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  1. I suspect you may be right, unfortunately, but the Government's aim all along has been to suppress the spread of the virus so that the NHS did not become overwhelmed, rather than aim to eradicate it completely which is obviously impossible in the absence of a reliable vaccine. I just wonder whether later in the year rates of new infections and deaths might get so low that the medics calculate there is no plausible scenario under which tne NHS could become overwhelmed and that therefore there is no valid reason why crowds could not return to football. As I've said before, imo, people should not necessarily expect social distancing to be the future norm nor for it to carry on ad infinitum nor for the focus to suddenly switch to an unrealistic target of eradicating the virus completely. The focus for me should be on living our lives as normally as possible whilst keeping the impact of the virus under manageable proportions rather than curtailing our lives as much as possible to reduce bare numbers of infections to an absolute minimum. I appreciate you may not agree.
    5 points
  2. Bloody hell. I posted it to promote a bit of light hearted chat in this endless down period. I don’t give a shiny shite if they do a Jack Straw style stump speech from outside Marks & Spencer every other Saturday or we don’t hear from them ever again as long as they pay the bills. I’ve long stopped having any interest in them as owners or people, no idea why they are still here or what they get out of all this, but here we are. Just made me laugh that a certain poster now enjoys being the contrarian so much these days (whilst playing the ‘who, me?’ routine), he’ll come out with outlandish stuff like ‘most owners’ are just like Venky’s, which is plainly nonsense posted for a reaction.
    3 points
  3. Am I the only one who watched it today on Rovers YouTube channel, #Roversrewind? Never seen it since being there on the day and not having the stress of watching live made me revisit a few opinions I have held since. Definitely a penalty, Speedie beat Walsh with a turn and the arm came across him. Cowans was a lot more Tugay-esque than I remember. Atkins was like having two players; he was 23 then and a lot better than Travis at similar age IMO, he got past our forwards more in that game than LT has in his career. I don’t know why we convinced ourselves they were all over us: Mimms made one very pedestrian save all afternoon while Muggleton kept them in it with 4 crucial ones in the second half. The two goal line clearances were routine, either would’ve been a very scruffy goal had it gone in. I loved listening to Lennie Lawrence as the co-commentator, really good at explaining why things were happening. A bit surprising to hear Don McKay basically call Sellars a big-game choker in the preamble, not that he starred in the game to be fair to Don. Price was very ineffective on the other wing. There would’ve been four sendings off by today’s standards, and I for one prefer backpasses to the keeper to the endless sideways passing we have to endure today. It’s a cracking watch, don’t miss it.
    2 points
  4. Blondie - Heart of Glass
    2 points
  5. Stone Roses - I Want To Be Adored
    2 points
  6. Ewood is not a tough place to play, for our players or the opposition, if you think it is, then you need to get around the country. Ha, some excellent passive aggressiveness there, no, I’ve never booed the side or barracked a player in my life, but I’ve been to enough football grounds and spoken to enough fans to see that Rovers fans are no different than the supporters of any club of similar stature. Indeed I would go as far to say there is far less abuse of players by the collective than many of our rivals - BB would’ve been hounded by now at many Championship clubs. Of course Ewood was toxic in the early 2010s, it had every right to be like that, but it was rarely aimed at players (likes of Orr/Murphy/Best aside), but at the ‘custodians’. Of course we have higher expectations than Burton Albion, they are a similar sized club to Accrington Stanley. P.s daft example as Villa were on the beach that day.
    2 points
  7. 1 point
  8. I see young Sancho has been at the choccies over lockdown.....
    1 point
  9. When Madame's husband got a snowball in the gob? Damned if they do, damned if they don't on this one. You can't really blame them for not wanting to put up with crap like that and if they take the view that in general (like roversfan99) people will either never forgive them or aren't interested in anything they do or say, they might be justified in keeping a low profile and letting the people they pay to run the Club get on with it. Personally, I'd rather they were at games regularly and we heard a bit more from them about what they were thinking. But I think it's only reasonable to expect that if people were prepared to draw a line in the sand and judge them on what they're doing now rather than on mistakes made years ago.
    1 point
  10. I dont think Citeh's owner has the questions to answer that ours have, do you? You are serious arent you comparing those owners with ours? Mind boggled.?
    1 point
  11. Your assertions the other day and above that the middle class and middle aged are the ones most likely to break lockdown rules are completely contrary to what I I've seen from working throughout the crisis. Whilst it was very quiet during the first week or two of lockdown, since then requests for runs to pick up drugs, and people ringing our office at 1a.m. for "a 6 seater" with music blaring out in the background and a party obviously going on have been more and more commonplace. There have also been certain streets and estates where little notice appears to have been taken of lockdown rules and social distancing from the off. They've obviously been practising their own particular brand of herd immunity. Meanwhile we haven't heard a dicky bird from most of what you might call our middle class or slightly better heeled customers. I even picked up a young girl who worked in a large nursing home after she finished work and the second she got in the car she was straight on the phone arranging a meet up with a group of lads. From picking her up on previous occasions it also seemed clear she had been carrying on as normal. Even I felt very cross about that as whilst I don't agree with lockdown or most of the restrictions in principle, since they came into effect I've complied with them, and it's really unfair to ignore them when you know for a fact you're coming into direct contact every day with the most vulnerable people who are also sitting ducks in the enclosed confines of a nursing home. (Sorry if in wrong thread)
    1 point
  12. Unit 4+2 - Concrete And Clay
    1 point
  13. Well that’s just not true, is it? A decade of near total silence is not how ‘most owners’ converse with the press/their supporters.
