I wasn't sure I was going to be free today until yesterday. I'm not asking for cheap tickets for myself I can afford the ticket price although I do object to being asked to pay more for making a late decision to attend. I don't want to attend on my own so need to persuade my husband or someone else to attend with me and that is difficult. As I said, I'm not suggesting Rovers can or should do what Sharks do, but merely that they should look at the problem and try to encourage people to attend rather than make it difficult or inconvenient if you don't have a season ticket. There have been plenty of ideas from others on here on how to encourage people back, not people like me, who will attend if circumstances, organisation skills, and a fellow match goer all appear at the right time, but those for whom it is currently really difficult to attend. You're right in a way. I do make excuses because I've got out of the habit. I haven't lost interest but freed from the tyranny of a season ticket ie once you have one you have to go or you start to lose cash I find it hard to get up and go. Although to be fair this is probably the first Saturday since I came back from holiday that I've been free to go if I'd chosen to. If the club did something to encourage those who like me have simply lost the routine of Saturday including attending a Rovers match, perhaps more people would catch the bug again. I don't know, but surely they need to try.

The problem is, I'd understand the annoyance of some season ticket holders if match day tickets were cut that much. However, making smaller offers like the attend 4 matches and get your 5th discounted or even free might tempt some. As would making match day tickets surcharge free and available on the day, as they always used to be. Perhaps reevaluating the cost of match day tickets generally so that they cost more than buying a season ticket and attending every game, but making them all the same cost, not category ABC. Yes you might lose a bit on clubs bringing a big away following but you'd make it up in home fans probably. I don't know because economics isn't my field at all but thinking imaginatively is surely needed to get people back onside. I even thought of going myself today and changed my mind because I hadn't got myself organised early enough to get a ticket. One of these days ........

I'm not suggesting all kids go away but town teams with a rural catchment area are affected more by young people moving away than a city team would. That's not to say the club couldn't do more for its young fans. Of course it could. As it could do more for families, older fans, etc. The fans have to be central to the clubs thinking and for a long time at Ewood they haven't been. They've been an inconvenience. That needs to change before fans will return in any significant numbers

Young people don't stay here though. Of my 4 who all had season tickets into their teens, the nearest one now lives south of Manchester. The others live on Tyneside, in Germany and in South Korea. Nowadays more kids go away to Uni and never come back. It's a problem many towns and rural areas have.

The problem is, there is no comparison between us and Forest. Nottingham is a big city and there's a huge student population with 2 universities so there are plenty of potential ticket purchasers. Having said that, I might be free tomorrow and decide I fancy going to Rovers. There's nothing to encourage me to go. If I don't decide and sort a ticket early in the day then I pay extra. I have to find somewhere to park when I get there. Compare that to last week when we decided to go to the AJ Bell to watch the Sharks. Park free at the Trafford Centre, free shuttle bus to and from the ground with priority given to getting the buses away post match, and tickets on sale up to kick off at the same price as if bought weeks in advance. I'm not suggesting Rovers could or should do all of that but the same price tickets would be a good start

Also several years of rubbish means we have found other things to do. Watch rugby, watch amateur football, feel free to do anything else you feel like. It's not the same as watching rovers but you kind of get used to not watching rovers

Me! ?

I was born at my grandma's house because we had no running water at ours.

I was at the Sale game trying to follow Rovers on phone. BBC kept going back to earlier score and I didn't find out about the pen till I finally read the after match report

https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/burnley-football-club-defends-unpaid-volunteer-scheme-1-9354801 The club has explained how the suggestion came about and more details of it

Can I just point out that refs are regularly assessed. My cousins husband, formerly premier league assistant ref is now an assessor. So whoever said refs need to be improved, they are trying. Perhaps we need more transparency and openess from refs. In rugby you can hear what the ref is saying so you know what he's thinking. If refs fronted up more to the public we might appreciate better where they are coming from

They didnt

When they moved the family stand from the BBE upper I was furious and many couldn't understand my anger. Now it's happened to the Darwen end and still nobody gets it. It's about your space. The little bit of ewood that on match days is your home. It might not be an area that's to everyone's taste but for you it's an important part of the matchday experience. Now I understand the economics of the closures but I don't understand why nobody seems to get the sense of loss of enjoyment that those affected may feel.

That's been a rovers problem for years. I remember my son screaming at nelsen and samba to get out and stop defending so deep

And other than not running into grelish how could we have stopped that amazing free kick

You can't deny that at times the football under Bowyer got very dull and under Lambert it was dire too. It's a sport and results driven but there is also a desire for entertainment too. Most fans are satisfied with being bored but winning rather than entertained but losing. I was for a long time. But when we stopped winning too then the product on offer was very dull.

I don't not attend because it's not interesting. I stopped attending because a combination of factors (closure of my stand, retirement meaning I was missing more and more matches, my husband's reluctance to attend, poor quality product, enjoyment of other sports, family life) meant I reached my tipping point. Enjoyment of the actual football was a small part of it. If it mattered that much, I'd have been back last season when Rovers rediscovered how to win.

And why would I have an opinion on that?

We used to bet on what the ticket required would be before arriving at the ground. No prizes or money involved but just a game to get the kuds to walk a bit more quickly on their way to the ground

I never tweet. Just follow a handful of people and skim read every few days. Not how it's meant to work I know but I've no desire to get into the nasty side of things

Yes they sent out a mail shot to those who'd had season tickets in the last five years at least. Don't know if those who bought tickets on a match basis were contacted too

His wallet was nicked

We've been too polarised for too long. Too much point scoring. Too many positive/negative debates. It'll take a while for the board to settle. And so many people no longer attend matches on the regular basis they did before. People like me who don't attend don't comment as often.

Some would be back. You have to balance what you'd gain in numbers, atmosphere, in ground spend, etc against what you'd lose in ticket revenues. Holding the price steady might have been worth it. Well never know

It's worse on twitter than Facebook as you get team selection quite often after you get the result of the match