[Archived] Season Tickets 2012/13

[RibbleValleyRover]

Listened to both Derek Shaw's and Danny Murphy's interviews on BBC Radio Lancs. Both of them seem to believe that all it will take to get all these fans back to Ewood is just winning games. I have no doubt some will return but it's just another example that the club can't relate to the fans anymore.

[funny-old-game]

Listened to both Derek Shaw's and Danny Murphy's interviews on BBC Radio Lancs. Both of them seem to believe that all it will take to get all these fans back to Ewood is just winning games. I have no doubt some will return but it's just another example that the club can't relate to the fans anymore.

Meet a friend today and he and all this mates he goes the Rovers with aren't renewing, but will if Kean goes.

Seems this lot just don't get it do they!!

[47er]

How about a new BRFCS t-shirt along the lines of "SACK KEAN AND I'LL RENEW"?

[roverandout]

i wont be renewing unless kean goes, simple!!! cant bring myself to be there if he's stood on the touchline

[Mike Graham]

How about a new BRFCS t-shirt along the lines of "SACK KEAN AND I'LL RENEW"?

NO: Kean is the symptom, VENKYS are the disease....not until those chicken flickers go will I be back.

[winstonsmith]

Another extensiion to the"earlybird sceme" just announced- http://www.rovers.co...2827343,00.html now running untill 1st august(not quite earlybirds HAHAHA).

Del Boy has only been in the job for a day and already the club are on their way to reversing the ticket pricing element of the Taking Back Ewood campaign. (Kean and Venky's have already managed to drive away thousands of fans !)

From 2 August the price of a ST in the Blackburn/Darwen Ends will be £259. That is £50 more than when Venky's took over. Or, to put it another way, a much greater than inflation 24% rise in two years from £209.

I would expect this to be followed by rises in future years until they are in line with other Second Division clubs.

[47er]

NO: Kean is the symptom, VENKYS are the disease....not until those chicken flickers go will I be back.

"Sell the Club and I'll renew"?

Plenty would give it another go if Kean were replaced by a manager though.

[Uddersfelt Blue]

Del Boy has only been in the job for a day and already the club are on their way to reversing the ticket pricing element of the Taking Back Ewood campaign. (Kean and Venky's have already managed to drive away thousands of fans !)

From 2 August the price of a ST in the Blackburn/Darwen Ends will be £259. That is £50 more than when Venky's took over. Or, to put it another way, a much greater than inflation 24% rise in two years from £209.

I would expect this to be followed by rises in future years until they are in line with other Second Division clubs.

Come on mate, keeping prices the same as last year until 1st August means that hardly anyone should be paying the increased rate. Let's give them some credit on that score. Even at £259 we must still be one of the cheapest amongst our peers.

[Mike Graham]

Come on mate, keeping prices the same as last year until 1st August means that hardly anyone should be paying the increased rate. Let's give them some credit on that score. Even at £259 we must still be one of the cheapest amongst our peers.

It is not the price that is at issue( I was going to get a table in Jacks Kitchen this coming season) but the plonkers and owners who run (sic) our Club. And yes our tickets are cheap, so is the ownership, management and performances on the pitch.

[Uddersfelt Blue]

For those not intending to renew the price is irrelevant but for those who have or are going to then its a good deal.

Personally, they won't drive me away from watching and supporting MY team and hence I'm happy with the current prices.

[riggers77]

I still implore all those who have bought season tickets to send them back. I hav this increased sense that there are lots of people about to slip back in to their normal routine of trundling down to ewood despite the consequences.

Also would quite happily pay double if they sacked kean.

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Personally, they won't drive me away from watching and supporting MY team and hence I'm happy with the current prices.

This is the sentence and many others like it that I hate the most.

[Uddersfelt Blue]

Sorry Riggers but last time I checked we lived in a democratic country. I know its not an ideal situation but me, my son and mates have renewed.

