[Archived] Season Tickets 2012/13

[Gav]

If you are a GENUINE rovers supporter and not a glory hunter you will go down to ewood park with or without a season ticket and support the team.

Staying away this season will lend weight to the opinion that rovers fans are fickle and do not support them through thick and thin.

The spectacle of a less than halffull stadium with plenty of away support will look and feel dreadful.

The ownership of the club and the manager for that matter are historically here today gone tomorrow. The genuine fans attend through thick and thin and always

have done. Nobody likes the raos or keans but supporting the team is above all that, with all our history behind us to bind us together. RTID.

Been going since the mid 70's so hardly fickle wouldn't you say

[Glenn]

Trying to sell them to fans of other teams now it seems.

Well, they have been doing that for years (and good on em, I'd rather have the Darwen End full of away fans if we can't fill it with home fans), but it's not the case here. It's simply that that advert is being served by google, who know who you are and what your buying habits are (and are seemingly now trying to sell Abbey chickens) even if you do sneak onto other team's sites

[m1st]

Right, read what I'm saying.

Supporting a club is about doing what you can to make it flourish and improve, as a fan you want the best for it at all times.

Now normally you are quite right, you achieve this by getting to the ground and 'getting behind t'lads'.

However, times are different and they feel doing the best for the club is by boycotting- as they feel it will benefit the club if it results in the departure of Kean and his cronies.

It doesn't sound 'fickle' or 'half hearted' to me, they are not saying 'feck it, I'm not watching the Championship'.

Wasting my energy typing this as the 'just get behind the lads ffs' crew just don't get it.

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And that comes from someone who saw the team on various Division 3 grounds in the 1970s.

But that was when we had people at the heart of the club who, like the fans, cared about it.

[gumboots]

Point is, staying away is possibly harder than going. Was talking to someone today who said they were wavering because they realised that not watching Rovers on a Saturday afternnon was going to be so hard. Told him to at least wait and see what happens in the next few weeks. Won't slate him if he gets a ticket, but do think he really should be make them sweat for it.

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

Absolute and utter load of tripe, it is so easy to stay away, like looking the other way when someone is getting beaten up.

And yet you could argue the opposite. I assume your analogy is that Venkys are beating Rovers up? Well by renewing you aren't intervening are you, you're standing there giving them an audience, which is something most bullies enjoy. The non-renewers are turning their backs on the sick spectacle, in the hope the bully will get bored when he realises there's absolutely noone to impress.

If you are a GENUINE rovers supporter and not a glory hunter you will go down to ewood park with or without a season ticket and support the team.

Staying away this season will lend weight to the opinion that rovers fans are fickle and do not support them through thick and thin.

As for this total garbage that you keep repeating, give it a rest. Nobody with half a brain cell would class people who have had season tickets for decades and seen us in the dark days of the 70s/80s as fickle or glory-hunters. You keep doing that to try and brainwash people into thinking its the case. Very insulting and only likely to cause more division.

[Pedro]

I don't care who goes or who doesn't, neither are martyrs or the greater supporters...it's a simple as that really.

[JAL]

Absolute and utter load of tripe, it is so easy to stay away, like looking the other way when someone is getting beaten up.

If you are a proper rovers fan you will be at the ground with the rest of us. Born and bred in blackburn no way are we turning our back on the team. RTID.

Put yourself in the guardian category Beatrix or accept that you have absolutely no grasp of the feeling towards the club at the moment in Blackburn

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

I will be buying matchday tickets after being a season ticket holder for some 20 years.My non-renewal is my personal protest against the idiots that are running this club..I refuse to put £200 straight into their pockets after what they have done/allowed to happen to our club.

I believe this to be the case with many thousands of long term fans but I DONT believe the gates will drop as dramatically as some have suggested,the matchday walk-on's will just rise significantly.If we get off to a good start then I think the home support will hold around the 16-18,000 mark...the problems really start if we nosedive.

There are many teams who will bring a good following to Ewood even in the Championship: Burnley,Bolton,Blackpool,Leeds,Wednesday,Huddersfield,Wolves,Forest,Derby..........

[Mattyblue]

I believe this to be the case with many thousands of long term fans but I DONT believe the gates will drop as dramatically as some have suggested,the matchday walk-on's will just rise significantly.If we get off to a good start then I think the home support will hold around the 16-18,000 mark...the problems really start if we nosedive.

However many ST holders will lose will pretty much be how many less home fans will be attending. The way it has always been at Ewood.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

This is a rather strange and unique situation though Matty,not one we have come across before were the owners and manager are hated but fans will still want to come and support the team on the pitch.I may be wrong but only time will tell.

[gumboots]

I will be buying matchday tickets after being a season ticket holder for some 20 years.My non-renewal is my personal protest against the idiots that are running this club..I refuse to put £200 straight into their pockets after what they have done/allowed to happen to our club.

I believe this to be the case with many thousands of long term fans but I DONT believe the gates will drop as dramatically as some have suggested,the matchday walk-on's will just rise significantly.If we get off to a good start then I think the home support will hold around the 16-18,000 mark...the problems really start if we nosedive.

There are many teams who will bring a good following to Ewood even in the Championship: Burnley,Bolton,Blackpool,Leeds,Wednesday,Huddersfield,Wolves,Forest,Derby..........

