[Archived] Dinglewatch

[Husky]

Shocker of a game tonight to say it was between two of the more fancied teams in the league, very little on show.

Same as usual really, even said it back in that season Leicester and Burnley ran away with it - they were no great shakes when they came to Ewood - which shows how bad we were (and we're even worse now).

Anyway. 0-0 was a terrific result for us wasn't it. If our play-off rivals can keep drawing against each other then nobody will get a steal on us. Perhaps it's time for the promotion thread?

[Hasta]

It's the same every season. There's only ever 2 or 3 teams that look significantly better than us at Ewood but we invariably end up 15-20 points behind them.

[JBiz]

It's the same every season. There's only ever 2 or 3 teams that look significantly better than us at Ewood but we invariably end up 15-20 points behind them.

The key word has been consistency from day one. Dyche is playing a hand he dealt himself and I think those changes in personnel + the injuries they've had this time and avoided last time are making a difference.

From the outset though, they are still picking points up which is the important thing. I hope they crash and burn as all rovers fans should, but essentially I see them finishing above us if Dyche can repeat his results of last time.

See certain posters championing Dyche as cracking manager, but it will be telling if they fail this year. It's still worth mentioning that he took over Eddie Howe's millpond - I wonder what would of happened if he'd took over after Appleton?

[USABlue]

That was a horrible game.

[yoda]

The key word has been consistency from day one. Dyche is playing a hand he dealt himself and I think those changes in personnel + the injuries they've had this time and avoided last time are making a difference.

From the outset though, they are still picking points up which is the important thing. I hope they crash and burn as all rovers fans should, but essentially I see them finishing above us if Dyche can repeat his results of last time.

See certain posters championing Dyche as cracking manager, but it will be telling if they fail this year. It's still worth mentioning that he took over Eddie Howe's millpond - I wonder what would of happened if he'd took over after Appleton?

Play off's minimum

[sambo]

http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/rovers-vs-burnley-ticket-information-2665991.aspx

Pretty pricey!

[Mattyblue]

I can see the Riverside being fairly full. It's pushing £40 for the Jack Walker... that won't be.

£40 for Championship football when there are thousands upon thousands of empty seats, the mind boggles.

[JHRover]

Anyone know why the Rovers web page detailing ticket prices is inaccessible?

Usually they have a plan of the ground and ticket prices for Category A, B and C games. For some reason that page is no longer available.

Could it be because these Burnley prices actually exceed the Category A prices announced at the start of the season?

Whether they do or not, these prices are only going to achieve one thing - a depleted crowd. We'll struggle to get 20,000 on which is awful.

Wouldn't surprise me if the police had a say in these prices as part of their ongoing attempts to make this fixture available to as few people as possible.

Last season when we played Huddersfield home fans could get on for £5 as one of their 'local promotions' whilst away fans had to pay £23.

Rovers should do something similar with Burnley. Use a local promotion to charge home fans £10 a ticket and fill the home ends and give Burnley 3000 tickets in the top tier and charge them £30. There's no rule stopping us doing this.

[A cup of beans]

I can see the Riverside being fairly full. It's pushing £40 for the Jack Walker... that won't be.

£40 for Championship football when there are thousands upon thousands of empty seats, the mind boggles.

I'm pretty outraged by the pricing.

Further proof of Rovers being out of touch with reality.

Can't see many more walk-ons paying to extaution.

Lowest derby crowd in my lifetime I reckon

[AllRoverAsia]

I'm pretty outraged by the pricing.

Further proof of Rovers being out of touch with reality.

Can't see many more walk-ons paying to extaution.

Lowest derby crowd in my lifetime I reckon

It's on TV too.

Also on TV v Leeds away, Thursday 29th October

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

It's pushing it to say the least charging £40 for a televised game in this area.

[MGAndy]

http://www.indeed.co.uk/m/viewjob?jk=ad295365ac518273&from=serp

[sambo]

Burnley 0-2 Reading currently.

[sambo]

Excited for this game. Only concern is the sky high prices will put people off and hit the attendance.

Just hoping we go on a nice little run before the game.

Who's going?

[mhead]

We are all going,of course!!

Current cost for me 250 euros in Air Fares.

I am a fan and have to be there.

[Baz]

Anyone know why the Rovers web page detailing ticket prices is inaccessible?

Usually they have a plan of the ground and ticket prices for Category A, B and C games. For some reason that page is no longer available.

Could it be because these Burnley prices actually exceed the Category A prices announced at the start of the season?

Whether they do or not, these prices are only going to achieve one thing - a depleted crowd. We'll struggle to get 20,000 on which is awful.

