As myelf and someone else on here predicted, (not sure who) its been Wigans own bad crowds in these last 3 games (all sub 19k) which have given us the lead! We will push on and comfortably finish ahead with chels and city to come!

A VERY frustrating day all round really, i was left kicking the living day-lights out of the seat in front of me in the bbe lower when the final whistle went There have only been 2 occasions that ive been really angry at a Rovers match this yr, out of the 30 odd ive seen (inc cups), the first was that pathetic failure to create a chance against 10 men for 80 mins against everton and y'sday was the 2nd. However whereas the first was Rovers fault, the blame is FULLY on the linesman and will be sending him a bill for my transport and ticket. ANYBODY GOT HIS NAME AND ADDRESS?? It was nice to see a packed out Ewood Park, i heard at the ticket office when i was getting my brum tickets that it was a complete sell out although i did see some gaps in the JW upper and behind the poles of the RS. Heard some reports of scouse in our ends, didnt see any in the bbe tho, but thats par really. Onto the match. Dont think that we deserved to loose the game. Alot of points have been made that luck evens itself out and that liverpool had the better of the chances. Liverpool have already screwd us over once this season at Anfield so for luck to even out we derserved a coupla of lucky descions. Instead we will prob get lucky against b'ham or summit which is unfortunate for them! Secondly the point about them creating more chances than us. Completley irrelevant, as they were on the counter attack. Had that ludicrus goal not been given in the first half they wouldnt have had anywhere near as much space going forward. It was so important that we got the first goal, but alas couldnt get it Though Reid was terrific and we passed the ball around very well. We got some decent crosses in from both sides and pressed forward well in the second half, but hypia and carra were immense, unbeliveible performance from those 2! A coupla other notes. Atmosphere wasnt too bad at the start, but deflated when we went 1 nil down as expected. liverpool fans were crap for 7k, we made much more noise at anfield! Another ###### taking thing is the way we've bent over backwards for this lot, changing the kick off, giving them loads of tickets, only for them to score a goal that wasnt and go and bore us to death after that! What the hell is going on FFS? 4th has gone im afraid, but lets stay positive, a win against Brum is enough for 6th place!!

Tickets for this game must almost be sold out, im on row bloody 3 and i got tickets just before the Liverpool game on sunday. Night games are alsways good fun, so after the dissapointment of sunday its got to be an away win! Blues 1-2 Rovers Heskey Pongolle Emerton 3 Points would basically sow up that 6th place, so its an important game for us!

The highest crowd at the modern Ewood Park was in the 95-96 season against Liverpool. It was 30,895 and that was a sell out. Other high crowds the previous season and that season were around the 30,500 mark for manu, bolton, n'castle, spurs etc. Against Burnley, i think capasity was limited to 28,800 and there was 28,691 on.

I would presume and hope that means its open for the sale of other tickets, as i hope to pick up my brum away tickets when i go to the liverpool match!

Its not quite as simple as that 1864, as its a cat A+ game and its on sky sports. This could be countered by the importance of the game and the fact its during the holidays. Hopefully 27,500+, but you never know with the Rovers, at least Pool sold out their 7k!

Its funny, there seems to be a positive correlation between knee-jerk, negative reactionary posts and people who didnt actually go to the match. Was at Pompey at the weekend and thought we put up a pretty good battle. They are on superb form atm, and are playing with pace, power, skill and desperation, perhaps being the key componant. Yes they did have more chances and yes they could have scored more. However, Brad did well and we ourselves could have had more goals, MGP chance and Emerton at the end. A excellent point imo and a really exciting game, perhaps the best away game out of the 10 ive been to this season (apart from maybe wigan and charlton). On that evidence they could do us a favour against the arse in midweek which would obv be brilliant from our point of view. Our support was good in numbers considering the distance, but didnt make a sound apart from the goals and at half time for a funny chap named bomber !! Good day out tho, nice weather good match and a good point imo!

Its still game on gents, although we are relying on other teams to do us a favour. Spurs could easily loose their next 3 games, although i hope they loose the next 2 and then draw with arse, as that will give us a chance to steal thru. We should seal up 6th place as a minimum this yr, but its difficult to predict anything, notlob have some pretty decent fixtures after chels!

The Wigan crowd against Villa wont be that great cos its a midweek match and that always seems to affect their crowds quite badly, as it does ours. However i do see a problem on the horizen in the fact that pompey might take close to 5k there, as the club is laying on free transport and its their final away game to avoid the drop. Considering that it will also be wigans final home game, and they will want to thank their team for having an amazing 1st yr in prem, it might be enough to win the bet. Its gonna be very tight, jeez this is almost as fun as the champs league place battle

Im going for a close 2-1 victory for the Rovers! Heading down there with my old man, and prob staying in pomp on the sat night after also. Cant wait for the superb facilities again, no bogs, kiosks or roof, but oh well at least it aint meant to rain! How many tickets have we sold for this one, i was hoping we might take about 1000 down, due to position and london rovers influence!

