Mattyblue

I’m being a realist. The fanbase is the fanbase. I wish we had 20,000 folk like us, but we don’t. I wish those pickers and choosers committed to the club like we do, but they won’t. But I still want to fill seats, so I won’t cut my nose off to spite my face.

For me? No, because I wouldn’t buy a season ticket at that pro rata price if I thought it was. But we aren’t taking about people that buy season tickets. For a fella that picks and chooses odd matches at say £22, £100 for the Riverside, £110 in the Blackburn End, £140 in the Jack Walker in one go is a lot of outlay. You, like chaddy seem to forget that fanbases are made up of different types of fans. Main two being - the core that buy season tickets (or might) and those that won’t commit to multi match tickets and pick and choose games. Both types need catering to and considering we have 18,000 empty seats, there is much scope to do both.

It’s a good deal for regulars like us but it won’t attract the odd match a season floating fan. Seems fairly obvious to me, so not sure what you’re ranting about?

Exactly! So they’re not die hard fans!

Not to us chaddy no, but surely you’ve worked out by how that a lot of folk aren’t like the likes of me and you! And unfortunately there aren’t 20,000 obsessives like us!

Recruitment ay? Sure he had plenty of contacts in that area...

It is a good deal that’s why the vast majority of our support consists of season ticket holders taking advantage of said price. I’m glad they do a half and now quarter version. My point being, you are not going to get many takers for a quarter season ticket to watch a mid table team when the kind of fans that will commit to such deals are pretty much signed up already. Though we go on a good run through Feb and we may get more signing up. The floating fan is exactly that, they don’t have the time or commitment to sign up for multi game tickets, so one off games at a good price (no strings attached) are something else the club should offer.

I’ve kept renewing and what I want is more folk in the ground. 18,000 empty seats...

I’ve nothing against the deal, a quarter season ticket is a good idea, but I personally don’t think an offer that costs between £17 and £23 a match is one that will do much for a mid table side. What else could we do? Cheap one off games that aren’t connected to ‘bring a mate’ or with other strings attached. Make it an attractive, Saturday 3pm match. Though for me they can undercut my season ticket with pleasure, and they have in the past, I’m sure I can remember ‘3 games for £30’ offers in the past - bums on seats all the way for me.

Of course, just pointing out it isn’t a super deal, just a mini season ticket.

I know this is a thread to be contrary, but Alan Shearer is one of the all time great strikers in this country and we had him when he was one of the world’s top forwards. Newcastle never really had the player that we had after his injury for them in ‘97. The bloke was phenomenal. It was a privilege to see him in the colours of my beloved Blackburn Rovers and I’ll take the memories to the end of my days. So frankly anyone slagging him off can get to f*ck.

Birdy too, of course! I have him on Facebook and I always chuckle when on say a Tuesday afternoon he’ll be checking in at Norwich’s training ground for a youth game!

Oh I didn’t rate him either way.

It’s the exact same deal as the one on offer in the summer and around November/December, just for a quarter of matches, not all of them or half. We only sold about 400 half season tickets, which are often handily bought for Christmas presents. So not sure a team in mid table is going to help this offer fly off the shelves at £18-£23 a match, but hope you’re right and a lot of fans do take it up. A few wins from tomorrow and we are sniffing around the play offs before it kicks in for Preston will help...

It’s a quarter season ticket is all. Same pricing pro rata as the full and half season ticket. £110 in the Blackburn End, up to £140 in the JW upper. Good idea, but not some super deal.

To be fair to him, he was another forward that looked like a fish on a bicycle out wide, but Mogga persisted.

A ‘cult hero’ section. Get Super Atko in there!

Though there’s not really much point for ST holders, I think it is still worth it for regular match ticket buyers. I assume the ticket office try and up-sell?

The folk I go away with bought it last season due to worries about small allocations. In the end only one game didn’t reach general sale - Fleetwood. This season nobody bothered as we estimated (correctly as it’s turned out) that for no away game would demand outstrip supply before general sale. So you can only assume memberships have fallen off a cliff, especially for season ticket holders.

Carry on like we have been this past 18 months and a normal club could re-emerge. However, around 2014/15 I thought something similar, we’d put together a good Championship squad, the likes of Myers were saying all the right things. Ewood was spruced up a bit. The first game of the season, Friday night against Cardiff there was real optimism... Fast forward 2 years and they’d pretty much sold the lot and Coil was in charge. So I try not to think ahead with these owners.

Boro is ‘bring a mate for a £10’. Alas, these kind of deals don’t usually work. Especially for a TV game. We did it for Bury last season and the uptake was minimal. Better than nowt, I suppose and obviously the club will now flag this up at the next Fans Forum with as ‘look we did an offer and it wasn’t a success’. Yes, but with strings attached. Also, a £10 for 1875 members, though not sure how many of those we have left?

Category B then. Bit of pricing sanity from the club for once.

Johnno... “Throughout my career I have never known a first team manager attend so many games. So he has a real awareness of the group and the qualities within it and knows them as well as I do. We know that he will give them opportunities, we know that from the couple of years he has been with us. The carrot is there for them.” https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17410789.mowbray-has-dangled-the-carrot-to-rovers-rising-stars/

Looks like it’s Boro a week on Sunday then...

Their match thread is an interesting read. Poster Moments of Pleasure confirms what we already knew - southerners just aren’t football people. https://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/199396-how-many-to-blackburn/&page=3