All you are doing is driving a wedge between the fans

[riggers77]

Sorry Riggers but last time I checked we lived in a democratic country. I know its not an ideal situation but me, my son and mates have renewed.

All you are doing is driving a wedge between the fans

You have no need to be sorry, you are right we are a democracy and you can do what wou want. I just happen think it is completely wrong.

[MarkBRFC]

To all those saying you would happily pay double/more if kean went or venkys went, come off it you wouldn't at all. You would need something to moan about and higher ticket prices would be just the thing.

[Mike Graham]

To all those saying you would happily pay double/more if kean went or venkys went, come off it you wouldn't at all. You would need something to moan about and higher ticket prices would be just the thing.

Our tickets are dirt cheap, I can afford it and paying double is no problem.....but for the VENKYS , Coco and the rest of the wonkers running our club.

[Uddersfelt Blue]

I think we all need to keep things in perspective here. This is football we are talking about. It may be important to us that the Club is successful but most of all, for many of us at least, we actually enjoy going to games. There, I've said it.

[thenodrog]

Listened to both Derek Shaw's and Danny Murphy's interviews on BBC Radio Lancs. Both of them seem to believe that all it will take to get all these fans back to Ewood is just winning games. I have no doubt some will return but it's just another example that the club can't relate to the fans anymore.

No doubt past events mean that everybody is shitscared of saying anything like the truth for chance it might be seen as criticism of Billy Liar and the Slumdog millionaires.

Every passing day makes me resent the whole shabang more and more. Murphy, Hendy, Shaw, Agnew etc etc are all tainted by the corrupt regime which they have been eager to sign up for. The others are all skint of in need of money but imo Murphy has made one big mistake if he had other even half decent offers with proper clubs.

[Beta Ray Bill]

Not commenting on the renew/non-renew issues but recently found my application pack for 2001/02 season. Makes interesting comparison. (I've adjusted the 2001/02 prices to reflect VAT at 20% instead of the rate at the time 17.5%)

2001/02 2012/13 %of 2001 price

JW Upper Centre - loyalty £428.94

JW Upper Centre - regular £454.47

JW Upper Centre - early bird £399.00 93.02

JW Upper Centre - regular £459.00 101.00

JW Lower Centre - loyalty £382.98

JW Lower Centre - regular £408.51

JW Lower Centre - early bird £399.00 104.18

JW Lower Centre - regular £459.00 112.36

JW Upper Outer - loyalty £357.45

JW Upper Outer - regular £382.98

JW Upper Outer - early bird £340.00 95.12

JW Upper Outer - regular £389.00 101.57

JW Lower Outer - loyalty £321.70

JW Lower Outer - regular £347.23

JW Lower Outer - early bird £340.00 105.69

JW Lower Outer - regular £389.00 112.03

BB End Upper - loyalty £321.70

BB End Upper - regular £347.23

BB End Upper - early bird £225.00 69.94

BB End Upper - regular £259.00 74.59

BB End Lower - loyalty £321.70

BB End Lower - regular £347.23

BB End Lower - early bird £225.00 69.94

BB End Lower - regular £259.00 74.59

Riverside Centre - loyalty £321.70

Riverside Centre - regular £408.51

Riverside Centre - early bird £225.00 69.94

Riverside Centre - regular £259.00 63.40

Riverside Outer - loyalty £255.32

Riverside Outer - regular £275.74

Riverside Outer - early bird £225.00 88.13

Riverside Outer - regular £259.00 93.93

Darwen End (19) - loyalty £321.70

Darwen End (19) - regular £347.23

Darwen End (19) - early bird £165.00 51.29

Darwen End (19) - regular £189.00 54.43

Darwen End (23) - early bird £225.00 57.78

Darwen End (23) - regular £259.00 61.62

Basically, the JW Upper is now paying around the same as 11 years ago with either the loyalty/early bird scheme or regular, but the JW lower is a little higher.

