[Archived] Season Tickets 09/10

[CAPT KAYOS]

Just been told by someone close to the club, that Burnley are selling 1500 season tickets in the cricket field stand next season, so our allocation is down to 2500.

This has been doing the rounds for a while though as I have heard the same - not seen or heard anything official confirming it though.

As has been mentioned - it would be impossible and mad if this is the case as there is only one way in, and they ain't going to have both Rovers and Clarrots going in the same entrance

Anyway isn't it the same stand that has been sponsored by Digestive given the crumbling so from all accounts will be even less capacity anyway.

I can't see fans of either club backing the idea really if at all true

[Hi Mack]

This has been doing the rounds for a while though as I have heard the same - not seen or heard anything official confirming it though.

As has been mentioned - it would be impossible and mad if this is the case as there is only one way in, and they ain't going to have both Rovers and Clarrots going in the same entrance

Anyway isn't it the same stand that has been sponsored by Digestive given the crumbling so from all accounts will be even less capacity anyway.

I can't see fans of either club backing the idea really if at all true

It has been confirmed on the Burnley website, 1,500 seats are being made available for home support!

Looks like we'll get 2000 max.! we should give them the same amount!

They are selling season tickets in there aswell so they wont move them for the derby match!

[gumboots]

But they do involve:

Celtic and Rangers

Man utd and City/Liverpool

West Ham/Spurs/Chelsea/Arsenal

etc etc.......

Point being that Burnley fans trashed their own town centre when we beat them. Few years back they were banned if i remember rightly from travelling to certain grounds (Millwall, to name but one) because of the trouble between them and other fans. I know some lovely Burnley fans but they do seem to have more than their fair share of headcases and we don't play them that often either so in the odd seasons when we coincide in the same division as them all the pent up frustration of both sets of fans comes out

[No Nay Never]

It has been confirmed on the Burnley website, 1,500 seats are being made available for home support!

Looks like we'll get 2000 max.! we should give them the same amount!

They are selling season tickets in there aswell so they wont move them for the derby match!

Yeah thats been confirmed now. so id say we will get 2000 tickets for burnley after segregation etc...

makes ya wonder how much say rovers had in the decision to give them all the Darwen End doesn't it, if it was purely down to us then it's nothing short of a disgrace.

If it's a police decision why can it work at the turf but not at Ewood. ??

could quite easily split the darwen end down the middle at ewood and segregate outside the ground with police vans etc.

[cletus]

It has been confirmed on the Burnley website, 1,500 seats are being made available for home support!

Looks like we'll get 2000 max.! we should give them the same amount!

They are selling season tickets in there aswell so they wont move them for the derby match!

......& the Darwen End is 'designed' to be split. Rovers have done it tons of times.

Like Gav said a few posts back,

Liverpool & Utd, Celtic & Rangers, Spurs/Arsenal/west ham/Chelsea ALL manage to segregate fans in the same ends. Even Burnley are making plans to split their away end......so why not Rovers??

Tris....it`s not a matter of money or how much my ST cost. It`s the principal of the Taking Back Ewood promotion......We want you to fill Ewood & make it a cauldron of noise, but not when we play the most important game of the season (to the fans)

I`d gladly pay £35/£45/£55+ for that game. I`m certain Rovers could easily sell out Ewood with Rovers fans. Everyone wants to see that game. It`s the fact that they take the easy option & give them the whole end.

If Bumley can get away with giving us a measly 2000 tickets, why the hell should we give them up to 8000???

Do the moaners want the Rovers' License revoked?

....At least we go to the games pal

[sambo]

Absolute disgrace, 2000. I am so hacked off. Wonder if they'll make it diff for the Rovers game? Absolute ****** farce. Can shove taking back ewood up their arse, burnley are taking over ewood!

[Gav]

If Bumley can get away with giving us a measly 2000 tickets, why the hell should we give them up to 8000???

I couldn't agree more to be honest; we should start to sell tickets to home supporter’s weeks in advance and she how ticket sales go. If ticket sales are not at a certain level then allocate them more tickets.

