I don’t know Matt. If they do then they are exposed to the risks as outlined. I'll give an example to bring this to life - an esteemed former poster on this MB cancelled his standing order to V12 (or it may have been Premium Credit at the time) midway through the season a few years ago. Because the football was sh1t and he hated Venkys, etc. He proudly delivered a concourse rant at the next home game, happy as Larry that his ST card still worked. Of course it did. Next month he had default notices from whichever finance provider it was and his credit rating was trashed. Football clubs have enough problems to deal with and providing finance (with the associated risks and consequences) should not be added to the list. Hopefully more mainstream banks will follow what Nat West have done and make difficult transactions easier while we are all being screwed by escalating costs.

I like this idea and I'd probably take it up if it was an option, but there is a very simple reason why it won't ever be for a club in the Championship. Income completely dries up in the summer because there are no fixtures. Clubs (not just us) totally rely on ST sales to be able to pay wages and operating costs from May though to August. Also, finance providers like V12 take on the risk of default, so Rovers get the ST money when it's needed. If the club offered this subscription model themselves and had a crap start to the season, maybe a couple of thousand fans cancel their direct debits - that's a massive hit to projected income. I bank with Nat West, and they have just launched a Buy Now Pay Later virtual Mastercard, 0% interest for purchases over £50 which you can then pay off over 4 months. This is the future (it's like Klarna but respectable) so I will use that to pay for my ST next season. It's a much better option than V12 finance.

Club set it up.

Also, both of ITV and BBC North West had done live broadcasts from Rovers within 48 hours of the match. Below a tweet from national BBC Breakfast, Monday morning. Do you really think all of that just happens automatically whilst staff at Ewood "shrug their shoulders"?

Erm, Rovers Ladies have been at the forefront of the women's game for the best part of 20 years. That's why those three were here before United or City had anything to match. Would you have even known that they were, if you hadn't been spoon fed the tweet quoted above? Which like it or not is exactly Rovers taking the "great opportunity to promote Ladies football at the club on the back of that momentous victory" 🤷‍♂️

There was a music band on in Blues Bar after the Bristol City game. If they build a pub where you suggest then that would be bad for car parking facilities. And it would compete with Blues which is already struggling.

If you think that the latest contract offered to Nyambe is still the same as he was offered two years ago then more fool you. The biggest fool though is his idiot of an agent, who now has an injured player soon to be out of contact and no takers. In the circumstances his best option is likely to be to stay here, but if (IF) we do go up he's not good enough to play in the Premier League so he'll end up shafted. Thanks to his idiot agent.

Please display your evidence proving "we" are the club that complains about those matters? Because you make it sound like none of the other 92 ever mention it. I can't even remember when anyone from Rovers did mention anything about it. BwD population is 149,000. Bolton is 263,000. So that's another lie from you to undermine the club, which you do on a regular basis. Answer the real question, why do Bolton need next years ST money in February? Take your head out of the sand before you reply.

Then try to remove it and look at things from a different perspective for once in your life. Having STs on sale in February is ridiculous. It points to a desperate need for immediate cash.

When they get relegated it will probably be a whole lot worse.

Your lack of understanding is breathtaking. Undersoil heating is to prevent the pitch from freezing. Having it switched on during heavy snow is an absolute no-no. As for not covering it, well that's a last resort for when snow is a certainty. Given that when I was out driving just after 10am and not one single road had been gritted, and the A666 through Darwen was gridlocked for 3 hours as a result, I'd suggest that neither Rovers orthe council had any idea that weather was going to happen.

Give over. Your constant mission to slag off Rovers is making you miss the bleeding obvious. If Bolton need to be selling 4000 Season Tickets by the middle of February, their cash flow is utterly f*cked.

About time too. When there are dozens if not hundreds of "fans" congregating in N01 despite not having tickets for N01 it was becoming massively unsafe in there. I know some people who have had STs for 20 years about half way up, they have had to move them because game after game they were finding intruders in their seats and having to practically start fights to get their own seats back! It's the same mentality as described by the OP, it's a selfish sense of entitlement which empowers these kids (and it's mainly kids) to do what the f*** they like regardless of the effect their actions have on anybody else.

Steve Bruce has just had a rather nice house built near Knutsford. WBA is the perfect job for him location wise.

Yes there were. Amazingly they didn't even have to bring them from Brockhall.