Mattyblue

I agree, very hard to read, unless it’s dear and then we just don’t pay it in large numbers as a fanbase, we never have I think the way they worded it tells me that we haven’t SOLD 2,000+, though I’d love to see it. We’ll see when they announce it on Saturday

So you agree then mark? We haven’t ever sold 2,000+ tickets a £40. We struggled at Bolton at £30! As I said, we took 1400 to Yorkshire on Boxing Day at twenty odd quid 2 years ago. It’s not about calling people liars, just knowing the Rovers away support.

I just can’t see any way in which we’ve sold over 2,000. The closest comparison was the 1400 or so we had at Barnsley on Boxing Day a couple of years back, and it wasn’t 40 quid! It says ‘only a few hundred remain available’ not that we’ve sold 2,000, which I imagine if we had the club would be shouting from the rooftops to all those ‘how many have we sold?’ tweets they get. Though happy to be proved wrong and to see a proper Boxing Day following.

The game is now on UK ifolllow at Leeds’ request, due to being a sell out in home areas...

Or a decent offer...

Err £20 for Norwich! Can’t wait to see the queues on Saturday! (The collection queue that is, or they’ll be paying full whack with surcharge!)

“We told the club to market the surcharge by saying standard prices are a ‘buy early discount’ “ Still can’t get over that.

NYD would have been ideal for us to offer a proper deal. However, as it’s the mighty West Brom, Waggott has made it Cat A, on the assumption they’ll be bringing hordes he can fleece. Alas, they won’t, they’ve sold around 900 so far. You make it £15 anywhere in the ground, we’d sell a good few on a bank holiday and I’d imagine they’d fetch plenty more too. Be a good occasion, but no make it around £30 and have the usual 13,000.

A few may be back home making a long weekend of it, but I’m sure the last Saturday before Christmas has traditionally not been a well attended match, so the £20 may slightly boost it, but that will be about it.

13,000 home fans tops, I would imagine.

Then he can expect a sizeable fall in numbers, as Rovers fans will just not turn up at c£400 for mid table second tier football.

I’m taking about this thread where you said it was an exceptional summer. If in your opinion, it was, because you expected to sign journeymen free transfers etc, fair enough, but it wouldn’t be my description.

So ‘potentially’ exceptional then?

The fact you had low expectations in May doesn’t make those players ‘exceptional’ signings.

‘Exceptional’ business in the summer? Not one signing is first choice and they can’t displace players freshly out of League 1...

I’m all for this young English player route, eminently sensible. However, many of our top/established players are the likes of Mulgrew, Graham, Dack (25 next week), Bennett, Evans. Experienced pros. We can’t approach every window with this ‘jam tomorrow’ method. Biz - you said yesterday that you’d be happy to ‘buy players like Armstrong, Davenport and Brereton every window and we’ll develop a team to good enough to fight for promotion in a few years’. We buy players like those 3 every summer and I’ll say we won’t be. Instead we’ll be constantly chasing our tail, as some of those young lads develop, some just don’t and the actual top players we have simply move on.

Looks as if he’s on the same page as negative brfcs again... TM: “I want to get #Rovers to the Premier League as soon as I can. We do need some help along the way to be able to win every week. I’m sure the fans go through every game and see the points we’ve dropped this season.”

Indeed. End of the day I’m not particularly bothered. All that matters to me is that the club moves hell and high water to try and improve season ticket sales this summer. This survey at least shows some realisation on their part that more needs to be done.

Fair enough, we obviously come across different people. But the club themselves have said it too. I agree, Derby, Boro, Swansea, mainly Ewood goers. Preston, Stoke, West Brom, definitely more than ‘tens of people’ that don’t attend Ewood and I’d imagine the club’s database backs that up.

There is! For a standard 3pm away game in the north or midlands there will be ‘many’. I know loads, plenty of other posters know loads. I’m surprised you think that it isn’t the case?

I would assume it will be because Leeds expect to sell out home areas before match day...

£13-15 million. What can you do in this daft market ay? Going rate for promising teenagers. I mean if you wanted to buy players performing at the very top level, like a Shaqiri, theyd be miles out of our price range, costing... oh!

Home support is up by about 1300/1500 on the first half of last season, couple that with generally larger away followings and the average crowd will probably end up around 14/15,000 which will bring in some extra income. But in reality it is all buttons in comparison to TV income. The club will never, ever ‘wash its own face’ outside the PL. Well it could, but it would not be with the league position or infrastructure the club currently enjoys.

The way I see it is Mowbray knows the score at this level, he knows where we are lacking and the type of player we need to improve. I just do not see him wanting to spend 7 million of precious funds on an unproven teenager. How this transfer came about is a mystery to me. Is it because Venky’s will only release cash for young English talent, i.e sell on potential? This summer’s transfers suggest so. Was it a case of spend it on BB or lose it? If that’s the case and ‘there’s more where that came from’, then fine, I suppose. But 7 million on 2/3 proven pros could have seen us right up there in a wide open league, instead we’ve bought ‘potential’, that yes, sometimes works out a treat, but often these lads just don’t kick on like people hoped. It is a hell of a gamble for the modern day BRFC, so lets hope it’s the former for our and this ‘project’s’ sake.

Brereton has offered nowt thus far, but at 22 years old, I would say Nuttall is crying out for proper ‘mens’ football, so get him out on loan in January.