Sadly very true Stuart. I went to ALDI Ewood yesterday. Last week staff on the door, sanitizing station for trolleys, gel for hands. Yesterday two empty gel containers on a window ledge. The virus is still with us but millions have suddenly relaxed. Personally I'm redoubling my efforts to stay safe.

Unfortunately not. I use a Microsoft Surface Pro and these don't have the ports.

I like this question! Do you actually mean 2020/21? I think we both know the answer to this one Stuart! Not a chance, absolutely no chance. It's another reason why involving and considering the paying fan - not only the Sky subscribers - is so important. If the club want my money they have to offer something of reasonable quality. iFollow is laughable. The next time I buy our two STs will be when I can sit in the ground. If I could Chromecast or similar on to the TV I'd consider it but not at £350 perhaps £100-150. I pay £96pa for Netflix and receive a good product. There are standards out there to compare with and with iFollow we are offered very little by comparison with other platforms. That's the problem the EFL has to overcome. I'm surprised the thought of Chromecast hasn't been raised before. There is no way I'm going to sit at the dinner table hunched over a laptop for 90 minutes. At present I doubt if I'll buy a full ST much before July 2021. Provided adequate measures are in place I'd expect to buy one for the home matches from March 1st 2021 onwards.

Just one comment on next season and deferred refunds etc. My expectation is next season will be so short for ST holders in the ground that +/- £50 deferred refund against a new ST would mean the majority pay little more than another £30-50 - I don't have the inclination to work it out exactly. We won't be back at Ewood before March 1st 2021.

Thank you Joe, this is a very gracious comment. I have long known football in general and the club have no regard or concern for fans. The thing which has caused me to be so angry is the Covid-19 situation has confirmed this, confirmed something a bit of me hoped wasn't true. Thanks again.

I'll ask you again where does it state the refund policy?

I'll ask again. Where? As @Mattybluesays there is no mention of anyhting other than working on a plan. Let me give you an example. I had tickets for three events at the Bridgewater Hall. This venue deals with different events every night across a wide and diverse customer base. The initial statement was on the lines of "for events to the end of April full refunds will be offered. The ticketing agency will be in touch with you. For events in May please check back after DD/MM." I checked back on the required date. I know exactly what is happening, my concerns have been addressed. End of story and very happy with the outcome. Rovers have four events to deal with involving a known fan base. Perhaps they should ring the Bridegwater Hall for some advice?

Where?

Yes, I've contacted the club on several ocassions regarding the problem. I've explained it, the club agree it's an issue but have never got back to me on it. I know precisely how to use the online account - it doesn't work though. I give the club the reasons, they agree it's an issue for me and other fans and fail to fix it.

We shall see. I'm afraid this situation has caused real damage to my relationship with football and the club. Football has had 10/11 weeks to come up with a statement. It has failed to do so.

The club have not communicated this to fans. It's one email, that's all. My account doesn't work so it's irrelevant if I have to use this as a log in.

Hmmmm.........I had tickets booked for a number of events. I checked with the venues online. All of them have a statement on their website telling customers what will happen as regards refunds, reschedule, credits etc. It's easy. Football has done nothing for the fans who turn up every week. Rovers have done nothing. An opportunity has been missed. It is abundantly clear the only fans who count are the ones who can't be arsed to leave their armchairs on a Saturday afternoon. That's fine, football doesn't want me so f*** football.

I understand your point and reasoning but don't agree. The majority of other forms of entertainment have or will offer a full refund for events which have not taken place. Where refunds are not given the event is or will be rescheduled and people then get the chance to choose between attending or a refund. Rovers can't reschedule so should offer first a credit against the next purchase or a refund. I'm owed +/- £100 on STs and car park. I don't think the club will lose the income from thousands of fans not paying for iFollow in these circumstances. We have +/- 10,000 ST holders who should be offered iFollow for free. If 5,000 log in to watch that would be a good number, the likelihood of all ST holders watching is very, very slim. Our gates are what +/- 13,000 so that means there are a potential 3000 regular walk ons who might be interested in iFollow. Again would they all watch for £10? Highly unlikely. If 6500 use the service I think that would be a success, though we will never know the number. The service is there, the bulk of our crowd is ST holders who should receive it for free, that is we've paid for it if no ST refunds are offered. Very few others will be interested so the club will lose minimal income BUT would gain real kudos by offering the service for free. This would cost nothing because the club are already incurring the cost. I've had a myrovers account for years. I created a new one in January as requested to all fans by the club. The account has never worked correctly. I understand why, I've explained this to the club and the club acknowledge the problem. I've raised the issue several times and never received the promised response. I'm not going to run around trying to get it fixed again. To make iFollow work simply in the current situation the club should issue a link. ST holders could be allowed a single log in per match using their ST number. Everyone else pays by credit/debit card or PayPal. Job done. In my view the club and football in general have screwed up everything connected with the fans who go to the ground. chaddy I don't give a hoot about the millions who watch on TV, I'm interested in myself and my son and the thousands who turn up every week. Not one word has been uttered to suggest anyone in football is thinking about us. It makes me extremely angry and has damaged my view of Rovers. As an aside are people aware the NHS Blood Transfusion Service turned up at the ground last Thursday to find the whole place locked up? Everyone seems to have forgotten they were coming. Blackburn fire station accomodated the service at something like 90 minutes notice. I know people who were very unimpressed by this. Demonstrates the levels of service the club are giving during the Covid-19 crisis.

