CLayton, Its hard to be sure as the memory now fades but As I recall the away end AND no mans land were not half the longside. Not saying there weren't 8000 in there because the limits on numbers were nowhere near as stringent as they are today. I'd say your figures are close in terms of Longside capacity but once segregated I would have thought he away section held about 2/3 what the home section could

And as it is a cup game, we get half of it So as well a the prize money for winning, we get the dingles hard earned annual wages!! Arrogance breeds complacency - our chances are looking up by the minute

25 years that ecompassed a massive 4 games You don't condone violence yet were revelling in tales of violence fueled glory? Sold the ground - true, the single worst thing that has ever happened in my time as a fan.I hope we don;t live to regret this one. That said it covered the debt and we have banked another 4+ million since then. I'm going to try this again, but common sense tells me you don;t have the noodles to understand it. The tickets have only been on sale to season ticket holders only - so with the best will in the world they could not have all been sold. Heres the full details for you Tickets available as follows: Thursday 3rd February - 09:15 to 17:00 Friday 4th February - 09:15 to 17:00 Saturday 5th February - 09:15 to 17:00 Monday 7th February - 09:15 to 18:00 Tuesday 8th February - 09:15 to 18:00 Wednesday 9th February - 09:15 to 17:00 Non season ticket holders can buy a ticket from Tuesday 8th February provided they have a ticket stub from this Saturday's home game against Leeds. Tickets will be placed on general sale from Thursday 10th February at 09:15 (maximum six per person) Not sure what your debt is - I heard about 30 million - so without selling how do you propose to cover it if you get relegated. And as for the only thing that really matters, the game. You know the outcome do you? I certainly don't. I know it will be a tough game, I know the odds are stacked against us yet I also know we have already accounted for prem teams this year and see no reason why it couldn;t happen again. If our lads give it all they've got and lose then I will have no complaints. Out of interest will you be looking to play football or can we expect the Chelsea treatment as you kick our players out of the game

Well I will wait to see it then. Taking the Bob Lord? Thats like taking a creche you moron. I will have a good look around me in the Longside upper tier a week Sunday for all the Rovers shirts - which home stand will you be in? certainly would love to see a few hundred try to take a stand on the 20th Of course we could have sold them all by now but the club are ensuring Season ticket holders get a fair chance to get theirs first - there no rush you know we still have 10 days. Am I supposed to be impressed by your Rangers friend or in awe? The match money will certainly be welcome but we have plenty in the bank at the moment you tool. It's interesting, your confidence in the outcome. Being strong favourites does not make victory a certainty - in fact it can be a real handicap. Imagine this, lose Saturday then lose a week Sunday and suddenly you are out of the Cup with only a relegation scrap to look forward to. What was last seasons loss again? How much debt on the books - even after all that for Duff etc. Hatred? Only for braindeads like you

erm, no they are not. They will be on general sale when the ticket office opens in the morning as it goes. Our capacity is 22619, which (by my simple dingle maths) makes it 18619 tickets for us. 350-500 Blackburn fans in the home stands? I hope they keep very very quiet.

I aint to worried 92er - I would engage them in a battle of wits but it would seem so unfair against people so poorly armed.... For the record, the home allocation is 18500, not 15000. To date they have only been available to season ticket holders, or Tuesday/Weds if you had a Leeds stub. Still, good to see the away end sold out for this one, memories of days of old

A little perspective for you. You have an advanced, database driven ticketing system using swipe cards etc (as I understand it?). You seem to have a lot of staff in the ticket office and they have got through the queues pretty quickly. Other clubs in less favourable financial positions (and I am thinking Prem level incomes as much as Jack Walker), including Burnley would love to have such efficient systems for ticket distribution. I'm not sure how you make it fair when you have just under 4000 tickets and around 7000 (or more) who want them........

I doubt there will be any tickets left at our ground simon though if anybody was considering going in the Burnley stands then in with the rug brigade is the safest bet. If anybody is tempted to go in the Longside, please don't. Seriously, I love a bit of fun and banter but after the last games I would dread to think what may happen to a Rovers fans discovered by the wrong people in our stands.

we all have our own crosses to bear

not every sentence - but it is a phrase in fairly common usage throughout the USA, UK and many other English speaking countries - don't worry it will arrive in the backwater known as Blackburn one day. Isn't it easy to be a smart arse when you can hide behind the ether and cables

Oh come now - is there not a post on this very thread where a Rovers fan is bragging about how Millwall fans described yourselves? Double standards in operation here methinks

I can remember when I started supporting them - my point was the meaning for all of us from that period is perhaps different than those before and those since. Long may it live in all our memories - especially the faces of all the scared little boys in Blackburn shirts who no longer felt quite so hard anymore Anyway it's now time to look forward to Saturday as we need some points before the FA cup game

Gav read what I said, Big game yes, big club no. I am not playing not interested, I certainly am - for a Burnley fan who started in the late 70's (or early 80's) then these games have a meaning all their own

In the last couple of years we have had many good teams, such as Liverpool (we won) Spurs (Twice, won 1 lost 1) Villa (We won) Man Utd (We lost) The arrival of B*****ds is not seen as a big club in anyway. A Big game, sure but certainly not a big club The quote re Yorkshire was from you dimwit so why not get your own coat - or if you cannot afford one do as B*****ds folk often do and take the nearest one not being closely watched To the fool who feels the need to pick up simple spelling mistakes, I'll take it you meant I'm shall I

