There was a free child offer on for the Wigan game yesterday.

450 in bottom-full. About 400 again in the top. Pretty darn good.

Absloute nightmare for travelling fans. How to get out of work for this one!

What the hell are all you lot all talking about? I thought in the latter days of Souness he was struggling as were all the players, but he is a top class goalkeeper and pro, one of the best in the Premiership. Money should not be thrown away on bringing in a keeper or should he be replaced by the other third rate goalies at the club.

Very proud of the lads yesterday. Travelling back I was in great spirits. If we play like that against most sides we will win a hell of a lot of matches. Lampard and Essien (I thought they were outstanding) aside we matched most of their players. Also, very impressive following considering,a full bottom tier and a decent number upstairs.

Very much so. Hope people didnt think I hogged the mike (I was the one with the supid hair cut, according to our esteemed chairman!), my mates seemed to place me as group spokesman! Great night.

By the way, Chelsea fans are expecting more of our 'carve up' tactics. 'Dirty Northern .......?' Funny how we are such a disgusting side, yet they are hoping for Essien to be 'unleashed' and wish Wise was playing to sort us out. Is there a club in world football that makes you sick more? Spolit, arrogant Jonny come lately fans, rip off owners. BRING IT ON!

How interesting that the 'meaningless' Carling Cup is a sell out for Chelsea fans at 20quid a ticket and a game in the 'world's best league' is not.

I'm going, thanks to the great gesture of Ewood Blues who have heavily discounted the coach cost to make up for the robbing Russian. Now I know how the Russian government felt when he poached all its natural resources for a song.

'Larwo's' anti-roversism gets funnier by the week. How are Everton as likely to get a draw against a rampant Chelsea as we are against a struggling Brum. If I added up the points he predicts for us through a season, think we'd just about hit the 20 mark!

My view on it is that the 'bic clubs' will have even less 3pm games. If you are say ratings obsessed ITV and you get the 5th choice game, Man Utd v Charlton would be their pick, just because of the viewing figures.

I am getting sick and tired of the constant bashing of our fans after every away game. If you combine your vocal fans, slightly moronic fans, 'PC' fans, quiet fans, those who like standing and those who like sitting in two and a half blocks of one stand instead of being spread across the ground, of course different opinions of the support will emerge. That's just how it is.

As a member of the 'steering group' (and not on the Fans Forum) I personally don't see the conflict of interest. Both groups want the best for the club, I would rather have a FF with BRISA steering group members, as I know how dedicated they are and the hours they put in for the Rovers cause. Do we want a FF full of JW controlled stooges (though some say this is already the case!) or a forum with members we know we can trust?

Just had a quick look at the clips, Liverpool fans annoy me at the best of times, but after a night like that FOUR months ago, the fact I have heard calls on Century, TalkSport and Radio5 telling Benitez to go speaks volumes! The word fickle does'nt do it justice!

I hope not I'm going to get mine this afternoon!

I am sure it can't be just me, but the whole Eriksson and England circus leaves me cold. Just as the season is starting to get some momentum we all have to stop so the Swede can earn around 500k of his salary. I am a proud Englishmen, nobody was happier than me when the Ashes came home, and I am not against the England football team, over the years they have provided us with many exciting moments. Yet this side are different. The attitude of the players seem wrong, playing for England should be the pinnacle of a pro footballers career, but it seems a distraction- Alan Smith for example. The likes of Lampard and Gerrard seem to lack dedication- so there's no natural holding midfielder? Should'nt the players work it out themselves or with the manager a way round such a problem? What does he do to earn his money??? Leaving London to watch a weekend game seems less and less part of it. His unbelievable 'big club' bias continues. Heskey never missed a squad in 5 years, as soon as he went to Brum-straight out, this would still be the case if it was'nt for suspensions and positional changes. The said Smith, did not have a look in at Leeds, even though he was the talisman of the side, off he went to to United and in he goes. Danny Murphy has been widely acknowldeged as one of the stars of the season so far, if he had done the same at his last club there is no doubt he would have been called up. This was brought to a head by the inclusion of Liverpool's Warnock this week. I am sure he is a decent young defender, but if he was a Rover, do any of us think he would be anywhere near the squad? By treating friendly matches with such disdain, he is also taking the mickey out of the thousands of loyal fans that travel to EVERY game. The England team was always one to be proud of, 1966 aside, we could always be sure that the team gave everything to the cause- Italia 90 and Euro 96 to name but two. We felt that the players hurt like we did after those gallant exits. Do you think the same could be said of this present side?

