Over the last two or three seasons an ultras group has been formed at Blackburn. Fed up with sitting near to folk who don't stand or sing, they have migrated from the Blackburn End to the Darwen End. There are 2k season ticket holders in the Darwen End and there's now a waiting list for season tickets in that section. Of the 2k in there, there are perhaps three or four hundred who stand and sing with Dale Cavese being a feature song. The problem is, it doesn't spread to other areas of the ground.
This is the problem with all seater stadia and the topics I hear on the Wigan forums are replicated on the Rovers ones. Before Ewood Park was redeveloped, the home 'singers' congregated on the Blackburn End, a standing terrace behind the goals. All like minded fans who wanted to chant and have a good time whilst following their team. As like fans from virtually every other team up and down the country, you stood at the back and fairly central. Easy to get songs going because everyone was together.
In all seater stadia you take a chance who you sit next to. At Ewood, I've a mate to my right but to my left are a group of over 60's who never sing. Nothing wrong with that, but that's the way it is today, pockets of fans here and there who want days of old and pockets of fans who don't. I've followed Rovers away to places like Newcastle and Man United and both these grounds have been like morgues. But, when these same sets of fans come to Ewood, all together and popped up on booze, they have their end of the ground rocking.
Unfortunately, from a fans perspective, most home games are 'average' at best. Saints at Easter was obviously bouncing and Warrington would have been had we won
I can't see many more home games that will fall into the 'bouncing' category. Away days are something else though and that's why Widnes on Friday was so good.
