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

[Cherry Blue]

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Less than 80 in ALL Home Areas..all single seats.

Have the opened ends of upper Blackburn End now?

Edited Friday at 15:09 by Cherry Blue

[scotchrover]

The wings are on sale now, in the Blackburn End upper. We’re heading for our biggest league crowd in an awful long time- too long for that matter! I wonder if the upper tier tickets would sell if they available throughout the season. 

Edited Friday at 15:03 by scotchrover

[Mattyblue]

Did they have to pay Bank Holiday rates for the maintenance work?

[Wheelton Blue]

Those end sections were netted off yesterday.

Miracles do happen, it would seem.

[JHRover]

Well I'm glad someone somewhere has seen sense and released the rest of the upper tier. Of course this contradicts the clubs claim earlier in the week that no more would be released, so I wonder whether someone higher up the chain has had a word and told them to get whatever it was sorted out and quickly. 

This should free up an additional 500 tickets. Hopefully they go and then they can unlock the end blocks of the Riverside and JW lower and actually have a real home sell out.

 

[roversinmyblood]

Do you think that there will be many Burnley fans in the home sections? It needs to be policed properly with zero tolerance. 

[lraC]

4 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

Do you think that there will be many Burnley fans in the home sections? It needs to be policed properly with zero tolerance. 

I dread to think what will happen if there are. 

[J*B]

31 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

Do you think that there will be many Burnley fans in the home sections? It needs to be policed properly with zero tolerance. 

There will be hundreds in the corporate lounges in the Jack Walker. So they’ll all be sat JW upper central. 

[Hasta]

Last time we played Burnley at Ewood the Rovers fans in the JW upper were a lot more ‘angry’ than those we usually get up there. So I wouldn’t like to be a Burnley fan jumping around even up there.
 

There will be a few in corporate in the centr, but like every rumour of infiltration it will be over estimated. If you listen to Sunderland fans, they were supposedly all over the home ends.

[levi]

I don't see why there's going to be a huge amount of them in the home ends....there wasn't last time and they had less tickets and it was a game where they could win the second division

[Mattyblue]

A missed opportunity not giving them the full end. A 30,000 gate for a second division game live on TV. One of the oldest derbies from the heartland of the game in all its glory. 

Edited Friday at 16:04 by Mattyblue

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Just now, Mattyblue said:

A missed opportunity not giving them the full end. A 30,000 gate live on TV. One of the oldest derbies from the heartland of the game in all its glory. 

No chance...they dont go out of their way to accomdate Rovers fans so fcuk 'em.Maximise HOME attendance.

As for possible Burnley fans in our end?...yeah,God help them!

[Mattyblue]

They pretty much fill their (much smaller) ground with their own fans each week, so why would they give more than the minimum required by the regs - we don’t, so no issue from me, get the place full to the brim.

Edited Friday at 16:11 by Mattyblue

[Claytons Left Boot]

[Mattyblue]

More nonsense from them. There’s two additional full empty blocks currently that aren’t on sale.

But then they did say the 500 were unable to be sold, err, a day ago. So who knows what additional green dots they’ll muster up.

[M_B]

A couple of seasons out the Prem and they'll be ripping out that divide in the cricket field end to fit in more away fans. My mate said he hadn't seen it as empty for ages against Derby, and that's with them near the top.

[Mattyblue]

Of course, that’s why we need them to feck up this season and next and lose their parachutes.

But for as long as they are yo-yoing they’ll sell most home seats (largely to ST holders) due to FOMO of the PL and a scarcity factor as they only have 19k home seats to play with.

Edited Friday at 16:25 by Mattyblue

[JHRover]

I'd be interested to know the logistics of opening a block or two for home fans in the Darwen End. 

If the cricket field shed can be shared between home and away fans then the Darwen End certainly can. 

Of course first we need to sell the 300ish in the upper tier and the 500ish in the Riverside and JW stand that the club hasn't yet mentioned.

Magically the 'maintenance' issues of a couple of days ago have been resolved now that we've promptly filled the other blocks and there's still money to be made, so you would hope once the rest of the upper tier goes they'll apply their minds to removing the pointless netting and actually putting people in those remaining seats.

[superniko]

42 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

A missed opportunity not giving them the full end. A 30,000 gate for a second division game live on TV. One of the oldest derbies from the heartland of the game in all its glory. 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing given the demand, but it would have been good to see a sold out split Darwen End (3.5k each and 1k segregation in the middle) - it’s essentially the same home fans as the upper tier BBE. 
Then start opening the Upper BBE once that sold (which would be about now as we approach sell out) 

Or even just split the lower tier Darwen End and then open up the Blackburn End Upper. Always prefer Ewood with home fans in all 4 stands ahead of the upper tiers. 

Edited Friday at 16:46 by superniko

[Mattyblue]

Sounds great, but Swag is far too risk averse for that.

[only2garners]

I wonder if the upper tier tickets would sell if they available throughout the season. 

At sensible prices I suspect that they would, but probably at the expense of sales in the Riverside.

[chaddyrovers]

No way should that lot get the full Darwen End. Isn't it the police that restrict their allocation? 

Also do you think the police will allow that end to split up to allow Home fans into the Darwen End? 

 

 

[Giant]

I hope any Dingles haven’t got hold of tkts in the recently released home sections. I know you have to have an account registered before November this year to buy them, but some numpties could be buying them for Burnley supporting family and friends, or just to coin in. 

[Cherry Blue]

54 minutes ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

These extra 500 seats have been on sales for roughly 2 hours and 150+ green seats are now grey.

[Mattyblue]

Why is it that pretty much every other derby is stewarded by a line or two of stewards, often in the same stand (including over at their hovel) where this one at Ewood needs thousands of netted off seats across three stands?

 

 

Edited Friday at 17:40 by Mattyblue