Mattyblue

Promotions out of the third division are rare because we ain’t spent much of our 150 years down there! (But yes, fair play to him for a quick exit from that god forsaken league, as other clubs have shown, it ain’t easy. But it’s nowt to crow about for Blackburn Rovers).

That’s ok then!

In 2000/2001 we had kept hold of a big percentage of our PL support. Whereas Venky’s and Kean obliterated it in 2012, and we have never recovered.

Come on O2G, gates are well up across the leagues. But they aren’t here. A ‘good’ Boro gate at this level is c25k. I’m obviously not expecting those kinds of crowds here, so it’s a pointless comparison. But they are seeing crowds at the higher end to what they have been used to. As is club after club in the top three divisions. But here over the past couple of years we are seeing crowds at the lower end to what we have been used to. 11/12,000 is poor, and we are capable of much better if it wasn’t priced at such prohibitive levels. As plenty of other similar sized clubs are showing.

Don’t disagree there TS. But it needs addressing, urgently, but it will take a new CEO with a new remit to start the recovery.

It’s a decent crowd for a struggling Championship club and another example of how crowds are booming across the top three divisions. Why aren’t ours?

24,000 for a team 21st in the Championship? Seems a pretty decent crowd to me…

I’ll point you to my first paragraph in my previous post as to why. Get a new CEO in, one with an actual remit and plan to grow crowds and I may just do that.

I will not engage with Swag because I don’t respect him or the job he is doing. His remit is not to increase crowds, so why would I waste my time? You don’t think they are daft prices? 8,500 STs is not abysmal? Then why did you bang on about how you were going to discuss your plans for ticket sales all week before you went to meet him? He dazzled you with a load of goss and ergo you enjoyed an afternoon at the club, your agenda firmly in your pocket as a result. It is the likes of Glen that can actually get something out of a canny operator like him. You were out of your depth unfortunately. I was actually trying to give you credit! That you actually realised that our crowds urgently need sorting. But hey ho, lesson learnt. I’ll just let you carry on in your role as club spokesman…

To be fair to Chaddy, he has stated how our ridiculous prices have led to abysmal sales. Indeed he had a load of ticketing initiatives to discuss with a certain executive… until the magic tea cup (or was it glass of water this time?) came out…

Strong squads tend to pull away in the new year, and unlike here I imagine that lot will have no qualms in bringing in January reinforcements.

It’s an absolute boom time for attendances in this country… with one notable exception.

He was a big club critic… until a sip from the magic teacup in that office down Ewood…

They have to get back out the division whilst they still have their parachute payments. And they have traded very well over the summer to give themselves every chance of doing that by the looks of it…

We’ve never lost at the Riverside.

Might not work out, that’s football, but here and now it would be a very good appointment for a club in WBA’s position.

Will his flag be making a re-appearance?

Indeed 47er. By that daft and rather naive metric no club is ever at fault if a player leaves for free, as not being indentured servants obviously means it was ‘their decision’.

‘Really, really poor’?! Come on J*B, it’s just standard and fairly tame football ‘banter’. I’d have expected nothing less from any set of fans. And I doubt DL would’ve batted an eyelid.

Football fans being football fans, nowt to despair about. Not exactly when Shearer first turned out against us for Newcastle, is it!

Two different issues. After decades of watching football, can many fans ‘spot a player’, someone with something about him? I’d say yes. Does that mean they can improve them, get the best out of them, motivate them and so on? No, that’s what managers are paid for.

It’s a Sky Bet YouTube video (through their League of 72 brand), it’s never been on ‘live TV’. Nothing to do with Sky Sports. (Oh and it’s one screenshot of here, showing about three posts, so not sure why starscascade keeps resurrecting it every few days. Third time now?

So we don’t have any other right backs then, just centre halves or midfielders that can fill in, confirming Blue blood’s point?

Me neither, but what’s that got to do with the WBA situation?

Sounds like you were in one last night! I clearly don’t, my point was that BB was a big debating point because it really *mattered* if he did well or not. It was a passionate topic. Whereas this fella? Who cares. He’ll be gone in a few months, the latest in a long line of ‘remember that loanee we had? Bit crap, weren’t he?’