‘I know all this stuff… but I can’t tell you 🤭 he he’ is an odd way to behave on a message board, unless it’s just to stoke your own ego. You want to protect confidences? No problem, keep shtum then!

You understand completely wrong and I’m actually a little riled on the behalf of long standing fans with decades of support who are being told by someone thousands of miles away that the real reason they haven’t renewed this summer (despite always doing previously), is due to them being spoilt and therefore have ‘hurt feelings’, despite sticking it out through the last decade of utter shite, and it is actually nothing to do with their ‘bread and egg’ fund. What give you the right?

That’s a very glib response from someone a long way away that seemingly doesn’t understand the demographics of the local area. This summer’s collapse in sales is largely to do with pricing (though having no manager in place throughout the ‘loyalty sales period’ didn’t help), we are now losing fans that have kept the faith throughout the Venky regime, these aren’t fans that have chucked their toys out of the pram over ‘hurt feelings’ towards some folk in Pune. We are in a cost of living crisis and we are seeing prices of up to £530, far more than most other local clubs.

We are about to see ST sales at the level of some L2/non league clubs. So logically as a top half Championship club, he’s failed and failed badly, and as he’s still here, so…

His office provides a nice coffee, maybe?

Because he is still here after been proven incompetent in his post (have a look at e-ticketing for the latest in a long list of evidence) whilst being remunerated handsomely, perhaps?

Swag still being in post says not…

Big Mads Mikelssen vibes there.

Not sure how ‘he’s got a big job on his hands’ in any way requires a ‘panic’ gif. One look at the squad as it stands and his probable budget tells you that.

A lot of those prices listed for other clubs are post early bird, I.e PNEs, but we are still at the top end even when that is accounted for.

Walk ons increased substantially December onwards, even for full priced games, however when you have so few ST holders to start with, overall crowds still look poor. Rovers have always been a ST heavy support base and the fact it’s been decimated to this level, with c15,000 ST holders lost in 12 years is an almost existential crisis for the club of our size.

The NL is obviously going to stay, fine, but it should’ve been scrapped this cycle due to the winter World Cup, as crowbarring in four fixtures in ten days in the middle of June does nobody any favours.

Well that post Wiggy is your definitive proof that those in situ in Exec positions at Ewood have absolutely no intention of growing the fanbase. But then why would they when they are judged on (and presumably remunerated) on short team profit and loss targets and will be long gone before any attractive pricing can have an impact. And as that’s the modus operandi down there, also expect more ridiculous match days pricing when you consider some of the clubs coming to Ewood, Cat A+ Platinum anybody?

Unfortunately the oft quoted poster represents a fair chunk of the views of the remaining match going rump. When we are looking across a vast expanse of empty seats next season, it won’t be ‘terrible pricing’, ‘Waggott doesn’t have a clue’, ‘they’ve decimated the fanbase’, but… ‘shit are Rovers fans’, ‘spoilt’, ‘no passion’ etc.

And a 3/4 empty ground does what for the product?

‘Hit out or get out’ isn’t Stokes’ game at all. He’s excellent at gauging the conditions and state of the game and batting accordingly. Think of the Ashes Headingley Test, he scored three runs from his first 75 balls before he upped it as he batted with the tail.

I’m ‘moaning’ because I want the club to thrive, which is extremely hard to do in the Championship with c5,000 ST holders. I also try and offer solutions, as do many on here. Whereas, ‘well, go and watch Preston then’, offers what exactly?

Oh Macfayden is fantastic, he can go from slapstick to real pathos even in the same scene.

It’s the FA’s own fault for playing a game at a proper club ground with the great unwashed. Don’t get that with the day trippers and corporates at Wembley 😁

Not with football club STs, many clubs have either held or reduced prices. Especially around here.

A Blackburn only pandemic, was it? Must’ve been looking at Rovers’ pricing.

What’s wrong with £429- £529? When neighbouring clubs are literally hundreds of pounds cheaper? Yeah, ‘tight’ Blackburners are the issue, obviously!

10k? We won’t be close. We were seeing 9k crowds in midweek last season and that was with 7,300 ST holders. So we could well be seeing 6/7,000 next season. Which hasn’t been seen at Ewood for League games since football was in a real low ebb in this country in the mid 1980s. And in the modern game lower than some National League (5th tier) clubs will be getting next season. Think I’m in a bit of shock to the state we’ve descended into.

I’ve noticed that they haven’t publicised STs at all since Saturday, so I’ve got a (faint) hope that there is something coming re price freeze…

Interesting, so there’s nothing stopping that being publicised as the set price going forward. (I’d rather a reduction, but that ain’t going to happen).