Well done American. I finally managed to get through this morning, after finding the secret is to set your cookie settings to 'allow all' I am a bit gutted because I have had better tickets waiting to be purchased and received error 403 in the past. Anyway, I've got myself a Ghana v USA And 3 x Poland v Costa Rica for me and the lads.

tickets galore, impossible to get

Did anyone get lucky on the conditional tickets? I've completely ballsed it up by waiting until now to submit it, and looking through the list there appears to be four games left with tickets, i thought it would be the same as the first period were nothing is processed until the deadline date, but obviously not.

I cannot for one minute understand how you have managed to get 6 tickets in that last phase, but fair play. I've noticed theres a new conditional phase just opened, does anyone know what its about? It seems like there isn't much chance of success but possible worth a go anyway.

I'd be interested Waggy. PM if you like. Cheers

What time did you get them Bellamy? The tickets appeared to have dried out by about 3pm yesterday and I didn't manage to get close all day really, even when the payment pages came up i was greeted with the German error 403 page as soon as i continued. Are we expecting any more available before the end of the sales period?

What a good point. I hadn't thought of it that way, ive been going for 3 at once.

Waggy, what are you doing that I'm not? You seem to have a midas touch at this lottery. Do you have multiple browser pages open constantly refreshing? Do you wait the 30 seconds or just refresh the page manually? Give us a clue, i've just missed than France game again.

I saw them all, but didn't manage to get through, except on a France v Korea and then couldn't find my password. How frustrating. Did anyone manage to pick up?

Are these tickets coming on all the time then, just randomly? I just logged on to see Iran v Angola on yellow, can't say it excited me but if it had let me through I would have taken them. I just got a page saying this page is forbidden.

Well it was nice while it lasted.

COME ON THE ROVERS. HA'WAY!!!!

Looks like i've missed out on this latest stage. I had no idea there were further tickets on sale, but from reading through I presume they were on first come first serve basis? If so, did anybody manage to get any? Also, is there still tickets going on there all the time, or was it just the first few days? Cheers

Absolutely fantastic performance and a complete credit to the club. For the entire second half Andy Gray and Martin Tylor on sky were throwing compliment after compliment at the rovers, and I think we've certainely changed a few minds today.

2 more sets of 3 tickets.... ukraine v tunisia ecuador v costa rica They are fairly sh1te teams, but we decided to be realistic and go to as many games as possible. So thats 4 games now from the 2 applications!

From the draw it turns out we have got tickets for Trinidad v Sweden and USA v Czech. I haven't bothered with accomodation or flights yet, im still thinking about getting a mini bus. Either way, I don't mind stopping out of town anyway, and I'm sure there will always be accomodation somewere. How are people getting alogn booking flights?

And why are we so keen to attract an Asian following? For monetary reasons alone? Our clubs high and mighty succes really isn't THAT important

To be honest, i doubt any rovers player within the last 5 years has ever even driven through Blackburn town centre, never mind been out shopping/drinking.

Does anyone have any information on how tickets are selling?

Get in, finally got to number 1. Just got to stay there now. Fantastic league it is aswell, keep it up folks.

Fantastic thread, will definately get my vote for a 'grooby' (if i get one). Would be excellent if people could keep it updated with any associated articles, as its always interesting to read other peoples points of view.

I wish someone would end these pathetic topics on ex-players and managers. What is it that makes someone such a bad person for leaving the club? There was 10 board members MAXIMUM that were wishing Souness out before he actually left. He moved to a much bigger club, with more resources, fans and a better wage! There is clearly no loyalty at all in the game as it stands, so why do people get kicks out of him failing? And how many of them who do, actually attend ewood on a saturday?

Ok, being realistic the best average gate we can hope for is 25,000 and everyone would be happy with that. Say we get an average attendance this season of 17,000. Thats 8,000 fans per week not coming, and therefore a lost revenue of... £25 (average price) x 19 games x 8,000 fans = £3.8m Now considering the current state of the transfer market, then granted that could get you a half decent player, but in past seasons we have wasted that at the drop of a hat, on players like Ward, Blake, Carsley etc etc. We all know that our average attendance will NOT be 17,000, and will be at least 20,000. Thus leaving the lost revenue at: £25 (average price) x 19 games x 5,000 fans = £2.375m Now is that money REALLY that cruical to rovers? To be honest I don't think it is, and what we lose out there, we can easily make up by being a bit more shrude on other decisions around the club. I.e. Ensuring that we appoint decent managers who are going to keep us in the league, and thus earn us £20m a year! The attendance problem is one that nobody can solve over night, so lets concentrate on other aspects and Im sure it will sort itself out in good time.

Over the past 2 years football in general has become less and less appealing to me, and I think it is becoming the same for a lot of people. The article is exactly right and addresses most of the important points. There's just not the draw and the excitement there that there was even 5 or 6 years ago.

And im hot on the heels in 3rd!