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13,935 there against Leicester.

BRFC have announced that new seating will be installed in the Blackburn End for next season. They have managed to get a three piece suite and two occasional chairs from the DFS sale.

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THEY should worry! :(

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I couldn't believe Stanleys gate on Saturday, thought it was a mistake:(

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We couldn't believe it when we got on the Clayton End and saw how few were there, Jay. And it's not as if people are staying away in protest at the manager and owners like the Rovers situation. :(

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I've been doing the guess that gate for a few seasons now and can't remember one so low, maybe its because it was a bank holiday weekend, which is the only thing I can put it down too

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Sheer, unadulterated apathy in my view, but let's hope gates pick up from here on in!

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Its just a pity a lot more don't have your love for the club at heart, but of course, you can remember what happened back in the sixties

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I've come to the conclusion that most folk in the area just don't care and would be largely indifferent if history repeated itself. :(

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the stanley crowd was down because of 2 things i believe.
1. The terrible weather
2. The cost
i know a good few who are unwilling/unable to pay the new charges this season.

it was £27 at ewood on saturday in the jack walker, so i returned to my old stomping ground , my beloved Riverside which cost £19.
we were lucky to win...
you don't get punished in the championship like you do in the Prem.

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most people get there fill of footie from t.v.
i've been going to live matches since i was 8years old.
it's something your brought up on.
i don't know too many people who watch footie week in week out , year in year out. it must be a minute percentage of the population who actually who actually do get down to the grounds. there's too many other distractions...

Enjoy your team

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Having tried to weigh this bad gate up. I come to conclusion that these factors have conspired against us. (1) Approx I hr before kick off was very heavy rain,( stanley have had many games rained off in the past,) (2) Rovers game was on T.V. (3) Bank Holiday. (4) The Cost.

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Where was Rovers game on TV cashy:confused:

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No idea,some guy said they watched it in Oaklea.:confused:

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Must have been a foreign station, but didn't know they screened championship games

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Was told some foreign station,shows 1 championship game every sat? I wouldn't have a clue.:confused: So they probably showed rovers whilst they still had chance.pmsl.

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Are you sure? I don't have figures to hand but hundreds of thousands of folk do go regularly to watch footy week in week out which is hardly a small percentage. However all these reasons - footy on TV, bad weather on Saturday, Bank Holiday - apply just as much to other clubs as us and no one got such an awful gate as Stanley. Agree that price was probably a factor. After forking out for a game on Tuesday, perhaps some couldn't afford to go on Saturday. Problem is, the club is caught between a rock and a hard place - if they reduce the admission drastically, will they be rewarded with an increase in walk ons to make up the financial shortfall? Reckon they should try it for one match to see what happens.

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the albion in clayton advertised it too.
fox and hounds at ewood are showing ALL rovers games this season apparantly

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dropping prices wont help. You either go week in week out,the odd one or two games or not at all. Add up all league attendances for any weekend and its not much of the countries population, which is millions.
Keep up your support, thats all you can do.

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76,000 regular at Old Trafford :D.. and having come up by train for the Fulham game last week not many from London..but then does it matter where fans travel from?..said it in the past no club with any sense is gonna turn any fans away at the turnstiles.

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Nah no club will turn em away, amazing how many have no shame though.:D

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Ya 76,000 glory hunters with no shame at all

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Very unfair, there must be at least 10.000 Mancunians go yon.:D

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Mancunians watch the Champions cashy:D:D

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And 13,000 watch your ex Prem team.. the team you jumped ship from:D

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That's the problem here..stupid people with no sense of reality :rolleyes:

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Hold on here this will take time to sort attendance,maybe 4 weeks ..12,000 at burnley today.. 2 weeks time Rovers v barnsley,then only /only 48 hours later also home sky match v middlesboro,so low crowds due to 2 games in only 48 hours and sky live game .no more than 15,000 prob to be honest. If Get results though and wolves at home late sept ,then that game 20,000 at least at rovers !!! whats that 12,000 gate at burnley look then ?? haa haa :D

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Right in a way, totally wrong as usual, I didn't jump ship seeing as how i went yon from Stanley in 62......... Accrington didn't have a team back then,:rolleyes: I stayed yon, n unbelievably Accrington returned to the league about 5 yrs ago, So i returned to my home town club, There There,hope thats not to difficult to grasp? Plus Accrington is the club i started with.

