[Archived] Season Tickets 09/10

[Ricky]

Such a good deal that there's been a thread about it for the last 2 days Philip

[Stuart]

Rising cost of following Blackburn Rovers and Burnley

Very surprised at this article in the LT given the current pricing strategy at Rovers, and the drive to get people into Ewood.

[AndyNeil]

What a 'non-story' ..... on a more serious note, have our resident Darwen End ticket counters gone on holiday

[unluckymorton]

Rising cost of following Blackburn Rovers and Burnley

Very surprised at this article in the LT given the current pricing strategy at Rovers, and the drive to get people into Ewood.

The rising costs are understandable if you carry on drinking after the game with bob fleming.

[matduggy]

What a 'non-story' ..... on a more serious note, have our resident Darwen End ticket counters gone on holiday

Not sure mate, but maybe the ticket office people have.....I've still not received my DE season ticket yet!

[CAPT KAYOS]

The rising costs are understandable if you carry on drinking after the game with bob fleming.

...and especially if you also include before and during the game

[AndyNeil]

Not sure mate, but maybe the ticket office people have.....I've still not received my DE season ticket yet!

Mine landed this morning, however my little lad's didn't ...

[stuwilky]

Not sure mate, but maybe the ticket office people have.....I've still not received my DE season ticket yet!

I still havnt had my sons Blackburn End season ticket.

Despite it being in the post three weeks ago...... allegedly.

[Ewood Spark]

What a 'non-story' ..... on a more serious note, have our resident Darwen End ticket counters gone on holiday

No point any more ... they are mixing the 'crucial 3' sales with season ticket sales. Last count I did last weekend was 1,033.

[cletus]

Darwen End ST arrived on Friday morning

[Tom]

Out of interest where do you guys sit.

I often wonder if I see people from here all the time but have no idea its them.

I'm on Row 23 in N01 near the Jack Walker Stand.

[Hughesy]

N02 - Blackburn End - Think its Row 30 or 31

[unluckymorton]

N02 - Blackburn End - Think its Row 30 or 31

Your just behind us then. N02 Row 28.

[Hughesy]

What seats unlucky? Im 3 seats from the stairs between N02 & N03

[stuwilky]

Out of interest where do you guys sit.

I often wonder if I see people from here all the time but have no idea its them.

I'm on Row 23 in N01 near the Jack Walker Stand.

Near me then!

[unluckymorton]

What seats unlucky? Im 3 seats from the stairs between N02 & N03

Seat 54, next to Captn & Bob. Closer to the opposite steps I think. You'll know it's us when we stagger back to our seats 5mins into the second half.

[Tom]

Near me then!

I'm 23 seat 5, just look for the annoying angry guy and thats usually me

[sambo]

Row 20 N05 SEAT 61

[mark1875]

Enough hysteria / email protests / speculation. Here are some facts.

Let's start with two Premier League rules on ticketing (anyone can read them here).

Rovers don't have a problem here, even if we reached the stratospheric number of 25K ST holders, we can still fulfull both of the above rules on matchday sales and away allocation - wouldn't 25K be amazing

Turd Moor holds 22,546. In recent seasons they have made 18% (ie the full cricket field) available to away fans, and have never sold enough season tickets to worry about rules. Of course this season for them - things are different.

Their initial 15,000 season tickets were snapped up in the three stands except the cricket field. Meaning they will be selling 3,420 walk up tickets per game in those three stands - well within the rules.

They have now added 1500 new STs to be sold in the cricket field - also fine. That end holds 4,126 ... so 1500 dingles, added to their minimum requirement to sell 2,255 to away fans, leaves nearly 400 spare seats to keep the two factions apart.

Now to the East Lancs derbies which posters are getting so stressed over - even before anybody knows what will actually happen.

End of facts, now speculation. Here's what I believe will happen.

There will be NO split stands at either game, just like there wasn't at the other 4 games we have enjoyed against Burnley this century. It simply won't happen - look up the thread and read the email Tom Finn has sent to Cletus, and cast your minds back to the level of careful security we were subjected to on the two recent occasions we've had to be bussed in to their place. No way will Lancs Police change any of that.

Their 1500 ST holders will be moved into the 3,240 seats normally available for walk up fans. The cricket field will be away only for the Rovers game.

The Darwen End will be Burnley only, it's then down to BRFC to decide whether to cash in or leave empty - exactly as Tom Finn says in his email to Cletus.

My guess is that the police and the clubs will agree that the last 4 occasions have gone well, all of them with full away stand availability to both sets of fans. So we'll get 4126 and they will get ~6-7000. The max possible given how the grounds are.

Please now stop the moaning and the protesting. Feel free to start it up again in several months time, if any of this post is proved to be wrong.

just wondered if we still believe this to be the case? because it seems it looks likely both games could be split ends? you was adamant that neither will be - are you still this sure?

[Tris]

just wondered if we still believe this to be the case? because it seems it looks likely both games could be split ends? you was adamant that neither will be - are you still this sure?

No - I speculated that totally wrong.

I never thought the Dingles would start rebuilding their ramshackle ground just to make sure there can be proper segregation in the cricket field stand for the Rovers game. Hopefully they got a decent builder in.

What's really positive though, is that (if Preston Blue is correct) Rovers have gone into the meetings with BFC and the police and said, ok - if you can segregate in one stand, so can we. So there won't be empty seats at Ewood on October 18th (or an entire stand full of dingles).

I guess Lancs Constabulary hate the whole thing, but they get paid to police the games so they'll just have to deal with it.

[bubblerrovers]

I see there was 23k at the West Ham game, does this mean the £150 season ticket was a complete failure and lowering the prices was a waste of time. Poor show people

[Hughesy]

1200 ST's were sold in the Darwen End.

[bubblerrovers]

I was stil hoping we wouldn't see under 25k at ewood in a premiership game

[philipl]

I was stil hoping we wouldn't see under 25k at ewood in a premiership game

That was unrealistic but when the opposition only brought 1,500 last year, a gate of around 19,000 was the result.

[Hughesy]

It would help if West Ham didnt sell a pathetic 1300 tickets! They usually bring many more.......