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  1. There's an article here from that six-match losing run. What are people's opinions now looking back 30 years as to why it actually happened? Are there any similarities to 2022? https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/it's-all-going-horribly-wrong.../210
  2. I have recently been lucky enough to have come into my possession a copy of what is believed to have been our Club's very first written History.The book was published in 1895 and was given out at the Club's 'Grand Bazaar' event hosted at the Town's Exchange Hall to Club Officials and Event Sponsors. The 'Bazaar' was held to raise funds for Rovers incurring costs moving to Ewood from Leamington St.There are very few known to exist and are as rare as rocking Horse shyte.I do believe Rovers Memorabilia collector Bernie Horne has a copy in his possession. Now then..on the very first page it states Rovers were founded at the Town's St Leger Hotel just after Christmas 1874. Controversy about to unfold? A few pictures of the Precious Book....
  3. Has anyone seen any confirmation or detail about this? Lots of headlines about FIFA "scrapping" (and replacing) FFP, but no idea what it might mean for us. I am guessing worst case scenario it will be a handsome pay rise for Waggott, Mowbray and Venus; Best case - pressure washer in on a two day loan to clean a bit of the moss off the stands. Extra £500 per week each into the offers to our out of contract players. Probably, realistically, it is just causing some urgent Board-level discussions regarding a likely required shift in the now standard FFP 'excuse' for Rovers' failure to spend money from our billionaire owners in the transfer market/contract renewals, year after year. Any thoughts?!
  4. As a kid had the 1992-93 season review bought in the old club shop which was in a terrace house on Nuttall Street at the time. Loved that video. Had these flames on the intro if I recall with a rip off of Alive & Kicking. The guy doing the voice over would say for example ''We here at rovers look forward to 1993'' etc only to find out the same guy does voice overs for loads of clubs season reviews and says ''we here at Coventry city'' haha The Best 1994-95 Christmas mid season review video was also a decent video. The 1991-92 Rovers Return is on Youtube. Read Rovers Revolution recently. Very nice book but glossed over too many interesting topics for my liking such as the decline post 1995 etc... Any autobiographies by ex players or other books that give real insight behind the scenes at the time? Its a pity that many old traditions such as match programmes and videos seem to have all but disappeared.
  5. Assuming we don't go up, which only the biggest of optimist would expect now, how would people judge Mowbray's tenure as a whole if he left in the summer and how many out of 10 would you mark his reign. There has been a lot of hyperbole often at the most emotive of times eg during/after a loss, silly comparisons, lots of analysis of stupid little things and conspiracy theories but I am wondering how people would reflect overall a few days after a game amidst an international break when things are calmer. I would give it a 6, its been ok. The club as a whole are definitely in a better position now, and we have never been at all close to going down during the last 4 years since we comfortably got promoted. His transfer record is fairly good, he has spent between 15m-20m, we got not far off that for Armstrong and a Brereton sale will go well past that, Gallagher is his worst signing for value. I think I would hold no ill will towards him and if he ever came back he would deserve applause rather than any ill will. What about everyone else?
  6. We have 7 games left of the season which 3 are home games(in blue) and 4 away games(in red). Saturday 2nd April Coventry 3pm kick off Saturday 9th April Blackpool 3pm kick off Friday 15th April Peterborough United 3 pm kick off Monday 18th April Stoke City 3 pm Kick off Saturday 23th April Preston North End 3pm kick off Saturday 30th April Bournemouth 3 pm Kick off Saturday 7th May Birmingham City 12.30 pm kick off Tactical approach for the next 7 games I think Mowbray need to drop this 3 at the back formation and we need to go back to playing 4-2-3-1 formation and start pressing high which we have stop doing and play of the front foot. The 3 at the back formation isn't working anymore in terms of attacking and defending in terms of clean sheets. Hopefully the international break has come at the right time where we can reset and re focus again with Mowbray accepting he needs to change tactics and the fact back 3 isn't working. So this would be my line up for the Coventry game Kaminski Lenihan Van Hecke Wharton Pickering Travis Rothwell Dolan Dack Giles Brereton How many points will we need for playoff place I think we need 15 points minimum to reach them maybe 1 or 2 points more. But The players and manager need to be switch on for these next 7 games.
  7. I can't find the post, but I said when we flogged him for a pittance he would go on to play for Spain and here we are.. I don't want to go over old ground, but whilst he had a few weaknesses his positive attributes far outweighed those. The guy was class and produced saves he had no right to make. Sold one of our own for a pittance to a rival. Some of the worst business I've ever seen. It's not like he'd never played a game for us and was somewhat of an unknown quantity. Raya had exhibited massive amounts of potential. Absolutely sickening. That we have a downgrade in Kaminski that's fairly steady no makes it no less bitter of a pill to swallow. Shocking piece of business!
