New 5 year TV deal signed, the clubs blinked first by the looks of it... https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11688/11558301/sky-sports-extends-efl-contract-until-2024-broadcasting-138-live-games-per-season https://www.efl.com/news/2018/november/efl-statement-efl-and-sky-sports-sign-five-season-deal/ And the red button continues, well more fool the clubs...

9th in the Championship isn’t going to pack them in, but we are struggling to get over 11/12k home fans due to the very disappointing 9,500 season tickets sold. You push that up to 11,000+ and your standard Saturday crowd is heading north of 15,000 which is starting to look much healthier and isn’t a million miles off we were under Souness in this league (pre run in). THAT should be the aim of the club in the summer and it is achievable.

Interesting, the fans charter still refers to to it... https://www.efl.com/supporters/supporters-charter/ticketing/ End of the day we never used it anyway, still doesn’t stop other games being offered, indeed the club was planning one early season and it never saw light of day...

Any match the club wants to do an offer for.

Not for ‘local promotion’ matches, EFL rules allow it 4 times a season. We would be free to charge Cat A to away fans.

Indeed, know a couple of Brig Rovers fans who would say the same.

Of course it’s a derby, Preston is 15 minutes away from Blackburn, but most Rovers fans don’t see it as the Derby.

Birmingham just announced as standard Cat B, so as I thought, nowt this year...

Local promotion? Don’t think we’ve ever used them. Though they have been used on us, the other year at Huddersfield, think they paid a £10 whilst we paid full price in the away end.

Value is in the eye of the beholder. Just because you think you’re on to a good deal, doesn’t mean others think the same. 18,000 empty seats every week and EFL rules literally spell out that clubs are free to utilise four ‘local promotion’ games a seasons, by the halfway mark of the season we’ll have offered zero. Amazing when there is so much supply, what’s to lose?

Biz - Not sure we will see any offers over Christmas due to them not wanting to dilute half season ticket sales. I would love them to do that treble deal you mention or a ‘local promotion’ offer for West Brom, as it’s NYD and our only ‘festive’ fixture, probably a big away following, it would be a great occasion, but just don’t think they will. I imagine we won’t see anything until 2019, which is most odd considering the Fans Forum were told one was planned for early season.

£19 in the Riverside? No I wouldn’t say so, £27 to sit in the grandstand, is, however. But that is the only time we’ve offered Cat C all season. Totally agree Rotherham aren’t going to pull in casual fans so that’s why I wouldn’t ever offer deals for those kinds of fixtures. I would do it for a game that will attract some interest; Preston, Leeds, Sheff Wed etc. and I’d make it a ‘local promotion’ so we can still charge top whack to the away fans, whilst making it a tempting price for casual fans to come and see a game at Ewood with a cracking atmosphere and a feel of an occasion.

It’s a pretty standard Championship price band, however £19-£27 isn’t a price that is going to attract big numbers of casual fans, which is who ticket offers are trying to hook in.

Rotherham wasn’t an offer, it was a standard Category C match with tickets costing between £19 and £27. £22 to £30 on the day. Obviously it’s our cheapest category but it isn’t a ‘local promotion’ that the club is entitled to do 4 times a season.

“He’s no better than Phelan“

Point being they are all full of Blues on a match day, so you can certainly have a good pre match sup! Plus you’ve got the Fernhurst, Blues Bar, Ewood WMC next to the ground. So it’s not exactly barren!

Comes across well. That explains why Lovejoy is now cooking on a Sunday morning!

Not looking down at Dacky, just the folk that watch Soccer AM

He’s right up the street of the Soccer AM demographic. Landan wide boy type who’s on Instagram in Marbs with the TOWIE crowd

Let’s be honest, Preston is cracking for a day on the sauce!

It isn’t for fans like them that it won’t ever happen chaddy, it would be a good idea for them, but for the many current season ticket holders who struggle to make/can’t be arsed with midweek games and would jump at a chance to save some cash by buying a weekend only ticket. Ergo midweek crowds fall massively. So, no chance.

The club will never do a weekend season ticket because midweek crowds would collapse.

Guild Ale House (next to the Guild Hall, obviously!) is s good spot too...

We will be. Another micro pub has opened across from the Corn Exchange too, Plug & Taps

Raglan, Wellington, White Bull, Moorgate, Brown Cow, Fox & Hounds.