[Archived] Season Tickets 09/10

[47er]

Wondering whether the fabulous season-ticket price reduction will actually result in increased crowds. It looks like we might sell 19000 which is pretty much the size of our home support last season for most games---around 16000 season-ticket holders+3000"walk-ons". With the increased prices for single games and Riverside just about sold out there will probably be fewer occasional spectators I'd guess. Also, with a lot of fans buying season-tickets even though they might make only a few home games that will have an effect on the numbers too.

All in all, Ewood might not be the hot-bed of hostility to away sides that we hoped.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Very disappointed and frustrated, but fully understand the clubs position. I guess they can;t take a risk and I think the offer of a free ticket elsewhere is excellent and should hopefully go someway to making the darwen end offer a good one.

No point being upset the take up has sadly not been what the club expected in that area.

Again it would appear that dispite the fantastic prices many would rather take up a three games for £20 offer than fork out £150.

Feels like the club have been half hearted in thier attempts with the Darwen end. Sounds like some people at the club would rather not have home fans in the Darwen end

1, No promotional material handed to the 4,000 fans in the Darwen end on the last day of the season

2, Didn't announce the full details of match tickets until season tickets had been underway for some time

3, Didn't match expectations with price after fans had been left to speculate for so long

4, and now, throwing away the chance to 'upsell' season tickets to home fans wanting match tickets for what is a relativity attractive game.

Leaves me feeling really deflated, after the last three games of last season I don't want to feel like an away while at ewood again. Might give the City game a miss

Thats's complete ###### Bob and you know it,dont lay the blame at the feet of the club because there's has not been the expected response from the fans.

To the 4,000 extra fans who came v Wigan,Pompey and WBA......WHERE THE FOOK ARE YOU?

[Hughesy]

It also makes financial sense for the City game - 8000 mancs paying £37 a ticket, with probably a big media interest in the game too. Makes for a £28k attendance I would imagine.

[RibbleValleyRover]

I would have given the full allocation to Everton rather than City. Everton always bring a decent following and well i hate City and now despise Hughes.

[waggy]

a lot won't like what i am going to say,but i reckon however cheap the season tickets are,a lot off supporters were put off by the crap served up by lardarse last season.i know loads off rishtoners who took up the 3 for £20 offer and will not entertian a season ticket.the extra season ticket sales are more than likely the walk on fans from last year as know one in the right mind would pay £28 to £35 a game,just think about it before you jump down my throat

[Claytons Left Boot]

£150 and you get 16 games - that's £9.38 a game.

FFS !!!!!!

Get off your arses !!!!!

[unsall]

a lot won't like what i am going to say,but i reckon however cheap the season tickets are,a lot off supporters were put off by the crap served up by lardarse last season.i know loads off rishtoners who took up the 3 for £20 offer and will not entertian a season ticket.the extra season ticket sales are more than likely the walk on fans from last year as know one in the right mind would pay £28 to £35 a game,just think about it before you jump down my throat

Rovers fans only,allowed to comment on season ticket issues thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hughesy]

a lot won't like what i am going to say,but i reckon however cheap the season tickets are,a lot off supporters were put off by the crap served up by lardarse last season.

End of the day people are no longer going to Rovers simply because they'd rather spend their Saturday afternoon doing something more fulfilling than (expecting to) get beat. That's the bottom line.

They may have something to do with it, but they are not the major reasons.

[Regular Joe]

I'm a Man City fan (and season ticket holder) who has Rovers as his second team due to living in Higher Croft for most of my childhood (Gordon Lee, Jim Smith, Howard Kendall era).

I've usually tried to get to three or four Rovers games a season whenever City didn't have a game, although less in recent seasons as the cost of following football has got higher.

Anyway, this season I am seriously tempted by a Darwen End season ticket. I would then attend every single Rovers home game which didn't clash with a City game. It would probably be value. In fact I would definitely get one if they would let my relocated free ticket for the City game be in the Darwen End, as word is on our forums that we'll be charged £42 per ticket.

Not sure I was the sort of 'fan' Rovers were targetting with this offer, but a season ticket which misses out the three 'big' games was always going to appeal to an untypical target audience.

[Hughesy]

Yes they miss the big 3, however they have 1st option to buy tickets for those 3 games at a total cost of £75.

Get yourself a ticket mate.

El Tombro - Yes success plays a massive part, but its not the main factor. If we started to win everything on the globe then we would start getting full houses, but they would be made up from glory hunters, not the fans we have on our database.

The problem is that we are from a Town, which has massive numbers of deprived people with alot of people who lack ambition, people who would rather buy a 6 pack of carling a week than put it towards a direct debit for a season ticket.

[bubblerrovers]

I honestly feel the club could charge a £1 a game and we still wouldn't sell out, there is simply not enough interest in the club. At the prices we're charging i can't believe more people don't want season tickets.

[tomphil]

You want to try walking back towards Darwen when there are 8,000 mancunians urinating up against walls etc etc. I have had season ticket since I left school nearly 20 years now, since I moved to Darwen i have considered packing it in after almost every season, I was hopeing that next year might be different, but it doesn't look like it will.

Ok fair point but better policing outside the ground is the way forward for that i suppose because it does seem to me that whilst everyone gets in a flap about the burnley game, season after season there are horrible problems with man yoos legions all accross the area everytime we play them, sorry slightly off topic.

[Ray-Von]

I honestly feel the club could charge a £1 a game and we still wouldn't sell out, there is simply not enough interest in the club. At the prices we're charging i can't believe more people don't want season tickets.

