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18,000 Dingles at t’Turf yesterday, that’s for the Premier League and on the back of their best season for 45 years. Goes to show our current 12,000 or so home fans we attract after the decade we’ve had and for a current mid table Championship side isn’t terrible for a club with our demographics. It is just magnified by the size of Ewood. We need to start by pushing that 12k up to say 14k and on it goes. Big summer ahead.

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I didn’t. Birmingham next.

Too much Bordeaux obviously.

Bored you to death. Indeed it did and here we are.

Me. We had a team of quality players and I watched my town club with little money as an established PL club. After the near decade we’ve had, such statements still amaze me.

??? Two completely wrong statements.

For the first time since John Williams, to me the club seems a much more professional, joined up organisation and I am more than happy to give Waggott and Mowbray all the praise in the world for that. However, for fan experience there has been nothing, well stuff has actually been taken away; Darwen End, Radio Rovers, shoddy programme etc. Indeed has there been anything since the fanzone was set up outside the Blackburn End about 8 years ago? To me Ewood is a very stale and neglected looking place. Luckily 18 months of winning matches at Ewood has made it moot, because at the end of the day it's all about winning games of football and we all skip up Livesey Branch Road at 5pm. Other clubs are embracing fan culture - singing sections, craft ale bars and on it goes. Look at Stanley, there's less than 2,000 of their fans at matches, yet they have well organised displays in the Clayton End and a real connect between the fans and the board.

Oh yeah! I obviously don’t get many requests ?

Don’t leave your possible 3 new friends hanging Dave!

Most people get behind him. A few loudmouths don’t.

Every player, especially a struggling player will get some verbals from a few folk in the crowd. Always have, always will. Even future title winner Jason ‘Handbag’ Wilcox used to get a load of it from the Riverside in his younger days. From the vast majority of the ground, BB has been given time and support - much more than Kevin Davies did, for example.

Total hatchet job with the editing.

4 million for Wil Grigg?? The bloke has hardly scored a goal outside League 1. How much is Dack worth?

Sales have risen, but only to the level we were at before the appointment of Coyle, as that summer saw the largest number of non renewals since relegation from the PL. So just a reversion to the mean, perhaps

You make Bristol City a tenner next Saturday (or any other game that isn’t a promotion party or pivotal end of season game) and there won’t be anywhere near 27,000 there. But there would be a decent increase, especially when the team is on an upswing like at the moment. Surely those extra folk can help roar us on into the top 6? So it was a unique set of circumstances that day. However, that doesn’t mean it should be Oxford and then nothing at all the season after. 18,000 empty seats every week...

Aye, didn't he come in at the same time as Nathan Blake? Then Ashley Ward not long after. Premier League champions to that in 4 years

Players are now talking about crowd numbers. Obviously part of the club's messaging at the moment. Rovers form on home turf in particular has been excellent throughout Tony Mowbray's reign as manager, and with the rest of the season promising to be an exciting one, Bennett wants as many supporters on board to enjoy the ride. “I think back to last season when we played Oxford at home and it was an absolutely amazing atmosphere," he added. “If we can get a few more people back then that would be brilliant. But the ones that do turn up really back us to the hilt and they can see what we’re trying. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/january/get-right-behind-us-urges-bennett/

Is it just me that couldn’t care less if they once played for Burnley? They are our arch rivals and I hope they get liquidated, but players? Actual Dingles like a Jay Rodriguez, yeah I get that. But say a Southener who happened to pass through them at one point, who gives a feck? Always makes me laugh at Ewood, ‘booooo’, hmm why they booing him? *quick wiki check* ‘5 games on loan at Burnley in 2009’ I mean, come on! (though great obscure knowledge!)

Not bothered which one of them goes out. But it means that only 2 of the top 6 will be in the quarter finals (at the most). Great for the competition.

2 and a half year deal. On the short side for a 21 year old, his injury record putting the club off a longer one?

Totally agree, we've lost a shedload of fans and it is going to be fiendishly hard to get them back. However, disagree with the bold, the majority of clubs in the top 5 divisions are getting better gates than they did 20 years ago, many substantially so. A look down the average attendances in this league in when we last won promotion shows just how much crowds have shot up across the board. We are one of the few clubs that have gone the other way, and we know who to thank.

I personally don’t think £400 is outrageous, it’s what PNE generally charge, as an example. But I’m a fanatic who spends far too much time obsessing about all things Blackburn Rovers. For others, I do think psychologically when prices start hitting £400 in the BBEnd and head towards £550 in the JW upper, a good number won’t renew. 2003 to 2008 backs up that view.

Just a hunch on my part. The club increased sales on the back of a feel good factor, may have been more if they’d have been held price wise. But who knows. We are only back at the level we were pre the Coyle appointment, so nothing to shout about. But if prices head get towards £400 in the Blackburn End and £500+ in the Jack Walker upper I think we’ll have problems retaining what we have now, nevermind further increases. Rovers fans are very price sensitive. Don’t forget, the reason ‘Taking Back Ewood’ was launched in 2008 was to try and reverse the big drop in crowds between 2003 and 2008 - a drop largely due to ever increasing prices and that was for an established Premier League outfit full of quality players and everything else that comes with being in the top flight.

We’ve now got 10,000 season ticket holders. Which isn’t far off 2,000 up from our last season in this league and last season. As a result the home crowd is around 12,000 fans each week instead of 10,000. It’s a start, but it shows that the only consistent way to raise crowds is increasing the season ticket holder base (promotion aside). Up to Waggott to try and get the offer right this summer. Another £50 on the cost won’t do it...