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Just now, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:
Got to be honest. Evans can go now for me. Wouldn't be missed and gives Davenport a slot. Mulgrew had a great year last year but traditionally injury prone. Think this will be his last season for us. Hand the batton to Wharton or whichever CB we eventually bring in.
I don't necessarily disagree, especially with Evans, bloke's been largely an expensive waste of time.
However, for me, it shows that the kind of contract that attracted Mulgrew won't be seen again at the club...
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“We have some big players in the final year of their contract and for varying reasons we are not in a position to do anything on those deals because of the situation of those deals and the current cost.
In other words, Mulgrew and Evans earn big money, so no offer on the table.
We signed up the rest of the squad on new deals because they're cheap...
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Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:
At this moment in time how are we a " much bigger club " than QPR ? Have you been in a coma for the last few years ? It's like the guy who referred to Everton as a " nothing club ". They're a nothing club that can afford to spend £50 million on a player. That's more than our club is actually worth.
That's £30 million more than what another set of idiot offspring sold a Premier League club for...
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Wasn't he just 'Mani'?
Though he could just have created a new account which folk seem to like doing...
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Just now, Paul Mani said:
I went to the last game of the season at Ewood. At that moment I don’t remember a better feeling amongst the supporters, the players, the manager etc since we won the league.
Now I know you're on the wind up!
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I’d say we were in a much better position in 2014. A squad of decent players. Plus on the back of an increase in ST holders the atmosphere pre that opening Friday night game against Cardiff was fantastic. A real sense of anticipation.
However, Venky’s then did what Venky’s do, that collection of quality Championship players were systematically sold off and replaced with inferior replacements and loanees at the last minute.
So, getting out of the third division by ‘winning and scoring goals’ against very poor teams with small budgets doesn’t change anything now we are back in a highly competitive league and I see no evidence that the owners approach has changed one iota from when we last operated at Championship level.
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6 hours ago, roverzee said:
I'm happy to be corrected on two counts
1) The surcharge clearly didn't matter to any of the people who stood freezing outside Ewood on Boxing Day to get in having missed a quarter of the game
2) Everyone had clearly got the message by Oxford, because there were no queues and 26,310 home fans, who are all now fully aware they can save money and avoid queuing by buying tickets early.
Everyone had clearly got the message because it wasn’t a £2 surcharge that day - it was a £15 one!
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Yep, all last season.
To compound the completely inaccurate post, Oxford tickets went from £10 to £25 two hours before kick off so of course everyone is going to buy early!
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I think one of the reasons they do it is to get folk to join 1875 as members are exempt. The queue at 2.45pm excuse is a load of tripe.
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2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:
Really , Who cares? Lol.
Don't really understand the furore over the match day surcharge, It's common practice for budget airlines and railways and the like to make prices cheaper the earlier you buy and conversely the longer you leave it the more expensive it is.
So someone who makes a late decison to come to Ewood should pay an extra £3? We need to be encouraging folk, not putting obstacles in the way.
It is all about supply and demand surely? Airlines can do it because they will fill the seats, same as with more expensive flights in school holidays.
For us, there is little demand and lots of supply, so it is a crackers policy when there are almost 20,000 empty seats in the ground.
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Millwall ticket details announced. £3 surcharge after 12pm on matchday.
Was it £2 last season?
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Terrible marketing from the club outside the Roses T20. To consistently get considerably lower crowds than Notts and Somerset shows it.
Plus, how many members have been lost this past 5 years?
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End of the day the market is what it is. A combination of parachute payments and owners desperate for the ever increasing PL riches have transformed the league in our only short absence.
The owners either accept that and up budgets accordingly or we come to terms with the fact we will be largely a bottom reaches of the Championship club (at best).
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Clubs like Villa are too big to fail now - they aren’t too far away from a promotion team and the vast riches it brings, plus they are a big city club etc. Investors will see an opportunity for a good deal.
It happened to Leeds about 10/15 years too early.
