davidjack

Only 1100 Rovers fans made the short trip to Huddersfield today...and under 12 thousand Burnley fans at Turf Moor for their first home game after a Premier League season. Food for thought for those having a pop at our support.

If West Ham go down their deluded fans may revise their opinions of him - like Newcastle and Blackburn fans before them.

Sense of perspective please. Anyone questioning Lennon's position can fuck right off - we don't need you. He's held his hand up to getting it wrong - though that said, he wasn't trying to be clever, having Madine and Clough both not fit enough to start obviously meant he had to make more changes. Boro will be right up there - having spent more on one player than we've spent in 3 years. We move on. NLSWA.

Yeah, or Bruno.

10,800 sold, according to ticket office today when I phoned for Blackburn tickets. Up on last year, which was just over 10. There'll be a few more sold hopefully in next few weeks if we can get a good start. Would be great to have a proper atmosphere again. At times against Derby it was more something like. NLSWA. And yes I'm talking about attendances again. Fucking love it, me. :-)

Presumably both - especially as they don't have the same FFP issues.

Something really needs to be done about these prices. Given most of our support is now season ticket holders who are used to paying 15 quid or so on average per game, it's unrealistic to expect them to stump up 30 quid plus travel to go away. Especially twice in 4 days to grounds 150 miles away. It's not just us, most clubs are struggling to take big away followings - unless they're on a roll eg Boro last season. Derby have only brought a thousand or so in previous seasons, last week was first game, new manager etc...they won't be taking 3.5k every week.

I'd hope it'll be nearer a thousand - it's same price to pay on door isn't it?

Yeah, always seemed to take more to Sunderland and Newcastle. Don't know how the fans of all 3 put up with away travel from up there... they must know every inch of the A1 some of em.

I'm amazed as many fans still travel as do - given every game is around the 30 mark. Good turnout from Derby given we were charging 33 quid wasn't it? What's happened to the 20's plenty idea (for the Prem)?

Only been here once (and once to Ayresome). Never really that tempted either. Doesn't sound like too many others are planning on heading up on Sat. I'd be very happy with a point...then 6 from the next two.

How much are tickets?

I had a little pre-match flutter on us going up as champions - more in hope than expectation, but after that performance you'll not find anyone giving you 66/1 again. With the Prince and Derik at the back, with Amos behind them, Pratley and Madine we've already got a strong spine. Throw in Davies, Vela, Clough and Clayton and any doom and gloom will soon be banished. NLSWA.

Surely it was more of a test of the best in the old days - only the top team qualified and there was no fucking about with leagues. So United wouldn't have won it in 99 cos they didn't win the title the year before, for example. And as already mentioned, Clough almost did it with Derby too, even before he transformed another average Div 2 side in Forest. Unbelievable. Nobody's saying Mourinho doesn't know how to win things, just that Clough took it to a whole new level. And let's not pretend Porto were minnows, as great an achievement as that was.

Clough didn't just win the European Cup (when it was the European Cup ie only the very best in each country competing against each other) with a side that two years earlier had been in the second tier of English football (and had no real history or huge support), he only went and won it again the season after, to prove it wasn't a fluke. Different times, but fucking hell.

3-0 win - Clough first half hat-trick. 18,112 there to see it. If we can't dream now, then when?

If Boro can manage it I don't see why we wouldn't for a game 20 miles away - where we've not played for 15 years.

Yes - we won 3-2. A Burnden crowd of 39,000. Not bad for a side not long up from the old 3rd Division.

Before my time, but those who came of Burnden age in the early 70s all seem to adore him. And those who watched from the late 50s and early 60s hold Freddie Hill in the same high regard. Though not like for like I know. Who would you put up there in the years after that - in the real legends bracket? I guess doing it over a period of time has to be a criterion - so could you really class Hierro as one? More a legend of the game, who played for us at the end of his career. McGinlay obviously not in the same class as Hierro, but a bigger BWFC legend...

Just being allowed to carry on his career for a few years - at whatever level - is nothing less than he deserves. Did Evans ever apologise for that tackle btw?

After 18 years it should be possible to have a system that actually works by now ie serves pints quickly and at a reasonable price. How hard can it be for fuck's sake? It's so infuriating. For all the things the club have started to get right in recent years eg ticket prices for kids, we consistently let ourselves down in other areas when it comes to actually making it easier for fans to give the club money! Whether it's selling beer or match tickets from a shit website that's rarely updated...somebody sort it out!

If the 11 players on the pitch at any one time over the past 4 years had shown a fraction of the grit and determination that that lad has we'd still be a Premier League side. Proud to have had him as a Wanderer and wish him all the very best in the future. Would be wonderful to see him in a white shirt again.

Good on everyone who's stuck with it. I dread to think how many we'd have sold after another season of Deadly Dougie. I'm sure a few more will be sold if we can get off to a decent start.

We're in the top 25 in attendance tables since the 1920s. That includes a couple of decades of serious decline though. As mentioned by others, our support will turn out when there's something worth turning out for. We've not got as big a hardcore support as some clubs, but then, as others have said, we have masses more competition within a 30 mile radius than say Sunderland or Southampton.

That's more like it. Good effort that. Did we sell above 10k last season?