Boxing Day, so covers 12.

‘Blackburn’ *again*… in the LT of all places. Ian, put a word in, the fact it’s sub-edited from Newport or wherever it is is no excuse. (Another good read, by the way. Can you and Rich do a job share for all Rovers coverage?)

This is the pricing for a half season ticket, at a middling Championship club. Yes you read it right a half season ticket, not a full one.

£477 pro rata. Which is more than even the phase 3 price in the Blackburn End which was £449. As Mark says big hikes obviously coming next season.

Be more than that on as Pompey have sold 2,000, which is a fair following.

Surely nobody seriously does... apart from Harry Kane (and roverandout).

Is there anybody around the place at any kind of sign off level that even supports BRFC/has the faintest clue about its history?

The 150th is going to be a shambles, isn’t it…

15,000 average gates, Championship status and a Cat 1 academy despite everything this past 14 years has thrown on the battered shell of BRFC. There is still something to salvage and make thrive again for the right people, alas I just can’t ever picture a day when they’ve fucked off.

Wrong thread.

I think all three are unlikely too. But as they will never sell by the looks of it and they certainly won’t ever make a stab at running the club properly, the more likely end game of the three is some legal tangle that forces it off them… but yes, plodding on for eternity to the lower leagues seems most likely.

Where have I shown indifference or asked for administration? I’m stating my opinion on what will be the eventuality. So presumably then you think they will willingly sell or actually improve the club? When will we see any inkling of that?

Stopped following the convo when the argument was that bringing in Tony bloody Watt was part of what made it a good window.

Brfcs can’t be, but plenty of the rest of the fanbase can be/is being.

They already have in Blues Bar… when’s the next LFC night in there, by the way?

January sounding like the standard car crash then…

You downvoted my post, Paul which is odd, so what part of it was untrue? ’terrible for the staff involved… but as they won’t improve the club, won’t willingly sell, admin seems the only eventually’.

I would say there is in the Championship, one good season away from the promised land will always attract interest. (Doesn’t mean some other nefarious set of chancers wouldn’t come along, but there would undoubtedly be interest and we could get lucky).

Scunthorpe in tier 6 for example charge £20. Think fans would be in for a bit of a surprise if we ended up like a Notts County with a big stadium and big costs in non league that it would be a tenner a ticket every week.

Plenty of clubs in non league charge £20+ a ticket.

They don’t in development teams, what matters is finding players for the first team… where it is all about results.

Results don’t particularly matter. All about the odd player that will make it to the first team. If there’s a diamond in the group the rest are there to make up the numbers… and will end up on loan at the likes of Marine and eventually released.

Bit like Tranmere trying to attract a few LFC/Everton fans, pretty sure Stockport used to play a fair bit on a Friday too to try and attract the locals that were City ‘fans’.

Early 90s definitely. Stockport and Tranmere are two clubs and away days I always mix up.

That was the Souness era (think they were in the third division in the Kenny era). Had a good couple of dos in their old away terrace with no roof.