Walk away? Will he buggery. He’s just signed an enormously lucrative new four year deal!

Been a very long time since we’ve been selling this number of walk ons… just imagine what the crowds could have been over the Christmas period if ST sales hadn’t fallen off a cliff.

It really doesn’t work like that Chaddy. If a Newcastle came in for BBD, he’s gone.

FAO the American owners. Your fans have spoken, you obviously now need to follow their wishes… https://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59276&sid=4831403e99723c891eba318f4b4e90b7

But does that matter? We had a fantastic bunch of players in 2001 and still didn’t get close to winning the league, and in 1992, the mighty Dalglish nearly had us missing out on the play offs entirely…but so what, it’s about the end result - promotion!

Disagree there, they are a good, solid club and fanbase, with a history going back to the multiple title and cup winning time of Herbert Chapman, and it’s not really a like for like comparison. HTFC are a far bigger club than their rugby league team, don’t they get some of the lowest crowds in Super League?

I believe if the game is deemed a ‘Bank Holiday Fixture’ (yes I know that’s tomorrow!) then the home club doesn’t have to allow red button coverage, so to encourage folk to buy tickets.

Think that was a joke, I.e to get in front of all the Hudds fans that will turn up on the day to buy…

I can’t see him over tinkering now, he can see the prize. For me, half the reason he tinkered so much in previous years was down to the fact there was no real pressure on him, no danger of the sack, he got to keep a big squad, we probably wouldn’t be in a relegation scrap and probably weren’t good enough for promotion either. So why not! Now, we’ve ended up with a relatively small squad, and to be fair, recruited smartly on players that can actually fit a system he’s tried and failed with on numerous occasions previously.

Have they actually sold 5k though? Think there’s been a bit of Chinese whispers going on. From what I can see one poster on their forum said they’d ‘sold the bottom tier out’, but as other posters have pointed out, the club hasn’t confirmed that and they expect the bottom tier to be on sale tomorrow.

Do you know another thing that’s been great about this season… a load of different chants, but hardly any of them are now banging on about this lot, which makes a bloody welcome change! We were becoming as small time as they were when they spent years obsessed with us…

Accrington Stanley are just a small town club founded later than 1888 (and then redounded post Bob Lord), they aren’t founder members.

That’s the one. A fine (and huge) selection of beers…

Certainly, as that is how owners should be behaving with these potentially transformative few months ahead of us.

We hear a lot of leaks out of the club about new initiatives, many don’t come to fruition. Waggott has got lucky with how well we are doing, if we hadn’t been, then we’d be continuing to see many a crowd figure that hadn’t been seen here for 30 plus years (as we were seeing up to the last crazy few weeks). So we’ll see if this new supposed ticketing strategy in the new year comes to pass - as it must. The club should be doing everything it can to use this fantastic season to entice back as many as possible of those lost fans (and that isn’t done by the ridiculous pricing, and no, it wasn’t all some SW master plan in order to flog 750 half STs, simply a continuation of previous years policy to rip off away support) and more than anything, the mistakes of this summer cannot be repeated again. We MUST seize this moment.

Well obviously plenty will still buy, we are top of the league, however it still won’t be more than 15k for said top of the table team… and plenty more would have if it was cheaper and we want to use this fantastic ride to entice as many as possible back to the club and for the ground to be as full as possible to roar them on, surely? That’s the point.

Of course, disgrace of professional. Still have to turn the dickhead off every time I see him on the BBC.

What was cheap? Barnsley? It was still £20 to £25, just normal pricing at a lot of clubs, and still 6,000 bought a ticket, which is double the usual.

Indeed.

It is quite a normal thing to do. Think Gordon Cowans, think Mark Hughes in our previous promotion seasons adding vital nous and experience. But it just doesn’t seem TM’s style, especially if he’s deemed to have a ‘problematic’ attitude…

You reckon that’s anything to do with them selling 20,000 STs to our 7,200?

And we had a shed load more ST holders…

750 half season tickets sold, may get to 800 before they go off sale. It’s the most since the PL as usually only a couple of hundred or so sign up, so a fair enough effort, and at least we are now back up to a mighty 8,000 ST holders! So please Rovers, let that 7,200 be the absolute floor and ensure the kitchen sink is thrown at the summer sales campaign…

Well it does add up, as I’ve just explained. But yes, Mods, please feel free to move all these posts elsewhere (or just do us all a favour and just delete them 😁)

Because it’s a bank holiday day game at £15, not a night match at £25 and they are also on a good run of wins? Hang on, you’ve kept saying that a ‘winning team brings out Blackburn folk, always been the way here’, so surely, by your logic, of course a shed load more of our lot would turn out now than when we were in the doldrums pre Sheff Utd?