Course I have.

*£24

Obviously not a Rovers invention, but early bird what a load of BS. One price until they go off sale and market the feck out of them, pretty simple really. Here, a few social media posts and that's that before they whack them up 80 quid.

How many people do you *actually* think are ‘boycotting’ because of the owners? It’s been a minimum *12 years* since gates fell off a cliff, these ten thousand folk are still patiently waiting with their cash in their pocket? So they sell, but tickets are still priced at what they are, we are still a bottom half second division club, but gates still boom because of this army across the water?

Depends where you sit here too it’s £450 in the JWU, £555 by the 22nd July.

They’re free. Their adult is £294, (which is a slight increase on the year before from £280). So actually £588 for a family of four.

In the cheapest stand it would be £594 at PNE, £744 at Rovers.

Burnley is a red herring. They are keeping hold of the PL fans (as most relegated clubs initially do, unless you are the kind of shambolic club that decides to keep on a certain toxic manager on relegation, of course) especially when they only have under 19k home seats, so demand v supply and that FOMO that just doesn’t exist here with such a vast supply. PNE and Bolton are the only evidence you need.

So totally random then that PNE suddenly hit figures not seen for sixty years, weird. You keep coming out with this, MB, but thousands aren’t staying away because of the owners, crowds remain static because we are an average second division side charging £350-£450 (so I suppose it is because of the owners, as the said average second division side charging that is on their watch). Either substantially reduce prices or get it right on the pitch - preferably both. But as this regime will provide neither, static it will remain.

You try to be rational and think that this can’t go on indefinitely. But it’s already been FOURTEEN years, which is far longer than any other remotely sane owner would have stuck it out. These just aren’t normal people, they are like nailing jelly to the wall and I honestly can’t even imagine a day where BRFC is once again thriving under engaged, driven owners.

Last term was their highest average attendance since 1961. How did that randomly happen last season do you think?

How many other clubs on there have their ground c60% empty week to week? Supply and demand. A club with up to 27,000 home seats to play with should be much more creative than say a Millwall who only have c17,000 tickets in home areas or a Luton with about 9,000. In typical Swag/Suhail fashion it was the usual half arsed approach - they reduced them, but not by enough for anybody to particularly take notice, certainly when it comes to adult pricing. So the dial won’t move, but it will probably see us avoid a calamitous collapse and everyone will hit their targets. Bonuses all round 🎉

The ‘golden generation’ were individually quality players but just did not gel as a group, club cliques all over the place and/or mismanaged, I.e Scholes. One thing Southgate has excelled at is creating a ‘club like’ mentality.

Unbalanced due to the defence. But then again it’s not a vintage era for European sides, France aside.

Fiver a ticket from memory. Fulham fans out of sight in the corner of the DEnd Upper. Warm day, big win, Ewood looked a picture. An average crowd of 26,000 that season (pretty much what we had in 2009/10, just months later BRFC was sold) . The damage these people have done to this football club.

I’m the last one to defend the commercial operation of this club, but isn’t it just standard that away tickets go on sale with three weeks to go? So presumably back end of this week.

Capello was terrible, completely not cutout for international football. Has he done better than Sven? I’d say so. But in reality he’s managed to win a game more in tournaments than Sven managed. Like I said time will tell with what the next manager does with such a talented crop.

Time will tell on Southgate. Is getting to the business ends of tournament a sign of a good manager in itself when he has been blessed with a very strong set of players? If his replacement goes and wins the lot with them then he obviously was kept on far too long. However, if the new bloke does no better/worse than maybe he did have some qualities, certainly he has transformed the vibe in the camp and has created an environment players want to be in, which is very important at international level - the days of Liverpool/Man Utd cliques for example have long gone.

Darlo FC have long left it. A lower league rugby club uses it now with gates of a few hundred folk rattling around it.

Because he’s an FA blazer to his bones. You’d imagine the ‘ethics committee’ or whatever would give him a job for life if they could.

Plenty. Far more cash is thrown about for a start. He had a long contract. You don’t bundle him straight out the door to a middling club who is offering a pittance…but of course the disgraceful owners gave us no choice.

It’s not even a debate. It’s dead simple - it’s the only price he could’ve gone for with the seller being a distressed one. So I suppose it’s ‘value’ then.

Couldn’t care less who they play as long as they are a decent standard to help the players get back up the speed. Get fit, don’t get injured is all that matters. But it just amuses me that it’s the same 4/5 sides year after year after year. Though to be fair we can’t be letting the club secretary organise anything more complicated, they may end up playing Wigan Warriors by mistake.

Obviously a decade in the wilderness has meant a lot of folk on here have forgotten what a top player looks like.

What-ifs of course, but always wondered what Jack’s plan would’ve been if we had gone up in 1989. Would he still have bought the club in ‘91, or earlier? Or carried on with the bits and bobs of investment he made in the late 80s?