IT IS about time that season ticket holders of Blackburn Rovers realised that the club is not a Manchester United or Arsenal, with people applying for season tickets and having to wait for years before they stand a small chance of succeeding.

The plain fact is that Rovers are not a club with great pulling power.

At the end of the day, the club sold less than 20,000 season tickets as champions.

That was the last season I invested in a season ticket. What is the point - I can pick my games and save hard-earned cash?

Since the ground has been redeveloped, how many times have Rovers managed a 31,000-plus sell out?

The club has no choice but to re-address this problem. They need to attract more support from a wider catchment area.

Yes, I sympathise with those season ticket holders who have invested this season, but there are probably only 15,000 or 16,000 of them.

I have recently been working in the South Cumbria area and was pleasantly surprised how many people were walking around wearing Rovers colours.

Keep up the good work - eventually, the message will get around that Rovers really want to achieve big club status.

S BARKER, Euxton, near Chorley.

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