So the tickets go off sale in 10 days anyway? They honestly think they are going to sell any more in light of the National situation?

Big fan of Chaddy’s posts is Anuradha, I’ve heard.

They’ve made a rod for their own back and now pointlessly pissed off a lot of fans with £400-£600 prices, with minimal numbers sold in a brief window before a lockdown. They’d held off since March, ‘We don’t know the product we are offering’, they just needed to do so for one more week as they still didn’t, and could have taken stock. I.e an ifollow ST etc and could’ve re-assessed the market in May time in terms of pricing etc. Be interesting to see how much longer the club keeps promoting the STs, considering others are now suspending sales...

‘Behind closed doors until at least the end of the March’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/54246745

And no one terrorised them more than Speedie (5 foot 7).

The clubs that have sold their usual numbers could be in a decent position if they’ve sold them with the proviso that they would be rolled over to next season. You’d imagine plenty will be happy enough for that to be the case. At least they have them in the tent, Rovers on the other hand will have a hell of a job trying to sell STs from a standing start next summer in the teeth of a recession with fans 18 months out of the ground/habit.

Evidence!

Anyone else imagine Merce as CJ from Reggie Perrin?

1,200 sold up to now apparently, and that will be that, you’d think. Forget Bolton, did we beat Accy?

Sounds a feasible plan at a normal club, or one run by John Williams. Alas, I just don’t think that’s why Waggott is here. The club have seemingly given up the ghost on increasing numbers. It seems to now be about squeezing more and more out of the hardcore.

The royal blue makes it. Let’s have it right, we’ve the best shirt design in football (with our Grasshopper brethren, always had a soft spot for them since my Subbuteo days)

To what? £450 Riverside/BBEnd, £550 JW Upper? Even that fool (or is it the man in the shadows that’s the fool?) surely knows that having season tickets shooting up by £150 since 2018 would be lunacy, especially if fans have been out of Ewood (and well out the habit) for 18 months in the midst of a serious recession. Oh, let’s just hope’s he’s retired by then...

Millwall have just suspended ST sales. What will be the view of clubs now when it comes to refunds? Will they just look to roll over tickets till 2021/22 with ifollow to the rescue? Less of an issue here as I imagine we’ve sold, what? 2k-ish maximum? It’s going to get to the stage that, at best, there will be a limited number of fans allowed in back end of the season, are STs still going to be valid pro-rata for a handful of games in March, April? So it will be 2021/22 when clubs would *hope* for some semblance of normality ticket/admission wise, but if no vaccine...

If the choice is finishing 7th with Mowbray playing the type of football we’ve seen so far this season, or 7th with Warnock, then of course, crack on Mogga. Or if we played in a closed off league with no promotion or relegation, again let’s see what you can do with these young players Tone. But Championship Chairmen appoint Warnock as he has a track record of finishing 1st to 6th, nothing more, nothing less. They trade away ‘nice football’ for a team of hardened pros playing a prosaic style that is more likely to see the club in the promised land than an expansive style from a young team (note I said more likely, not that it’s impossible) - indeed they will see that as their duty to the club and their shareholders to appoint such a person.

We’ll survive (famous last words) as Venky’s don’t seem to mind continually chucking good money in after bad, but Leagues 1 and 2, National League? Unless there is an Arts industry style bailout (or the PL get involved - with strings attached, no doubt), it’s looking extremely grim...

So no fans in October. That takes us to November, winter with all that entails with other respiratory illnesses, perhaps an actual second wave, full lockdown etc. Anyone see fans in before spring (if at all this season) ?

In what’s been a pretty horrible decade, something to be proud of... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18736452.duff-holds-off-dolan-rovers-academy-reaches-500-milestone/

‘Best midfield in the league’, don’t ya know!

Oh I see. I presumed you were talking about the bit you had bolded, when you said ‘that statement’ was proof of his football cluelessness.

The bit in bold is just blatantly obvious, of course he’s been left behind on the pitch, so no idea how that paints ‘99 as clueless. The fact he obviously plays a role off the field and looks a very popular club captain is a totally different issue, and probably why he will be here until his contract runs out in 9 months time, and I’ve no particularly issue with that, lot of cogs to running a successful sports team.

Come on, he’s not fit to lace *check name* Tom Barkhuizen’s boots!

‘His working relationship with Mowbray’, behave yourself Club comes in who can offer PL football and double/treble the wages, he’s off. That’s no slight on Rovers or Mowbray, just the way it is.

About 9th more like

Blackburn Rovers is therefore owned, ran and administered by a selection of people that have zero knowledge (or seeming interest to learn) of the demographics of Blackburn and it’s environs, and the price points that will push customers away - little wonder then that we will see our ST base further collapse this summer. This need to ‘increase revenue’ is actually producing policies that will do the exact opposite due to their own ignorance.

There’s a lot the club is doing perfectly fine with considering the oil tanker pace of decision making. Decent transfer business, TM has never had to sell a player against his will, investment in data tech at the training ground, an academy doing well. My issue is the everyday running of the club, from ground maintenance to ticket pricing. Our £300,000 a year Chief Executive is not in charge of these decisions? It is an Indian emissary of the Rao’s making the decisions on day to day business operations?