Mattyblue

The ‘I wish I was in La Bombonera type’ sounds very niche.

The reign of terror in a nutshell. From an established Premier League club who were cup semi final and European football regulars when they rocked up to now targeting staying out of the third division.

Yep. All three. End of the day they wouldn’t be doing the checks if they hadn’t have made a complete mess of adult pricing. Obviously a lot of put out people down there.

I’ve no issue with the checks, I paid full price so should every other adult. Obviously the club (Swag) are smarting that they’ve lost revenue/not hit their bonuses due to only 4,000 adult STs being sold, part of that looks to be due to discounted concession tickets being bought instead. Just the tone/style of writing amused me, like it’s been written by an angry school prefect.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/october/21/ticket-checks-to-continue/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1KMEIrYD3g3h6zDy6q1d3hLGhJB0HSS-a3y_gFgFF0noB7GyQx43_MHtA_aem_EZRortDb8RlOrhg9cfOzFw Of course the club should try and crack down on this, but is it just me or does the language in that article seems slightly (amusingly) OTT?

Which is exactly why Bolton have sold so many. If they’re priced at £240 to £299, but you might not be able to make a fair few games through the season for one reason or another, you’d consider buying one anyway at that price. However, if it’s £350 to £450 (and that’s just the early bird price), then feck that if you struggle for midweeks or you’ve realised just how many will be on TV.

I don’t think Hedges gets anywhere near the scrutiny Dolan gets. Especially considering he’s 29, not 22. Dolan is a credit to himself for building a career at this level from the scrap heap.

Odd the scrutiny TD’s performances get put under every week. Yet the likes of Hedges et al barely get a mention and they aren’t exactly pulling up any trees. ’Didn’t even stand out at Clitheroe’ being the latest. He’s a decent Championship player, doing a decent job.

It’s both. We are in a small, deprived catchment area but have a CEO charging top dollar. The answer, of course, is adult reductions, but that ain’t happening so third bottom of that particular league table will be how it will stay.

Obviously isn’t ’regardless of price’ as we’d sell plenty more if cheaper as we all know - and you do too as you banged on about cheaper prices being needed all summer.

Badly worded then, SG, nothing ‘bad’ about our support, just the fools running the place trying to charge the prices they do for middling second division football in a town like Blackburn.

The explosion in the number of dodgy boxes/firesticks says plenty don’t agree.

I know we are but I refer you to my previous answer.

Third lowest gates doesn't make us third worst supported. This is a small town in a sea of city/region clubs.

That’s exactly arbito’s point. How did those clubs get to the PL? By accruing points, and their rewards are those untold millions and millions. It’s all about getting enough points to get to, and then to stay at, the highest level your club can feasibly operate at. That is professional football.

Who said anything about filling Ewood? You’ve moved the goalposts to another ground somewhere. We rarely filled Ewood in the good old days, so of course we wouldn’t in this league. But it is undoubtedly true that you sell more tickets on the back of winning matches, not due to playing ‘good football’, not sure how it’s even a debate. Of course the by-product of winning plenty of games is that football usually becomes ‘good’ anyway as the players perform with more and more confidence.

It really does. You honestly think that if we are still top 6 from Christmas onwards walk ons won’t increase? If we finish in the top 6 after winning home game after home game ST sales won’t increase next season? Of course they will. That’s how it works.

It is the case. You are winning matches every week walk ons increase, you are winning matches every week ST sales increase the following season, that’s the way it is, that’s the way it will always be.

Not the case, winning football is what attracts crowds. If you can win with style even better, but it’s a team at the top end of the table that gets momentum building in the fanbase, that leads to more walk ons, that leads to more ST sales the following summer. Alas, we never really get said momentum as we fall away in the second half of every season.

Don’t most non parachute teams at this level play pretty averagely?

To be fair UD rowed back from Britain being ‘allies’ of Germany in his subsequent post.

Just think when you have a group of lads, 18 years old etc going on their first big away day. Cracking day out, plenty of beers, good win at Stoke or wherever. But one of their pals miss out because he’s an armchair Liverpool ‘fan’ and ‘Rovers and the Champ are shit’. No mate, it’s you that is having the shit football experience.

Considering he’s a year older and playing in the fourth division I’d say not.

Only 2 pages because the constant international breaks for a non-competition keeps halting the momentum for the actual football season.

The ground was built for an elite Premier League club in a small town, not a middling second division club in a small town. Not a lot else to it.