Mattyblue

Bolton’s are not far off half our price that’s why they sell so many. But the PNE 12k? Of course we could.

I know Doogs, NINE whole thousand 🤩

🚂 back on the rails

Whoa, hang on, forget your promotions, relegations, play offs, trebles…roverandout’s been waiting for these hotly anticipated games for months!

Depends how you define ‘loyalty’ to a football club, I buy my ST every summer, but my ‘loyalty’ to Blackburn Rovers is more than just buying a ticket and then closing my eyes and ears to poor decision making by here today, gone tomorrow executives, in order to remain ‘loyal’ My loyalty is looking out for what I deem to be the best interests of the club, as we, the fans, are the one constant - not slavishly following the official line because it comes out of the mouth of some over promoted plonker in a club tie…

Oh it’s definitely turned on social media… but I just know what those around me will be saying!

To be fair it’s only an odd one on here, the wider fanbase is a different issue. Ask around you in August and see who a lot of them blame for these shocking sales - overpriced tickets or ‘shit fans’.

Chadster in cognitive dissonance shocker 😁

I think you’ve read the FAQs wrong re four free tickets per adult. The one on their website says only 4 Under 14 tickets can be bought per adult… though happy to be corrected if you have a different FAQ. However, generally great stuff, get the next generation in just like we used to do with Under 8s… just saying. (What’s happened to your sales train, by the way? Could Mr Negative have been right that 90% of sales are made in the early bird, and we will now see a trickle? I accept your apology in advance 😉)

I ‘don’t give a fig’ about them either, however I do give a lot of figs about Blackburn Rovers- so it is obviously telling and useful that very similar local clubs have had such spikes in sales. Reducing prices by £100+, even outside the PL, increases sales markedly, that is now very clear. Interesting that Bolton did it under new owners, PNE did it with the same owners, but only when the son of Trevor Hemmings has taken a more prominent role in the club… Obviously the first change won’t be happening here probably in all our bloody lifetimes, but the second is possible in the medium term - roll on that day, a new broom, a fresh approach and let’s get out of this stupor.

🚂… derailed.

I agree, if it’s an Adam Wharton situation and he gets to play games here, great. But if he can’t get a kick, loan him out, the ‘Clogham United’ stuff, ignorant drivel.

Oh yeah the Wigan ‘rivalry’, how cringe was all that 😁

Yeah tough one that, Doogs…

It was £279 in the Riverside in 2018 when he was appointed.

I believe the Rovers Trust, sorry We ARE The Rovers are renewing it as we speak.

Yes, you were coming out with silly and ignorant comments about the division just one level below, a division that has been a cracking learning ground for many a top player. You also said you hoped he would make ‘a dozen appearances’, he had more than that last season. To develop further he needs more first team football, if it isn’t going to be on offer here, then loan him out, pretty standard stuff.

Cool stat 👌

Why we only sold 8k then?

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Because you don’t understand the implications of it, obviously…

How many did we sell? Not very many, but then neither did most clubs in that era, crowds were on their arse across football… the opposite of today.

I personally would’ve kept him for the 12 month option (as he was obviously willing to stay). Still quality, would be the senior experienced pro in a squad badly lacking experience and a goal scorer in a squad badly lacking goal scorers. However, I just don’t think JDT fancied him, so fair enough, it’s his team - so let’s just hope he doesn’t shortly feck off too.

Though it is of course a cracking example that reducing prices in 2008 saw a big spike in sales from where we were in the mid 2000s, unfortunately if you use examples of the PL years valid points get drowned out by ‘well it was a load of PL glory hunters buying them’. What is more valid is how sales have only been stuck at this nadir of c8k since the price hikes post 2019. Similar local clubs outside the PL have proved how that can be overcome…

Well if two blokes in their bedrooms say so…