FA Cup - season 2024-25

[DeeCee]

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

What is a digital ticket, I'm a season ticket holder, but will be paying at the ticket office for this one.

See my post re digital tickets 👍

[Cherry Blue]

RANT on digital tickets.

I fully understand digital tickets but its wrong to impose this way of ticket process on those that don't understand.

Also, the World thinks everyone has an APP. Crazy, everyone does not have an APP.

RANT over.

Edited Wednesday at 18:29 by Cherry Blue

[Herbie6590]

31 minutes ago, levi said:

Come on £15's a good price for a cup game against a premier league side ....admittedly not a mouth watering tie but i'd guess on a par with the draw we used to be when we was in the premier league

It’s £18 for non-season ticket holders isn’t it? 
I guess it’s about whether selling at say £10 (bearing in mind it’s Sunday lunch & streamable) would move the dial sufficiently to be revenue neutral. 
 

As an aside…here is a LinkedIn post from the club’s former head of marketing…👀

[levi]

32 minutes ago, Cherry Blue said:

RANT on digital tickets.

I fully understand digital tickets but its wrong to impose this way of ticket process on those that don't understand.

Also, the World thinks everyone has an APP. Crazy, everyone does not have an APP.

RANT over.

Season ticket holders can add them to their season ticket card

Also when you buy a digital ticket you get a pdf attachment the tickets and you can print them out

[Cherry Blue]

20 minutes ago, levi said:

Season ticket holders can add them to their season ticket card

Also when you buy a digital ticket you get a pdf attachment the tickets and you can print them out

Fully aware of that levi thanks. I'm not just getting at BRFC.

Doesn't alter my RANT. 

[levi]

9 minutes ago, Cherry Blue said:

Fully aware of that levi thanks. I'm not just getting at BRFC.

Doesn't alter my RANT. 

I'll be honest and say it does annoy me for concerts etc

 

Been taking my daughter (now 17 so ending after this years kendal calling) to concerts and festivals for the last few years....seems a shame she can't collect tickets like i used too....although it doesn't seem to bother her as she doesn't know any different

 

I do prefer digital for football though

[Gordon Gekko]

What’s the attendance looking like for this then?

[A Northern Horde...]

10-13k?

[Upside Down]

11 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

It’s £18 for non-season ticket holders isn’t it? 
I guess it’s about whether selling at say £10 (bearing in mind it’s Sunday lunch & streamable) would move the dial sufficiently to be revenue neutral. 
 

As an aside…here is a LinkedIn post from the club’s former head of marketing…👀

I can see why he didn't last long here.

[Penwortham Blue]

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

I can see why he didn't last long here.

Isn’t he the one who came from Hull City and was always saying that cutting prices didn’t work 🤷‍♂️

[Upside Down]

20 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Isn’t he the one who came from Hull City and was always saying that cutting prices didn’t work 🤷‍♂️

That was the other fella I thought.

Fraser was the younger one who replaced him, I could be wrong though.

[GHR]

Who was the lad who said his son was an Arsenal fan and other such things?

[Mattyblue]

Paul Fielder, wasn’t it? Said ‘kids don’t like football’ so don’t bother with cheaper tickets for them, should sell them ‘FIFA skins’ or something instead. 🤦‍♂️

Yeah feck the next generation of customers, marketing 101.

[SuperBrfc]

That's the one. Also supposed to have said "there's nothing special about Blackburn Rovers". The nerve to say something like that infront of a few fans. He's lucky those fans were there in a professional capacity.

Sums up this ownership though and the people they have had in senior roles. Not one of them good enough or deserving of being at this club.

[Waggy76]

I am not bothering for 3 reasons:

1 Digital Tickets .

2 Disgraceful transfer window .

3 Another daft kick off time. 

[arbitro]

With the managers policy on penalty takers (let them sort it out amongst themselves or similar) we hopefully have some tranquility when deciding the order should this game go to penalties. 

[MarkBRFC]

Sunday 12/1230 is the worst kick off time there is. Not surprised the ticket sales are really slow.

My lad plays Sunday mornings so this is a no-go, I imagine there must be hundreds of parents/kids in the same boat with grassroots football on a Sunday morning.

[philipl]

10 minutes ago, arbitro said:

With the managers policy on penalty takers (let them sort it out amongst themselves or similar) we hopefully have some tranquility when deciding the order should this game go to penalties. 

It looked like Trav was following management orders as skipper taking control of the ball and calling up the penalty taker for the two penalties I saw in real time.

The enthusiasm to take the penalties suggests they have been practicing and feel really confident.

[roversfan99]

11 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Sunday 12/1230 is the worst kick off time there is. Not surprised the ticket sales are really slow.

My lad plays Sunday mornings so this is a no-go, I imagine there must be hundreds of parents/kids in the same boat with grassroots football on a Sunday morning.

But, but...you had a couple of weeks notice.

11 minutes ago, philipl said:

It looked like Trav was following management orders as skipper taking control of the ball and calling up the penalty taker for the two penalties I saw in real time.

The enthusiasm to take the penalties suggests they have been practicing and feel really confident.

Eustace said after the penalty against Leeds that he hadnt allocated a penalty taker and judging by the nonsense after both awards in the last week, that hasnt changed.

Eustace should pick a taker/an order depending on who is on the pitch to avoid any arguments.

[levi]

24 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Sunday 12/1230 is the worst kick off time there is. Not surprised the ticket sales are really slow.

My lad plays Sunday mornings so this is a no-go, I imagine there must be hundreds of parents/kids in the same boat with grassroots football on a Sunday morning.

My lad plays Saturday's and the ko's are always after 11...add to that I now live about an hour and half away on a good run I can't make Saturday games in his season 

 

So although Sundays KO isn't great we're coming over...I'm hoping tickets start selling a bit better 

[martonrover]

14 hours ago, levi said:

Season ticket holders can add them to their season ticket card

Also when you buy a digital ticket you get a pdf attachment the tickets and you can print them out

I just save the ticket on my phone from the email and it's always scanned with no issues at the turnstile.

I work for a certain rail company which still uses faxes, so thinking of asking the ticket office to fax a ticket to me 😉 

[roverandout]

It's on bbc I player I think?

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, roverandout said:

It's on bbc I player I think?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027znp

[GHR]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Paul Fielder, wasn’t it? Said ‘kids don’t like football’ so don’t bother with cheaper tickets for them, should sell them ‘FIFA skins’ or something instead. 🤦‍♂️

Yeah feck the next generation of customers, marketing 101.

 

1 hour ago, SuperBrfc said:

That's the one. Also supposed to have said "there's nothing special about Blackburn Rovers". The nerve to say something like that infront of a few fans. He's lucky those fans were there in a professional capacity.

Sums up this ownership though and the people they have had in senior roles. Not one of them good enough or deserving of being at this club.

That's him, thanks. Reading that post from one of the ghosts of marketing past remimded me of the comments but not the commenter!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

46 minutes ago, levi said:

My lad plays Saturday's and the ko's are always after 11...add to that I now live about an hour and half away on a good run I can't make Saturday games in his season 

 

So although Sundays KO isn't great we're coming over...I'm hoping tickets start selling a bit better 

Your lad has to come first. I liked watching games but I loved playing. It’s hard to beat.