Jan 4th Sea of Blue and White

[J*B]

44 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Unless the whole end block sold out on day 1 I’m pretty sure at least the first 10/15 or so rows haven’t gone on sale (which they’ve done before so seems a reasonable assumption).

2,478 tickets still available on the website. 

[rigger]

3 hours ago, damo100 said:

End block JW correct 

End block RS I'm not so sure.

In the end block of the Riverside there is one seat advertised as still available

[Makrover]

Surprised that riverside hasn’t been filled especially near the Darwin end

[Mattyblue]

Why? There’s weeks to go and it’s £35-£45 a ticket for a TV game just after Xmas and new year.

Though regardless of all that it is still looking like it will be the best Dingle game crowd in years.

Edited Monday at 17:44 by Mattyblue

[damo100]

I remember a week or so back someone getting his knickers in a twist telling us all they'd be 18.5k max attendance. 

 

[Ossydave]

Playing them twats always attracts more fans, playing them when we're performing well obviously attracts many more.  Just glad it's on the Saturday as the following Monday will be a monumental struggle as it is without a super Sunday piss up 🤣

[JHRover]

Currently looking at a gate of about 20,800 based on tickets sold with about 5200 maximum remaining available were they to open the BBE upper. Would be good to sell most of those and get up past 25k but still think it is a poor do that we always seem to fall a long, long, long way short of Ewood's capacity.

Edited Monday at 21:01 by JHRover

[Mattyblue]

Way it is with only 9,000 ST holders… I won’t bore you all with my mantra that I usually follow that statement with .

[damo100]

53 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Way it is with only 9,000 ST holders… I won’t bore you all with my mantra that I usually follow that statement with .

To look at it another way, a few fans didn't bother with ST's this season due to the new Sky TV deal and the ridiculous rearranged games and kick off times.

Pick and choose...

[Upside Down]

3 hours ago, damo100 said:

To look at it another way, a few fans didn't bother with ST's this season due to the new Sky TV deal and the ridiculous rearranged games and kick off times.

Pick and choose...

And the price of the season ticket that didn't factor in any of this.

At the end of the day if you don't like the price of the tickets then don't buy one. It seems that many folk have done this.

Also if there's only 2500 tickets left for sale then that surely means we're looking at an attendance of around 28,000. Alas it's a piss poor 20,000 as the disgusting troll has closed a third of the ground.

 

[Mattyblue]

That may well be one of the reasons why we only have 9k ST holders (though we also had 9k pre the TV deal and I’d say it would be next summer where the Championship will see the impact of this deal) but it doesn’t alter the fact that even if we sell, say, 9,000 walk ons, which is a huge amount at these prices, unprecedented in many ways, we still will only have 18k home fans in the ground and it will lead to Ewood still not being particularly close to capacity. 

You can’t sell out at Ewood with such a pathetic ST base - and that’s on the powers that be and their policies.
 

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

34 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

That may well be one of the reasons why we only have 9k ST holders (though we also had 9k pre the TV deal and I’d say it would be next summer where the Championship will see the impact of this deal) but it doesn’t alter the fact that even if we sell, say, 9,000 walk ons, which is a huge amount at these prices, unprecedented in many ways, we still will only have 18k home fans in the ground and it will lead to Ewood still not being particularly close to capacity. 

You can’t sell out at Ewood with such a pathetic ST base - and that’s on the powers that be and their policies.
 

Not defending the prices but if we had more ST holders, we’d get fewer walk ons. Even with reduced ticket prices in recent years, we’ve not come close to filling Ewood. Oxford was the closest since relegation and that was 7 years ago plus included a range of factors beyond price that won’t apply to most games.

[Mattyblue]

No, higher ST sales don’t lead to noticeably fewer walk ons here, never has. Any season we sell more STs, the numbers of home fans in the ground week by week usually goes up by around that amount, and that’s also true on the flip side if we lose ST holders.

Been the case here for 30 years and it’s why ST sales are vitally important. 

 

*P.S we don’t sell Ewood out because the ground is far too big for where we find ourselves. It was built for a small town club winning the league title not one spending a decade plus in the lower leagues with errant owners.

