Season Tickets 2025/26

[Upside Down]

19 hours ago, JHRover said:

In my experience with the stooges if there is something they aren't telling us it is because they don't want us to know about it.

If there was going to be a good offer or price reduction they would have gone public with it boasting about it by now. 

They're keeping it quiet for a reason - it will be at best a price freeze, probably an increase.

Steve and Sohail's bonuses and pensions need topping up.

A familiar dose of emotional blackmail in this advert, 

"Be part of our story"

"It is about so much more than just football"

"It is about uniting as one club, one community and one family"

Basically we can't offer you anything positive on the football front so just forget about that and buy one for the 150th anniversary and 'doing your bit' for the community and family.

Laughable. They should be ashamed and embarrassed to even mention such a landmark event given their conduct.

It's the 150th anniversary so tickets cost £150 extra.

[rigger]

3 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

It's the 150th anniversary so tickets cost £150 extra.

The tickets are certainly £150 more than what they are worth.

[Upside Down]

16 hours ago, SpaceBarSlam said:

This was exactly my thought when I received the email.

Flog 'em early before the inevitable sh*tshow that will put plenty off. 

I'm in two minds about renewing. Unbelievably disillusioned with the club and fully aware that this summer will be more scraping the barrel for short-term deals, but Rovers are a massive part of my life and one which I share with my family. Being driven out by people who don't deserve to be associated with the club is a really disheartening prospect. At the same time, I don't want to financially support the ownership and senior management. 

Tough one. 

Honestly once you stop going it's really easy to get out of the habit. Especially now with all the ridiculous kickoff times and matches being scheduled left right and centre.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Thrown away our best chance in years to get out of this league and they expect you to pay for it.

Nothing to see here.

[JHRover]

2 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Thrown away our best chance in years to get out of this league and they expect you to pay for it.

Nothing to see here.

This is the core issue for me. If I believed that things would change, that things would be done differently next time around, it would be easier to get behind. 

But they've done it 3 times in 4 years and will do it again.

If by some miracle - and I mean miracle - Ismael surprises us all and overcomes the odds to have us in promotion contention next January we know from hard experience that they will sabotage us again by refusing to back him in January.

So its all rather pointless. Even when a golden opportunity drops unexpectedly into their laps they act to throw it away, ridiculously claim to have invested in January and then expect everyone to rock up and pay to at best repeat it all again next year, probably endure far worse once inevitably the recruitment and contract policy catches up with us.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Its Soul destroying for us all,rinse and repeat...but damn well get your Hands in yer pockets and pay for the privilege!

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Upside Down]

It will be funny to see what happens next season.

Eustace is gone and will be blamed for the failure to get into the playoffs, but the guy they've replaced him with is up to fuck all so not aure how many are going to think "Plod along in this division forever at best? Yeah, I'll have some of that"

I really hope that the ticket sales totally collapse to less than 6000.

[johnradfordsubbuteo2]

12 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Good to see them being on sale so early and that the club have listen to fans and WATR. 

I will be renewing and that's my personally choice. I loved going to Ewood Park and watching my Rovers team. I go with my bro and nephew and I ain't going to giving it up. I missed enough Rovers games through covid and it was hard not being there and affected my mentally. 

People should respect other people decision whether they chose to renew, buy one or decide not to. People shouldn't bully, harass or victimize for their decision. 

Not going affected you mentally? I'm currently finding that the exact opposite is true - it affects me forcing myself to go and watch it.

Still agonising over whether or not to bother. This after 35 years as an ST holder and supporting Rovers for longer than that from about 8 years old.

And if a late middle aged git is thinking like that, it says it all about something rotten in the state of Denmark.

[chaddyrovers]

9 minutes ago, johnradfordsubbuteo2 said:

Not going affected you mentally

I was talking during Covid period and that was the first time I couldn't go to games or Ewood Park. 

I loved going Ewood Park on match days and other days.

[Michael123458]

If sky were to fuck off and it were 3 o’clock every other Saturday or other other Saturday whatever it would be cost effective. Boro Sheffield Wednesday and millwall are all on sky sports just seen April tv guide so that’s 3 straight games at home on tv. Great for some not for others. 

[Tom]

15 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Classic Waggott move.

He absolutely knows season ticket sales will be dire next season so he's getting them on sale quicker so he can say "we tried, we got the tickets on sale quicker following feedback from fan groups". Effectively trying to blame the fan base when the final sales figures or so low. "Nothing more we can do" 🙄

Even priced super low, sales would struggle for next season regardless.  Unless of course the twats in Pune sell up.

Combined with ‘we have sold x amount more tickets than this time last year (when they weren’t on sale), record March sales!’

