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According to our board there’s only a few tickets left out of….? 3.5k?

Come on now, Blackburn Olympic beat then though, so close enough, especially as half of the ChatGPT generated PR about the 150th has been about the borough of Blackburn anyway.

It's just the low hanging fruit again. Cheap and easy. Play it straight after the Derby game so there's no significant additional costs in opening Ewood/getting staff and stewarding on. Play Old Etonians it requires no effort or cost to bring them here for it. Is there supposed to be some particular relevance to playing them? I mean I know we played them in an FA Cup final but didn't we lose to them? So it isn't even a commemoration of a famous historical success. Are we now really at the stage of playing a game against an amateur outfit from the other end of the country who happen to share the same name as a team we lost to in an FA Cup final 140 years ago? Seems a bit tenuous to me.

Have recently been in touch with Peter Slater, creator of a fantastic new website about fanzine culture. He has been developing a comprehensive catalogue of all the British football fanzines that have ever existed (1723 and counting!) Helped by giving him a couple of extra Rovers names to make a current total of seven (PNE have 15😐) Any extra information would be great to help the project! Anyone know anything about the 'Blue and White Telegraph' which Peter has listed? · 4,000 Holes (1989– ) – Name from John Lennon’s lyric ‘4,000 Holes in Blackburn, Lancashire’ in the song ‘A Day In The Life’ by The Beatles; currently up to Issue 113. · Beamo! (1990) – Refers to the Ken Beamish chant about skyward shots which is still heard at Ewood 50 years later. A spin-off from 4,000 Holes with content deemed risky (i.e. ‘just over the top’) in the early days when it was harder to judge tone. · Many Miles From Home (1990-1997) – A fanzine primarily for London-based Rovers fans which started in Autumn 1990. · M5 M6 Ewood Heaven (early 1990s) – About 40 fans from the south-west were on the mailing list for this one which was posted from Bristol – the name refers to the two motorways on the journey back to Ewood. · Loadsamoney (1993-1997) – Name made reference to Jack Walker’s investment in the club and 30 issues were published in just a few years. · Colin’s Cheeky Bits (1998-1999) – “Colin, Colin, show us your arse!” was a regular terrace chant at Braveheart defender Hendry. The fanzine was a late incarnation of Loadsamoney. · Blue and White Telegraph

Yes they are all aligned apparently but what to we don't now. He isn't actively trying to lose games and neither are the other two but he obviously is another one who hasn't got a clue how to turn games round or get his team on the front foot more than once every 5 games. However some of that imo is down to priorities and the main one here is getting players games and increasing value through Championship mins and presumably flexibility to systems and positions. Not once has anyone, apart from Eustace i'd argue, tried to build a well oiled square pegs in square holes functional unit to try and wins points however they come as number 1 priority. Nobody, including Mowbray. It's always about swapping, changing, rotating, out of position, pass from the back, develop youth etc etc. Yes modern demands call for some of that at a lot of clubs but here it's a joke it takes priority over everything.

Good to see things have improved on the fitness front since he left us 🙈

We might win that game you know...they look like a pub side!

Paul Ince. Had a decent squad and was backed yet still botched it. Bringer of Keith Andrews.

Dramatic irony really. Killer thought the body was buried for good | Lancashire Telegraph

It always leads back to one thing only and that is they are hiding something and scared of it coming out. liken it to the house on Nuttall Street that had the body in the drains. That would have never come to light, without the house being sold and demolished.

Have Stoke sold out their allocation PotterLog? Home Ends will be 30 Seats per person availability!

All true, JH, yet no clearer to an answer to ‘why’ they want a manager to keep costs down and for the club to just tick over. Obviously a burden (even if a small one in the grand scheme of their empire with their point man given carte blanche), obviously no sporting interest in the club achieving anything, so the next step is obvious, so WHY aren’t they doing it?’

everything points to a stoke win. But the championship has its way of producing the unexpected... here's praying.

Utterly pointless/meaningless, if true (no reason to doubt it). The way we are going, there will be no one in the ground anyway, and a loss to Derby would be a fitting way to see the back of that lot. What more humiliation do they need to feck off?

Post game even after a win would see very few hanging round, get beat and it will be a very bleak ‘event’ (which is fitting, I suppose). Not sure why there’s a need for a game at all. A pre-season friendly to mark it, fine. But a game of 50 odd year olds against some amateurs in an empty ground in November, err ok.

Historically, do we not tend to lose this fixture but win the away game? Could be wrong on that.

For those of us old enough Iley was appalling. The loss of the magician Dave Wagstaffe to Blackpool was heartbreaking.

Don't think you will be seeing any interviews with Rudy for a while now.

This honestly should be the first question asked to Rudy every time he interviews.

Steve Kean, Derek Dougan, Bradley Orr and Danny Murphy.

Well I think that's all it's meant to be. A Rovers legends side against a side that played a part in our very early history, the game doesn't bother me so much. Just think playing it after a game like the Derby game which could be a huge humilation with all our ex staff and players taking the piss out of us is a daft decision.

Personally I just don't think a match against what is effectively a parks team has any appeal whatsoever. It smacks of laziness but overriding that would be the cost of bringing a proper team to play at Ewood.

It's never been about results on the pitch. Results have not been the priority at this club for over 15 years. If it was Allardyce wouldn't have got sacked, Kean wouldn't have been appointed, Kean would have been gone within a few weeks or at the end of that first season, both Bowyer and Mowbray would have lost their jobs earlier than they did. It is about cost and compliance. If you are willing to operate in the structure these people want and not complain, and are relatively speaking cheap, then you're set. Allardyce wasn't ever going to play their game so he had to go, Bowyer and Mowbray put up with it both because they got answers directly from India and because neither would have got similar jobs elsewhere. Coyle wouldn't have got the job and definitely wouldn't have been parachuted in ahead of Warnock and would have been sacked in October or November rather than February. Lambert wouldn't put up with it, nor JDT or Eustace because they all knew they were able to get employment elsewhere

This made me laugh...and there's no i in team lol

Not sure he’s managed two training sessions yet