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Thought it was great to hear the fans chanting Emerton's name yesterday and I bet he loved it too after some of the stick he's had in recent seasons. He just looks a completely different player now that the pressure of having to beat his man is taken off him

Certainly not impressed with whoever washes his underpants. Should use Daz!

Try telling that to my kids! One a student and one a recent graduate. I pay for their seson tickets so they can continue coming to Rovers but if I didn't they couldn't .

So you don't rate him?

Not a big club - now that's a whole different can of worms and we don't want to get involved in that one again. The plain fact is that Blackburn and those parts of the Ribble valley not infected by Burnleyitis should be able to provide bigger gates than Rovers currently get even in the current economic climate and with the current downward trend in a lot of clubs' gates.

Yes but then you don't live in Blackburn so the cost of travel becomes a factor. I think the people we really have problems with are those who live a stone's throw from the ground and like the benefits in terms of employment and kudos that having a premiership team playing in Europe bring to the town but can't be bothered to come to ewood even on reduced price tickets

However, have to say Ramadan will have started so my chances of persuading pupils to go is minimal. Also there are school open evenings that evening - unable to be changed because of clashing with other schools. In fact you'll be able to spot me that night because I'll be the one looking like they should be in the posh seats whilst sitting in the family stand as I won't have time to get changed.

Tugay although he's not young

The problem with lowering ticket prices across the board is that if they are cheaper than the price per match of a season ticket then there's currently no incentive to buy a season ticket because there's no difficulty in getting match tickets. Rovers need their season ticket sales to give them at least one guaranteed source of revenue up front. They then know that whatever happens at least that is money and in most cases fans guaranteed. You can only really offer low price match tickets on anything other than an ad hoc basis if you have a waiting list for season tickets and a shortage of match day tickets and then you wouldn't need to anyway.

Not necessarily. Previously more 17 year olds went into employment. Now at least 65-70% of kids are expected to stay in education till they are at least 18 and the student population has increased massively. When I went to Uni you got a grant-not a lot but you weren't expected to pay it back. Now students get landed with horrendous debts based on the false assumption that they will earn much more money than non-graduates. However, when 35% of the young adult population are aiming for degrees or other higher qualifications then it's harder to get that well-paid job, at least initially and when you do the government starts clawing your money back.

Odd because he's Tim sherwood's cousin

It's not cheeky by City fans - it's typical. Remember when they got promoted and gatecrashed the family stand towards the end of the game soaking kids with their beer despite it being a criminal offence to have alcohol within sight of the pitch. they also intimidated a lot of fans outside the ground to try to get tickets before the match. I think I dislike their fans as a whole more than any others although I do know individual nice City fans.

So Lucas has a clause in his contract too?

Have to admit to being a TalkSport addict. Brazil and Beeky on my way to work; Hawksbee and Jacobs on the way home. My only gripe with the station is that they put that idiot James Whale on after 10 in the evening so if I'm driving home from a night out or somewhere exotic like Teesside or Nottingham I can't listen to the radio. Quite often disagree with the rubbish presenters like Adrian Durham and Mike Parry spout but at least it keeps you awake on a long journey even if it's only because you're shouting abuse at the drivel.

Tugay and Savage are crowd pleasers and always acknowledge the crowd at Ewood too. Friedel is just a genuine all round good guy on the field. If you're the captain you not only carry responsibility for your own mistakes but also for the team's performance and so may feel twice as bad and just want to get off the field as fast as possible. Also Lucas had the world cup last minute goal experience - perhaps deja vu just got to him.

The problem area would seem to be first the 16-18 year olds who have to pay young adult prices despite still being in full time education and quite often have saturday jobs anyway to help pay for all the other things they have/want to do. Then there must be a problem with those who have just left Uni and are already saddled with debts of £10,000+ and may be struggling to get a job, buy a car/house etc. Then there are those who have full time employment but are buying houses, starting families etc often on low incomes. There are those who don't have jobs etc When our kids were small we had one adult and one junior season ticket and the little one had a free ticket. Affording that was a nightmare and even now we're probably still paying for those early years in ongoing credit card debts. We can now afford to spend more but not everyone finds themselves in that position. The cost of matches in France is, as in germany etc, much lower than here. We paid 15 euros for our seats to watch Lorient play Bordeaux in August and if we'd gone to watch Lorient - Lyon last week it would have cost the same.

I've asked time and time again where Lucas has actually said himself that he wants to leave. Didn't see the programme last night - too busy watching Peterborough scare Everton - but it sounds like Lucas's agent has been saying a lot of things, not always very reliably, and all the stories about Lucas wanting away that I've seen have come from him so can we please accept that, whatever Mark Hughes' motivation is in giving Lucas the captain's armband and however much some people think he shouldn't have it, for the moment at least, he is our player and our captain and as such deserves our support.

Doesn't matter how much money they have. they can't spend it till Jan so if O Neill wants a player now out of contract players are what's available

Well, the get them early and they'll be rovers for life certainly seems to have worked with my kids. My daughter still has a season ticket despite the fact that she'll be in France for most of the season because it works out that just attending the matches at the start and end of the season and the christmas holidays she's better off with a young adult's season ticket than with individual match tickets. Think the age group where we could perhaps look at our pricing policy is the bottom end of the young adults as my younger son has to have a young adult season ticket despite still being at school 6th form and I know many of my last year's year 11 pupils were looking at the cost of the young adult ticket - a big step up from juniors - and wondering if they would be able to afford it as they are still at college.

Apologies. Those are not the views of ultrablue but of me his elderly mother. Didn't realise he hadn't logged out.

I don't want it.... oh yeah, that right... I DO!! Could someone PM it to me?

You are not alone! I too find myself thinking the ref would have given a free kick against us if we'd done that. I thought it was just the onset of middle age

Would test how much he really wanted to play for Rovers though. Bellamy took a cut in the wages he could have had to play for Liverpool for which you have to respect him even if you didn't like the manner of his leaving

Quite agree. Have never supported a fashionable club and never wanted to. Quite enjoy watching lower league football where you know that the players aren't on huge wages and do have mortgages to pay like the rest of us. I don't want Rovers to go down the leagues obviously but certainly don't want our club to become one where the players are so far from the ordinary people that they can't understand any of our concerns or give us anything to identify with. At the moment we seem generally (with a few exceptions) to have players who haven't got too carried away with their own status and still semm to realise they owe the fans respect. Throwing money at a club often changes that.

Terry was also waving his arms all over the place to make sure the ref looked in his direction. It probably was on reflection a pen but what usually happens is the ref sees something like that starting to happen and doesn't allow the free kick to be taken until he's warned the players. Overall I didn't feel the ref was bad but just couldn't see past the reputations of players so that most 50/50s went Chelsea's way. We didn't deserve to win today but I didn't really think we deserved to lose.