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Surprising thing is the thread starter is a Dingle, better to look at your own miserable gates rather than anybody else's, well thats 3 defeats on the trot for the ner do wells and Rovers still command bigger gates even after the upheaval with Venky's and Kean,

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Thats called "Shifting The Spotlight" which is the only way to go if yer a Dingle.:D

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No, he's not, he's an Everton fan!

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Dingle Everton they're both the same :D

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Stanley have the same problem they always had. They are sandwiched between Rovers and Burnley and nothing will change that. I do go to Stanley occasionally (not as much as I would like) but I think that too much of their support is like me (Burnley or Rovers fans on a day off). It is a shame because they have come back from the dead and local people should be proud of them but old habits are hard to break, especially where football is concerned.
The one thing I do like when I go there is the atmosphere. I'm whisked back to the days when football was a working man's game. Basic facilities, cold and people not eating prawn sandwiches with their champagne.
Long live the likes of Stanley, they are real football, not premiere league hype and prima donnas on telephone number wages.

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it doesnt help, when a season ticket at rovers is cheaper than stanley, burnley not much more.

loyalties are loyalties, but with waining crowds all round (ok the rovers thing is part in protest, i was at the last home game, at rovers, and official figures just short of 14 thousand, and for most of match it was like an away game), bums on seats are harder to come by, and what are the clubs doing to get the "waverer" like me there.

i have to admit i was only at rovers game, because i had free tickets for players lounge,as as a guest of Bruno, he is mate of a mate

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Rovers attendances were always going to fall considerably after relegation, quite apart from the protest. Every team, maybe with the exception of Man Utd back in the seventies, suffers a considerable fall. Firstly there are the fairweather fans (all clubs have them). They are the ones who have swallowed the premiere league hype about it being the "best league in the world" (questionable when you look at the quality in Spain and the attendances in Germany). They are the "fans" who feel it is somehow below them to "support" a non-prem team. They are not really supporters at all, just glory hunters. Secondly there is the inevitable drop in visiting support: it's a little bit different having 5/6,000 visiting fans from United, City Chelsea etc. and playing Brighton, Peterborough or Doncaster on a cold midweek.
I doubt if Rovers will touch anywhere near 20,000 this season apart the odd big game (Burnley, Bolton or one of the big midlands clubs if they are doing well).
The Championship boasts good attendances (last I looked the 5th or 6th best supported league in Europe), good quality football and far more competition than the premiership could ever offer (3 or 4 teams looking at the championship with the rest just happy to avoid relegation).
Rovers fans should get used to it in the second tier - it's all you've got for a while, and not many relegated teams go straight back up (a few fall straight through).

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See the Dingles were down to 10,000 at weekend:D

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Probably was only half of that,the extra digits make counting hard work.:D

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Well exactly, so it's about time you started coming along a bit more. We even play our matches when your lot are away, so you've no excuse. Versus Aldershot on Saturday, it'll be a good match, so let's be 'avin' yer! ;)

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yep even get yeh a drink in oaklea pre-match.:)

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Now then, a drink from Cashy, followed by a match at Stanley. Saturdays don't get better than that! :)

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Bribery will get you everywhere:D

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Come on Jay, it was nearly 11,000 and there were only about 5 Posh fans there. Give us a break.

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Honestly I couldn't agree with you more but I can't even afford to go to every Burnley game, let alone extras at Stanley. I consider myself a bit of a Stanley fan but historically I'm Claret (I was only very young when the original Stanley went under) and, as I said, loyalties tend to stay with real fans. I will go occasionally I promise, but my team must come first.

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Ya but ya started of with over 14,000 three defeats and plenty of no shows,

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Actually we started with over 18,000.