Basically, the club has taken the easy way out. Flogging 8,000 tickets to Celtic fans is a no-brainer, getting 28,000 Rovers fans in the ground requires hard work and persistence.
The disappointing thing is that
1. Rovers will never ever increase the fans base long-term by making expedient short-term decisions such as this. I'm sure there are thousands of fans (me and three of my friends for a start) who would love to go to this match but will now be unable to.
2. 8,000 tickets is not going to satisfy the Scottish hordes. They are a desperate lot who will find any way to get a ticket into Ewood and I think we will have a Man City situation on our hands even if we had given them 20,000 tickets.
All in all, the wrong decision by the club, and yet again, it has taken them twice as long as the opposition (as at Cardiff) to let supporters know what is happening.
