What the hell are you prattling on about now? How can you fail to understand the simple information that the club have provided us with? The WHOLE of the family enclosure is available at concessionary prices. (I have already purchased several concessionary tickets in the Blue zone, well above row 7). If that's the case , then thanks for enlightening me Spark - albeit in your own usual charmless and ignorant manner . If you had read my earlier posts you my have surmised that this information was given to me directly from the ticket office - ie , that only Row 7 was now available for concessions at £45. Naturally I found this hard to believe as it indicates that the rest of the stand is full !! May I ask how much you paid ? (If you can't be polite don't bother replying ) BP I apologise for my curt reply...but I can't help feeling that certain people are constantly searching out new ways to 'do down' our club when they(the Rovers) more often than not go out of their way to please the fans (ie handing out the information brochure etc..). As for how did I pay for my tickets.....I didn't (skiing in the Alps last week )...so I sent down 'mi good ol' Dad' and I think he either paid with a cheque or credit card. He asked how much, not by what method. I do, however, agree with your point that a lot of people on here are never satisfied. Worry does seem to consume some people. Yes there are things to grumble about but getting worked up by it all doesn't do yourself any good. Oops silly me. £45 for adults and £22.50 for the kids and OAPs.

What the hell are you prattling on about now? How can you fail to understand the simple information that the club have provided us with? The WHOLE of the family enclosure is available at concessionary prices. (I have already purchased several concessionary tickets in the Blue zone, well above row 7). If that's the case , then thanks for enlightening me Spark - albeit in your own usual charmless and ignorant manner . If you had read my earlier posts you my have surmised that this information was given to me directly from the ticket office - ie , that only Row 7 was now available for concessions at £45. Naturally I found this hard to believe as it indicates that the rest of the stand is full !! May I ask how much you paid ? (If you can't be polite don't bother replying ) BP I apologise for my curt reply...but I can't help feeling that certain people are constantly searching out new ways to 'do down' our club when they(the Rovers) more often than not go out of their way to please the fans (ie handing out the information brochure etc..). As for how did I pay for my tickets.....I didn't (skiing in the Alps last week )...so I sent down 'mi good ol' Dad' and I think he either paid with a cheque or credit card.

What the hell are you prattling on about now? How can you fail to understand the simple information that the club have provided us with? The WHOLE of the family enclosure is available at concessionary prices. (I have already purchased several concessionary tickets in the Blue zone, well above row 7).

Thought the Burnley support was poor considering it was their cup final and all. I got the same impression the last time they visited....looked like rabbits caught in the headlights....dumbstruck by their opulent surroundings. This is perhaps why nobody else seems to have picked up on one of their barely audible offerings..... a song rejoicing in the demise of Uncle Jack sung to the offensive Munich tune. Did anybody else here it or am I imagining things?

I saw it Rovermatt ... you could almost taste the bitterness. If you get a link to it get one for the letter directly above it from the Blackburn fan.

Don't talk to me like I'm some sort of numpty. My maths is fine thanks and just because I disagree with your opinion doesn't make me instantly thick. I'm not saying that the club could have met the total demand on Tuesday, I'm saying they could have done more than they did. And the same for Wednesday and the same for Thursday. Now, either argue in an intelligent way or feck off to the official message board with the other numptys. Ouch....must have touched a raw nerve there Scotty... Anyway if you are such a mathematical hot-shot perhaps you could explain to us how you would have managed a situation in which you had a limited number of input ports (say for arguments sake ten) and a twitchy customer base in excess of ten thousand? And for an encore perhaps you could feed the five thousand peolple on that hill over there with these couple of fishes and a loaf of bread!

Because Rovers didn't anticipate the demand for tickets. I know it's hard for some people to accept, but occasionally the club get things wrong. It's not the end of the world, but I think it's useful to point out when it happens. Scotty, I don't know how strong your maths is but here is a simple explanation of why there will always be problems for these sort of situations:- There are 12000+ season ticket holders. No doubt every one of them that wanted to attend next Tuesday's match will have tried to contact the club on that first day...(are you with me so far?..thousands of people ringing up the club....). How many staff do you think the club would have to employ to satisfy this immediate demand? The club have stated (via Lee) on numerous occasions that there are plenty of tickets in all areas left.

And who pray-tell had the nouse to employ the manager? Those that critisise the club fail to understand the dynamics of the situation. No matter how many staff had been employed to man the phone lines on Tuesday morning the system would have been clogged up. Try and locate a season ticket holder that didn't ring-up on the first day of sales. To delight their customers with immediate service the club would have had to employ several thousand staff ffs. In a strange sort of way the percieved difficulty of obtaining tickets may work in the club's favour. For once Rovers hold the hottest ticket in town.... and this alone may entice the more apathetic fan.

Just thought I'd bring this up again ..... once they know that there are 5000 tickets left I'm sure they will be paying us a visit.

I can summon up fire without flint or tinder, but I can't arrange a visit from the boys in blue Do some call you Tim?

With the Dingles due to sell out for 'their Cup Final' sometime tomorrow and the fact that they play at Dumpdale on Saturday afternoon it could make for an interesting cross-section of folk queing for tickets at Ewood on Saturday morning.

