Mattyblue

Well that obviously didn’t happen, you were wrong as the stats showed. But I let you debate it with me anyway as you most kindly have allowed me to post on the cricket thread.

We won, lock the thread.

No chance he’s getting a PL job anytime soon (which is great for us).

No think that’s what plenty of others on here tonight need to do. Fair enough if you are reflecting on the ups and downs of fandom, a load of others on here aren’t. Enjoy the win and let’s debate the game and a good performance instead of a load of posts like ‘god this place’, ‘inundated with negativity’, ‘harmful vibes’, ‘ha meltdowns all week’. Such posts do nothing but antagonise. People love this club and have quite rightly been very worried, they don’t need belittling.

This you?

‘Negativity ‘🚨 Oh and ‘positivity’ 🚨

First game always gets a better turn out than the following games… hope springs eternal for football fans!

Yes like I said we’ve generally been around c14k for a decade in this division, Coyle season the outlier as ST sales went markedly down that summer on the back of his appointment (unsurprisingly).

Those figures are incorrect. 19/20 is miles off for a start.

Not particularly. Average gates of c14k for a decade, sometimes a bit less. But generally that’s the figure which makes sense as ST sales have largely remained stagnant at the 8/9k mark for years. Whereas they’ve boomed across football this past decade.

Of course crowds increase if you are having a promotion season, in the top flight etc. But most of the time you aren’t so lucky, and these current crowds are not following the trend of most other clubs these past ten years - I.e increasing markedly regardless of what is on the pitch… and we know why.

I know, I’m talking about how what is always looked back to as a golden age of attendances (the 50s) isn’t dissimilar to what we are seeing now across football, crowds are booming… but not here.

We averaged around 22/23k in most second division seasons in the 50s… and we weren’t far from that in 1999 to 2001. So a historical norm to be averaging 20k+ in this league. We shouldn’t be so far from that now… but we all know why we are.

To be fair it was only largely FA Cup ties that saw those kind of crowds a handful of times a season. Across the game league crowds are now at the same level as they were in the 1950s (not here though obviously). Amazing the gates the cup saw though when you look at it’s diminished stature now.

He’s asked to run the club in a way that reduces their contribution. Ergo he needs to raise revenue and keep the club going. How he does that is up to him - he takes the easy option every time.

Of course we know where the real problem is, we’ve known that for 13 years, that doesn’t mean the CEO is absolved of all responsibility.

He’s content to keep it ticking over. 8/9k ST holders (though they are happy with c7k), a few thousand walk ons, usual few hundred folk in hospitality, Sky games for additional income, a few low level sponsors. Rinse and repeat year in year out. Absolutely no thinking outside the box.

‘Never any pressure on the manager from me or the owners’. Obviously that’s been the case for years, but good to hear it actually confirmed, the only club around where results don’t particular matter… some set up this.

‘An unbelievable new coach’ (no not the Head Coach, one of those with wheels). It’s what you’d expect the chief of a non-league club to come out with.

Great us east Lancs lot, aren’t we Phil!

‘We are heading for 9,000 season ticket sales… which is 1,500 up on what we were hoping for’. So 7,500 ST holders is seen as more than good enough for a club that’s spent two years around the top 6 of the Championship… some real high standards and expectations for Blackburn Rovers down there, obviously.

‘The club’s here to support them’… heard it all now 🤦‍♂️

Until I see some balls of paper being chucked about I’ll remain 😩

1 Aynsley Pears 😩

Yep, there was a real buzz this time last year. Though it’s a results business, get a win and all is right with the world… but of course the opposite is also true!