ROVERS' game at Parkhead is our biggest game in years, but tickets were snapped up in a matter of hours. Supporters were queuing at Ewood from 8pm the previous night.

We have received a measly 3,000 tickets but once again we have handed a team a golden opportunity to shout us down by handing them the whole of the Darwen End.

We have given them 26 per cent of our seats and received five per cent of theirs.

Blackburn Rovers must be the only club to have a self-inflicted home disadvantage policy. I was told by a member of the security staff that the policy is to not have a repeat of the Manchester City fiasco.

I feel the club's policy of fearing a repeat of what happened against City on the day they were promoted is disgraceful.

In my opinion, that game was an exception as it was down to dated ways of selling tickets and ignorant season ticket holders selling their tickets for tempting sums.

But when exactly are we going to test the water? I would also like to state that the current high away allocation policy needs to be dealt with immediately as it is robbing prospective supporters the chance of seeing what top-class football is about. This is how and when to get new supporters to the ground. Alas I, along with thousands of other Rovers supporters, have come to the assumption that the obvious isn't low enough for whoever deals with these issues at Rovers to comprehend.

MR P HAMPSON, by e-mail.

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