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.

So now he can make an ever bigger mess.

On here, you mean? At games TM hardly had a word said against him for five years, so I’m pretty sure JDL will get a decently sized Honeymoon period!

When did Mattyblue say that?

This club doesn’t do that. It’s always ‘journeys’, ‘ambition to do x’, ‘growth’, ‘ethos’. Vague mentions of the PL but never with a budget to enable it. We never seem to get anywhere on these journeys. And as enthusiastic and professional as he sounds, Broughton doesn’t seem the type to deviate from that. The crux of all this is where does someone like JDT fit into it all? He doesn’t seem the sort of manager happy to sit in mid table with an average budget, with a squad of young players and loanees year in year out.

‘Stop moaning about having to find £500 in a cost of living crisis’ Amazing how anybody has the gall to question anybody else’s disposable income. Let them eat Californian cake.

We haven’t paid a fee for a centre half in the second tier for eight years, that’s a fact and why I don’t expect anybody better than Lenihan to arrive, but you obviously do, fair enough, and I hope you’re right. But on TM, who employed and kept him on for five years? Same with Waggott. Employ and stick with mediocrities, get mediocre outcomes.

‘Oh shit! He’s going to ask me what I’ve got on… and I’ve already put the cones out’.

Plus they are newly relegated, those clubs always get a grace period of heightened coverage from national media, that soon dissipates once you get marooned down here…

It’s hard to say on hypothetical numbers, but this appointment would’ve turbo charged sales if a waverer/floater logged in to e-ticketing this week and could see tickets at say £329+ instead of £429 -£529 *Sigh*

Just imagine the sales if a certain Teessider had stayed on 😧

This club ay, only place you would ever hear ‘performance over wins’ from executives (and some managers). Luckily we have a proper winner as manager now and you won’t be hearing it from him, I’d wager…

No 12 years of Venky’s have dumbed down my expectations, Sharpe’s tweet is an example of how they’ve done it…

Not a fuck up from their perspective though, they obviously want to drive membership of Rovers TV, even if free to start with, they can then push an upgraded membership once they have your details, and there’s no better way than when the fanbase is excited about a new manager and want to hear him.

You just aren’t getting Rovers fans buying STs in large numbers for second division football at £400 - £529, not going to happen. Just like it wouldn’t happen at other local clubs, ergo reduced prices. The part of that post I most agree with though Paul, is the terrible timing of the price hike. They were expensive to start with and we had no manager at all throughout the first phase, so obviously no momentum for sales is going to build there. And literally the week JDT arrives they hike the prices even higher, snuffing out another chance for a big spike in sales. Just basic common sense is missing down there. And I think they know they’ve dropped a bollock as even with the appointment they have been much quieter promoting STs since his appointment than before.

It’s the age old Venky issue. He’s ok, decent at this level, but nothing more… but still won’t be replaced with anybody better, or even replaced with a permanent signing at all.

It definitely seemed a little fuller on the seat map today compared to Monday. If we can scramble our way back to around the c7,500 we had at the start of last season (though including half STs, it would still be down on the total number of ST holders we finished the season with) then you’d have to take it. Though such a missed opportunity, with all the positive vibes around JDT, with sensible pricing you’d have had a real momentum building and a resulting sizeable spike in sales, perhaps up to c10k, which would be something to build on. Here’s hoping they’ve been spooked by the negative publicity, like the MCC was over Lord’s a few weeks back and we don’t see such pricing again.

Agreed there Jim, The Times and Sunday Times cricket writing is superb with James, Atherton and Simon Wilde

Tottenham to win the league is the Chadster’s new hobby horse I’ve noticed…. he’ll have quietly dropped it for something in else in about October 😁

I don’t, 12 years of bitter experience says so, doesn’t mean I can’t wistfully dream that the executives here can at least operate with a modicum of common sense though…

Hmmm not sure. Did anybody do a definite dot ticking? Surely someone has! 😁 Though it’s not an exact science due to the JW Upper W09 and W10 central blocks not being available to buy online but there will be ‘season tickets’ of a sort in those.