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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.

I wasn't sure I was going to be free today until yesterday. I'm not asking for cheap tickets for myself I can afford the ticket price although I do object to being asked to pay more for making a late decision to attend. I don't want to attend on my own so need to persuade my husband or someone else to attend with me and that is difficult. As I said, I'm not suggesting Rovers can or should do what Sharks do, but merely that they should look at the problem and try to encourage people to attend rather than make it difficult or inconvenient if you don't have a season ticket. There have been plenty of ideas from others on here on how to encourage people back, not people like me, who will attend if circumstances, organisation skills, and a fellow match goer all appear at the right time, but those for whom it is currently really difficult to attend. You're right in a way. I do make excuses because I've got out of the habit. I haven't lost interest but freed from the tyranny of a season ticket ie once you have one you have to go or you start to lose cash I find it hard to get up and go. Although to be fair this is probably the first Saturday since I came back from holiday that I've been free to go if I'd chosen to. If the club did something to encourage those who like me have simply lost the routine of Saturday including attending a Rovers match, perhaps more people would catch the bug again. I don't know, but surely they need to try.

The problem is, I'd understand the annoyance of some season ticket holders if match day tickets were cut that much. However, making smaller offers like the attend 4 matches and get your 5th discounted or even free might tempt some. As would making match day tickets surcharge free and available on the day, as they always used to be. Perhaps reevaluating the cost of match day tickets generally so that they cost more than buying a season ticket and attending every game, but making them all the same cost, not category ABC. Yes you might lose a bit on clubs bringing a big away following but you'd make it up in home fans probably. I don't know because economics isn't my field at all but thinking imaginatively is surely needed to get people back onside. I even thought of going myself today and changed my mind because I hadn't got myself organised early enough to get a ticket. One of these days ........

I'm not suggesting all kids go away but town teams with a rural catchment area are affected more by young people moving away than a city team would. That's not to say the club couldn't do more for its young fans. Of course it could. As it could do more for families, older fans, etc. The fans have to be central to the clubs thinking and for a long time at Ewood they haven't been. They've been an inconvenience. That needs to change before fans will return in any significant numbers

Young people don't stay here though. Of my 4 who all had season tickets into their teens, the nearest one now lives south of Manchester. The others live on Tyneside, in Germany and in South Korea. Nowadays more kids go away to Uni and never come back. It's a problem many towns and rural areas have.

The problem is, there is no comparison between us and Forest. Nottingham is a big city and there's a huge student population with 2 universities so there are plenty of potential ticket purchasers. Having said that, I might be free tomorrow and decide I fancy going to Rovers. There's nothing to encourage me to go. If I don't decide and sort a ticket early in the day then I pay extra. I have to find somewhere to park when I get there. Compare that to last week when we decided to go to the AJ Bell to watch the Sharks. Park free at the Trafford Centre, free shuttle bus to and from the ground with priority given to getting the buses away post match, and tickets on sale up to kick off at the same price as if bought weeks in advance. I'm not suggesting Rovers could or should do all of that but the same price tickets would be a good start

Also several years of rubbish means we have found other things to do. Watch rugby, watch amateur football, feel free to do anything else you feel like. It's not the same as watching rovers but you kind of get used to not watching rovers

Me! ?

I was born at my grandma's house because we had no running water at ours.

I was at the Sale game trying to follow Rovers on phone. BBC kept going back to earlier score and I didn't find out about the pen till I finally read the after match report

https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/burnley-football-club-defends-unpaid-volunteer-scheme-1-9354801 The club has explained how the suggestion came about and more details of it

Can I just point out that refs are regularly assessed. My cousins husband, formerly premier league assistant ref is now an assessor. So whoever said refs need to be improved, they are trying. Perhaps we need more transparency and openess from refs. In rugby you can hear what the ref is saying so you know what he's thinking. If refs fronted up more to the public we might appreciate better where they are coming from

They didnt

When they moved the family stand from the BBE upper I was furious and many couldn't understand my anger. Now it's happened to the Darwen end and still nobody gets it. It's about your space. The little bit of ewood that on match days is your home. It might not be an area that's to everyone's taste but for you it's an important part of the matchday experience. Now I understand the economics of the closures but I don't understand why nobody seems to get the sense of loss of enjoyment that those affected may feel.

That's been a rovers problem for years. I remember my son screaming at nelsen and samba to get out and stop defending so deep

And other than not running into grelish how could we have stopped that amazing free kick