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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

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.