I said exactly that. If we were all held to account over every daft thing we've ever said we'd be in a right mess. It's not that it wasn't a bad thing to say just that he's probably asked himself over and over why he said it in the first place and how he managed to come over sounding so crass. I hope he makes a quick recovery

I don't think anyone can deny that our season tickets are reasonably priced if you can attend enough matches, although the increase this year was a bit steep. However, walk on prices and especially if you factor in a surcharge are high. I wouldn't suggest cheap match day tickets overall but a flat rate of £25 or so without surcharges might make a difference to crowds as would the occasional really cheap promotion. Its about getting people through the door in the first place then hopefully converting them to season ticket holders. There has to be more the club can do without annoying existing st holders or offering a price that costs more than it brings in.

Souness was saying how good he was last night on Monday Night Football. Said oposition managers always asked where he'd got him from

Will venkys even answer the phone? Or will they insist Levy travels to India to deal with them in person? With them, who knows? No point worrying about Dack leaving in January. If he's going, he'll go, and not a thing we say will make any difference. We can debate it, but we can't second guess what our owners will do

We took our grandson to the Oxford match. Noisier than most recent matches. He wasn't quite 2. He loved it. Was fascinated watching the crowds, the match, the mascot, everything. Every child is different. Your daughter may live it

Can I just say, having few things I have to do now I'm retired, I quite often decide to do things at the last minute. Having spent my life up to then ruled for large parts by the ringing of a bell, being able to make spontaneous decisions is one of the privileges of getting older. So last Saturday I came back from a course I'd been attending and decided at 2.30pm that since the weather had improved greatly, I'd go and watch Clitheroe. Now obviously to get from Clitheroe to Ewood I'd have to decide a bit sooner, but with smaller crowds than when I used to have a ST, probably not much before 2pm. So yes, people do decide at the last minute to do things based on all sorts of criteria. And provided we stay within posting rules, well talk about whatever we want on here. We know that it may change nothing per se, but the point of a message board is to allow you to get things that annoy you off your chest, and to explain the reasons why you're annoyed.

Makes a bigger difference in rugby though. In football I think you'd need longer than 10 min for it to make a difference

Immediate goodwill towards him and the club if he'd scrapped it. It's not a lot on one ticket but if you pay for more than one eg you, your partner and a young family member it's a lot. And it's the principle of it. Why should you be penalised for deciding at the last minute you want to go and can? You'll already pay top price for your ticket compared to season ticket holders etc. That's what you expect when you're picking and choosing which matches to attend. But why should you pay more if you can't decide till nearly kick off? If there's room for you, and there certainly is at Ewood, then you should be allowed to purchase a ticket at the standard price. Other sports do it. Why can't we?

For some, getting the money together is a big thing, especially if they're paying for several tickets. Getting them on sale soon would give them a chance to decide what they can say no to between now and the half season tickets starting in order to be able to afford to commit to half season tickets. We all know that if there's something you have to pay for, the longer you have to put money away the easier that payment becomes, as you can give up lots of smaller things rather than deprive yourself of something you really want or need.

This sounds like rugby rules where the ref doesn't stop the clock for short things like minor injuries but does for infringements that need dealing with in more depth. The time keeping isn't done by the ref and time is not arbitrarily added on at the end at the refs estimation. When the clock reaches time the next stoppage finishes the match. If you're looking to score you just keep the ball in play so time can go on but once the opposition can get the ball off the pitch, the match ends

I'm with you here Chaddy. I have sky. I don't use it to watch Rovers as I don't enjoy watching them live on tv. If I'm going to actually watch the whole thing I would be at the ground. But I watch cricket, rugby, films and other programmes on it and the money that makes for them means they can pay everything they do to televise football matches. I can't help that. If it were possible for everything to be on terrestrial TV I'd be much happier but then you'd have to pay much more for terrestrial TV.

Waggott can say as often as he wants why there is a surcharge on match day tickets purchased on the day but it doesn't make it right or good business sense. As an initial gesture without any significant cost to themselves, Rovers could drop it. If it brought a few more in to fill some of those empty seats wouldnt that be great?

You're right about moving fans without consultation being a big thing. I'd say it was definitely the tipping point for me and I said at the time it was the thin end of the wedge. You've admitted you like sitting where you sit. So did I and Cheston took it away just like that. I told him what I thought when I wrote to him to explain why I didn't renew my season ticket. Upset about it? Damned right I was

Oddly enough, one thing I never do is watch Rovers on Sky. I would far rather go to a live match. We have all the sky matches available but I can't stand Rovers on tv. Don't know why

He didn't actually say Neal had made any suggestions. Just pointed him to this thread where we all, season ticket holders, occasional attenders, non attenders, lapsed St holders, disgruntled at being moved from stand without consultation fans, never miss a match fans and any other group you can think of, have had our say.

French league 2 is poor, believe me. Way below championship. If Arsenal have bought a player from there and are playing him, there's no reason why they shouldn't look at players like Dack. Of course they probably won't, because we'd want a lot of money, but they could

Except arsenal recently bought Guendouzi from French league 2 team Lorient and are playing him.

We always bought at least drinks in the ground and the kids, when they attended, would often have a pie too. We bought programmes and visited the shop, often buying small items. We were consumers as well as fans.

I couldn't say it's changed my mind as ive never yet got to the point of deciding to go, but it would annoy me to have to pay it if I did decide to turn up. I actually had persuaded my husband we should get ourselves down to Ewood for the next match but, having checked my diary, I have a can't miss meeting at the same time. I'll keep trying, and I'll make sure I order my ticket in advance to avoid paying more than I need to.

I think £10 is too cheap but I think looking at £20 might make it more affordable. It's around that at Sale for the rugby and at Old Trafford for T20 games.

You've been unlucky. We've had late ticket offers at theatres locally. I hate the booking fees etc that they add on too and whenever possible i pick up my tickets to avoid postal charges. How about cheaper tickets for walk ons the earlier you buy with them only reaching full price on the day? Would that be possible? And your charities charging higher event entry doesn't work. Yes they charge less if you commit early because they need to know if the event will be worth putting on. Often they have to pay to stage the event somewhere, they need road closures sorted or whatever, so they need early commitment. Rovers know that if one man and his dog turn up, the venue is there, the event will take place. Therefore they should be able to look at their pricing differently.

To some people £3 makes a huge difference. In terms of the cash, to me it isn't a huge factor, other than that I resent the idea of being charged extra to decide to do something at the last minute. Doesn't happen at the cinema or the theatre. In fact quite often at the theatre you get offers if they're not selling well so it's cheaper sometimes to wait. And if they fill up they need to pull in extra staff so on a smaller scale it's the same thing. Yet they'd rather sell out at a lower cost to provide atmosphere for the performers

Yes but how many more might they get if they didn't add £3 to the cost of tickets for those who realise late on that they'd quite like to go?

Thing is, if you used to have a season ticket and you no longer have one, you won't necessarily want to go straight back to having one. You'll want to feel your way back in. So making walk ons harder to do than they need to be and charging people who make up their minds about attending late on extra makes no sense. Stop surcharges. Make tickets a little cheaper - not a lot but a couple of pounds say perhaps 25 instead of 30 - and see if it has an effect. You could do it as a pre Christmas offer knowing that many people are short of cash in the run up to Christmas. Would help a lot I think.

I think what I wanted to say was, at Sale they've listened to fans. Travelling to matches was a nightmare. So they tried to address that issue. Rovers don't seem, and I accept this may not be correct, to actually take on what fans say and try to act on it.