Yep they’ve definitely done that as the Blackburn End is now miraculously packed apart from the first few rows, and it certainly wasn’t at dinner time!

Calling Buttler a Lancashire player is pushing it!

‘Pool fans fuming on their forum.

It’s amazing how they keep getting it wrong and then row backs and ‘re-thinks’ months into the sales period. Bit like the ridiculously priced Cat A+ match tickets that they had to scrap last season after another outcry.

Obviously it’s just a snapshot of a meeting, but generally it’s no surprise that so many young players drift down and out the league. Chapman being a prime example of pissing away his talent I look back to my 20s and I pissed about, lack of focus, but then I didn’t have a very time limited career.

They do need to crack on, the price is what it is and can only be rectified in the future. But what I’m finding strange is they are now actually promoting STs less on social media channels (as marketing them in any other way than a drumbeat post on Twitter/Facebook is obviously beyond them) than before JDT was appointed. All this goodwill and feel good factor and they are doing nowt to harness it. Not fit for purpose commercially, I’m afraid.

No we were hundreds of pounds more expensive at early bird stage. That table you posted are displaying post early bird prices. Preston for example sold most of theirs at around £280. Wigan at £329 - £349. Blackpool £309 - £369. Whereas even our early bird started at £400 - £500 for existing ST holders, £429 - £529 for new and returning.

Double.

I think what you are doing is fairly accurate, I counted one of the sparsely populated blocks and it pretty much tallied with your total.

Will they buggery only hit it for three games, with 12k+ STs, walk ons and aways they’ll hit 15k+ every week. With 22k sell outs for big games presuming they are still giving away fans the full end.

Commercially that is obviously the case…

Nobody will be refunded, it is what it is, we just need to hope lessons have been learnt for next summer. (Though I’m sure we said all this last summer when sales hit a 30+ year low).

One thing I’ve noticed in the Venky regime is that pretty much every manager we’ve had (apart from the exaggerated Tigger-esque, ‘I’m passionate, me! Coyle), have spent games sat with a face like a slapped arse. With the last crew it was the whole coaching staff! Now I’m not expecting performing seals, I mean look at Ancielotti for evidence of why you don’t need managers doing cartwheels down the touchline, but bloody hell a bit of energy wouldn’t go amiss!

£400? Long gone if you want a decent seat in the JW, try £500. They will just announce something daft like they did with the £850 (!) ticket. A tenner voucher for the tat filled club shop, probably.

I’d be absolutely delighted with 10k, but we won’t, it’s as simple as that. But we could’ve and they’ve blown it, again.

Me too, we could get a crack team together from ‘negative brfcs’ that could do more for ‘positive’ sales than any of the clowns they appoint down there…

Last year was also £400 - £500. We won’t sell close to 10k, we’ve just scraped 7k and the season kicks off in six weeks and the price has just been hiked again.

It is, they won’t.

Love the enthusiasm Paul, but you are just not getting big numbers through the door at this price point for second second division football whatever bells and whistles are provided. Now reduce the price to go lockstep with a side at the top end of the table and you will see a healthy increase. A winning team is the momentum builder for STs, reduced pricing seals the deal. * Though this is all a moot discussion anyway as this club just doesn’t have the commercial wherewithal.

This season? No chance, literally zero. Perhaps in the future though, but not at these prices. Going forward, hopefully the kicking and negative press they’ve had over STs this close season, plus the obvious success of our neighbours reporting big jumps in sales means we won’t see such ridiculous pricing again.

No sorry, minimum pricing of £400, top pricing of £529 is too much for second division football for a club of our size, the fact we are now one of the most expensive in the league with some of the lowest sales tells you that. We are never, never, selling 15,000 STs in this league at these prices. We only got past those figures in the PL post 2003 when we reduced prices. Completely agree on a few points, the club has a plethora of corporate hospitality that is underused or of poor quality, even the Blues Bar, which was fantastic facility a decade ago has been allowed to fall away. I also agree that 12k isn’t out the realms, PNE and Bolton are proving that right now (with reduced pricing). Also, yes large (but certainly not all) parts of the town of Blackburn is struggling and the Asian community still only come in very small numbers (though obviously the club should carry on with its engagement), but due to demographic change our fanbase now stretches wider than it ever has, we have a shed load of fans residing across the Ribble Valley, PR postcodes, the Fylde and beyond we should be tapping into. Yet the club seems to want to operate in its own BwD straight jacket. Despite everything this lot have done to decimate the fanbase over this past decade, the fans are still out there, we just need a lowered price point and a bit of momentum around the club to spark it, and what is so frustrating, alongside the exciting managerial appointment, it could’ve been this summer.

Shame, I’d love to see the golden eggs coat of arms again.

10k? We haven’t sold that many for a good few years now. I’m pretty sure 3,000 extra at up to £529 a pop won’t go out the door by the end of July. A shame, as 10k ST holders as a base with walk ons and away support ensures steady c15k+ crowds most weeks, those extra few thousand really make a difference to the whole feel of Ewood on a match day.

Not sure about an extra 2,000 from here. With the increase in price, I imagine we’ll crawl towards c7,500/7,750, which though still historically horrendous, it’s certainly better than what we were looking at getting to pre the JDT appointment.

Indeed rovers11 , all I ask is that BRFC behaves like a normal football club. It’s why I thought Lambert was such a promising appointment, as the club seemed to be operating like a professional outfit. It didn’t work out, but that’s fine, the way it goes, but you couldn’t question the rationale behind it. Alas, it was a false dawn, and we can only hope there is something more substantial this time to what, on the surface, are promising appointments, as the club cannot afford to keep getting it wrong.