Thanks Glen, panic over, my Dad was dealing with it and didn't realise the seats were blocked out as they were reserved to us already. Amazing what sentimental value you can attach to a place where you sit. On the subject of pricing, and my view for what it's worth; a price hike is as frustrating to me as it is anyone else, but if ever a club needed its supporters to put their hands in their pockets and help out then this year is it, so I am reasonably ok to pay the price. Realise that is not an easy option for everyone and doesn't excuse some of the poor communication or handling of tickets since BCD games started last season, but the club will have done their homework here, and make no mistake, things are tighter than some might think behind the scenes and this is an unashamed cash grab situation. Whether it ultimately backfires or not remains to be seen, but for now, I am lucky enough to not miss the cash, so the club can gladly have it.

Tried to renew our usual seats, and the seats we have had every year since the stadium was rebuilt have already gone. Has anyone else experienced this? (One seat in particular carries a high degree of sentimental value so we would be upset to lose it).

Here's a nice and simple one for a player who needs a song, memorable, catchy tune too, can imagine this on the terraces: (To the tune of 'Let it Be') Nyambe, Nyambe, Nyambe, Nyambeeee Ryan is a Rover, Nyambe, Nyambe...

Superb!!!

Very surprised as the food has always been excellent when I have been, but I think you have hit the nail on the head with your assessment of what the place has become. Sadly (or not for the muppets that keep forking out) the kind of people who go there will continue to go there to be seen adn eat the food whether it is good or not. And you are right, good, bad or indifferent, £180 is just nuts...

I agree that there could be a conflict of interest, although it would depend on the person(s) doing the writing to understand what is and what isn't acceptable to write. What I did was pretty much totally uncensored although I do admit that I deliberately had my blue and white tinted specs on, as this kind of viewpoint was what I felt the paper/website needed. Although my views on the Trust for example, have been less than complimentary on here, I would wind my neck in for the sake of the paper, and yet still try to raise the relevant points in a fair, and more importantly non-libellous way. The main point I would make from what you posted however, is that despite me being pro Rovers and not really caring about the LT, it really should have nothing to do with whether the club feels comfortable or not with having an independent opinion in the paper. This said, I do sympathise with your point. The paper cannot bite the hand which feeds it arguably its biggest meal. I still feel that a few of us on here could get that paper rocking again, and that such a happening could be a powerful propoganda tool for the club, if we could instill our positivity into the locals...and not only that, from the responses I got to my column, it seemed to be the ex-pats who really appreciated the positive slant. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good the product is, ie Rovers, it is how good the customers feel about the product.

Fair point, there is a lot of loadsamoney in there too, including one chap who I got talking to with a Rovers family link who was fine...just a lot of people who think to much of themselves in there sadly. It is amazing what a couple of quid can do to some people. I have probably never eaten better in this country but prepare to remortgage when the bill comes!

Great news and a big opportunity for the LT to get someone in who can make the paper a "must read" for Rovers fans again. As a kid I used to make scrap books out of all the old Telegraph reports and transfer gossip and it really was quality reading. Trust me when you can actually look back to the stuff written 15 years ago you can really see the difference to now. What I would like to see is a lot more opinion and exclusive interviews, a bit like the Jansen interview the other day, as well as the current run of rehashed national stories and stuff nicked off here. There is no reason why the LT can't have 3 or 4 pages of quality Rovers content every night and become in effect a daily fanzine. Maybe a fans match report (and preview) as well as the offical one would be good? I am sure that a couple of contributors on here could help make it a great paper again, if the editor is interested that is...and from personal experience that may be where the problem lies?

Absolutely phenomenal food but same problem as the new Bulls Head at Wilpshire, full of pretentious, well off, badly dressed new money.

He was still there when I last wrote for them in around March. Nice guy but I never really got the feeling that they were all that interested in Rovers, or in supporting what I did, despite it being popular.

Similarly, when I wrote my column over the past 18 months, I felt that I was the only one really flying the flag for Rovers, and it really showed whenever I wrote something it went straight to the top of the "most read" table on the website. I always tried to put the emphasis on what I wrote very firmly on being from a partisan fans point of view, and no one elses and I think the paper/website is desperately missing this angle now. The sad thing is that I was happy to do all of this for free but in the end I just kind of felt that the paper wasn't that interested whether I submitted a piece or not so I packed it in. I also have to be careful about how I say this but I do also recall submitting a piece for the website once which appeared in a very "similar" form, albeit under A Nother journalists name. After getting over the shock I sent an email to the editor asking what was going on, and although I didn't get a reply, the piece mysteriously vanished and mine appeared! The LT coverage is shocking, not only for the level of depth/support that Rovers get, but for its quality of writing also. Forgive me for including myself in this, but I have always felt that what was written by myself and the other couple of board members on here who have performed the role in the past, was far superior to what the LT can offer.

Why would Lucash go to Gala when West Ham are clearly one of the biggest and best teams in the world? Oh wait, the money...

My little boy who is 3 idolises Brad Friedel and has been after a keepers top for some time. The smallest ones the club had on sale at the recent sell off were small boys (age 7ish) and drowned him...does anyone know of, or want to sell a Rovers keepers top that may fit a 3/4 year old and are they even sold at all? Thanks.

Well in the aftermath of Hughes leaving our beloved Rovers, an event that most of us probably feared more than any other to do with the Club I must admit I feel pretty underwhelmed and nowhere near as gutted as I thought I would be. During his time at Rovers Sparky was excellent for us and as he expressed in his press conference at City this morning he was understandably frustrated at the lack of funds made available to Rovers, although I felt his thinly veiled dig at that point was unneccesary and unfairly unhelpful to Rovers in selling themselves to the next boss. Compare these words to the comments of John Williams, who was particularly professional and gracious about Hughes exit and you realise just what a special club we are. No club in the land conducts its business with the dignity that Rovers does and it makes me proud. Life goes on, although I would feel that insult would be added to injury should Hughes come back and raid the club, and hopefully measures can be taken to prevent this, primarily by getting in the kind of leader that players would want to stay for, a difficult task given the varying background, nationalities and characters we have on the playing staff one the I think Mr Williams is capable of fulfilling. Sparky's strength was in his eye for talent and being able to persuade them to come, but his frustration at the lack of progression is ironic to a degree because were he a better tactician we probably would have done. I have very few memories of any amazing performances under him, and we were defintiely steady rather than spectacular. The much maligned Souness gave us much better attacking football and excitement before he started to lose his marbles and stuck Matteo on the wing etc. I also had it on excellent authority that Hughes did want the Chelsea job, as Nicko suggested, and I think he has made a crazy move here, born out of frustration rather than rational thinking. Sure City may have a larger fanbase than Rovers and a few quid but that is about it. They are and always will be a bit of a joke club and the so called passion of their fans masks that a little bit. I think the highest they have ever finished in the Premier League is 8th, whilst our record dwarfs that with a title win, a second and fourth place, plus is it 3 x 6th placed finishes? More fans does not mean better, a bit like trying to suggest that Big Brother is better than University Challenge, just because thousands more muppets tune in every week. The window for success there is very narrow and unlikely whereas failure is the opposite, easily achieved and very probable. The reputation of "Britains brightest young manager" could be in danger of taking a serious dent, and all for a job he didn't really want, working for possibly the most disgusting character in the history of English football, Thaksin Shinawatra... Mark isn't quite as smart as we all thought, and that is why we should all be happy to thank him for his great work and move on with the promise of an even better future - no Rovers manager will have ever inherited a more talented squad than the one we have now, and there is money to spend. If we can keep who we have got and add then all is rosy.

Massively underrated player in our title win...