Mattyblue

Don’t think some people up here realise that we have a large number of southern based fans. The Rovers London Branch is probably our best organised supporters association. So that’s why we always have more fans at say Brentford than Middlesbrough.

Even the likes of Neil Yardley will say something like ‘the 1700 who have travelled from Lancashire’.

In reality I bet not far off half of the away end will be folk that live down there. 

1 hour ago, HowieFive0 said:

Yep reduced average price for paying upfront ! im sure most who cough up for the season (probably miss 3-4 games as well so that 14 quid rises ) wont mind paying  24 quid game by game knowing that their team may go bust rather than  lose 350 quid that they ve paid upfront!

 

They would’ve minded. I’ll tell you now those Bolton fans that usually walk on would largely have turned up. Whilst a hell of a lot of their long standing ST holders won’t have bothered.

We see it with cup ties. Sunderland couldn’t believe they had their lowest gate of the season for their play off semi - why? Because loads of ST holders don’t buy match tickets.

All part of the reason they won’t be £24 when they go back on sale.

Just now, HowieFive0 said:

Nope they just pay upfront for the whole season ..

Well obviously!

But £14 a game ain’t £24

Season ticket holders aren’t used to having to cough up standard prices at home...

Tickets didn’t actually get put on sale this morning...

The money they’ve spent to make us also rans in the second division. ?

‘Marginal gains’ like having 300 away fans rattling around in the upper tier instead of the lower.

Yeah real Dave Brailsford stuff that Steve 

Just now, Mercer said:

I stand by my post.

By your argument (Charlton being one of the favourites for relegation), I was fully justified in forecasting a Rovers' win and indeed they should have won!

Why bother playing football matches - just let the outcomes be determined by the bookies' odds?

Aye ok Merce!  You’d have said exactly the same whoever we had next

 ‘If you are looking to bounce back *checks fixture list* QPR/Forest/Luton/Sheff Wed/add A N other Championship team would be your opponents’

6 hours ago, Mercer said:

If you are looking to bounce back then Fulham would be your opponents.

 

Away at one of the favourites for promotion would be who you would choose?

I know these posts are for a reaction, but at least try and be subtle!

No season tickets but matchday tickets for their home game on Saturday go on sale in the morning. 

£24. £12 for kids. No sales on the day. It hasn’t gone down well with their fans...

19 minutes ago, Stuart said:

So how do we turn ‘passing interest in football / bragging rights over my mates’ into ‘watching live football even if we lose is great’?

With great difficulty.

Maybe, but whatever the reason they largely aren’t interested in the Rovers. 

Just now, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

I posted similar in the transfer thread earlier. Even the Chaddy’s of the world seem really peeved at the now infamous ‘defenders are coming line’. Funny how it’s only since Charlton bagged a couple against us though. To think some folk in the summer were peddling the ‘we’ll be fine with a new keeper and Johnson operating in front of the back 4’ line.

Indeed. I was deemed a football ignoramous because I didn’t appreciate the ‘game management’ of our new midfielders.

Even the LT below the liners are on the turn...

1400 sold so far. 

It’s a nice place for an away, but a good following nevertheless less at £30.

Without doubt. As said before, the Asian community are football mad these days, so it always annoys me when people just say ‘nah they only do cricket’.

Completely wrong, ‘they only do Man Utd and Liverpool’ is the issue. 

Just now, Harry The Bass said:

I’m more used to debates when something more than a simple question comes back.

It wasn’t just down to Farke either, let’s not forget Norwich at the time; a well supported, recently relegated and expensive squad. 

More to invest, more continuity in design, owners likely using a far better model.

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Yes 20,000+ gates. However, they were on the verge of administration when the club pivoted quickly to the new approach and received immediate dividends.

The Championship is a constant churn. No time to ‘build’ as players quickly go over the hill - Mulgrew, or leave, Dack after this season? Young players that are brought in just don’t develop and on it goes, you chase your tail. Ergo successful clubs are usually signing up players that know the division or go abroad for bargains.

Waiting years for a scouting set up? Fine, but don’t expect much progress.

Just now, Harry The Bass said:

I don’t know, why are you trying to trip me up?

The point is, it’s not simple. I don’t know Norwich’s setup but I’d assume they had a recruitment system for talented managers too.

Not like our “whoever’s agent gets to Pune first” setup.

Trip you up? It’s called debating, the point of a forum, get used to it!

So it wasn’t just because Farke knows Germany. The Championship is a fast moving division, teams move and rebuild quickly. No time for ‘slow builds’.

We work at a snail’s pace and we will forever be also rans as a result.

Just now, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

For my own sanity I've accepted we won't be going up this year. I knew TM wasn't the man to take us up before the transfer window but hoped he may pull it out of the bag with a couple of defensive signings ready to slot into the team. Instead he's ignored the glaringly obvious and it'll mean another year of treading water. In truth that's probably all we can hope for with our appalling owners but it still hurts. Football goes in cycles, I just hope I'm still interested when they slither out of town. 

Surely nobody actually expected us to be challenging this season? 

Nowhere near enough improvement from a team that were 15th last season.

Just now, Harry The Bass said:

Great example of a manager coming in who knows the league’s he wants to buy from.

Expert on the Danish league too, was he? 

Just now, Harry The Bass said:

If you’re going from nothing to a substantial setup, it would take 6 months alone to recruit staff. 

The expensive analysis setup that Southampton use came from years of investment and continuity above their management setup.

Weve rebooted and cleared out 5 or 6 times in the last 10 years, and I can’t help but chuckle when others think that would be the solution to immediate improvement! 

How long did it take Norwich to change their approach under Farke?

Their fans seek to think it will be a pay on the gate job on Saturday. Some logistical operation that with no staff, with presumably a fair few Coventry rubber neckers trapping up too.

Wonder if there will be a surcharge? 

My dad always says we had a better side in ‘70. Alas an injury to Gordon Banks and the rest is history...

We’ve had many a manager that have taken poor form into a new season. I won’t mention the bald one as I’ll get the ‘YOU CANNOT COMPARE OUR TONE TO HIM!’. But Souness, Kidd, Hodgson, Mackay, Harford off the top of my head.

Want him sacked or just worried, opinions don’t just reset because it’s August