You may be planning to go as a walk-on fan but I don't know of many who are. Boycott means that to most who have not and will not renew.

[Mattyblue]

This is a rather strange and unique situation though Matty,not one we have come across before were the owners and manager are hated but fans will still want to come and support the team on the pitch.I may be wrong but only time will tell.

Rovers fans are ST buyers, we must have one of the highest ST holder ratio to match day buyers in the country. I just can't see thousands of non renewers turning up for the games on the day.

[Baz]

If you are a GENUINE rovers supporter and not a glory hunter you will go down to ewood park with or without a season ticket and support the team.

Staying away this season will lend weight to the opinion that rovers fans are fickle and do not support them through thick and thin.

The spectacle of a less than halffull stadium with plenty of away support will look and feel dreadful.

The ownership of the club and the manager for that matter are historically here today gone tomorrow. The genuine fans attend through thick and thin and always

have done. Nobody likes the raos or keans but supporting the team is above all that, with all our history behind us to bind us together. RTID.

If you are a GENUINE rovers supporter you would make your own decision, and sympathise with everyone else whatever decision they make. Telling people that they are a good / bad fan because they make a personal decision is pathetic from both sides of the argument.

I won't be told to not go, or go by anyone else, I'll make my own decision for my own reasons.

[sambo]

I don't know what to do to be honest. No season ticket will probably mean no Burnley ticket, and that game means the world to me

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Fair enough and thats their prerogative gumboots,this is one that has certainly split the fans! I just cant see the 10,000 gates that some are suggesting..I hope I'm damn well right too !

I can only say damn the Rao's for putting us all in this situation.

[Mike Graham]

If you are a GENUINE rovers supporter and not a glory hunter you will go down to ewood park with or without a season ticket and support the team.

The ownership of the club and the manager for that matter are historically here today gone tomorrow. The genuine fans attend through thick and thin and always

have done. Nobody likes the raos or keans but supporting the team is above all that, with all our history behind us to bind us together. RTID.

What bollux my love.

[DavidMailsTightPerm]

Firstly - this isn't having a dig at the people that haven't renewed - as I haven't either.

Though there will be lots of empty seats - it would seem that a large number of anti-Kean supporters won't be attending - which will surely lessen the impact of any in-ground protests. As the owners don't seem to calculate in the value of the fans - a few thousand will only put a small dent in their pocket financially (IMO fans are far more important to the club than just revenue - but I am not sure they realise that). IMO, as a protest, not buying a season ticket just doesn't seem to work - though I appreciate that many fans feel this is all they have left.

[OJRovers]

It's clear from Agnew's interview this evening that the club are labelling the 'non-renewers' as fickle glory hunters.

With him saying "if we start well they will come back" shows how they've dressed up the non renewals to the owners.

Winning or not I won't be back til Kean goes.

[Tom10K]

The strategy Agnew laid out on Radio Lancashire tonight that 80% would return if they started well, 10% have already been lost and 10% will renew no matter what totally puzzled me. If they start well the season ticket prices will be higher, won't that put supporters off? Why discard the 10% who have been loyal for years and years before this invasion and why take the 10% for granted. It really was as if the supporters don't really matter to them, sad to hear but totally expected.

[DE.]

Firstly - this isn't having a dig at the people that haven't renewed - as I haven't either.

Though there will be lots of empty seats - it would seem that a large number of anti-Kean supporters won't be attending - which will surely lessen the impact of any in-ground protests. As the owners don't seem to calculate in the value of the fans - a few thousand will only put a small dent in their pocket financially (IMO fans are far more important to the club than just revenue - but I am not sure they realise that). IMO, as a protest, not buying a season ticket just doesn't seem to work - though I appreciate that many fans feel this is all they have left.

In ground protesting didn't exactly achieve much last season, I don't think it really matters.

[Stuart]

It's clear from Agnew's interview this evening that the club are labelling the 'non-renewers' as fickle glory hunters.

With him saying "if we start well they will come back" shows how they've dressed up the non renewals to the owners.

Winning or not I won't be back til Kean goes.

If Kean is going nowhere, contrition would be the next best thing.

Sadly I think the current "public faces" of the club will be heading for the dictionary if they were to read that sentence.

[den]

It's clear from Agnew's interview this evening that the club are labelling the 'non-renewers' as fickle glory hunters.

With him saying "if we start well they will come back" shows how they've dressed up the non renewals to the owners.

Winning or not I won't be back til Kean goes.

These people are harder faced than the north face of the Eiger.

[Mattyblue]

Agnew's line is people are unhappy because we are 'not doing it on the pitch', the fact one man is pesonally keeping away thousands doesn't come into it.

[bluefred]

agnews a class A knob

[Mike Graham]

It's clear from Agnew's interview this evening that the club are labelling the 'non-renewers' as fickle glory hunters.

With him saying "if we start well they will come back" shows how they've dressed up the non renewals to the owners.

Winning or not I won't be back til Kean goes.

I'll be at many away games with my " Kean and Venyks Out" t-shirt......home games not a chance until those chicken fools and rent boy Coco have gone. Not a penny more in Venkys grabbing mitts.

agnews a class A knob

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