Mattyblue

The Fernhurst Hotel and Lower Darwen Premier Inn seem to do well...

It’s now pretty much just the general managers thread, up to the mods to amend the name.

You would need to offer the Riversiders as best as equivalent available seats in the JW, as you would imagine they would want to keep a side on view. Look after them properly and most would keep going as they would know the club are being accommodating and it is just a temporary measure for the good of the club. However, behave like they have with other closures and just shut it and plonk them, say, behind the goal in the DEnd and yes you are right you’d see a load of non renewals.

Bolton would usually have seen a gate of about 1,000 for a Checkatrade game. nearly ten times that turned up, so that’s a daft game to use as an example.

Not true. Two games were moved BY Rovers last season, not a police or Sky request. The Fans Forum minutes confirmed it and they stated they won’t do it again as it led to a lot of complaints - ergo PNE and Leeds are back to 3pm this season.

It sure is, and you’ve been very disrespectful to concerned, long standing Rovers fans.

As seen with some of his silly responses in his documentary thread, I think he has a lot of growing up to do.

The club did move two games off their own back last season - PNE and Leeds to noon. They have realised that it was unpopular and won’t be doing it again - hallelujah, they listened for once. Why will April help? Because people are in football mode, those buying half STs or fairly regular match tickets may be tempted, as would wavering ST holders unsure about renewing. Wait till the season has finished and people have switched off. It ‘literally’ must make sense or all the other clubs wouldn’t bother. Dirt cheap? A game against the likes of Birmingham or Wigan costs £28 in the Blackburn End or £32 in the JW Upper (two most popular stands) and that is buying in advance. 1875 a ‘big success’? There’s hardly any bugger in it! Supporters branches are a great way of keeping fans out of the town in touch and also a good way of organising coaches etc to the ground. A good example being Darwen pubs. We had a great network of them until they were disbanded - most other clubs of decent size utilise them. A lot of those above and the other little initiatives suggested can all aid in a small way, making Ewood as accessible and welcoming as possible, by dismissing them like you do you are showing your own ignorance. Oh and it’s not ‘Blackburn’, it’s ROVERS.

Good a place as any. Official team picture. Is that the lesser spotted Coar I see next to Waggott?

Ideally Evans and Smallwood to go. Alas they won’t be going any time soon due to nice contracts (though a possibility for RS in January). So the usual way of successful teams, getting shut of deadwood and bringing in improved players isn’t really happening here , but that goes back to the folly of handing out contracts to third rate/past it players last season.

To progress on the pitch you need to keep bringing in superior players and jettison the ones no longer up to it. Simple really. So I like the sound of this move a lot.

Think Cowley has made the wrong move. Some clubs nosedive on PL relegation and that negative atmosphere on and off the pitch is fiendishly difficult to turn around in the short to medium term. Jones at Stoke is another example. Sure they’ve got nice contracts, though.

Waggott said in early August that we were just 250 behind last season’s total. And he said that with six weeks of sales still to go, so a fan reading those comments could make a fair assumption that we’d be pretty much matching last season by the time they went off sale ... obviously not. So lies from the club? https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17812362.rovers-couldnt-done-more-push-season-ticket-sales/

I’ll be there.

I’m talking about us in the PL (as you brought it up) and the short sightedness of the Walkers who gave away a fantastic football club. Someone to take over this hollowed out husk of a club in the Championship is a different issue.

On a Saturday, perhaps.

Aren’t we? I was hoping to wake up from the nightmare, Dallas style, any day now. You said the club wasn’t even sellable as a PL club, I said the PL has completely transformed in 10 years, as proven recently with an 80% stake of a mediocre club like Southampton being sold for over £200 million. 10 years ago we were sold lock, stock and barrel as an established PL club, debt free for £20 million. So just maybe there’s a little bit more interest and a market for buying PL clubs these days, what do you reckon?

Hull are a struggling Championship club so what has that got to do with the PL?

We would in 2019, the PL is unrecognisable from when the Walkers were trying to flog the club a decade plus ago.

Nothing worse than seeing someone on Facebook or wherever who you know is a big Rovers fan and his kid has a glory shirt on. Grow a backbone, man!

The Huddersfield singing section is a great example of how we could improve things, it only contains a 1,000 fans, but they are wedged in together with flags and banners creating an atmosphere that aides the rest of the crowd. Alas no such foresight at Ewood.

We’ve never got back on track from the Kean disgrace. Most clubs that come down from the PL keep the vast majority of their season ticket holders, giving the club a tangible lasting benefit from their time at the top. We crashed out of the top flight with fans and club in a civil war and lost pretty much half of ST holders in one summer, going from around 16,000 to 9,000... and we’ve never recovered.

We would need a Huddersfield pricing strategy timed right, I.e on the back of a season of real promise or statement of intent in the transfer market. Neither of those will be happening any time soon nor will the Hudds approach.

You can still criticise players after a win. You hear many a conversation in the pub or walking up Livesey Branch Road of folk saying ‘ good win, but I thought player x was poor today’ Was ever thus.

It is pushing it because that would mean we need to sell around 15/16,000 season tickets, and we will not be doing that until a) prices are dramatically reduced or b. we are promoted.