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[Archived] A Break With Tradition

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Double good news for the troglodytes

£2m refund on season tickets.

I wonder if they took out insurance on the offer. A furniture store in Boston does a promotion every year where anyone buying over a certain amount in April gets a full refund if the Red Sox win the World Series. They've had to pay out twice in the last 5 years, but buy insurance on it every year, so it doesn't kill them.

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Basically says Rovers have had the biggest average gate every season in the last 30 except 1986 when PNE shaded it and 1983 when the dingles got ahead.

So much for Rovers fans being called plastic or only here because of Jack Walker when we are talking relative to the neighbours' attendance records.

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It's perfectly fair for a club CEO to complain about such traders taking money away from a club.

If people complain about advertising and club merchandising in football it's partly because of these types to some extent. If clubs are to rip off fans I suppose they would rather it be them profiting than a bunch of pirate sellers.

As long ago as September 1976 BRFC's commercial manager (K.J. Cafferty) was complaining in a club programme about pirate sellers...

"Today as the BRFC team run out, we will see a sight that is going to become commonplace on soccer grounds the length and breadth of the country. I refer of course to sponsored track suits, whereby companies not only support a club on a local geographical area but do so on a national basis, using the media of our beloved sport as a vehicle for promoting their wares."

"I know that some people are opposed to this form of sponsorship but it must be remembered that no business can be run profitably on an average 2 and half hours per week, and that football is now a business. This has not only been determined by the lifting of the maximum wage, but by the exploitation by many other services who have capitalised on football to make nice fat profits for their respective companies without consulting the clubs."

"We had a recent example of this at Ewood when prior to the League Cup 1st round 2nd leg match pirate programme sellers were active outside the ground, and some supporters were duped into buying an inferior and unofficial publication. This despite our pre match press advertisements which inform the public that official programmes are on sale only inside the ground."

"A similar operation took place with regard to the popular satin banners which can be seen being hawked by street sellers. They may be a bit cheaper than the one you buy in your club shop, but they are most certainly in most cases not in the same class for quality, and if it rains all the colours run, and you can't take it back and complain, or obtain your money back, because the 'bird has flown'. These, as much as many other reasons, is why club's are becoming 'sponsor conscious' and we are extremely grateful that companies should wish to use BRFC as their advertising vehicle, and pay handsomely for the privilege of doing so. You may not agree but it is one way of helping to balance the books, the alternatives are that a club goes to the wall, or the supporters pay more through the turnstiles, and that way everybody is a loser."

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Owen Coyle was on the radio earlier saying how Bumley, a town with only 60,000 population, were taking 36,000 to Wembley.

Wrong on both accounts then Owen.

Each time he speaks the population goes down and the support goes up to enhance the figures, typical burnley @#/?.

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Owen Coyle was on the radio earlier saying how Bumley, a town with only 60,000 population, were taking 36,000 to Wembley.

Wrong on both accounts then Owen.

60,000 huh? Anybody got Owens email address? A few facts that wiggy found here might cause him to ponder his sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prima...d_by_population

http://www.citypopulation.de/UK-UA.html

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Dingles on football focus now..Talking about their glory years in the 70's when they got to a cup semi-final and finished 6th in the league...Yeah, real glory. Wish we were as successful as that!!!

Yeah, just showed a long hoof up field to Hankin to head in, god those players looked slow. Did you notice the empty gaps in the terracing in the bee Hole end :rolleyes:

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It will be 60k going to wembley and 36k population next

Talking to fellow Dingles recently it's fair to say not one gives a solitary f**k about how many people live in the town or how many people are going to Wembley, or indeed how many went on t'Turf in the 70's. How many go to Deadwood isn't even on their radar. But then we have attractive football to watch and chat about.

It's a peculiarly 'Blackburn' thing, this obsession. It's unhealthy.

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But then we have attractive football to watch and chat about.

I'll correct that as you have championship football to watch and premiership football to dream about.

If you do fluke your way into the premier league I'd love to see how far your so called ''attractive'' football will get you. West Brom can bare witness to that.

Up the blades !

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A quote from Carrotmad,

"westmidsclaret User is online

#3 23 May 2009 14:01 Complain | Reply to user

Signed: May 2009 re: re: sheffield united ...

WE are a massive club as you will see on monday pal! we will have 95% of the nation behind us you lot wont even have all of sheffield behind you!!! jog on n c ya monday"

:rolleyes:

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But then we have attractive football to watch and chat about.

I wonder what you lot will be monging about on Monday evening after its all gone pear shaped and the "real" Yorkshire team are celebrating promotion :rolleyes::rolleyes:

New town centre ? New bus shelters ? New homeless centre ?

Your lot wont be talking football because Coyle will be off, your one shining light in Eagles will leave and your next season Season ticket sales hit rock bottom as the once hopeful crowd dwindles back to the usual numbers.

You lot have had your fun now come back to reality :rover:

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