The police restricted Stokes allocation last season, maybe they're going to do the same with burnley and just give them 5000 and have the rest of the Darwen end segregated.

Not that I'll be there, smack bang in the middle of our holidays, talk about gutted

[OJRovers]

Maybe rovers should keep burnley as one of the four big games but sell half the DE to rovers fans - If they are only giving us 2k tickets then this would even things out a bit.

[sambo]

Who at the club shall I ring? And is anyone else doing the same?

Worthy cause.

[blue phil]

Tris....it`s not a matter of money or how much my ST cost. It`s the principal of the Taking Back Ewood promotion......We want you to fill Ewood & make it a cauldron of noise, but not when we play the most important game of the season (to the fans)

On the front of the promotional "taking back Ewood" it has in supersize the words "can we have this every week ?"

Well , the club , either by their own intiative , or by cravenly giving in to the demands of the bone idle police who presumably want to earn their overtime by doing as little as possible , have answered their own question . No we can't have this every week !

My only hope on this pathetic state of affairs is that they've managed to negotiate downwards the policing cost of the game to , roughly , half of that which Burnley will be paying

As for the police , on this evidence , it comes as no surprise that they try and stop all manner of lawful demonstrations on the streets (and when they don't , that people often die because of their incompetence )

Maybe JW and the local porky chief should spend a day or two up at Glasgow and see how they manage to organise a heated game of footy without ballsing it up .

[brian_gallagher85]

Maybe JW and the local porky chief should spend a day or two up at Glasgow and see how they manage to organise a heated game of footy without ballsing it up .

You mean by moving certain season ticket holders in order to help with segregation, as has already been highlighted in this thread?

[Manchester Blue]

So Burnley can have fans side by side in a stand where segregation will be difficult to say the least. Yet we have a stand that has historically had fans segregated, would be pretty easy to do so again, and we're rolling over and giving it all up?

Cardiff/Swansea was just another to add to the list where they were side by side.

[Claytons Left Boot]

So Burnley can have fans side by side in a stand where segregation will be difficult to say the least. Yet we have a stand that has historically had fans segregated, would be pretty easy to do so again, and we're rolling over and giving it all up?

Cardiff/Swansea was just another to add to the list where they were side by side.

Spot on. At the very least they could have split the Darwen End right down the middle and had roughly 4k in each half - 4k Rovers on the Riverside side and 4k Burnley on the other.

They put man on the moon 41 years ago for God's sake. Surely they have the capability of keeping the fans apart outside by putting up a barrier/portable fencing/stewards/police to allow Rovers fans to enter the end by coming from say behind the Riverside with their lot via the coach park. Keep their lot in for 20 minutes after the game. Solved.

This is a very emotive subject to those on here, myself included, who consider Burnley to be our main and hated rivals. If they get the full end and we only get half of the Cricketfield Cowshed at their place it will be an absolute shambles. What happens if they realise there will 7-8k of their lot in the Darwen End and Rovers fans fairly close in the Jack Walker Stand. What happens after the game? Where do they draw the line? Do they kack their pants and call the whole thing off?

And this after all the sterling work done by the club with the fantastic ticket pricing.

[rovers1995]

Just a thought for when the Dingles come to town.

Rovers season ticket holders in the darwen end sit in the upper tier. Dingles sit in the lower. Any rovers fans that chuck things, or spit or anything like that get their season ticket took off them permanently. This should sort the problem. No problem with segregation as long as the area outside is well patrolled by police/security. The season ticket holders should all fit in the upper tier easily I would think.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

Just a thought for when the Dingles come to town.

Rovers season ticket holders in the darwen end sit in the upper tier. Dingles sit in the lower. Any rovers fans that chuck things, or spit or anything like that get their season ticket took off them permanently. This should sort the problem. No problem with segregation as long as the area outside is well patrolled by police/security. The season ticket holders should all fit in the upper tier easily I would think.

That'd be even worse. We want the Dingles to be as far away from the pitch as possible to stop them giving their players confidence.

[sambo]

7000 will do the trick.

