I sent a text to Five Live earlier that got read out about the ticket prices for Sunday and they've mentioned it a few more times tonight as football pricing in general is being discussed. City are apparantly only taking 2000 to Wigan tomorrow as they are paying £35, £10 more than it was last year.

If someone has seen half a dozen people walk away from the ticket office because they had got there and found that it was closed then clearly everyone doesnt know that they arent open on a Saturday afternoon. I don't know the ticket office opening hours off by heart but if you'd asked me on Sat afternoon to bet £10 on whether it would be open if I went down then I'd have said it would - and it should have been IMO. It isnt the fan who 'wants a ticket that badly' that we need to worry about. These people are the core of our support and of course they are valuable but if there are walk on fans who have made the decision that they want to pay the A/A+ prices to come to Ewood then we at least need to make it as accessible as possible to them.

Blackburn End Lower Row 30 Behind ABBEY

Would be interesting to hear what the supposed 'public order offences' where as from what I can see these where only brought on by the attitude of the stewards and the way they acted to people standing and not those having ago at the people in the boxes. As a result the Police pobably had to make an arrests but the question has to be asked whether they where they due to the imcompetence of the Stewards being able to handle the situation? My seat is directly to the left of the two blokes (I'm pretty sure they are father and son) who got arrested on Saturday so might be able to shed a bit of light on what actually happened on Saturday to lead to them getting kicked out... As the second/third (not sure which) Middlesbrough goal went in taunts came from the box behind the BBE which caused a lot of anger amongst Rovers fans and caused most people to stand up to see what was going on and shout towards the box. Police then moved up from the bottom of the stand to the stairs to see what was going on. As it settled back down again the older of the two blokes next to me started pointing at the police on the steps and telling them to .... off as it had nothing to do with them, it was between the fans and the stewards. The Police came up the row 30 and told the older bloke to 'come downstairs for a word before he was thrown out'. After a few complaints he was led downstairs without much fuss but his son charged off after them and from what I saw got hold of one of the coppers which is when it all seemed to kick off. I couldn't really see what happened from here as it was down near the stairs out of my view. IMO the Police were right to at least have a word with him. If I started swearing at Police in public then I would certainly expect to be at least given a warning, if not arrested. Also, the whole incident could have been avoided by the son staying where he was and not getting involved. Although I can understand him wanting to plead for his dad it just aggravated it to the point where people started getting arrested.

Unfortunately ITV have missed a real chance to improve their own viewing figures and the public image of rugby in this country. A lot of people wont watch rugby because if you dont know how it is played then it just looks like a load of blokes jumping on/running into each other. If they had put a few programmes about the rules of the game and history behind it on before or during the early stages of the tournament then I think more people would be able to appreciate it. I'm also on the early train to Manc on Sat for a World Cup breakfast followed by a 3 point lunch.

Maybe Souey's going to use the reserve kit as a visual aid in a 'bottle it and you'll end up with Curtis' pep talk?

Its these Saturday home games, people just cant get used to them!