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Indeed, I bet a lot of our fans see Scott Wharton as a ‘youngster’, he’s about to turn 25! Probably mirrors modern society in some way in our expectations of when people are full grown adults, when they now move out, move back in, get married, get a mortgage, have kids etc…

Ok 8.5k STs. There won’t be that many walk ons this time as it’s not the first day, they won’t bring more than 2/2.5k. There’s not a chance of us getting an 18k gate for an early season game at full price tickets. Just arithmetic, so I’m not sure how I was being ‘unfair’.

I suppose they’ll say that Championship clubs need the income from tickets more than the PL clubs, as they have a vast TV income.

Interesting how season ticket sales were reduced by a lot of clubs, yet match day tickets seem to be on the rise at many of them…

Just finished Six Feet Under. I dipped in and out of it at the time it was originally on. But what a show, and the final episode, wow - that’s how you end a HBO show!

The ECB taking all cricket off free to air TV immediately after didn’t help on that score! Ask someone in their 50s/60s to name England cricketers from the 1980s and 90s and plenty will reel them off. Then ask the man on the street about who’s in the current side. No exposure, no profile. As for Rugby Union, of course it will never have the national profile of football, but I’d say the 2003 spike has been sustained - helped by the Six Nations being on prime time BBC/ITV year in year out. The World Cup is a big event. In the 90s who was interested in RU up here? It’s a far bigger sport outside its Home Counties heartlands than it used to be.

Bellamy and Mark Hughes up front this season, unstoppable!

I’ve no idea why folk get over excited or upset with weeks of the window still to go. 400 odd pages of angst and excitement largely over links (or no links) to players most have to Wiki and YouTube - and then have a *very firm* opinion of. It’s a stupid system that has the season running for 6/7 games before a club at this level can have its squad complete. Close the window on the 1st August and everything just gets moved earlier - transfers, PL loans etc. Obviously this won’t happen due to the other European leagues kicking off later, so this is the daft market we have to operate in. But surely if it’s been a good/bad/indifferent window will come clear when it’s shut and we’ve seen who’s gone and we’ve had time to let the replacements bed in…

If Man Utd Women have been having c2-4k watching them at Leigh, but on the back of this they will now have 7-8k surely that’s better in a now busy stadium than rattling around in a 10% full Old Trafford?

Mark Hughes?! 😀 Well he is from Wrexham.

It’s usually the worst attended away as it is, as its obviously a serious trek from up here, but it isn’t exactly close for our south east fans that attend London and Home Counties matches in good numbers either. So couple that with those prices and it’s no surprise…

Close the thread. Re-open it in about 2024. Or maybe 2025? What you reckon Chaddy?

Of course that’s the answer, just not a chance it ever happens with this CEO.

Not a chance. I’d be happy for the home numbers to match yesterday, which will be a challenge in itself as you always get a spike first day of the season. We have only just scraped over 8k season holders, so say WBA bring 2k, that needs another 8k+ buying a ticket. That just doesn’t get close to happening here without heavily discounted tickets a la Bournemouth, Oxford.

We are the only club in the land with a completely empty tier of that vast size… and it looks bloody horrendous, and surely can’t help the club when it comes to marketing, TV coverage etc - so another total own goal by Mr Quantum. But if some of you don’t think it’s a poor look for BRFC to have half the action taking place in front of 30+ plus rows of blue seats beamed across the country every week, ok, each to their own. But on the other issue, why does having away fans up there give us an advantage? What stats do you have to back that up? For me, It just adds to an all round flat atmosphere, that doesn’t aid the players. Our best performances often come out of a raucous atmosphere… and busy lower tiers is the best way to encourage that.

Fair enough. But I like the club to be shown in its best possible light. And it’s not exactly difficult to steward a 5,000 seat tier, when the majority of clubs are fetching c750-1500 … and the ones that are difficult to steward (Dingles, PNE etc) are in the bottom tier anyway!

I’m sure there are, but it ain’t happening with the mindset of the CEO and the income targets he’s set by these owners…

Ha well obviously, but considering most weeks we can fit all of ours in the Jack Walker, that’s a long way off!

Just stating a fact, Rev. Ewood is a far better place with the lower tiers well populated.

Our form fell of a cliff after they were put up there last season. Our cracking run was with them downstairs…

Jack Walker and the BEnd lower were well populated, if you would’ve had the 1300 away fans in the lower too, even a less than half full Ewood would’ve looked fine on TV. Instead Trav’s goal is in front of a mass of empty seats, gives a shite impression of the club to anybody watching the ITV highlights.

Why would anybody have an ‘agenda’ against Dack? And what would the ‘agenda’ be exactly? I can’t imagine a single Rovers fan wouldn’t want the Dacky of old back, but for reasons we all know he’s probably a way off that at the moment. Will he ever be the same? Will he fit in with JDT’s plans? On the flip side, is he still the main main when 100%? All legitimate arguments to make and discuss on a Rovers forum, no?

Yeah, but you don’t have to look at/listen to Danny Murphy…

Apart from the thankfully brief spell of the overexcited chimp that was Coyle, it’s striking just how long it’s been since we had a manager that wasn’t a bloody dour bugger. I’m finding it all very discombobulating…

Smart haircut too.