Welcome to the board Jason, hope you'll be a regular contributor. As I said before best of luck with the column. However if you don't mind me saying IMO it is difficult if not impossible to write about something you haven't actually seen. Therefore given the financial constraints the LET are forced to work under and your situation I would suggest taking full advantage of Sky/Norwegian TV where available and if possible try to get to those matches which aren't being televised. Or do you want me to do the away games? All the best Simon

Jason was part of the new "Fans Jury" feature last season on a Thursday night. Other than that don't know him.

Errr...... yes I've been given the chop Lynn, not really any other way of putting it I'm afraid. There has though been an initial suggestion I might have some involvement with a new LET project but nothing definite has transpired as yet. P.S. Best of luck to Jason.

Telegraph team Friedel Finnan Terry Henchoz Taylor Scholes Dunn Duff Jansen Henry Solskjaer

I was blissfully happy for 7 years. Then for the last 32 Rovers have been putting me through the mill. (39)

Shall be there with better half. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

From what I saw the ticket restrictions worked in that "infiltration" was at an absolute minimum given the circumstances. I only saw two fans ejected from Jack Walker lower and one from the Blackburn End. However closing half the turnstiles in the Jack Walker stand is a difficult one to work out. One thing i noticed was that the usual "old bid" make up of S/T holders in my area were almost all absent and in their place was an altogether more vocal brand of youngish to middle aged male showing that there is a wider pool of potential support than we've been attracting for some games. They're never likely to return if we can't play better than that though.

A lot of people are being far too generous. Just about everyone on the pitch was a disgrace to the shirt, the name of Blackburn Rovers, and Jack Walker. Every time a ball was played forward the Celtic player was at least a second quicker to react. Too angry to go into specifics.

Woodlands on Preston New Rd. nr. Billinge School. West View is at bottom of Revidge Rd. Dog Inn bit further up.

Anyone fancy a beer in the Woodlands/West View area lunchtime onwards before they head into town?

78 ditto. Cap and Steven, Oh dear!

I notice the Club have craftily changed the normal style of the tickets which should alleviate that problem.

Go on then you tell me, my psychic powers aren't up to scratch today. I would define "a few" as up to about 500 bearing in mind tickets haven't gone on open sale. If there are more than that has there been any mention in the local press advising people that there are still tickets available AND reminding them they can apply if they are on the database?. Can't say I've seen any but then I haven't been looking particularly.

For this specific match there was no alternative to the arrangements the Club actually made, and as such there is no disrace if there are a few tickets left.

Don't forget that the ticket office are refusing to sell tickets to rovers fans. What do you expect? Celtic didn't refuse their fans tickets, did they? Only Rovers "fans" who never went last season or this, even to Cardiff. Shame. So new fans or former fans who may have fallen off at some point are not to be encouraged?

How many empty seats are we talking? Not so many I wouldn't have thought.

Anyone who wants to go who isn't on the database. Price will also have had some effect. Two friends of mine who are S/T ticket holders in JW upper and who were looking at £32 each for their tickets didn't even consider purchasing a ticket given they could watch it for free at home /in the Pub. Strangely in my view they did however go to Walsall because it was a tenner. If I'd absolutely had to pick and choose I would have done it the other way round.

Onwards and upwards after beating celtic to morrow night.

Hi Tris good to hear you enjoyed the day!. Agree re: referee, Gillespie and Dunn but have to totally disagree with your assessment of Cole. Thought he worked his knackers off today (ditto Villa) and was our most effective player. (Not that that was saying much!) Nothing at all has gone for him in front of goal this season, and this goal the proverbial rebound off his arse on the line could well kickstart his season.

Well lets just shut down the messageboard then. Calm down. The point is that hardly any-one who the complaint is made against will be likely to read this board.

I hope the identity of the dog was witheld to save it further embarrasment.

LOL. What was he doing in the toilet with Keith Lard?

I really don't understand why so many people on here spend all their time slagging off the support of the Club they profess to support!. We should be intensely PROUD of our current level of support not ashamed of it. We do not live in a City of 1m or even 250k inhabitants. FACT: Celtic will sell out or near as dammit despite tickets not going on open sale. FACT: A massive Club like Celtic couldn't sell out their tickets without putting them on open sale. FACT: Any big City Club would have to have gates of c£250,000 to match the %age take up of the population achieved by Rovers FACT: Attendances have held steady despite a 20% hike in prices. Of course enthusiasm may have seemed greater in 1993. (although attendances are actually far better now) Top flight football was a novelty then now it is the norm. And so it should be with the infrastructure provided by Uncle Jack. God knows what people on here would say if we were getting the 6,000 attendances of the 70's, early 80's. Now THAT'S poor. Would all those moaning now have been too ashamed to support our little Club in those days? The attendances will increase gradually season upon season in the Premiership. They need tweaking rather than drastic surgery. There's no point moaning on here about it. Everyone on here either goes already or is precluded by geographical limitations. Anyone still unhappy, instead of moaning, get a friend down to Ewood as the slogan goes!.

Sorry for being misleading oz, we haven't sold out yet but I'm sure we will. What I meant was it is no mean achievement to sell out any fixture where tickets don't actually go on open sale. In line with Baz's comments above I'm not actually certain a lot of supporters are aware they can purchase tickets for big games by virtue of being on the database. IF YOU'RE ON YOU CAN APPLY! AND IF YOU'RE NOT ON AND WANT TO GO TO SEE US BEAT LIVERPOOL/MANURE IN FUTURE GET YOURSELF ON BY GOING DOWN TO SEE FULHAM/SOUTHAMPTON /CHARLTON AT HOME!

The only amazing thing in my eyes is that we can actually sell out a game on TV at Category A prices without putting tickets on open sale. (Not that that is feasible for this particular game.) Celtic of course had to do that a few days before the game to ensure a full house.