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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.

So the club has got stock orders wrong in previous seasons then? You’ve changed your tune, how odd…

Isn’t that skewed by those big one off crowds where they market the hell out of it make it a quid entry etc at the men’s ground? All conquering Chelsea get around 2/3k for most home games, other WSL clubs in the hundreds, very low considering the profile of the game these days. Shows that the club game hasn’t particularly taken off, maybe a WC win will change that.

I can’t believe women’s football isn’t football?

Pissing on the thread? Not at all, but not like you to engage your mouth before your brain - complete opposite of what I’m doing. My point is, The Trust are being too hard of themselves, if it’s a low crowd it isn’t due to any failure of the Trust or any kind of proof cheap tickets don’t work generally, just the age old truth that the vast majority of the fanbase don’t bother with friendlies. It’s a great endeavour, shouldn’t put them off future initiatives and they shouldn’t be disheartened if only 3k trap. P.S - what did I post yesterday? 🤷‍♂️

It’s a July friendly, and Ewood friendlies have always been priced like this. It means absolutely nothing re the viability of future cheap tickets, in fact I’m surprised you are even entertaining the club if they are trying to make out 3/4k for a friendly against a club most fans will only heard of because of cheap Ryanair flights is some kind of failure and proves something or other. As an example - other Ewood friendlies; Everton in 2018 - 4k home fans, Wigan 2015 - 2,900. Stoke - 2014, less than 3k. Girona themselves in 2016? 2,100. A league game and it didn’t move the dial than fair enough. This game?

You are in this particular endeavour, to quote J*B - ‘If this is attended by 2,000 people and nobody uses/gets involved in the pre/post match activities that The Trust, BRFCS, 4,000 Holes and RoversChat are putting time and resource into for free, Rovers will use it as evidence to show that “we’ve done all we can”. The Fans Forum will be told for years that when they allowed fan involvement there was no economic benefit and no additional enjoyment for fans. If it’s attended by 10,000 people, who enjoy, get involved with and spend outside the ground they’ll see what The Trust and BRFCS and others have said for years now. There is something special about Blackburn Rovers Football Club and given an opportunity fans will come back. ‘ A low crowd for this friendly proves nothing other than you get low crowds for pre season friendlies in the summer holidays. It shouldn’t either put you off doing other things or be used by the club to somehow show there’s no interest - it’s a kick about in July a few days before the actual curtain raiser.