Mattyblue

All fans ‘deserve’ success. We all keep the faith year in year out hoping for the tide to turn, and eventually it does for some sides - so fair play for those supporters that have got lucky enough to support a club on the up… and commiserations to the ones that don’t get said luck -but hope springs eternal and one day it might be their club too.

Alas the only opinion that matters is that of the CEO, and he ain’t for budging. When’s he retiring again?

Yes, if you think we’d only sell 10k with reduced prices it would only be an extra 700 to sell from the 9,300 we finished last season with. Yes every chance as PNE have proved. They had less than 8k before they reduced prices, they now sell c12k. End of the day I think we’d sell PNE-esque numbers, you don’t because you think the floating fanbase have some issue with the owners. So we will just go round in circles until we get a CEO that will take a chance.

So you honestly think we’d only sell 700 extra STs with a £100 reduction even though when PNE reduced them by £100+ they sold 4,000+ extra? How daft, most floating fans don’t give a shiny shite about the owners, they do care about their wallet.

Don’t be silly, Hayden Carter learnt a shedload more playing proper first team football at Portsmouth than half paced youth football.

Didn’t know we were still in the era of the telegram and horse and cart.

That didn’t answer my question. But as you said on your previous post it’s worth a try, so let’s hope Swag fecks off ASAP so we can give it a go…

We sold 9,300 last season, you honestly think we’d only sell 700 more at PNE prices, even though when they reduced by £100 they went from 7.5 to 12k. If so, why?

I know how the support works too funny enough. But yes we’ll never know 100% till we try it… but guess what PNE and Bolton didn’t know until they tried either. So let’s get shut of Swag, give it a go and see how it goes!

Bald men arguing over a comb etc…

PNE knocked £100 or so off and went from c8k to 12k, you said yourself the other day that we are the better club, so why wouldn’t we do the same? (We need both).

I know, but then there’s plenty of Rovers fans in Chorley borough, Rossendale and south Ribble too. None of it fits neatly

The 340k would have included the wider Chorley Borough (not just Chorley town) too, and that is certainly no PNE stronghold with a load of Bolton and Rovers fans residing there. That’s why it is a pointless exercise.

Then add Ribble Valley and Hyndburn to ours, so like you say, pointless.

Exactly, this is by far the best place to chat re all things Rovers, a load of interesting posters and perspectives - what’s the alternative, trying to engage with halfwits on Facebook groups?

To be fair to them they are still in their early bird period but I believe they are only expecting to sell c5k… I suppose keeping hold of STs is harder when they had an empty ground for years until recently.

Get one of those filters in that turns it into something else when posted, ‘you cannot use that word’ etc - sure we used to have one for Ke*n.

I’m massively positive about Blackburn Rovers so that’s why when the commercial operation lets the club down so badly it needs pointing out. Unlike you Doogs I don’t engage in ignorant wishful thinking when I know exactly the pattern STs get sold at clubs, I.e 90% at early bird prices, so not negative, not positive, mere facts - you also do now, so you won’t be surprised when we only sell a few hundred more by KO… just like last season and just like at every club that increases prices after early bird.

I’ve never seen so few posts about the final on here… says it all.

🙄That silly barb again, usually used when an argument has been lost. And even more ironic considering how ‘negative’ you’ve been about our fanbase on this thread. So no, nothing to do with half empty/full glasses, it’s just a fact that the vast majority of STs (at all clubs) are sold at early bird prices. The fact you are ignorant of how STs actually sell at football clubs through the close season doesn’t make me ‘negative’.

It isn’t a ‘start’ when we are through the early bird phase and prices have now been hiked by £50. 90% of STs that are going to be sold will have been sold already.

Yep pretty much exactly the same as BwD.

These things are always a bit silly as large and increasing numbers of fanbases no longer live in the Borough a team is based in. But let’s pretend they do, those stats don’t even make sense, Blackpool and Preston Boroughs are the same population as BwD around 150k. 300k+ for Preston 😁 I know they think they are a mega city these days, but come on.

I would imagine we’ll be second lowest crowd wise (after Rotherham) next season - this is in the second tier… imagine thinking we’d fall this far the day this lot bought the club.

Don’t think ‘arithmetic’ really counts as opinion, but ok…