2022/23 Season Tickets Now On Sale PLUS 22/23 FIXTURES

[Barmitzvah Boy]

Who? Burnley?

No no no no no. Rovers have sold all bar 1 corporate box.

 

[Drog]

Good work by somebody then.
Tbh I'm not a fan of 'corporate' although I would love to have my seat moved to the front of the Directors box. It's a truly fantastic view from there.

 

[1SimonGarner]

I think some will be pleasantly surprised by attendances this season, obviously depending on how we do on the pitch. We were still going well in the league when we played QPR at home last season (admittedly on SKY and early KO) and got 14.293, I don't think Saturday's crowd will be far off that and if we get off to a flyer I can see us beating last season's average attendance figure this year.

A new positive manager, some promising kids coming through and 1 potentially good signing are all positives. I know we've lost some good talent from last season but hanging onto Brereton - so far - is like signing someone and overall I've got a pretty positive feeling for the season.

I know this could just be startofanewseasonitis but if we can't be positive and hopeful at this stage, it seems a bit pointless buying our tickets in the first place.

Win/lose/draw - good or bad - if the players and manager are giving their all for the club then they can rely on my support for one.

COYB'S

Ps the home tickets sold for Saturday stand at 9,478 - as of a couple of hours ago - so my early estimation with QPR bringing about a thousand to 1200 would be between 13,500 and 14,000.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

I think some will be pleasantly surprised by attendances this season, obviously depending on how we do on the pitch. We were still going well in the league when we played QPR at home last season (admittedly on SKY and early KO) and got 14.293, I don't think Saturday's crowd will be far off that and if we get off to a flyer I can see us beating last season's average attendance figure this year.

A new positive manager, some promising kids coming through and 1 potentially good signing are all positives. I know we've lost some good talent from last season but hanging onto Brereton - so far - is like signing someone and overall I've got a pretty positive feeling for the season.

I know this could just be startofanewseasonitis but if we can't be positive and hopeful at this stage, it seems a bit pointless buying our tickets in the first place.

Win/lose/draw - good or bad - if the players and manager are giving their all for the club then they can rely on my support for one.

COYB'S

Ps the home tickets sold for Saturday stand at 9,478 - as of a couple of hours ago - so my early estimation with QPR bringing about a thousand to 1200 would be between 13,500 and 14,000.

Love the optimism, you’ll do for me.

 

[Drog]

Indeed odb but 1sg should consider the time that we spent in the automatic promotion and play off positions last season which must have helped ticket sales.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Steve Waggott delivers Rovers season ticket & transfer latest

Steve Waggott says Rovers have gone over their budgeted target for season ticket sales.

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

sales approaching 8k with 11% new sales and 1k not having renewed from last season.

 

[Drog]

1000 being approx 12.5% of st sales. We are losing ground.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

1000 less 880 with the half season ticket sales to come isn’t losing ground?

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

All corporate sold out for the QPR game.

 

[1SimonGarner]

Just under 11,500 home tickets sold so far for tomorrow so 13500 to 14000 looks about right. When you consider we only got just over 10000 for our opener last season, it's at least a step in the right direction.

 

[Drog]

Not a massive turn out but a massive queue outside the Blackburn end!!

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Crowd was 14,315 (1,270 away)

 

[Drog]

We are being humbled b our neighbours. Bolton sold 14000+ ST's with expectations of 3000-5000 regular away and walk on extra's in League 1! Check his out for the 4th ranked team in Greater Manchester.
England historical attendance and performance (european-football-statistics.co.uk)
My mates a BWFC fan and when I said OK but we aren't well supported by he Asian section of the community he said neither are we. Supporters at Bolton being predominantly white,
Maybe we shouldn't look to blame Venkys, Mowbray etc so readily and instead look more inward at the thousands of drop offs who have lost passion, belonging and loyalty despite our magnificent success record over the last 30 years.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

We are being humbled b our neighbours. Bolton sold 14000+ ST's with expectations of 3000-5000 regular away and walk on extra's in League 1! Check his out for the 4th ranked team in Greater Manchester.
England historical attendance and performance (european-football-statistics.co.uk)
My mates a BWFC fan and when I said OK but we aren't well supported by he Asian section of the community he said neither are we. Supporters at Bolton being predominantly white,
Maybe we shouldn't look to blame Venkys, Mowbray etc so readily and instead look more inward at the thousands of drop offs who have lost passion, belonging and loyalty despite our magnificent success record over the last 30 years.

Hooray the penny drops.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

We are being humbled b our neighbours. Bolton sold 14000+ ST's with expectations of 3000-5000 regular away and walk on extra's in League 1! Check his out for the 4th ranked team in Greater Manchester.
England historical attendance and performance (european-football-statistics.co.uk)
My mates a BWFC fan and when I said OK but we aren't well supported by he Asian section of the community he said neither are we. Supporters at Bolton being predominantly white,
Maybe we shouldn't look to blame Venkys, Mowbray etc so readily and instead look more inward at the thousands of drop offs who have lost passion, belonging and loyalty despite our magnificent success record over the last 30 years.

