only2garners

I can empathise with the sentiment and could benefit from such a scheme myself. I already know I will miss several games this coming season as I’m away for the second half of August and 6 weeks in Feb/March. But just offering a free ticket for a future game for any you miss will mean hundreds suddenly unable to get to Ewood on a cold wet Tuesday night at home to Charlton but all wanting to bring a mate to PNE at home on a Saturday

It is the end of June Stuart, or at least pretty much, 1st July.

The only really relevant numbers will be on 1st July, the claim your seat deadline day. For me, and presumably most others, there is absolutely no point in buying before then.

Philip - South Ribble (my local council) has been a basket case for a number of years now. The ruling Tories have been a bickering shambles, including accidentally handing over power to Labour for a few weeks earlier this year. Labour took control in the local elections and presumably the new Labour leader intends a clear out.

They are still going into the Championship, just like I said on Sunday. - see above.

It used to be the decider to see who got promoted - winners of north v south. Last year Rovers lost to Charlton and did not go up automatically (or any other way as we now know). I can’t see the point now that both league winners go up, except it’s another trophy.

The Championship. It’s the equivalent of doing what the men did last year, except of course they had dominated their division for two years before but not been allowed to be promoted.

That pretty much happened this season. We ended up with two sell out away attendances (Leeds and PNE) and no other team came remotely close. We will probably get them again next season, assuming Leeds are still with us, almost whenever we play them. Yet PNE had at least 4 sell-outs (Rovers, Leeds, Sheff Utd and Birmingham City). Their end is obviously smaller than the Darwen End but its still 5K+. They just got lucky playing Birmingham when they were playing well before the points deduction and Sheff Utd right at the end of a promotion season. We had the former just before Christmas and the latter on a Tuesday night early in the season. I don't think there were any price promotions involved. Of course Preston is a bit easier to get to for away fans, especially when there were so many Northern rail strikes on matchdays.

Matt - that’s surely because, whilst Ossy and Rishton are near Blackburn, they are also not far from Burnley. Whereas Colne is a far way from Ewood in comparison. There aren’t many dingles in Chorley either.

If you mean Southend v Sunderland that’s not a dead rubber. As I type, with Plymouth winning, Southend are in the last relegation place. At the other end of the table the two automatic places are sorted so the relegation battle is the obvious place to be. Mind you the fact that Sunderland are the away team no doubt means that’s on rather than Plymouth v Scunthorpe.

What deadline? There doesn’t appear to be any deadline in terms of prices, except for a mention of more Club Cash for anyone buying sooner rather than later. There is a deadline of 1st July for existing ST holders to retain their current seat but no mention of a deadline for these prices.

Err, no.

No it wouldn't. Salford is a separate city to Manchester.

That puts them up three places in the table and above Rovers. Not that it really matters.

They have another game yet, at home to Guiseley on Sunday. A chance to improve that +93 goal difference.

Marvin Emnes and very briefly Mo Barrow in very recent times - maybe neither of them could be categorised as notable though.

They will be fine on Saturday - it's Sunday when the prices go up.

I think re the red card that some are looking at the situation and thinking Williams won’t get back for that, knowing something of his pace. Presumably the referee can’t make a judgement based on an individual player’s pace, as a lot of the time he won’t know. He just has to look at the relative positions and assume they have similar pace. I’ve seen all Championship teams live this season except Middlesbrough and Swansea (yet). I missed the home game with Sheffield United when by all accounts they played us off the park but I did go to Bramall Lane. Whilst they were very efficient in exploiting our vulnerability that day by no means were they dominant. Norwich are the best team I’ve seen live, but an awful lot depends on how a team plays on any given day. Look at Derby - awful at Ewood yet still favourite for a play-off place (although probably not to win it). The main reason the Championship is more interesting than the Premier League is that no team has been able to be consistent enough to dominate the league - pretty much any team can beat any other on any given day (well maybe not Ipswich).

The i does it for every Premier League team on Fridays and Championship on Saturdays.

Well at least that monkey’s off my back.

It was good to Rob Jones get his second hundred of the season too. He's not a player who I have been tremendously impressed with when I've seen him but it's a great start to the season. And Glenn Maxwell has started with a michelle. Did Alex Davies get injured? It looks like Brooke Guest was wicketkeeping (he took 5 catches anyway) and Davies only came into bat at number 9.

Lancashire have 9 County Championship games before the first test England play this Summer, so there's plenty of chance to get some value from Hameed. And whilst Keaton Jennings isn't good enough for England (at least in England), he's plenty good enough for CC Div 2.

And another 100 today, this time against Middlesex - 108 not out as I type.

From the last Fans Forum minutes - Looking to launch season ticket information mid to late April.

No, we're driving down on Thursday to do some makeover work on my son's garden, hopefully get into a concert by The National and go to QPR.