I doesn’t matter what Bolton or PNE are doing, I’m concerned with Blackburn Rovers only and I know the support and how it works. With these owners and championship football, only giving them away for £150/£200 would see big increases, as Bradford City do, £100 off will sell very few more in my opinion. Be good to put this to the test though Matty, can’t see it happening though as nobody cares enough at Ewood right now.

I disagree @47er We sold just over 9000 last season with half season tickets I think, knock £100 off and we’d possibly shift 10k. Our average gates are around 14k, with away support, the numbers don’t stack up. Success on the pitch brings punters through the gate and season ticket increases, we need promotion, not £100 discount.

We should follow the Sheff Utd model, sign millions of pounds worth of players and don’t pay for them, or refuse to stick to the payment terms, easy really.

Not sure why my post was deleted, but I’ll try again….. Last season was probably the best season we’ve had in a decade or more. Posters should keep in mind, this time last year we had no manager and 5 first team players had just left, including our captain! Ok we fell just short in the final reckoning, but we had a superb cup run and saw the emergence of several players that will see us challenge again this season coming. To call last season a failure is quite simply wrong and shortsighted claptrap. It was anything but failure and sets us up nicely for the coming season. More of the same please JDT.

Yep. Success on the pitch brings fans through the gates, regardless of season tickets sold, simple as that. Im surprised the number sold is as high as it is after Greg told the Telegraph we have no funds available to buy players….

Probably his best work in the past 20 years to be honest OjF, hope you enjoy it.

Ashes 🏏

I hope he picks all 4 options, as that sums up our fan base over the years and every other fan base across the globe.

That isn’t as daft a suggestion as it may sound, I made the same suggestion a few seasons back. The problem is then trying to charge for them again further down the line, that is the challenge. Pump £10m into player transfers, market ‘We’re all in this together’ and free season tickets for the Premiership push, one season only. Get the town and Bburn public behind it……If only Carlsberg did……

Yet Blackburn Rovers are better supported than both PNE and Bolton, which blows this daft argument out of the water, again….. I saw you run for cover when 6000 tickets went at £33 a pop for Sheff Utd away Matty, 😉

They wouldn’t sell many more Doogs unless you radically reduce the price, you’re spot on. If the product on the pitch is worth supporting, the Blackburn public will turnout, as last season proved many times, regardless of price. Its been that way since time and memorial.

I know it doesn’t fit the brief, but whilst I’m thinking about it, Ruud Guilit played 45 mins in defence for Chelsea at Ewood and the 2nd 45 mins in attack, it’s the single best performance I’ve seen by any player live in my lifetime and he was past his sell by date by that point in his career! Apparently John Carews trial in the youth team was exceptional, scored 5 goals, then asked for £1m signing on fee……Jim Furnell brought the lad in, but we turned his demands down.

Were they handing out free red bucket hats on the way in? United end full of cheap tatty shite hats.

Is it the same place that named the bedrooms Riverside, Blackburn End etc?

Sounds like Venkys shopping list 2011….add Ronaldinho to the frontline and Maradona as manager, job done……

Great goal to win the game, Barnsley should count themselves very unlucky. Made up for our mates on route back, they’ll get a real welcome as Hillsborough is currently rocking, the streets are packed!

The ref should have reviewed it Asia, but I do understand why he sent him off, especially from the angle he was at, it looked awful.

Norwood has been outstanding since he came on for Barnsley.

I saw them in Sheffield at the end of the last tour, it was full of middle aged types who talked all the way through the gig, swigging champagne in the private boxes, until Common People came on! They clearly didn’t get it……

Got numerous texts earlier from our Wednesday mates getting on the coaches at 7.30am, they've sold 44,000 tickets for the game today, Barnsley just over 20k. The comeback against Peterborough is up there with the most amazing things I think I've ever seen in football, 4-0 down from the first leg, for them get through in extra-time, phenomenal, you'd have to think they're destined to go up after that.

Brentford also did the double over City this season too, yet we have some on here who don't think they belong in the Premiership....

I once asked for gravy in a Scottish chippy and they looked at me like I'd come from another planet, I got curry sauce instead and it came in paper, no tray, leaked through the paper on to my jeans....... I've not been to a Scottish chippy since.

The players jumping around in the Lancashire dressing room after a win is getting old and cringeworthy. Celebrate wins by all means, but singing and dancing after every T20 game win, has me looking over my shoulder making sure nobody is looking at my phone.

Luton have certainly broken the mould here, 90% of the time clubs with Premiership money take the promotion places, but not on this occasion, well done to them, it shows what can be achieved, especially with them coming back from the abyss! I remember them back in 80's being in the first division (Brian Stein, Paul Walsh and Mick Hartford), a pipe dream for Blackburn Rovers at that time, they also won the league cup at Wembley beating a very good Arsenal side, so they do have pedigree. Good effort.

Holly Tree Chippy @Mattyblue, even comes with scraps! I'm starving now.......