  8. Why is scooter sellars against Liverpool in the league Cup not mentioned?
  9. Read the full article on BRFCS.com https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/sou-yes!-when-rovers-hired-souness/196 I was in my 3rd job out of college at the time, working in IT for the local council and I was manning the admin cabin at Witton for some local sports event where Souness was presenting trophies or something. He came to the cabin with some councillor who left him in my hands, so I offered him a brew ... "Yes please, tea, milk & 2 sugars." I look around for the tea ... "Ah, sorry, we've no tea" "Coffee then, the same please." Off I go to make his brew, only to find ... "... we've no milk ... or sugar" The look on Graham's face was petrifying, I could feel the blood run from my face and I must have looked like I was going to cry! "Never mind", and he wandered off.
  10. With mowbrays contract running out this summer makes it an interesting summer indeed. So what’s your views on it ? Should he be offered a new deal or let go ? I for one only think he should be given a new deal is if he manages to get us up, a 1 year deal max as a reward, but I cannot see that happening nor do I think he will wanna stick around in the championship when he’s expressed clearly before he misses his family time. promotion as of January was there for the taking, no other team look like they are good enough apart from Fulham, Bournemouth are there by default and the rest simply not good enough excluding forest and boros rise of course, it says it all when a mediocre team of journeymen and cloggers like Luton are knocking on the door, but also says a lot about their manager as much as I dislike him cause of how he is I wouldn’t be against recruiting him as our boss if he gets the best out of his team like he is doing now, he certainly doesn’t lack passion and would be a refreshing site on the touch line compared to sleepy Mowbray who looks lost when it’s not going well. SQUAD TURNOVER: this summer should rovers do the likely and fail to win promotion will be the biggest transitional squad building process since 2013 so whoever the manager is will need to Recruit smoothly, so many key departures with loans and contracts expiring, khadra and JPVH going back to Brighton and lenihan, nyambe, Rothwell all leaving with their deals up which again falls back on Mowbray and waggot for leaving it so late to start negotiations, aswell as other squad players who are unlikely to get new deals. BBD will also be sold, coming down to the last year and will not be short of suitors and will probes be sold due around 16m like Armstrong, which will be needed to rebuild the team. Of course it all changes if he do manage to work a miracle and get promoted. NEW MANAGER IDEAS?: I know there isn’t a lot of available managers out there who could definitely do a better job nor can we be too fussy given our budget, but it’s not as though I for one expect us to be in a promotion battle every year, it’s not like I want Mowbray gone cause he’s bottling it when I’ve not wanted him for years cause of the same shite every year, the only thing making this one that little bit more stand-able is cause of that November to January run we went on that shot us up the league and the new system he stumbled upon that payed off until we was inevitably sussed out, mowbrays lack of Plan B and square pegs round roles mentality is what’s drove rovers fans with an eye site bonkers for a good 3 years at least, I couldn’t care less if the new man comes in and play's football that but kore uglier as long as it gets us the results and makes us a tough dude to beat and brings back the basics. You look at Sam Gallagher and john Buckley as examples of being victims of mowbrays stubborn and bizzare ways, being thrown under the frustrated and angry fan bus by playing them completely out of position, Buckley who is a sit deep type of playmaker beijg thrown up top as a false 9 expected to score goals, 6 foot 3 Sam Gallagher thrown out on the left wing expected to cut in and smash in a curling 25 yarder, it’s absolutely awful and Others will no doubt judge the lads on the performances they put in while being mismanaged like this but I know there is two good players right there if implemented and managed properly that’s why it’s key to bring in a manager who doesn’t using square pegs for round holes, and doesn’t fancy himself as some smart arse tinker man thinking he can outwit and outsmart every manager with his predictable dull system like he’s pep or klopp!. I won’t claim to know of anyone we can bring in from abroad as I don’t know much about any league outside of Britain anymore as I haven’t payed much attention for a good 10 years, plus they are a gamble anyways and mostly turn sour but my options would be 👇and of course please give me your suggestions too. garage ainsworth: done a fantastic job on a budget, gets the best out of what he’s got, would bring us back to basics and a respected figure who will maintain a tight knit dressing room, and it’s a local lad and rovers fan through and through will certainly not lack passion and enthusiasm like we’ve seen with Mowbray at times when things go sour. nathan jones: working miracles at Luton, currently in the top 6, full of passion, and as said above he’s getting the best out of a crappy squad, only signed loans, and journeymen and look at where they are ? Very hard team to beat with a never say die attitude and I don’t think it would take much to bring him away from that shithole. THE SQUAD FOR 22/23: looking at the squad we have left after the likely departures should we remain in the championship this is what we have left in terms of first team players GK’s: kaminski, pears Defenders: Wharton, Ayala, Carter, Pickering, JRC, edun, brown Midfield: travis, Buckley, Garrett, Attack: Gallagher, Dolan, hedges, mackanday, dack, burns this squad is of course thin and lacks depth in every department but with sensible recruitment and more promotions in the academy and a system implemented to get the best out of the players we have and will have it certainly does not lack the foundations to rebuild a solid team again. Also expect to see the likes of ash Phillips come into the mix soon. I look forward to reading all your opinions.
