I think 297 of that 350 was existing ST holders renewing before the deadline (and price hike).

Broke the 8k barrier! 🥳 🎉

‘QPR’s former number 2 set to be appointed’… that will get the STs flying out the door no doubt!

Unfortunately a lot of fans struggle with the bigger picture.

Wrong. It’s because we were winning, end of. Performances improve by default because winning breeds confidence, but it is the successful team that gets folk through that door. It creates atmosphere, a buzz around the area, momentum, publicity, people want to be part of it, especially if promotion is the prize. If a team plays lovely football but doesn’t turn enough performances into wins and remains about 9th, crowds, like the team, go nowhere. (Can’t believe I’m even having to explain this).

Why did attendances go up markedly from last November? Because we were winning every week. If we’d have carried on in mid table, but were ‘playing the right way’, crowds would have stated static.

All this revisionist bullshit about how ‘miserable’ *EVERYBODY* was trudging up LBR (after another comfortable Premier League Ewood win under Sam). Its professional football not Cirque du Soleil.

Indeed damo, he’s happy enough with 8k at £400-£530, actually growing the fanbase over the medium to long term doesn’t come into it.

£30.

Ewood was miles better catered thirty years ago. The tuck shop in the Nuttall Street, the tea lady with the big urn and wagon wheels in the Riverside corner, the fellas walking around with pies in those heated blue boxes. Now it’s just overpriced Sodexho slop served by agency youngsters without a clue.

I know, but all we can do when an attendance is announced is look at the ST numbers and the away numbers, whatever left is ‘walk ons’, who’s paid and who hasn’t we’ll never know. As for the attendance figure declared, it’s aways tickets issued, not bums on seats. Which is always painfully obvious for night games when there’s no bugger there and it’s ‘10,200’.

Well obviously, but we won’t be privy to it, so how can we judge how many walk ons are being sold each week?

But we won’t know how many walk ons are sold v given away?

I would think a fair few of the large number of half ST buyers (large numbers for us anyway) who got caught up in all the momentum around December haven’t bothered renewing.

Possibly, but I certainly can see 1500. The Fans Forum minutes will probably say one way or the other.

About 25% (c2,000) haven’t according to Gooze. That’s a big figure to me.

That’s football, you are badly run, badly owned you struggle, ever thus. Ipswich belong in L1 because that’s where they are.

Swag will be straight in at the EFL meetings trying to nip that in the bud…

Do Bournemouth ‘belong’ as a PL/top end Championship club? Do Fulham? Do Watford? Brentford? Talking about ‘natural levels’ is nonsense when the third division is full of ‘big’ clubs.

No club ‘belongs’ anywhere.

He ain’t exactly far off already, so it won’t be the road to Damascus 180 we’ve seen from some others on here post an Ewood brew and biscuit…

Seems an odd thing to focus on for AW, the fact he was complete shite would have allowed for many more accurate chants…

We will if we are up towards the top, but you won’t have many more than the standard c3k walk ons at £25 to £35 a ticket if we are just plodding along.

Can’t say I remember that one? Was AW even remotely overweight? Kevin Davies, maybe…

Amazing how true my old John Williams anecdote is, I.e we have 8k that will always pitch up. JW saw that as a challenge, as a base to work with, and worked his arse off to attract and keep many more in the tent… whereas Swag can’t believe his luck, 8k just fall into his lap paying ridiculous prices, job done already.