How many times have I read on here Mowbray shouldn't be sticking with the players who won promotion?? Suddenly some of them are good enough for the Championship. How does that work?

Love it. Great response!

The point of a poll with 10 options which are utterly unrealistic is what?

Hardly surprising as they may be in the PL next season. It would be interesting to know how many are new and how many renewals. I don't see any point in renewing five months before the next season begins. Why give a club money around four months before it's necessary?

@SydneyRover92for the best view I suggest the Jack Walker Lower as close to the centre, the tunnel, and as far back as you can get, row 14 is the back row - WO3 is probably the best you will get but there are sometimes seats in WO2. The Jack Walker Upper is a better view but I'm guessing no atmosphere these days. For atmosphere it would be the Blackburn End but personally I've never really enjoyed the view from there - the upper tier was great but that is closed now.

It's good to read a Preston fan looking at this sensibly rather than simply being insulting. Personally I have no interest in all this "plastics" or associated nonsense about how many "they brought" or "we took." It's willy waving. I and my lads went to Deepdale. We are dedicated ST holders but don't travel much. We went, like thousands of others, because it's a decent derby and good day out. Your analysis of our floating fans, plastics if you want, is spot on. Any realistic discussion about our crowd decline recognises this. Rovers, in common with all clubs, have a core fan base. People like me who will turn up regardless - for me it's about supporting the club. There is then a section of the support who will turn out for big games or if the club is doing well. There is no doubt in our PL days we attracted "fans' who wanted to watch PL football. It was easy to get in to Ewood. Where these people Rovers or football fans? Look at any big game, a big game can be defined in many ways, and the gate will increase significantly. I've been to Chorley a few times recently, I went to all three against Wolves in the cup years ago. Bobbed down for the Fleetwood match in the cup. With a bit of thought I could come up with a long list of other matches at other clubs. Does this make me a plastic Chorley fan? Of course not, I just have a passing interest in how a local club is doing. There are thousands in this position who will turn out for what is perceived as a "big" game, promotion party or to follow a successful run. You'll find this type of supporters at every club. It's one of the main reasons Rovers will not grow the support until we are once more established as a PL club. If PNE go up this season people will be scrambling for tickets. Plastics or casual fans who want to watch PNE take on the big six. I've yet to notice any criticism of Blackpool fans yesterday. Where they all boycotters, those who like a good party, casual fans who had grown tired of watching poor football? Will they all be back next week? When do these fans become plastics? Plastics? A stupid insult supporters like to throw around but consider only exist at other clubs. A decent analysis. Well done.

I'm sure our players are coached and the manager will have an agenda to work from. The difference being for me that I cannot remember the last time I read or listened to an interview with either. The exception being if Radio Lancashire happen to get Mowbray on before we get home. That aside I hear no club propaganda whatsoever. I guess the Utd Ajax game would have been great to watch but I don't have time to watch CL football on the off chance of seeing a good game. Which of course can equally be said about my weekly trips to Ewood. I'm afraid I don't understand how a football fan get by without live games. The TV version is, to my mind, totally sanitised.. As it happens health prevents me getting to Ewood on Saturday so I'll find coverage somewhere.. The difference being it's my team ...,.........

I would largely agree with @Rover_Shaun and yourself except in the case of your argument I fully agree with and understand those who have so little interest. I don't know your ages but at 64 I'm old enough to recall when the European Cup (Champions League), Fairs Cup, FA Cup etc. were special. Dark, grainy images of a rain soaked Anfield, Old Trafford etc. with exciting players I knew pouring forward in search of a victory. It didn't matter who you followed on a Saturday on those nights you'd want a Utd win. Today - I couldn't give a fig. Absolutely no interest in any of it. Why? Very simple. What used to be very special and unusual has been turned in to the mundane and ordinary. It's simply fodder sold to an audience who have little, if any, real interest. We have to listen to players, managers, commentators pontificate about the same subjects with the same answers after every single game. Not an ounce of originality in anything any of them have to say. Why should I care? In any other field if I'm fed the same old, same old week after week I eventually walk away. I'm not criticising any but basically the TV audience is being fed crap and lapping it up. Why would I want to watch 22 players running around, cheating, feigning injury, wasting time, back chatting the ref, etc. when I don't care who wins and have probably never heard of the player? There was a time when football was special and you planned a day around watching the game. Today the only special thing for me is Rovers. The rest are an irrelevance. Good friend of mine is a Stockport County fan. That's the game we discussed this week.

I've gone for "Yes" as I'm unsure of any circumstances which would stop us buying. I do though hope no one uses the current or final results of this poll to back up a discussion on ST prices. Too many unknown variables to allow a proper conclusion to be reached.

If you get stuck let me know. Keep in mind that following an accident I'm not very mobile at present. I can be outside the ground later today or on the match day around 11.30.

According to many on here this is what fans pay on the concourse most games.

All I can do is wait and see brain haemorrage but improving.

Health issues are preventing me from attending at present. I hope to return for PNE. I paid £8.70 to watch the Boro game. It wasn't a great experience. If a small, reasonable premium allowed my ST to access live away matches for the season I would probably pay for that - £50-75 per season.

Do you mean once an ST has been bought the holder will always attend during the season?? OR Once an ST holder always an ST holder? The first statement I could agree with. The second not, I know more young people who used to go in the 90/00s than still do today.

I was thinking about this season. Sold out and got stuffed 4-1.

£200 for 23 games = £8.70/match Chorley FC 2018/19 = £12/match I'm wondering which league you see us competiting in the next couple of seasons?? How much longer are Rovers fans going to keep wishing for the moon on a stick???

I thought we sold 6000+ at Deepdale at £30?

No idea if or when this may have become an issue. New messages have become impossible to open using either a Moto G6 Play (June 2018) or a Nexus ??? (Probably spring 2013/14). No other sites give these issues.

The gaps were noticeable on TV. My eldest moved seats so he could take his brother, who usually comes with me. He said a lot of regulars were missing.

Ill health is preventing me from attending at present. Decided to use Now TV to watch last night -£9. What a crap experience that was. Let's see 23 home games at £9 = £207/season. JWL ST = +/-£345. I can't think of a single benefit to watching on Sky or NOW TV if one can get to Ewood on a matcgffff76w

While the 10% figure is correct it is only a figure. If 10% of the population was attending and we added the thousands travelling in then gates would be much healthier. I believe the reality is less than 5% of the BWD population attend games.

Correct. These are the easiest customers to sell to. Do jt.

Correct. On the pitch investment has always and always be the solution.

I think it's a spurious argument to suggest because other products or business have increased prices Rovers should support that pricing by lowering match prices. Giving amoter business your profpit is the road to.ruin. In my experience the promotions which work best are reward based, 3.for 2. Buying all.my Rovers my list.in December made me feel very good and cost less than £10

That's not the case I have provided a multitude of reasons why people have not returned to Ewood. None of which you've discussed. Slashing prices only increases sales in the short-term, you only have to read the commentary of the impact of Black Friday on retail sales to find an example. Significantly lower prices has a number of consequences in the longer-term. The most damaging being it devalues the product and establishes a low price the customer views as the norm. Future effort to increase price is then undermined as evidenced by hundreds of posts on here. Slashing prices to increase sales is beginners stuff and then one learns through experience.