Ok, being realistic the best average gate we can hope for is 25,000 and everyone would be happy with that. Say we get an average attendance this season of 17,000. Thats 8,000 fans per week not coming, and therefore a lost revenue of... £25 (average price) x 19 games x 8,000 fans = £3.8m Now considering the current state of the transfer market, then granted that could get you a half decent player, but in past seasons we have wasted that at the drop of a hat, on players like Ward, Blake, Carsley etc etc. We all know that our average attendance will NOT be 17,000, and will be at least 20,000. Thus leaving the lost revenue at: £25 (average price) x 19 games x 5,000 fans = £2.375m Now is that money REALLY that cruical to rovers? To be honest I don't think it is, and what we lose out there, we can easily make up by being a bit more shrude on other decisions around the club. I.e. Ensuring that we appoint decent managers who are going to keep us in the league, and thus earn us £20m a year! The attendance problem is one that nobody can solve over night, so lets concentrate on other aspects and Im sure it will sort itself out in good time.

Over the past 2 years football in general has become less and less appealing to me, and I think it is becoming the same for a lot of people. The article is exactly right and addresses most of the important points. There's just not the draw and the excitement there that there was even 5 or 6 years ago.

And im hot on the heels in 3rd!

A good point well made, but I think Savage's energy can make up for his sometimes erratic positioning, and we will see that come good in the next few weeks.

Ok, We've lost the game and we haven't played well, but there's no need to start calling the players, and moaning about they have 'let us down again'. We don't have a define right to win games, but I'm sure Hughes will have words this week, and I fully expect a win next week against Fulham.

Has anyone ever travelled to Upton Park by car, and if so were did you park, and is there anything nasty to look out for?

Vinjay, why not get your dad to buy rovers out, then you can bring all your pals. ************************DELETED************************************** Thats out of order. - tchock

This messagebaord seems to be going downhill, FAST. Its amazing how many people are so eager to sell the name of the ground for a few quid, so that they have more money to spend on the new championship manager. The foreigners always seem so keen to get some money in, no matter what it involves!

Why bother selling your sole for what will be a VERY short term result

Nice lad who was a panic buy that got plenty of luck in front of goal but who used it all up in the first season (thank goodness). But its plain as a pikestaff that Stead will never be a top striker in the Prem. So dont be all maudlin ya big soft gits ........we've got 1.8 million for a 3rd / 4th choice benchman. 323510[/snapback] Agreed. I don't think stead posseses any real quality and seemed to be in the right place at the right time an awful lot during his first few months. Cheers steady

I keep checking back on there site and cant seem to find anything at all. With only 1 week to go before the proposed second phase, surely they aren't going to go ahed with it now, as nobody else seems to even know about it.

I've just realised that the second sales phase starts in little over a week, but I can't seem to find any information regarding it on the website. I beleive its first come, first serve, and would be a perfect oppurtunity to get a few more tickets in the bag....so does anyone know how its going to work?

3 tickets for match no. 4, on 10.06.2006, in the city of Dortmund, price category ... 3 tickets for match no. 10, on 12.06.2006, in the city of Gelsenkirchen, price category ... WAHEY, WERE GOING TO ZE GERMANY!

To put it simply: Thompson just isnt good enough and is never going to fit in this team, he's been useless for too long and i dont see a way back. MGP is far too light and soft, he generally doesnt do very much at all during games, but because of his amazing finishing ability he grabs quite a lot of goals. Im really not sure about him.

Waggy, do you know exactly what time tommorow the applications end? I presumed it would be midnight, but me and the lads still havent managed to get it sorted tonight so were going to have to leave it until tommorow, just want to make sure I don't miss out.

just logged into our beatiful messageboard to have a little look through this thread, and there it was sat right at the top of the forum, its the little things that make u smile isnt it Anyway, I haven't applid yet, but I will be doing so tommorow night, I think i'm going to apply twice for the exact same set of 4 tickets, because it is heavily over-subscribed at the moment, and I want to make sure I've got at least some tickets before the next phase. It still seems quite difficult to understand though, what exactly is on offer in the next 3 sales rounds? Im just going to order the tickets for my favourite stadiums out of the bunch, and sort the travelling out later, should be fun So were is everyone else going to be staying? Im thinking of driving, so my hotel budget is going to minimal for the 2 week stay. The mastercard thing is a joke, but forutnately I've managed to find one so the £500 limit should cover it.

