I didn't say it wasn't technically correct, but it's clearly divisive terminology. The whole farce is blown hugely out of proportion in a bid to save face because ST sales were well below target. The concessions queue outside the Blackburn End was huge. Given the turnstiles light up different colours for each ticket category, these manual checks are entirely unnecessary and to employ an outside company to do it is likely to cost more than its worth. What inconveniences supporters here is the additional checks imposed by the club, not the 28 year old using a 18-23 ticket because he couldn't afford £451 for an adult season ticket. That action has zero impact on any other match-going fan. It'd be ideal if they dealt with the problem as and when it occurs on a matchday without putting out weekly statements and treating the fanbase like criminals. Maybe they could even try a bit of reflection into why some fans might feel the need to use an incorrect ticket.

Phrases like "cheat the system" and "defraud the club" are deliberately divisive. Making this very small minority (not "a significant number" like the club have claimed) out to be the enemy of the rest of the fanbase. Somebody trying it on with a concession ticket isn't inconveniencing anybody else - it is the club that have made the decision to bring in an external company to carry out (inefficient and unnecessary) ticket checks on entry.

It's been written to turn fans against each other and some people have lapped it up. Question: if an adult buys a junior ticket at £127, but couldn't afford an adult ticket at £451, is that £125 of gained revenue or £324 of lost revenue, in a stadium less than 50% full?

And you can't even use the 10% off in the Roverstore to knock a bit of money off the new kit! £5 price increase on last season and fewer benefits. Waggott out.

Probably because it wasn't a guaranteed embarrassing defeat like it was under the previous manager.

Think a few are flying into Bratislava. Graz is the closest airport but no direct flights.

As much as a handful of Rovers fans wanting to watch Rovers in a friendly in some Austrian backwater is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, this is just the latest in a long line of examples of Rovers showing sheer contempt for the fanbase.

If we're classing 04/05 as a lighter blue kit then most of our kits fall into that bracket!

2014/15 and 2018/19. Before that was the early 90s. Most of our kits in our early years used the lighter blue.

It's not a choice between the two though is it? Just like with the season ticket pricing structure, though no doubt someone will be along shortly to say that we wouldn't have been able to sign Tronstad or Sigurdsson if we only charged £280.

I don't think a location was ever rumoured but the rumour was 2 games, one on Friday 14th and one on Saturday 15th. The rumours have now dried up and there's radio silence from the club regarding it. Meanwhile a club 10 miles west of us have laid on free coaches from Benidorm to their game 90 minutes away. Chalk and cheese compared to the shambles behind the scenes at Ewood.

Where Waggott really got me was his treatment of young adults during the Covid season and the season after. I paid £179 for a season ticket and didn't see a single live game. When the next season rolled round, any adult or senior who bought a season ticket in 20/21 got a decent wedge knocked off. Young adults got absolutely nothing, because we got iFollow. No consideration given to either any games on Sky, or households with more than one season ticket (or how easy it was to watch games without an iFollow subscription, but that's a fine line to tread). It stank.

It isn't unknown for both us and Burnley to be at home on the same day/night... it's normally avoided obviously but it's happened at least once recently.

This. For anyone under the age of 21, the only piece of success they've been around for was the League One season. A group of people who are too young to even remember the relative heights of the mid 2000s. Admittedly the ST prices for those under 23 are good compared to the adult prices, but when these young adults turn 23 and their season ticket more than doubles in price, plenty will think twice about renewing. The cut off was 25 for a brief period but this was quietly changed; another one of Waggott's bright ideas.

IIRC the Blackburn End was single seats only above about row 12 before the 'save your seat' deadline. Just look at the state of the seat map now. Hundreds of non-renewals. Waggott out.

Barring some radical change both on and off the pitch, I won’t be renewing for next season. Been a season ticket holder since I was 8 years old but I can’t justify spending hundreds of pounds on something I simply don’t enjoy anymore. I get the feeling that I’m far from the only person with this stance either.

I do believe the Riverside price hike was brought in for the 2020/21 season under the guise of 'if we have to enforce social distancing it's easier to move people around if everyone has paid the same'. I can somewhat understand that logic being retained last summer but it's abundantly clear that all of that is well and truly in the past. But this is Waggott we're on about, and stealth price rises are his speciality.

Are we supposed to be happy with these prices?

Similar to a 'glory hunter'. It's what North Enders call us. It's mainly seeded in bitterness at what we achieved in the 90s/00s, with very little fact behind it. They call us 'plastics' while constantly complaining about the number of Liverpool/United fans there are in Preston. The irony is fairly spectacular.

I feel similar. Or given it's the 30th anniversary of the play-off final, this should have been the away kit this year with the red and black one held back for next season. I can't think of any games where we need to wear this kit this season.

I do think I'd rather have no atmosphere than have the only atmosphere be generated by the away fans.

I assume they're finally sorting out removing the hold from seats reserved for people who haven't renewed in two years.

That's poor form too IMO. It was generous holding people's seats who hadn't renewed last season in the first place. We're now 4 days away from the first home game and they're still holding back thousands of seats for people who clearly aren't renewing. They're still on sale now, but the 'claim your seat' deadline looks to have been extended yet again. It's a shambles. A cynic would suggest they're trying to cover up the horrifically low number of STs sold this year.

2-1 loss. Arma to score his last ever goal for the club. Attendance an embarassing 9k.

I've no idea what Rovers are playing at with the constant extending of the renewal deadline, as if thousands of fans are going to have some sort of epiphany and renew 4 days before the season starts, after having all summer to claim their seat. Apart from the far end of N05, there aren't two available seats next to each other in the Blackburn End above about row 5. There's no chance that the BBE is >85% full of season ticket holders so I'm not sure who they're trying to kid by pretending it is. All that's happening is they're pissing off anyone who either wants to move seats or wants to bring a partner/children along, or both in my case.