[Archived] Burnley Home Game

[yorkyclaret]

Have worked in Burnley and Nelson in days gone by - used to love wearing my Rovers colours. Also when my lad played football in the Burnley league (for a Darwen team) for a number of years, when we used to visit Burnley, Barrowford, Brierfield, Nelson, Colne & one or two other places.

To be fair, I never received one adverse comment, although with us being Champions of England I suppose they used to gaze longingly and lovingly at my shirt, wishing they followed the most successful town football team in the history of the game.

No, we just choose not to mock the afflicted

[Plastic Head]

Game moved to 18th Oct. 13:00 phew that's a relief!

No longer clashes with Cheltenham meeting on the Friday/Saturday.

Solves a dilemma.

[unluckymorton]

No, we just choose not to mock the afflicted

The Premier League Champions aflicted? Mmmm...

[SD4E]

our sunday league team played a friendly over in burnley on their playing fields near the Prairy steak house pub (?! on the road to briefield)-

as it was at the start of the season a couple of years ago our new kit hadn't arrived, so our coach who was a pe teacher at Blackburn College brough a kit,

which just happened to be the full rovers kit.

We played against a team of dingles, surrounded by other teams of dingles and didnt hear a peep. nobody had an issue with it at all.

I too have remarkably seem Burnley shirts and car flags suddenly pop up since promotion, when before you rarely saw on this side of lancashire.

Thousands of them have suddenly remember their town has a football team, and are clambering aboard the bandwagon, something they have for so long labelled at the Rovers.

how ironic

[thenodrog]

our sunday league team played a friendly over in burnley on their playing fields near the Prairy steak house pub (?! on the road to briefield)-

as it was at the start of the season a couple of years ago our new kit hadn't arrived, so our coach who was a pe teacher at Blackburn College brough a kit,

which just happened to be the full rovers kit.

We played against a team of dingles, surrounded by other teams of dingles and didnt hear a peep. nobody had an issue with it at all.

I too have remarkably seem Burnley shirts and car flags suddenly pop up since promotion, when before you rarely saw on this side of lancashire.

Thousands of them have suddenly remember their town has a football team, and are clambering aboard the bandwagon, something they have for so long labelled at the Rovers.

how ironic

I think we will hear 'Where were you when you were sh1t' resurrected around the country whenever and wherever Burnley play......... unless they are propping the rest of the table up of course.

[Moorey]

I think we will hear 'Where were you when you were sh1t' resurrected around the country whenever and wherever Burnley play......... unless they are propping the rest of the table up of course.

Aye, I'll look forward to hearing that from the Wigan, Fulham, Pompey, Stoke, Bolton, Rovers, Sunderland, Brum, Wolves, etc etc fans. I mean, they were hugely well supported whilst in the lower tiers during the last 25 years. I doubt that the longer term top flight clubs know enough about us to get into any sort of banter about bandwagoners.

Fans jumping on bandwagons once success arrives is hardly new or rare.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Yes,we've all had it and by god you'll get yours...and some!!!!

A Premiership 'right of passage' for the small clubs.

[Moorey]

Yes,we've all had it and by god you'll get yours...and some!!!!

A Premiership 'right of passage' for the small clubs.

I look forward to it, particularly at Wigan.

Springfield Park, mid-90s, jumpers for goalposts, sub-2000 attendances.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

I look forward to it, particularly at Wigan.

Springfield Park, mid-90s, jumpers for goalposts, sub-2000 attendances.

As opposed to Turf Moor mid-80's?

[Moorey]

As opposed to Turf Moor mid-80's?

You are completely missing the point of my post. It's just been pointed out that we'll be subjected to taunts about our newfound fans. If you read my comments, you'll see that I do not dispute the fact. I'm merely highlighting the hypocrisy.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

You are completely missing the point of my post. It's just been pointed out that we'll be subjected to taunts about our newfound fans. If you read my comments, you'll see that I do not dispute the fact. I'm merely highlighting the hypocrisy.

Bit of banter is all Moorey

[Gav]

I look forward to it, particularly at Wigan.

Springfield Park, mid-90s, jumpers for goalposts, sub-2000 attendances.

