I personally don’t think £400 is outrageous, it’s what PNE generally charge, as an example. But I’m a fanatic who spends far too much time obsessing about all things Blackburn Rovers. For others, I do think psychologically when prices start hitting £400 in the BBEnd and head towards £550 in the JW upper, a good number won’t renew. 2003 to 2008 backs up that view.

Just a hunch on my part. The club increased sales on the back of a feel good factor, may have been more if they’d have been held price wise. But who knows. We are only back at the level we were pre the Coyle appointment, so nothing to shout about. But if prices head get towards £400 in the Blackburn End and £500+ in the Jack Walker upper I think we’ll have problems retaining what we have now, nevermind further increases. Rovers fans are very price sensitive. Don’t forget, the reason ‘Taking Back Ewood’ was launched in 2008 was to try and reverse the big drop in crowds between 2003 and 2008 - a drop largely due to ever increasing prices and that was for an established Premier League outfit full of quality players and everything else that comes with being in the top flight.

We’ve now got 10,000 season ticket holders. Which isn’t far off 2,000 up from our last season in this league and last season. As a result the home crowd is around 12,000 fans each week instead of 10,000. It’s a start, but it shows that the only consistent way to raise crowds is increasing the season ticket holder base (promotion aside). Up to Waggott to try and get the offer right this summer. Another £50 on the cost won’t do it...

Need to get us involved, we’ll give Waggott a team by team breakdown in advance.

Oh and another... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/is-today-an-alternative-reality.1459806/

He got a rousing reception from the fans yesterday. Even the JW upper were giving the ‘REEDY REEDY’ chant some welly. He seemed to really appreciate it when he was waking off after being subbed. Ewood loves a grafter, and this lad can play as well.

An away support of 1200 put in the lower tier. Is that the end of the upper tier experiment for the sub 2k followings now?

They are one step ahead... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/rodwell-scores.1459758/

Mowbray on Chapman (surely it should be the case for BB too?) “If he is going to sit on our bench or not even get in the 18 for the next three or four months then he might as well go and play some football and get fit and get some confidence and come back pre-season ready to try and get in our team.”

The girl a few rows in front of me who also does a vlog has just been approached by a steward and handed a letter...

They got rid of season tickets too. Think they pay an all year round monthly membership instead, but you need to give a few months notice to cancel. Odd set up

Their sales best pick up quick then. Just over a 1,000 sold so far...

In his pomp I thought Paul Scholes was a superb player, ripped us to shreds on a few occasions. Thierry Henry was another.

Mogga in today’s LT... “It should be a really good game and I hope the fans recognise the importance of this game and we get decent numbers in the crowd.” Hope he’ll be in Waggott’s ear too. As only an increase in season ticket holders will see the increase in crowds we all want (with a few offers till May, of course)...

According to wiki he is now playing for Real Monarchs (Real Salt Lake’s reserve team)

Orr revealed the way Kean has handled himself calls for a great deal of respect. "The gaffer stood out there tonight and took a lot of stick, I've got nothing but admiration and respect for him," Orr said. "He's done everything he could to push us in the right direction and motivate us. "The tactics, training, everything - one man who can look in the mirror and say he's given everything is the manager. "I'll speak for the dressing room and thank him for what he's done, he's taken things on the chin that he shouldn't have had to. "The supporters voice their opinions in whatever way they want towards the owners, the players and the manager. Sometimes a line can be crossed and the way the gaffer's handled things is exemplary. "He's certainly the best I've worked with as far as managers go. "It's easy for people to pass the buck but the reality is the group of players fell short, it's us that need to take responsibility. "We've let the gaffer down because everything he's done has been geared to pushing us forward and we haven't done that."

Danny Murphy in that debacle against Peterborough, 3-0 down after about 25 minutes and I think he was hauled off before half time. Didnt lift a leg, that’s why I always want to throw something at the TV when he bangs on about ‘work rate’.

Unless it's a purely business decision. Sign him up on a new contract for peanuts and flog him to a League 1 club in the summer...

He isn’t the standard required for a club with aspirations of top 6 in the Championship. Simple as that.

Bizarre one that. He’ll never make it at our level, won’t attract much in the way of a fee as he’s a lower league standard player on a one year deal. I had just assumed he’d be finishing the season at Southend and then ta ra. Gladwin next then, I assume?

The 5-0 at Coventry (was it Boxing Day '95 in the snow? Orange ball!) was the game when it really came home to me that we had thrown away our chance to be a sustained player at the top of the Premier League. Big mistakes had been made that summer. Ray getting the job, no (proper) signings. A team that had fallen over the line needed refreshing from a position of strength and we blew it. Obviously it wouldn't have lasted for ever, football was changing and we wouldn't have competed with the oil clubs, but we had a chance to really build the club up as the powerhouse outfit of the region outside the Manchester and Liverpool sides. In the blink of an eye it had gone

Rodwell has done well, but it was against two of the poorest teams in the division, Was it Swansea away that he was pulled over the place and looked anything but a centre half? He's probably grown into the role since, but lets not get silly re Mulgrew.

There is no doubt that the club is now infinitely better run than any other time between 2011 and Relegation vol. 2. However, for me he hasn’t as yet understood our fanbase/catchment area. He sees a 31,000 ground, a PL pedigree, fantastic training ground and academy, so expects *relative*success to bring folk flooding back. Williams understood from day 1 that though we have an extremely loyal core - this past decade has proved that, our floating fanbase is not at a city club level, so you have to work bloody hard first to get them in, and then keep them. A sniff of success at Waggott’s former club Coventry and their wide fanbase across the city and Warwickshire will swell their small core crowds immediately and substantially. Doesn’t work like that here and I hope he’s finally working that out.

Nobody else have a real feel of schadenfreude seeing those protests last night?

Or even more galling, that lot have a well organised branch set up. O2G - Does the club have any plans relating to this ? As I personally think we are missing a trick. https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/fans/supporters-clubs/