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Putting Maddison to one side. We cannot compete with the likes of Derby and Norwich (!!!) in the transfer market these days. Crowds of 25,000 every season and thay consistently spend millions of pounds and pay big wages. The second tier has tranformed itself into a city league, much different than it was 15-20 years ago.
Doesn't mean we can't compete at this level, look at PNE and Brentford as two examples, but we aren't going to be winning bidding wars with a good number of Championship clubs
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Just now, magicalmortensleftpeg said:
Our season tickets are always cheaper than most. We got promoted and they’ve gone up. What did people expect? Guess what, if we go into the prem then they’ll go up again. We’re playing better teams and better players. I’m not saying that it wouldn’t be nice for the tickets to cost a fiver each but this is the real world. They were always going to go up at some point if we had some success.
I reckon we’ve still got one of the cheapest season tickets in the Championship. Happy to be proved wrong.
Success? A 17% increase on my season ticket (what's inflation currently?) just for returning to the level we were at before the Coyle debacle seems a litle steep in one summer to me (not against incremental rises). Indeed, if I'd have been slow off the mark and renewed my ST today I'd be paying an extra £100 on last season.
Huddersfield reduced their prices on promotion, many clubs freeze their tickets once they reach the PL as gate receipts reduce in importance to the eyewatering amounts brought in by TV deals.
JHRover produced a stat earlier in the summer that showed we are no longer one of the cheapest in the league.
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Just now, AllRoverAsia said:
Which reminds me, how is Bradley's imminent signing of a new contract coming along? He was absent from the new kit photo for a reason.
Wouldn't put too much truck in that either way.
Still remember Shearer modelling the new CIS sponsored kit on the back page of the LT in the summer of 96'... then a week later...
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4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in 2011, and we all know how the 2011/12 season worked out...
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3 minutes ago, Tugay's Right Foot said:
oh how I wish we had a Roy Keane now..
Oh how I wish we’d have had Roy Keane in 1993...
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I had a chat with John Williams about 10 years ago, he told me about when he joined the club, the board said to him 'you've got 8,000 fans'. His response was obviously 'but our average crowd is 20 odd thousand', 'yes, but the 8,000 will stick with the club through thick and thin'
That's always stuck with me (and I've probably told this anecdote before ha!), and he never forgot it either, when he saw PL crowds drop to 16,000 in the mid 2000s as some season tickets had risen towards £500, he brought in the 'Taking Back Ewood' campaign that dropped prices significantly across the board and average crowds rocketed to 26,000.
He was aware that Rovers have a limited fanbase in a largely non-affulent area in the most competitve region in the country for clubs. We've seen that '8,000' ring true this past couple of years as even the Coyle nadir and third divison still saw that number of ST's purchased. However, treading water in the Championship (at best) will not see any significant increase in sales if prices are going to head towards £400.
Waggott (though his hands are obviously tied by the owners) needs to understand the Rovers fanbase, it's limited in size (and the Kean debacle was a disaster for it, lost us half our match going fans in a single summer) and lapsed fans need enticing back through some imaginative offers. They will not pay big money for an average product in substantial numbers, they never have, well the 8,000 will...
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Think we'd sold 8k-ish at the start of the season, but a few hundred more bought the half STs and those Big 6 deals.
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Just now, Kamy100 said:
There are clubs in the championship who are spending crazy money this summer, some with parachute payments some without. Unfortunately for us this has had a trickle down effect in that what we thought would be a reasonable budget is now being stretched. The hope is that as we get closer to the deadline it will focus people's minds and deals with get done and a more realistic level.
But isn't what was a 'realistic level' 3, 4 years ago, now something else entirely? The Championship has moved on and if we are not careful we will be left well behind (if we haven't already).
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Around 9,000 sold.
Waggott still thinks they can get to their 10,500 target. Think he's very optimistic myself as you'd expect the vast majority of those interested would have sorted their tickets by now.
Maybe O2G knows more to how many are normally sold from this time of year till the end of August, is there normally a late spike?
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Another defeat.
Staring down the barrel of relegation (again).