Firstly id just like to apologize for the way the message came across, very unsympathetic. Now id just like to address a number of your points. I am not one of those people who believe the club does everything right. I am in the middle probably, i will critize when neccessary, but i also feel that sometimes the club gets the hard end of the stick. I have repeatly stated in the past that we should screw the 1.5m or whatever we would loose (sky money makes it up anyway) and just have 12pnd adult and 5pnd child ticket prices. And yes the prices are ridiculus. However, why does it have to man u or liverpool? You could take the grandson to Bolton or arsenal or chelsea, arent these games big enough to garner intrest and get yourself onto the database that way. The point im trying to make is that the ONLY 2 game in the year are united and l'pool where this practise is upheld what else can they do, l'pool have sold out its a boxing day game. You telling me there wont be knuckle-draggers everywhere if we had a open sale policy? Whilst i feel sorry for the old lady in question, there are a million and 1 ways to get on the database and she's had more than enough time to do it. And btw, the club charge 36quid cos they know this game will sell out (or almost) Boxing day, liverpool in town, bellamy back, i expect at least 28k.

Im sorry, but i have no sympathy whatsoever. It is repeatedly stated that for Liverpool and Man u ONLY you need a prior purchase on the database. Everybody knows this, why do people moan ever time one of these 2 games come along. The club are doing the right thing, unless you wanna loada bloody red fans sitting next to you in the bbe Why is she on the database previously you only have to go to 1 game to get tickets? Why should people get tickets for l'pool if they cant be arse with any other game. Club spot on imo.

Last kick of the ###### match. Im having a very @#/? day

Im returning from my semestre of study abroad in America at UNCW, so will pick up a young persons half season ticket which is cool. At least 1 is gonna b sold then!

For the rubbish that is in there, he does make a couple of good points. Firstly, where he mentions our fans putting the town down, with reference to Becks, 'Actually consider it a possibility as the club is strong enough to appeal to Beckham. Of course fans prefer to put the club and town in the same context openly mocking the 2 process. You wonder why attendances are dropping. Keep putting the club down.' Whilst we all realise that Blackburn is not Barcelona, there are plenty of worse places in England/the world to live. Secondly we all know that a player lives in leafy cheshire or central manchester depending if they like the country or city life!! Secondly, the point he makes about Dunn has a reasonable amount of truth to it. Whilst i would personally like Dunn back if the fee was right (500k ish) because the risk is low, thoughts of paying £2m or beyond seem very much along the lines of 'hes a local boy' I would like to see Vinjay reinstated on a final warning, where is allowed to post about JW and the running of the club in this thread perhaps and then he must not post about it in all the others. The first time he violates that, hes gone for good!

Boro and Bolton got very similar crowds in this stage of the competition last year, and come from simliar and perhaps even slightly larger catchment areas. Is the attendance that much of a supprise??

Sorry pal, that wasn't a dig at the Dutch language or anything, its just a simple fact of life. Outside of Belgium and Holland, the language is not used in an important basis (not much relevance to europe for Dutch Antilles or surinam) so that is why you make the effort to learn English, French or German, more worldly langauges. They speak Afrikaans in South Africa a different langauge.

Why did we play a full team in this waste of time match? 2 injuries to players who shouldnt have been playing!

what the hell are they meana do for goodness sake? Critize the TO when it deserves to be, dont just complain for complaing sake! Would you like them to come to your front door and sell em or what

Lets say we did lower the prices to £20 Cat A (man u, l'pool, everton, arsenal, city)and £15 for Cat B games (all others), how much money would we really loose? Ticketing revenue must be such a small part of our income when you consider sky tv money, prem finish prize money, sponsorship, player sales etc. Considering we would average over 25k as oppose to 20k at the more expensive prices im sure we wouldnt actually loose that much money, and it would be worth it to see the ground fuller. We would have to lower the s/t prices as well, but why dont we try something new? Take the 1.5m loss or whatever it would be and try and be pro-active for once, we can be the novelty of the prem! We had 20,500 Rovers fans on against Bolton, more home fans than the total attendance vs wigan, city and chels! Bravo board, now can we take it further? On a final note, if you consider that under the Taylor report ticket prices were recmomened to be £6, with inflation should have risen to around £12, near enough to what people paid on sunday. This show what the prices should be!

Why the hell didnt Neill take the fuking pens? Just cos he missed vs Sheff U, he should still be the regular taker as he has a good record!! Why didnt they just wack them instead of all this placing ###### Thats 10 yrs since we have won at home to notlob in the prem, total farce.

