5 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

I will watch, of course. And of course I hope we win but I won't care too much if we don't. It has very little to no impact on the club. 

When you are in serious danger of dropping into league one, which we are, then these types of games are not important. A win here is a nice boost for the club, but relegation to league 1 is a disaster.

Playing 3 games a week has (almost) been a terminal blow for us this season. We have a tiny squad and the more games we play, the more injuries we get. If we get injuries now to key players then we are looking at a terminal situation given we need to pick up points in the next 3 games. We can easily go on a run of 1 win in 11 games again if we are missing key players. That would relegate us.

Yes but it could go the other way! The 2002 cup final win spurred the team on for the rest of the season. Confidence comes from winning matches so don’t belittle a win against a middling Prem team in the FA Cup. Might work wonders for the club and supporters 

7 hours ago, joey_big_nose said:

3 very slow cbs, we will be playing quite deep I guess. I hope Fleck is very creative player. The burden will be on him to find the right passes for the front three. No buckley on the bench either so if it isnt working not sure what we do....

What are you on about? The lad has been injured for past 2 months and hasn’t played any competitive football. He’s probably not ready. Ffs the new manager has been here one week and you have him writing people off because they’re injured. Get a fucking grip

2 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Sad to see you leave us Swanson.

I'm teetering on this edge too.

I’ve teetered and finally fallen off. After 59 years following Rovers all over the place my season ticket has been binned a couple of weeks ago. Never going on again until they F off (probably pop my clogs before that). Can’t stand it now at Ewood

15 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

If your day hadn’t been bad enough…

Be a lot better than  the shit show that is Blackburn Rovers

31 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Ahhh, the ever reliable positivity train trundles into the station.

Depressing isn’t it

That’s it for me this season at least. I’ve lost all hope at this moment for this once magnificent club. Season ticket binned. 59 years attending. I’m done until these disingenuous owners and their yes men leave. Hurting me but I have to walk away for my sanity

17 minutes ago, LDRover said:

A shit 'head coach' or a shit head 'coach'. I can go for either but I really need to know which you mean.

Ha ha either or to be honest! Never thought of that lol

11 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Injuries blah blah blah

the owners blah blah blah

lack of money blah blah blah

poor recruitment blah blah blah

why does Tomasson keep getting a free ride? 

Cos he smiles a lot and has played in the World Cup mitigates the fact that he is a shit head coach. Add in his condescending attitude to everyone who questions him by deflecting his answers to the “new coach”. He wins some people over.  Not me. Fucking clueless. He has no fucking idea how to set up a team not to concede. Oh for Howard Kendall

20 minutes ago, Dontfuckwithcats said:

I live in Blackburn and I tend to agree with this, majority of these people most certainly do not live within our perimeter.

Blackburn is a dead town.

I think you need to use our local fan base as East Lancs instead of just Blackburn as do Burnley and Stanley. Then you’re talking around 550000 population. Most Burnley fans live in Nelson, Colne and Padiham. Hardly any in the town itself

58 minutes ago, levi said:

I've always thought JW was 9000,blackburn and darwen end's 8000 with 5000 bottom 3000 top

I've no idea where i get those numbers from though

Almost right. DE and BBE 8000 each, JW 11000 and Riverside 4500 ish. Hence capacity 31500 or just above or below

1 hour ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

"Blackburn..they play crap every week, but they win..."

It was usually “Andy Crawford 1 ~0” Game over. Jack didn’t like us or Kendall much did he! Howard Kendall was the best manager in football at Everton in the 80s and was pretty bloody good at little old Blackburn Rovers beforehand. My second favourite in my lifetime after King Kenny. 

29 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

...and in Kendall's promotion season...Just saying lol

And didn’t that wind Jack Charlton up a bit ha ha

6 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

 

 

Lovely post, great memories. I was lucky enough to meet Ronnie Clayton and Bobby Moore - they were "gentlemen" footballers from another generation, humble, respectful, different men and breed to the current mob.

As for tonight, they've a good record against us in recent times and we've so many players missing I'll be happy with a draw.

 

Ronnie and Bryan came to my dads pub in Ossy (Tinker and Budget) in 1968/69 on a Tuesday darts/doms night just to push over some pennies on a pint glass. Imagine 2 England internationals doing that now for nowt apart from Garth Dawson taking your pic for Accy Observer!

21 hours ago, Mercer said:

Used to hate going to Burnden Park - horrible experience.

Also remember either either 1973 or 1974 when the Bolton mob en masse arrived early on the train in Blackburn town centre.  It was carnage and men against boys as Rovers' fans caught up in it took a real pasting.

