But more than 5000 doesn’t require an early kick off as we now know. The club just fancies a supposed quieter couple of hours with a dinnertime match, even though it will inconvenience a substantial numbers of OUR fans, you know the ones that turn up week in week out. It really does beggar belief and I hope it will be raised by the Fans Forum.

Good insight on the 2 year anniversary... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17451074.coach-captain-and-pa-on-mowbrays-two-years-at-rovers/ The manager’s PA said how she has worked with 9 managers in 11 years. A throwaway comment that nicely sums up the Venky era.

If he really told McGinn (who Villa fans rave about) that he would be behind Smallwood in the pecking order, that’s more than just ‘being loyal to the lads that got us up’ but a real flaw in Mowbray’s methods. You should be constantly looking to improve your side and if that means players that did a job at a lower level are moved aside, then so be it. It’s a ruthless business.

Villa didn’t sell the bottom tier, never mind the upper. Our home support is fairly static, 12,000 or so. The only movement you see is due to the away following. Kid for a quid? Must be joking! The days of that kind of offer has long gone.

The only time BB has played against a Mowbray team was against us for Forest at the City Ground when we won 1-0 (Hoban header) in the relegation season.

A lot of folk work Saturday mornings too. Unbelievable really and something not replicated at any other club from what I can see.

Presumably because the stadium manager and/or Waggott would prefer 7500 Preston fans less tanked up at 12pm than 3pm. Easier to manage. Feck the home fans. Though we used to have 20 years of full Darwen Ends a few times a season with no problem. Sums up the small time operation down there theee days.

Didn’t we lose 6 in 1992? Promotion season, going from top to outside the play off places. Speedie hat trick at Plymouth ensured we finished 6th... the rest is history!

Exactly Ewood Ace. £27 in the Blackburn End and £29-£31 in the JW upper (rising to £30 and £32-£34 on the day) tells you the club aren’t particularly interested in getting good numbers of home fans through the gate, just maximising revenue from a full Darwen End. No red button helps this, of course. But still a sensible development from the club whatever the motivation.

Reading that neither will the other daytime non Saturday 3pm games. Bolton on Easter Monday and Swansea last day of the season. I thought it much have been a change of policy from the EFL, but looks like a club decision. Sense prevails down Ewood for once!

Simple stuff really, ain’t it MCMC!

It’s similar with kits. For example, we could’ve had the new shirt on sale at the Oxford game, 26,000 Rovers fans in party mode, they’d have sold a shed load. Especially to kids. But unlike nearly every club who have them available from April/May, we usually get round to putting them on sale July/August.

Not sure I get that? We don’t ever sell many half season tickets or these game packages. However, we do sell a lot of season tickets. The vast majority of our support is made up of season ticket holders, so what’s the harm in using a longer sale period to bump up that key income stream? And if it doesn’t matter when they are on sale, why do most other clubs have their season tickets on sale well in advance of the end of the season?

Noticed a Rovers shirt and flag last night...

I’m going. Brum’s always good for a few beers, if nowt else. We’ll probably have around 1200 there which is a good effort considering the season is petering out.

I’m not sure I agree with the first statement. I’d imagine a good percentage of season ticket holders miss a fair few games every season - it doesn’t matter to the club, of course (as long as they keep renewing).

Did make me chuckle that he laugh emojied one of my posts, joining someone else... only thing was they were laughing at him!

5500 at £24. 3pm

Emnes just gone there on trial, JLo running (around) the midfield. The memories!

Oh it would. Its all about how you market it and timing. Say the plan was to do it next season, but then we collapse now till May and finish 19th then I could see it flopping. No momentum and a real downer around the place. However, we surge and finish say 7th and the club makes the right noises (and signings) for a promotion push then you’d sell big numbers.

An initial spike but it would soon wear off. The Rovers match going support has always been season ticket holder based, no real tradition in recent decades of large number of on the day tickets being sold. Cheap season tickets would be the route to take if the club really wanted to increase crowds. £200 season tickets have been proved to substantially raise crowds for similar sized clubs to us in this league.

It’s because he still doesn’t understand the fanbase and the demographics that Rovers operate in. He’s still obviously in a city mindset for a town club. A bit of success on the pitch at Coventry with an odd offer thrown in, due to their floating fanbase across the city (9th biggest city in the country) and Warwickshire, it would do the trick. It won’t here. If he did say that the club has ‘done all it can’ then expect continued season ticket price rises as the loyal core are squeezed.

Leeds don’t know what league they’ll be in next season, but theirs are now on sale (at frozen prices).

Fair play to the chadster, the proof that we are long ball merchants is hitting him in the face, so he’s doubled down, the Donald style, and branded the stats as fake news! Just because Sky like to say ‘Mowbray likes his teams to play good football’ doesn’t mean this one does. Though I don’t need any websites telling me that we pump the ball up to Graham at every opportunity, I use my eyes...

I’d say it’s more that they know they can make a quick buck from 7500 Leeds and Preston fans over the long term graft of increasing home numbers.