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The game paled into insignificance when I found out Lisa formerly on the Disabled Supporters Committee had passed away age 42. Must have had an incredibly difficult life but always incredibly che

RoverInverness
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Just got our tickets 😅 Five of us on our way down from Inverness; Me, the wife, two of our three boys (15 & 18) and a friend whose never seen an English match live before. Very excited!

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Hi Chaddy. Am I allowed to moan? I cannot attend this match as easily now as I'd be unable to travel back home after the match.  I've seen similar posts from yourself, eg you couldn't understand

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4 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Not many tickets left in ANY home sections of Ewood now,guaranteed biggest gate for some six years...a fantastic response by the fans.

Going to be some atmosphere on the Day.

Would have been the biggest gate since 2011 if we’d used the Darwen End appropriately - and only bettered by those where we gave 8k to United and co. 

It’s not tracked but I’d be interested to see when we last had a bigger ‘home’ section. It’ll be about 21k-22k home fans 

Edit: ignore that - more home fans at the Oxford match wasn’t there

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7 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Oxford, before that the Liverpool cup QF.

For a full price league game, Wigan on PL relegation night 2012 - but of course we had far more ST holders then, this is unprecedented for walk ons.

Yeah I stupidly ignored Oxford as the overall was still only 27.6k given their small following. 

Eugh, that Wigan match was a grim night in that crowd.

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A maintenance issue prevents the club opening up the final seats in the BBE upper? 

- what type of maintenance issue only impacts the side blocks of the upper tier?

- why doesn’t the same problem affect the Darwen End?

- hasn’t the Ewood Express been using those seats within the last year? What’s changed since then?

It’s ridiculous that a game which is practically sold out over a week in advance, will still see several thousand empty seats.

It’s bad enough that the Darwen End will be nearly half empty but for there to be spare seats in the home end is inexcusable.

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There is simply no reason for any segregation empty seating in home sections...its bollox and needs to stop.

You maximise home capacity to absolutely all possible,every seat,when you have demand like this.

An Adult taking their Child to his/her first Derby game will become a supporter for life in a Crowd/Atmosphere like this!

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4 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

There is simply no reason for any segregation empty seating in home sections...its bollox and needs to stop.

You maximise home capacity to absolutely all possible,every seat,when you have demand like this.

Yep - absolutely no need for segregation in JW or Riverside. Darwen End is completely separated. 

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You watch the Sheffield derby they have home fans at Bramall Lane above the away fans and also no blocked out seats just stewards in the bottom corner between the home and away fans.

You watch City v United they have a line of stewards separating home and away fans. Same at Spurs v Arsenal, same at Spurs v West Ham, West Ham v Chelsea, Villa v Wolves and every other derby game going.

At Leeds they have a couple of seats netted off between home and away fans, no empty blocks, sometimes even put home fans in the lower tier in front of the away fans.

Burnley they have a couple of rows of stewards and a metal shutter between home and away fans.

Sunderland they have away fans upstairs lobbing all sorts onto home fans below, so much so they have introduced a policy of confiscating coins from away fans before they enter the ground.

Bolton have a 28000 capacity bowl stadium yet are able to get 26000+ in with a single row of stewards between home and away fans.

And yet at Ewood Park, 4 separate stands, large metal fence between them, we have to net off 500+ seats in the home ends rather than release them for sale even though demand now requires it.

We are a club that would sooner turn people away and turn our noses up at another £15-20,000 for reasons unknown by netting off blocks of the Riverside and Jack Walker lower tier. 

I could maybe accept it if we had sold a full 8000 to the away club and had no means of putting a buffer in the Darwen End. But we've 4000 empties to use for that purpose in there.

Just totally embarrassing and pathetic.

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3 hours ago, magicalmortensleftpeg said:

A maintenance issue prevents the club opening up the final seats in the BBE upper? 

- what type of maintenance issue only impacts the side blocks of the upper tier?

- why doesn’t the same problem affect the Darwen End?

- hasn’t the Ewood Express been using those seats within the last year? What’s changed since then?

It’s ridiculous that a game which is practically sold out over a week in advance, will still see several thousand empty seats.

It’s bad enough that the Darwen End will be nearly half empty but for there to be spare seats in the home end is inexcusable.

A bullshit made up one.

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9 hours ago, JHRover said:

You watch the Sheffield derby they have home fans at Bramall Lane above the away fans and also no blocked out seats just stewards in the bottom corner between the home and away fans.

You watch City v United they have a line of stewards separating home and away fans. Same at Spurs v Arsenal, same at Spurs v West Ham, West Ham v Chelsea, Villa v Wolves and every other derby game going.

At Leeds they have a couple of seats netted off between home and away fans, no empty blocks, sometimes even put home fans in the lower tier in front of the away fans.

Burnley they have a couple of rows of stewards and a metal shutter between home and away fans.

Sunderland they have away fans upstairs lobbing all sorts onto home fans below, so much so they have introduced a policy of confiscating coins from away fans before they enter the ground.

Bolton have a 28000 capacity bowl stadium yet are able to get 26000+ in with a single row of stewards between home and away fans.

And yet at Ewood Park, 4 separate stands, large metal fence between them, we have to net off 500+ seats in the home ends rather than release them for sale even though demand now requires it.

We are a club that would sooner turn people away and turn our noses up at another £15-20,000 for reasons unknown by netting off blocks of the Riverside and Jack Walker lower tier. 

I could maybe accept it if we had sold a full 8000 to the away club and had no means of putting a buffer in the Darwen End. But we've 4000 empties to use for that purpose in there.

Just totally embarrassing and pathetic.

‘Attendance at today’s sell out is 25,600’

Sorry, what?

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17 minutes ago, magicalmortensleftpeg said:

The club are too busy finding reasons for why they can’t do things instead of trying to find solutions. 

The fans are turning up. Open the bloody stadium.

‘Frame this and hang it in the Tate’.

In all seriousness, nothing sums up the approach of our management, more than the bit in bold.

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