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1988/89 season: Feb 21 h Oxford U.......W 3-1 hendry,og,diamond Att. 5,724 Average gate that season: 9,380

It's finding the answer that's the problem, BP. The screwing of away fans is a calculated gamble though, isn't it. The gamble being that it needn't cost any rovers fan one penny. The small number of walk on rovers fans on the BBE can always go in another part of the ground. Ticket prices are definately way too high - the club DO know that. They can't reduce prices unilaterally. Nor can they force/persuade any of the other big clubs to do the same. When Man U can't fill OT, then something will happen, not until then. Like I said there's no obvious answer. ps, I don't think rovers ever sank to an average of 4000, but what's the real hardcore support of most other clubs in the old third division?

How can you be sure that city would have sold 8000 tickets? I've said a couple of times recently that they have lost 5000 fans of their own. That's not down to price alone. Rovers reducing prices at this moment in time, is only going to lose the club more money. There isn't an answer for Rovers alone. The only time prices will come down, is when Man Utd can't sell out O.T.

You think the club haven't been looking at pricing policy? They aren't stupid, nor are they out of touch with the fans. They know tickets are too expensive. FYI, JW sees his role at Ewood as that of a fund raiser. He sees Blackburn Rovers as a club who's sole intention is to get a football team onto the pitch. As good a team as is possible. Rovers are different to some clubs in that sense. So to do that, he needs to maximise income from all areas, including ticket prices. Now if anyone has a formula that hasn't been tried, then email him, he's always ready to listen. The truth to me, is that the club have tried just about every method of maximising income that they know. This season they're obviously trying to bring in more money from away fans. One things for sure though, if the way forward was to reduce prices, they would have done that. There's absolutely NO evidence that reducing prices will bring in more revenue. Of course, they could reduce prices, but what would the fans think of lower league football again?

It's OK picking prices out of the air, so now you can tell us what the effect on the clubs income over a season would be and how we make up the shortfall? Plus your evidence that dropping prices will actually bring back lapsed fans?

I really think we need to get back to the old back four - Neill, Kishi, Todd and Gray. Not ideal, but a lot better than what we have now.

There was certainly need for a leader today. Someone to take command of the back four.

Bloody cheerful that, USA.

No they're not. Good job we didn't start playing until the second half - it could have been eight otherwise.

Which question USA?

To a man, city fans want Pearce out. They think they're going down. MEN

It is a worry SG, but it's affecting all clubs. City used to bring 8000 to Ewood - today they didn't even open the top tier. I said last week that they have lost 5000 supporters of their own. While the top sides are filling their grounds, nothing will happen.

Think you're getting confused with Andy Tod of Accrington Stanley.

We'll go above City if we beat them. Rovers 2 - 1 City

Just looking at Biddys links and wondered if anyone has used THIS site? It's basically a search engine that searches forums. It can be useful if you want to read discussions on a certain topic.

If you look at the goals, where Lucas has been blamed on here again, you will see that the player who had the scorer marked and didn't track back all the way was pedersen. Lucas was the nearest to the Salzburg player when he scored, but he had to leave the player that he was marking, to try to get to the player that Ped allowed a free run to.

You know a good player?

No, there wasn't a flood of links, but the threat was there all day. Links were being made on the official m/b and it was possible that it would have overflowed onto here. Better to make everyone aware of the potential problem. Difficult to actually stop the Pm's Biddy. Everything worked out fine though, so no problem.

We turned down £2m 2 weeks ago. How much do you value him at Rev? I seem to remember that he's not exactly your favourite player? :ph34r: ps, nifty edit Rev.

He's not done anything wrong though, has he Rev? He hasn't refused a move, thereby denying rovers a fee, unlike some others. He's perfectly entitled to move on if he wants.

Que serra serra, what will be, will be. There's sod all the club can do about that.

You're right Stu. While we can't stop people discussing these illegal sites, we have in the past been put under pressure to stop posts that link directly to them. That seems reasonable to me.

If we'd have equalised in the 92nd minute, we would have been ecststic. Strange game football, brings grown men to tears.

Why the hell is Lucas Neill in for criticism on this thread? Is he gonna get it every week, rain, hail or shine?