Home turnouts around what we had for QPR will do for me for now, as the opening game normally has bigger numbers of walk ons than the matches that follow. So if we stay around that figure it certainly shows a spike in interest… but just imagine what kind of crowds we could be seeing if we’d not priced STs at £429-£529 for any potential new purchaser.

They are still down the side for league matches. Just don’t think they bother opening that shed stand for cup games.

£6/7 the monthly magazine, wasn’t it? What another daft initiative that was. I imagine most copies were given away in the lounges.

Produced for a crowd of just a 1,000 people… don’t they know that ‘there’s no profit’ in programmes? Imagine just wanting to provide a full match day experience for your fans.

But they have added a few thousand members this season. Had 17,000 on last week, miles up. It doesn’t seem to be taking off anywhere else, but an interesting experiment all the same…

https://www.wearehullcity.co.uk/tickets/memberships/

Obvious quality, yet spends season after season loaned out without a chance of getting a game for his parent club. Everything that’s wrong with the ‘Big 6’s’ stranglehold on the modern game from academies onwards.

You honestly think a single fan thought we were about to sign Ronaldinho?

"How it descended into that, I don't know. What they've done is left us open to criticism on mentality.” What a plonker he is 😀

Hull offer it, no?

You’ve convinced me, so that’s my gas bill sorted.

Just the nine Championship clubs knocked out by lower league opposition tonight… so definitely nothing risky about putting a Merce on that near certainty tomorrow.

If it was a late season dead rubber and the young loaned player was about to go back to his parent club, of course play your own youngsters over the loanee. But at this stage if Morton is expected to be around the first team, then this is exactly the kind of game he should be playing in to get his match fitness up.

c3k did for Swansea, as remember we only had 6,995 ST holders by KO last season. But still, walk ons do seem to be consistently higher since the charge up the table last season… until gas bills knock that on the head in winter.

Very likely. That’s why it is so important to have as high a number of ST holders as possible already in the tent… whereas here, just 8.5k folk signed up going into these headwinds won’t give us any kind of buffer when walk ons and away support falls away.

Who’s wound up? I find it amusing more than anything when they come out with it all in such earnest tones. And fair play to them for getting a career out of it…

You are never by yourself at Ewood once you get settled in a ST seat.

Exactly right. All non-renewers probably think they’ll ‘pick their games’ and still be down at Ewood on plenty of occasions through the season. Some will, of course. But many others quickly get out of the habit. It’s much easier keeping hold of ST holders than trying to get them back. But Swag’s ‘met his targets’ so who cares about that…

Some big crowds and away followings over the first couple of weekends. Most clubs holding of reducing ST prices this summer has played a big part in that. So high ST numbers will help to protect a lot of clubs from any potential drop off in walk ons and away followings over the winter. Our poor ST sales will mean we are one of the few clubs that could really suffer…

Is it poor for us when it’s Swansea? It’s always our smallest following of the season. People I know that go pretty much everywhere didn’t bother. If we start taking 500 to weekend London games or to the midlands it would be more of a worry that the away support has dropped off after a good few years of growth. Sheff Utd will be interesting as generally when it hits £30 you see a lot of folk swerve it.

A BILLION quid on players since Ferguson to be this bad. 😁

Absolute pig to get to for both northern and southern Rovers fans, plus it was £32.50, so 500 seems fair enough.

You’re joking, loads were saying it! ‘Miserable after 3-0 wins’ etc. Good job fans don’t run professional clubs!

Yet, sensible ST pricing, coupled with the already higher looking walk-ons means it’s certainly still possible to see crowds substantially rise, especially if we carry on with the most important factor of all, winning - alas they are being held down with the mindset of the present CEO.

1500 more ST holders at this stage at £429-£529? So 10k? No chance.