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All well and good glen, but the consumer is always right and they’ll be voting with their feet. 15% is crazy in the circumstances It will take some doing to try and recover from a season ticket base of about 3/4,000. It took 30 years and Jack Walker fo recover from 1960...

Prices getting a kicking from the usually Uber positive Facebook and Twitter responders. ‘Just get behind the club’ doesn’t seem to last long as a mantra when it comes to hard cash being parted with...

So the JW Upper is available, good to see the club hasn’t completely lost its senses. 15% price increase is some jump considering we won’t get close to being in the ground for all games. (30% increase on what we were paying in 2017/2018, ‘cheap’ ‘lowest in the league’ they certainly ain’t these days)

Some legacy - Darwen End closed Jack Walker Upper closed Radio Rovers closed Blues Bar closed Club shop still closed later than any of our competitors Price rises across the board Season ticket sales down Match day Surcharge ‘Cat A+’ and £45 tickets in an area like ours ‘Timeline’ mural painted over Pitch a mess in August Ewood Park in disrepair (Probably more) I hope there’s something resembling a club still left when he does feck off...

So those fans without the internet/smart phones, which will be a fair few of our older supporters (and they make up a large part of our ST base), have been told ‘you’ve lost four games, no refunds, you should have used ifollow, oh and by the way we are turfing you out of the Jack Walker too’ Whatever the small print, those fans have had a raw deal, and I would wager many won’t be back...

Just a reminder to @only2garners, please could the JW issue be raised tonight?

Very simplistic to say ‘they cost/their wage bill is x times more than us so we did well even competing’ (I thought it was a decent performance, by the way). Our wage bill was enormous in 2012, we nearly went down again. Sunderland did just that since, Stoke clung on etc etc. Those wage bills, egos are often the reason these clubs struggle, the seeming advantage of that big wage bill negated by off field/mental issues. A habit of losing, compounded by demotivated, want away stars, rapid turnover of players and managers etc. There’s a reason so few relegated sides bounce straight back into the automatic places.

Who’s he had to sell?

‘Odd’ is the right word. I wouldn’t particularly want or expect my manager to be bouncing around like a performing seal on the touch line, seems a bit for show with some. Also, there needs to be a degree of ownership from the players - I.e ‘those are my instructions, use your initiative and game management too’ etc. But TM looks to have gone the other way post lockdown. Literally spending whole halves or matches in the dugout sitting in silence, at Luton he spent most of the match sat in the stand on his own.

I personally thought selling him was a big mistake (especially at that price), compounded when I saw a loanee coming in - popadom hands at that. However, I was partially sated by the fact we’d, of course, have bolted on a substantial sell on fee with the sale. If it is as derisory as being made out, then Waggott is an even bigger fool than I already thought he was.

‘We sold our goalie to buy Sam Gallagher’

Just one (Naismith) left from the last game of the season...

King won’t play as he’s picked up a ‘slight knock’. The old ‘calf strain’ routine before they are turning out for someone else a few days later... https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/18714245.tindall-expects-frontman-king-back-cherries-next-week/#comments-anchor

Basil still lives at Beardwood, don’t he?

The art of communication to customers is simple, simple, simple. He talks to his like he would to his fellow EFL Chief Execs on a corporate away day.

FF is coming up on Monday, according to their minutes, Rev. We need some clarity, and ideally an agreement to look again at these plans, urgently.

You mean you don’t mark your ‘I learnt how to hold a knife and fork’ anniversary?

Still some big wages there despite a host of departures...

I’m the same DE. The structure just isn’t there when it comes to co-ordinating transfers in 2020. Also, I don’t expect the manager to ever particularly be under any pressure, or for anybody better to arrive, so I’ve given up getting worked up about it and just largely leave the rest of you to it when it comes to transfers or the manager. What will be will be. * I save my ire for issues any decent football bureaucrat should be able to (but can’t) get a grasp on - fanbase, ticketing, pitch, basic ground maintenance etc.

Ha so did we. Me - Shoot! , Mate - Match, his cousin - 90 Minutes

You know what blondie, part of me hopes you are right (or at least the government puts off re-admission longer), so the club can rip up these ridiculous plans and go back to the drawing board.

I believe the next Fans Forum (@only2garners) is on Monday, I can only plead that some of these real concerns are put to the club urgently. The seeming need to accommodate c500 corporates (Is there even any corporate market left?) now means there’s no place for any ST holders in a near 8,000 capacity upper tier, instead moving them to more cramped surroundings downstairs, by the way, how is that optimal in a time of social distancing? These ST holders in many cases have sat there, paying top prices, since it was built 25 years ago. The absolute bedrock of our support. That post of Parson’s has spooked me and should do the same to those at Ewood - it certainly would’ve in John Williams’ time, alas I assume it will be batted away with some corporate waffle. I’m just at a loss to what the bloody hell is going on in the heads of those making decisions down there.

you can give your opinion on it now too...

Won the League Cup too, their Robert Maxwell heyday...

The article reads more ‘how do we put 5,000 people in a few areas as possible?’, not ‘how do we utilise our massive ground in a time of social distancing?’