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If Rovers are away, I'll sometimes wander down and watch Clitheroe. There's a lot I like about it tbh- having a bev in the stand, the rough and tumble of the non-league and the throwback nature of it all. But, I don't know whether this is due to semi-pro nature of it all or not, but I just can't take it that seriously and when they score, it's a mild clap really. I don't get anything like as enthused as I do with Rovers.

Terry Genoe did alot for the club behind the scenes after retiring. He welcomed hundreds of school kids into education schemes and health and fitness in the community all under the Blackburn Rovers football club scheme. He probably developed a heck of alot of future fans back then through that effort.

He did a really good job at Barnsley but Coyle also did a really good job at Burnley. Both have had careers with numerous clubs and otherwise have repeatedly struggled elsewhere which suggests that those spells where the exceptions to the rule. And its not even as if either came here off the back of those 2 good spells, where clubs could be forgiven for expecting them to repeat it. Both joined here with poor reputations, in positions where they would have little or more likely no chance of getting another job at this level, at times where things off the pitch have been particularly bad and weve got poor managers off the scrapheap to compound those issues.

He's certainly one of the first names you'd think SHOULD get a cap once you've got past Crompton/Clayton/Douglas etc. Not the most important thing to worry about at the moment by any means but even leaving Mowbray getting one aside, with all due respect Ian Miller doesn't exactly spring to mind as being a vital recipient, likewise Id pick Roger Jones before Terry Gennoe any day of the week. Hey ho. Hope Harry gets honoured soon.

I'd hazard a guess that it's the same clique as before, just a few new faces.

https://x.com/brfcsdotcom/status/1980890538862866597 This is the best idea I’ve seen - a virtually empty Ewood for the league game, followed by a decent crowd for the Legends game would send a signal - and it would be made clear it was a protest rather than us just being accused of not bothering to turn up

I’m clearly biased but this is one of the best-ever issues outside the special themed ones…worth buying for the cover alone IMO.

Some nice ideas but not feeling the "wear all black". That will go unnoticed and is largely the colour of winter football grounds anyway. Really like the missing 15 years graphic, also agree this needs to hit home in India somehow if at all possible, not Pune. They are mad about English football out there and probably have no idea what Venky's have done to this club. It's time to turn the heat up on the owners... 15 years we've wanted them out for, all they've done in that time is brought shame.

Even though they were all on the scrapheap bar one Lambert had a promotion on his cv, so did Mowbray, JDT had 2 Swedish league titles, i think even Berg had a bit of success somewhere. Even Bowyer went and got a crisis club promoted but what has this fella done anywhere apart from a dozen clubs in a dozen years or something amazing like that ? By the way i don't count getting to the play offs with Barnsley with someone else's squad in covid season as a success it was obviously a bit of a fluke. He's here because he's a yes man with the right connections and will be working cheaper than a lot of others hence the stupid 3 year contract. We are being played by a new little clique of self serving clowns again.

I’ve mentioned before that I live in Hereford and sometimes attend their games. I do it to catch up with friends and have a beer. If a goal goes in I’ll applaud it and if it’s a screamer out of nowhere I might even break a cheer. I certainly don’t get the same buzz as I do watching rovers. I usually manage 4 or 5 games a season and this season will be no different. I’ll be at Preston in November and will also hopefully be at the 150th match. It certainly seems much harder to get excited for a rovers game at the moment though.

is there a list of who are getting the caps i was just wondering if one of my relatives Harry Heallass was on the list i would have thought 360 games and captaining the cup winning side would warrant one , I was out with his grandson last year so he has relations around.

Same. Rovers or nothing for me. That would also rule out any phoenix Club if it set up whilst we were still in existence. As tor Lancashire United.....pfftttt.

What a shame there are no known match photographs of Rovers playing there.You would have also thought the England v Scotland game at the venue would have attracted the national media of the peroid. http://englandfootballonline.com/TeamStadia/England/EngLeamington.html http://englandfootballonline.com/Seas1872-00/1886-87/M0031Sco1887.html#Team

low crowds were across the whole game in that era,the threat of getting your head kicked in put a lot of people off

I wish the ground was still there - I'd only live about 250 yards away! No point me popping round there's no sign of anything whatsoever as far as Im aware - bit weird when you think about it. Of course if brfcs want to invest in some high tech x ray equipment to see what's beneath the tarmac and cobbles? 🙂

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The whole caps thing has been irrevocably tarnished for me by giving one to Mowbray.

Can't you just pop round and have a look @RevidgeBlue 😀

He does indeed, lives in Wiswell now but did live in Mellor years back.

When he was appointed Watford fans said on 60 minutes he throws three subs on with no thought given at all.

Exactly my thoughts. We need to emphasize that they are bringing the reputation of the Indian nation into disrepute with their levels of sheer brain dead incompetence.

100% Born in Blackburn. Bleed blue & white. Rovers till I die.

And goals. And clean sheets.

But it's often used as a get out of jail card now by some in regards to the current crowds.