I would guess that part of the reason is that often Swiss or especially French people have far less of a command of English than Polish or Dutch people do. Whereas Polish or Dutch are langauges just about useless outside their own borders, the swiss and French dont have to worry so much about speaking another language, kinda like us lazy gits!

Yeh was excellent again today, if only he was left-footed we'd have ourselves a superb converted left back! Watching it on chinease tv, about 1 min to go till full time, bentley had the ball in the corner next to our fans and all you could hear was Neill shouting in a passionate voice, 'kick it into the f**king corner, kick it!'. Looks like he hasnt lost his motivation and 100% effort, even if he is gonna go in jan/july

I think this game is very important for the future of ticket prices at Ewood Park. This is the real acid test of wether putting the prices down to a very reasonable level makes a significant difference. Importantly, whenever they have done it before, its been a monday night job on sky, against Charlton with about 200 away fans. This time for the first time, its a lancashire derby between two upwardly mobile teams, not on tv and a 3pm trad kick-off (allbeit on sunday). If we do get a good crowd then perhaps the board will stop and take notice for next season. If it is a @#/? crowd, they'll just think sod it, nothing will bring the fans back, lets just try and make as much money as possible! Really important for as many people to get down to the game as possible, i would expect Bolton to bring in the region of 4k+ at that price so hopefully we can get a 25K+ crowd! I await with intrest

Talking of Bolton, ive just noticed that tickets for their end are prices at only £15 for adults and £5 for kids. Does that mean the same will apply for the BBE lower and other parts of the ground, or if its a misprint, or if perhaps both clubs have done a deal and we will get cheap tickets at their place?? http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Ticke...~906722,00.html

Great news the goal is offside. Wigan get on my bloody nerves sometimes

FR, very interesting story, thanks for that i love hearing about football from before my time (at only 19 that is basically pre 93 ish). The point i was trying to make with Jan is that obviously the Rangers vs Celtic game is going to have a incredible atmosphere, and so to try to compare this to run of the mill Rovers matches is slightly unfair! So i tried to turn it around and compare Rovers vs Burnley and a Celtic run of the mill match so i chose (and at home mind you ) Falkirk!

I remember you used to loose money if you got knocked out in the first round or 2, not sure if that is still the case! With Millwall a coupla years back, i defo remember their chairman saying that they loose money if they go out in the first round which they did I would guess we would stand to make a little bit of money from the group stage, i suppose it depends on the draw, ajax and rangers at Ewood would see tv and decent crowds coming our way, slavia prague and Fc Oslo* or something, probably not! * Dont take names literally

Arent they? Hows about comparing a Rovers vs Burnley atmosphere and a Celtic vs Falkirk atmosphere. Which 1 of those would be the dead one, lets be more realistic with our comparisons!!

We've been through all this crap before, i think she said that she supported Blackburn at Celtic Park and Celtic at Ewood park, or something like that. As for supporting 2 clubs, dont see the problem as long as its from 2 different nations at that is the case here so.....

Thats why people moan at those who dont go to games! You dont get the real picture of a match where Rovers were comfortably the better side!! Great win, 2 wins in a row, lets get into the uefa group stages now!

Making Wigan at home a Category A game is totally ridiculus. Last year they bought around 2k, this year with the premiership novalty having worn off, they will bring barely that (although might be offshot slightly by the fact the game aint on sky this year). Perhaps an interesting indication on how many tickets Wigan expect to sell is the fact that our official site, it says we have allocated Wigan the whole Darwen End, whereas on the wigan site it says 1,400 tickets! In reality, there are only 2 games that should be category A+ and that is Man u and L'pool at Ewood. As for the others, it would depend if the game was on sky, if it was midweek, if it was sat 3pm etc to whether Man city, N'castle, chels, arse and Everton would be Cat A. All the rest would be cat B

No, but my 1 says that a match is coming on at 7.52, so maybe its like 5 mins delayed. However, its doesnt actaully say the match so it could be anything!

Are Liverpool a similar standard cos they drew with sheff united also? Whata load of crap. Its 4 games!

I think we made a big mistake in not getting rid of Neill and i hope we dont live to regret it. We could have got maybe £3m for him and offloaded a unhappy player with just 1 yr of his contract left. Instead, we are gonna keep him, his value will go down and i think his performances will cost us points. Last year he was superb, but this yr, knowing hes gonna leave, the fact hes never had 2 good years in a row and his general lack of discipline makes me nervous this year. Cant help think we shoulda cashed in for him when the going was good after his world cup! Hopefully Brett now has the right back slot his own!