Let's Get Preston Sold Out!

10 minutes ago, Almat said:

The potential news breaking on 5/12/25 of a preferred bidder (and probably more importantly who it is) could have a massive bearing on the Blackburn game attendance (granted it's only the day after) but the Preston game comes too soon for that. 

Don't you think we'll sell out at Ewood, Sir?

1 hour ago, McRightSide said:

Crowd will be a bit low for this as it clashes with the International Day of Solidarity for Palestinian People

 

 

Bit of an insensitive comment, even if tongue in cheek 

18 minutes ago, Hoofit said:

Bit of an insensitive comment, even if tongue in cheek 

19 minutes ago, Clowl said:

Don't you think we'll sell out at Ewood, Sir?

Oops. Ignore me. I'm an idiot. No idea why I thought that was a home game   OK, substitute Derby for Blackburn 

17 minutes ago, Almat said:

 

 

Oops. Ignore me. I'm an idiot. No idea why I thought that was a home game   OK, substitute Derby for Blackburn 

We do play Blackburn twice in December, so that'll probably be why you've got it in view. Best wishes. 

9 hours ago, Clowl said:

We do play Blackburn twice in December, so that'll probably be why you've got it in view. Best wishes. 

Lucky Blackburn……

10 hours ago, Hoofit said:

Bit of an insensitive comment, even if tongue in cheek 

It’s factual 

I understand they want fans to support the club through this admin period by buying match tickets. However, there is only so many times someone is going to pay hard earned money to watch a losing team. Especially with performances like yesterday. 

I think most expected that after the derby game the attendances will drop. You cant expect people to keep paying to watch this football team. 

Is this the thread where all the excuses are churned out. Been there, seen it and totally sick of it.

Chansiri put all the focus on season tickets - alienating the POTD customers. This was fine (well not really) when you are selling 22k+ season tickets - but once people started seeing the light - and season tickets fell back to circa 17k - that's when the problems really kick in.

A lot of those supporters who had season tickets and stopped going are now POTD customers or less - a lot of the POTD customers have just got out of the habit of going completely.

It's up to the club - the new owners to attract these people back - and attract those with an affiliation to attend their first games, or make their sporadic visits less so.

The hard thing is, doing this whilst the product on the pitch is very poor, results are poor and everything from the club for years has been 5hite. On the run up to Christmas and all the whole current financial issues that's a hard sell.

It won't happen overnight - but new owners need a sensible (but hopefully still exciting) short, medium and long term plan - the right marketing, pricing and facilities in place - but most importantly, right product on the pitch. What Chansiri has done to this club is not the new owners fault - but it is up to the new owners to fix it.

It’s a going to be a big ask getting people to consistently go to Hillsborough for the rest of this season to watch the football on show

There’s loads off the field to get excited about but the actual experience of going to matches and sitting through the games is a real grind atm 

Already got my ticket for Saturday..

If your expectation are low, you can't be disappointed, right?!

If ever there should be a break in the football calendar it’s the first two weeks of December. 
Lower attendances always, lower interest, football fatigue, competing with Xmas expenditure etc

1 hour ago, McRightSide said:

It’s factual 

You could also have added that the “excuse” would be invalid - you can show your solidarity for the Palestinians at the Sheffield protest as it starts at 11.30, giving you enough time to get to the match.

It’s a hard sell asking people to fork out money for players that have seemingly throw the towel in regardless of the apathy showed by some fans