[Archived] Rovers v Man Utd

[blue kiwi]

glad you got your smugness back pb,the utd game was a sell out in the 80s,all the ground could hold,anyone remenber cabin end cabin end all way through the game.

[chaddyrovers]

15 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

I think you'll find, as Meadows as already pointed out, that many of us older fans don't need Manchester United to turn up to get us to support our team.  We are there every week irrespective of opposition or division we play in.

I agree ParsonBlue. I will continue to be season ticket holder which ever league we are in.

My team would be

Raya Lowe Hoban/Greer Lenihan Williams Conway Guthrie Mulgrew Mahoney Emnes Graham

Subs:- Steele Greer/Brown Nyambe Feeney Tomlinson Mansell Rankin-Costello

[blue kiwi]

your not old yet chaddy

[Amo]

21 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

I think you'll find, as Meadows as already pointed out, that many of us older fans don't need Manchester United to turn up to get us to support our team.  We are there every week irrespective of opposition or division we play in.

 

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

I agree ParsonBlue. I will continue to be season ticket holder which ever league we are in.

Is this the BRFCS equivalent of virtue signalling?

[chaddyrovers]

Just now, blue kiwi said:

your not old yet chaddy

I feel like it these days.

Ive been going since 1993. that's is 23 and half years supporting Rovers

[roverandout]

I have been going since 1991 so what? Doesn't make me any lessoff a fan just because imI'm boycotting!

[blue kiwi]

well i started in the late 60s and never thought i would go a whole season not watching rovers when i had the  chance to,anything can happen in your personal life that makes attending irrelevant,hope it never happens to you.

[Husky]

I saw United played a largely reserve side in the Europa League last night. Obviously saving their big guns like Rughead for us.

I think we might rag a goal. But they'll probably get 4. So 1-4 it is. Enjoy your Saturday everyone!

 

[blue kiwi]

i reckon its going to be a cup upset,and the dingle gets potted after the cup draw where we have just drawn lincoln away in the quarters

[Athlete]

1 hour ago, Parsonblue said:

1985 is a good comparison.  We had been out of the top flight for twenty years and so top teams coming to Ewood was not an everyday event - rather like the present and foreseeable future.

It's a matter of opinion 85 was well before the money came into the game.. Back before the modern Ewood and Brockhall so no comparison.. Just your good self living in the past 

Btw I still yearn for them days the tin roof leaking when taking a pea 

Hot bovril from the back of the Blackburn end etc 

[Parsonblue]

Just now, Athlete said:

It's a matter of opinion 85 was well before the money came into the game.. Back before the modern Ewood and Brockhall so no comparison.. Just your good self living in the past 

Btw I still yearn for them days the tin roof leaking when taking a pea 

Hot bovril from the back of the Blackburn end etc 

Really?  I much prefer the stadium that Jack gave us to be honest.

[Athlete]

Just now, Parsonblue said:

Really?  I much prefer the stadium that Jack gave us to be honest.

Well the game to compare is Liverpool two years ago 

Different times different eras 

The only reason I yearn for then is we were honestly owned with players I identified with brotherston garner sellars Chrisy price etc 

[Mattyblue]

Come on Parson, how on earth is 1985, an era of rock bottom crowds across England, a time when Rovers had been out of the top flight for almost 20 years in any way more relevant than Liverpool 2015, a game live on the same channel at exactly the same price?

Now if we draw Man Yoo at home in 2031, we can do a comparison with Sunday- though not sure how many fans we will be able to fit into Pleasy.

[blue kiwi]

im sure the price was equivalent to today,i have the ticket stub in the uk,i think it was 2 quid standing

[47er]

1 hour ago, Parsonblue said:

I think you'll find, as Meadows as already pointed out, that many of us older fans don't need Manchester United to turn up to get us to support our team.  We are there every week irrespective of opposition or division we play in.

Unbelievably smug! Especially in light of all you know.

[Mattyblue]

Of course, post about 2002 we rarely sold out Ewood for any game, not a great surprise as playing United, Lpool etc was no longer a novelty.

However, the reason this game hasn't sold out is because plenty of our 8000 ST holders haven't bothered. 

That doesn't mean anything necessarily, just part of a pattern that sees thousands of ST holders not turning up each week, doesn't bode well for renewals though.

 

[blue kiwi]

i said i thinkit was 2 quid not defo might have been a fiver,your the stat man find out,why the anti boycotter stance?your name jim white?

[Mattyblue]

Ok, lets say 2004, certainly by the late Souness/Hughes era we'd lost a few thousand of our average gate that didn't recover until the Taking Back Ewood campaign.

[blue kiwi]

not everyone can afford to live in south ribble,plenty of housing estates in blackburn

[blue kiwi]

it means the south ribble sounds kinda posh

[blueboy3333]

Just now, blue kiwi said:

it means the south ribble sounds kinda posh

So does Kingsfold, but it isn't.

[tomphil]

Thing is a lot of ST holders won't bother but they'll just let their irregular attending mates use them so it's probably not a fair reflection of their take up and the books will show a good percentage having bought i bet.

Also tonight chatting to pals window cleaner in Chorley who's a Rovers fan on database but only goes a couple of times per year. He's watching in pub but having received a text from the club advertising tickets the other day he got one and 2 juniors for his PNE supporting pal who's kids are Man U mad and there'll be lots of examples like that so it's never going to be a good reflection of regular boycotters either.

As long as they stick it to United and Venkys it doesn't really matter how many are or aren't there although some will amuse themselves making a big deal about it.

[Mattyblue]

Amazes me how many PNE fans have kids that support Lpool, United etc.

Par for the course when you've been out of the top flight for 50+ years, I suppose. Something else to look forward to...

[Parsonblue]

6 minutes ago, 47er said:

Unbelievably smug! Especially in light of all you know.

For the life of me I can't see what is smug about stating that you enjoy following your team no matter what division or what the opposition might be.  Fortunately, I still do enjoy it - win, lose or draw and I'll enjoy Sunday no matter what the result although I always live in hope we will pull off a shock. 

[blue kiwi]

7 hours ago, meadows said:

Or the League Cup Semi Final First Leg in January 2006 which only 24,000 turned up for at Ewood. 

this was a poor gate after a 1-1 draw at gold trafford,but live tv and expensive tickets meant the home ends were not sold out,prawn sandwich of south ribble