    1 point
  14. 2pac- The heartz of men
    1 point
  15. Of course you can't trust anything they do but if they aren't gonna sell now when will they? If something happens to Balaji perhaps since he's rumoured to have been the one who wants to keep it? His son would appear to have an interest and perhaps would have a cleaner slate than the rest of the family. Not to mention there was that story about an attempted kidnap on Venkatesh. That's something I would really like to know more about. I doubt 100% that had anything to do with Rovers fans. An opportunist who felt they were idiots and an easy target perhaps? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4480682/Who-guilty-trashing-historic-club-like-Blackburn.html
    1 point
  16. Pretty much every lad I know in his teens/ Early 20s has stopped bothering with it (if they ever did).
    1 point
  17. There are a few huge games when at the time I was thinking we were hanging on but that could have been down to being fraught at being so close. This game was one of them when every second seemed like an hour and every Leicester attack convinced me they would score. But the feeling of winning them games certainly overrides the tension we go through.
    1 point
  18. I always looked back thinking it was more stressful than it was due to my dad disappearing to the concourse for the last 15 minutes, chain smoking as he couldn’t face it after the trauma of Selhurst Park...
    1 point
  19. 1) I was making a general point about Ewood on a match day. You don’t seem to grasp it, fine. 2) Offended by what? I’ve already said I don’t get on players backs. 3) Your original post made no sense then, as it talked about Rovers fans being ‘very fickle’, Ewood a place that ‘turns quickly on players’. Firstly, that’s not true, so I disagree with the thrust of your post and said so, a pointless dig at the fanbase that have been great this past decade considering the shite we’ve been served up, an insinuation that his struggles are partly down to our fans (when he’s got cracking support). Secondly, you say it’s the same elsewhere, so it’s a top level football issue that BB has and will continue to have then? Nothing to do with the mythical bear pit that is Ewood Park. The buck stops with TM and BB, ‘if you can’t stand the heat etc...’
    1 point
  20. It wasn’t unviable, we were PL champions and those were players/managers lined up to come and would be sold on for profit. We wasted far more money on shite in the late 90s
    1 point
  21. 1 point
  22. Don't see how you can hold some of the remaining games at neutral venues and some at home grounds, that skews the competition even more than if they were all held at neutral venues. What's a "high risk" game when it's at home? Is it one where they fear fans may gather outside? Not sure how you can worry about that unless it actually happens. If it does they'll have to figure out how to deal with it and warn of appropriate sanctions in advance.
    1 point
  23. Apart from it producing roughly half of our first team.
    1 point
  24. Lehinen, Nyambe, Travis and before the suspension of the competition Rankin-Costello and Buckley have all appeared. Scrap the academy and then what? Loans and free transfers like Wes Brown to complete the squad?
    1 point
  25. It’s all about what you think a football club is. For me, fans ARE the club. Players aren’t the club, Venky’s aren’t the club, the executives they appoint aren’t the club. WE are the club. We are the custodians that pass the ‘club’ down to the next generation. It’s why AFC Wimbledon are the spiritual successor of Wimbledon FC, not MK Dons that were it’s legal successor. Players largely come and go, which is fine, as whilst they are here they are employed to hopefully progress the club. But watching players with very little real connection to the club or the area playing out fixtures in empty grounds for months on end I imagine won’t be the same for me. Yes they are still wearing our shirt, adding points to the league table, but what does any of it mean if the connection to the supporters isn’t there? I get it will only be temporary (well let’s hope so) but months (a year?) of seeing journeymen/mercenaries play behind closed doors IS different and I imagine I won’t be having the same buzz. But who knows, maybe I will and let’s hope the team adapts well as a promotion, even in these circumstances would be fantastic for the long term future of the club.
    1 point
  26. A phenomenal chapter in the club's storied history that will never be forgotten but it's a shame we never built on it. Getting the likes of Zidane, Dugarry and Eriksson would've really put us on the map.
    1 point
  27. Sky/BT will keep the Premier League games - or the majority of them and certainly the key games. SKY/BT, as you say, are not going to give up the exclusivity to the major games. BBC may get the Premier League games that have no importance in terms of European qualification or relegation and very little audience pulling power. ifollow will end up with Championship games with one or two maybe making it to Quest. I think the interesting question is what happens next season. With the Oxford group now admitting that it is unlikely that a vaccine is going to be ready until some time next year - at the earliest and maybe not even at all - it's likely that the whole of next season will be played behind closed doors. With the costs of testing etc. I'm not sure how clubs in Leagues One and Two could possibly contemplate that and I suspect several Championship clubs will find it a stretch too far. The Premier League will be able to fund it from TV money - both from here and abroad - but I suspect the rest of football is going to really struggle. In twelve months time I will be amazed if we still have 92 full time clubs at senior level unless the government are going to prop clubs up with financial support.
    1 point
  28. Ewood a ‘very tough environment’? Heard it all now
    1 point
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