Who owns an Everton shirt?

im all for that Gav.

But talking out of his rectum does him no favours.

The rates he quotes for Wigan have no relevance to us (not to any other GMP team - but that really doesnt have any relevance).

This whole thread has got dull.

Trimm Trab, why is it you only appear to post and remark on this thread?

Cos he has a ban?

For being a ######?

Oh dear,

someone has seen the Wigan debacle and think that what GMP are charging is what police get paid.

I can guarantee that there isnt a constable (well, perhaps a chief one) is this country that earns £85,000 (46.23*35*52)

considering a constable was earning over £150 a day(roughly 6 hours) for doing the football over a decade ago i'm presuming these hourly rates aren't far of the mark.Either that or dave whelan has a right to be upset at the massive profits the police are making on their policing prices!

So you seriously think that your average everyday Joe Policeman i earning a salary of £85,000?

I can only presume that you are either stupid, ignorant, or a combination of both.

The highest constable salary under Lancashire Police is about £29k and thats after 14 years. Starting rate is £18k.

And based on a £150 per day, on a 5 day week equates to a salary of £39k - once again you are talking crap.

The money the club pays the local police is disgusting in my opinion. We have 5 riot vans, several horses and God knows how many foot soldiers to police 25 lads? Ok the police around the ground do a great public service and do not concentrate on hooligans but look after the genuine football fan going to the game but the ones assigned to the hooligans just milk the overtime and trump up not only the charges but the threat posed by these individuals.

and who can blame them for milking it with hourly rates like this plus the possibility of seeing a free game of footy and with a bit of luck the chance to clout someone with a stick without fear of reprisals.

Chief Inspector £61.08 per hour

Inspectors £55.98 per hour

Sergeants £55.98 per hour

Constables £46.23 per hour

Mounted Constables £75.05 per hour

Dog Handler Constables £65.81 per hour

can anyone point me in the direction of a good horse riding school

Oh dear,

someone has seen the Wigan debacle and think that what GMP are charging is what police get paid.

I can guarantee that there isnt a constable (well, perhaps a chief one) is this country that earns £85,000 (46.23*35*52)

biggest crowd scumwood has had this season

Really?

It was 28,691 against Burnley, yet it was 29,271 for when Newcastle came down to Ewood on Boxing Day.

So it wasn't the biggest crowd of the season for when you came.

erm....you sold out against Burnley (so you say)....but not against the Geordies.....

Thanks for the hospitality Blackburn....a good days drinking in relaxed surroundings..... a free run around town....

Oh, congratulations on the result, its been an entertaining couple of weeks....... all the best in the next round

But we didnt have stupid amounts of segregation against Newcaste.

We sold all available tickets for Burnley, however in terms of actual people through turnstiles there were more for Newcastle. Is that really so hard to understand?

Oh aye... kids.

and them oldies....

Whatever it is we get 42.5% of the 'profit'

Think you are being a tad generous on the net receipts i made it £580k if all the tickets were 20 - they arent.

the stewards should chill out for this game, then stepping in will just cause more trouble and we dont want that.

They have been incredibly chilled since earlier in the season havnt they?

I sometimes think people whinge for the sake of it.

What was the gate, last time we played them? At Ewood.

23,442

Odds on Savage being captain?

Rung up

RESULT

Row 3 Seat 49

Row 4 Seat 49

Blackburn End

They said the card holder had to pick them up, I haggled her to accept a signature and authorisation from the card holder who wont be going. Got through fast too. Sorted!

Dan, If I was sat in my season ticket seats I'd be right behind you. But I'm not, I'm in the press box.

Stu, I'm not aware of any restricted views at all, although obviously the views in the corners aren't too hot.

Burnley Official was reporting they have been given restricted view seats.

I didnt think there were any.

Out of interest Lee, other than the riverside where are the restricted view seats in the three 'new' stands?

on phone to rovers now

booking with someone elses card who i can get to authorise this, will this be ok Lee?

Do you need the card to collect the tickets?

How old are you?

Can one of you pretend

from what I hear, there are single seats in most stands, but most tickets remain in the top tier of the Blackburn End.

Don't know numbers

What you reckon my chances are of getting 2 in the top tier, not necesarily together, but one behind the other etc.

Dan

remember the criteria for up there regarding juniors and the like

Spoke to Scummings this morning at work. he says rovers have released further tickets for the dingles. if so where are they for?

This is the rumour thats been circulating all weekend cos the dingles started selling tickets again briefly on Saturday morning.

The seats they were selling were Darwen End Upper tier.

Just spoken to an honest Burnley fan who works in Blackburn claiming his mates, fellow Burnley fans have purchased tickets in the Blackburn section of the ground but are going to try to get in the Darwen end with his fellow Dingles. Alledgedly banned Burnely fans have tickets in the Darwen end -which i find astonishing and makes a mockery of Rovers handling

How does it make a mockery of Rovers?

Rovers have niothing to do wioth selling tickets in the Burnley End?

Christ blme the TO staff for sdome thigns - but Burnley tickets are Burnleys responsibility.

Anyway, challenge for everyone. Been trying to get a chant going for a bit with no luck so lets see how we fare tomorrow:

As United sing for RVN, we should sing:

'Morten Gamst Pedersen tra la la la la

'Morten Gamst Pedersen tra la la la la la'

What ya think?

Some of us have been singign that for months dan.

Just no other bugger joins in!

blizzrds forcast......8FT OF SNOW FORCAST OVERNIGHT ....LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NEED A NEW DATE SETTING!!!!

8 FOOT OF SNOW.

NO CHANCE.

my neighbour just called in with a ticket he bought from burnley yesterday,he said rovers had released more tickets to burnley

you know it makes sense

Or they found another shoe box stuffed full of them!!

Well the capacity will be around 28,000 due to segregation, so i think the gate will be 25,000 - 26,000 at best with 2,000 or so empty seats

Closer to 30,000 'capacity' Around 1500 seats (presuming 1000) in the Darwen End.

Id be surprised if we dont sell out at some point tomorrow.

A bit worrying that there are still seats in the BBE Lower - coupled with my tickets in the upper (booked this morning) being row 9 - maybe the sales aren't as strong as previous estimates

They werent really 'estimates' the info was supplied by an employee of Blackburn Rovers. The tickets left in No1 will be ST holders who havnt bought tickets for this game for whatever reason.

the problem is i know for a fact burnley fans have tickets in our sections,i have seen a burnley with a ticket,he wants to see the game burnley sold out,i reckon they should give burnley the extra 1,000 tickets let there fans exchange the one's they have for the home areas.how ever strict the SECURITY has been it;s failed

Logistical nightmare and impossible to put into place at this late stage.

On the contrary its a great idea. They did it at the Everton v United game a few weeks ago - some of the empty seats were set aside and if any away fans were identified they were moved into it.

Of course it was never announced - simply because it is inviting trouble.

Of course we dont actually know how many extra seats there are in the Darwen End unsold. It certainly isnt 1000. Maybe 300, maybe none.

The details all say approximately.

We know that the Riverside has 5000 seats, we presume the ends have 8000 each. Thats 21,000 already. Does the JW stand only have 2000 seats more than the ends? who knows, its all conjecture.