Was Ke*n deluded? I think he knew exactly what he was saying and that it was a load of BS - it was all job preservation mode for the ears of those many miles to the east…

I suppose if the club believes that there has been enough newbies coming on board to offset non renewers (I.e will still hit Swag’s revenue target) then they probably will go on with the price hike.

Yep, clueless a lot of our fans that are quick to absolve the club from any fault.

‘’Owww much?! With that Southampton goalscoring record?’ Should have kept Speedie’

Cheers. So, if accurate we can afford to lose c1.5k existing ST holders to tread water, if we are losing more than 1.5k out of a mere 9.3k we’ve got bigger issues as it would be heading towards a 20% non renewal figure, which would be pretty worrying.

So I’m theory that’s around 1.5k new purchasers, but is that ‘unavailable’ figure including the middle blocks of the JWU that aren’t ever purchasable?

Miles off the mark. £20 off, wow! Roll up, roll up. We’ve 9k ST holders that’s why the crowds haven’t been massive in recent weeks. We have had 6/7k buying match tickets, which is plenty, but it still doesn’t move the dial much with so few ST holders as your base… but you know what, maybe don’t have season tickets double the price of Bolton’s, £100+ more than PNE if you want to sell more!

League crowds weren’t much different to now, it was the FA Cup that saw absolutely enormous gates - hard to believe it was that way round now when you see that diminished competition…

The price goes from £379-£474 to £429-£529 from midnight, ergo up £50 for a product that is already not selling well by all accounts. How many more do they actually now expect to sell from tomorrow when the exact same ticket (already the dearest in the area) will be considerably more expensive?

So they are still planning to hike prices by £50 tomorrow. This club 🤦‍♂️

Pretty empty pre-oil ground there for the ‘long standing, loyal City fans’…

Do we even have a marketing department? All I ever see are posts on Facebook etc and a template email that mentions tickets being on sale every now and then. Surely the social media team sorts that kind of stuff out. Tinpot commercial operation.

You won’t back him because of some platitudes in a press conference?

I would be absolutely delighted to eat my words!

Thought you said there’s nothing wrong with ST prices?

Ridiculous.

Which is exactly what is happening if sales end up as bad as I believe they will…

To be fair it’s a lottery at Ewood to what kind of sound you’ll even hear coming out the tannoys - either ear splitting-ly loud, or… nowt as it broke about five years ago and they are ‘looking into it’.

7 out of 12 Championship games will still be at 3pm, I believe. But of course if you are around the top 6, you won’t be seeing many of them!

Sky’s rules purposely reduce the notice period in the run-in, to ensure they pick games that involve teams with something to play for, so in reality I don’t think a club can turn it down as they’ll ensure they stay within their (short by April, granted) notice period.

Where’s your Kenneth Williams! 😮

Some fans will be mulling it over. But folk can be very hard over once a price rises. So they’ll get to Tuesday morning, another £50 on top of the already dearest tickets in the area and think, ‘nah!’

Ha, who thinks that about Swag? Like we’ve said he’d be happy with one fan in the ground if said fan paid SW’s £3million revenue target for his ST. All late season matches are short notice as Sky want to pick teams that have something to play for. So Luton last week as an example, minimal notice - that could’ve been turned down, and stayed at Saturday 3pm? Interesting.

Yep, and set revenue targets from the owners (presumably, unless Swag sets his own). So as others have said he’d be happy enough if 1 fan bought 1 ST for 3 million. Job done. He’s no interest in growing the fanbase, none. Once you’ve reconciled yourself to that, all you can do is just bide your time until he finally fecks off, and hope the owners choose to rip up this present commercial horror show and go for someone that actually does see the value in bums on seats.

Learning your trade for a decade can obviously improve you…. unfortunately for us he was taking his first baby steps here.