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Apart from Downing who was in talks to stay (and now may well retire at 36), Hart is the only one of our released players not to get a gig somewhere...

Not short of a few bob Trevor Hemmings, but he isn’t Rao family wealthy, you know those of the ‘never refuse a cheque’ fame. Yet it’s Rovers fans that ‘need to ensure the club’s survival’ by eschewing refunds and signing up to STs for a product that won’t exist. All most odd.

Seems like common sense from PNE, as like us, they were late getting them on sale and had a fan backlash re pricing, so will also have sold minimal. So will we see something similar? Don’t bet on it.

Football fans come into different camps. The folk I regularly go to away games with all renewed, our WhatsApp group is full of chat just how you describe, itching to get back. However, I also know fans that have a season ticket but generally take it or leave it, like a few pints on a Saturday, etc, but don’t particularly obsess about Rovers the rest of the time - not one of those have renewed and I’m not picking up much desperation to get back. It’s group two we need to worry about ‘getting out the habit’ .

Evans is still out with a ‘bruised foot’.... keep yourself in that cotton wool Corry lad, almost time for the international squad announcements.

Feck the left back, get that window closed!

There’s often ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ when it comes to football stats, but then there’s BB where even the data spits out his contribution as... ‘zero’.

‘Roll up, roll up...’

A lad from Brighton telling long standing, die hard fans who have existential worries about the future of our beloved club (but have still put their money into the club without a product in the midst of a mega recession, by the way) that they are ‘ridiculous’.

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) ?