Mattyblue

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.

I’m taking about if PNE only bring say 4500 instead of 7500 due to it being 12pm and red button. Having second division matches at £30 shows there is little appetite for big home gates.

It seems that non 3pm weekend matches also being on the red button took clubs by surprise this season (maybe read the small print in future!), so it will be interesting to see if these nook kick offs carry on next season.

I’ve noticed that since they’ve been brought back downstairs, away fans have now been moved from the traditional away half of the Darwen End to the Riverside half. I imagine Caley wants a 3,000 seat buffer zone between the visitors and the couple of dozen folk in the corner of the Jack Walker.

Joint most long balls with bottom of the league Ipswich (and joint least crosses).

It could’ve been an embarrassing crowd against Preston. As if their form hadn’t picked up coupled with red button coverage they wouldn’t have fetched many and we certainly won’t be selling many at around £30. And it would’ve served Waggott right. With their current form though I imagine they now will get close to filling the Darwen End.

Happy for him to stay, but the sheer volume of players out of position is reaching farcical levels for me. Bennett not a right back. Mulgrew and Rodwell together doesn’t work as both of them are converted. Reed rarely plays centrally, Brereton, well! Armstrong not a winger, though his pace can make him effective in certain games. He’s had Dack playing as a ‘false 9’. Far too clever for his (and the team’s) own good. Let’s just get back to basics for Christ sake.

Villa/West Brom 3pm last weekend. Rovers V Bolton 5.30pm at their place, 3pm here on Easter Monday. 5600 Rovers at PNE - 3pm, reverse fixture noon. What is the story? I thought it was that there was some agreement that if a club got over 5,000 tickets at Ewood, Rovers and the police agreed it had to kick off at 12pm on ‘safety grounds’. Is that not the case and Rovers have just unilaterally changed it?

The club is just consistently behind the times. From simple things like having Fosters and John Smith’s as your drink choice to not embracing the fast emerging fan culture in areas like singing sections. Areas we innovated in like radio station, in house TV all gone. The ground itself is massively in need of a deep clean. Often feels we are still operating in the 90s - but a stripped down version.

It would be a barm o’er Preston way.

You lot sang I could see that, but due to numbers in later seasons you couldn’t really be heard. Not your fault, just a fact due to dwindling numbers.