They’d sold about 300 a few days ago. Waggott’s role is to increase turnover here and now, simple as that. Now I think that two great games to have had cheaper tickets for would’ve been New Years Day against one of the top sides in the league and a local game on Easter Monday. Big (for us) bank holiday crowds and atmosphere, great occasions, that casual fan may come back for more. However, Waggott simply looks at it as - ‘ah West Brom and Bolton’, they’ll bring a decent following - Cat A it is’. There is no thought about using attractive/bank holiday games to increase home support, but just to make a quick buck from fleecing away fans. Only problem is a lot of the clubs he’ll have expected to bring big numbers, haven’t done, which makes it even more short-sighted.

Be interesting to see how long this ‘player managed dressing room’ stays onside with top earners and ‘managers’ like Mulgrew and Evans out the side - or perhaps that’s a reason they won’t be...

Course they can. Norwich just did if for their away game at Wigan- https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/2019/march/norwich-city-to-offer-half-price-tickets-for-wigan/

I’ve accepted that there certainly won’t be any creative thinking with adult pricing. Though if they push them up any further we will start to lose fans, never mind add any - our fans are very price sensitive, as even the PL Rovers found in the mid 2000s. But what they MUST do is get into the modern way of thinking with young adult offers and singing sections. Such sections have been a big driving force of the big increases in crowds at this level - Forest having to cap their season ticket sales, Bristol City doubling crowds and so on. Will we see anything? Nah.

Looking around the Championship, ST price freezes and more deals for young people seem to be the norm. Will we buck that trend?

Paul - Audience with Mowbray in Blues Bar.

End of the day if you’d have bought 23 match tickets (including an odd offer like this) it would cost you far more than a season ticket, so it still pays to be a ST holder. But you’re right, ‘we’ve made it £15 to thank you for your support’ is badly worded as half the folk who end up buying one probably haven’t been to Ewood since the Oxford game.

Wonder if he’ll be telling Venky’s to ‘slow down’ again this summer?

QPR and Bolton are ideal games to blood a couple, both dead rubbers (I imagine Bolton will be relegated on Friday - if they can get the game on!). Plus Chapman has surely had his in-season pre-season by now and must be on the bench at least - if not there must be something in this contract rumour.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/april/special-offer-for-swans-clash/ ‘We're hoping to end our first campaign back in the Championship on a high note and we want as many fans as possible in at Ewood Park to make it a day to remember. More than 28,000 were packed in for the final game of last season against Oxford United and we want to top that this time around!’ Good luck with that!

It is. Looks like Easter Monday isn’t though. Good on the club. https://www.skysports.com/watch/football-on-sky

Great win and 1,215 there too.

JH for Director of Football!

A lot of evenly matched sides in the Football League, in contrast to the top flight.

Hasn’t stopped Steele making a nice living...

Done a cracking PR job has Lambert... It's been a difficult season, nobody can deny that," said supporters' club chairman Mark Ramsay. "But the fans are optimistic. We're looking to the future and moving forward, not backwards. "The football's been far better this season, far more attractive to watch. "We like Paul Lambert, he likes us and we want him to become the modern-day Bobby Robson and move forward with a young squad coming out of the academy."

Fine with Smallwood staying, ok as a squad man and only contracted for another season. Signing up Evans and Mulgrew, on presumably some of the biggest wages in the squad, until 2021 will be much more restrictive for the club.

The Rothwell thread is near the top, because he was very good, again. The BB thread is up near the top because he was very poor, again. That’s what happens on a messageboard.

Noticed they’ve slipped Rothwell’s cracker into the GOTS competition... https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/april/goal-of-the-season-2019/

I won’t be full of the joys of spring for winning a few dead rubbers. However, teams that end seasons badly, often start the next one in the same vein, so a potential charge to 12th can only be a positive... not a bad thing for season ticket sales either.

Stokes... quick google. Now playing for Tractor Sazi in Iran.

If BB has been brought in as a ‘wide forward’ that makes the lack of cover for Graham even more pronounced.

End of the day we’ve dodged a bullet this season due to the resilience and enduring quality of Danny Graham. His ‘back ups’ just aren’t at the required level, not their fault, they are largely inexperienced/young lads, but that’s who’s been recruited, and a bad injury to him at any point would’ve have left us seriously exposed. More experience must be brought in.

Money and saving face decisions you would think. Much easier to jettison Nuttall back to the under 23s or sell on than BB

You reckon Nuttall will make it at this level? Nowhere near for me. I would imagine he’ll be sold to a League 1 or 2 club in the next 12 months.