Not sure why you all feel the need to prove the lack of education in Blackburn by getting your geography all mixed up. Even genetic deficients like yourselves should be able to discern simple county lines on a map

very much the wrong longsider - I live about a mile from the ground. If you couldn;t give a flying fu*K then why post the nonesense in the first place? You are rightly pointing out the sh*t spoken about ticket sales and queues - and it comes from both sets of fans

It won't matter in the grand scheme of things because regardless of a sell out of not you can be assured that in years to come burnley fans will believe we failed to sell out and the they had 10,000 stood outside. Thats just the way it goes.... lol gav im in the office and one of the dingles said to me there was a half mile queue today .I just laugh me bollux off! Abbey, I know for a fact that the longest the queue got today was the main entrance to the Bob Lord stand! and thats from a few lads doing some work at t'urf who were there from 7.30am Burnley fans, don't you just love em really gav - thats funny because I can't tell you for a fact the longest it got but I can tell you it reached all the way past the bob lord to the Wellington. It took 1hr and 20 minuted to get tickets - and that is a fact. Not from my best mates uncle, friends lads neighbors lover who was working outside the turf (funnily enough there is no building work outside the turf today - perhaps your 'mate' was confused?) I would say that made it half a mile though. As for the Jack Straw quote. Perhaps he had better remember that without Campbell the only place an odious looking man like him could ever have got elected was Germany circa 1938-1945

I wouldn't worry - it will all be over very quickly - Police will be onto anything straight away

Look forward to seeing you in the Miners then Simon Been to Plumbe Street Miners quite a bit myself. Karaoke on Wednesday nights about 12 years ago was always a good night and the ale was cheap. They knew i was a Rovers fan and were always alright with me. That said I won't be frequenting there a week on Sunday, I don't think I'll be that welcome somehow. Don't go often myself but still a good night, even has its own restauraunt now - and of course the infamous Brass Line over which women shall not pass. Not suggesting it would generally be a problem for a Rovers fan (though shirt wearing not the best idea - anymore than it was for me in the Pub opposite the King Georges Hall!!!) but not sure on Sunday the 20th the welcome would be over warm - Maybe better trying the Brickmakers

Look forward to seeing you in the Miners then Simon

Really? Out of interest how many capacity home crowds have Rovers had this year? Just to clarify I mean where all the home seats have been sold, not where you give 9000 to Man U etc? Not sure if you print them in your programs but I would be interested to know just how many Rovers fan turn up to home games I would not worry to much about us selling our tickets for this one. And on the who sold most tickets arguments, dress it how you want but we sold around 7000 last time, but I'll settle for 6000 which is still nearly twice what you sold for our place. Now I accept you couldn't sell more than 3,800 - and you couldn;t even find that many that would travel the 10 miles, in a FREE luxury coach. Now you can spout the general sale nonesense but I thought you had over 10000 season ticket holders? What 30% didn;t care enough to travel and as for the ignorant banana eaters comments, just more reinforcement of the nations view of Rovers fans as bigots and racists I guess

tis true, in my haste to post I used the wrong holiday - oh well I could relate the tale of when a group of grown men chased me one christmas period - i don;t say boxing day because whilst it probably was I seem to think it was nearer the 28th? - when I was around 13 and had just got my new BMX, as you say funny now but....... Truth be told there are as many Burnley fans with tales of the good a kicking they have received as there are Blackburn. Still I don;t expect this one to be any prettier than the last meeting. Police out in huge numbers, innocent fans treated like animals because of the few mindless numpties, limited opportunity for the crack (again because of the numpties) My only worry is that this becomes to big again. At the end of the game (or replay if required), win or lose it will become history and as such not as important as the next game. Mind it would still be nice to see a counter saying 0 years, 0 months, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes since Burnley beat Blackburn - Oh the Joy

It is generally sang till at Burnley these days those the correct Burney version is will. Remember at the time of its emergence we were the team in the higher league and I think (though I may be wrong) you had just been relegated, which perhaps explains your till, though as you say today it seems odd. I think the use of till also explains the importance of these matches to the fans, even today (perhaps excluding your "Nouveau Rovers fans"). I will be honest and say beating Blackburn is the most important result in any season where we play you - and I would say the same if our roleswere reversed. I grew up singing songs with lines like 'we will fight forever more because of Christmas day'. A friend I was a school with was filmed hanging from the bars, the famous ay we took the roof off your stand. You can safely say (especially bearing in mind the somewhat painful defeats last time) that I cannot wait for this game. Not because I expect to win, I know we are the underdogs and that it will be one hell of a challenge for us, but because this game is what football is all about.

I usually do to be fair - but sometimes you have to defend yourslef on here against the less cultured posters

Stu, you seem hell bent on going to this match. If you do get a ticket your in for a 'unique' experience. I went back in the 80's to a Manx cup match with my Dad - Big Stevie - and even he was scared. I've never seen anything like it. Blokes wielding baseball bats, bricks through the train window............It's like planet of the apes ! thats interesting mr hair because not to long ago, on this very board somebody was telling me it was the Blackburn fans who used to regularly turn over the Burnley fans in the hey day of football hooliganism He didnt say who won!! touche By the way how would you lot feel if we make it 5 a side? We are down to (I think) 14 players, including 2 keepers. 3 people who have been automatic first team (if fit) have left (Blake to Brum, Chaplow to WBA and O'Connor back to WBA) so we may be struggling if we play it 11 a side