v Ipswich Town (h) - Good Friday, 29/3/24, 17:30

[philipl]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68639682

Investment in Ipswich

[AllRoverAsia]

10 hours ago, philipl said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68639682

Investment in Ipswich

Going from strength to strength and will be well set up for the PL.

Proof that "smaller" clubs can attract professionals willing to spend for success.

Edited March 23 by AllRoverAsia

[tomphil]

3 hours ago, philipl said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68639682

Investment in Ipswich

I wonder why so many Americans are now looking to get into English football at smaller clubs ?

Maybe we missed our calling years ago with Daniel  Williams !

[Upside Down]

9 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Going from strength to strength and will be well set up for the PL.

Prove that "smaller" clubs can attract professionals willing to spend for success.

Wouldn't happen here though, who would buy this club.......

[J*B]

13 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Wouldn't happen here though, who would buy this club.......

Tried this on Twitter yesterday. All you get back is fans explaining how Ipswich get 28,000 fans, have a much bigger catchment area and are a much more exciting proposition to investors. When you try and rationalise that with:

They had ~15K fans prior to their turnaround in fortunes due to good management and ownership

A lot of the land around them is farm land, it’s not full of houses with families. 

The North West is the hot bed for the countries football.

They can’t give you any rationale explanation and end up insulting you. Our fan base is completely brainwashed into thinking this is all normal and there’s no other way out. Which is exactly why any protests will fail, sadly. 

[Mattyblue]

None of that crew seemingly have the critical thinking skills to join the dots between our ‘12k gates’ and perhaps the culprits as to why they’ve ended up at this pitiful level post 2012 as the rest of football has seen crowds boom - and maybe, just maybe it doesn’t have to be this way.

 

[rigger]

14 minutes ago, J*B said:

Tried this on Twitter yesterday. All you get back is fans explaining how Ipswich get 28,000 fans, have a much bigger catchment area and are a much more exciting proposition to investors. When you try and rationalise that with:

They had ~15K fans prior to their turnaround in fortunes due to good management and ownership

A lot of the land around them is farm land, it’s not full of houses with families. 

The North West is the hot bed for the countries football.

They can’t give you any rationale explanation and end up insulting you. Our fan base is completely brainwashed into thinking this is all normal and there’s no other way out. Which is exactly why any protests will fail, sadly. 

I am not really bothered what crowds other clubs get. I am only really bothered what the Rovers get. As far as I am concerened, the reason we get less than we should, is down to the fact that the offering served up is not worth the amount we are asked to pay. I do not speak for anyone but myself.

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, J*B said:

Tried this on Twitter yesterday. All you get back is fans explaining how Ipswich get 28,000 fans, have a much bigger catchment area and are a much more exciting proposition to investors. When you try and rationalise that with:

They had ~15K fans prior to their turnaround in fortunes due to good management and ownership

A lot of the land around them is farm land, it’s not full of houses with families. 

The North West is the hot bed for the countries football.

They can’t give you any rationale explanation and end up insulting you. Our fan base is completely brainwashed into thinking this is all normal and there’s no other way out. Which is exactly why any protests will fail, sadly. 

There's never any point arguing with a moron you'll never ever get anywhere.

They're going to love it when the club is in the national league north fighting for survival. I'm sure they'll still be saying "best owners in football" and all the rest.

Amazing how people with so little ability to form a single thought have managed to survive into adulthood.

[Mattyblue]

‘Well how can you expect us to compete with King’s Lynn, look at their catchment area!’

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

It’s a miracle we get the crowds we do. Supporting Rovers under the the Chicken Chokers is only slightly preferable to knocking nails through the back of your hand.

Edited March 24 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Upside Down]

14 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

‘Well how can you expect us to compete with King’s Lynn, look at their catchment area!’

Hahahaha. The fact that isn't even a joke shows what shit support we have at this club.

Amazing how other clubs have fans that take action to rid themselves of the poison in the directors box yet here they roll out the red carpet for the people who have systematically destroyed the club.

They're a total disgrace.

[Norbert Rassragr]

Unless the happy clappers are really bots and Burnley fans, I think the awful situation we're in is what they deserve. Imagine a boot stamping on a smiling face forever.

[Gav]

2 hours ago, J*B said:

Tried this on Twitter yesterday. All you get back is fans explaining how Ipswich get 28,000 fans, have a much bigger catchment area and are a much more exciting proposition to investors. When you try and rationalise that with:

They had ~15K fans prior to their turnaround in fortunes due to good management and ownership

A lot of the land around them is farm land, it’s not full of houses with families. 

The North West is the hot bed for the countries football.

They can’t give you any rationale explanation and end up insulting you. Our fan base is completely brainwashed into thinking this is all normal and there’s no other way out. Which is exactly why any protests will fail, sadly. 

