only2garners

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.

My error - Chorley should be split Rovers/PNE/Bolton.

I've just dusted off and brought up to date from a few years ago a very rough estimate of both clubs' catchment areas. These are the places that locals could naturally gravitate to each club, not that they do. The LCC population estimate for 2021 has Burnley at 94,000 and Pendle at 96,000. I've then added a third of Hyndburn*, 28,000 and one third of Ribble Valley* 20,000. Total 238,000 before Rossendale. Blackburn has 150,000, plus one third of Hyndburn 28,000 and one third of Ribble Valley 20,000. Then another third of Chorley* 34,000 and a quarter of South Ribble* 28,000. Total 260,000 before Rossendale. I haven't included Rossendale's 71,000 as I don't know the area well enough to have a proper opinion, but my gut feeling, backed up by posts above, is there would naturally be more Burnley than Blackburn fans. My guess is therefore that the catchments are pretty much equal. * I split Hyndburn 3 ways - Rovers, Burnley and Stanley. Ribble Valley 3 ways - Rovers, Burnley and PNE Chorley 3 ways - Rovers, Burnley and Notlob. South Ribble 75% PNE and 25% Rovers.

Both.

Unfortunately some of the fan base on both sides have an outer dickhead.

Rod’s definitely a right winger.

Trent Bridge was far from empty, a crowd of c10,000 in a 17,500 capacity stadium. Given there was virtually no publicity for the whole competition or the final itself it wasn't bad. The Kent support sounded loud mainly because they were all gathered in one place, whereas the Lancs support was spread out in pockets all around. They also had a bit more to sing about. I would say the support was probably 1/3rd for each side and 1/3rd neutrals. Whilst Lancs probably should have played Balderson rather than Jones on the day in truth the difference was the fielding, in particular Lancs dropping a string of catches. Whilst every team drops a catch or two and Lancs are not an outstanding fielding side they normally can be relied on to pick up a number of catches but they seemed to drop nearly everything yesterday. Kent also were continually lobbing the ball just out of reach of fielders, mostly good luck rather than good play. If they had just taken say 2 or 3 of the ones they dropped Kent would have scored well under 300 and the chase would have been that much easier. Still a great day out no matter the result, topped off with scoring somewhere to stay which was literally 250 feet from my seat in the ground, allowing a night out in the fleshpots of West Bridgford.

Give over. They haven’t brought that in just for a midweek away game at Cardiff. I presume enough 1875 memberships have been sold for the club to distinguish based on when memberships were sold.

As an aside Rovers will be playing a game in every midweek between 1st October except the one in the school half term week.

Sorry Matty - I was adding tomorrow's game in as well. Next time I'll try actually reading your post!

I had a choice tomorrow between another trip to Luton after my first visit last season or a day out at a cup final with Lancs. Pretty easy choice really. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's game. It's good to see that both sides have stuck with the squada they have used throughout the tournament rather than adding in some of those involved in the 16.4.

It's 13 Matty. Have you missed out the rearranged game at Wigan on 11/10?