The BBE is still at around 70%-75% of the cost from over a decade ago.

Riverside is anywhere between 70% and 94% depending on where you sit and when you bought.

But for a real bargain look at the Darwen End! Only just over 50% of the price for same games, or well under 2/3rds of the price for a full season! Regardless of ownership issues, that really is an astonishing statistic.

[cn174]

The numbers are great BRB, however I'd be more than willing to pay 2001/02 prices if it meant the venkys and co would eff off!

[T.J.Newton]

I dont think their has ever been any question of how good a deal the ST are, its just that its a bit irrelavent, Ive spoke to a lot of people that would be fine with paying much more than the current earlybird prices if Uncle McFester wasnt the manager and had had zero connection to the club.

[Beta Ray Bill]

Like I said, it's not a comment on Owners, just an interesting comparison. Our prices steadily rose after those I've quoted but I didn't find the relevant application form down the back of a desk.

For further comparison, my mate's Huddersfield Town ticket was about £200 when they were last in the Championship, and this season he is paying over £400. Town's prices go from £265 to £599.

[47er]

We know the prices are cheap but it's irrelevant. Another season like last is injurious to health.

Football should = pleasure. Dear at any price.

[Mike Graham]

Sorry bur price is not an issue to me and many others, although I recognise it is of vital importance to a good few.

The issue is those plonkers running our Club and that f**k face of a manager who makes me want to physically spew every time I see his gormless face or hear his wimp voice.

No disrespect to Huddersfelt Blue who has made his choice, but I am not going to watch shyte football from a Club who have numpty owners and a mangy dog of a manager.

Tremblers of the world Unite!

[winstonsmith]

Come on mate, keeping prices the same as last year until 1st August means that hardly anyone should be paying the increased rate. Let's give them some credit on that score. Even at £259 we must still be one of the cheapest amongst our peers.

In 2009, the club initiated the truly visionary Taking Back Ewood campaign in an attempt to fill the stadium with Rovers supporters on all four sides to provide backing to the team. Recognising that Blackburn is a relatively small town to support a Premier League club and also that it is not the most prosperous area in the country, the club decided that one way to help achieve an increase in attendances was to offer the best value STs in football.

In summer 2010, Simon Williams wrote a letter in which he described the response to that decision -

"Support levels - numbers and decibels- have been magnificent this season, in helping Rovers to record one of the most impressive home records in the land. The heartlands of the Riverside and Walkersteel Blackburn End completely sold out and increased home support in the WEC Group Darwen End has been vibrant and relentless in its enthusiasm and backing for Sam and the team.

With a ST total approaching 19,500 (on a par with the heady heights of 95/96), the average attendance at Ewood this season (approaching 25,500) is the best for years......we are determined to keep growing our fanbase and provide the team the best support possible".

I would give the current regime no credit whatsoever if it is planning to reverse that cheap tickets strategy which proved so successful in the past. I am concerned that the rise in prices in August is the start of a gradual abandonment of that policy.

Obviously,attendances would continue to plummet under Kean even if you gave tickets away free. However, if that obstacle could be removed then cheap ticketing in conjunction with the appointment of a proper manager could see attendances rise again.

For a club that cannot be bothered to get a shirt sponsor, increasing the ticket prices to raise money is short sighted measure. Do we really just want to be like Burnley or Preston ?

[blue_n_white99]

We know the prices are cheap but it's irrelevant. Another season like last is injurious to health.

Football should = pleasure. Dear at any price.

I totally agree

Sorry bur price is not an issue to me and many others, although I recognise it is of vital importance to a good few.

The issue is those plonkers running our Club and that f**k face of a manager who makes me want to physically spew every time I see his gormless face or hear his wimp voice.

No disrespect to Huddersfelt Blue who has made his choice, but I am not going to watch shyte football from a Club who have numpty owners and a mangy dog of a manager.

Tremblers of the world Unite!

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