Try turf moor mid 80's, sub 2000 attendances, never see at Ewood Park by the way

[ABBEY]

or staying in the league by the skin of your fur .

[Moorey]

Bit of banter is all Moorey

You did get me thinking about our lowest attedances. Dunno if went sub-2000 for any league games, but we were probably close. I'm relatively lucky, as I only started going regularly in the 90-91 season, so missed the worst of the mid-80s.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

You did get me thinking about our lowest attedances. Dunno if went sub-2000 for any league games, but we were probably close. I'm relatively lucky, as I only started going regularly in the 90-91 season, so missed the worst of the mid-80s.

Think you had 1600 on once over. Against Colchester I think.

That should ferret Sam Dingle out. It's the sort of stat that Accy based Roverites arm themselves with.

[Moorey]

Abbey/Gav - I refer you to my post of 22:02.

I bid you all goodnight.

[Gav]

Dunno if went sub-2000 for any league games,

We do!

Abbey/Gav - I refer you to my post of 22:02.

I bid you all goodnight.

You're still the biggest and best supported club in the world though.

Night.

[Kelbo]

We do!

You're still the biggest and best supported club in the world though.

Night.

And Colne Dynamos had 1,700 against Bishop Auckland the same season they had 1,600

[ABBEY]

Abbey/Gav - I refer you to my post of 22:02.

I bid you all goodnight.

give ya sister one for me too

[1864roverite]

October 18th, 1pm cannot come around soon enough now.

It will be the day the dingles regret forever.

All the pre match hype, the Premiership clash of the East Lancashire teams, Peter nobhead Noble and co coming out o the woodwork and all just to see the dingles sent packing with a heavy defeat.

The one plus point, another spemding spree by Burnley council. Either that or they just use the defeat as an excuse to level the town centre completely

[sambo]

Sent an email to Rovers via ticket enquiries on the website.

I think a draw is on the cards at Ewood, can see it now unfortunately.

They aren't as bad as people say. However, I hope we batter them!

We need a striker however.

[Claytons Left Boot]

You did get me thinking about our lowest attedances. Dunno if went sub-2000 for any league games, but we were probably close. I'm relatively lucky, as I only started going regularly in the 90-91 season, so missed the worst of the mid-80s.

6 sub 2000 attendances in that bad (one of many) season in the mid 80's.

[67splitscreen]

Could someone put some meat on the bones of this for me.

Rovers V Burnley FA Cup

[longsiders1882]

Of course Rovers attendance has never dropped below 50,000 in their history - even as people snigger watching all the fans leave Ewood early on TV (surely your club could stop them walking on that track, all clubs fans leave early but when your lot do it is so visible) there are still over 80,000 in the ground come the final whistle.

Every promoted club gets bandwagon Jumpers - wasn't Rovers average attendance in your last few season before Uncle Jack came in around 7,000? - and Burnley are no different but equally you also get others who will make the effort to attend more frequently, people who may normally only make 25 - 50% of the home games. By this I mean that last season Burnley had, on average, around 4500 walk ons each home game. It is not the same 4500 each game though. It is hard to ascertain the exact figures but I would contend that a reasonable guess is that 4500 over the season is probably around 6750 different people over the season, many of whom will now make the effort each game rather than for maybe half a season - or will perhaps buy a season ticket to guarentee a seat - same with most of the other walk ons.

Add to that the 'kids' influence, all those 6-9 year olds who had'nt yet really picked a team, who were probably normally United or Liverpool in the playground who have been caught up in the play off excitement who now want to go and watch Burnley (or Wigan when it happened to them, or Rovers back in the day etc etc etc). Hard again to estimate but it doesn't take many to add a few thousand to the gate. Suddenly the increase makes more sense.

Bizarrely for me, the chant of where were you when you were ###### would be answered by 'On The Longside' - unfortunately I won't be there to answer the chant as now we are good I can't afford season tickets for the family (unfortuantely I am a victim of the credit crunch and have only just gone back to work after losing my job at Christmas).

Cest La Vie - It will be football first and all that for me.

[DeadlyDirk]

10/3 for us to do the double over the Dingles, easy money really.

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