Mattyblue

A whole ONE player on international duty, must have been like a ghost town down there, though these are the hurdles you have to face when ‘the journey’ leads to such a quality squad, ay!

Good job that lot have just re-developed Gawthorpe or they’d be buying Brockhall off us (PNE Euxton style)… ’So negative! Get real, we can’t turn down a deal like that from an established PL side. Those state of the art Portakabins up Whitebirk sound fantastic. Well done to the club 👏‘

Does anybody else’s heart sink every time you see a new post on this thread? (Oops, now I’ve added to it!).

You could ring the ticket office up and buy over the phone? They’ll then have them ready for you to pick up on the day. Otherwise just roll up and buy, normally a queue after 2pm.

Putting the nonsense of Wenger’s plan for a bi-annual World Cup aside, I did like his idea of playing all qualifiers/internationals in one ‘international window’ instead of interrupting the domestic game four times a season.

They are thinking they’ll have close to 4K travelling. Category B an all ! Swag will be crying into his pillow, but he won’t make that mistake again for the mighty Sky Blues… so your own fault for enjoying yourself Cov fans!

Always amazes me how folk can’t seem to separate one or a dozen loudmouth cretins from a crowd of thousands and will therefore paint ‘Rovers fans’ as ‘negative’ or ‘on their back’ or ‘abusive’… or even worse equate social media trolls (many of whom won’t be able to find Ewood on a map) with match going supporters.

Course he’s going to get ‘moans and groans’ it’s a football ground and he was really poor week after week. But on the whole he was supported very well, and that’s credit to the home support ( though maybe that shows how the make up of the Ewood crowd has changed this past few years as it has reduced to a hardy core).

BB has always had great backing by the crowd, considering just how poor he was for a couple of years (that’s YEARS, not weeks or months)… much better in fact then big money signings in the past ever did (Kevin Davies springs to mind).

When was he booed?

Interesting to hear that anecdote, but most fans I speak to away from here have little idea who he is and the ones that do don’t seem to have much of an opinion on him either way…

But he isn’t unpopular away from this board…

Am I reading you right longsiders? Even though the likes of Palace and Southampton aren’t interested in Dyche, the sovereign wealth fund of one of the richest regimes on Earth, who are in a sportwashing arms race with Qatar are going to take him?

With so many European nations these days (post Yugoslavia and USSR collapse in the early 90s), qualifiers have become a procession (largely) for the top teams. Long way from the days of really tough groups, as you say we’ve got both San Marino and Andorra in this group! The South American qualifying group looks a right battle in comparison.

I’d say easily a 1/3 of fans at away games won’t be Ewood attendees, however is that 1/3 made up of ‘boycotters’? A few will be, but I’d say the majority will be like some of my friends and family that were at Blackpool and Barnsley - they just think Ewood is a morgue and they’d rather have a good day out on the lash and with a good atmosphere away from home. They may be tempted to say the PNE game at Ewood - but not at £30.

The Geordies don’t seem to think he provides a good game too often…

Because they get 45k crowds. End of. They are no more ‘passionate’ than any other fanbase. Are they more passionate than the 4,000 watching a club in non league or the Carlisle fans travelling to an away game at Exeter? The fact they are a one club city, one of only a handful of pro clubs in the whole north east of England doesn’t seem to compute to the media and the lemming football fans that lap it up around the country. Indeed there’s been 10 thousand empty seats most weeks at SJP both this season and in 2019/20. The REAL hotbed of the game is right here in old Lancashire, twenty odd pro clubs.

‘Their fans DESERVE success’, don’t ya know!

On match day prices, yes. Happy to see some initiative taken, though still far too expensive. However, as match day tickets are a small part of our ticket sales, it’s small fry. The horse had bolted, I’m afraid on the much more important sales strand of season tickets, as they are still pro rata far more expensive than the last in stadium season, and you just won’t be getting back the lost sales in October. We won’t be able to see if they’ve actually learnt their lesson until next summer when 22/23 STs go on the market. But yes happy to see that haven’t lost all sense of what constitutes value down there - even if it took fan lobbying to make them wake up.

£30 is just one of those figures that psychologically puts plenty of folk off at a stroke, make it say, £27 for a ‘high profile game’ (though still ridiculous for a mid table second division club in a town like Blackburn, but hey ho) and you’ll pique their interest. And like I said on the previous page, the £20 night game price will make no difference at all to the previous £25 as you only get the very hardcore of the walk on buying anyway due to the myriad factors stopping floating fans bothering midweek - red button, freezing winter nights, kids in bed, work issues etc. £20 or £25 won’t change those factors. Getting STs back on sale, good move, we are a ST heavy fanbase, always been our match going culture. Sheff Utd, bit gimmicky, but why not, they’ll fetch plenty too, so will be a decent gate. Though it is largely tinkering at the edges, at least someone has woken up to what a compete mess they’ve made of ticketing since L1 promotion.

If it’s the Saudi’s I’d say it’s very much more likely to be a City - all about regional rivalry, they don’t want to be upstaged by their Arab neighbours - Abu Dhabi and Qatar (and especially Qatar).

It’s fine making midweeks £20, better than £25-£30, but you still will only get a minimal amount of folk buying, midweeks get low crowds due to the inconvenience, school nights and the red button, not price. Make a few Saturdays £20 to get folk in the ground.

Still less than our 10.

We have comfortably the most with 10 major trophy wins.

Fair enough to try and get some more folk back in the tent, as I repeatedly say, our match going fanbase is always heavily reliant on ST holders and they buggered that demographic up royally in the summer and we just ain’t selling decent numbers of walk ons at £30 a pop. Though a win at Blackpool might have tempted a few more, alas the top 6 bottle job strikes again…