2013/2014: £149 for 13 games, so £11.50 a game. 2018/2019: £179 for 11 games (in the Riverside), £219-£249 in the Jack Walker Upper. So £16-£22.50 a game

Shows that it isn’t just ‘negative’ brfcs then?

I’m all for that!

The centre is great for boozers, so just don’t wear colours and have a reyt good sup!

Considering the FF advised the club to get around the surcharge furore by calling a full price match ticket (but bought before 12pm) ‘an early bird discount’ or whatever it was, I won’t be holding my breath...

Any kids now at Peel Park primary (and kids in the rest of Accy, Rishton, Ossy, Great Harwood) will be given free tickets and shirts for Stanley instead with Rovers nowhere to be seen. 18,000 empty seats...

We are in the country’s busiest region for professional clubs and there are three others within 10 or so miles. Within east Lancs we have a PL club and a club like Stanley offering something different, ‘authentic’ what ever you want to call it. The club has got extremely complacent and unlike Burnley who can afford to, with our limited fanbase, we can’t and we need to get proactive and fast.

He seems to like a big occasion. Wigan at Ewood last season, Leeds t’other week.

It’s like when Newcastle take 3,000 to an away game ‘what fantastic , passionate support, they deserve success’ Why are any of those fans more passionate than say the few hundred Carlisle or Exeter fans traipsing massive distances to watch their clubs? They’ve spent decades watching fourth tier plodders too!

The fall out continues https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46282792 ‘A number of clubs have said they were not told about the EFL decision to allow Sky to show 'non-TV' midweek games on their red button service. The EFL is equally forthright in its view that they were. The disparity suggests the communication was not delivered effectively.’

£10

https://www.pne-online.net/forum/forum/football-forums/pne-discussions/3404078-when-the-rover-s-fans

That was the fan on the forum, think he then tried to sue the whole forum.

Oyston attempted it, he dropped the case in the end.

I assume it all fits in with the model the club now seems to operate by. Be it Armstrong, Brereton or an academy graduate.

I’m just musing generally, can’t say I’ve looked too deeply into this particular case.

So much money swirling around and a lot of naive people. The spivs must rub their hands, it’ll be like the Wild West.

There’s 3 people on my Facebook, Rovers fans, or so I thought. All three are now at Stanley every game, plus some aways. One of their little lads is decked out in the kit. You’d never know they ever were Rovers fans. Bizarre, but it did unnerve me slightly...

Think there’s been a fair few games this season where there has still been under 2k Stanley fans in the ground, and a fair few of those will be Rovers/Dingles fans just taking in a local game, so we shouldn’t over egg them too much. But certainly an upwardly mobile club.

Did he? For actual matches, not 20% off a pie? Thought he just posted half season tickets (that are more expensive than last season) and a standard match ticket for Rotherham? They aren’t special offers.

Hyndburn is just a local government construct that happens to have its HQ in Accy, many towns and villages of that borough have been Rovers heartlands since day dot. Rovers shouldn’t simply recognise it as Stanley territory and should be in those schools just as much as any that happen to fall in Blackburn with Darwen. However, fair play to them, the powers that be at Ewood needs to take a look at the job Andy Holt’s done at Stanley.

Largely agree Paul. I think you have a great point about the non Blackburn based support. With the demographic changes that the town has seen, our support base is stretching further and further out - we don’t keep them in the tent and the club will slowly wither on the vine. I imagine a much higher percentage of the database contains addresses with non BB1/BB2 postcodes then it did 20 years ago. I will now bang my drum again. The £3 and general match by match pricing are not the main issue (as unnecessary and expensive I think they are for second division football), we are attracting the same amount of walk ons as we always have. The issue is we are not selling enough season tickets, the backbone of our support for years. We increase them, we increase crowds Over you to you Steve...

Read in the Telegraph a few months back that since it’s refurb the Longridge cinema has been struggling. Use it or lose it!

Surely there has to be better ways of managing staffing levels, than whacking a 12.5% extra charge on supporters? 18,000 empty seats...

I do enjoy these insights into Chaddy’s life. Like Brfcs Through the Keyhole