Attendances: A cause for concern

[tomphil]

Great, an afternoon listening to a big city clubs hordes only there because the tickets are cheap singing 'you're support is effing shit' .

Maybe a few of our own crowd experts might like to join in with them judging by some of the stuff flying around recently. I seriously hope we get a turnout for this and the sooperfans make an effort at getting behind the team.  Gee along all those crap fan part timers they like to look down on.

[BigUts]

I think a lot could hinge on tomorrow and Wednesdays game for how ticket sales go for Sheff Utd. If we get a couple of decent results and are once again in a playoff contention I can envisage a decent crowd on.

 

2 stinkers and it'll be 11k ish

[TheKitGuy]

1 hour ago, BigUts said:

I think a lot could hinge on tomorrow and Wednesdays game for how ticket sales go for Sheff Utd. If we get a couple of decent results and are once again in a playoff contention I can envisage a decent crowd on.

 

2 stinkers and it'll be 11k ish

Sheff Utd have sold their allocation of about 4.7k hopefully we can get around 13k in, should provide some atmosphere

[BigUts]

That's a very good point, I meant 11k of us really

[chaddyrovers]

Rovers launched a 17-game ticket, which seen an uptake of just under 200 supporters.

[chaddyrovers]

Rovers have launch their half season ticket for the final 11 home matches of the 2021/22 campaign.

Adult tickets in all areas of the ground are priced at £199 - except the Jack Walker Stand Upper Tier - while a Senior ticket costs £139, Young Adults at £95, Under-18s tickets are available at £50 and Under-12s just £35.

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/blackburn-rovers-half-season-ticket-22012663

[Mattyblue]

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers launched a 17-game ticket, which seen an uptake of just under 200 supporters.

So that’s 7,200 ST holders now 🎉

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

So that’s 7,200 ST holders now 🎉

any extra supporter inside Ewood Park is more than welcome. 

[Mattyblue]

Nah, we should make these tardy buyers wear some kind of hat to distinguish them.

[rigger]

51 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers launched a 17-game ticket, which seen an uptake of just under 200 supporters.

Season ticket prices were a shit offer at the beginning of the season. They still are a shit offer.

[chaddyrovers]

8 minutes ago, rigger said:

Season ticket prices were a shit offer at the beginning of the season. They still are a shit offer.

Why? 

 

[roversfan99]

£400 was expensive, and ultimately they cannot now offer better value than that, so if anything 17/11 game tickets are slightly less value for money. Backed themselves into a corner, because the critical aspect is season ticket pricing and it is too high. Surely self explanatory.

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

£400 was expensive, and ultimately they cannot now offer better value than that, so if anything 17/11 game tickets are slightly less value for money. Backed themselves into a corner, because the critical aspect is season ticket pricing and it is too high. Surely self explanatory.

Didn't expect a reduction in ticket prices from the club this season. Did you? 

But moving forward Waggott and Rovers know we need a better season ticket policy starting next season 

But with some fans not willing to attend home games due to Mowbray or Waggott it doesn't matter what the prices is. 

[rigger]

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Why? 

 

Because £400 for a season ticket and £200 for a half season ticket is overpriced. And that does not take into account, the shit product that is served up.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

9 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

But with some fans not willing to attend home games due to Mowbray or Waggott it doesn't matter what the prices is. 

That may well be the case.It is what it is.

[Mattyblue]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Didn't expect a reduction in ticket prices from the club this season. Did you? 

 

Well you did, as you’ve said repeatedly how they are way too expensive and Waggott has messed up.

In a contrarian mood today, I see.

Edited October 29, 2021 by Mattyblue

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Well you did, as you’ve said repeatedly how they are way too expensive and Waggott has messed up.

In a contrarian mood today, I see.

That is where you are wrong cos there is a different in what I expect and what I would have done  

Cos I didn't expect reduction in prices but I would have massively reduce the prices to attract as many fans as possible. 

4 hours ago, rigger said:

Because £400 for a season ticket and £200 for a half season ticket is overpriced. And that does not take into account, the shit product that is served up.

But you buy single match tickets which are more to buy prices wise. 

The product is the product 

[tomphil]

Set stupidly high prices and brass people off then panic and start coming up with a different price every game.

The man is an utter berk and needs an old mill workers clog up his arse to help him on his way out of town. 

Is it really any wonder player contracts, wages and the finances are all over the place with him in charge. Just look at his messing around and misjudging with tickets. 

Edited October 30, 2021 by tomphil

[rigger]

9 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

That is where you are wrong cos there is a different in what I expect and what I would have done  

Cos I didn't expect reduction in prices but I would have massively reduce the prices to attract as many fans as possible. 

But you buy single match tickets which are more to buy prices wise. 

The product is the product 

My personal circumstances has nothing to do with the fact that, £400 for a season ticket, is not a good deal. 

[JBiz]

8 minutes ago, rigger said:

My personal circumstances has nothing to do with the fact that, £400 for a season ticket, is not a good deal. 

23 games for £400…

What’s wrong with that?

I remember the days of it being £250 in the premier league, but I was always aware of the huge sponsorship that enabled this.

£17 a game in 2021? I don’t think that’s bad.

[47er]

Read that it takes over 20 years on the waiting list to be able to buy a Liverpool season ticket. Manure's wait list is 100,000!

Quite a challenge for Venkys!

[rigger]

8 minutes ago, JBiz said:

23 games for £400…

What’s wrong with that?

I remember the days of it being £250 in the premier league, but I was always aware of the huge sponsorship that enabled this.

£17 a game in 2021? I don’t think that’s bad.

From the uptake of season tickets, it would seem quite a few people think it is bad.

[JHRover]

Quite clear Waggott expected the same numbers to buy at a higher price this summer thereby boosting his figures at minimal change to gates.

Many of us mere civilians knew this 'strategy' was a high risk one likely to fail and cause long term damage especially off the back of a pandemic and what do you know? Right we were.

Substantial fall in gates at the worst possible time at a club and in a town that simply can't afford to lose season ticket holders by the thousands.

Now it is desperation time hoping to claw them back after they have gone.

Not working judging by the numbers.

 

Paying this guy how much to demolish our support base?

And the 'initiative' merely consists of continuing to sell season tickets after the initial deadline at a similar rate. Hardly groundbreaking is it?

[Mattyblue]

Absolutely no responsibility taken by Waggott in that article as we slump to an almost unbelievable c7000 ST holders (well apart from the revelation that Cat A+ pricing at £40+ a ticket does not work for mid table second tier football in a town like Blackburn - give the man an MBA).
 

It’s all ‘Covid’, ‘fans being uncomfortable’ mixed in with a load of marketing and corporate jargon and waffle. And a very low target bar of merely getting back to the already piss poor sales of 8,500 STs, seemingly no plan to get back to what was a standard 10,000+ sales under that now golden age of Gary Bloody Bowyer.

Edited October 30, 2021 by Mattyblue

[rigger]

54 minutes ago, JBiz said:

23 games for £400…

What’s wrong with that?

I remember the days of it being £250 in the premier league, but I was always aware of the huge sponsorship that enabled this.

£17 a game in 2021? I don’t think that’s bad.

Just for comparrisons sake : Burnley a league above us £360, Accy a league below us £220. Shouldn't we be at about £290 ?