Very true.

[Ritchie]

a lot won't like what i am going to say,but i reckon however cheap the season tickets are,a lot off supporters were put off by the crap served up by lardarse last season.i know loads off rishtoners who took up the 3 for £20 offer and will not entertian a season ticket.the extra season ticket sales are more than likely the walk on fans from last year as know one in the right mind would pay £28 to £35 a game,just think about it before you jump down my throat

If they were put off with Sam's football, Christ knows what they made of the dog sh*t Ince's sides served up.

Remember Sunderland at Ewood? Wigan Athletic? Absolute guff that was an insult to those supporters who were there to witness it. Sam deserves credit for digging us out of the aforementioned brown stuff Ince dumped us in.

As for the ST offer - it's a bloody good deal to be fair and I cannot understand anybody having a pop at it.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Anyway, this season I am seriously tempted by a Darwen End season ticket. I would then attend every single Rovers home game which didn't clash with a City game. It would probably be value. In fact I would definitely get one if they would let my relocated free ticket for the City game be in the Darwen End, as word is on our forums that we'll be charged £42 per ticket.

Thats right Joe,even if you missed games it would still be value,this is why its hard to understand the low take up in the Darwen end to date.OH WELL!

I'm sure we'll have you at Ewood for every game,it'll all come tumbling down at the COMMS soon enough... you'll see the light

[waggy]

If they were put off with Sam's football, Christ knows what they made of the dog sh*t Ince's sides served up.

Remember Sunderland at Ewood? Wigan Athletic? Absolute guff that was an insult to those supporters who were there to witness it. Sam deserves credit for digging us out of the aforementioned brown stuff Ince dumped us in.

As for the ST offer - it's a bloody good deal to be fair and I cannot understand anybody having a pop at it.

i'm just telling you as i see it,wigan at home was under lardarse and i am not having a dig at the st offer just giving the reason why fans won't come

[eddiewac]

So say if we play some good football and lose to burnley, people would prefer watch that then playing "long ball" and beating them?

[Ritchie]

i'm just telling you as i see it,wigan at home was under lardarse and i am not having a dig at the st offer just giving the reason why fans won't come

Wigan at Ewood was actually a decent performance - I was referring to Wigan away which was an absolute disgrace.

If people decide against buying a season ticket because of Allardyce then I find that depressing.

If some individuals cannot afford to buy one because of tight finances as a result of the current economic climate, that's understandable of course.

[waggy]

it's up to each fan what they want to watch,some will follow the team through thick and thin and others want to watch football,it's a personnal choice

[Regular Joe]

I'm sure we'll have you at Ewood for every game,it'll all come tumbling down at the COMMS soon enough... you'll see the light

As I'm sure you can guess I couldn't be happier with how things are going at City these days, but in a strange way it won't be the same City any more if we're about to be successful.

Funnily enough I stopped going to Rovers as much when the success arrived. In fact I didn't go to a single game in the title season. Reckon I'm just a masochist

Even if you were a genuine neutral (which when watching Rovers against anyone other than City I can assure you I'm not) then surely the price of this season ticket is too good to miss to watch Premiership football.

[Doogs]

Feels like the club have been half hearted in thier attempts with the Darwen end. Sounds like some people at the club would rather not have home fans in the Darwen end

1, No promotional material handed to the 4,000 fans in the Darwen end on the last day of the season

2, Didn't announce the full details of match tickets until season tickets had been underway for some time

3, Didn't match expectations with price after fans had been left to speculate for so long

4, and now, throwing away the chance to 'upsell' season tickets to home fans wanting match tickets for what is a relativity attractive game.

Leaves me feeling really deflated, after the last three games of last season I don't want to feel like an away while at ewood again. Might give the City game a miss

Bob The Builder. What a great fan you are. No wonder we cant fill the place with folk like you. I dont know why you waste your time coming on this site, Its for Rovers fans. Free ticket for the City game and you may give it a miss. lol

[philipl]

It is worth remembering the 4,000 £20 ticket purchasers bought in at most a three week window before the first of the three games.

Might be being hopelessly optimistic but we are more than three weeks from 15 August.

[waggy]

It is worth remembering the 4,000 £20 ticket purchasers bought in at most a three week window before the first of the three games.

Might be being hopelessly optimistic but we are more than three weeks from 15 August.

i think so sold so well because we were in the mire at the time,maybe the last time fans would see rovers in the premier etc

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Funnily enough I stopped going to Rovers as much when the success arrived. In fact I didn't go to a single game in the title season. Reckon I'm just a masochist

I know a few 'diehard' Rovers fans who never set foot inside of Ewood after we got promoted in '92,followed them all over the country prior to that.Their excuse?....where did all these new fans come from!

Nowt as queer as folk eh!.

I bet you cant wait to rub the Red rags noses in it!

[Parsonblue]

it's up to each fan what they want to watch,some will follow the team through thick and thin and others want to watch football,it's a personnal choice

I would agree with that. It's the difference between being a Rovers' supporter - which I have been for almost 50 years - and a supporter of football in general. To me, as a supporter of the club, the well being of Blackburn Rovers must always come first. At the moment it is essential that the club remains in the Premiership by whatever means necessary. Big Sam has shown that he is capable of doing that. It might not be to everyone's taste but as long as we remain in the top flight he will have done his job. Ince tried to play pretty football and nearly destroyed the club.

Sadly, as someone has already said, no matter how cheap we make the tickets there is insufficient interest in the club to fill the stadium. I really don't see what more the club can do to get people into Ewood Park.