I remember Ipswich Town under Bobby Robson winning the UEFA Cup in 80's, they won FA Cup in 70's and the league 1960's, they've always had a good pedigree a generation or two before Jack came along. That makes them an exciting prospect for any investor, as does Blackburn Rovers league title win and league cup win more recently. 

You don't need masses of support to protest, Reading have shown that, its happening at Sheff Weds too right now. If you have organisation and a will to succeed, a few hundred can make a massive difference. 

[chaddyrovers]

5 hours ago, J*B said:

Tried this on Twitter yesterday. All you get back is fans explaining how Ipswich get 28,000 fans, have a much bigger catchment area and are a much more exciting proposition to investors. When you try and rationalise that with:

They had ~15K fans prior to their turnaround in fortunes due to good management and ownership

A lot of the land around them is farm land, it’s not full of houses with families. 

The North West is the hot bed for the countries football.

They can’t give you any rationale explanation and end up insulting you. Our fan base is completely brainwashed into thinking this is all normal and there’s no other way out. Which is exactly why any protests will fail, sadly. 

It about the price of tickets whether it season tickets or match day tickets here. Plus a good CEO who can grow the fanbase, improve match day experience for fans, improve the commercial operation plus appoint new people to the Commercial and marketing departments. Plus a new club secretary, Finance director and new Deputy CEO. 

Next season ST prices should be £200 for Riversidel, £250 for BBE and lower JWL stand. £290 for JW outer and £330 for JW central. Prices for seniors and young adults should be 25% less and under 12 should be 1 with 12-18 being £50 all areas. 

Match day prices should be midweek games £10 to £15 with weekend game being £15 to £20 with a few special offers throughout the season like 2 games for £20 or 3 games for £35

 

Edited March 24 by chaddyrovers

[simongarnerisgod]

ipswich were run as badly as we currently are for a few years,they were floundering in league one until they got new owners,nothing about crowd sizes or catchment areas,ffs it`s about having people running the club who know what they are doing and care about trying to be succesfull,the guttersnipe that own and run ewood could`nt give a flying fart about any of that,they are all in it for themselves,as for venkys,im`e still mystified why they continue to bother,it`s not like they gain anything from it

[tomphil]

Iv'e said many time the 20 million a year line buys many fans off as well as covering many cracks and dark holes.

Just like life in general especially politics and the like if people would just open their eyes and open their minds a little things would be a lot clearer.  No need at all to deal in conspiracy just start with ALL the facts and work from there and in regards to Rovers there is more than enough to explain what the real issue is here and has been for about 13 years.

The rest of the stuff is just what many others clubs have to deal with but when it's incompetent at the heart of it things will never ever progress no many how much money/income or fans there is.

Plenty examples of that as well BUT when it reaches rock bottom there is usually a change and a turnaround of fortunes. We on the other hand are destined to be stuck in an eternal loop that becomes ever decreasing circles.

[Hasta]

Stoke hold their season ticket prices for the 17th consecutive season.

Adult tickets from £344.

Don't know what division they will be in next season.

edit - should have been in the Fans Forum thread but as we got talking about attendances.

Edited March 25 by Hasta

[M_B]

Does that mean Stoke were charging £344 for the last 17 seasons? 

[LDRover]

8 hours ago, Hasta said:

Stoke hold their season ticket prices for the 17th consecutive season.

Adult tickets from £344.

Don't know what division they will be in next season.

edit - should have been in the Fans Forum thread but as we got talking about attendances.

When did they sign Ding Junhui?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Some 4,000 tickets sold by Ipswich fans to date...a club with momentum and ambition right there.

Edited March 26 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Tugayisgod]

[RoversClitheroe]

1 minute ago, Tugayisgod said:

Mental.

Waggot and Pasha have relegated us.

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Mental.

Waggot and Pasha have relegated us.

You mean Venkys.

[alcd]

Siggy also out for the remainder of the season. 

[JHRover]

Ipswich had the fortune to be taken over by a group of people with a plan and ambition, Americans who have come in to get a return on their investment, and they've already started to do that by selling a share of the club for big money.

This all runs contrary to the negative elements of the fanbase who wish to convince themselves and others that we have no such option, that there is no alternative for this club than to exist as a decaying rotting husk under Venkys forever.

People call me negative yet I believe there is a better brighter alternative to the awful people that own and manage us today, whereas those who refuse to countenance such a possibility and resort to name calling and the rest rather than open their eyes to the possibility of a better future. 

Absolutely no sympathy towards the owners and board who have created the injury issues themselves. Ironic that they'll be moaning about absences if Buckley is out when we fired him off to Sheffield Wednesday not long ago supposedly surplus to requirements and we have our captain who will be sat on his backside cheering on his Ipswich team-mates from the stands on Friday due to further Rovers nonsense.

You reap what you sow.