v The Dingles (h) - 4/1/2025 k/o 12:30

[JHRover]

I'm confused / concerned.

The club have just made this announcement:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/december/23/east-lancashire-derby-ticket-update/

Stating that an extra 1000 tickets have been released. Checking the website they have indeed unlocked Block N09 and part of N10.

A quick calculation suggests this should be another 1300 tickets available, as the upper tier holds 3000.

I also don't think they've opened either of the end blocks yet which if they do would be another few hundred tickets.

However the club have indicated that once these 1000 are sold there are no more available and it will be a 'sell out'.

This simply isn't true, as there will only be 2500 sold in the upper tier. 

I haven't yet made enquiries with the club about the 'unreserved seating' but only selling 2500 in a stand that holds 3000 would indeed suggest I am correct and they are underselling for reasons unknown.

What a club we follow. Moan about crowds and attendances, get a chance of filling the place and sell ourselves short for no reason at all other than bad organisation.

[Mattyblue]

There’s the two closed blocks in the Riverside and JWL too currently.  But of course we can’t sell them as we need that Berlin Wall level of segregation for such an uniquely hostile Derby.

[JHRover]

At most clubs the management would be wanting to maximise the attendance in whatever ways possible. This would mean selling every single available seat and if/when necessary getting rid of needless segregation and selling those seats too.

We are lucky at Ewood in that the away stand is a separate structure and entirely self contained from the rest of the ground. There is no need for any segregation as there is no way a Rovers fan in the Riverside could get to the Darwen End due to the high steel fencing between the two, not to mention heavy police presence.

At the Turf fans can be separated by a shutter and a narrow line of stewards.

Here I get the impression that this is all too much trouble. They have been caught off guard by the high demand for tickets having never expected to need the BBE upper and now are bizarrely cutting the capacity of that stand for no good reason and thus restricting our potential attendance. 

I suspect it is related to the 'unreserved seating' tickets. 

Amateur outfit in operation.

[47er]

I would have given Burnley fans 7000 tickets on a promise they would reciprocate when we played at the Turd.

Win-Win.

I agree with Josh, we have  a hopeless admin who couldn't foresee the demand (although we could) and can't adapt their rigid thinking to cope with it. Pitiful, simpler to sell another player instead if we need money.

[JHRover]

I do find it totally bonkers that the club will claim a 'sell out' of Ewood, assuming we shift the remaining 1500 on sale, when I predict the gate will be announced at 25,000 maximum if so by virtue of 4000 empty in the Darwen End and a further 1000+ in the home ends.

It will only be 80% full. 

 

[J*B]

On the counter, I don’t think we’ll sell those final 1,000 tickets if we get a poor result against Sunderland and Leeds. 

[Mattyblue]

No, we won’t, however we do have a good Christmas for once and you can imagine another spike in demand. ‘Sorry, you can’t come as we’ve decided not to sell a few blocks of the ground’.

[jim mk2]

I've always avoided Rovers-Burnley matches over the years because of the animosity but I've just found out we've got tickets for this one.

My best memory of these matches is the 1965-66 season when Rovers were relegated from the old first division but somehow managed to win 4-1 at Turf Moor.

Here's hoping for a similar outcome

 

 

[LeftWinger]

I'd bought four tickets for the Riverside but wanted to change them for BBE upper tier when they became available so I went into the club shop last week.

They said they could do it but I would have to get a refund on my original tickets and then go online and buy them again.

I asked why I couldn't just buy the tickets in the shop.

"We are trying to encourage online sales so it'll cost an extra £8 to buy them here"

"But I'll get a physical ticket?" (Two were for Christmas presents)

"If you want one"

Ridiculous that someone should be charged an extra £8 for tickets to buy in person. It must cost a few pence to print them and they didn't even have to post them. 

 

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

21 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

I'd bought four tickets for the Riverside but wanted to change them for BBE upper tier when they became available so I went into the club shop last week.

They said they could do it but I would have to get a refund on my original tickets and then go online and buy them again.

I asked why I couldn't just buy the tickets in the shop.

"We are trying to encourage online sales so it'll cost an extra £8 to buy them here"

"But I'll get a physical ticket?" (Two were for Christmas presents)

"If you want one"

Ridiculous that someone should be charged an extra £8 for tickets to buy in person. It must cost a few pence to print them and they didn't even have to post them. 

 

 

It’s as though they don’t want people to attend.

[BlueNWhiteArmy]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

There’s the two closed blocks in the Riverside and JWL too currently.  But of course we can’t sell them as we need that Berlin Wall level of segregation for such an uniquely hostile Derby.

They clearly know its unfair for people to throw punches with six fingers as there's a distinct advantage