Season tickets renewed for my daughter and I. Perhaps against my better judgement, but I won't let this lot get in the way of something I've done since 1975 when my Dad took me to see us beat Plymouth 5-2 from the old Riverside stand, and the bug bit.

At some point in the season, it conceivably could be. They'd get mullered by a half decent side.

I know it was only a pre season friendly yada yada, but..... With the aforementioned players being unavailable, as things stand, it's not beyond the realms that we could be fielding that side in league games. There's not a tackle in them and they could well and truly get a hammering.

Thanks @J*B So we're basically spunking millions on salaries for no tangible benefit.

It's astonishing that we spend £15-20m more than Preston. Where exactly does that go?

Taken in isolation, no the club shouldn't be criticised for a bit of light hearted fun. But in the wider scheme of things, we have a new season looming, a complete lack of marketing to potential new customers, a complete break down in comms to existing customers, a manager who's past his sell by, a CEO who's gone AWOL, no sign of any new players, and the likely prospect of us losing our only player capable of scoring goals. They have - or should have - bigger priorities.

A free drink or food item versus....a brick and a £15 voucher at the Roverstore. Hmmm......

Maggott will try and capitalise on it by charging a fiver per letter or something daft like that. He'll be trying to count how many letters there are in the name and do the maths as we speak....

I'll turn it around then. If we somehow got promoted back to the PL under the present incumbents, do you think our attendances would stay as-is or would we see an big increase? I'd wager the latter.

Of course it's the loss of Premiership football which is the predominant reason many have disappeared. That happens at most clubs. The way the club is mismanaged simply compounds the issue with Rovers.

Same here. It's Rovers or nothing.

I'll be renewing mine and my daughter's closer to the renewal deadline; I'd like to think that there are more like us who keep hold of our money as long as we can :) and that the number will grow. Like Chaddy, I'm looking forward to getting down to Ewood again. Waggott has completely shot himself in the foot though with his pricing strategy. He's gambled on getting a decent uptake of season tickets by overpricing match day tickets, but that appears to have backfired on him. If by some remarkable reason we enjoy some on pitch success whereby we would normally have seen a good number of walk-ons, this won't happen due to the ludicrous match day prices. We could very well be stuck at sub 8k (at best) all season.

I'm sure that I saw a bus driving through Wheelton the other day advertising season tickets. Season tickets from 2 seasons ago I believe. That just about sums it up for me.

That would involve a modicum of forethought :)

We need seasoned, hardened pros who know how to scrap. Loanee youngsters aren't going to get us out of the bottom 6 when it's back to the wall come February.

Johnson, Travis, Buckley, Davenport, Rothwell. Any combination of those fills me with fear.

Mowbray has had some success with some players (Dack, Armstrong). He's also signed some absolute donkeys. His main inadequecy is that he can't piece together a 'team'. Gim him Messi, Ronaldo, De Bruyne, VVD et al.....and he'd still make a mess of it.

We know what's coming. "Working with Chile and starring in the Copa America is a lot different from working with us and he wasn't ready to play yet".

My daughter is down at Ewood this week. All the Umbro advertising etc is still in situ. No hurry eh lads?...

The pricing policy is simply laziness and shows a complete lack of imagination. No flexibility whatsoever; no effort to entice those people who perhaps can't afford or justfy a season ticket, but would go to a number of individual games. £36 is just ridiculous. 'Either give us a chunk of money up front or we'll fleece you' seems to be the strategy here.

Agreed. It's just another lazy signing.

Absolute tosh. Enter administration, and we may never come back. That's what generally happens to businesses who go bust.

I concur. I've been going since 1975 and will continue to do so long after this lot have vanished. Mowbray will be getting both barrels from me.

Less time for them to get scrutinised and resulting fine/points deduction/embargo issued before the season starts, perhaps?

If there was nothing awry, you'd think they'd just get the accounts submitted, job done. Unless of course.....