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Everything posted by Mattyblue
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The town of Blackburn isn’t twice the size of Burnley in the slightest. And it shows you are being a bit crafty here on the catchment argument when you try and paint *Rawtenstall* as a Rovers town. But I digress. My point was it’s not ‘little old Burnley where the whole town walks en masse to t’turf’. Your support comes from across your age old catchment area (like every club’s), and it’s a sizeable one.
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‘The 80k town’ thing is a bit disingenuous when you have always had sizeable support stretching from Hyndburn into Rossendale, obviously Burnley borough, but also Pendle and into West Yorkshire.
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Last time, as it was a bubble, not all coaches could be accommodated on the car park, so they got 5k. Presumably it would be the same again if bubbled. Which is obviously still one of the highest allocations they’d get anywhere, so they can’t grumble.
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I just can’t see 2400 ST holders also being in 1875, so according to that qualifying criteria above it will go to all ST holders.
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Championship - 22-23
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
They do, but many a Championship owner has them out the door sharpish before they have chance to turn it round. Just a madcap league. -
Championship - 22-23
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
They are never ‘strange decisions’ in this league, it’s what most clubs do after a poor run. Rovers are the strange ones as you actually get to see out your contract here… -
v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
5 pages pre team sheets is pretty good by historic standards on here. I remember times when we were still on page 1 by this stage… -
v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Who knows, but I wager we won’t have five qualifying stages to get a ticket for Luton bloody Town next season. -
v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
He resigned in the Wembley toilets piss wet through (from the rain, not the leaky old stadium roof!). Summed up his reign. -
v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
They only put tickets on open sale in midweek after about four stages of qualification. So you imagine a fair few south east based fans who may have gone had made other plans by then. If it had been a standard sales criteria with open sale a week/10 days ago it would’ve pretty much sold out. The club really doesn’t understand fandom and what drives interest in certain away games at all. It sold out quickly last season because we were second in the league as we approached February and hadn’t played a league game there (in front of fans) for 40 years, so big demand. Of course it wasn’t going to be anything like the same clamour this time. -
R.I.P. QUEEN ELIZABETH
Mattyblue replied to SIMON GARNERS 194's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
It was Clare Short’s phone…. don’t think she’d like to be described as a Tory bloke! 😁 -
v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
No, it’s 12 from the 1st October (I.e the first fixture post the international break) until Burnley. -
Not sure anyone is arguing that this new 3/4 season ticket should be any cheaper pro rata than the full, or indeed, the soon to be released half version. The club hamstrung itself back in April when it set this ridiculous price structure. Only next season can it be rectified… and we know that won’t happen until there’s somebody new in that famous Ewood CEO office.
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v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Still 12 games including WHU, though every chance he makes a fair few changes for the cup with that schedule… -
Championship - 22-23
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Yet here a decision was made against the grain of the league to raise STs by 30% in two years, obviously that tactic will only ever lead to a just a core of purchasers when you note our fanbase and demographics… and the results are there to see. -
v Luton Town (a) - 17/9/22
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We’ve 12 games to play between the 1st of October and the last game before the World Cup (Dingles) on the 12th of November. If we get through that period in a decent position, we could be well set for the rest of the season. -
End of the day the pricing is set for this season, so all of these offers can only be pro-rata versions of a full ST. We’ll still sell decent numbers of half STs if we are up there at Christmas, but apart from that, it is what it is, and at least it’s better than the 7k sales of this time last year. We’d have seen a c9k crowd last season for a September night match, not nearly 12k. Let’s just hope lessons have finally been learned for next summer (they won’t be, of course, as Professor Quantum will still be here).
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Still more expensive than a *full* ST at many clubs…
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v Watford (h) - 13/9/22 (possibly)…
Mattyblue replied to rigger's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
At £430-£530 a ST, yes. -
‘Like a little car being passed by a tanker’. You can only imagine the disdain and good laugh those three stooges had at this grand old club of ours (as they trousered a nice wage)…
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v Watford (h) - 13/9/22 (possibly)…
Mattyblue replied to rigger's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
With 8.5k ST holders, it won’t be a sub 10k crowd (well not officially). -
v Wigan Athletic (a) 11/10/2022
Mattyblue replied to Upside Down's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The death of the Queen, which I believe was rovernout’s point. If we should cancel football tomorrow is a different issue and I can see both sides. -
v Wigan Athletic (a) 11/10/2022
Mattyblue replied to Upside Down's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
‘Most don’t care’, well that’s certainly not the impression I’m getting. -
BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread
Mattyblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Cracking player in his pomp, but his performances declined markedly in his later years here… -
v Wigan Athletic (a) 11/10/2022
Mattyblue replied to Upside Down's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
‘Why is the Queen dying a bigger deal than Joe Bloggs in Blackburn Royal? ‘ Hmm, tough one that!