You know the old phrase… ’It’s a results process, structure and identity business’.

What rigger seems to be struggling to grasp is the fact that U23 games for senior pros are purely for rehab. Who knows he may never be the old Dack again, but even if he does get back to that level, you won’t be seeing it on a Monday night at Leyland…

So why are they pointing out that Hudds are 3rd if results and outcomes aren’t important? 🤷‍♂️

No issue with your second paragraph, there is a place for a suite of marketing strategies, and trying to increase ST holders, the bedrock of any support base is vital. Though there’s also a place for an actual no strings cheap game to get a real big crowd in just like in the 2001 run in. However, your first paragraph, what they’ve tried this season are strategies they know don’t work. Bundles, but this time a bundle restricted to one section of one stand. Bring a mate, failed in the past and is a bizarre way of discriminating against fans who don’t know any ST holders. The Final Five is pretty much a quarter ST, but is pro rata substantially more expensive than a half ST, working out at £24 a game in the JW, so why would you sign up for that as a floating fan? If you can’t make just one of the five you are well out of pocket, so you’ll just continue picking your games. I would have launched a proper quarter ST, priced at half ST levels (pro rata) to attempt to capitalise on the success of the half STs. Plus, a targeted game in the run in at £10 a ticket, no strings, ‘Operation Fill Ewood’. Seems very simple to me, but the club always seems to come up with these convoluted and half arsed offerings that make little impact…

The ratings for Corrie and EastEnders have collapsed over the past five years… so put them out of their misery!

Personally think we are at our limit now and we are now a standard to upper priced club in this league, certainly not ‘cheap as chips’ anymore as some stil like to make out - bit of the boiling a frog analogy, not sure some have noticed just how much they’ve increased in price this past 3/4 years. You can get away with £400-£500 with a decent team on the pitch, but without that key element, at this price point sales will fall away alarmingly- the fact we came into this season scraping 7k sold (lowest for over thirty years, over 3k down on what even the Bowyer era club managed) is testament to that…

As much as I don’t rate Parker, unfortunately they have enough talent to pull something out of the bag in games and secure second - example being their last two matches where they turned potential defeats into wins late on.

Admire your optimism, tomphil!

And what if you don’t have any ST friends? If you buy a ticket in the JWU you will have paid £30… and you could be sitting next to someone who has paid a tenner. Is that fair?

Now where have I seen this before… Why on earth can’t a floating fan just go and buy a ticket without needing to co-ordinate it with a ST holder? What about the fan who doesn’t know any ST holders, may live away from the area etc? Why are they being discriminated against and having to pay £25-£30 instead. Just bloody daft. Last time the club themselves bemoaned that it didn’t work as an offer, yet here we are again 🤦‍♂️ A real greatest hits of failed schemes being resurrected this season. Just can’t fathom why they go to such complicated lengths to avoid a very simple cheap offer.

Inconsistent? In the past, as a young lad, not now. As a defensive full back/wing back he’s been superb this season, is he great going forward? No, but that’s just not his game, and perhaps we do need someone who can do both sides of the role if we are to continue with this formation. But a quality defender.

800. Better than nowt, but some of those will have been coming anyway and just taken up that offer instead of buying a match ticket. Is it really worth the bother for such minuscule numbers over a simple £10 a ticket game and a much fuller, raucous Ewood? How are offers like that attracting new/lapsed fans and/or helping to get big crowds into Ewood to help us get to where we all want to be? (Though I’ll hold back some of my ire for now, as who knows they may yet see the light for a game in the run in).

@only2garners ?

From the FF minutes… ’AB asked about sales of the new monthly club magazine following the withdrawal of match day programmes. SW stated that sales had been very poor and that most copies were used in the corporate lounges. The fact was that most fans now got all the content they needed about the club online and hard copy publications were simply not economically viable.’ …so get rid of a £3 programme, but replace it instead with a publication at double the price, and it isn’t selling well? Some real sales gurus down there, evidently.

So reading through, any particular reason the question wasn’t asked as to why they keep doing these poorly received bundles year after year after year?

Less than 8500 home fans for a Saturday afternoon game at a club in the box seat for automatic promotion to the Premier League. As a PL club, they could well have filled an expanded or new stadium (couldn’t get either off the ground) due to the rapidly growing size of the Bournemouth/Poole/Christchurch conurbation and a vast potential catchment area to the west and north. Plenty of casual football fans to tap into. As an EFL club, there’s no potential there and they could quickly sink back to whence they came if anything happens with their ownership…

Peter Walton has a column in The Times and is normally right up the arse of his ex colleagues and the PMGOL… but yesterday even he pretty much admitted that referring in English football has declined markedly.

A ‘craft union pub’ that doesn’t sell ale, 👎

I’m sure I’ve been reading on here this season that he is still being treated shoddily; taken off early, got dropped against Forest etc, ’I wouldn’t blame him for going’, ‘why would he sign for a manager that obviously doesn’t rate him’ etc

Looks like another manager that took one job too many…

…away from home, yes. At Ewood it is much more complex, as the home crowds are showing.

Either he’s engaging in some very public negotiations, or that’s that for RN here… https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19956580.blackburn-rovers-tony-mowbray-ryan-nyambe-future-injury/

😅 Steady on now, that’s exactly the qualification the Chadster looks for in a manager…

In what way is 4th and then sacked the following January with them 9th, not very average for Chelsea?

And on the flip side grand old city clubs like Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday have been out of the top flight for going on 25 years. So I don’t see how this basket case of a club should have been expected to charge back to the PL with our budget and set up. (Oh and as for ‘Rovers have spent more money than most’…. Sorry what ?! A ridiculous comment.)