Wilpshire Blue
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Five. Then the wife told me to “stop making that noise”
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Wilpshire Blue
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Pay for your beer and pie with your season ticket soon.
Doesn't mention any discount though
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...season-tickets-to-pay-for-beer-at-ewood-park/
Doesn't mention any discount though
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...season-tickets-to-pay-for-beer-at-ewood-park/
"Mr Murray said: “If you go to a Bundesliga game in Germany, this is typical, so it’s a step in to the 21st Century.
“Football is an industry where a lot intensity in the 15 minutes before the match and the 15 minutes at half-time. So to get something to eat and drink at half-time you either have to leave your seat early and miss some of the game, or waste 20 minutes in a queue."
A typical contradiction from someone who should know better..... 15 mins at HT followed by an admission that it takes 20 effin mins to get served!!! What tf are they paying him for?
It's something that has happened all my life and which I simply cannot comprehend and never will. With 10-15 minutes max available for supporters to get served in the concourse and get back to their seats why tf can football clubs never manage to serve them all in that time? With people queuing up to hand over money as fast as they can the catering companies can quite simply never deliver. Granted there is always the 'pay peanuts get monkeys' scenario but modern tills make the job of serving people take twice the time it should. No bugger can add up in their heads anymore and the tills need the products actually keying in by the frequently gormless assistant rather than the actual amount. It's bloody pathetic watching modern youth and even more modern technology combine in screwing what should be a simple task. Even stranger that no one in a position of authority seems willing, able or capable of doing it. Mr Murray obviously being quite happy to accept it as the norm.... I wonder if he worked with Northern Rail before he got his current job?
“Football is an industry where a lot intensity in the 15 minutes before the match and the 15 minutes at half-time. So to get something to eat and drink at half-time you either have to leave your seat early and miss some of the game, or waste 20 minutes in a queue."
A typical contradiction from someone who should know better..... 15 mins at HT followed by an admission that it takes 20 effin mins to get served!!! What tf are they paying him for?
It's something that has happened all my life and which I simply cannot comprehend and never will. With 10-15 minutes max available for supporters to get served in the concourse and get back to their seats why tf can football clubs never manage to serve them all in that time? With people queuing up to hand over money as fast as they can the catering companies can quite simply never deliver. Granted there is always the 'pay peanuts get monkeys' scenario but modern tills make the job of serving people take twice the time it should. No bugger can add up in their heads anymore and the tills need the products actually keying in by the frequently gormless assistant rather than the actual amount. It's bloody pathetic watching modern youth and even more modern technology combine in screwing what should be a simple task. Even stranger that no one in a position of authority seems willing, able or capable of doing it. Mr Murray obviously being quite happy to accept it as the norm.... I wonder if he worked with Northern Rail before he got his current job?
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Barmitzvah Boy
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No thanks. I take my own food and drink into the ground, my coats have big pockets.Pay for your beer and pie with your season ticket soon.
Doesn't mention any discount though
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...season-tickets-to-pay-for-beer-at-ewood-park/
https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2018/august/lets-pack-ewood-on-a-regular-basis-says-tony/
“The results will dictate what happens in the stands. The team have to make the people proud when they pull on the shirt. They need to work hard, fight for every ball, tackle, score goals and play with their heart and emotions. " TM
Might start with selecting more inspiring strips that we would ALL have been proud of instead of the washed out 1st team shirt and decidedly off the peg, povi away cheapo.
“The results will dictate what happens in the stands. The team have to make the people proud when they pull on the shirt. They need to work hard, fight for every ball, tackle, score goals and play with their heart and emotions. " TM
Might start with selecting more inspiring strips that we would ALL have been proud of instead of the washed out 1st team shirt and decidedly off the peg, povi away cheapo.
Barmitzvah Boy
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I wonder what the ST prices will be for 2019/20?
I am aware that Rovers are concerned at the low home gates this season. For the Wigan game last week the gate was announced at something like 12,500. The actual home gate thru the turnstiles was 8,200 with an additional 1,200 Wigan fans giving us 9,400 in total.
I suspect they will try and extract more from those who bother to attend.
I am aware that Rovers are concerned at the low home gates this season. For the Wigan game last week the gate was announced at something like 12,500. The actual home gate thru the turnstiles was 8,200 with an additional 1,200 Wigan fans giving us 9,400 in total.
I suspect they will try and extract more from those who bother to attend.
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
I expect they will go up but hopefully not by too much.
