v Reading (h) - 15/3/23, 7:45pm

[MarkBRFC]

Pretty confident about this one.

Rovers 2 Reading 0.

Looking at the ticketing website, seems like the £10 promotion for this one has gone down like the lead balloon everyone predicted.

[Mattyblue]

‘We’ve done all we can’…

[rigger]

13 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Pretty confident about this one.

Rovers 2 Reading 0.

Looking at the ticketing website, seems like the £10 promotion for this one has gone down like the lead balloon everyone predicted.

Take-up in the Blackburn end and Nuttall street seem OK.

[MarkBRFC]

5 minutes ago, rigger said:

Take-up in the Blackburn end and Nuttall street seem OK.

Suppose as well as can be expected for a midweek game.

[rigger]

4 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Suppose as well as can be expected for a midweek game.

So why the lead balloon comment ?

[TheRevAshton]

Had a look on their forum to see what they're thinking;
https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=190189

Not much confidence at all on their end!

[chaddyrovers]

42 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Suppose as well as can be expected for a midweek game.

Yes it is midweek game and 10 pound for this game was sensible to attract fans this sort of game people wouldn't normal be attract to down to the level and quality of their opposition we are playing 

[BigUts]

I think we win this but maybe not as comfortably as we would all hope. Get a feeling we might end up with a late winner to send us home happy but frustrated for 85 minutes.

Rovers 1 - 0 Royals
Brereton-Diaz 86'

Attendance 15,227

[MarkBRFC]

44 minutes ago, rigger said:

So why the lead balloon comment ?

Why not?

It frustrates me that we didn't make a more attractive game £10 and push the hell of it to see a substantial increase on a crowd.

All making Reading £10 will do is give fuel to the ones who think there is nothing wrong with our ticket prices.

[Mattyblue]

It will be better than a normal midweek. So say c14k/15k instead of 11/12k, that’s obviously not a bad thing.

But if you are going to pick one match all season for a tenner, surely you pick an afternoon game in the run in in which you can get a *real* big crowd in to roar them on. I.e Good Friday against a promotion rival or the final home game against another. You’d be looking towards 22-23k for one of those. 

Better than nowt, but a missed opportunity.
 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Mattyblue

[rigger]

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

Why not?

It frustrates me that we didn't make a more attractive game £10 and push the hell of it to see a substantial increase on a crowd.

All making Reading £10 will do is give fuel to the ones who think there is nothing wrong with our ticket prices.

I think your high-lighted point is totally wrong. The only ones who think there is nothing wrong with our ticket prices, are a few season ticket holders, and Waggott

[TheRevAshton]

After a bit of tinkering with the seat map on the site, i've found that ~11,900 tickets are taken at this point for home supporters with ~5,800 still available (excluding BBE upper of course).

Poor do at £10 a ticket IMO, I know it's a Wednesday night and not the most mouth watering fixture - but at that price I expected at least 2k more.

Hopefully more people will buy in the next couple of days and get behind the lads!

Edited March 13, 2023 by TheRevAshton

[Mattyblue]

Aren’t there 20,000 available seats in the BBEnd Lower, Riverside and JW?

So if there are 5,800 left, wouldn’t that mean c14k sold? 

 

[TheRevAshton]

4 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Aren’t there 20,000 available seats in the BBEnd Lower, Riverside and JW?

So if there are 5,800 left, wouldn’t that mean c14k sold? 

 

I got ~17,700 from those areas

[Mattyblue]

Not sure about that. There’s 15k+ seats in the JW and BEnd lower alone.

 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Mattyblue

[windymiller7]

Pretty sure JW is 11000, BBE & DE have around 8000 each and the Riverside 4000.

That totals 31000 so not far off barring a couple of hundred.

IIRC the split between upper & lower behind the goals is around 3000/5000.

Edited March 13, 2023 by windymiller7
Added BBE & DE split

[tomphil]

There'll be a bigger than usual walk up as well probably, anything above 15k is a big success considering the ST base has been ground down to barely 9k.

There'd be 12 thousand  home fans give or take on for this without the reductions so that's an extra 3k tripping up which no one should sneer at.

Do this against Blackpool or Wigan for an evening game even on tv and there'd be 18/20k on, do it for Reading we are never going to get huge numbers on a Weds night. If they want a rip roaring success from it it has to be a Saturday afternoon against local or attractive opposition.

We are Blackburn Rovers we haven't had an active fanbase of over 14 thousand for 12 years now so it amuses me every time something like this occurs some seem to think they'll  flock back.

Edited March 13, 2023 by tomphil

[roverandout]

The way the weather is going not sure it will go ahead 

[Sweaty Gussets]

6 minutes ago, windymiller7 said:

Pretty sure JW is 11000, BBE & DE have around 8000 each and the Riverside 4000.

That totals 31000 so not far off barring a couple of hundred.

IIRC the split between upper & lower behind the goals is around 3000/5000.

According to wiki you're spot on...there are just 367 seats unaccounted for (Ewood holds 31,367). I presume they are in the Riverside. 

[martonrover]

43 minutes ago, roverandout said:

The way the weather is going not sure it will go ahead 

Wednesday doesn't look too bad. 

Tomorrow may have been a problem.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, TheRevAshton said:

After a bit of tinkering with the seat map on the site, i've found that ~11,900 tickets are taken at this point for home supporters with ~5,800 still available (excluding BBE upper of course).

Poor do at £10 a ticket IMO, I know it's a Wednesday night and not the most mouth watering fixture - but at that price I expected at least 2k more.

Hopefully more people will buy in the next couple of days and get behind the lads!

Don’t play like shite on national tv the game before would be my advice.

Edited March 13, 2023 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[BigUts]

48 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Wednesday doesn't look too bad. 

Tomorrow may have been a problem.

Looks like lots of rain after 6pm Wednesday. We've seen a few times over the last 18 months that significant rain in a short period is pitches achilles heel...could be again especially after the last few days

[Cherry Blue]

Problem with Ewood is during heavy rain river rises and rain has no where to go. Difficult days for ground staff. 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Cherry Blue

[superniko]

This mid-week round is going to be a biggie in terms of the playoff push. 

• The 9 teams placed 2nd to 10th are all priced between 8/11 and 29/20 - all favourites, but all quite closely matched 
• None of us are playing each other (if we exclude Sunderland from the race) 
• All given between a 41% and 58% chance of winning

 

[Andy]

7 hours ago, TheRevAshton said:

Anyway... We need 3 points against Reading, or we can kiss the play-offs goodbye.

With 9 games after this - and us having a small buffer over 7th place, it's absolutely nowhere near all over if we don't beat Reading.

However, it is a massive, pivotal game and if we are to finish in the top 6, you have to be beating the Readings at home.

These (along with Sunday) are the games that you live for as a player; big stakes and big rewards at the back end of the season.