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  1. Made up with what? Words means fuck all until we actually get some players through the door.. I’m looking forward too seeing who we bring in but come on now Paul stop trying too piss people off.
    8 points
  2. Rovers giving Man City a 4-1 showing at Ewood November 1950 Div 2 Lovely footage of a near 40,000 crowd
    4 points
  3. Halves reversed on the back means the shirt is in quarters. It should ALWAYS be like this because that is our traditional shirt. There was only one season (16/17?) when we had true halved shirts when the "halves" were not reversed on the back, this being allowed by our stupid, naive owners.
    4 points
  4. Not quite as far back in time but still brings back wonderful memories. Howard Kendall scoring a rare goal at Ewood
    4 points
  5. Standard stuff from Mowbray really. As ever the proof will be in the pudding and I'll try to reserve judgement and not pay too much attention to the publicity. I do get sick and fed up of Sky, Radio Lancashire and Telegraph scuttling along to the Eid in the park event and trying to get a story out of him regarding Dack. Maybe to be expected from Sky in their Premier League obsessed world but it is disappointing to see from the local media. Gives them something to do I suppose but I don't think it is being done in Rovers interests and appears to be completely baseless at this point.
    4 points
  6. Love a positive fan, let’s hope for a few decent signings.
    3 points
  7. Phil,sorry to come over as being Pedantic but wouldn't this thread have been better pinned to the main message board as that has by far the biggest viewing...just seems a shame to have it tucked away here.
    3 points
  8. Yeah I love the old stuff. “On a pitch barely fit for play rovers take one hell of a beating”. Also like not one of 55,000 home fans thought they would lose. Funny they thought the same in 2002
    3 points
  9. This has to be a joke. Dack is not an international footballer - it's doubtful he's even good or fit enough to play in the Premier League
    2 points
  10. Happily take Dack failing as badly as Dunn or Le Tis.
    2 points
  11. I agree, Dack could really benefit from sorting himself out physically and becoming more consistent in his performances.
    2 points
  12. A Championship modern era Dunn is as good a comparison as you can get I think. Not on his level but similar enigma with the same build, refuelling, ego and bird issues it seems. Dunny at least climbed to the top before he fell off his pedestal this lad will never get there unless he puts the graft in.
    2 points
  13. Why do we keep going in circles around this. Of course we play in halves, but at one time the halves were always reversed at the back, ergo they were described as quarters.
    2 points
  14. Famous Football clubs in Training No1 Blackburn Rovers 1934.
    2 points
  15. My interpretation is that Mowbray is covering all his bases because he hasn't said definitely either way. That's what worries me.
    2 points
  16. One of the Oldest,possibly THE oldest known recordings of a football game in the world. Rovers v WBA at Ewood 1898 https://fans.footballaddicts.com/discovery-of-the-oldest-video-of-football-footage-in-existence/
    2 points
  17. Rovers v Liverpool FA Cup 4th Round 1935.Rovers the famous Cup fighters see off the Reds 1-0 in front of another Ewood 50,000....mascots galore!
    2 points
  18. I completely agree with you. This should not be tucked away.
    2 points
  19. Hey, don't give them ideas like that. There are Fine lines between love and hate. The musos on here will get that one.
    2 points
  20. The 1928 FA Cup Final,Rovers defeat Huddersfield 3-1 and take the Cup for a then record 6th time.
    2 points
  21. Rovers v Sheffield Utd at Ewood 1907.Lovely footage of the Players,England Captain Bob Crompton last out for Rovers.
    2 points
  22. Rovers v WBA at Ewood FA Cup 5th round 1952...The Blue n Whtes win 1-0 in front of 51,000 and then comes an old foe..... Rovers V Burnley at Ewood FA Cup 6th round 1952....The Blue n Whites win 3-1 in front of a crowd of 53,000.
    2 points
  23. Kompany and Zabaleta were both signed for £6m (ish) within weeks of Hughes leaving Rovers for City. They were Hughes' top targets for us that summer and the wheels were in motion on both. Hence why it was such a quick double signing at City. Imagine if City had waited a few more weeks and we signed both of them in 2008 instead of Grella, Andrews and Simpson. They can join the fantasy 11 players we almost had along with Keane, Zidane, Dugarry and Lewandowski.
    2 points
  24. Cough, Assombalonga, cough. ?
    2 points
  25. Why are you on here clearly to wind people up? It is just standard, vague transfer talk which somehow youve interpreted as Mowbray being "absolutely buzzing" and your primary objective is to try to prove/manipulate that others would be anything but happy if we had a healthy budget and the manager was "buzzing."
    2 points
  26. I just know ? I'm terminating my BRFCS account if I'm wrong again?
    2 points
  27. So long as £7M doesn't go on one player who isn't able to play.
    1 point
  28. I was there for the 7-1 caning of a pretty good Notts Forest side, that was probably the nearest we've come to that Spurs game. Having said that Spurs then were the equivalent of City or Liverpool today. It was one of those days when that team clicked and when they did they were a goal scoring machine.
