There’s still a decent career out there for him… if he wants it.

No, it certainly wouldn’t be like post 1992 or 2001. However, Norwich are an extreme example of a club who are happy enough to do the promotion/relegation/parachute rinse and repeat. Other clubs that are nothing to write home about, I.e Brighton, Palace etc make a decent fist of it, and surely considering prior to this season we’ve usually been bumbling around mid table/bottom half of the second tier, why not just replace it with the PL version! (though our owners having the interest or vision of Bloom at Brighton or Parish at Palace is a different issue!).

I’ve no issue with the crowd. 6/7k buying match tickets just after new year at £30 to £36 a pop is a bloody good effort. But with such low ST numbers it has a limit and there’s nowt we can do about that now. To really compound this increase and make the most of this piqued interest, we need to now start getting the ST base back on the rise from the summer - obviously we go up and that won’t be too challenging, but even if we have a glorious failure, there’s still every chance of a big rise for next season, as long as marketed and priced right…

Obviously parachuted in from some agency for PA announcers. Saw on Twitter that the usual fella is back next game.

No real point to bundles, they just don’t get much traction here, which makes sense as a walk on/floating fan, as if you wanted to get tied in to multiple games, you’d have bought a ST/half ST by now. Though, of course, we aren’t usually second in the league, so if they want to, then go for it, as even a few hundred purchases is better than nowt. For me, I’d be pinpointing a couple of games in the run in. An ‘Operation Fill Ewood’ esque campaign at £15 a pop, quid a kid.

I suppose these kind of crowds are now a big deal, shows we’ve fallen a looonngg way fanbase wise this past decade. All relative to what we have got used to. 16k now ‘feels’ like a big crowd, I.e tough to park, takes ages to get served in the Fox, packed concourses, an actual atmosphere, folk pointing at the Jack Walker in awe, mass of bodies walking up Livesey Branch at full time, yet this would obviously have been deemed a piss poor, Mary Celeste-esque of an attendance a decade ago

The Monday night Boro game got me thinking. Ten years out of the top flight, the EFL shows a lot of Friday night games, I honestly can’t remember us being picked for one more than a handful of times in a decade…

In what way?

Walk away? Will he buggery. He’s just signed an enormously lucrative new four year deal!

Been a very long time since we’ve been selling this number of walk ons… just imagine what the crowds could have been over the Christmas period if ST sales hadn’t fallen off a cliff.

It really doesn’t work like that Chaddy. If a Newcastle came in for BBD, he’s gone.

FAO the American owners. Your fans have spoken, you obviously now need to follow their wishes… https://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59276&sid=4831403e99723c891eba318f4b4e90b7

But does that matter? We had a fantastic bunch of players in 2001 and still didn’t get close to winning the league, and in 1992, the mighty Dalglish nearly had us missing out on the play offs entirely…but so what, it’s about the end result - promotion!

Disagree there, they are a good, solid club and fanbase, with a history going back to the multiple title and cup winning time of Herbert Chapman, and it’s not really a like for like comparison. HTFC are a far bigger club than their rugby league team, don’t they get some of the lowest crowds in Super League?

I believe if the game is deemed a ‘Bank Holiday Fixture’ (yes I know that’s tomorrow!) then the home club doesn’t have to allow red button coverage, so to encourage folk to buy tickets.

Think that was a joke, I.e to get in front of all the Hudds fans that will turn up on the day to buy…

I can’t see him over tinkering now, he can see the prize. For me, half the reason he tinkered so much in previous years was down to the fact there was no real pressure on him, no danger of the sack, he got to keep a big squad, we probably wouldn’t be in a relegation scrap and probably weren’t good enough for promotion either. So why not! Now, we’ve ended up with a relatively small squad, and to be fair, recruited smartly on players that can actually fit a system he’s tried and failed with on numerous occasions previously.

Have they actually sold 5k though? Think there’s been a bit of Chinese whispers going on. From what I can see one poster on their forum said they’d ‘sold the bottom tier out’, but as other posters have pointed out, the club hasn’t confirmed that and they expect the bottom tier to be on sale tomorrow.

Do you know another thing that’s been great about this season… a load of different chants, but hardly any of them are now banging on about this lot, which makes a bloody welcome change! We were becoming as small time as they were when they spent years obsessed with us…

Accrington Stanley are just a small town club founded later than 1888 (and then redounded post Bob Lord), they aren’t founder members.

That’s the one. A fine (and huge) selection of beers…

Certainly, as that is how owners should be behaving with these potentially transformative few months ahead of us.

We hear a lot of leaks out of the club about new initiatives, many don’t come to fruition. Waggott has got lucky with how well we are doing, if we hadn’t been, then we’d be continuing to see many a crowd figure that hadn’t been seen here for 30 plus years (as we were seeing up to the last crazy few weeks). So we’ll see if this new supposed ticketing strategy in the new year comes to pass - as it must. The club should be doing everything it can to use this fantastic season to entice back as many as possible of those lost fans (and that isn’t done by the ridiculous pricing, and no, it wasn’t all some SW master plan in order to flog 750 half STs, simply a continuation of previous years policy to rip off away support) and more than anything, the mistakes of this summer cannot be repeated again. We MUST seize this moment.

Well obviously plenty will still buy, we are top of the league, however it still won’t be more than 15k for said top of the table team… and plenty more would have if it was cheaper and we want to use this fantastic ride to entice as many as possible back to the club and for the ground to be as full as possible to roar them on, surely? That’s the point.

Of course, disgrace of professional. Still have to turn the dickhead off every time I see him on the BBC.