Season tickets 2022/23

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

2 hours ago, Rogerb said:

I have had a pne flyer with the lunchtime post. The 280 adult price goes up to 400 after June 4. First time had anything like this from north end who are clearly looking to grow their fan base in surrounding areas. Meanwhile the club I support who have my details including email have done bugger all to entice me. If pne have a success of 1‰ with there flyer thats 1700  season tickets which is 4.76 million on adult tickets. Worth the effort.

There is nobody listening at the Club.

[Sparks Rover]

7 hours ago, Rogerb said:

I have had a pne flyer with the lunchtime post. The 280 adult price goes up to 400 after June 4. First time had anything like this from north end who are clearly looking to grow their fan base in surrounding areas. Meanwhile the club I support who have my details including email have done bugger all to entice me. If pne have a success of 1‰ with there flyer thats 1700  season tickets which is 4.76 million on adult tickets. Worth the effort.

They've already got 8k sold....and they've not had their renewals apparently.. some expecting 12k ST holders....New manager and a bit of optimism.   Meanwhile, down the dark depths of the Ribble Valley.....🤷‍♂️

[Mattyblue]

If they do sell 12k STs, with walk ons and a standard away following they will be looking at 16/17k crowds for a normal game, with plenty of 20k+ crowds when a decent sized away following traps  - just like Bolton.

Yet, we will in all likelihood be seeing more c9,000 crowds like we did in the first half of last season.

Obviously not a single lesson has been learnt from the shambles of last summer and the embarrassment of selling the lowest numbers of STs for 30+ years… but isn’t that just the the problem, nobody senior at Blackburn Rovers, either here or in Pune, will be remotely embarrassed (or be held accountable).

[Gav]

Had an email from the club yesterday:

Watch 4 Local Derbies with a Season Ticket!

In the small print is mentioned the dingles making it 5.

But I wanted to praise the club for once in regards to offering fans the ability to make a charitable donation for under privileged groups:

Fans will also be able to make a £5, £10, £15 or £20 charitable donation to our award-winning Blackburn Rovers Community Trust to help fund match tickets for underprivileged groups.

Superb stuff, the Blackburn Rovers Community Trust should actually take over the running of the whole operation in my opinion, they're the one shining light in the current setup. 

Edited May 27, 2022 by Gav

[Mike E]

1 minute ago, Gav said:

Had an email from the club yesterday:

Watch 4 Local Derbies with a Season Ticket!

In the small print is mentioned the dingles making it 5.

But I wanted to praise the club for once in regards to offering fans the ability to make a charitable donation for under privileged groups:

Fans will also be able to make a £5, £10, £15 or £20 charitable donation to our award-winning Blackburn Rovers Community Trust to help fund match tickets for underprivileged groups.

Superb stuff, the Blackburn Rovers Community Trust should actually take over the running of the whole operation in my opinion.

A good initiative but would get far more take up if STs were reasonably priced. My last ST was £299, I'd probably bump that up by £50 with this initiative.

But at £430 they can take a running jump.

At least they've tried, but just feels half-arsed at every turn.

[arbitro]

Accrington Stanley are hosting Showaddywaddy tonight in what is a sell out. That is likely to bring in a few grand. They certainly know how to maximise their assets there. I also noted that the hospitality in Chairmans Lounge is sold out for when we play there on July 9th.

I know it's not season ticket related but the common denominator should be comparative income streams.

[Mattyblue]

‘Sweat the asset’, whatever the size of your business is, and they do it brilliantly.

Compare and contrast…

[unsall]

Deadline will be extended by 1 week 👁

[MarkBRFC]

10 hours ago, unsall said:

Deadline will be extended by 1 week 👁

Not sure that really helps anyone.

Needs to be a month.

Edited May 28, 2022 by MarkBRFC

[Mattyblue]

Yep, move till end of June for claim your seat, oh and scrap the new/returning fan tax immediately.

[unsall]

2 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Not sure that really helps anyone.

Needs to be a month.

Probably hoping new manager in place and fans will renew, but hearing only 1 week extension..

[arbitro]

I was just looking on Lincolns website for any ticket news for our upcoming friendly there. I read an article that they have sold 5000 season tickets and have incentivised some with the offer of a shirt and match day programme. I would really have liked to see some creativity from Rovers but it's just a rinse and repeat job.

 

[Wheelton Blue]

3 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I was just looking on Lincolns website for any ticket news for our upcoming friendly there. I read an article that they have sold 5000 season tickets and have incentivised some with the offer of a shirt and match day programme. I would really have liked to see some creativity from Rovers but it's just a rinse and repeat job.

 

Rinse being the operative word!

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

Not sure that really helps anyone.

Needs to be a month.

This would suggest an appointment will be make early next week. 

1 hour ago, Wheelton Blue said:

Rinse being the operative word!

mention it before about offering season ticket holders a massive discount on new season strips and especially for younger fans like the under 16's  

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

13 hours ago, unsall said:

Deadline will be extended by 1 week 👁

Looks like sales going very slowly tbh.

[rigger]

47 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Looks like sales going very slowly tbh.

I wonder if we still on target to outsell 2018 ? Perhaps they mean two thousand and eighteen tickets sold. 

[glen9mullan]

I know the 5 who sit with me, and also myself, have yet to renew.

Also the ones who we drink with pre-match have'nt renewed either, so not too sure where this flying off the shelf is coming from, as that's 9 season tickets off the top of my head which remain unrenewed

[simongarnerisgod]

no one is commiting until we find out who the new boss is,can`t really blame us seeing as we`ve had mostly 10 years of misery and poor appointments

[Riverside under the drip]

As with others, the managerial choice will inform if I am going to renew or not. I want to. I really do. There are very few names that would put me off (like Coyle). Of the names I've heard, someone unproven like Ferguson would worry me and I would wait until Christmas.

[Wheelton Blue]

If they truly were flying off the shelf, the club would be shouting about it a la Bolton.

[JHRover]

Combine expensive tickets with poor marketing and uncertainty and you get poor sales.

This has been years in the making under Waggott and the only way its changing is if prices are cut or if we do some exciting business on the manager/player front.

[Oldgregg86]

I’ve renewed yesterday purely because something fresh can’t be Any worse than anything mowbray did. I’m excited just because it’s a change regardless 

[rigger]

6 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

I’ve renewed yesterday purely because something fresh can’t be Any worse than anything mowbray did. I’m excited just because it’s a change regardless 

And it's £30 cheaper.

[chaddyrovers]

7 minutes ago, JHRover said:

We sold less than 8000 (embarrassing) last summer and prices have gone up since. I would expect something from the club as to sales figures if they were anything to be proud of.

The prices are still the same as last season for existing season ticket holders and new season ticket holder face a £30 increase. 

3 minutes ago, rigger said:

I think it is probably the fact the Rovers haven't given an update on how season tickets are selling (actual numbers rather than a statement that,  we are on course to hit a target ). Usually not giving any information is a sign that the figures are not good. Everyone can read into this whatever they want, It doesn't make it true or false. Personnally I also think at the moment sales are embarrassingly low.

You would normally give an update after the deadline as passed. 

I don't think sales are as low as you are suggesting 

[rigger]

10 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

The prices are still the same as last season for existing season ticket holders and new season ticket holder face a £30 increase. 

You would normally give an update after the deadline as passed. 

I don't think sales are as low as you are suggesting 

I would suggest, at the moment we haven't sold 5000 season tickets. This is just a guess and not based on fact. If you have facts about how many we have sold, let the messageboard know.