Mattyblue

They did have Championship games at half 5 when BT had that PL time slot. End of the day Championship coverage has to just jump around to fill PL gaps on Sky.

The forum is yours, roverandout!

The only reason Sky have a 12.30 Championship game is just to fill a hole in their schedule as BT (TNT) have that PL slot.

They’ve Liverpool at home on Boxing Day… must be a big fan to have not heard about that!

Yeah but even with a busy ground PNE probably won’t make much more revenue than us, so who cares about near 20,000 empty seats! (Think of how few stewards we’ll need too!)

To be fair, not sure an unknown fella signed on a free from Holland was ever going to move the dial much…

All the hand wringing on the transfer thread about lack of rumours, and just like Ennis he comes in without a single mention… might as well lock it 😁

‘Big 6’ (plus Newcastle) live - who’d have guessed…

Rigger…

I never buy food and drink at any football ground, so I can see Chaddy’s point. For me personally it is all about the game and being amongst my fellow Rovers fans, the highs and lows of those 90 minutes - THAT’S my ‘match day experience’. Obviously plenty of others do want a pie and a pint as one look at the concourse from about 2.30pm until after half time tells you - so of course the offering needs to be vastly improved, for professional pride, for offering a service to those paying good money and yes, increasing revenues. But I don’t think ‘well just watch it at home then’ is the response just because you don’t partake in food or drink there, or couldn’t care less about half time ‘entertainment’. Winning football and/or a good price is what gets people to Ewood, the rest is neither here nor there in the grand scheme of things.

Burnley are at home on the 4th May, so we’ll be away last game presuming 4th May is the last game of the season in the Championship.

Well obviously, but a Lancs CCC owned one.

Think so. Cardiff, August 2014. Which is really odd considering we are on A LOT, and Sky pretty much always show a Friday Championship game.

Nah, Sky don’t do Friday night games at Ewood… just every other possible time and day you can think of!

Bet Swag is, Category A+ being taken out of cold storage as we speak…

2019 last time we had a home game on Boxing Day (with fans).

He likes the chips!

🚂 (not a 🚆 one though)

Ha he does I believe, he did take me off for a while, it’s great for getting the last word in, which is verrry important on a message board. 😁 Generally though as long as it’s not abusive (and the Mods should clamp down on that sort of stuff anyway), anyone that does that obviously doesn’t have the courage of their own convictions…

Good gag that Phil 😁

I see what you did there… but it kind of illustrates Pete’s point, no?

When did they stop allowing that? Must have been late on in the season?

Not everyone is interested in a match day programme, so should they just stop bothering with thos… oh!

It is absolutely pivotal for the future of the club that the pretty much half of Blackburn that has thus far taken very little interest in BRFC, for a plethora of reasons going back decades, does so going forward. In a way we are pushing against an open door as there is big interest in football within the community, just not, as yet, big interest in the Rovers. More and more of our ST base no longer lives in the town and it is always a challenge to keep a scattered fanbase in the tent, the longer distance fan starts by not making a mid week, that turns into not making an odd weekend game, turns into no ST - we need a solid core of Blues within the town. The community engagement the club has undertaken this past couple of years has certainly had a big impact in social and traditional media, I imagine the social media team are cockahoop with the amount of ‘impressions’, Yasir is certainly earning his corn . Though the proof of the pudding will be in a substantial increase of the Asian community through the gates in the short and medium term. I am certainly seeing more Asian young lads in the Blackburn End, families in the JWL than say, five years ago, but it is an improvement from a very low base. Because as worthy (and essential) as the engagement is, it can’t exist merely so Rovers can help to bring the disparte communities of the town together or for online acclaim, as the social media bandwagon soon moves on to something else. A club’s number one aim is to win matches, as that is what ultimately improves football clubs, and larger Ewood crowds containing Blackburners from every single neighbourhood and walk of life will be a pivotal part of that.

He actually agrees that the tickets are overpriced, he said as much a while ago. But I worked out a few days back that he’s since spotted that a few of us in this thread are very passionate about the topic and he’s been enjoying the wind up ever since. However you get your kicks, I suppose…