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I get the impression that they’d stopped bothering with deals. Hasn’t been one this season (Hudds aside, but that was still around the £20 mark, so not exactly something that’s going to pull a load of folk in for a run of the mill game in November). Will this a little bit unexpected run lead to some now? It certainly would at a normal club with 15,000+ empty seats to play with and a potential club transforming prize on offer…

Difficult to tell with Forest when they’ve brought in dozens of players. Quite an abnormal situation there for a newly promoted club. If he wasn’t getting a kick at say, Bournemouth then fair enough…

The most upbeat post I think I’ve read from Jim in about a decade… something must be brewing!

Saw a post on the QPR thread re a new deal. He’s contacted until ‘at least June 2024’, so presumably there’s an option until 2025? https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2021/june/Rankin-Costello-deal-done-/ Let’s get ahead of the curve with this one, ay GB!

1pm also on the Fulham site. https://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2023/february/25/U21-Blackburn-Preview/ The preview story will be based on a template that they don’t bother checking before publishing. See errors like that all the time with tickets prices etc. The turnstiles were opening at ‘1.30pm’ for a night match the other week.

Good point, arbito. We’ve been a team of soft arses for a long time (Panto Dame Travis aside). JRC is another that now seeks to have a bit of snarl about him…

Dread to think of how he’d price up a play off game…

Bit optimistic there, Andy! Bundles normally sell in their low hundreds at best (often I don’t think they’ve even reached three figures). Need to remember that bundles are in essence mini season tickets and a lot of your floating fanbase aren’t interested in tying themselves into a group of games, that’s why they haven’t already bought a full or half ST. Make individual games cheaper, no strings attached is the way to go. *Narrator: The CEO did neither.*

Norwich on Good Friday should be £10 in all areas, no strings, and then market the hell out of it. Get a bumper Easter crowd in to roar them on against a play off rival. (Obviously this won’t happen and it will be the standard Cat B, £25 to £30)

We still in a false position?

The difference a touchline hugging winger can make… simple game football, massively over complicated by an army of pound shop Pep’s across the leagues.

Good chance that will happen anyway with these prices, this economic climate, a home crowd that don’t seem particularly enamoured with the style of football on show plus months on end with hardly a Saturday 3pm game.

Of course it could be done, damo, but it won’t happen due to Swag already believing he is pricing it right as he’s hitting his revenue target. People need to get any hopes of enticing pricing out their head and understand he is not remotely interested in more bums on seats as a mere 9k of sales hits his targets - plus that makes it a piece of piss operation at Ewood to manage too, so win win in his book. He has zero interest in growing the fanbase in the middle to long term as he’ll be gone long before that, so he certainly won’t be risking his bonus so the playing plebs can have a cheaper ticket.

More likely it will be closed, presumably it’s been a back pocket plan ever since the cameras were switched…

Love Super Atko, you!

Alas that lot aren’t going any decade soon, whereas there is a long signposted retirement of the present failure, so a new CEO could well have a new approach to hitting revenue targets. It’s our only hope, so we might as well stop worrying about the club actually attempting to increase numbers until he does feck off (or a miraculous promotion does it for them).

At best an actual freeze for everybody, at worst a ‘held’ price at the post early bird price. So £429 to £529 for existing ST holders and even more for any potential new/returning fan. No chance of any reductions as Swag is on FF record delighted that he can hit his revenue targets with just 9,000 sold. So why would he bother taking any risks with hitting said target (and his bonus, of course!)? A new policy will only happen with a new CEO.

9th them vs 10th us, so nowt in it as teams that year. Then we finished a mile above them the season after… finishing the campaign with a 4-0 hammering down at WHL. Not many clubs fans as haughty as theirs with absolutely bugger all to back it up.

Good player, a leader in a squad not particularly filled with experienced pros, but, of course, misses a hell of a lot of games and will be on a nice wedge by modern Rovers standards. So taking on face value GB’s view on older players not ‘blocking pathways’ of younger lads it’s very unlikely he’ll get a new deal. But I’m less worried about it than I was a year ago with Hyam, Wharton and a much improved Carter. Though Phillips could’ve done with a loan this season.

If Tyler had have retired immediately after ‘Aguerrrrro!’ he’d have gone out as a legend. Unfortunately he’s turned into a parody of himself in recent seasons…

That Sheff Utd away game was when I first got the sinking feeling that we were going to bottle it.

Why wouldn’t there be closed off blocks in the home areas this time? We obviously aren’t going to be having 23,000 home fans in when it’s a £30-£35 Sky game, so my presumption would be the end blocks of the Riverside and JW would be netted off (obviously it’s all a massive overkill and unnecessary but that’s a different issue).

Yep, imagine Rick Parry was punching the air when Accy and Cheltenham were knocked out!

We’ve built most of those plentiful wins on getting our noses in front and seeing it out comfortably enough. Whereas when we’ve gone behind away from home it’s often led to some right slappings, ergo the goal difference. Obviously been a mentality thing as much as anything, so those two battling draws at Watford and West Brom were a very promising sign for me.

Loved Motty, but funny you mention Brian Moore. It’s always his old commentaries that really takes me back to my youth and ‘big’ games. I suppose it’s due to the Beeb not having much live football outside World Cups/Euros and the FA Cup through the 80s and 90s, and Motty sharing games with Barry Davies.