Stoke had, and have had nothing to play for for ages and brought over 1500 seventy miles last week for a nothing game for them, Ten miles down the road, I think it's a no brainer to go to a local derby and sing for the bragging rights if nothing else.

Got my ticket yesterday tea time and the lad in the shop said we'd sold just over 3 thousand at that time.

On a serious note I'm predicting 2 nil Rovers with a crowd of about 13500. (sold 10877 in home areas as of about an hour ago).

Bloody hell, just trying to bring a bit o light heartedness into the forum. We had our best run of form of the season after the lowest point in the season. How many of the "realists" aka doom mongers on here would have thought after 5 mins of the Sheff U home game that we'd be second a couple of months later. 'Obviously we are out of form, but mentally chucking in the towel and saying we've no chance of making the play offs like some have suggested is plain silly to me. Whether we do or don't, don't be so miserable, we are having a better season than anyone thought so lets treat tomorrow as what it is, the first game of the rest of the season. COYB BOYS!!!!!!!

Five nil Rovers, Gallagher hat trick and 27,000 on. Just thought I'd inject a bit of optimism into a slit your own wrist thread.

It's not difficult to count ticket sales in the e ticket part of the website if you know the capacity of each section. As of about an hour ago we had sold 634 in the Darwen end and 10840 in total in all the home ends.

Lose one game in terrific season and people are talking about death spirals and getting on Mowbrays back already. I'm embarrassed to be a Rovers fan, absolutely pathetic doom mongers. Grumble on.

Great effort Devon Rover, hope your health and the clubs health is on the up and up.

I remember Rovers thrashing Barnsley 5 nil in the 89/90 season, Scott Sellars was unplayable and it could've been 10, I'll settle for the same tonight.

Think the BBE will be a sellout, at last count there were around 400 tickets left. Bottom Tier obv.

If I can stand and the atmosphere around me is good, that's all I want really. I've been reliably informed by some old time Rovers mates that the back corner in the BB end is pretty much stand up anyway, that's where my ticket is and I'll see what it's like. If I do get the bug again I want to get in to the away games again.

Thanks Simon Garner, my all time favourite Rovers player.

Thanks Chaddy, people seem to have gone on the defensive pretty quick, maybe I worded my posts wrong and they came off as lecturing. Growing up as a Rovers fan I dreamt about them getting into the 1st division and suffered the play off heartbreak at the grounds of Chelsea, Swindon and Palace, and cried like a baby after that last one. But from that and never missing a game for going on 15 years, I've missed 20 odd years. I was only trying to explain my reasons as they are different from any that had been mentioned. Bottom line, Rovers are my team, always have been and always will be, just like everyone else on the forum. If you started going in 93/94 you missed the terrace days, atmosphere building up an hour before the game at the big matches, being packed in and the noise was something different to what you get now, I experienced both and as I say I miss those days. I also know they're not coming back but I can't apologise for the way I feel.

.......and there were other people sat around me but I was the only one singing Mike, and getting some fairly funny looks as well, like I was doing something wrong. The Walkers steel is the Riverside.

I'm not lecturing anyone, this whole thread is about attendances at Ewood, I've been a missing fan for years but it had nothing to do with any reason given on the thread. Nothing to do with ticket prices, owners, managers, how good or bad the team was doing, free live streaming etc. If people think I'm alone in not going because they miss the old terrace days and atmosphere that came with it, then they're way off the mark. So what can the club do to encourage some of these back to Ewood? As for me stopping going because "I couldn't be arsed any more", that's bollocks, it was the hardest thing I ever did, it took about 3 or 4 years to feel anything like normal not being there when the Rovers played.