Now that we've had a couple of days to reflect, I'm going to say this ...

Pears was a very lucky man on Saturday. He punched/palmed the ball into the same dangerous areas he always does and he got lucky that they didn't fall to a Leeds player, or rather the Leeds players didn't make as much of them as other opponents have in the past.

That's not to take away from the string of excellent saves he did make, just that luck was definitely on his side this week.

Has this been posted before? An analasys of Rovers finances over the past 10 years

Nothing new in it btw, just shows the numbers as graphs.

This episode marks the the beginning of a new era for the 4000 Holes Podcast as it moves to be part of the Talk Sport Fan Network, and that is down to the effort of all the contributors, but in particular the work @Herbie6590 has put in to rejuvenate the podcast over the last 2 seasons. 👏👏👏

Unfortunately it's a known issue and without getting all technical, down to the GDPR consent cookies that we have to use by law 😡

I didn't tell you this, but always refuse the cookies, as well as not being tracked by advertisers (yeah right, don't get me started) it also stops issues like this.

8 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Quite simples....get this Club back into the Prem and Ewood would most probably be near capacity for most games.

Are you listening Venkys?( are they feck)

Well yeah, that would definitely help, but I was thinking more between now & the end of the season 🙂

I think it's safe to say, none of us expected THAT!

Penalties are one of the worst ways to go out of a competition especially when you earned them rather than rode your luck.

I can't help but think having Ewood as full as it's been in years helped the team too, some imagination required from the leadership team on how to acheive that.

Some great articles on our front page about today's game ...

The usual Delap's Derbies ... https://brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-rovers-and-the-magpies/507

Old Programmes: https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/programme-passions-newcastle-united/505

and a look back at previous FA Cap ties between us and the Toon: https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/rovers-v-newcastle-the-fa-cup-history/506

Remember, BRFCS.com is more than just a forum ...

18 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Somebody missed out Ken Knighton there, possibly the first name on the team sheet.

He's definitely there, about halfway down the 2nd half ...

I reckon this is the longest list of players we've had in Delap's Derbies, can you make a starting 11 of players that played for both teams and actually DID play together at Ewood?

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-rovers-and-the-lilywhites/120

Should be sorted now ...

17 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

Nah he'll be at big Stevie's house, eating the leftovers from that fateful night in January "let's not waste a good biryani John" 

Well he's not at The Avenue otherwise someone would have leaked the CCTV.

Rovers were prepared to let JDT leave in the summer, but there was a catch ...

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/tomasson-blackburn-and-the-offer-to-leave-for-'nothing'./491

3 hours ago, BigUts said:

Maybe there needs to be a summation of the facts and made in to an image and get it plastered everywhere. Hopefully then it'll focus people's minds

Here's a good round up of what we know: https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/breaking-down-venky's-and-hmrc's-impact:-what's-next-for-rovers/483

21 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Excellent BRFCS piece on our situation - thanks.

Thank you, as the tag line says "We're more than just a forum".

10 hours ago, Ghost7 said:

the time is now I can feel it! 

I think the biggest difference between our situations is he won't pay, our owners "can't" pay because of the courts in another country. I doubt the EFL will want to get involved because there's nothing realistically then can do. Even if they did tell our owners to try their best to pay, they'd only respond "We are, tell that to the judge"

2 hours ago, Hasta said:

Let's not forget the reason this is happening is because the owners have been fraudulently declaring money to be invested in the club which was being used for other non-Rovers related purposes.

This is the elephant in the room, we wouldn't be in any trouble with HMRC if we wern't being used as a way to funnel cash out of the country.

10 minutes ago, BigBar said:

Quoting me clearly. He's not up to it. When the going gets tough, we fold. Clear to see. He cannot change a game, doesn't have the nous, look at our record when we go behind. Horrendous. 

With the players on the bench today, how would you have changed things, and why would that have made a difference? As frustrated as I am I find it hard to look past a bare bones, exhausted squad.

I love me a good stats thread!

Weird.

Sorry, I’m away at the moment so bare/bear with me and I’ll have a closer look when I get back 👍

Sorry, I’m in sunny Hunmanby at the moment so I wasn’t monitoring the forum but yeah, that’s a sign the site is really busy.

it needs some work to boost the capacity and on our list of stuff to do.

Dude, we’ve all been there, I wouldn’t worry about it 😂

When you say “disappears” what do you mean? Can you take some screen grabs and add them to this thread?

4 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

There goes the neighbourhood eh ?😆

@StubbsUK suggested we try the JW after we enjoyed the Girona experience, so we are testing it out. For a small fee we can be persuaded to return to the Riverside. Yesterday’s weather made it a sound choice for sure…

I prefer the view from the JW Upper tier, much better sense of what's going on and for £2 more than the Riverside it's a no-brainer for me ... I just wish there were fewer steps to get there 😄