Mattyblue

I reckon we would’ve took plenty to Huddersfield at £20ish for a Christmas game. £30 will put a lot of folk off unfortunately.

in the 70s, post the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars, quite a few Arab nations refused to play them, so they left the Asian federation for UEFA.

Possibly. But frustratingly, our runs of form always seem to peter out just as you can sense a bit of momentum and interest stirring with the floating fanbase...

I'm not complaining, as it's better than doing nothing and there was never a chance that Boxing Day was going to be anything but Category A. The seed was sown for that when there were queues the length of the Blackburn End for Rochdale two years ago. However, we've got to be realistic for a night game.

Our final home game in the relegation season was £10. Danny Graham winner kept us alive for Brentford - so a properly vital game. It was a 3pm kick off, nice day, and it only attracted about 14k home fans (with a sold out Darwen End by Villa). Still plenty more than we were attracting generally that season - Coyle induced drop in crowds, but no Oxford. So, I'm not holding out much hope for a Sky night match in December.

When I was a kid I'm sure the John Lewis suite was open for Sunday lunches, Mothers Day etc. There is all sorts the modern day club could be trying with the plethora of hospitality/catering we have, yet just scale everything back to cut costs is the seeming modus operandi.

They might bring a couple of thousand on Boxing Day, which coupled with some extra home fans for that fixture meant Cat A was a certainty.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/november/ticket-news-wigan-athletic-h/

I’m glad they are doing the Wigan game, it’s what I’ve been asking for, £10 anywhere, no strings. However I would wager that it just won’t sell particularly well, as it will be a December night game, live on Sky, even if it is near Christmas. A festive weekend game and it would sell really well. I just hope Waggott doesn’t use a relatively poor turnout as an excuse to not bother in the future.

So work on it. New menu’s etc. Our approach is to just shut stuff down. Fair enough, but don’t then moan about not having enough revenue streams.

Town centre club shop and cafe too...

The FORL work tirelessly to get the towns and cities outside the modern rump to fly the flag on Lancashire Day and they are pretty successful. Think I read yesterday that only Bury refused. Bury, a total quintessential Lanky town! 1974 has a lot to answer for.

Usually about 12k Rovers fans in the ground, but we are a dormant football club. Burnley struggle to attract 18,000 home fans after years in the top half of the PL...

As other club's look to constantly boost their income streams, we downsize and downsize. AFC Fylde, currently bottom half of the fifth tier rake it in with their conference centre, hotel, cafe, sportsbar, Italian restaurant. Yet, we are pretty much a shell operation. The 'Club that Jack Built', ay?

Midweek games amplify the emptiness, as probably a quarter to a third of season ticket holders also don't show. So the 11,500 'attendance' (our lowest of the season anyway), is in reality 7 or 8 thousand.

£10 for Wigan though on the 23rd. Personally think they'd be better doing it for a weekend, not a December night match live on Sky. But hopefully it will still attract a decent Christmas crowd.

Contrast that with the youth cup game of 2011, when we promoted it extensively and attracted 10,000. It ended up in the media as an example of one of England's oldest and greatest rivalries and a showcase for the passion of east Lancs fans. You can't buy that kind of PR, alas that club has long gone.

Walton was way down the list, brought in after he missed out on a few and he’s after a keeper in January. Perhaps you line up a replacement before you flog your number 1, to avoid such pitfalls, no? https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/quicktest/18061508.mowbray-explains-rovers-keeper-search-raya-exit/

It’s so Sky can split up the red button coverage over two nights.

‘First world problems’ this thread...

Venky’s still have a reputation as nutter owners, so a well timed resignation could work to his advantage on getting another decent gig at this level...

I’ve been twitter grabbed for a second time. Think our former member is confusing a fairly sustained negative view of Mowbray on brfcs with the wholly positive one he’s experienced at Ewood for nearly 3 years, despite a very poor 2019. As I said, the tide would’ve turned much quicker at other clubs.

First snipe at the fans. He has some brass neck, he’s been here almost 3 years with zero dissent pre Saturday. He’d have had it far earlier elsewhere.. “I felt, as a manager you shouldn’t criticise fans, but I felt the team needed support not anxiety. “I built the expectation this year that I wanted to get to the top six and push on. “The fact we’re falling short, maybe that’s where it came from. They deserve support, I think they’re giving everything they’ve got every week. “There’s a lot of young footballers in there who all want to be in the Premier League one day. “I think they all deserve support and thankfully we won. “I know there’s a lot of people who support Blackburn Rovers through thick and thin. “Maybe it was a bit of frustration from the terraces.” Asked if he felt a second successive victory on home soil would lift some of the anxiety, he added: “I doubt it. But probably more interestingly a hint that a resignation may happen... Otherwise it’s going to be my fault every time we lose a game, I think. I don’t want to be a burden on this football club. “I came here to Blackburn Rovers, because I love football, and this is a historic club and I won’t be a burden on the club. “If it isn’t going well, I don’t need to get booed out, I’m a proud working-class man from the north-east and I’ve put a lot into the job. “I’ve talked a lot about family and living away from them and what you give to a team by doing that and I think that’s why I still see a team that are still fighting until the final whistle, because they know that their gaffer is giving them everything he’s got.” https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/quicktest/18057490.mowbray-can-feel-anxiety-disenchantment-rovers-fans/

Indeed they do. However, forget the 80s, what should be more of a worry is that in this past decade crowds have risen rapidly at most clubs, whilst our lost decade has come at absolutely the wrong time and we are one of the few clubs to go in the wrong direction.

Of course, but can’t say I’d heard such a thing before. Good job he’s an ale can or he wouldn’t be here...