Got 5 tickets for Riverside at 5.10 pm today after a 40 minute wait.Full Marks there were 10 windows open!! the queue was 2/3 rds down blackburn end when I joined it and still there when I got to window. Excellent service...was told by Security Chief that there was no queue at 9.15 am...this is where your granny helps.DON'T BE PUT OFF.

Tugay,Gally,johansson underwhelmed the effort.We don't need a stronger defence but a re-shaped attack.The difference from 4 years ago was the 3 gems..Dunn,Duff and jansen. FFS put Stead in before Gally or the little 16 yr old pretending to be 20.An absolutely worthless substitution. Rovers fans brilliant...now 16,000 more buy tickets or me and thenodrug will get fed up again.

Game plan for Sunday..go for corners and let MGP take about 6 of those wicked inswingers!! It makes Notlobs tactics look soooo feeble. No..get MGP one corner and he will soften em up with the first 2 winning the game with the 3rd. A legend is born.

With 60 hours to go, Friarsnig great post. Andy82 ...I played for the Zebras in the 70s after transferring from Appleby-Frodingham.But don't get too carried away they were well down the pyramid then. Also my lowest Rovers moment came then...One Season I struggled to get to Hull City in the fog and it was called off.And a few weeks later Rovers played bloody Lincoln City in the League Cup and we lost 3-0 away from home and were shambolic.There seemed like no hope and yet 23 years later we won The Premiership. Thanks Uncle Jack and in 59 hours we will shout your name.Keep the Faith.

The 80 Coaches will create the perfect snow-plough phalanx as they move in perfect formation out of the Burnley district and back to "Success City". Now have you ever spent a night in Burnley? And will you even see the word phalanx ever attempted on Claretmad never mind spelt correctly! And its not about losing your voice...60 hours to go and counting.

Andy82 brother. my 5 teams: 1.Rovers 2.Rovers Reserves 3.Rovers Youth team 4.Scunthorpe United 5.Brigg Town(played for them when I worked in Scunny) This is a diversionary thread to syphon off the PMT.Only 63 hours to go...and 60 from leaving house for Coach.

Coach 66. My dream last night ended with us all singing " 3 - 0 and we can't go home" The good news was we were winning and there was still 20 mins left + 30 minutes in the cowshed before the 80 Coaches circle the dingledome. And can we just call em the Dingles rather than the B######s like in Saturdays warm up session.Its more pointed. How many minutes to Sunday morning setting off for Ewood?

After logically thinking Chris Sutton...wanting to vote for Tony Field,knowing it was probably Southworth,wishing it had been Fred Pickering I voted blind SIMON GARNER!! And then found out that 50%...old and young...had voted with their hearts. A week before the trip to Yorkshire I am not surprised. Get the plane ready with the message!

" John - i want you to play the next 5 games and make the place your own and forget about the season so far...as far as I'm concerned for you it starts today" Overheard Hughesy to Stead 2pm today. Come on lets warm up for next week and thanks to everyone making a special effort to be there today( and NO Thanks to anyone making a lame excuse and missing todays vital match) With 28 points and April's fixtures we can concentrate on the Cup.

Got my 3 tickets by 10.45 this morning and think the system was fair.Earlier on Monday got 2 tickets for me and mate with 2 Away stubs. So The first 2 were rewarded and if I had been too late for remaining 3 then it would have been unfortunate but tough. As a Sofia Away queuer who got to the outside door but no further when queueing for Celtic away then this was much fairer. 14,000 does go into 3,800 but the result is 0.271 or 1 chance in 5 of a ticket. Ask Jim what it were like in 1960 wi'th postal ballot!

Briggs and Garner only in lower leagues. Sutton and Southworth at top level. Southworth scored most goals and most England caps. It is much easier to emotionally vote for Jansen or Garner. This last choice is going to be a farce and I can see the vote being split 4 or 5 ways. HELP!

