Pride of Lancashire 2 Who are ya 1

[Nayef]

Adi akinbiyi cuptied, etc.

[ben_the_beast]

pedersen is now a blackburn legend. by far our best player. superb goal as well.

but why o why does sparky persist in playing gally. i was sure he would be dropped for the game. how did he actually play overall as ive only just managed to catch the highlites on sky.

[den]

Burnley did OK - no more than that. In two games they have had two shots.

For ninety minutes they keep ten men behind the ball and it makes it very difficult. As a threat though, they don't exist. Watch the highlights and see how many real chances they created.

I can understand you all being happy by their performance, they didn't get the expected roll over. Don't get carried away though. If you had come with a positive attitude and tried to get men forward, you may have reaped some rewards.

[Derbyshire Blue]

pedersen is now a blackburn legend. by far our best player.

Sorry Ben but I feel your miles off, no one on that pitch tonight came close to the superb performance of our captain Ryan Nelsen

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Just back from the game - crap generally but atmosphere superb. Blackburn End and end sections of Riverside and Jack Walker Lower (nearest the Dingles) stood up all game. Makes the singing so much better when you stand.

Well done Rovers and once again MGP - soon to achieve cult status at Ewood.

Wait till we here from Longsider 1882 and the Original Longsider (named incorrectly because I must have set foot in the Longside before him) who'll no doubt go on about their fantastic support but not mention the match, as usual.

17500 Burnley fans on the Turf

21500 Rovers fans on Ewood

How can that be as they're the best supported club by far? And with a much bigger catchment area? Must be some mistake.

BLACKBURN ROVERS FC - PRIDE OF EAST LANCASHIRE  AND UNBEATEN AGAINST BURNLEY SINCE 14 APRIL 1979

How funny you should say that about the fantastic atmosphere Clayton....according to claretclown.com they yes they thought our vocal support was poor.!!!

Fair play to Burnley on the pitch but their 7,000 weren't up too much..two songs and thats their lot,TWO BOB......like I say Longsider .

UP THE ROVERS!!!!

Edited March 2, 2005 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[TheDrunk]

Pedersen WILL be a legend. Even if he becomes crap forevermore after the next game, he scored the winning goal against Burnley. That's all you need to be a Rovers Legend.

[cletus]

....In the Riverside tonight, & boy did we rock the place!!

Everyone was up on their feet, giving the inbreds what-for!!

Can i apologise to the 3 quite attractive women sat behind me who had to endure 90 mins of drunken rude singing.

to the Dingle on this board who said we were loud tonight.....yes we were, we were VERY loud!!....we were up for it!

[Blackpool_Rover]

Post match comments from me 'I love Morten Pedersen.......LEGEND'

Thats it

p.s to all the burnley fans on here, Burnley did well tonight, maybe didnt deserve to concede a late goal, our fitness would have shown in extra time anyway. When you say 'the gaps closing' 'if thats all you can manage', thats rubbish, our players were under a lot of pressure today, Burnley werent expected to win so they had nothing to lose, we are a far superior team...and club, we expected the game to be scrappy and tight.

MORTEN GAMST PEDERSEN TRA LA LA LA LA

p.p.s Thanks to all the Inbreds on the coaches that barracaded me and my mate with insults when we were walking down the hill. I swear i got v's from everything from a 3 year old kid to a 107 year old woman.

[Ozz]

Rovers played rubbish, so did the Dingles, Big Brad had no saves to make.

Rovers support was rubbish, like they expected to turn up and get a prize.

Fair does to the Dingles and goodnight,

WE ARE IN THE 1/4 FINALS, AND LEICESTER ARE NEXT

[Ozz]

dID YOU PASS hIV TEST ABBEY????????

[ready steady]

Ozzie , if friedel had NO saves to make , who the hell's job was to it to keep hydes shot out??

Blackpool rover , I agree your fitness from having a break would very likely seen you to a win in extra time , but when I say the gaps closing it was plain for all to see over the 2 games, last time it was 0-7 over 2 games this time 1-2 , we are a much better organised side than when last we met and IMO your not as good as you were , sure your a prem side and have better players but over the 2 games not much stood out from blackburn , we only have ian moore up front but I thought dikov ,gallagher and bothroyd looked very poor , I think we have a good moral and work hard as a team , where as you have 3 or 4 good prem players but dont work as a team !

Thanks too then to the blackburn chavs stood on every corner hurling abuse and a rock through a coach window!

SG 194 , WHERE DID YOU WATCH THE GAME, BILLINGTON???

I could'nt hear blackburn singing but I can admit it's likely because I was in the darwen end which never stopped singing, but you hear nowt so believe 7000 stood silent, grow up fella!!