[Mattyblue]

‘Record sales for this stage’ was an actual line they were spouting the other summer… we ended up selling a very much non-record 9k.

I suppose the pre-regime BRFC with its c20k ST holders now belongs to another timeline somewhere.

[Mercer]

43 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I was talking during Covid period and that was the first time I couldn't go to games or Ewood Park. 

I loved going Ewood Park on match days and other days.

Have you not thought about buying a house close to the ground in the Ewood area?

Think of all the erotic dreams it might provide you with!

[Claytons Left Boot]

1 hour ago, johnradfordsubbuteo2 said:

Not going affected you mentally? I'm currently finding that the exact opposite is true - it affects me forcing myself to go and watch it.

Made me laugh that. Never a truer word.

From being 15 years old or so, I had a season ticket for the following 40+ years. Venky’s plus a 100 mile round trip, when we moved house, caused me to jack it in. I take in 2 or 3 games a season now and that is enough. 

It’s astonishingly easy to get out of the habit of going. I never thought it would happen to me but it has. If Venky’s were to sell, I still probably wouldn’t buy one but I would come to several more games each season.

4k adult season ticket holders this season tells its own story and next season this will probably fall to 3.75 to 3.8k. Abysmal.

Venky’s couldn’t give a f*ck either way but Waggott and Suhail must think the fans are f*cking idiots. They certainly treat us like we are.

I think Waggott senses there will be supporter unrest gathering momentum and he’ll be wanting away before too long. That massive hike (and I mean massive) in his annual pension contributions from the club has convinced me of that.
 

 

 

[martonrover]

Not a penny more until the ownership changes.

 

[chaddyrovers]

4 hours ago, Michael123458 said:

If sky were to fuck off and it were 3 o’clock every other Saturday or other other Saturday whatever it would be cost effective. Boro Sheffield Wednesday and millwall are all on sky sports just seen April tv guide so that’s 3 straight games at home on tv. Great for some not for others. 

The Millwall is on Good Friday and 3pm kick off. Yes it is shown Sky as are all EFL club games as part of the deal. 

Sheffield Wednesday game was always schedule for that midweek either on Tuesday or Wednesday. 

[Mattyblue]

So like he said those three straight games are on Sky… just as the STs come out, another reason for folk to think ‘feck renewing’.

[Ghost7]

Never felt so detached from the regime. Had a few more days to consider next season, it's a hard pass and nothing to do with the players. I think a major decline in attendances is where the new beginning starts....

5 year project - starve the absent ownership out!

Spearheaded by a very dislikable, plodder of a CEO, Steve Waggott.

Keep up the good work Venky's keeping him in employment 👍🏻

[Valconite]

Some poor sods are going to fall for these early sales and renew. In our household however it will be our 5th season where we will not be renewing. We will not return until Venkys have fucked off.

Edited 12 hours ago by Valconite

[Ferrit]

Zero chance of me buying one with the fucking circus going on. Imagine directly financing that weasel Maggots pay rise.

No thanks.

[Wheelton Blue]

7 hours ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

I think Waggott senses there will be supporter unrest gathering momentum and he’ll be wanting away before too long. That massive hike (and I mean massive) in his annual pension contributions from the club has convinced me of that.
 

 

 

I reckon the pension hike was a 'golden handcuffs' type arrangement and he'll soon be off, probably at the season end.

Then it will be 'Rudy, come on down...'

[M_B]

2 hours ago, Valconite said:

Some poor sods are going to fall for these early sales and renew. In our household however it will be our 5th season where we will not be renewing. We will not return until Venkys have fucked off.

We're keeping ours just in case, if Venkys do sell you'll never get a seat, there'll be about 150000 banging the doors down 🙄

[Mattyblue]

If only, they’ve long gone and why wouldn’t you after 12 years of doing something else with your weekends (and cash).

[Upside Down]

8 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

‘Record sales for this stage’ was an actual line they were spouting the other summer… we ended up selling a very much non-record 9k.

I suppose the pre-regime BRFC with its c20k ST holders now belongs to another timeline somewhere.

That's Blackburn Rovers you're talking about though. That club hasn't existed for 15 years.

This is venky FC.

[chaddyrovers]

40 minutes ago, M_B said:

We're keeping ours just in case, if Venkys do sell you'll never get a seat, there'll be about 150000 banging the doors down 🙄

I have heard this time and time, I wonder how many would actually come back

11 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

That's Blackburn Rovers you're talking about though. That club hasn't existed for 15 years.

This is venky FC.

no this Blackburn Rovers FC. The club does exist. Supporters continue to back the club, attend games and pay their hard earned cash to watch their Rovers team.