Mattyblue

The ‘local promotion’ rule looks as if it’s been discontinued by the EFL. I read it that they still want their £27 from the away support, so I imagine any offer will only be for a match where the away support will be minimal.

SW: "I'd like to know why people think we didn't. That was an event not a game. [Oxford] Emails from ticket sales have been followed up, contacted numerous times, with other offers, but the pick up hasn't been great. Done everything we can as a club, but many came as it was a one-off game." ‘The club did everything it could’, so that’s that then. Did anyone on here who bought an Oxford ticket get contacted ‘numerous times’ to buy a season ticket? No thoughts about pricing, season ticket or match day, initiatives for young adults etc. All sounds very defeatist, so let’s hope TM can do the business and let the lure of PL football bring people in, because obviously Waggott won’t be doing.

I’m reading a lot of; ‘Darwen End, not enough demand, so we shut it’ ’Radio Rovers wont be brought back, too expensive’ ’We need 15,500-16,000 averages to break even and we aren’t hitting it’ All undoubtably true, but anyone asking why this is this the case? Why aren’t we hitting the break even figure, why we can’t afford these things and what are they going to do about it?

Even if it’s only a hundred extra, would it not still be worth it? Plus tonight they’ll get the backing of a big crowd which surely can only help with the situation they’re in.

Don’t give them any ideas!

Plus, if Preston have a poor season they won’t be bringing anywhere near the numbers they have in the past. So we’ll end up kicking off at 12pm with a half full Darwen End and a load of Rovers fans watching it on the red button!

And Sheff Utd. My point being, at least we’ve avoided the midweek red buttons at home through winter.

5550 away fans, 3pm is fine. 6800, which is what Leeds’ initial allocation was and will be Preston’s, 12pm. Why does this 1300 make such a difference? And why was this not in place for the Man Utd cup tie? If it’s ‘safety’, then that’s that, does that go out the window because BT wanted to show it at 4pm?

At Ewood...

We’ve got lucky this season, we’ve no midweek matches between Sheff Utd in early October and Wigan in mid March.

I’ve been impressed with Williams every time I’m seen him at centre back, certainly an option, but then you’d have to play Bell at LB, who seems to be regressing.

Season ticket for the Premier League at 25% of the price.

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.