Mattyblue

The initial fee and 10% would be a poor deal. The initial fee and 20%? Just about an acceptable deal.

Doesn’t matter if you are surprised or not, they do. Which makes our small sale fee and (maybe 10%) look a real poor deal. Top sides hoover up talent, and he’ll probably spend the next 3 years farmed out on loan. ‘So what?’ Brentford will think, they’ve still trousered the big fee (90% of it too by the looks of it)

The cases have been rising exponentially for two weeks, to levels higher than other areas that are already in lockdown, so surely as they are stakeholders of the Lancashire Resilience Forum they should’ve held fire a few days? (I.e 4 days).

He was a developing keeper, he made mistakes, but more fool those that couldn’t see his immense potential. £2/3million was a crap deal... however 20% sell on would soften the blow somewhat, 10% would be a shocker of a negotiation for such a young talent.

Depends on who and how close to the situation the source is, obviously...

Journalists speak to people that have, they call them ‘sources’.

The release of STs couldn’t have been more badly timed, in hindsight. Just not seeing a scenario where there are thousands of people let into venues in towns like Blackburn any time soon...

I’m behind him, I will him on every game, I’ve cheered him at games, I cheer him from my laptop... I also think he just won’t make it here and all things considered it was a terrible deal by the club

Imagine, after seeing the totally avoidable, tragic decline of this football club over the past decade, the complete trashing of Jack’s legacy, and that’s the conclusion you reach. A shameful post.

Anybody else think ‘that’s him with another month out’ when you see this thread at the top?

Any particular reason? Because if ever there was a time for one...

I expect out of those fans that can generally ‘take it or leave it’ and just go out of habit and for a bit of socialising will be knocking it on the head in big numbers. But if whole groups that are as Rovers mad as I imagine your lot are, aren’t renewing too, then we are in big trouble.

Yeah probably, I’ve got lost with the regulations now. Are Sky not showing a weekly 3pm game now, even though still BCD?

Hmm, I can’t see it either. Fake news from some tinpot Twitter account, obviously...

Noticed on their forums that they reckon he misses January every year (David Dunn Christmas break style) through ‘injuries’, I imagine they are exaggerating if you went through the fixtures of previous seasons, but we’ll soon see...

‘Well he must have something about him if he keeps getting picked at this level’ ’I’ll trust the opinion of professionals over ? on here who’ve probably never kicked a ball’

Derby away next Saturday is on Sky, so at least that’s one week without any palava...

Every seasons there’s a ‘churn’. Folk not renewing, some returning, some new ST holders too. But there’s always been the core, ‘the 8,000’ that I’ve mentioned before, that John Williams was told will always be there... I’m afraid this summer will prove they won’t ‘always’ renew, that floor will be broken. As arbito alluded to, this could be a disaster of 1960 proportions, losing for good, long standing fans that I would never have believed.

Get him on a real contract ASAP...

That an Arctic Monkey tune?

‘How the mighty have fallen’ You support feckin Middlesbrough!

It will empty the Riverside even more... establishing the groundwork for the next closure?

We’d have to sell around last season’s total to sell more than Bolton. You honestly see that happening?

‘Reasonable’ in normal times, perhaps. Down right stupid in times like these. Folk are very rational when it comes down to getting them to part with their hard earned cash. They will see that they won’t be in the ground for a big percentage of games, so losing value straight away, that it makes no sense buying a ticket for themselves, their missus, their kids, whoever else in their household when just one will do for ifollow. That £4/500 ticket x 4 becomes x1 or x0 when they see what’s happening out there, and the income dramatically reduces accordingly.

They were, that was before they rose £100 since 2018. Now we are standard Championship pricing. Which is fair enough. But banging them up 15% for a product that will not involve 23 Championship games at Ewood Park (Or even close), that makes no allowances for multi STs in the one household, means we will see in all likelihood our lowest sales probably since the mid 1980s when most clubs had one man and a dog watching.