  11. An ongoing space for anyone to post songs which sum up how we feel in this strangest of recent seasons. Blue Heaven by Public Service Broadcasting My offering: this isn't as good a season as it's ever been in living memory but let's just enjoy it for what it is. A eulogy to the German film star Marlene Dietrich, an outsider who didn't court popularity. We're a little club punching above our weight. Those city lights don't bother me, Blackburn Rovers, we're proud to be. Any other offerings?
  12. Why does he look like a competent left back whenever i see him playing for Luton. Yet in all his time at Ewood he rarely looked like he had left league 1 ?
  13. It's looking likely if we get promoted it'll have to be via the Playoffs so who are the other 3 teams you'd want to be up against in the playoffs and any teams you definitely wouldn't want to be up against? For me the 3 i'd want in it with us would be Sheff Utd,QPR and Middlesbrough.3 teams i would be confident of putting up a good fight with. 2 teams i'd rather not come up against are Huddersfield and Forest,just think we'd struggle with them.
  14. The question has to be asked, because ever since the Wigan FA Cup match, when Wigan bullied us and beat us and knocked us out of the cup, we've been on the end of some batterings and been found wanting. Before Wigan, we were on the crest of a wave in the Championship, riding high in 2nd place and looking at possibly going top, but since then it's been a horrible downward slide It seems to me Wigan provided the blueprint for Championship managers scratching their heads at our brilliant run and wondering how to counter it - rough us up with tough tackles, put the boot in where necessary, knock us out of stride and we'll capitulate. We're the nice lads who don't bite back Sheffield United last night was a case in point, they had some bruisers in their team who weren't afraid to make their presence felt. One was sent off (and it could have been more), but they scrambled a winner by making the corner a jostling physical contest in which Kaminski dropped the ball and they lashed home the winner from the rebound. The Luton, Forest, Swansea, and Hull matches were much the same. Then your look at our team. How many warriors do we have? The likes of Lenihan and Wharton etc are hard lads but apart from Travis who do we have in midfield to mix it with the tough nuts? Rothwell and Buckley certainly aren't that type of player while up front none of our forwards would say boo to a goose. In the case of Gallagher, he's as much physical presence as the proverbial passing butterfly So are we falling out of the promotion race not just because we can't score goals but because we're a basically a bunch of "nice" boys who opponents know can be bullied into submission? Are we just too soft?
  15. Just a heads up to anyone who buys match worn shirts: A website I’ve previously bought from and trusted have now started buying replica shirts from eBay and then putting them on their own website as match worn. One shirt was bought that has tags still on it and yet now that’s listed as match worn (?) and even more far-fetched is that they’ve included the story that the Holtby shirt was given to a fan in the crowd at a game even though they have literally bought from eBay where the eBay sellers description states it’s a club shop replica. Just don’t want anyone out there to spend their hard earned cash on something that’s not the real thing!
