Aye, me the other Friday, but that's another story...

Of course! So half 5 it is! There will be some right states in Preston centre by 5pm...

May well be right if their poster is ITK, but normally Sky only show a 5.30pm Championship game if they've no PL game at that time, and they do on that day, Man Utd v Chelsea. But who bloody knows with Sky and us these days 🤷‍♂️

Massive strides on the football side. But the fact that continue to employ Swag says there is a long way to go commercially.

Very patriarchal of you, Mike 😀 I honestly know loads of couples that go to games.

Really? Loads of couples go to football.

They’ve also had a crap decade, yet they are flooding back in. Such a massive failure of marketing and pricing at this club. (Still awaiting 1864 to inform us how Swag’s operation is ‘much improved’) Nice video by the social media team, but the tag line they’ve taken from JDT ("This football club has a social impact for the people in our town”) rings hollow when they bang up prices year in year out and we continue to play to c18k empty seats. Just imagine if they harness this goodwill, this momentum with an enticing ST offer (disclaimer: they won’t).

‘We’d be battered every week’ is a familiar refrain. Is that a certainty? Who knows what players would be brought in. And even if we did, so what? The club would come down in a far stronger position. Have a look at the clubs at the top end of the league year in year out. At the end of the day the whole point of professional sport is to get to the highest level possible that your club’s resources allow, otherwise what’s the point of any of this?

That’s nice for you.

Sat at Ewood at half 9 on a Saturday night surrounded by c18k empty seats. ‘I think it’s great’.

Clive maybe, King Ally 👑 , no

It always makes me realise that roversfan99 has superhuman levels of patience, must be a primary school teacher 😁

Are you being serious? Good god. Think I preferred it when you had me on ignore. Yes I am selecting post 5th November as the last six months of the season is the whole point of my argument! 😁 (or is it 🤦‍♂️ ) Right let’s make it really simple. First three and a bit months of the season until early November we had a standard amount of Saturday 3pm’s, so far so perfectly normal. However, post November 5th, we’ll have had *one* until the last home of the season. Is that normal?

I literally have accepted your view that it’s ‘part and parcel’ about three posts ago, of course I accept and understand it, I’ve not lived in a Sky free cave for 30 years. But as you don’t seem to understand we are talking about *quantity* of moved games not that we are upset that this TV company called ‘Sky’ show football matches every week, you are making yourself look a bit silly. So one more time. Between the 5th November and 29th April, which is 25 weeks/6 months (and of course Luton could well be moved, which would mean 9 months), one 3pm Saturday league game. Is that normal?

Games in October have bugger all to do with my question. So I’ll ask again. Is one game at Saturday 3pm in six months normal, yes or no?

I don’t agree or disagree with you, because you aren’t grasping the actual debate everybody else is having, which isn’t surprising. I said it’s a ‘risk’, so of course it’s a guess/only a possibility, or it wouldn’t be a ‘risk’, would it! But one question, to see if we can get you up to speed - Is one 3pm Saturday game in six months normal, yes or no?

Everybody accepts Championship games being on Sky (a couple every weekend), everybody accepts you will be inconvenienced from time to time, everybody accepts that’s the modern game in the top two divisions. So it’s therefore you that can’t accept that it’s the amount of games that have been moved that is unprecedented, that it’s all just totally normal. However, it isn’t normal, and it is highly inconvenient for many fans and ergo it is a risk to future ST sales at a club with expensive prices to go *six months* with *one* 3pm Saturday game.

But it’s not about you and what you think is ‘part and parcel’, or me, as we will always buy a ST. However, many others who have other priorities or struggle to make odd KO times will see one 3pm Saturday match in 6 months, with games even kicking off at 7.45 on a *Saturday night* and think nah, I’ll keep my £400/£500 in my pocket going forward, thanks.

4-0 thrashing for PNE… but didn’t they know it was Gentry Day 🎩 😫

What’s a cheap ticket for walk ons got to do with any of the points I was making? *Sigh* please try reading, Chaddy. Nobody has issues with some games being moved, that’s just how it is, just going SIX MONTHS with only one Sat 3pm league match, but anyway there might just be a slight difference in folk’s priorities if we happen to be miraculously back in the PL… oh and we wouldn’t be going six months without a 3pm Saturday game in the PL either! There are reasons for the absurd amount of moved games this particular season, but that doesn’t stop the inconvenience and the decisions some ST holders will be making on the back of it this summer.

Missing the point as usual, Chaddy. Of course games will be moved, of course Sky calls the tune, of course it’s been going on for 30 years, of course us fans just have to put up with it. However, *this scale* of games being moved is not normal. One 3pm Saturday game in *six months* is unprecedented and will do nothing for ST renewals, as guess what, other people have other priorities in life and unlike you (and me for that matter) they can’t/won’t drop everything to get to Ewood at all manner of times when they can just plonk in front of the TV.

Good football city though. In the second and third tiers, neither have done anything for decades, yet they attract c55k–60k between them, and they get very little acknowledgment for it. Compare and contrast that to the constant smoke Leeds and Newcastle (and their fans) get blown up their collective arses. They are the only clubs in their big cities, so it’s not particularly impressive for them to be having Premier League gates of 37k to 50k but bloody hell you never hear the end of how great their support is.

‘Not a football town’, though…

One Saturday 3pm game in 6 months? That isn’t normal even if you are having a decent season and doing well in the FA Cup, word being *decent*, we are fifth in the second tier, not charging to the automatics. Whatever the reason, and there are a few this season, the end result will still be many fans thinking twice about a ST at our prices.

Exactly the kind of bollocks that will make folk think twice about renewing STs. Between Huddersfield on the 5th November and Luton on the 29th April (and obviously every chance that moves too) we will have had *one* league game at Saturday 3pm.