Now that you can pay for beer and pies with them, perhaps they could include a half price drink each match or some other inducement to make the ST appear to be better value?
Now that you can pay for beer and pies with them, perhaps they could include a half price drink each match or some other inducement to make the ST appear to be better value?
IPTV and Red button technology plus the changing demography of the area will only make things worse for EVERY club. For instance I currently am able to watch virtually every away match live on the TV this season. I think we've only missed one to date. Perhaps the demise of BWFC and Oldham would help and delay the inevitable Lancashire County.
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Is that right ? Wow those sorts of home attendances take me back to some of the dark , depressing evenings of the late 1970s . It was an atrocious night but as Drog says the red button doesn’t help . However there is a major elephant in the room .
I’m sure Rovers have some of the most flaky and fickle fans around and reading some of the posts on BRFCS confirms that . Posts like “ I’ve got out of the habit “ “ I now do other things on a Saturday “ “ I watch Rugby Union ( or League ) “ . Yes they’d probably return if Rovers returned to the Premier League , but the chances of that are pretty slim , if we’re all honest , so you can probably write them off as fans .
Let’s look other ‘ big’ Lancashire town clubs Burnley , Preston and Bolton ( yes Bolton currently have different problems but so would the Rovers if Venkeys upped and left )
I think Rovers are in the biggest trouble as far as attendances go ( although the others are affected to a lesser extent ) purely down to the fact that the town’s population is now almost half Pakistani/Indian heritage and on the rise .
I’d be fascinated to see how many season ticket holders come from that community. I’m afraid eventually that demographic change will kill any prospect of maintaining decent attendances at Rovers as a championship/ League 1 club .
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steve w
Senior Member
Was just about to press the like button until the last couple of words. Although I agree with both you and OOT if the worst happens (and it will - just not in my lifetime I hope) I could never get behind anybody but BRFC
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-championship-2018-2019/1/
Some much bigger clubs in the Championship than the Premier League .
Average crowds here . Bolton above Rovers and Preston and Wigan below . All four more or less in the bottom third .
I agree with Steve , I could never support anyone but the Rovers . I was brought up in and around Accrington and go to watch Stanley from time to time but they’re not my team and never will be , no matter what happens to the Rovers. I’d have even less affinity to a combined Lancashire town team - that’s just not football ( leave it to cricket )
Some much bigger clubs in the Championship than the Premier League .
Average crowds here . Bolton above Rovers and Preston and Wigan below . All four more or less in the bottom third .
I agree with Steve , I could never support anyone but the Rovers . I was brought up in and around Accrington and go to watch Stanley from time to time but they’re not my team and never will be , no matter what happens to the Rovers. I’d have even less affinity to a combined Lancashire town team - that’s just not football ( leave it to cricket )
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Barmitzvah Boy
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Sadly OOT the gate figures I quoted are correct.
And yes, Rovers fans are fickle.
And yes, Rovers fans are fickle.
steve w
Senior Member
someone at work asked me how many were on? and I guessed at 8k max (inc Wigan) - never in a million years was there 12,5k
I believe that the attendance figure take into account ALL the ST's whether they attend or not as the seat has been paid for.
I sit with 4 ST holders (3 from Manchester area) and one local. Against Wigan for one reason or another none of them were able to attend and I was sat on my own.
I sit with 4 ST holders (3 from Manchester area) and one local. Against Wigan for one reason or another none of them were able to attend and I was sat on my own.
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Crucial that the Rovers try to keep season tickets at a minimum of 10,000 , as I guess there are very few who buy tickets game by game .
Maybe OOT but our generation are rapidly becoming part of the past. Any Marketeer would suggest that a football club has to constantly attract a new generation and that is mighty difficult with the money and glamour of the Prem and ridiculous media allegiance to the big clubs. Lets be honest you support Rovers because back when you were young Accy stanley were history and the choice unless you wanted to become a plastic was either BRFC or BFC.
I rem when BRFC got a decent match report but now it's usually a brief sentence in a collective Championship round up. Kids want more than that don't they? They demand instant success and even more so than in the dark days for small clubs of the 60's and 70's when the abolishment of the maximum wage had dealt clubs like ours an almost fatal body blow.
Football unfortunately is a business, as Jack Walker insisted almost 30 years ago. IF football was invented today instead of 150 years ago there is no way whatsoever would it be made up of 92 professional clubs. Any such proposal would be laughed off the negotiating table. Transport and modern media mean clubs no longer do not have to be located within walking distance of their supporters.