Enjoy your win , we'll be back, goodnight!!

Edited March 2, 2005 by ready steady

[Hasta]

Rovers support was rubbish, like they expected to turn up and get a prize.

Middle block lower tier BBE. That was by far the best atmosphere since VE day. Electric. There was a spell in the 2nd half were we couldnt pass to our own men where we went quiet but apart from that superb.

We played poor but look at the match stats. We deserved to win.

[Yorkshire Blue]

Fair play you`ve won 2-1 BUT savage should have been off in first few minutes (again!)

Aye, reeto...

The first yellow is for the slightly mistimed tackle, and presumably the second is awarded just for being Robbie Savage. Is that right?

I did like his posturing towards your fans before the kick off. I found it quite hilarious, in fact. He was ###### in the first half though, I'll give you that.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

''Darwen end which never stopped singing''

Give us all a break pal.

The whole atmosphere was much better than at the Turf full stop.

Edited March 2, 2005 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Dan]

Almost glad the OG wasn't the winner, now I'll get Pedersen on the back of my shirt, not Sinclair!

Get a picture or 10 posted on your site It must be worthy

[ready steady]

Ahh so you did watch the game from billington!!!

I was in the darwen end "pal" , suppose we never stood up the whole game and never sung the whole game , have your battery's gone??

No need for 2 posts, so I deleted your 2nd one.

have your battery's gone??

Edited March 2, 2005 by CornwallRover

[USABlue]

ps - Population of Blackburn is 48000 higher than Burnley, equivalent to over 50% of Burnley's total - catchment area?

Totally untrue, you are stroking numbers, if you wish to go that route you should include Burnleh AND pendle, NO?.

But that is all by the by, whether your population outnumbers ours 2-1 or ours outnumbers yours 2-1 is irrelevant. You scored 50% of the goals we did. You go home, we go on, glad you are proud, not sure what of. Sounds like your team are even taking football back to the 70's 10 men behind the ball, all defence etc.

Anyway no need to go on about it, we have bragging rights till next time. But hey, you did score, something you'll be able to tell your grand kids. I wuz theyer when t'Burnleh scored agin 'tRovers.

[ready steady]

Well that's true, you would'nt know why we were proud tonight because you was'nt there again!

But 50% of the the goals with a 10men behind the ball side aint a bad stat is it?

Last time you humiliated us with a better side , although you still have a better side it's not as big a gulf as last time, this time you beat us but far far from humiliating us , gutted but a proud dingle!!

Now stick that in ya harley and rev it up a bit!!

Edited March 2, 2005 by ready steady

[Kremmin]

MGP's the man, I reckon.

He's gotta pull something out of the hat.

can you pick six numbers between 1 and 49 ?

Should be a good bet.

Cheers Ste B!

And for what it's worth, 'ere goes: 9, 16, 23, 31, 37, 44.

Good luck!

[Scotty]

I'm 33 years old and I've never seen us lose to Burnley. According to the history books we've lost 5 times to them during my lifetime - but they all occured before I was 8 and I didn't see them.

We lined up with the same team that played at Burnley except Mokoena replaced the suspended Todd. That meant Gallagher started up front again - something I wasn't too pleased about beforehand - but it also meant that Savage and Dickov were fit.

The game started poorly, it was just a scrap to be honest, and neither team could get the ball down and pass it for any length of time. Burnley's 5 man midfield snapped into their tackles and closed down well, and we didn't show the necessary skill or technique to get past it. Savage managed to get booked after about 3 minutes as well but, watching it again on TV, he was a little unlucky as the Burnley player threw himself onto the floor like he'd been shot. Still, it was a daft, late challange so early in the game.

Slowly but surely though we started to exert some pressure and gradually gained control of the game without ever looking brilliant. A period of sustained pressure around the half hour mark saw us win a corner and, via a couple of clearances and a blocked shot from Emerton, the ball fell to Tugay about 35 yards out. He controlled the ball, moved forward a few yards, and hit a decent low shot towards goal. The ball headed straight towards Burnley's Micah Hyde on the edge of the box and, instead of standing tall and blocking it, he tried to shy away and the ball deflected off him into the corner of the net. Ewood rejoiced.

Unfortunately though, instead of kicking on and going for the kill, we appeared to sit back and looked like we were playing for half-time. Burnley seemed to sense this and had their best spell of the game. A period of pressure resulted in a throw in to Burnley near the corner flag, an exchange of passes while our defenders looked on seemingly uninterested, and a cracking turn and shot from the corner of the area by Micah Hyde. Boy did he make up for his softness earlier - it was a terrific goal.