AWFUL stuff from the rovers fans, sometimes i wish we had a ground that could only hold 20k. Anyway, the result was right and we'll go on from here... After all that talk at the start of the season about shearer returning to ewood in the last game of his career, has anyone thought about meeting him in the FA cup final in the last game of his career? Worth a mention.

as with wilksy earlier on i'm not entirely sure if you're struggling to understand my posts or maybe you just have problems with your reading capabilities? my quote was that i doubt there is "a big difference" between the hourly rates of equivalent officers working for both forces,i stand by that quote. all my posts have revolved round the police hourly rates and not the total police bill,which has no relevance to the hourly rates,originally i merely quoted the hourly rates of officers that were used by the gmp to try and justify their extortionate police bill to wigan. in future i suggest reading the posts through properly before jumping in with both feet and making yourself look a bit silly. Mr trabb, kindly shut the ###### up. Thanks

When I followed the mass of burnley hooligans being escorted back to the station the other night, I came across a very small gathering of 'Blackburn Youth', who had been surrounded by the police, stood outside a pub near the new B & Q.

Dingles....can I just ask, how exactly are you going to keep closing this gap between yourselves and rovers??? You have absolutely no money, you don't even have any assets, and yet were receiving premiership TV payments, etc etc every year! The way I see it, we can only improve our strike force because it can't really get any worse, and Hughesy is a well respected man in football and can attract some big name players to ewood. Down at turd moor however, if you continue to improve (i.e. stay in the championship) then the first transfer you see will be your gaffer running for a real wage packet! And as for your support, I was at Deepdale on Saturday and you were absolutely embarrasing, outsung by a few chavs at the town of the Shankly....of the 2 songs that you manage to sing, the first one is copied from the rovers, and the second, you try to fit 3 syllabuls into a 2 syllabul chant that ends up sounding like a southern cheese factory (Bun-a-lee)

Just followed at least 300 Burnley scumbag hooligans all the way through Blackburn to the station, patrolled by almost double that amount of Police. Although they did a good job in the end, and prevented what could have been some very nasty clashes....I cannot beleive the way that the police aloud them to simply roam free within 15 minutes of the final whistle! Anyone else heard of any trouble?

Has anyone else just booked there Cardiff hotel?

Think you may find we have Accrington Stanley to thank for that. Of course you would need to be able to read to work that out. Try getting your facts right first inbred. Looks like you've been wronged again Dingle, i think you'd better start reading the bed time story from now on, because whilst you keep letting your sister do it, your eyes just arent going to improve...masturbation been bad for the eyes and all that.

Although I didn't actually see him kicking the seat in, it did occur to me to confront him but then you see he did have an 18" piece of wood in his hand. Think that could have been me trying to take a souveneir for the trip Wouldn't fit in my bag though so I thought i'd leave it for zak to refit in the morning. Not usually my style to be brutally honest, but i thought it would be nice to have a piece of dingledome that i could use as a toilet seat for my dog or something. By the way, did anyone see the banner that Burnley flew over the ground before the game, a shocking effort really, didn't even come close to the infamous 'staying down forever'

Absolutely agreed. I was waiting for over an hour this morning and when i got to number when I was told i was in the wrong que, and was hung up on. I have since got to number 10 and was told we had sold out. Now having been to 4 aways this season and almost every one last season, season ticket for 5 years and both FA cup games this year, I still wasnt aloud to get four tickets for Burnley so I waited until this morning. Now Im going to have a word with various people at the club, but I think if Im not given a chance at some tickets I will definately be following your route, fed up of the disgrace that there turning into and I wont put up with it any longer