Interesting snippet in yesterday's programme where John Williams states you'll be able to "buy a season ticket at Ewood Park for the equivalent of £13.69 per game." With 19 games, that makes £260. This season, the cheapest season ticket price was in the Riverside outer, and cost £270 with the loyalty discount (£295 without). On the assumption the price of £260 is for the loyalty discount price, there's either a price cut on the standard price down to £285; or there's been an increase in the loyalty discount. (could even be as much as £50 if there's a general rise of 5% in ticket prices). So what is the strategy? A general price reduction? An increase in the loyalty discount with static prices? A larger increase in the loyalty discount with increased general prices? And will it be applied to all parts of the ground? We only have just over a week to find out...

I've not made up my mind if my inflatable cow needs blowing up before I board the train, before I get to WHL or once through the turnstiles. A word of warning to those who have ever tried to inflate something whilst inebriated (cue numerous predictable jokes) - you'll get light headed very, very fast.

Are the two sentences connected? If so, is there a shop selling inflatable brfcs.com members? And another thing, I can see the entire day being a real letdown. why will it be a let down? C'mon... inflatables.... letdown... it isn't that hard to work out.

Are the two sentences connected? If so, is there a shop selling inflatable brfcs.com members? And another thing, I can see the entire day being a real letdown.

On yesterday's Goals on Sunday, Beattie said that Strachan advised him he needed a rest...

They are a bit like threads on an internet messageboard. Loads can be started, but many are crap and the quality ones are hard to come by.

I've got an inflatable cow which I might bring along. I couldn't bear to be parted from the inflatable ref, so he's not travelling.

Ahh, a form of prox card. I could put the club in touch with some decent (and some not so decent) suppliers.

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On the subject of next years season tickets, something is afoot. My dad always hands over his book to the turnstile operator to tear out the relevant voucher. Today he was informed that "you won't be able to do that next year, as they're doing something totally different." Are we going to swipe cards?

Or even better from Leeds...

as much as i like souness and think he should stay, you cannot just forget a season of horrors for two wins on the trot. But some would believe you can forget three years of progress just as easily...

If Souey does leave, will you be gone from the messageboard again for a few years, such as your absence when things were going right for him and your vendetta would have looked a little foolhardy? In fact, do you see yourself as more a Rovers fan or more a Souness hater?

Except calling everyone on the site facists in his second ever post....

Bolton away. He was the only player on the pitch in the first half that stopped us going in more than 2 down.

because I and thousands of other help to pay his wages. 2. Because he is charge of my club, and he is making a total balls-up of it. 3. Because he has involved us in an unnecessary relegation battle. 4. Because he hasn't a clue about how to fix the team's defensive frailties, evident since last August. 5. Because he is unable to motivate a disinterested and lazy squad of players - viz yesterday's first half and any number of similar showings this season. 6. Because I'm fed up with his excuses after yet another lame performance. 7. Because he's an arrogant so-and-so who will never admit he has made a mistake - unlike the referees he loves to lambast. 8. Because I'm a Blackburn Rovers supporter of 70 years plus standing and I'll still be here when he's @#/? off with his vast redundancy cheque. That's why I'm entitled to call Souness inept. PS: Who are you? 1. You get to every match, do you? 2. You've been saying that since he took charge. Since then, a promotion, a cup win and 6th in the league. The old adage of a broken clock being right twice a day springs to mind with your *insightful* comments. 3. Yes, we should have been challenging at the top of the league. Unnecessary? A sloppy word even for an ex-Murdoch employee. 4. You know that for a fact? Perhaps the issue that the defence isn't concentrating 100% - which he has mentioned repeatedly could suggest he does. 5. Explain how a man who can't motivate a team has improved a performance in the second half. 6. And we're fed up with with you regurgitating the same old drivel week in week out. 7. Pot black calling kettle - rearrange. 8. If only you had the wisdom of someone of your venerable years you wouldn't seem so ludicrous. On the ps... you have the audacity to ask who another member is??? Tsk tsk tsk.

Leeds might be forced to sell up and move of Elland Road according to reports. Interesting to think that a few years back they were going to move grounds as a way to maintain serious title and European challenges, and now they need the cash from a 'prime site' in Leeds for a supermarket. Then again, I would have though Aldi or Netto would be a better bet than the quoted Asda, as Elland Road is already the place to get bargain basement prices.

