Mattyblue

Cheers for posting transfer links Chaddy, but do we really need some of these anonymous Twitter attention seeing accounts with one man and his dog following them?

The days of local games at Christmas and New Year have long gone. No public transport? Tough! Case in point, nice easy trip for Cardiff fans on NYD!

Unfortunately unless you are a ‘big 6’ club the media think the casual football fan will only pay a blind bit of notice to any other club if they have a connection to an ex superstar player.

Yep, just those extra 3/4K, taking you from a 12k to a 15/16k crowd really makes a difference at Ewood.

It’ll be Sunday 12pm, Sky or no Sky you’d think?

Though some of those 7k are probably complementaries, a grey dot is a grey dot. So in reality we’ve less than 7k paid 2022/23 ST holders as of last week.

Exactly, so what’s your point?

We’ll also have a load of complementaries and staff tickets, as does every club.

He knows this as he’s been told repeatedly, so he’s being purposely disingenuous for some unknown reason (well we probably do know), or he really is this slow on the uptake.

For about the third time, they are post early bird prices. They signed 12,000 up before these prices kicked in. These were the prices:

Come on Darren, players always say the right things, but if a good enough deal comes in, he’s gone, end of.

So naive! His mum ain’t going to tell all and sundry in the away end the ins and outs! 😁

There’s no point speculating until the claim your seat deadline passes at the end of the month, we are in the dark at the minute. But the facts are we had just scraped over 7k when the second extension was put in place. So to have more than four figures by KO is a big ask, and that’s a failure, a big one at that.

That’s called the ‘Blues Bar’, it just needs restoring to its former glory. First step get all that fantastic Rovers memorabilia it used to have out of storage and get it back up on the walls (presuming they haven’t lobbed it all). One of many bizarre decisions, a bit like removing those fantastic timeline murals at both corners of the Jack Walker…

‘Uncompetitive’ is probably the wrong word, but it does lack intensity. Which is fair enough when it consists of young lads, first team players out of favour (some with a sulk on) and first teamers nursing their way back from injuries.

Always! Quickly skim the list for -first game, first away game, Christmas, derbies (please be a weekend), Easter, last game. If you stop looking forward to the fixtures being released you may as well give up!

I hope so too, however its a big, big step up from semi pro and U23 football. But good to look him, certainly looks to have a good attitude.

Hope he has a real good day.

Plus the Northern Ireland number one, Peacock-Farrell. A club like Burnley with three international keepers, just shows even PL small fry can build up a squad without you realising.

I suppose it’s more above board dodginess, they’ve never hid their aims and business model from day one..

100% Restore Blues Bar to its former glory, utilise the ‘Fan Zone’ outside the BEnd much better. Plenty to work with on our own footprint without buying bloody pubs!

We usually sell more than PNE, so he is dubious that they will suddenly sell more than us this year. Fair enough position to take. But he wasn’t aware of their enticing pricing and the figures they are publishing on their own official website, until we told him, so it’s fairly obvious that they have overtaken us, and why, but he still won’t have it!

Of course there are success stories. However, bit of a silly comparison, McGrath and Keane were playing in the first team of English top flight big boys at a way younger age. Keane was 19 at Forest and already on the way to being a big star. All the others were also playing in the PL regularly in their early 20s. This lad is 24 and couldn’t get a game in a middling Championship side last season. He might turn out to be a decent squad man and there’s no harm in having him around as he’ll be on buttons. But let’s be realistic, we need to be upping our standards on recruitment if we want to compete at this level.

Or maybe bring in players with a better pedigree than 24 year olds from semi pro leagues?

Can you clarify this point you keep making about Preston? ‘Crest of a wave’, ‘highest point they’ve been in years’ etc. They really weren’t on one, they finished 13th, never had even a sniff of the top 6, it was one of their worst seasons in years. Their fans were certainly not happy in the run in. Without cheap tickets they would’ve sold their standard 7/8k. Their spike is purely on price (plus a very proactive marketing campaign). Rovers are a different club with different issues, however post JDT we are also on a bit of a ‘wave’, therefore I believe a £300/£325-ish entry point (note not Bolton style £219, or even PNE £280), would have harnessed that spike much more than our actual entry point of £400 to £430. Also charging potential new and retuning ST holders more is a bizarre way to try and grow, very Royston Vasey. One product, one price. Lets hope everything we’ve seen across the local clubs this summer and the struggles here is food for thought next summer (though unfortunately I believe SW is far too entrenched in his thinking to change course now).