    1 point
  29. I don’t really understand why they can’t even get the designs marketed. Are we really in the middle of June and still can’t even say when they will be on sale?
    1 point
  30. Best I've ever seen Rovers play. We took Spurs to the cleaners. The 8-2 at West Ham would be good to see too.
    1 point
  31. Think they have to make an offer for it to go to a tribunal when he signs for someone else (so they get a bit of a fee), non story imo.
    1 point
  32. Thought the medicals came in, after Rovers sued Huddersfield over the Alan Gilliver transfer.
    1 point
  33. Yes, when we were struggling in the relegation season of 1965-66 we were desperate for new blood in midfield. Dougie having been injured quite a lot that season. We tried to sign Bell from Bury before the deadline day but he went to City instead. They were in the old second division but on the way up and we were obviously on the way down out of the first division. Having failed to get Bell we splashed the cash on Martin Britt from West Ham who came with a serious knee injury and played about 12 games for us without ever scoring a goal before having to retire ! Who knows what would have happened if Bell would have joined us ?
    1 point
  34. Replace a Buffoon with Buffon ?.
    1 point
  35. They should've stumped up for Diara that was a real boo boo and Hughes deserved that level of backing. However deep behind the scenes the intention was to off load the club not build it that's why we ended up like we are -- totally hamstrung.
    1 point
  36. It's spot on Phil and where it should be....thank you!
    1 point
  37. A few problems with that plan though. First off Mowbray might not be manager next summer if performance isn't acceptable this season. If he is here then he'll be preparing for his 4th full season which is above the usual lifespan of a Championship manager yet his scouting network will only just be delivering results. What if his successor wants to do it differently? Then it hinges on Venkys reinvesting all the proceeds of a hypothetical Dack sale which I think is unlikely given past behaviour. Then it comes down to our scouting doing what the other 23 Championship clubs aren't already doing. To do that we would either need to be going beyond what others are already doing or be extremely good at what we do. Mowbray sold us a 3 or 4 transfer window strategy to build a good side capable of challenging. We're now in window 3 since promotion and are being linked with Stuart Downing and keeping Ben Gladwin. Not exactly impressive. Hopefully there's better to come. But I do find it funny that there's now talk of European signings next season when that will be window 5. Always tomorrow, never today with this lot.
    1 point
  38. 1 point
  39. There’s a fine balance, but I’m positive we will recruit well. “We will sign some young ones that will bubble under and burst through and become first-team players. “We have to sign some experienced players to get the job done” - Mowbray. TM has just told Myers that Dack isn’t going either.... WOW! This sounds amazing! He’s come back from Pune absolutely buzzing and ready to deliver on his plan. Fans have to be made up with this...right?
    1 point
  40. Players are wanting more than we can afford when we enquire about them is now making its predictable appearance along with the no shit Sherlock if you want to sign good players early you pay top dollar and get good players.!!!! I did mention now was a really good time to make room on the wage bill so that a bit more might be chucked at a decent signing instead of carrying players who'll contribute very little if anything. We'll sign some young ones who'll bubble along underneath and break into the side also. Goal posts are moving away from the ready made champ players it looks like, i'll stick my hat on it now and say we won't sign one at all who fits that description. We simply won't or can't pay for them and won't clean broom the squad to make ample wage room for a marquee signing. The squad will just be bluffed out again imo. Lets hope they surprise us and I can wipe egg off my chin !
    1 point
  41. They should have ended it at the botched tombstone. Goldberg obviously kicked out on instinct, knowing the match wasn't meant to end there, but somebody should probably have called an audible and ended the match at that point. A few years ago I'd agree with you on Taker, but not now. He's seriously broken down and none of his recent matches have been good, in fact they've been outright dangerous at times. The last good match he had was probably with Brock at WM30. He should have stuck to his retirement at that event. I wouldn't even say character-wise Taker is that interesting anymore. He comes out and cuts the same old "rest in peace" promo and has a staredown with his opponent, sometimes with teleporting involved. That's about it. Except with Wyatt and Cena where he just didn't show up at all until WM, meaning the "feud" was carried entirely by one person. It's just not worth it anymore. There have been some fantastic women's matches in recent years, although not so much recently. People weren't moaning about there just being a lack of women's wrestling, anyway, it's the fact that on these shows the women don't even have the opportunity to perform. It's ridiculously hypocritical for WWE to push their "women's (r)evolution" so hard and then do shows in countries where women are treated like dirt - especially with the first Saudi show being a disgusting propaganda-fest. If you're going to go all in with PR over your female empowerment (which is long overdue in WWE anyway) then you should rightly expect backlash when you do these kinds of shows. They made a rod for their own back with this one I'm afraid. What's strange is that they seemed to think they were going to get the go ahead to put on a women's match, as they flew Alexa Bliss and Natalya out to Saudi Arabia, but when they got there they were told no. Interestingly when the women's matches for Stomping Ground came up on the screen you could hear the Saudi crowd cheering loudly, so they clearly want to see women's wrestling even if their backwards government won't allow it. They probably do. I've certainly been highly critical of both. AEW haven't made a statement either way so there's no point bringing them into the discussion at this juncture, but I guarantee if they did sign a deal with Saudi Arabia they'd receive the same level of criticism from their fans. Probably more, actually, as it would be a much more hardcore audience who are watching AEW precisely because they aren't WWE and expect higher standards. Should AEW go the WWE route I'm sure they'll lose a lot of fans in the process. There was an audible called for the finish (you can hear Taker say to Goldberg "stay down"), but I don't think it was called before then. Taker was definitely asking the ref on more than one occasion if Goldberg was OK. There's a point just after the turnbuckle spot where Taker raises his hand for a chokeslam, but Goldberg falls back into the ropes. You can see Taker looking concerned for a second, and the ref ask "are you alright, Bill?" ... at which point Goldberg obviously said he was alright and the match continued. That's the moment they should have said enough and called for it to end. Unfortunately they didn't, so instead we got the botched tombstone, the botched jackhammer, the botched tombstone reversal and the worst chokeslam ever.
