Mattyblue

No hindsight needed as folk thought exactly that about SG too, a fair few grumbled, the club signed him up on a new deal anyway to protect their investment - and quite right too.

BB should’ve had an offer on the table 18 months ago ago, just like SG had with two years left on his existing deal. He would most likely have jumped at the chance to re-sign back then, as did SG.

It’s swings and roundabouts, as Blackburn’s demographics have changed it has seen our support drop markedly in the town itself, but unsurprisingly it feels to me that there are now far more Blues in the Ribble Valley than I can remember.

It’s the entry price of £430 for any potential new/returning ST holder that really didn’t help. An entry of £365 seems much more reasonable.

Going early is just a habit now for some folk, as traffic is nowhere near as bad as it once was… for obvious reasons! Indeed I’m sure some that do it walk home anyway! It’s the same everywhere. Clock hits 87, right time to go. The cinema thing is apt, imagine leaving before the big twist ending, battle, death etc. So why miss that last gasp winner, one of the absolute joys of being a fan and they’ve missed them all.

You can have two thoughts at once, I.e Man City are a top class football team in every facet of the game, taking it to new heights of individual and collective quality on the pitch … but also such petro-state sportwashing clubs are terrible for the competitiveness and sporting integrity of the English game.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.