Wouldn't surprise me if the police had a say in these prices as part of their ongoing attempts to make this fixture available to as few people as possible.

Last season when we played Huddersfield home fans could get on for £5 as one of their 'local promotions' whilst away fans had to pay £23.

Rovers should do something similar with Burnley. Use a local promotion to charge home fans £10 a ticket and fill the home ends and give Burnley 3000 tickets in the top tier and charge them £30. There's no rule stopping us doing this.

The biggest problem with what you suggest is segregation.

Both clubs should take the TV money and instead of ripping off the fans, just make all tickets £10-20 and try to fill the ground.

[Boz]

Dyche off to Sunderland possibly? Chances of that occurring?

That could make matters interesting.

[K-Hod]

Rumours in the Sunderland Echo about that if Advocaat (not the drink) gets the boot/resigns that it will happen. Sunderland are the masters of short-termism though.

They end up in the relegation places about a month before Christmas, can the manager then stay up by the skin of their teeth every season.

[JHRover]

The biggest problem with what you suggest is segregation.

Both clubs should take the TV money and instead of ripping off the fans, just make all tickets £10-20 and try to fill the ground.

I don't see why there would be an issue with segregation. If Burnley fans were restricted to the top tier of the Darwen End, the lower tier could be covered with netting and they would be miles away from Rovers fans. We could charge Burnley fans £35 a head and offer them 3,000 (or however many fit in the top tier) tickets which is a similar amount to what they offered us last time we went to theirs. We could use the lower Darwen End as a huge mosaic of Rovers flags and banners to make it look better on TV.

Burnley fans would be limited to 3,000 and would be high up away from the pitch which would diminish the amount of noise they made and support they could transmit to their team.

As for money, Rovers would be missing out on 1,500 tickets from the 4,500 allocation they gave them last time. If they were really bothered they could give Burnley the back 10 rows of the lower tier with a huge netted area infront to keep them well away from the pitch.

Rovers could then concentrate their energies on filling the other 3 sides of Ewood Park, getting as many Rovers fans as physically possible into the ground and putting our 30,000 stadium to full use. Even with the nonsensical police 'zones' of netting off the end of the Riverside and Jack Walker, we could still be looking at 21,000+ Rovers fans in the ground if it was full. I've already said that we could offer drastically lower prices to home fans than away fans by putting one of our 'local promotions' to good use.

If we got 21,000 Rovers fans against the 3,000 Burnley fans the atmosphere would be fantastic from a Rovers point of view, outnumbering them 7-1.

As it is we will allow them to get close to the pitch, we'll charge our own supporters £34 for a live TV game which means we'll probably struggle to get 15,000 home fans on and will outnumber Burnley at just 3-1. There will be swathes of empty seats in the Jack Walker and Blackburn Upper as people will simply refuse to stump up £30-40 to go and watch a 2nd division football match at lunchtime when they can have a lie in and watch it at home for free.

Then the club will have to suffer the humiliation of a third empty stadium and poor atmosphere for what is both clubs biggest game of the season, on live TV. I can imagine the imbeciles at Sky Sports and their southern based friends making snide comments on the poor crowd already.

[Mattyblue]

£41 for the Dingles including compulsory coach travel.

For a game live on TV, I can imagine many of that lot will think it just aint worth the hassle. 18000 gate incoming?

Real pity for what was one of THE derbies in English football.

[JHRover]

The club(s) really need taking to task on this issue.

No doubt those responsible for these decisions at the club will shrug their shoulders and point their finger at the police.

But if the club had any real concern for supporters and doing their best by them then they would get together and refuse to agree to the police demands.

The police would soon relent if the clubs refused their plans.

[Mike Graham]

Outrageous pricing.

We will have a sub 18,000 crowd. Possibly sub 16,000.

[Husky]

Burnley seemed all about ri9pping off the fans when they were in the Prem briefly.

They can easily get away with it if them remain "successful".

Anyway, the Rovers Fans that have accepted 19th place as a good season for Rovers will no doubt be pleased the Dingles are doing us a favour at the moment.Rotherham 0-1 Burnley HT.

[Hanks]

Cracking equaliser from Rotherham, sets up a good last 15 minutes.

[Mercer]

Think Joey Barton is going to prove to be a crucial signing by Dyche.

Still some way off full fitness but a class act tonight. Read the danger superbly and distribution was efficient and excellent. Temperament kept in check as well - the Dyche effect! In a different league to anything we have in central midfield.

Still think Burnley have yet to 'hit their straps' but looking ominously efficient (whilst according to Bowyer, Rovers excellent but not getting the results !), however, Darikwa at right back looks like an accident waiting to happen.

We will have our work cut out in three weeks' time at Ewood.