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.

They aren’t ‘early’ compared to a lot of clubs, but certainly ‘earlier’ as it was 20 something of April when they came out last season and at one point it was getting into June before they could be arsed getting them on sale. We are a decent CEO appointment away from actually getting somewhere commercially… when’s he retiring again?

Listening to him in interviews he does come across like has a bit of an arrogant streak, which of course, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But at the end of the day he’s here for another couple of months (at most) and it doesn’t look as if he’s upsetting the apple cart, so as long as he keeps providing those assists I don’t particularly care how much of an arse he is.

Bolton are still at £219-£289. Been on sale for a few weeks.

Supply and demand, only about 26,000 home seats at the City Ground, imagine they could sell 30,000+ adult STs there in the PL.

Of course it’s a positive step, we’ve had increase after increase since 2019. But at the end of the day £379 to £474 early bird and then back up the eye watering prices of last summer won’t see a vast increase if we stay in this division, but it’s something and at least they aren’t penalising new/returning fans anymore which was always a ridiculously anti-productive way to attempt to grow a fanbase.

I said at best ‘static’, but instead it’s gone down by a hefty £20, so not sure I should be swinging from the chandeliers, but hey ho it isn’t another increase, which I’m happy enough about, as at least the powers that be have realised you can only push a struggling demographic like our fanbase so far… but twenty quid ain’t exactly going to move the dial.

The irony of all these ‘small time’, ‘tinpot’ jibes we’ve heard these past few days, as from their owner down their behaviour has been just that. (Be lost on them though).

Pretty inflammatory thing for an owner to come out with…. What would the Book of Mormon say about it?

Prices will at best stay static, but every chance they will go up again (so pushing £500 for any new/returning fan), so we can wave goodbye to even hitting the heady heights of five figures (presuming no promotion), especially when most games have been on Sky since December.

Fair enough, each to their own. I find it interesting as much as anything as I just don’t connect with that team at any emotional level. Probably equivalent to Team GB at the Olympics, hope they do well but it’s only something to watch to pass the time before Rovers is back on.

I only ever went in the Nuttall Street for reserve/youth cup games. Used to think it was a right treat with that little tuck shop at the back and a view of the directors box.

What’s sad about it? Rovers is my number one hobby, a massive part of my life, my identity. A deep connection to the club as a fifth generation match goer. Why would I have the same connection to a load of big 6 players on tele who everyone forgets about in the three months between games.

Ha. Well if none of us repeated ourselves it would be pretty quiet on here…

Rovers lose a big game and I’ll go to bed skriking and wake up still sobbing. England? ‘Ah well, pass us the remote’.

You’d be surprised!