Mattyblue

Christ. From near 20,000 to 10,000 to 8,000 to 3,000 (disclaimer being a few weeks still to go ) ST holders in a decade. You literally couldn’t have done a better job wrecking a fanbase if that was your actual intention.

Think that shows that Waggott et al are now putting in even less effort than an advert on the back on a bus (yet this summer of all summers we should be putting in much more)…

Be interesting to see what happens to the Lancs business model. A lot has been invested in the corporate side; events, conferences, hotels and the like. Will that previously highly lucrative industry of business facing hospitality ever get back to where it was pre pandemic?

Yet, a quick Google search shows club after club recording record sales. There’s something badly amiss at this football club.

Interesting view. So can you outline in what way we operate as a functional football club?

They have been and probably still are, but people use said ‘bad advice’ to excuse their disastrous decision making. The buck stops with them.

Can you imagine the lengths the John Williams era BRFC would be going to this summer. Just makes me so very sad seeing these people who couldn’t give a shiny shite ‘representing’ my club, wearing our crest tie at whatever function or FA/EFL get together they happen to get an invite to. Just a shell masquerading as a historic professional football club.

Got to say, the ‘marketing’ of the season tickets this time round really is subterranean. Apart from advertising on the club’s website (and who’s visiting that in July), what else is there? Even social media channel promotion seems intermittent, a post every few days, perhaps. And there has certainly been no mail shots etc. It’s merely a case of, ‘well they’re on sale, £4/500, take it or leave it’. Unreal when you think we’ve been out of grounds for 18 months and club’s (other clubs, obviously) are doing everything possible to re-engage. And it should be especially pressing here considering ST holders make up the vast majority of our match going support. This lot have just stopped even pretending they are arsed if folk turn up or not.

Love this new cracking display of petulance when proved wrong on an issue you’ve patronised everybody else on for weeks. ’Err, well, why don’t you just email them then?’ 😁

Telling how Lancs haven’t particularly promoted it. Obviously it’s well and truly an ECB vehicle. Absolute cultural vandals and they are just lucky that the county game support base isn’t as rabid as club football re the Super League or they’d have cancelled the monstrosity within days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/57804414 A few of those quoted have suddenly changed their tune, can’t fathom why? 🤷‍♂️

‘I had to tell the owners to slow down’.

Two years was always the case up to around the millennium when clubs suddenly saw the £ signs and switched to two/three new kits every summer. But sure I read the other week that a few clubs are reverting back to a two year home kit.

Think Gav may have a point. Can’t say I’ve come across many Rovers fans that would write ‘The Venkeys’…

If they are such good owners why is the club in this sorry state?

‘New range!’ 😩

I’m not having a go at TM for it, good for him, what football manager wouldn’t want to have a say in the appointment of his Director of Football and CEO? It’s ‘the club’ (whatever that is these days) itself that is allowing such conflicts of interest to take root, it’s not healthy and it’s why we end up with managers carrying on in post long after it’s gone stale. But when you have an organisation as hollowed out as this one, it’s no surprise.

Rovers had extensive interest in the post [87 serious applicants], but Park has been selected as the man to lead the club’s recruitment plans moving forward. Well I never!

Travis was 21 before he got a proper run of games. So I’m not too bothered about Butterworth’s age at this stage… but he just has to stay injury free for a sustained period to actually fulfil this undoubted potential and back injuries can often prove chronic.

It happens here every season, I.e going into the first friendly with no new kit for the players, never mind on sale. Though usually goes fairly unnoticed as we’d been with Umbro for years so they’d just trot out in a shirt from the previous campaign. All part of the slapdash operation down there.

Let’s have it right, that wasn’t ever going to actually happen, and Jim & Dan know it, but great for the likes and re-tweets though.

Oh yes Gav-la! The French onion soup is worth the trip alone 😋

Always enjoy Rolo’s bi-annual truth bombs…

Yet, the big numbers watching the live streams of the CC shows the interest is still there… if only the ECB harnessed it.

From memory he said exactly that pre a game live on Sky last season.