Face it, its a done deal.

Sad really, spineless decision.

[rovers1995]

But it stops them getting the whole end and if they sat upstairs there would definitely chuck things and you have to remember children will be sat in the darwen end and you don't want them getting hurt or scared.

[SD4E]

That'd be even worse. We want the Dingles to be as far away from the pitch as possible to stop them giving their players confidence.

rovers need to sort this out and listen to the fans here. To only get 2k at the morgue and then give them the full darwen end is ridiculous.

Sell tickets early with a price offer and fill at leasthalf with rovers fans, please brfc.

[DavidMailsTightPerm]

If we give them any of the bottom tier - we will need numerous police to stop them getting on the pitch - after all there is always one.

Why not give them the upper tier - cordone off the first 7 or 8 rows - all manned by numerous police, with video cameras to prevent anything being thrown. Then place temporary netting in the front of the stand - I would even go as far to look into perspex (or something similar) shields.

Problem solved - would be dear - but what price local pride

P.S. Given the game - close all bars in the upper stand - and search all dingles as they enter the ground.

[Ben-2000]

As others have said the DE can be split in the middle with the middle block as 'no mans land'. Outside they could have a police/security cordon again in the middle to stop fans mixing. The Upper/Lower split is not workable though as the turnstiles are next to each other.

If Burnley are splitting their stand, then why can't we? Sounds like a BRFC decision rather than the police saying no.

[mark1875]

someone said its been confirmed on the burnley website that they are selling season tickets in the away end? where is the link for this please?

found it now sorry lol

http://www.clarets-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews...W&id=452288

i always believed this would never be allowed to happen and that the decision to give burnley the full darwen end was taken out of the clubs hands!

There is no way we should give them the full stand if we dont have too! limit their tickets and split them down the middle, if it can be done in a ramshackled stand like the cricket field end it can certainly be dont in the darwen end which is built to deal with this!!

we would sell the ground out that game with rovers supporters!!

[philipl]

This is the season tickets web thread, not clarets mad.

[unluckymorton]

As others have said the DE can be split in the middle with the middle block as 'no mans land'. Outside they could have a police/security cordon again in the middle to stop fans mixing. The Upper/Lower split is not workable though as the turnstiles are next to each other.

If Burnley are splitting their stand, then why can't we? Sounds like a BRFC decision rather than the police saying no.

If it is Rovers doing then who can blame the club for it commercially?

Splitting the Darwen End down the middle and having 'no man's land' in the middle would lose the club a guaranteed income of around £35,000. And who would police it? We'd have to draft the army in for both sets of fans on one tier. Then there is the concourse, what do we do there? Build a wall?

It's separate tiers or give them the whole lot. Rovers and the police have decided it's best to give them the whole lot. So be it. I don't want the ground over run by dingles as much as anybody else but it was o.k the last time we played them at our place so why not now?

'The Upper/Lower split is not workable though as the turnstiles are next to each other.' What's the difference between the fans being together at the turnstiles and being together on the concourse? Is the Darwen End concourse already split?

[sambo]

If it is Rovers doing then who can blame the club for it commercially?

Splitting the Darwen End down the middle and having 'no man's land' in the middle would lose the club a guaranteed income of around £35,000. And who would police it? We'd have to draft the army in for both sets of fans on one tier. Then there is the concourse, what do we do there? Build a wall?

It's separate tiers or give them the whole lot. Rovers and the police have decided it's best to give them the whole lot. So be it. I don't want the ground over run by dingles as much as anybody else but it was o.k the last time we played them at our place so why not now?

'The Upper/Lower split is not workable though as the turnstiles are next to each other.' What's the difference between the fans being together at the turnstiles and being together on the concourse? Is the Darwen End concourse already split?

You're saying all this but the fact is Rovers and Burnley are going to be sat side by side in the Cricket field, in a stand which isn't designed for segregation.

[brian_gallagher85]

I'm almost sure that there is a massive steel door/gate in the concourse of the Darwen End Lower tier, if I remember correctly from the ground tour.