Owning a football club is a fools game. The big kicker here is how many English clubs can you name that are debt free and can actually turn a profit with regularity? I can only think of two for sure off the top of my head and (this might give validity to your argument) they are our neighbours Burnley and Blackpool. Burnley because they were bitten in the 80's. They nearly went to the wall and like the boy who put his hand in the fire their Directors learned a valuable lesson, and also Blackpool because they had Karl Oyston in charge. The massively unpopular Oystons being more business oriented than football oriented. Sooner or later football will have to get into line and accept financial sanity. What will happen after that I cannot foretell but the logic around these parts with half a dozen cash strapped clubs who cannot hope to even fill their own stadiums points to either extinction or amalgamation. Burying our heads in the sand hoping like Canute that the tide will turn will only end in tears.
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
In the very long term you’re probably right , but how and when does this transition to a franchised Lancashire team take place ?
The current hard core of fans who support Rovers , Preston , Burnley , Blackpool & Bolton probably total between 40,000 to 50,000 . I doubt very few of those would support a Lancashire franchise . They’re died in the wool .
Granted the Rovers “ I now do something else on a Saturday afternoon “ fans might support that type of franchise but only if it’s in the Premier League . To them it’s about entertainment, an occasion , a family funday out , waving their flags etc .
Same with the young Pakistani /Indian lads , the Sky generation and some of the additional fans a club gets in the Premier League ( Burnley currently have around 5, 000 to 6,000 of their 17,000 ) .
Will that be enough though to compete with United , Liverpool etc . What if the franchise drops out of the Premier League ? There’s no loyalty to a franchise unless it’s providing premier league entertainment against the big clubs . They only work if the ‘ entertainment ‘ is guaranteed season after season .
I suppose your argument might succeed if there’s no alternative, but the timespan will be many decades not years . I ‘ support’ Lancashire at cricket , go to one day games , T20 and the odd county championship. Lancs CCC is my cricket team and always has been since I was a kid .
However when this new franchised 100 ball competition starts and a game is played at Old Trafford between the Manchester Maniacs and the Leeds Lunatics, you won’t see me for dust.
Step in all of the above !!
The current hard core of fans who support Rovers , Preston , Burnley , Blackpool & Bolton probably total between 40,000 to 50,000 . I doubt very few of those would support a Lancashire franchise . They’re died in the wool .
Granted the Rovers “ I now do something else on a Saturday afternoon “ fans might support that type of franchise but only if it’s in the Premier League . To them it’s about entertainment, an occasion , a family funday out , waving their flags etc .
Same with the young Pakistani /Indian lads , the Sky generation and some of the additional fans a club gets in the Premier League ( Burnley currently have around 5, 000 to 6,000 of their 17,000 ) .
Will that be enough though to compete with United , Liverpool etc . What if the franchise drops out of the Premier League ? There’s no loyalty to a franchise unless it’s providing premier league entertainment against the big clubs . They only work if the ‘ entertainment ‘ is guaranteed season after season .
I suppose your argument might succeed if there’s no alternative, but the timespan will be many decades not years . I ‘ support’ Lancashire at cricket , go to one day games , T20 and the odd county championship. Lancs CCC is my cricket team and always has been since I was a kid .
However when this new franchised 100 ball competition starts and a game is played at Old Trafford between the Manchester Maniacs and the Leeds Lunatics, you won’t see me for dust.
Step in all of the above !!
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OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/may/our-pride-our-passion-our-rovers/
Well you can’t say fairer than that ! Season tickets frozen for 2019 -20 and a new category of discounted tickets for 18-25s . Nice short film to accompany the launch
The club is on the up , the owners have promised continued financial support , senior management ( Steve Waggott and co ) appear as competent a team as we’ve had since the John Williams era and in Tony Mowbray we have a manager who has done as much as we could have expected and done it with dignity and professionalism.
Up the Rovers
Well you can’t say fairer than that ! Season tickets frozen for 2019 -20 and a new category of discounted tickets for 18-25s . Nice short film to accompany the launch
The club is on the up , the owners have promised continued financial support , senior management ( Steve Waggott and co ) appear as competent a team as we’ve had since the John Williams era and in Tony Mowbray we have a manager who has done as much as we could have expected and done it with dignity and professionalism.
Up the Rovers
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
Well done OOT for having the gumption to find the season tickets thread whereas I lazily posted it in the papers and media thread
Barmitzvah Boy
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Well done Steve Waggott.....and the Venkys. No complaints from me but I am sure some sad bustard will find an excuse on BRFCS.