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Good following considering it’s a red button night match. It is what it is but it just proves we were correct in the summer when we called out Waggott’s daft lie about ‘not wanting to inconvenience Rovers fans in the Darwen End by moving them constantly for big followings’. They’d have needed to be moved once in all likelyhood - Leeds (and we didn’t even give them the full allocation, a full 1000 short, in fact).

Miles away from Lancashire and London/south east, so won’t be attracting our expats from that neck of the woods that make up a lot of our support at southern away days. Be amazed if we took 200.

Local lad too, may possibly depend on if he thinks Brentford can last the course...

Embedding some tweets into an article is sports journalism these days?

Obviously not, but we can’t see the ones it does, can we!

You collect pre bought tickets at the kiosks at the side of the club shop. But there’s always still plenty actually buying tickets at the old ticket office under the canopy in the run up to KO.

I am saying they are coming as kids but stop when they reach adulthood. Speculation on my account, but I bet we all anecdotallly know such young fans. More and more clubs are offering deals for young adults - indeed we used to. And as for ‘levels they are accustomed to’, we been a lower league and relegation threatened PL club for nearly a decade, good memories these teenagers!

More students in Nottingham so we shouldn’t bother? I would wager we lose a hell of a lot of teenage fans when they reach adult prices and the parents stop buying their ticket. A bridge between child and adult season ticket prices would be eminently sensible and much better than an empty seat, no? Also, there were 2,700 walk ons on Saturday, take out freebies and concesssions and it will work out nowhere near £30pp.

To answer Paul. Is £31 for a ticket on the day in the Jack Walker viable in an area like ours? A middle ground, surely?

£20 every game.

It’s what West Brom are charging in the Championship this season.

It’s an excellent idea. I’m sure we did something similar 15 years or so ago. Something on the lines of a free ticket if you went to x amount of games. Or I’ve just made it up, can anybody confirm?

Oh it will have freebies in that figure, but then it always does.

We always attract 2-3 thousand walk on fans at a weekend - just like yesterday. Of course, a few price promotions chucked in throughout a season can only help. We want crowds to substantially rise - sell substantially more season tickets. Simple as that. Hopefully Waggott has learned his lesson for next summer.

Looking through the home fixtures not on sale yet up to Christmas, I’d say only Sheff Wed would be expected to bring a good following - I.e. Category A prices. So there’s a big opportunity for some creative offers and pricing. But there won’t be any.

I was saying it 47er and it’s true. 2,700 walk ons is good for us, but it is still a low figure. Lots of other clubs have a much smaller gap between walk on and season ticket sales. Therefore season ticket sales were very disappointing as they make up 80% of our attendance. Though of course we should be lowering match prices, I mean over £30 in the Jack Walker yesterday if you trapped after 1.30pm, crazy.

9,600. Just over 2,000 Forest yesterday. So not far off 3,000 walk ons which is excellent for us, especially at Cat A. Such a shame we couldn’t have pushed season ticket sales up to the 11k mark, crowds would be starting to look fairly healthy.

Good thing about PNE pricing is it’s simple. No categories, no surcharges. £24 behind the goal, £27 at the side. We just seem to make it overly complicated, very odd state of affairs with so much supply.

From the Blackburn End the structure to my right looks like the Totally Wicked Stand. Best not give them any ideas!

At the end of the day Lenihan’s a converted midfielder. A rash tackle in the centre of the pitch is usually less risky, indeed it can actually help to stem the flow of the opposition. At centre half it can lead to cards, penalties and goals against.

Graham was an absolute master of his craft yesterday. Swap him for Rudy? Not a chance.

One of my quotes was in From The Terraces! Ive made it!

Of course it was, but it was still a captive audience, so to not have season tickets on sale, nay not even any promotion of them was an enormous own goal. There were around 18,000 Rovers fans in the ground who weren’t season ticket holders, so just to entice back a small percentage of them would have been a positive. I personally think there are a few red herrings in this discussion. Rovers fans do not turn up on a regular basis in big numbers to buy walk on tickets, they never have. So, making regular match by match promotions won’t work, or it will in the short term and it will taper off. But of course, nearly £30 today (even more with the surcharge) in the Jack Walker is absolutely ridiculous. Season tickets have always made up the bulk of our crowd, so for me we must look at how we flog more of them. 17% increases to dilute a feel good factor ain’t it.

One thing I’ve noticed on midland and southern club forums is that they constantly bang on about ‘northern shitholes’. Inferiority complex or a serious lack of self-awareness going by many of the places I’ve set foot in outside our sacred north.

Have you ever known Rovers fans pay £30+ in big numbers Ossy? I haven’t, not even at the likes of Old Trafford. So, the opposite of fickle, very consistent, in fact.