No, you won't change your view. Your opinion of Souness is clearly deep routed. If getting promotion, followed by a cup, followed by 6th place in the league isn't enough to persuade you that's he's a pretty fine manager, then not a lot will. Oh sorry, you say if we go on to bigger and better things... what do you mean? Champions League qualification?? Winning the Premiership?? Champions League victory?? Solving world hunger?? Discovering intelligent life elsewhere in the universe/Burnley?? As for Moyes achievement being the greater. Ask any sane person if finishing 6th is better than 7th and you'll get a particular answer. No ifs or buts, 6th is a better achievement. It cannot be qualified. But if you do want to argue the toss, and I suspect you do, how about considering Everton have an average gate that is about 15,000 more than Rovers? Isn't that a means to getting a resource that could be tapped into on so many levels - increased income, increased atmosphere etc etc?

If as the Birch states, Leeds administration and are expelled from the Premiership, what does this mean? Would all their matches so far be null and void? If so, I've worked out what the table would look like instead... 1. Man Utd 43 2. Chelsea 41 3. Arsenal 39 4. Charlton 30 5. Fulham 28 6. Newcastle 25 7. Southampton 25 8. Liverpool 23 9. Aston Villa 23 10. Birmingham 23 11. Rovers 21 12. Middlesbrough 21 13. Man City 20 14. Everton 20 15. Bolton 20 16. Portsmouth 16 17. Leicester 15 18. Spurs 15 19. Wolves 11 Makes interesting reading, not only from the possible much healthier position for Rovers, but also illustrates in another way how tight results and positions are this year. - Notlob go from 2 positions above us to 3 below all based on the fixtures of one other club!

Reports from the Ancona official site are saying that Ciccio Grabbi has signed for the Italian club on a 2 and a half year contract. The story of Grabbi has been a far from happy one for Rovers. Signed in the summer of 2001 for almost £7million, Grabbi was the club's big money signing following the promotion back to the Premiership. However, despite being the top scorer in Serie B the previous season, Grabbi never really adjusted to life in the English topflight, and showed distinct signs of finding the pace of the game here a little daunting. Despite some very unfortunate misses, especially against Manchester United early in his Rovers' career when with more assistance from 'lady luck' he could have had a couple of goals, very little return was being witnessed by the club for the massive financial outlay. Ciccio soon found himself consigned to the reserve team and then returned to Italy on loan to Messina. On the occassions he did play for the first team, he appeared popular with the majority of the Ewood faithful, perhaps hoping that at some point his (and the club's) luck would change and he would demonstrate the ability that attracted Souness to him in the first place. Unfortunately, such events never really transpired and the final straw appears to have been in the home leg of the UEFA Cup match against Genclerbirligi where the Italian missed a hatfull of chances. Rovers career: League 30 appearances (inc 19 as sub), 2 goals. Cup competitions : 8 appearance (inc 5 sub), 2 goals. European matches : 3 apperanaces (inc 1 sub), 1 goal.

The ITV Digital deal losses are the same as they were the average the clubs were likely to receive from the package. Premiership clubs receive TV money as follows: 1. Equal share at the start of the season (or is it the end?) 2. Additional money for each time they are on Sky 3. Additional money, but considerably less, for each time they are on PPV 4. Additional money for each time they are a 'featured' match on The Premiership 5. Various little odds and sods On top of this, they have the potential to earn (in priority) a healthy pay packet if they are screened live in the FA Cup, a lesser amount for being a featured match on Match of the Day FA Cup programme, a live match in the Carling Cup and then other straggly bits.

I severly doubt that somehow... Apparantly they do get paid more than our footballers over here. Sounds like they were trying to pull you by impressing you with the size of their (pay) packet.

When was that, pray? I can't recall any. Instead of attacking personalities, why not address the issue? You will have the right to unopposed reply here, as this is well off topic now, so I won't respond again. I disagree with your views on Souness. I can live with that. However, it would have been refreshing if you could at least accept that the analogy you used in your post - which is what I have objected to, not your fundamental view - was not pleasant, and unjustified. You seem to pride yourself on being a man of great articulation but you fail to display any humility and you have a singular inability to be dignified at times, refusing to accept that a careless choice of words undermines your argument.

That comment is in very very bad taste. Why? To liken a football club to a disease is particularly tactless. To liken cancer to our football club is particularly distasteful. For you to need to have the matter explained to you is very worrying. I disagree. A cancer can be described as a vice or other evil of an inveterate spreading kind, which sums up perfectly the influence that Souness is having at Rovers. Very disappointing to have to define this for you. Typical of GAV to make judgments on individuals rather than addressing the issues. jim. You have tried to wriggle and squirm out of outrageous comments in the past and have made yourself look a toal and utter fool. This time you are achieving the same without even getting near to the edge of the pit you've dug yourself into. Just admit for once, that you are plain and simply wrong.

That comment is in very very bad taste. Why? To liken a football club to a disease is particularly tactless. To liken cancer to our football club is particularly distasteful. For you to need to have the matter explained to you is very worrying.