Bolton is twice the size of BwD. Furthermore their fans need to watch them whilst they can as they never know what the future will bring. They should have been kicked out the league just like poor Bury.

 

[1SimonGarner]

Agree 100% Drog, it pains me to say it but there's too many Rovers "fans" that seem to see themselves as customers of the club rather than fanatics and there's a real lack of passion in a large sections of the supporters. Because of this it's easy to blame Owners, Managers, pricing etc and use these as an excuse for not going, when in reality it's their own lack of hardcore passion that's the real problem.

It may seem harsh and I know people get very defensive over this sort of thing, but the sad truth is that the Rovers have always had a pretty fickle support. We picked up thousands in the glory years of the Premier but it was inevitable that these types would drop away when the success did.

Growing up watching the Rovers in the early 80's a 10,000+ crowd was reserved for the big games with big away supports, now we have a ground holding 31,000 and the only way we're ever going to come close to filling this regularly is if we get back to Premier and get the "fickles" back in.

It's the one thing about the club that I can't help being negative about and as I say it really pains me to say it because I know there are other Rovers fans like myself that are as passionate about the club as any Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool or indeed Bolton fan out there.......... it's just sad there's not more.

 

[1SimonGarner]

1999-2000: 19.253 (Level 2)

1998-1999: 25.764 (Level 1)

1997-1998: 25.253 (Level 1)

1996-1997: 24.947 (Level 1)

1995-1996: 27.552 (Level 1)

1994-1995: 25.653 (Level 1)

1993-1994: 17.319 (Level 1)

1992-1993: 16.247 (Level 1)

1991-1992: 13.250 (Level 2)

1990-1991: 8.100 (Level 2)



1980's average: 9.003

1989-1990: 9.607 (Level 2)

1988-1989: 8.864 (Level 2)

1987-1988: 9.503 (Level 2)

1986-1987: 6.773 (Level 2)

1985-1986: 5.826 (Level 2)

1984-1985: 9.648 (Level 2)

1983-1984: 7.623 (Level 2)

1982-1983: 7.353 (Level 2)

1981-1982: 8.655 (Level 2)

1980-1981: 11.688 (Level 2)

Were did all these people come from in such a short space of time? If you're from the younger generation you may be fooled into thinking that the crowd's we're getting now is a total drop off from the norm, when the truth is the Premiership days were the exception, not what we're seeing now. I know that people will argue that football crowds on the whole in the 80's took a big hit because of the hooligan problem but the 70's attendances are pretty similar and a town the size of Blackburn is never going to regularly fill a ground as big as Ewood unless we get the very types in that I hate being sat anywhere near on match day.

Anyway, I hate being negative, it doesn't sit right with me but lack of passion is like an annoying itch with me and sometimes it needs scratching!

COYB

 

[Drog]

Hence my thinking way back when Jack swept into the club. We were in he 2nd Div (Championship) whilst every local rival back then were struggling in either the old 3rd or 4th Divisions with tiny attendances. My long term solution to providing top quality football to the 'passionate' supporters in Lancashire whom you mention SG was for Jack to buy every local club, sell their grounds to the nearest supermarket with an open cheque book and amalgamate the whole lot into one North West County team. 8000 die hards from 5 clubs is 40k in a bad season and that was enough to sustain a club in the top division. OK so now even the crowds at NUFC, Everton, Villa ec don't make them a big fish without some dodgy oligarch or arab taking them over to launder some funny money but an amalgamated Lancashire club would be a lot more attractive than li'l ol BRFC with a perennially dwindling support base. As I look into the future I see little hope for the Rovers to remain a major force in football unfortunately.

 

[1SimonGarner]

I'm a purist Drog, I'd hate the idea of Rovers ever moving ground, never mind merging with the cave men down the M65.

I can't say anything bad about Jack Walker, but his vision was for the Rovers to be an elite club competing with the big City clubs for decades to come, but his vision didn't take into account the massive injection of TV money and mega rich private owners that have made that noble vision a virtual impossibility.

Anyway enough of the negativity from me. A couple of positives as I've said elsewhere, our first home attendance was 4000 up on last year's with only a few more away fans and our away support is getting better and better. It's not all doom and gloom.

All I would say as a final word is - buying a ticket and getting to the game is only half of being a really good supporter - you've got to get involved in the atmosphere. I'll be 50 next year but I still sing like I am 18 stood on the Blackburn end, age is no excuse.

SING UP FOR THE LADS!!!!!

 

[Dunnfc]

Just bought my ticket for the Reading game next Wednesday.