Burnley went in at half-time bouncing, we looked deflated.

Flitcroft came on for Savage at half-time which I guess means that Savage's groin injury is worse than the club are letting on. I'd be surprised if he plays at Everton this weekend.

The second half was crap really. We had most of the possession but lacked the creativity or skill to do anything with it. Burnley worked their socks off, passed the ball around neatly in midfield when they did have it, but created absolutely nothing. Not a sausage.

Bothroyd came on for Gallagher after an hour, and then went off again fifteen minutes later presumably injured. He contributed nothing during that time. In the meantime we continued to squander possession and run into blind alleys whenever we reached the final third. Emerton in particular put in one of his frustrating performances.

Our only threats came from set pieces and Pedersen's delivery. Nelsen could, and perhaps should, have scopred twice from free headers. Sadly though he headed one straight at the keeper and headed the other into the ground and over the bar when it seemed easier to score.

Just when it seemed inevitable that extra time would be needed along came Pedersen. He'd switched wings with Emerton about ten minutes earlier and, when fed a ball down the right channel, he attempted a cross. The ball was blocked by Sinclair, Pedersen beat a tired-looking Burnley defender to the rebound, and then lashed a fantastic right-footed shot into the roof of the net from an acute angle. Their keeper got his hands to it but it was hit with such venom that it would be harsh to criticise him.

If Ewood rejoiced after Tugay's goal this time the fans had kittens. I particularly enjoyed MGP's celebration right in front of the Darwen End, and I'm sure the Burnley hoardes appreciated it as well!!

For the last five minutes we started to play like the Harlem Globetrotters, all neat passes and fancy flicks. Burnley looked, understandably, dead on their feet and Emerton should really have capitalised and got a third goal. Still, no matter, we won.

OK, here's the credit to Burnley paragraph. They worked their socks off and their system, five men in midfield and full-backs who rarely venture past the halfway line, means they are difficult to break down. For much of the game they contained us comfortably, looked as neat on the ball as we did, and defended what little we did create well. Thanks to their work-rate and tenacity they didn't really deserve to lose the game and it would have been fair if it had gone to extra time.

But that's what separates Premiership and Championship sides. Premiership teams have players like Pedersen who can produce that moment of class when it really matters to change a game.

Our defence was great throughout. Mokoena looked much more composed alongside a commanding centre-half like Nelsen, and Nelsen was just fantastic. What a player we may have. He won everything, was a threat at every set piece, and used the ball intelligently most of the time. He cost us nothing!

Tugay was closed down quickly and struggled to cope most of the time. Savage did ok without being his usual self - clearly the injury, and I suppose the early booking, hampered him. Flitcroft came on and was solid enough but gave the ball away as well. Emerton was back to his annoying best and MGP, while being our biggest threat (mainly at set-pieces), didn't impose himself enough for me. Cracking winner though and I wouldn't mind now if we named a stand after him!

Dickov was disappointing up front, his control let him down time and time again, and Gallagher just wasn't good enough - again. I guess Hughes has decided to give Gally a run of games but it's just not working. Stead and Jansen are far bigger threats and need to be brought back into the squad for the Everton game.

It was a cup-tie and the result is all that really matters. Burnley fans will go away saying they matched us on the pitch, outsung us in the stands, and will be playing us in the Premiership within a year or two. The truth is that, while Burnley did indeed match us for most of the time on the pitch, they only created one chance in 180 minutes of play - and that was a wonder strike. In terms of singing, we out-sung them for much of the first half until they scored, and they out-sung us for much of the second-half until we scored. The atmosphere at Ewood was far better than the Turf Moor atmosphere imo. And Burnley will not get promoted until they increase the depth of their squad and add more flair to their midfield.

The bottom line is that we're still the Pride of Lancashire and we're in the quarter finals of the FA Cup.

[Rovermatt]

I'm just in from a night out but this won't wait...

YES ! YES! YES! YES!

Once again we are the pride of Lancashire.

I arrived at my mate's house not knowing that we had scored, only to be told that Burnleh had scored a peach. I was relieved to see the score as it was then and I was absolutely made up to see Pedersen's screamer winning it for us.

Brilliant stuff!

[tashor]

..........which was nice ..........

[samtheozzy]

Oh man that is so sweet. I love beating the dingles.

[philipl]

Yes sam, I have woken up with a happy grin this morning even though the BBC World Service have just said that Henrik Pedersen scored our winner.

There must be a great feel-good factor in Blackburn today.

[ABBEY]

the suns out ..........

OH WHAT A BEUTIFUL MORTEN OH WHAT A BEUTIFUL DAY