I happened to be in the Fernhurst last night and they announced that it would indeed be closed next Tuesday.

I hope that most people are planning to go down to Ewood to buy their tickets. The phone lines are processing callers at the rate of 40 an hour. Assuming each caller is after 2 tickets on average and the office is open 8 hrs a day that means they are only shifting 640 tickets a day by this method. It would take over a month to sell all the tickets by phone alone!

Longsiders...A few weeks ago we had the following exchange...would you care to comment on the highlighted statement you made in response to my original observations?

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 Like most things in life lines on a map don't tell you the whole story. They don't necessarily convey the "feel" of a place. What summed it up for me was this evening while doing a it of channel hopping I was startled out of my tv trance by the sight of a tramp like figure sporting a B*****Y bobble hat! What was the programme that this devilish figure had manifested itself from? Non other than Emmerdale! I rest my case.

Creative accounting and imagination running overtime again. How many times do we have to tell you. You were given 5,500 tickets for Ewood and failed to sell them all so how could you have brought 7,000 or even 6,000? Top Tip :- If you use your toes to supplement your fingers rather than as fruit peelers perhaps your maths may improve.

No names on the tickets I bought.

Never mind about our tickets, I've got a feeling that the Dingles may have trouble shifting their own tickets for this one. The only restriction they put on home ticket purchases (after their 8,500 season ticket holders got first bite of the cherry) was a stub from their West Yorkshire derby with Leeds yesterday. Given that this game in its own right should have pulled in a capacity crowd I was surprised to see that the attendance was less than 18,000. Even if everybody who satisfied the buying criterea bought a ticket for the Rovers match they would still need to shift another 3,500 on open sale. With the game being live on BBC I think they may struggle .... Anyway off to bed now with the alarm set for 5am....I'm not taking any risks for getting my ticket.

Just announced that club will be providing free coach transport. ps. Anybody else camping out at Ewood Sunday night/Monday morning?

Well do what you did for the Cardiff game and don't bother turning up

At times I can't believe what I am reading on this board. Some of the hand-wringing morons who advocate giving a hero's welcome to Judas (never won anything since I left Rovers) Sh**rer when he turns up with the Geordie Nation Circus are actually planning to boo a current Rover (who is the only glimmer of class in the most talentless collection of Rovers in a generation). Can you not see that you will be doing Viola's and Murray's work for them?

Only just Phil cos even with your attendance there would only have been 9141 proper supporters! The apathy and general malaise towards BRFC is spreading and gathering pace it appears. As I have said many times Blackburn neither deserves nor can support a Premier League team. My warnings are fast becoming reality. We seem to have just over half the population that is so shallow that it has quite forgotten the crappy times in the dark days of the 70's and 80's. Times when a 3rd round FA cup tie against top flight opposition would have provided the biggest crowd of the season! Lets hope that the 'abstainers' had a fantastic time spending all the £5 that they saved by not attending (given that we would of course have filled the ground to bursting if it had been priced at £15). Maybe a few will write in and tell us what fun they had spending it. As for Mrs Flopsy and Scotty (After this episode I take it that is your nationality and not your name) the term "Use it.... or lose it" surely applies. Although I am sure that both are very well aware of that fact .... albeit in a very different context! There is of course another way of looking at this. Last night was what I call a "scrapping the barrel" fixture:- unattractive lower division opposition; unplanned fixture; night game (=fewer kids); cold wet winter night (=fewer walk-ons); premium prices; past year's home form. Yet despite all these factors we still get 7,500 die hards turning up at Ewood. Now how many would have turned up for a "scrapping the barrel" fixture before the Walker revolution? Three to four thousand I'd say is a generous estimate. Whatever anyone says our core support has grown over the last 10 or so years.

That would suggest it's OK to extract as much money as possible from the hard-core when surely those fans, amongst which I count myself, are the ones Rovers should look after. Until the new announcement on prices the issue for me was money. Five tickets = £91. It's a lot of money to find in January. If it was Man Utd I would not question the price, it's about value for money and pricing a game according to its perceived value - this is how products are sold. If the price is set above the perceived value customers will react. Paul I don't for one minute think that this is the reason for the pricing policy; it is much more likly that Cardiff intransigence forced the situation upon us. What I was trying to demonstrate (if a little clumsily) is a possible stratagy the club could employ to maximise revinue. At the end of the day top class professional footballers(!) will have to be paid for performing at a northern outpost on a cold January midweek night and somebody has to pay for it. Time and time again the club have proved that lowering the price for this type of fixture does not make financial sense as the attendances are still appalling. Far better from a fiscal perspective to have 5,000 punters paying £24 each than 7,000 paying £10.

Philip and Theno have stolen my thunder on this one. Rovers are probably fed up with trying to bribe supporters on to the games with discounts and still getting sub-10,000 gates. Why not just concentrate on the hard-core 5,000 or so who don't question the prices. Is money really the issue with those complaining? If we had been playing ManU would you have questioned the prices? Too many bloody attendees at this club and not enough fans.

I read somwhere that these tectonic plate slippages tend to happen in pairs over an interval of a couple of decades.