Edited Tuesday at 06:59 by Mattyblue

[Forever Blue]

23 hours ago, roverandout said:

I'm thinking of going with my mates. Is the Riverside sold out

That’s another ticket sold 😉

[MarkBRFC]

7 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Also if there's only 2500 tickets left for sale then that surely means we're looking at an attendance of around 28,000. Alas it's a piss poor 20,000 as the disgusting troll has closed a third of the ground.

Bare in mind there is around 3.5k empty in the away end, and 3k still empty in the Blackburn End upper.

We'll be nowhere near 28k, for the reason's you have stated.

Edited Tuesday at 09:16 by MarkBRFC

[Mattyblue]

I’ll get pelters for this but I’d have given them the full end (obviously I wouldn’t have had last time to watch them celebrate a league title win).

We could’ve been looking at our biggest second tier gate since 2001 if we had.

Edited Tuesday at 09:28 by Mattyblue

[damo100]

24 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

I’ll get pelters for this but I’d have given them the full end (obviously I wouldn’t have had last time to watch them celebrate a league title win).

We could’ve been looking at our biggest second tier gate since 2001 if we had.

I agree, we give the Nobbers the full end so why not the unwashed?

Shame. 

[Forever Blue]

How many tickets did Burnley get?

Edited Tuesday at 10:08 by Forever Blue

[Uddersfelt Blue]

We can’t afford to restrict allocations to away fans regardless of who we are playing but I suspect it’s on police advice, safety blah blah blah…

[Mattyblue]

To be fair 7,000+ tickets is not a ticket allocation we need to give. We have billionaire owners who have no impediment to fund the club and we are miles away from FFP worries.

We choose to give enormous allocations when up to 3,000 is the standard across the league, indeed there are many clubs with plenty of empty seats in their grounds that still wouldn’t hand out more than 3k. Me personally I’d rather see a full Darwen End than massed banks of empty seats, but let’s not pretend it’s that or poverty.

[JHRover]

Well Millwall, QPR, PNE, Swansea, Watford all examples of clubs that are able to compete in this league, spend money on players, not sell £40 million of talent and still do so with capacities of around 20,000 without a need to provide vast allocations to away teams. I'm sure the repugnant Venkys would boastfully claim to be richer than their owners too, with no impediment on their funding according to their spokesman/snake oil salesman.

Personally I hate the reputation we have as being a grand day out for all and sundry and I think a huge allocation being issued is basically setting away clubs a challenge to fill it and have a good day.

What I would like to see is tiered pricing. The Riverside is the least popular stand (usually a maximum of 1500 in a capacity of 4500). It is the worst stand for facilities - uncovered seats for the front 10 rows, obstructed view seats for all rows higher than 15, uncovered walkway, no concourse, limited bar and catering outlets. With all this in mind it should be cheaper than the rest of the ground.

It annoys me no end that a long standing Rovers fan who decides to go to the dingle game elects to sit in the Riverside (at this point other than very limited numbers in the JW wings this is the main availability) are going to be paying £33 (the same as a dingle) to enjoy inferior facilities and views to a dingle.

That stand should be priced according to its facilities and then when we play the likes of Leeds, dingles, Sunderland we can still charge away fans £30+ and Waggott can get his figures up but there is still a route for Rovers fans to go and pay substantially less.

[Michael123458]

Can’t wait for this but got Leeds ticket sorted today scummy Leeds and dingles 4 days apart you couldn’t make it up. 6 points RTID!!!

[tomphil]

I laugh at the reduced allocation triggering that lot and 7k dingles isn't my idea of heaven but it does reek of hypocrisy when they'll give that number to Leeds and Sunderland.

Both those sets of fans have more aggro potential than little old Bumley, yes they have a degree of plebs but most of those morons don't even attend the turd they just hang around their town centre looking for away fans to confront.

If it was sales to ST holders only for them the majority are just ordinary fans like our lot but this club and Lancs police just cannot be arsed allowing the game to be what it should be, the showcase of Lancashire football.

[BlueNWhiteArmy]

I think they should just give the unwashed upper tier just so they have to walk further 🤣

[47er]

If we're broke and we clearly are, why wouldn't we welcome the  money from several thousand Burnley fans?

Is it to prevent us losing? If so it hasn't worked for years has it?

If support were a big factor we wouldn't win any away game would we? 

And we still beat Leeds! So it doesn't make any sense to me.