Got 2 of mine at 1.30pm ...steady trickle by then. Back Wednesday for the 3 others we need. Numbers so far about right - need to show Dingles and Brum how to run a ticket operation(after years of trying and failing)

How would "soft bazza" have coped with the Cup Draw?.As he came out the tunnel at the Dingledome and tasted the venom he probably would have turned round and run back for his mamma. They may have been only average for us but at least no one will forget Jason MaCateer and Benty. FA Cup matches like that are where you prove your fitness to wear the badge and the legendary colours and "Soft Bazza" has swapped it for Partick Thistle.

Queueing at Ewood is like being with your extended family. Queueing at The Turf Bog is being with your family(if you could think) And while we're at it : "Hitler made the autobahn to get his tanks into other countries... The Department of Transport made the M65 to get the 80 Rovers Coaches safely to Turf Moor" ANON

And importance to the Club e.g. Southworth,Garner,Briggs,Ted Harper and the great Tony Field. I shall probably vote for Sutton ...when have Rovers players ever been known by their initials worldwide? S.A.S.

Tonights LET match- report scores Thommo ....wait for it...7 This is of Claretesque proportions.A 4 would have been generous. Lets hope he is "trying too hard".

For last night's game I bought 5 extra tickets for friends,met them in a pub on A59,drove em to and from match,talked to them rather than my football mates. 3 have paid me so far for the tickets and I may get the money back from the other 2 at £28 a shot. And I am still embarassed about 23,400 and where the other 5,000 were.I am really happy for the pubs and all the keen supporters in them,NOT.

The hangover is just clearing and its Thursday lunchtime! Isn't the reality that we made 2 mistakes last night -Brads awful attempt at a save and Dichov's penalty.The rest was all about us not being quite good enough to beat one of Europe's(hence the World) best sides - assembled at 5 to 8 times the cost and wages of our 95 team. When you then add THOMMO'S display to end all displays which was a bit like when some Rovers manager played Faz at left-back!! We did brilliantly cos we have no attack force and no central midfield.Tugay should have been on from 20 mins and Amo up front for the last 15 mins.And Thommo walking straight off explains why we should have encouraged Everton to buy him. But the feeling is great.."We can hold our own and God I'm looking forward to Feb 20th!!"

February in Bumley can be quite beautiful, with the mile long convoy of pristine Coaches stretching as far as the eye can see. And all the locals out in their front gardens getting an extra dose of spectacular entertainment (apart from lack of TV license and the lecky wired up to the street light) And going back to "Success City" with our 25 year old record intact : no goals against and into the 6th Round. BRING IT ON!

Soft Bazza RIP. The only Celt to ever get homesick.They built the bridges and railways of the Empire.They served with distinction all over the world in the British Army. They came South to be the first Football professionals. And we get the most undistinguished Captain in our illustrious 130 year old history. Ronny Clayton,Harry Healless,Bob Crompton - your legacy has been besmirched.

I have just checked on mine thenodrug. They are still there plus my wife's tickets.Those can go on ebay and not at £5,10,15 or £19. Genceblierje at Ewood - tickets £5. Guess the crowd?

I'll play on the wing on that strip of pitch relaid.Second half is a problem. Now I'm worried the pitch is their secret weapon.

The Burnley match should certainly kick-start interest , even of the Inter-East Lancs nature. The acid test would be if there was a replay - could we sell all our tickets?

Got my Season Ticket,my Cardiff ticket and my Colchester ticket ready for the arrangements.Do i need to take with me my Sofia and Lyon away tickets to prove my need of just ONE ticket for the Dingles in Bumley? Just hope they are brand new Coaches ,all in the same livery and 78 of em like last time. MAGIC...this is why its cool to have a season ticket(even on credit!)

Out of 16 suggestions only the Lancs United got sledged. Agree with 1864 and Savage and Bellamy are a way forward. Its my memory that says how much certain players used to do around the Town e.g. Parkes,Garner,Colin,Dunny.Thats all missing now and will be until 2009 when Big Col comes back as Manager(unless he cocks it at Pool or the next club) Meanwhile there is now only 24 hours 29 minutes to the closure of Transfer Window.Hope John W. is still working.