[Archived] fans not attending turd moor

[Mattyblue]

5000 at Bolton, 2500 at Burnley.

Doesn't take much to work out what's putting people off.

[Rover_Shaun]

I reckon the cattle herding is worse at someone like Bolton travelling by rail that the two occasions I've been to Turf Moor on coach.

Yes the national rail system is overcrowded but you are free to do what you want before and after you have used the train. The Burnley game is totally different.

[AggyBlue]

5000 at Bolton, 2500 at Burnley.

Doesn't take much to work out what's putting people off.

Aye, £15 at Notlob, £36.50 at Bumley

[jim mk2]

You don't need cars or coaches or trains to get to the match. Depending on the route, Burnley is 10 miles or so from Blackburn. Years ago people without their own transport used to walk those sort of distances to and from work every day. Would take a couple of hours - less than the time for the coach trip from Ewood. And much healthier too.

[Plastics]

You don't need cars or coaches or trains to get to the match. Depending on the route, Burnley is 10 miles or so from Blackburn. Years ago people without their own transport used to walk those sort of distances to and from work every day. Would take a couple of hours - less than the time for the coach trip from Ewood. And much healthier too.

It wouldn't be healthy if i was wearing my Rovers shirt!

[Gally]

I want to go. It's Tom's birthday weekend, he'd enjoy it but neither of us want to spend hours in coaches and the ground. It would be very difficult for Tom, we would literally have nothing to do.

I understand for many this is a great day out. It would be for me if I wanted a few beers and a sing. I don't want to do that as I like to wander to a game, watch and go home.

Please don't criticise those who don't go. Many of us are influenced by / prevented through the past behaviour of a section of both sets of fans.

It's nobody's place to criticise you. All I'd ask is that if we won, are you likely to remember the match, or the inconvenience that you were put through?

Personally, I genuinely can't get my head round missing the game. The measures are not ideal, arguably excessive, but not as dramatic as some are making out. There should be no fan snobbery about anyone who decides against going, for whatever reason. But I'm convinced that a good many fans who are missing the match because of the travel restrictions will look at the score after the final whistle, and in the event of a Rovers win, will be wishing desperately that they were stuck on a coach outside turf moor.

[Plastics]

Well after seeing the trouble after the Youth game I'm more than happy for the measures. They've got more knuckles than us, both individually and as a collective.

[Gally]

Is it beyond possibility that Rovers fans could get attacked or hurt visiting any ground in the land? of course it isn't. As I say I have managed to attend matches home and away, abroad, World Cups, since 1966 without ever once becoming embroiled in anything untoward

I travelled to every Burnley v Rovers match at Turf Moor between 1966 and 2005 without the need for a police escort or being sat upon a coach - every first team game, Manx Cup, Youth Cup, Reserves,

I've sat in "home" sections & ends watching Rovers away & can do o without attracting antipathy or hostility

At one point I was a member of the Burnley KSC club a few hundred yards from the ground!

Now some authority says I have to sit on a coach for hours to do a journey which would take me 25 mins? No I'm sorry I'm not doing it no matter how much I'll desperately miss seeing the game.

I hope everyone who goes has a great time and gets a Rovers win to enjoy but the Heavy-handed approach is not one I'm prepared to endure

Isn't that cutting off your nose to spite your face though? I understand unhappiness about the policing, but this is what we've been dealt with. What fans need to do is make a calculation about whether they think sitting down with other fans for a couple of hours is worth it to attend this match. If you don'tthink it's worth the hasstle then fine, but if I understand you correctly then I wouldn't miss out on this game as a manner of protest, as I can't see the police relaxing their restrictions any time soon.

[Rover_Shaun]

As meadows says it's a bit like ridiculous Friday night games. You have to make a stand somewhere, and after all it's only a game at the end of the day.

Personally I can do without the childish vitriol

[den]

I'm not going for a number of reasons.

I've been finding £15/£27 regularly for the past month or two for home games, another thirty odd quid for an away game is just too much financially. I've just bought two half season tickets. The legacy of the Raos two years in charge is still having a big effect on my passion for the game. The Burnley game has never been my derby game - North End has always been the big one around Leyland. I think we'll get beat as well.

Take your pick, I doubt I'm on my own here.

