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v Birmingham City (a) - 1/4/23
Hasta replied to NeilInBristol's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Yeah I’ve clocked a few. Interesting to see where they are Saturday. They shouldn’t be constantly tweeting during the game. -
v Birmingham City (a) - 1/4/23
Hasta replied to NeilInBristol's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
@roversfan99has already beat me to it, but maybe the cost of living crisis is meaning people have to pick and choose what games they go to rather than doing every game like some people seem to think they can. And therefore why wouldn’t they choose an Fa Cup quarter final instead of Birmingham away again for the second time this year. -
v Birmingham City (a) - 1/4/23
Hasta replied to NeilInBristol's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Presuming that you leave from Blackburn lock you would be better coming off at Bordesley on the Digbeth Branch Canal for St Andrews. If you have a maximum speed of 5mph, and optimistically presuming every lock will take you 5 minutes, it takes you almost 39h to do the 147.5miles. However your mpg will be through the roof !! 0m 0h 0m Start from Leeds and Liverpool canal at 'Blackburn Lk (54)' 20.1m 6h 41m After 20.4 Miles and 34 locks , turn at the junction at 'Junct. Leigh Br.' onto Leigh Br (Bridgewater) 36.5m 10h 8m After 16.4 Miles and 2 locks , turn at the junction at 'Water Meeting J. B'water' onto Bridgewater canal 56.5m 14h 8m After 20 Miles, turn at the junction at 'Preston Brook J. T & M' onto Trent and Mersey canal 122.1m 32h 10m After 65.6 Miles and 59 locks , turn at the junction at 'Fradley J. Coventry' onto Coventry canal 132.9m 34h 20m After 10.8 Miles, turn at the junction at 'Fazeley J. B & F' onto Bham and Fazeley canal 144.5m 37h 49m After 11.6 Miles and 14 locks , turn at the junction at 'Salford J. Saltley' onto Saltley Br (BCN) 147.5m 38h 50m After 3 Miles and 5 locks , arrive at 'Bordesley J. Saltley' on Digbeth Br (G U) -
I rememer it being said that the 'away club' has to pay for the damage caused by their own supporters, but don't know if that is a urban myth.
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Stanley losing again. They’ve done well to survive 4 seasons in league one, but I can’t see them stopping up this time.
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My point being, for the UTC crowd viewing and commenting on this, is that if we genuinely are reducing your allocation because we believe it gives us an advantage on the pitch then we should be doing it to all clubs we play. But we aren’t. Personally I have no idea and think you should have at least all the top tier (3k) What I do know is someone suggested to me after the game was rearranged, but long before the announcement was made, that it was going to be low. This was because we have a home game a few days later, and there was concern regarding the state that the toilets, tvs etc would be left in at Ewood after previous visits. I suppose this leaves half of the BBE lower and all the upper undamaged for Luton. That was from ‘a friend of a friend who works at the club’. I took it as nonsense at the time and still think it probably is, but here we are.
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Therefore we should do it for all the other clubs we play between now and the end of the season, especially Norwich, Coventry and Luton. If we did get in the play offs, we should give the away fans only 2000 then as well.
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https://wiganathletic.com/news/2023/march/24/an-open-letter-from-chairman-talal-al-hammad/ “It’s all sorted now. Yes I know I said that before but I mean it now” Hardly sets fans minds at rest
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BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread
Hasta replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Until about 15 my dad took me in the Enclosure. If the current JW BE lower was what used to be the enclosure, what was the JW DE lower known as? I don’t know anyone that ever went in there. -
I've only just noticed that. I presume one price grid was for before the end of the season, and the other grid was for the rest of the summer. There will obviously be a claim your seat deadline before they allow move-arounds, but it makes no sense to hike the prices up higher in June or July as those are the people who are undecided who need persuading. Happy they've brought them down a bit. The only gripe I have is not making the Riverside a more entry-level price point.
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Well it was an enjoyable bit of nonsense in the middle of this 2 week drought of proper football.
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Mitrovic would have done.
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It’s a booking, but the two bookings for Walker and Shaw for time wasting were bollocks.
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In which case do it to Norwich, Coventry and Luton.
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Unless I’ve missed something, the post you quote is talking about the Blackpool allocation at Preston.
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He seemed to wait about 2 seconds before he pointed to the halfway line for the goal as though he was desperately trying to find a reason to disallow it.
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Yep. They gave Rovers practically the same allocation as what they were giving Man United and Man City in the premier league (allow a little bit for the netting). As much as we would have loved more tickets, there is no reason at all why they should give us any more tickets when it was their standard allocation and they were always guaranteed to sell out. We only get 2,300 tickets for Huddersfield nowadays since they have split the away stand, but we still offered them the full Darwen End if they could fill it. Why they haven't just put Burnley up in the top tier with 3000 tickets, as we did for most away sides in the Mowbray years, is a surprise. The only reason I can see for putting them in the lower is that they are going to split the stand and put Rovers fans in the other half, but I just can't see the demand for that.
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It wasn't just you who caught us in possession at the back. It was common practice early season. I think somewhere since the new year the players have been given permission to 'just hoof it' if they are in danger of losing it in bad positions at the back, so we're not as bad now. Plus, Preston aside, we've always been far more competitive at home. You dominated the game in November but we've put in similar abject performances at Sheff United, Coventry, Rotherham, Luton and Stoke this season. Whilst you played well, you're not the only team to absolutely smash us on their ground. Therefore I do think the game at Ewood will be a far more competitive affair. And yes, you're away record is very good. The point was just that like most sides statistically you just don't win as many away from home. I wouldn't say I strongly fancy us in the game, but I'd more confident of not losing against you at Ewood than I was not losing on Sunday at Brammall Lane.
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I'll tell you one thing from reading that Burnley site. They are all absolutely 100% convinced they'll come to Ewood and stroll it like they did on their patch. Yet they've failed to win 8 of their 18 games this season and failed to win at Blackpool last time out away.
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Whilst we're all looking at allocations, Blackpool's allocation is just 2200 at Preston next weekend. What will the reaction on here be if we only get a similar allocation at Deepdale?
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You literally did say they could do it ‘quite easily’. As I say, it’s harsh but funny.
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Why would they want to do that? It wouldn’t have been easy, it would have been a pain to organise and would have caused a load of bad feeling shitting on their own fans who had committed to season tickets. Why should they do that for us and not Preston or Sunderland who could also have filled that end. Don’t get me wrong it’s funny, but a bit difficult to justify.
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I’d be annoyed if I was a Burnley fan and it was correct that this wasn’t on police advice. We could have easily have given them the 3000 in the whole top tier, although I suspect they would still whinge. The funny thing here is that, when we play them next, there’s little they can do as a response as they gave us practically the minimum 2000 allowed by EFL rules anyway so can’t go any lower.