No one initiative alone does the trick but the cumulative impact of a myriad of incremental ones might...I think this is what the club tried to find out when it did the surveys earlier this season. It is an ideal topic for crowdsourcing ideas...

This sort of stuff keeps sales & marketing directors in jobs year after year...the secret is to offer an incentive that is low cost to the club but high value to the customer...so things like going in a draw for a player meet & greet, signed shirts, free children’s tickets, discount concourse food, programme subscriptions etc all could be candidates. The more seasons you have a ticket, the more entries into the draw type of thing....

Exactly what I meant ??

We need both...new recruits....then keep ‘em !

ODB we seem to have got off on the wrong foot here...you originally raised a theoretical example & I responded with a similar theoretical example where the age profiles were reversed. FWW I’m much closer to being an OAP than a beneficiary of a 25 y/o ticket...sadly...for many reasons ? i was not intending in ANY way to be sarcastic so I’m sorry if it came across that way...??

It’s a massive jump from £90 to £319...FWIW I think we should encourage the club to price more creatively. I suspect the research undertaken last season has informed this decision & IMHO its worth a try to see if it retains interest & grows numbers in that demographic. As a fan base we do seem to be prone to criticise the club for having little imagination regarding new initiatives & only ever get behind those that specifically benefit us personally. Rovers need to grow the next generation of supporters & this initiative is clearly an attempt to try something new. I would like to see them build in some kind of a loyalty reward that grows with the number of consecutive seasons a S/T is held - if this were to apply to all full price S/T holders this might sweeten the deal all round.

It was a theoretical example as was yours. I presume you aspire to live to a healthy, fulfilling & ripe old age ?

This initiative is clearly aimed at retaining the patronage of young people & to soften the transition from kids prices. The same argument in reverse could be levelled when that bloke is paying full price & you have a discounted senior citizen ticket. There is no pricing structure that pleases everyone. If season tickets were £50 each we’d then have people complaining that we have to sell all our players to pay the bills.

Looks like it...the gold/sky blue trim looks superb....struggling to imagine it looking quite as good in grey & yellow...

Couple more Umbro ones here for South American clubs. Nice collar on the Santos one. The broad stripe on the shoulder/arms seems to be this season’s template...

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Grey....the very epitome of inspiring, creative and innovative design ?

...more chance of that turning up than Britt Assombalonga wearing it...?

It is a feed so what we really could do with is a fan with loads of spare time & oodles of enthusiasm to start a YouTube account called Rovers Nostalgia say, and post them all in one feed & we could pick that up... I have toyed with it but just don't have enough time to do that & the pods as well but perhaps when I retire... !!!

One of the best quiz questions I ever set...What links these photos...? (Obviously it’s a lot easier when posed in this thread...?)

Missed this game...wedding day ?

I did a thing too with the lovely people at Along Come Norwich... https://www.alongcomenorwich.com/articles/blackburn-h-the-preview

If anybody else fancies adding... My effort to get the ball rolling... https://blueyedboy.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/no-holy-grail-but-revived-rovers-can-look-on-the-bright-side/

Brereton casts a disproportionate shadow given the fee. For us to spend so much on one player is significant, for that signing never to have nailed down a starting berth raises a lot of questions as to the logic. It’s hard to see how this one turns around, Shades of Davies & Grabbi I fear though I’d be delighted to be proved wrong. i’d cut TM a deal of slack on loan signings, I tend to think of those as being gambles on fringe players. If they come off, great; if not, you keep the receipt & return the goods ! The issue this season is that Mowbray’s best signing has been a loan player in Reed who really looks the part and became anything but a fringe player. I understand taking the gamble on Palmer (& similarly last year on Harper...) but neither worked out. Rodwell...meh...some classy touches hinting at what once was but he failed to nail down a regular spot. Not convinced he’s a centre back, unless he plays alongside an absolute beast. Chapman...always going to be one for next season given fitness. Hope rather than expectation. Armstrong worth it for the money. Think we can get more out of him. Rothwell has emerged late in the season to demonstrate real potential.

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/50147/questions-asked-of-mowbray-after-blackburn’s-alarming-dip--interview

It would appear in Rovers books as an expense

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/nottingham-forest-fans-sing-mull-2410393

I’ve said it elsewhere, hopefully it bears repeating; Rothwell I think is very similar to Rochina. A lad with abundant talent who is exciting to watch & makes things happen but at a cost...the cost being a tendency to over elaborate, to run down blind alleys & make a poor choice as to when to play a final ball. We couldn’t find a place for Ruben rightly or wrongly & we seem to be going down the same road with Rothwell. Last week at Wednesday, he made a goal & always looked to make something happen. Yesterday, the 3 subs all made bright contributions and nearly rescued a point out of what at one point looked like being a proper toasting by Villa. My observation based on TM’s radio chat last week & how he’s used him all season is that he doesn’t appear to trust him to carry out instructions. I’d be tempted to start Rothwell & Brereton every game till the end of the season to see if they can do it week in, week out & then at least we’d all have some hard evidence one way or another ready for next season. if I was Rothwell, I’d be a bit twitchy as to my future at Blackburn Rovers.

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