[Plastics]

I've always maintained that you aren't a proper fan unless you have a season ticket even if you are overseas/can't afford it/are incapable of getting to the games due to other circumstances, boycott the games to send a message to the owners, boycott the boycotts to send a message to the fans, boycott the organised travel to send a message to the authorities, go to all youth games, enter every half time draw, boo every misplaced pass, cheer every time the sprinkler comes on at the wrong time or some form of animal finds its way to the pitch and most importantly put my views on the club on here as fact in order to strengthen my position within my own head. This is what football is all about.

[PAFELL]

I can understand friendly rivalry. But rovers v burnley has not been that for years. For some reason it is hatred from both sets of supporters. Until that part is dealt with there will always be these travel restrictions for this match.

somehow the hatred needs to stop and for the match to be just friendly rivalry. How that is achieved is another thing.

But the hatred part does spoil the fixture for both sets of supporters.

But if I could, I would go to this match, but sadly cannot do so.

[ABBEY]

There's more chance of peace in Gaza than stopping the hate. It's been hate as long as I've known .

[PAFELL]

There's more chance of peace in Gaza than stopping the hate. It's been hate as long as I've known .

Yes I know. So for the foreseeable future, fans have to endure the current travel situation.

Ironically the hatred for some is deep.

At least there are peace talks in Gaza!!! Never with rovers and burnley fans.

[Exiled in Toronto]

That's just rank, nobody deserves that landing on them, not even Burnley fans.

You had to be there. I got hit by a piece of brick and my mate by a golf ball

[SamDingle]

I can understand friendly rivalry. But rovers v burnley has not been that for years. For some reason it is hatred from both sets of supporters. Until that part is dealt with there will always be these travel restrictions for this match.

The problem is the police buy into this crap. It's only pantomime hate. The towns are ten miles apart, most people work and socialise together without coming to blows. There's a world of difference between the bravado, threats and bull**** of the internet keyboard warriors and the everyday face to face banter you get in the pub and workplace.

Listen to angry short men like Gav spouting off on the web and you'd think it was hate. But it's not, not really. Loads of my mates are b***ards. We'll be back in the same pub on Sunday evening as usual.

[Tom]

Rishton is quite split and there is a rivalry but its pretty good natured and more of ribbing thing than anything of hatred

[Mike E]

Here here. Celtic and Rangers is probably the ultimate rancorous hate-fest but are elaborate travel plans concocted to inconvenience people financially and geographically every time they play?

Have you ever heard of a Liverpool - Man U game o Leeds - Man U game where the police or clubs have dictated how the entire away support travels?

No, because there's no need for it

True, but neither of those clubs have 6-fingered sister-shagging hermits as fans. The police are just protecting us from Burnley fans. Think of it as a journey into one of the 'Wrong Turn' films

[SamDingle]

True, but neither of those clubs have 6-fingered sister-shagging hermits as fans. The police are just protecting us from Burnley fans. Think of it as a journey into one of the 'Wrong Turn' films

See what I mean?

[Mike E]

See what I mean?

You realise that was a reference to the pantomime hate YOU mentioned and not at all serious? I thought the tongue sticking out at the end indicated that.

[Plastics]

Think about the average Blackburn and Burnley fan, then shudder as you realise 50% of the population of those towns are less intelligent than that.

[Gav]

Listen to angry short men like Gav spouting off on the web and you'd think it was hate. But it's not, not really. Loads of my mates are b***ards. We'll be back in the same pub on Sunday evening as usual.

I'm not angry in the slightest you jumped up Burnley Kean.

You can play 'Mr holier than thou' all you like, but plenty on here have long memories, we know the stuff you used to come out with.

Thankfully you're over those early steps into manhood, beer is much more familiar to you, so you can handle it better.

Enjoy the derby, and hopefully your usual retreat back under the stone from where you came from.

Kean!

[Plastics]

You can play Mr holly

[Clitherover]

See what I mean?

Wow, short memory Sam?

I think someone needs to dig out some of your old posts.

[folkdevil]

Been told today that since the Blues Bar sold out their beam back capacity last night if there is enough interest in the next 24 hours they will consider showing it on a big screen inside the stadium.Anyone else heard this?