No I don't think it has, but then they haven't played each other for years and I imagine that game didn't happen in the years when we were having bubble games with Burnley. You're right that Lancs Police quoted ECHR as a reason why they should not do bubble games but I guess that is an interpretation by them than any type of central dictat.

That was mentioned at the Fans Forum last Monday when we had Rovers' Police Liaison Officer along to talk about the plans for our games. The Swansea - Cardiff game is now the only game with the bubble operating. Lancs Police clearly wanted to avoid a bubble if at all possible and they also had an issue with having a bubble for our game and not for the Preston - Blackpool game.

We are pretty much guaranteed an official gate of 14,000+ if Sunderland are bringing c5,000. Of course midweek, colder weather, live on Sky will mean plenty of ST holders will stay at home but they will still be counted.

They won’t get to phase 3. There are about 1,700 fans eligible for phase 1 and I would assume most will take up their option. That leaves about 600 or so tickets for anyone with a ST and 1875 membership.

As long as the away tickets were bought from the club and are on the system you will be guaranteed a ticket as long as you buy within the first priority window from 20th to 23rd. You just need one away ticket as well as a ST and 1875 membership.

The fact that Boro are struggling is a bit of a red herring here. The posted gate of 24,000, like every other attendance, will include season ticket sales, whether the fans who bought them turn up for games or not. I presume there was a lot of positivity around Boro in the Summer, They thought they had a good manager and had bought a number of players. I imagine yesterday's 24,000 was well over the number who actually showed up, as it often is at Ewood. They had sold 18,000 season tickets by June, sp presumably a few more than that now. So a bit over twice what Rovers sold, for a catchment more than twice Rovers'.

Well it wasn't a secret when the 1875 membership was introduced. This is from the website: - New for the 2022-23 season, our 1875 Membership offers supporters significant savings and benefits during the upcoming campaign, as the new era under new Head Coach Jon Dahl Tomasson gets underway. There are a number of mouth-watering matches to look forward to this season, most notably four local derbies, including our renewed rivalry with Burnley, and 1875 Members will be able to receive priority access to away tickets for these fixtures, as well as for every other Rovers game on the road this season. Be at the front of the queue for away tickets with an 1875 Membership: Season Ticket Holders with 1875 Membership Season Ticket Holders 1875 Members General Sale

For a catchment area at least twice the population of Rovers?

What do you think is ridiculous about the allocation plans?

To be fair Longsiders we beat them 3-0 at their place, although it seems a long time ago now.

Sounds like a shambles of a game at Bramall Lane. The Radio Lancs commentators were struggling to control themselves at the end. Blackpool came from 2-0 down to lead 3-2 and then had two players sent off. United missed a penalty that supposedly should never have been and then scored a leveller in the 99th minute by just taking the Blackpool keeper out. Then there was a punch up after the end with Fotheringham flattened Lavery and for some reason the ref sent both of them off.

This was mentioned at the Fans Forum on Monday - in fact I asked whether there would be a £14.70 game this year. Steve Waggott was mightily annoyed last year when the club did it for the home game with Sheffield United and they charged us 331 for the return. He said on Monday that he was looking to do an £18.75 offer assuming Huddersfiled would agree to a reciprocal rate so there should be that to look forward to in the New Year. They were only founded in 1908 so it might be a bit dearer!

Edun, Mola, Buckley, Rankin-Costello, Markandy and Hirst are all starting for the under 21s at Leyland in 20 minutes so not at Middlesbrough.

A 5.30pm kick-off at Norwich is bloody tough on Rovers fans. I have been planning to go to this game as it's new ground for me but luckily I have the option of staying at my son's in East London so I can be back at a sensible hour.

Bizarrely I think both are true. I bought tickets on the day and I think I had to pay cash but inside the stadium it was card only.

I believe he already has a decent wine cellar Mercer.

Well they won't force the rail replacement buses to divert via Turf Moor. My guess is that they will plan to meet each of those buses to escort any fans, but that's complicated by Burnley having three railway stations that you can use.

Will that be possible on the morning of Remembrance Sunday?

As I pointed out above anyone who doesn't want to have the control of the official coaches can take the rail replacement bus and therefore choose when to travel.

There are engineering works on the trains that weekend. So no trains, but there will be rail replacement buses.

For any Lancashire members make sure that you vote against Strauss’ High Performance Review when the papers arrive soon.

Only two of the current England test squad were allowed to play in the last round of the CC.

You should have watched the cricket Chaddy, although it has been heavily one-sided.

These are numbers from the 2011 census, I don’t think the 2021 numbers are out yet. Then there were 45,500 BME people in Blackburn with Darwen. In Pendle there were 18,000 and in Burnley 11,000. No doubt these numbers will have increased somewhat in the last 10 years. There were another 10,000 in Hyndburn. So both clubs have catchment areas with fairly big BME populations but Rovers have more.

Longsiders - my numbers were from Lancashire County Council's website, outlining population estimates from the 2021 census. The actual numbers are 94,700 for Burnley and 95,800 for Pendle. This is for the two Borough Council areas.