Mattyblue

Still loads of pubs around Ewood. 

Johnno went straight to the U23s (U21s then) from the U14s... he did ok.

Just now, Dreams of 1995 said:

I had my fingers burnt with my calls for it in League 1 Matty. At that point I was still reeling from the relegation and in truth obnoxiously thought we should have walked that league. Since then though Mowbrays work behind the scenes has become apparent and no one can deny we aren't a better run club thanks to him.

Look I don't think Mowbray is infallible. I think he gets it wrong sometimes, I think he's over estimated the strength of the defenders and I think he's far too critical of our younger players. He has a lot of negative points but it's getting actually boring now reading the same posters go after any single shred of positivity to come out of the club and try and tear it apart. The "suspicion" of the Johnson promotion (didn't someone actually dare to suggest Mowbray did it because he was scared if DJ carried on he'd take his job???) was the last straw.

Any time there's a criticism aimed at him that's disproven it's ignored for a few weeks and then it rears its head again when time suits. Likewise, whenever there's anything good that comes from him it's either put down as luck or him benefiting from others' work. He can do no right. I don't think this forum should be a place where he's not allowed to be criticised but I know for a fact I'm not the only poster that's sick and tired of the echo chamber. It's shown in that topics which are typically "anti-Mowbray" are always hot topics and topics which show Mowbray in another way are completely avoided by said posters.

So you didn’t want him sacked last week?

Thought you wanted him gone, Dreams?

Bit rich trying to take the moral high ground about ‘hyperbolic’ brfcs-ers that won’t see any good in TM when you were happy for him to be sacked after TWO games of the season. 

I’m sure that deduction pledge wasn’t on the article originally. Quite right they should be deducted from the cost! But 1,400 sales at this stage? Come on!

I am the last person to decry any attendance initiative. But to wheel this out just days before they are usually withdrawn from sale (after the third home game) is pure desperation and a sign of pressure from above.

Waggott obviously believed we would be increasing sales significantly this summer and he’d be hitting his target. Pure hubris from him as finishing 15th in the second tier and an average at best summer window is not going to lead to increased sales of any note. I’m just relived we’ve pretty much matched last season’s.

He’s still no nearer to understanding our fanbase.

Absolutely no chance 1400 more  people are going to sign up in late August for the standard price with the season underway and two home games already played.

Surely this should have been promoted all summer... or Waggott really doesn’t want to miss his target two years in a row. Real desperation stuff as he’ll know sales slow to a trickle at this stage.

£4.50 for any pint of booze isn’t unexpected at ‘events’ these days.

But isn’t one of the issues that they have gone up about 70p in one summer? Plus, it is the lack of variety that gives the impression of a club going through the motions and stuck in a late 90s time warp.

Not enough folk used it.

2 hours ago, nathan_rovers1 said:

Coach travel sold out... how many match tickets have we sold? 

 

We'll stuff them! 3-0

Not many, you imagine. The club has probably only put on 1 coach.

Best bit of the statement:

With so many senior players injured or unavailable, the squad has performed heroically and deserves so much credit.

What all three of them?

‘Mauled by the Terriers’ ?

Tomorrow’s game called off. Looks as if things are nosediving fast

https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2019/august/statement-on-behalf-of-paul-appleton-joint-administrator-for-bolton-wanderers3/

Two games now called of by the club themselves... surely a further points deduction has to follow?

8500 season ticket bought and a 1,000 complementaries... so 9,500 ST ‘holders’.

Great story Solihull on tiny crowds.

Just now, AllRoverAsia said:

Whenever I'm over I buy from there, never a drink or food from inside Ewood. Burgers the size of plates and as much onion as I can handle.

I don't drink pre-game or at half time or I would be in the bogs too much and hate crowds and queuing in crowded places.

No issues at Ewood then...

Just now, JHRover said:

How hard would it be to put a real ale stall up in this new 'Jack's Fan Zone'?

A temporary bar, do a deal with 3 Bs or one of the many other local breweries who produce cask ale. Provide us with 3 or 4 ales, a few barrels of each, every home game, charge no more than £3 a pint. I know for a fact that ale from there costs about £1 a pint to buy from the brewery so £2.50 or £3 a pint is more than enough to make money on. 

I'd drink a few pints every game and go there rather than the pub. I'd sooner my money go to Rovers. But I'm not being made a fool of with the prices and choice available at present. 

Other clubs are realising that tastes are a changing, but seems we are in the comfort zone and that's all there is to it.

On a bigger scale I'd like to see the redundant Darwen End lounge converted into a 'pub' for pre and post match food and drink, again reasonably priced and good quality.

Can anyone tell me what the new fan zone is? Other than 2 or 3 banners I cant see any difference to last season?

They had a chance to do just that with the ‘1875 Lounge’ last season, yet just had the same stuff on sale as everywhere else, therefore it was quickly dropped as an idea when nobody trapped.

It’s relatively simple stuff, yet there’s hardly been a new idea down there since the 90s.

As a season ticket holder, I just find the matchday prices eye watering. £35 if you made a late decision to go to the game yesterday and you fancied the Jack Walker.

Looking at it objectively it’s bloody bonkers for mid table second division football in an area like ours.

There is a happy medium to take, surely?

Doesn’t have to be a £1 a pint. But they can take a leaf out of other clubs offerings.

 £4.50 for Fosters or ‘dark fruits’ and nothing else is a sign of a club totally out of touch with modern tastes.

£4.50 for a pint of Fosters in a plastic glass ain’t a rip off?

45p would be pushing it for that swill.

Johnson is some unit. Not someone the opposition will look forward to going toe to toe with.

Along with Travis, has to be the best we’ve had in there since relegation.

I wouldn’t say Buckley looks out of his depth. Thought he showed more game nous than plenty of experienced players often do in the closing minutes. 

Just needs to develop physically.

Waggott knows he will have his 2,000 or so walk ons come rain or shine, £24 or £34. 

It is the ‘big’ away followings that brings in the cash.

Feck the locals.

Add a real ale tent, some decent food etc. Other clubs can do it. From Bristol City to Accy.

Going through the motions like we have for years.

Even without the rise it was £30-£32 in the Jack Walker, £28 in the Blackburn End. (Post 12pm - £31 -£35)

Absolutely crackers for a club like us and with nearly 20,000 empty seats most weeks. Especially when it was only priced as an ‘A’ game to fleece 2,000+ Boro fans.

Anyone paying £4.50 for Fosters in a plastic glass needs their head examining. Total lack of imagination at the club when you compare to what other clubs offer. 90s fayre at London 2019 prices.

The Fanzone Is going to be pretty desolate as it gets colder.