‘Two sites’, they are down the road from each other. No different than many a workplace, my own, for example (though WFH now saves the walk for meetings). Really disingenuous statements from Waggott et al that tries to make out they are in different time zones.

Yeah, just spotted that, good to see, however it is buried in the standard ‘Back to Live’ article that gets re-posted on the website every few days, you imagine a lot of floating fans won’t pick up on that. So hopefully they will press the point on the official social media accounts, plus another email and mail shot will go out. Not often we’ve actually got a bit of momentum after the opening day, need to take advantage.

So we’ve just under two weeks until the next home league game. Saturday saw a good performance… and an actual win on the opening day! The club should now be all over anyone on the database, especially those that bought a match ticket on Saturday offering STs, price reduced to take account of only 22 games left. Won’t hold my breath.

Even the Price of Football podcast that is usually up the arse of the Raos sees the ‘merger under one roof’ ‘state of the art’ etc as spin and it is obviously a way of reducing costs and grabbing sizeable real estate income.

I’m not arsed either, couldn’t care less about either of those two. We are in agreement, because judging club’s size on the town itself is no longer relevant in a transient society… ergo T’other Paul stating we should expect smaller sales (though we never have before this summer) than the two examples, merely because the borders of the town of Bolton contains more people than Blackburn was an outdated notion.

Still amazed at the balls of CPFC claiming that their ‘origin’, and therefore blue and white halves, is from 1861 (making them the oldest club in the world too), though that club went bust in 1876, modern iteration not forming for THIRTY YEARS until 1905… and have played in a totally different part of London (Croydon not even being part of London until the mid 60s’) for the most part.

It was already cutting up around the JW/BEnd byline.

Exactly, so Preston and Bolton being bigger towns has been moot for years, as we have a geographic spread across Lancashire, though I imagine the percentage of the database that has RIbble Valley and PR postcode addresses has never been larger than it is right now with the rapid demographic change of the last 10 years within the town itself.

‘Opening’, ‘first steps’ It isn’t as we’ve heard it all before on numerous occasions, but this time with added poultry infused heraldry. But ok, taking it at face value, what are those that are optimistic expecting will be different from the 4/5 ‘Statement from the Owners’ we’ve seen previously?

Yet the Blackburn End concourse looked anything but…

Noticed after the game that the queues for the club shop were snaking right down Nuttall Street. Never seen that before, even in the good old days. Kits and Morecambe tickets flying out, obviously … or skeleton staff?

Fans react to adventurous/positive football and commitment. Can’t fault either yesterday.

He went on to win 50 cap for Northern Ireland, went to a World Cup and was sold for some decent fees. Then a decade plus in management. Some ‘ruined career’.

What ever happened to that Wilcox lad?

See Quest has started in its usual professional style.

That first 11 (plus Dack) can compete at this level easily enough. There just ain’t much else in reserve. Without a few decent loans then we will be in big trouble by the time the inevitable injury crisis hits

I see. Did this demographic change occur over the last 18 months? And considering a large (and increasing) percentage of our fanbase lives outside the town of Blackburn, the size of the population within municipal boundaries are increasingly meaningless as people become more transient.. We’ve never gone into a season with fewer ST holders than both those clubs ever before. And if you think it’s normal for Blackburn Rovers to sell fewer season tickets than Preston bloody North End and third division Bolton then there’s not a lot else to say.

Hope so, but history tells me we’ll sell perhaps a few hundred more, but thats your lot.

About 9,400 home fans out of 10,600 for the first game of the season. Says to me standard attendances will be 7-9,000 most weeks . Never thought I’d see the crowds like that again at this level. A sad indictment of a shocking decade of mismanagement.

He’s a canny bugger. As the club lets its key assets decrease in value, paint it as really an act of working class solidarity by salt o’ earth Tone with furloughed Joe Bloggs, total nonsense, especially with furlough winding down by October., plays well with the gallery though.

Exhibit A, Sharpe’s tweet adding the spin that the lowest ST sales for c40 years was some kind of positive.

You know, I used to really care what other fans thought of us, how they were often misinformed etc and needed correcting. Now I really don’t, every club and fanbase has its unique issues. Crowds wax and wane everywhere (well, not here it’s been a fairly clear graph over a decade) over a whole host of issues. So today’s ‘tinpot club’ is some other one this time next year.

It’s many of us! Your namesake is certainly among our number.

Is this the same Gav ‘polluting’ numerous threads saying how doomed we are under these owners?

We always sell more than 1500 walk ons on a Saturday, I imagine there will be at least double that sold today - opening day, post lockdowns novelty etc, so with 6,000 ST holders, I imagine we might get close to around 10k home fans - still piss poor, and the most depressing thing is we will rarely sell that amount again for the rest of the season (the 7,500 home fans you predicted will very much be the norm).