The booing was unexpected but really glad I heard it, was it a Blackburn End thing or across the ground? I go to away games with the Ewood Blues (Operate out of the Aqueduct pub), you have a full coach every game with on the whole fans that NEVER miss any games. But the Chelsea game is a different matter, at least half were seriously considering not going. In a great gesture EB are offering reduced coach prices to ensure the ultra loyal fans can go. But this is just one coach, I feel for the fans that want to support their side but are being prevented by a club charging outrageous amounts of money- money they don't even need. The loyalty and passion of the working man for his football club has never been tested as much as this.

I thought half of the DE lower tier was around 2 1/2 thousand, but one of the blocks was kept empty between the fans, knocking a few hundred off.

You see it does all even itself out over a test. And people think that is just an empty cliche!

Anyway stuff the present personel who cannot be bothered turning up for awaydays, the Rovers are in my blood and thats why I suggest watching from the Blues bar as the club needs long term funding rather more than this team needs an away following. I should have listened to my mate whose opinion is 'bol lax to watching Rovers anymore......... They don't come to see me whem I'm badly do they'? 343994[/snapback] But that's not what football is about. Its about experiences, yes I spend a lot of money watching my team, as do the Leyton Orient fans etc etc that traipse across the country knowing they will never have anywhere near the success a club like Rovers have had, does'nt stop them though does it. Rovers fans have been spoilt and whatever gripes you may have about the present team (though I don't see a lack of passion as a fault of the current squad!) you are a Blackburn Rovers fan, one of the most historical, proudest clubs in the country. As a fanbase we seem to make excuses at a hell of a rate, SkyTV, Chavs to name but two. Yes we see a lot of crap, but so has everyother fan in the history of the game, rough with the smooth, ten years of top flight football with a LEAGUE TITLE and cup thrown in, I would say we are in a pretty smooth period, so lets enjoy welcoming the top sides to Ewood and going to Anfield, OT, Highbury and so on while we still can!

Unless Newcastle get the whole Darwen End (though their away followings are dropping, the Owen factor will change this short-term) it will not be a sell out. Last season was unique, it was the big Souness return, last season was supposed to be Shearer's swansong, it was'nt on live and it was the big traditional Boxing Day game.

People, people. This whole incident has been blown out of all proportion. I was on the Ewood Blues coach on Saturday, it was handbags with a bit of needle, nothing more. There were very few bricks thrown, it was mainly little stones. The fact that almost all Rovers fans dived back on to the coaches when a baying mob of Villa 'fans' charged towards us tells its own story of which set of people were the perpertrators. Do none of the posters remember the 1970s and 80s? A time of REAL football violence when every game included the very real chance of serious injury. Such incidents today shock us, because it is now such a minor part of our game and suprising to see such scenes. To be fair to Wez and his mates, if you are a regular away fan, it is galling to be criticised for singing and the like when all you are tying to do is follow your club and hopefully drive on the team, this is made very difficult by the very poor followings at some away games (Villa, Boro standing out), the numbers being that small it seems strange to hear singing at all. Though some of the chants are nonsenscial beyond belief, £2 an hour? to stewards and now even police, I'm sure most constables would wet themselves at such a suggestion knowing the sort of overtime pay they recieve.

I wish people would stop confusing having a 'fanatical' support base with having as large fanbase. Most Rovers fans that go down now, who went down in the 70s and 80s and before are 'fanatical'. I havent missed a game home or away for years, neither have a lot of others I know. I refuse to believe that TOTTENHAM!!!! fans have more passion for their club than I have for mine, they just have more. Same with Newcastle, the club isnt mentioned without referring to the 'unbelievable' support, 'football is life up there' etc etc etc, if booing your team off every week is being fanatical then let them have it. We are founder members of both Football and Premier Leagues, in the most competitive region in the country for clubs, we still get around 20k home fans each week, in a deprived, divided small town. Blackburn is a passionate football town, why don't we revel in the only thing our town has got going for it and cherish it instead of adding to the negative image that the club has had for a decade now (currently at record levels). If I am being one eyed so be it, I must be over fanatical.

I actually find this both bad and sad news and we now have the lowest ST sales in the Premiership including Wigan Pathetic and behind local rivals such as Preston. 338628[/snapback] How exactly are we behind PNE when they hadnt even got over the 9 thousand mark for season ticket sales just before the start of the season? And as for Wigan I still don't think they have reached our sale of 13k (if we are 1k behind our total of 14k last season) when it is their biggest season EVER. If we start the season less than a thousand down after the pretty poor fayre served up at Ewood over the last two years we havent done half bad.

Didnt we average 20k for our two years in Div 1? When it comes to a loyal CORE of fans we cannot be beaten, yes we do not have swathes of floating fans, but look at the size of out town and the sheer number of local teams and that is obvious. If I was a Leeds fan I would be much more ashamed that in a year they have lost HALF of their supporters and can only half fill a 40K ground in a major metropolitan area.