Manchester City

[1864roverite]

Perhaps I can assist in this one.

I was at coms the other day (Thursday) and they had tickets left for supporters with a match card and those with a certain number of points. they also had the cheap tickets on offer for the kids.

I was at the window (I was with a city fan) and she said they had sold over 4000 tickets so far and that was a week ago.

City have almost sold their full allocation for every game and have taken almost 2500 to bristol tonight. I cannot see them selling at least 6k tickets.

This is surely a game when we must breach the 25000 barrier

[shadsworth cloud]

It's only 40mins on the train from Manchester

according to the timetable its actually 52 minutes. in reality it is often over 1 whole hour!!

[Threepenny Bit Foot]

2-0

30,000

[MarkBRFC]

Think we'll just sneak this one. Will be tough though, just hope all our players come through tonight unscathed.

2-1 Rovers, attendance 27759

[AllRoverAsia]

Rovers to win 3-2, full house

[Hughesy]

3500 tickets sold is terrible! I would of expected them to sell at least double that!

Id say 27,000 attendance at weekend - 2-1 Rovers

[OJRovers]

I'm not fussed about them selling out. I'd rather they didn't. That way there's less support for their team and the players might think 'oh well the supporters have given up on us' ((or whatever that is in Italian/French/German etc)

[colin]

I'd be wary of dismissing Sven, as a club manager he has a record second to none. It was only when he was saddled with picking English players for the England team that he hit a brick wall.

Let's face it, most England managers since 1966 have been equally hobbled.

With the money available to him & another week under his belt, Sven will have organised his team another notch. This game will not be as easy as some in the past against City.

As for Kaspar Schmeichal - he might be a bit rought around the edges, but his Dad will have been instrumental in teaching him some techniques & skills. Say what you like about Rudolph, but I wouldn't have minded him looking after the "onion bag" for us.

[Mattyblue]

well the big screen stated last night 'over 6000 city fans will be there' the club said a similar thing for the Arsenal game and it was spot on, so RELAX everyone!

[JC4LAB]

Is Samba likely to be fit enough to play?

[Eddie]

Wasn't he simply rested?

[Ozz]

Wasn't he simply rested?

An interview with Hughes before last nights match, Hughes said he was in bed for two days with a virus. So to speak. Probably wont play on Sunday.

[Ozz]

City Boards take on Sunday. Usual stuff, dirty gets, no fans etc...

Same board, but a whole thread on how many City are bringing Sunday.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

To say they are obsessed with crowds is an understatement...but they had less than 3,000 at Ewood for the league game last season.

Strange gravy that lot

[Hughesy]

I just hope we batter them! Send the CITEH fans home crying after watching a proper team

[waggy]

we are becoming the draw experts,4 in the last 5 league games

[Rovermatt]

City Boards take on Sunday. Usual stuff, dirty gets, no fans etc...

Same board, but a whole thread on how many City are bringing Sunday.

The best quote from that is 'Blackburn don't look as good as recent years' which perfectly illustrates how little Citeh fans know about the rest of the Premier League. We have in fact never looked better than we do now.

[LeftWinger]

We're unbeaten since the FA Cup Semi Final - a run spanning 13 games now in all competitions.

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I think we'll win this one - City have done well, but they've been lucky and could quite easily be sitting at the other end of the table but for some good keeping and bad finishing.

I'm going for 1-0 to Rovers, with an attendance of about 26,213 (ish), and Man City to kick-off the first half.

[andrew92]

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[riclr]

Its amazing how optimistic their fans are. I work in Manchester and all i've had all week is about 400 of them all telling me how their gonna hammer us 9 nil and that Kasper Schmeichel's 5 times the keeper his dad was!

They beat Derby and West Ham and all of a sudden they're going to win the Champions League and the World Cup.

I really, really hope we batter them so i dont have another month of havin to put up with it.

[philipl]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2160378,00.html

Jack Walker ripped up Sven's contract and said we are friends.

[brfc fan]

You wont be allowed to post if you use language like that.

[brfc fan]

3-2 to Rovers (Benni, Santa x2)

[Wiggy]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2160378,00.html

Jack Walker ripped up Sven's contract and said we are friends.

Typical Sven spin on the situation. JW was actually disgusted by the Swede's slippery behaviour and said

"When a man gives his word that should be enough, he should stick to it."

Just imagine the press reaction if he had done the same with United.

[Ozz]

Having read Mr Erikssons story about how Jack Walker was hugely magnanimous in dealing with the Swedes volte face, I feel compelled to remind him of this huge act of generosity, and ask him to reciprocate tomorrow when he instructs his new charges before taking the field at Ewood Park.