I often switch to Five Live at half time (and in the build up) just far less banal nonsense all round.

Magic carpet.

The news talking about a war on our continent, whatever next.

Absolute gold Chadster content today 😁

Nah, he’ll just hold up his MOT certificate to the cameras and they’ll waive the fee.

Tell us a joke, Chadster.

And 14 out of 24 since December 10th (17 out of 27 including red button). And yes that could be 19 out of 29 by the end. Crackers when you remember we are a second tier play off contender, not Man City.

I think it will have an impact, and I think it is progress as I’m not sure what planet they’ve been on with the ridiculous pricing since Covid. But we need to be realistic with ‘what good looks like’ when it comes to sales, as it’s twenty quid off at the end of the day, so still a hefty price for second tier football in a town like Blackburn.

I’m just happy to see an end to yearly rises, as it was starting to get silly in an area like this. However, £379-£474 (and then up to £429 - £529 in May) are not exactly prices to see us pull in a load of new folk (in this league). But perhaps we could see the heady days of having ST holders numbering in five figures again.

roverandout does not like this 👎

Unfortunately these days ‘stewarding’ is just a few folk employed in a ground on a match day to ensure a club keeps its safety certificate. They do zero stewarding as recent pitch invasions have shown.

No, but they are supplemented by much more recent trophy wins. I’ve no problem, by the way, acknowledging that those down the road are a proper football club, as at the end of the day Old Lancashire is the heartland of the game, as the founder member list (and the plethora of league clubs still around this region today) would tell you.

63 years ago is the ‘recent past’ now?

And I’m not going to Birmingham. Announce relegation.

I can defo see the Chadster checking his dipstick every Sunday morning…

They will count towards the attendance figure as the crowd given is for ‘tickets issued’, so it doesn’t matter if paid or not, or if you even turn up. I’d say a couple of hundred most weeks, largely in the family stand.

Loads of ST holders miss multiple games over a season. You’ve probably guessed I’m a pretty committed Rovers fan and even I’ve missed two.

Not how it works here. Our attendances wax and wane on the back of ST sales. It’s all a churn but if we did end up with 11/12k ST holders we would certainly have more home fans in the ground each week than we have now. As an example we started last season with 7k ST holders, so we had 9/9.5k-ish home fans on most weeks. This season started with c9k ST holders and we’ve had 11.5k-ish home fans on most weeks.

Tomphil (not wanting to put words in his mouth) will mean 15k Rovers fans, so an overall average attendance of 17/18k) , which if you can get 11/12k STs sold is very much possible, and respectable, as a second tier club. Alas, I don’t see this announced pricing getting us there.

It will be very difficult to get anywhere close to capacity with only 9k ST holders and none of the games particularly going to attract large away supports. If we were going for automatic, then definitely, but not for games at all manner of times (and largely on Sky) for ‘only’ attempting to finish in the top 6 A play off semi at a decent price, then maybe, especially with a big away support.

Discussing foreign players on an England thread? You’ll be talking about 🇬🇧 players next 😁

The Darwen End enclosure was a strange area, sometimes left empty, sometimes with away fans in, sometimes home.

Bad comms (quelle surprise), as if you log in to the planner most Blackburn End seats are greyed out - as they’ll be the existing ST holder seats. Pretty basic comms failure though to not spell out when the ‘claim your seat deadline’ is though…

We don’t go up I suppose it doesn’t matter. A slightly reduced price for those that sign up by early May, fine. We do go up and we’ve caught any potential new/returning fan who fancies a ST in a trap, ‘yeah so you want to get back involved in the club? That’ll be £430 to £530 please’. Hundred plus quid more than the fella sitting next to you for the exact same product? What, you don’t like that? Tough. The price should be the price, ‘early bird’ pricing is a load of nonsense.

We sold 20k STs under Sam. Average crowd of 26,000 in 2010 as this lot bought the club.