Quote: Barky "Our attendances this year have been pretty consistent. Using the state of the ground, which by the way isn't as bad as you make out, as an excuse doesn't wash with me as you've filled your allocation in the past.'"
You have run out of enough mugs to pay money to go in that stand from the West of the city to fill it. If Rovers had 10,000 fans of their own, I bet they wouldn't go in that stand.
The "we knew we were going to get beat" repeatedly used by your lot doesn't wash as it was the same situation (if not more so) in the derby game after the cup final last year, but we sold out. I think fans are just fed up of going in that stand. The novelty has worn off. We aren't THAT desperate for the derby to go to a ground and sit in a stand where we can barely see the game.
From an away fans perspective, the ground is as bad as I make out. If the away stand was the East Stand, we'd have filled it.