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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…

Who knows, but I wager we won’t have five qualifying stages to get a ticket for Luton bloody Town next season.

He resigned in the Wembley toilets piss wet through (from the rain, not the leaky old stadium roof!). Summed up his reign.

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.

It was Clare Short’s phone…. don’t think she’d like to be described as a Tory bloke! 😁

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.

Still 12 games including WHU, though every chance he makes a fair few changes for the cup with that schedule…

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.

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).

Still more expensive than a *full* ST at many clubs…

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)…

With 8.5k ST holders, it won’t be a sub 10k crowd (well not officially).

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.

‘Most don’t care’, well that’s certainly not the impression I’m getting.

Cracking player in his pomp, but his performances declined markedly in his later years here…

‘Why is the Queen dying a bigger deal than Joe Bloggs in Blackburn Royal? ‘ Hmm, tough one that!

We might not have played ‘elite’ clubs in 06/07, but the trips were great. Salzburg, Krakow, Feyennord, Bayer Leverkusen.

I suppose because of all the plastic Old Firm fans you see across England…

Aye, if we we going to get knocked out in the group stage anyway, at least let it be a glamorous group.

Sorry, thought Joey was after *good* boozers.

Wigan Central in the railway arches is a favourite, always plenty of Blues in there. The Anvil and John Bull are also good ‘uns in the centre. Nowt near the ground though.

My rule of thumb is that £25ish and under most fans reckon it’s reasonable enough and buy without giving it much thought. Once you start hitting £27/£28+ people start thinking twice with £30 being an even bigger psychological barrier.