lowest figures in the league, sales that wouldn't even be towards the top of the third division be labelled anything but poor. But considering the prices I'll take it for now until a potential new CEO pursues a new strategy. I'd paint these sales as 'a relief' when you consider we were as as low as 7k in the summer of 2021/22, at least we've stabilised an alarming year on year decline. The support is there, it just needs a prod.

Depends where you sit I find. As long as you avoid the 'party stands' - so Hollies at Edgbaston, Western Terrace at Headingley, that scaffolding monstrosity at OT etc you're fine.

Ben Brereton is already a groguet - Villarreal CF Official Site 'I like to play on the left or as a striker' He should have said.