    1 point
  42. I'd take a punt on him, he can do miracles on a good day.
    1 point
  43. The fact you’re so personally affronted by my opinion says more about you than it does me. I haven’t called any one person out. If you can justify not going to the match then that’s fine by me. ?? Moreover, I don’t need to justify myself to any of you. I don’t constantly ask for justification on all the ridiculously emotional rants on here. This is about opinions.
    1 point
  44. If you are going to compare and rate managers, you should use the wage budget as metric. It's the strongest correlation to results you will find. In our premier years under Allardyce and Hughes we were about 10-14 th place in wage budget. Top 10 meant we were doing better than expected, bottom 5 meant worse. We didn't spend a lot on transfers, but had a competitve wage budget. John Williams only weakness was probably handing out too generous contracts. Salgado springs to mind, great guy but you don't give 60k a week to someone who's legs are gone. Mowbray delivered last year with us and Wigan having the greatest wage budgets. Similar this season with a midsize budget, led to a midtable position. Neither better or worse than expected. Sheff Utd showed that is possible to punch above your weight, but it's a rare exception. People usually make too much of what a club spends on transfer fees, it's the wage budget that will determine success. It will make you keep hold of players, secure the best loans and frees. It doesn't matter if we can pay the tranfer fees if we can't get them within our wage budget. I think we learned that last year with players like McGinn and several other enquired about.
    1 point
  45. I think people taking a wait and see approach to renewing is far more complicated than just “seeing who we sign”. At the consultation meeting, both Mowbray and Waggott categorically stated that Mowbray was in control of all signings. He is given a budget and allowed to sign players within its confines with no interference from Venky’s. I had long suspected the opposite. They were both also quick to shoot down any suggestion that Venky’s had an aversion to spending money on defenders, and acknowledged this was an area of the team that needed urgent improvement and investment. If we go into the first game of next season with either Mulgrew or Williams (or Bauer) starting alongside Lenihan, not only will we struggle, it will also make a mockery out of everything they said. Even if we spend relatively big money on a striker, or a “project player”, and stuck a few ageing midfielders in there as well, it would just be more of the same, and not only would it further cement my suspicions of Venky’s interference and raise questions around their motivations when it comes to signings, it would also damage Waggott and Mowbray’s credibility massively in my eyes. I’d see them as, at best, puppets incapable of exerting enough influence and common sense on the owners, or at worst, liars.
    1 point
  46. Utter nonsense. Underlined by your last sentence. You really think Mowbray has his team working harder than Hughes did his? You are either painted into a corner with your original comment or you are too young to remember Sparky’s side. Most players in the current side wouldn’t get on Hughes’ bench from a work rate perspective. Four teams conceded fewer goals than Rovers last season. Three of them were relegated. We also had one of our worst ever winless runs. Highest work rate since 94/95 would get you a few nil-nils to steady the ship. (The fact that you picked that season for comparison speaks volumes). On a budget (by PL standards) Hughes kept us up in his first season (while Mowbray couldn’t). He then went on to finish 6th, 10th and 7th earning the tag “bully boys”. Wonder what Mowbray’s team nickname would be? “Honest Eddies”? Our hardworking ethos has come is largely because Mowbray keeps talking about honest pros with the right attitude yet we don’t see it on the pitch consistently. It’s grassroots talk. At Championship level his teams have regularly been outworked by poorer teams. That could never have been said about Hughes teams. Or Souness or Allardyce teams for that matter. It’s a complete no contest.
    1 point
  47. Toying with it. Back in the north after a few years working away! Only issue is midweek games as I usually have meetings in Birmingham at our head office. I think they’re a bit steep price wise but think il be going for it this year! At 20 a game roughly what enjoyment can you get for that these days? The zoo cost me 48 quid last weekend!
    1 point
  48. Quarters you mean?
    1 point
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