I’m being generous calling it a ‘TV station’. It was on the big screen and concourse teles for a couple of hours. It cost feck all. It wasn’t MUTV! It was a few videos/interviews from the week and highlights from the game.

Well he’s not now, no club is going to take a big money punt on a Championship player with a cruciate.

Right next time I spot the Premier League Years for this season on Sky I’ll record it for you and post it!

Sounds great Joe, but I honestly couldn’t give a feck about playing Burnley. We’ve become as obsessed with them as they always were with us pre the Venky wrecking ball.

All part of a stripped back operation, I’m afraid. Up to about 2016 we had a radio station and an in house TV station. So pre-game there was a variety to what you saw/heard (though Radio Rovers did decline in quality over the years). Now you have Neil Yardley on the pitch reading the teams out, then he’s charging up to the gantry for the first half ifollow commentary, then he’s on the pitch at half time doing the half time raffles, then he’s back to the gantry for the second half. Add it to a shut town centre club shop, a shut Blues Bar, a filthy ground, crap disabled facilities, shoddy programme, piss poor catering that can’t even compare to Accy Stanley’s offering and all the rest of it. It’s a skeleton operation, but remember, they ‘never refuse to sign a cheque’.

No DDs for the offer that I can see. Yes if we are in the mix I would expect Reading to be the one.

Of course we do. Any hardcore fan that would rather see nearly 20,000 empty seats just so they can take some weird moral high ground is of a totally different mindset than me...

Yes if they fancy it. If they fancied it every week they’d have a season ticket. The Big 6 is a quarter season ticket and priced as such, so will sell in the hundreds, like half STs do. Floating fans don’t fork out £100-£150 in one go generally. They pick a game intermittently. But a few hundred is ok, better than nothing, but it won’t make much of a dent to those empty seats. I would expect an offer of some sort in the run in, like the last game if there’s something riding on it. This would follow the precedent of Villa (£10 for the last home game) in the relegation season and Oxford. As it is those one off games that will see tickets sell in big numbers - which will provide the big crowd we need to help us potentially get over the line.

Bucko to City! You’ve heard it here first!

Floating fans don’t ‘need’ to do anything. The hardcore 12,000 are already there. The rest will come if they fancy it. 8th in the second division isn’t going to get that many more than usual forking out nearly £30 for a Jack Walker ticket or a mini season ticket (the Big 6). Yes, that’s hard for fans like me and you to understand because we are passionate fans that wouldn’t dream of not being there, ‘floating fans’ are just that and don’t have the same motivation to be there every week. Even in 2001 when we had a bigger core support than now, the club still offered two separate games for £5 in the promotion run in (Huddersfield and Sheff United).

Tickets are already on sale for the next two, so won’t happen. Make West Brom a tenner on Easter Monday. If we are still in contention we’ll sell shed loads, and as they are doing well they’ll probably fill the Darwen End instead of their usual 1500/2000. Big crowd, big occasion. (It won’t happen as Waggott will want £30 off a potential 2/3000 travelling support)

At half time Jeff Stelling goes ‘Blackburn Rovers are on a good run but aren’t threatening the top 6’ We’ll be in it with a win next next week!

Got to be careful with those deadlifts!

Bloody hell Sparks, bit sad dredging up a near year old post from last season’s Champ thread to do a ‘told you so’ on Sammy bloody Ameobi

It can’t be judged till May! Teams can have great a first half of a season, best for years and still finish below where they were the year before. They haven't then ‘progressed’, have they!

We were flying this time last season (similar points to now) until we went to Brentford... it fell apart from there. So judging ‘progression’ on how many points we have in February’s is a bit daft.

Starting to grate now that posters merely having a debate are seeing as ‘moaning’. HowieFive0 said he didn’t want to ‘fall out’ with me on another thread, I thought we were just having a general to and fro about an issue. ’Shut down’/‘cancel’ culture may be the norm on Twitter, but you can piss off with it on here.

They all say that until they win a few...

Does not compute

It’s a mindset thing. £99 for 6 makes it £16.50 a game in the Blackburn End instead of £22-£25. (£25-£28 with the surcharge). So a no brainer, in theory. But a lot of the kind of fans that buy on the day only ever buy game by game. They just fancy taking in a game some weeks. They wouldn’t dream of paying £100-£150 in one do for 6 matches, even if it makes financial sense. Look at the fact Waggott has admitted the surcharge hasn’t really dented the amount of folk that just rock up with an hour til KO.

Fall out? Just chewing the fat, no? In theory a 6 game bundle would do as you say, but the FF minutes show they only ever sell in minuscule numbers, probably because those inclined for paying decent money up front already have. Only time they may sell well would be if we were flying towards promotion.

I want the ground fuller with Rovers fans, so a bit of a daft comment. Increase ST sales (full ST), increase crowds, end of. Our crowds have always been ST heavy. Our average crowd waxes and wanes with how many STs get sold each summer. Nothing will particularly change whilst we are second division mid table. The only solution is slash prices on the back of a promising season/summer of transfers, so riding the wave of a bit of momentum and goodwill or be challenging for/get promoted. £350-£500 STs. £100-£140 6 game bundles for a side treading water in the EFL year in year out just won’t pull folk in, though the club are perfectly free to offer a quarter ST and must see some value in it. But if a £10 game creates a bit of atmosphere and fills some seats for once, what’s the problem?

Not really comparable as there are Only 32 NFL teams for 300 million people. One team to represent a metropolis like Dallas. London has 5 PL clubs and about a dozen professional clubs. England at a fifth of the size of the US has over a 100 pro clubs, so of course it’s going to be cheaper, supply and demand is nowhere near the same. Yet, many Championship clubs are still charging £40, us included at times this season.

So? It was still great to see the ground much fuller than it would’ve been otherwise for the Wigan game. Why are Charlton bothering tomorrow?

I’m not arguing with it. It’s a quarter season ticket, so if folk want one then great. But these never sell more than a couple of hundred as the fans that want to commit to multiple games usually have by now with a full or half ST. That leaves your floating fan, they just won’t fork out £99-£150 for a half dozen matches, they pick a game when they fancy. So for them making a game cheap in the run in for an attractive game is more likely to get them in and gives Ewood a bit of an occasion feel for once which is a positive all round. Different folk make up a fanbase, they aren’t all fanatics like me and thee that will turn up week after week, got to entice both.