Wigan will struggle to get 18,000 for the last 3 games, b'ham is on sky, Villa is midweek and pompey is unglamorus and a mission for away fans, although pompey might bring a fair few due to their situation. We will win the bet!

According to a wiganer on the footiemad message boards, they have sold around 3,200 tickets by last night. Dont know if he is bsing or what really

Yes, according to the Wednesday site, there are 6,965 seats in the upper and lower tier of the Leppings Lane end. Consdiering the total capasity of the end is 8,000 including the open air corner, we must have had just over 7K there (the sold out upper and lower) and the few scattered in the corner bit.

I know its a long shot after the first leg, but what effect would Boro have winning the Uefa cup have on procedings? Would that mean an extra place granted to the Eng league in the uefa cup, or would they just nick the 6th place and give it automatically to boro?

Are we not effectively garanteed some sort of European football next season? We have a chance of qualifying for the champs league, should qualify for the uefa, but with regards to the intertoto, we are that far ahead of the other teams that its fair to say there will b some sort of european footie at ewwod next yr, even if its only in july

Throughly deserved new contract imo as he has had a excellent season. As others have mentioned, hopefully we can sign him up before the w/cup in case he does something amazing out in Germany. Consistant, a hard tackler, and good at overlapping another one of Souness excellent signings (pls try and remember, it wasnt all bad).

Right than Lee, here is a question for you.I was gonna pm you, but ive seen others asking questions on this thread so here it goes. Im a s/t holder in the BBE lower. Ive got a superb seat, 3/4 up towards the back and slap bang centre of the goal. Im at University and still commute back to Bburn every home game and most away games to watch us. HOWEVER, as part of my course, im going to be studying abraod from August to December in the USA, so obviously wont be able to still watch the Rovers. I want to get a half season ticket as soon as i return to England, but would really like to keep my current seat. Is there any way of like reserving my seat, because the BBE lower doesnt sell out, even tho for the first half of the yr i wont be using it? Thanks very much for any info Lee.

Emerton, Reid and Amo were bought out of the Dunn money. The majority of the Duff money was put in the bank and then £6.5m was used for Bazza. Also some of that money for bazza woulda come from our 6th placed finish!

Cos the Brum game is on sky and is a 5.15 kickoff. I expect about 17k. Imo its all about what kinda crowds wigan get for the rest of the season. Id expect them to get 3 sub 20k crowds and finish off on about 20,500. We will then get 20k+ for all our games and city on the last day will be a virtual sell out meaning we should confortably win. Dont sweat yet Gav!

Im hoping to go to South Africa, ive gota coupla mates out there who went to my uni this yr. They can get me tickets and i can c them also!!

Im sorry, but anybody who is saying that Champs league would be bad for Blackburn at this point is totally off their trolley. I wouldnt give a monkeys if we lost all 6 games 5-0, that £15m plus would be a massive boost to the club. The buzz around East Lancashire would be amazing and big game, such as inter, ac, juve, barca, munich, real would see defo sell outs reagardless of how many they bring. The away trips would also be fabulous and something that we as a club could never forget. The first town club to qualify for the Champions league without a finantual backer. Net spending of £900k would be some achievement. Anyway, on to yesterdays game. I didnt go, it was a trip to far for me. Ive been to around 10 away games this season, yet have managed to miss our wins at boro, n'caslte and sunderland. Sounds like it was a hard fought victory but we edged a close encounter. Its a superb victory, cos we've struggled away from home and thats 3 wins in a row. On paper, we were favs for all 3 games, but to actually go out and do the biz is excellent. Im going to every single 1 of the remaining games this season, and if we can get another 5 wins under our belt i think we can get champs league!

I know alot of you seem to be worried by this fixture, but fear not it will be a comfortable 3-1 victory. Boro will be weary from their magnificent win in Rome on Wed and with a Fa cup 1/4 final to come on tues a trip to East Lancs will be the last thing on their mind. With b'ham beating Spurs i reckon we will go level on points with them and its game on for the champs league! Rovers 3-1 Boro Bellamy Downing mgp Nelson 22,012

Here is another question. Why didnt April 15th get taken out the equation for l'pool when they were doing the fix at the start of the season. After all, they arrange the fix computer so that certain clubs dont play at home on the same sat (us and burnley, saints pompey, man u city etc) surely they could have done a similar thing for April 15th?! Or would that be too sensible

Okay this whole situation really needs to get sorted out. On the Liverpool site it says on breaking news how Liverpool are now trying to get the game moved completely from that date. FFS can they make their mind up on what the hell is going on http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N...060315-1329.htm

Its not our fault whatsoever. Those clows should have sorted it out long ago ie in the first half of the season when they knew they were playing us on that day. There are no real other alternative dates and so when they asked to move the fix back we said yes. Only those moaners are to blame. It doesnt matter if a few boycott anyway, they will still sell out 7k esp at that stage in the season