Burnden was a horrible place to go in the 70s I got a right kicking at the bottom of them steps outside the away end after a match in 1975. But I remember the 60s when Rovers would take the Leaver End without a punch being thrown. They were shit scared of Rovers Grebo following (most or whom had no connection to Blackburn) who came for a fight!

4 minutes ago, Speedie Dived said:

Strange old game today. If we have a decent centre forward, we would have walked the game . We are basically playing without one (no false nine stuff).

Goalie, back four and Tronstradt looked comfortable all day. That's a great base to build from.

Attacking wise, Dolan is just miles off it. Genuine basic technical deficiencies. He has set the goal up, can't knock that.

The interesting question is our best player, Wharton. We are poorer going forward, but more solid without him. I love the kid. If we can get a centre forward and get Wharton nearer to him, could be magic.

 

 

 

Yes great to see Trondstadt filling that position we’ve been so obviously missing all season. Could be advantageous now for Adam to do his stuff further forward now we have a midfielder to break up play and protect the defence. Think this set up would suit Bucko much better whom we need to recall in January 

1 hour ago, Tugayisgod said:

Just got home after celebrating the win this afternoon to hear the news about the passing of Sir Bobby Charlton.

Sad news indeed, one of Englands greatest, a truly remarkable player .RIP

Yes very sad. My true footballing hero as a kid growing up in the 1960s. Didn’t much care about United but Charlton, Law and Best were fantastic. Probs Englands best ever performer was Bobby and so humble with it. Believe he passed up on Utds European Cup win  party in 1968 to go and pay respects to his mates and colleagues from Munich who didn’t survive. Speaks volumes about him and his values. RIP Sir Bobby. The football world will never forget him.

6 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Maybe Mercer has forget about these incidents 

No chance. 

What questions do you want him to ask? 

Maybe you can learn by watching the Ryder Cup?

39 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

The highlights appeared to be Mcilroy launching in to a 4 letter word tirade on a caddy in the car park, Cantlay protesting over not getting paid for representing his country and Koepka not giving a damn.

What a pile of shite. The highlights were teamwork, players showing emotion, players caring about individual and team results, playing under immense pressure to the best of their ability. The best team event in world sport bar none. Football has much to learn but never does. Oh and Rovers were crap again making the same silly mistakes time and time again. L1 beckons again. Oh for Howard Kendall “boring”us with magnificent 1-0 wins week after relentless week until the opposition gave up. Don’t think JDT has that in his locker

18 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

He'd have to be missing a limb to be worse than Hedges.

Quite right. Hedges is L1 standard at a push.

20 minutes ago, bazza said:

Do you mind? We're not all tarred with the same brush.

However, I have noticed over the years that quite a lot of Rovers fans seem to have to have someone to pick on. Jason Lowe, Keith Andrews, Elliot Bennett to name but three. There always has to be one.

I didn’t tar you all with the same brush. But that is how Riversiders were known. Mark Patterson and Jason Wilcox were 2 others who got grief

20 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

That is correct.

On page 11 of this thread one poster - within a short period of the player coming on to the pitch - is telling us he is not up to the required standard.

It’s been the same since I’ve been going from 1965. It ain’t going to change. Riverside boo boys they were known as then. Nowt’s changed really.

1 hour ago, M_B said:

The trouble is, the replacements aren't good enough to replace them. GB and Tomasson are lucky to have inherited a good squad, the new signings are supposed to improve it. 

Sign L1 quality and that’s where we will end up. Having to expect a 19 year old kid to run our midfield is unfair on the lad and disgraceful from up above. They could ruin him before he’s started . Adam is not ready for 40 odd games per season at this level. Let the lad develop in his own time fgs

21 minutes ago, M_B said:

The Plymouth commentary couldn't believe their luck and were really complimentary to be fair. It must be so deflating for the team to play so well early on, but miss 2 great chances, 1 a sitter. 

In amongst the calamaties, there was some good stuff. 

 

If only we had a Bradley Dacks goalpoachers instinct in the squad!

Too many senior players who are L1 standard in that squad. Hedges,Szmodics, Dolan, Pears, Pickering S Wharton, Gallagher. Plus young kids and Adam performing like a L2 man today. Long winter ahead! Apart from that we are play off certs! I would love them all to prove otherwise btw

57 minutes ago, booth said:

He's been especially poor today. Needs dropping off this performance, as does Travis and Wharton to be fair.

And who replaces them? They have been shit though tbf along with Szmodics