Where is the old gate?

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At the bottom of my garden

Aggy, where do you sit, and what category of ST do you buy?

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Are you going work it out for me?

BBE lower, 1 Adult, 1 Young Adult and 1 Junior

To summarise then:

our catchment population has the lowest disposable income in English football

our Asian population is four times the national average

ticket prices have risen 10% higher than disposable income in ten years

we have the smallest population centre for any top flight club

we've crap for some time: this season excepted

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Excellent summary, therein lies the answers to our gate debate and there's not a lot the club can do about them.

Personally I'd be in favour of doing the exact opposite Theno. I'd halve the cost of ticket prices and recover any drop in revenue by trimming a bit from the huge wage bill. Getting one or two of the overpaid dollopers like Amoruso off the wage bill would be a start....

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As a buyer of three season tickets, I have a feeling I may have lost out, money wise, this season due to all the cut priced deals offered throughout the season.

If I were to actually sit down, work it out and find that was to be the case then I'd be very tempted not to bother with them next season. If the club are going to continue to offer deals next season, it ought to be reflected in the cost of season tickets.

A very intelligent and reasoned argument which answers all the points in Daves post above.

Is missing from that post.

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How can someone from the other side of the world pass comment on the social climate of this country with such a flippant throwaway comment.

@#/? was all it deserved.

To my mind, the only thing that's keeping the "real football fan" away is their own apathy.

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That's @#/?

I agree with gaz.

A lot of fans have already expressed their feelings by staying away. Another price hike this summer will see even more stay away next season.

The simple fact is, the cost of attending matches has exceeded a lot of fans disposable income or come close enough not to warrant spending it all on a football match.

There is nothing the club can do about this if it wants to maintain it's premier league status.

But the skill level of Pongo (even if it is a new signing other than Pongo) is the way forwards for Rovers.

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Pongo's still to convince me. There's something not quite right with him. His first touch seems fine, his second is somewhat hit and miss, he spends too much time on the ball with his head down and more often than not tries to do too much.

Saying that, it's only an opinion after seeing him a couple of times.

Was that squeezed in between their ten minute advert breaks

Can do without the smartarse comments, esp when i got 2A's and a C at a-level and im currently suding at university.

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Obviously not in English

will someone tell him his celebration is just not cool and overused?? 

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Unlike Cookie monsters celebration, which is definately not overused

yet as jim says playing well and losing is no good to anyone.

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That performance, even though we ended pointless, is good for everyones confidence. To totally outplay a team in fourth spot on their own patch, scoring two in the process shows just how good the team is playing at the moment.

Every man and his dog knows spuds were very lucky with dodgy decisions, hell, even my missus could tell they were fortunate.

Can't wait for the next game, keep the momentum going, even build on it.

The BBC actually managed to make spuds look the better team. I'm sure they must have mixed in some highlights from previous encounters

I was born under the Blackburn End...

I live in hope.....

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I alway's sang ' on the Blackburn End'

pursuing a regular visitor strategy that offers exclusive access to events e.g. Victoria's Secret fashion shows

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I second that. Put me down for the front row

When do you ever have anything positive to say about any subject?

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The club are averaging 18K home support, WTF can you say that's positive?

How about directing a chant at the drummers.

Any ideas?

There must be an answer using a card similar to a season ticket.

Database members could be given one on request and all they would need to do was to phone the ticket office, pick an empty seat and pay for however many consecutive games they could afford. Relevant savings deducted on a sliding scale for more games bought.

Cards would be retained and could be used at any time during the season to add more games/ change seats once the initial 'credits had expired'. An ordinary ticket sent out with seat/games paid for.

Maybe this is beyond the present ticket office administration but certainly not beyond the system.

Just an idea, I'll get me coat

Perhaps they'd be better employed in the Darwen end, there they can disrupt the away fans chants

With regards to a Safe Standing area, Hughes in his after match interview on Rovervision ended with the words ' our aim is to get bums off seats '

So now we can quote the manager as being in favour of standing

flops i aint joking that today the drummers stopped at least 10 songs they really are a pain in the arse....mind you we only sing when were winning apart from a few of us

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So the answer could be to use the drums to start a chant when all is quiet, then once the singing has got going, stop the drumming.

Do I want tackling outlawed?  Not at all but to deride Barca as cheats shows a level of ignorance beyond belief.

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I can spot a cheat when I see one, you obviously couldn't spot one even if he fell over your undone shoelace

If they'd stick to football, they'd be a great team. But a team that resorts to such distasteful acts could never be great IMO.

Plastic LONSDALE logo came off in one complete piece after washing !!

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You should've told your mum not to use hot water

Will it be another apallingly shabby Sportsworld/Lonsdale affair, or might we have a reasonable quality shirt from a decent manufacturer this time?

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Lonsdale will do just fine

ie. cheap

My two kids always get a full kit each.

Not from a posh part of Lancashire.

i blame klinnsman(sp) for all this, an awsome player but at the italia 90 world cup he was rolling around doing summersaults and rolly pollies and its just copied on and stuck.

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Cryuff and Platini, great players as they were, both said in the late seventies that football should be a non-contact sport.

Both have held/hold powerful positions within football. Now their combined efforts aren't to far away from coming to fruition.

Trying to remove tackles from the game has seen the upturn in diving/cheating, The idea was to give attacking players protection. Now they are over protected and have become very adept at milking contact situations. They fall over at the slightest touch.

Shirt pulling, what's all that about. I played twenty odd years as a defender and can honestly say I never pulled at anyones shirt.