  16. As we all probably know the good old masters football is returning with regional tournaments starting next year. If you have a r recollection of the old tournaments 2003 - 2011 rovers never did well so hopefully our modern veterans can do better. if they stick to the old format that sees 8 teams compete in groups of 4 which will likely be man United, Man City, Liverpool, Everton, rovers, Bolton, Burnley, and between Wigan, Preston and blackpool for the last spot, after not getting round to attending the old tournaments I’m pleased myself that I will get the chance again, hopefully being a yearly thing. who would be in your rovers squad ? Must be 35+ 6 a side three subs also take into account they need to be a fit as poss GK friedel DEF hendry DEF samba MID dunn MID tugay ST Jansen subs nelsen, MGP, Johnson
  17. So it’s June 1995 – Kenny Dalglish has lead Rovers to the Premier League title, but then decided to step down as first team manager. Jack Walker has entrusted you with the job and given you £15m to make signings – who are you buying? In real life Rovers added just Adam Reed from Darlington and Matty Holmes from West Ham (with Robbie Slater going in the other direction) before the season started. We were strongly linked with a double move for Alan Stubbs and Jason McAteer from Bolton, but that fell through when McAteer decided he wanted to move to Liverpool. Looking back on it, how much different would history have been had Rovers invested that summer and pushed forward? With the budget of £15m (thanks to hindsight), who should we have bought that would have realistically come to Rovers. As regards to European competitions, it might be worth remembering that you could only have 3 non-English players in your match day squad at that time. I’ve done a list below of some possible targets that moved around the mid-90’s – or potential signings that we could have gone for: Gareth Southgate £2.5m Les Ferdinand £6.0m Marc Overmars £6.0m Paul Ince £7.5m Ruel Fox £4.25m Stan Collymore £8.5m Nick Barmby £5.25m Ruud Gullit Free Denis Bergkamp £7.5m Georgi Kinkladze £2.0m Chris Armstrong £4.5m Zinedine Zidane £1.2m Personally I’d have let some of the fringe players like Talia, Gale, Makel and Harford go. I’d have kept the likes of Slater and Atkins for squad players (ones that we let go at the time). I’d have strengthened at the back with an English centre-half – either Southgate at £2.5m or gone for a 20-year-old Sol Campbell from Spurs. I reckon £7m would have done the trick for Sol. In the end, I went for both as the budget allowed it. I’d have been tempted to go for either Overmars or Bergkamp at the prices above, but the English player rule in the Champions League would put me off them. I always quite liked Ruel Fox as a winger who could provide cover on either flank – so I’d have gone for him at £4.25m. Probably the ultimate hindsight, but we were interested in him in the mid-90’s, but Zidane was reportedly available for £1.2m – so he’s my foreign signing. In (£14.95m) Sol Campbell (20) - £7m Gareth Southgate (24) - £2.5m Ruel Fox (27) - £4.25m Zinedine Zidane (22) - £1.2m Out: Frank Talia Tony Gale Lee Makel Paul Harford
  18. blackburn box netting.webpFor the stanchion and net geeks. What was your favourite Ewood stanchions? 1988 Loop with Stripey nets 1992-94 Stamford Bridge type stanchions 1994/5 Loop 1995 onwards modern box netting Box nets: 1994/95 loop blackburn box netting.webp1988 stripes 1992-94 Stamford bridge type
  19. Which ticket are you going to get ? For me it's got to be the play-offs
  20. Alan Nixon has today been spouting more bollocks in his daily rag regarding Ash Phillips, our 16 year old defensive superstar in the making. I would like to let everyone be aware that he has been part of 'the poison' that has affixed itself to Blackburn Rovers during the past 11 years. Take bugger all notice of anything that he spouts, he's nothing but an unsettling influence on BRFC as a club and its' supporters! As Scousers ostracised The Sun, Blackburn Rovers should ostracise Alan Nixon.
  21. Hi, New to the forum. Bit of a blow in I so expect some flak and maybe deservedly so!😃 I was an Irish child supporter of Rovers from the early 90s. Went to a game in 1993 before the new stadium was built and was at the famous Blackburn v Newcastle game in 1995. Fell out of love with football in the early 2000s. My father passed away recently and have been nostalgic for the old times we shared together. I started supporting Rovers as a 10 year old in 1992 seeing Alan Shearer bang in the goals. The kit was very distinctive as well. The blue and white halves! Upon my request my father wrote to the club in spring of 1993 and said we would be coming over for a game. I am 90% sure it was Julie in the office who wrote back saying call in when we arrive. So months later that's what we did. We got a great tour of the old Nuttall Street Stand and the oak panelled boardroom. Then we were told to come back the next day. We were brought up the stairs to the bar where the players were having their pre match meal! Got to meet all the players including Shearer . Kenny was not there but still! Kevin Moran the captain sat with us and we talked about Ireland. It was brilliant! It was such a homely club and didnt expect to meet any players! I thought they would be totally separate from fans. I was last at a game in 2003 in the league cup. Great to see the Rovers doing well this season. I recently read John Dueren's excellent book called 'Rovers Revolution'. I just wish he had gone and explored in more detail the 1995/1996 season. I still can't get my head around the decline of Blackburn. I simply cannot understand why Dalglish stepped aside weeks after the Title win. Blackburn in the Champions League, lots of money to buy big names, the reputation of the club at an all time high, new stadium etc.. To step aside was bizarre. He could have built on his success and continued to challenge for honours. Then Ray Harford took over and don;t want to speak ill of him but was an utter disaster. I simply am bewildered how he let Slater, Batty and Atkins go and brought in the likes of Matty Holmes! I mean Matty Holmes! Bohinen was acceptable and did well initially but the club had the resources and wasted them. In a way I am more fascinated by the 1995/96 that the previous season as it really was disastrously run and struggle to understand how this was allowed to happen. What are Rovers fans thoughts now looking back? I know the true fans will say this is where he club has always been and the 3 glory seasons were an outlier in their history but I still wonder what might have and should have been. Apologies for the long winded post.
  22. Heard Rovers shirt sponsor from Wednesday is Totally wicked, not sure what the crack is with recoverite?
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