Gosh didn't know that.

If you think Casualty is good TV there's nothing to say.

Watch BBC now. It's nothing more than filling screen time.

Yep. I'd happily have a refund and forget about it..... forever. Why should I bother? The club couldn't give a fig. Just watch TV now to understand the depth to which a hero like Shearer has sunk.

Yet more of your usual nonsense. I'm already disengaged because the club sent out a "statement" which said nothing. I have a MyRovers account, it no longer recognises me. My club has kicked me out. Why should I bother to read the next email? People like you need to wake up and smell the coffee. I've been at Ewood longer than you've been alive and the club have done more to leave me abandoned in the last few weeks than Venkys in the last ten years. You clearly do not understand. The purpose of communication is to inform people of what they should or should not do. I don't need any "we will contact you shortly." I need one email, click here to watch Rovers. It's simple, it's good clear communication and not the bollocks coming from Rovers or football in general. Stop watching through rose tinted glasses. I'm gone until the club shows me why I should come back.

I've read this several times. I've also read the club email to me several times. I haven't got a f****** clue what I'm supposed to do if I want to watch Rovers on iFollow. I've only a very vague idea of how to use iFollow as I'm always in the ground!!! All of which, once again, demonstrates the extent to which football has forgotten about the fans. The people like me who turn up every single frigging match come rain, hail, sun or snow. I have a MyRovers account, I have a log in to buy tickets, which doesn't always work, and now I have to make sure I have a "single MyRovers log in account." The longer this goes on without any serious consideration for the fans who turn up every week the less likely I am ever to set foot in any football ground again. I'm quite good with IT but everything coming from the club and football in general leaves me cold and confused. I doubt any of the people issuing these statements have any understanding of the confusion they are creating. Football today is money. Nothing else and I no longer count. All we need is a link, click here to watch Rovers. It simply doesn't matter if we have a season ticket or not.

Who said I'm particularly worried? You did, twice! I'm not fretting about it at all. I want to watch Rovers but I am not going to put myself at risk to do this. Therefore without adequate controls I will not go to Ewood. It's not just football - I will not get on a plane, for example, until I'm sure of my personal safety. My one dilemma is my son will not understand the situation and that is something I'm grappling with. Do I put myself and son at risk by entering in to a situation I would not countenance for myself alone? It's my belief those people who wish to protect themselves from Covid-19 will continue to practice social distancing. So the first measure I'm interested in is how will 10,000 people be controlled so as to provide social distancing through the turnstiles? I've already made the facetious point this is a 20km queue. It's a valid point. If I go to my local Tesco I'm expected to queue for 40-60 minutes. The result? I don't go to Tesco anymore because it is clear to me Tesco has failed to find a solution to the problem. Aldi and Morrisons have no queues. It's not for me to detail the measures clubs take to protect their fans. It's up to the clubs, as it is with every other establishment, to provide an environment in which customers/fans feel safe. I simply won't go to places that cannot do this. I've accepted my life will contain a new level of risk, I've no problem with this. I do though have plans and ideas on how my actions will change to minimise that risk. That's a decision for individuals to make, I intend to remain healthy. I realise there are those who feel the precautions we have been urged to take are to some extent unnecessary or are over the top. That's fine, no problem except those are the very same people I will do my best to avoid at all times.

If you seriously believe there is going to be a vaccine any time soon you're simply being lead by the nose by the media. Do a bit of research on how long it takes to develop, test and manufacture a virus. You're in for a major shock. Putting PL football on TV has got nothing whatsoever to do with football fans. I am talking about fans who go in to the ground. Restarting the PL is nothing more than fulfilling contractual obligations to the TV companies. The way this is going football couldn't give two hoots whether or not you ever go in to a football ground again. Personally I have zero interest in watching TV football. If there is a game I want to see I go to the ground. That's what football fans do.

There won't be a reliable vaccine for years, if at all. This is why the clubs should be working now to understand how they will achieve safe attendance. If the clubs do not resolve this situation football will become a TV sport. In other words football in this country will be dead. As @Stuart so rightly says the footballing authorities reinforce with every day that passes they have zero interest in the fans or in finding ways to return fans to the grounds. Rovers should take a lead on this. There is no reason at all why the club should not work on this immediately. The management would gain significant kudos amongst the fan base and the wider game. Football has forgotten me.

Utterly. It's a snapshot and one which the government are using to mislead people. I'm OK today.... let's see what tomorrow brings.

If the PL think players are only in this range of contact for 88 seconds on average per match they are even more unfit to run the game than I previously believed. You'd believe any nonsense that's spoon fed to you via a media that relies on brainwashing viewers.

Apologies I did eventually find that bit about 88 seconds. It's not my report! Hilarious. You presented the information without comment. At the very least it requires some consideration. You're the one arguing for football to return and should give due thought to the "facts" you present. Suggesting any footballer is only at risk for an average of 88 seconds is obvious and total nonsense to anyone who has watched any football match. Why don't you think about what you post?