Mattyblue

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.

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.