Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

a good way of releasing your anger,i think i`ll go in the loft and look for my air rifle😊

Thats what the old 'Birdie' (the nutter, not the current one) used to do: he used to take potshots at folk out of his upstairs bedroom window on Nuttall Street.

Wonder whatever happened to him? He was a real head case!

I'm off to take it out on some timber in the garage.

Was going to use screws but I've already been screwed this afternoon. So lump hammer, 6 inch nails and some pieces of 3 x 2 it is!

Bastards!!!

Just now, RoverDom said:

We're on a journey alright, trouble is not all journeys go to a good place. I took a journey once. Destination - Slough. 

Could have been Milton Keynes or Swindon! 😉

13 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Truly pathetic this.

Another weekend ruined...stop the ride,I want to get off.

Nah, you don't. You want to rev it up!!!

Drain the bloody swamp.

Mark Hughes' Blue & White Army!!!

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I can't see them sacking Mowbray if we lose today, or midweek, or next weekend. So I want us to win today.

I can!!!

Do you think there could just possibly be any connection with this little lot of inter-connected companies?🤔

All registered in Seychelles:

Venus Consultancy Limited, Mawry Import LLP, Aurora Marketing Limited, Monter Impex Limited, Solter Management Limited, Wertion Corporation.

One solitary one registered in Belize:

Poramto Group Inc.

Mowbray, Venus and Waggott can fuck right off!!!

"Mark Hughes' Blue and White Army" !!!

1 minute ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

The old Rochdale Cricket Club at Dane Street in the centre of town had a similar order placed on it. It was given to the club and the town years ago on the understanding that it would always be used for sporting events. Of course it was in a prime location.

There's an ASDA and a Curry's on it now.

I went to that Asda t'other week Tyrone, in the middle of a blizzard, when I'd taken a friend to A & E at 5am.

27 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Very supportive of Mowbray is Dunny!

Aye!!!

In addition, have a search on Companies House for 'Waggott' named builders and timber merchants.

Not saying there's any connection but it's hardly Smith or Jones is it?!........................

1 hour ago, AllRoverAsia said:

The trees top left are on the river bank. Scale shown bottom right.

I do not know who owns surrounding small fields between JTC and river.

Not much room to build a fully functional STC/JTC big enough to house ALL teams and buildings/carpark etc etc. IMO.

Dunny owns most of the surrounding land!

Just trying to view this development in a potentially positive light:

Assuming planning approval is granted for residential development by Ribble Valley Borough Council, it would significantly increase the value of the land. I'm unsure of the acreage involved but a starting point would probably be £1 million per acre as a rough valuation.

The Venky's don't necessarily have to act upon it and actually sell the land to a developer. The asset could be revalued, introduced into the P & L and balance sheet as a re-valuation reserve. This would significantly improve the clubs financial performance in the eyes of FFP and provide the owners with the opportunity to 'splash the cash', even more so than they have done recently in terms of actually keeping the club afloat.

There are others on here who are actually accountants (@Mercer) and far more suitably qualified to comment than am I.

So where as a number of years ago, I would have been apoplectic along with everyone else, these days I'm not. Granted, it could have been handled much better in order to allay supporters' fears but they've always been absolutely crap in the communication stakes.

WE ARE The Rovers!!!

I'll be singing all of these now to the missus this afternoon, as we settle in front of the tele to watch us at Forest.

She already thinks I'm crackers!...

"Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...":-

1.  WE ARE THE Blackburn End, WE ARE THE Blackburn End, WE ARE The Black, WE ARE THE Blackburn End.........(crowd surges from the back and you finished up pinned to the wall behind 'Sir Rogers' goal.  (Absolute lyrical genius)                                                                                                                                              

2. Who's that 'two hat' with a t!t on 'is 'ead, doo dah, doo dah? doo dah doo dah day, doo da doo da day......    

3. He's fat, he's round, he bounces on the ground, Francis Lee, Francis Lee.........                                                            

4. Oh Rodney Rodney, Rodney Rodney Rodney shit arse Marsh!                                                                              

5. Kindon's wife is on the game again!                                                                                                                        

Bloody great ain't it, if only we could rekindle the type of atmosphere that we 'oldies' used to enjoy. Brilliant!......

4 hours ago, arbitro said:

Having just seen a post on the music association thread I was reminded of this one to the tune of Terry Jacks song called Seasons in the Sun.

We had joy, we had fun

We had Burnley on the run

But the fun didn't last

Cos the b******* ran too fast.

Blackburn End Cheerleader Tony? 😉 (Forget the bloody drum though!)

(Sorry I forgot, you're with the tartan blanket and coffee with a tot brigade in the JWU!) Best of luck getting them rocking!....

9 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Football specials were great fun for supporters and good revenue earners for the railways but all too often this happened.

You can't blame BR  for stopping laying them on

Aye, I bet Richard Beeching was a real hero of yours too. Look how well that worked out?!

What you refer to above was wrong but just typified social issues of that particular point in time.

Doesn't alter the fact that there were many enjoyable and memorable trips on 'The Ewood Express' and Rovers' 'League Liner' as others have already alluded to.

2 particularly spring to mind for me: One to The Victoria Ground Stoke in 1976/7 (?) when one of my mates got chucked in a canal en route back to the station!

The other a midweek League Cup tie at The City Ground Nottingham where we got thumped 6-1 I think (?) I went with my Dad and as we were leaving the station to return home, some bastard put the carriage windows through right where my Dad was sat. The train just continued to rumble along back to Blackburn and we froze to bloody death! I think Brotherston scored for Rovers and in the return leg which we drew 1-1 I think, 'Bog-hopper' tore Viv Anderson a new backside!

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

Not been a good week has it, with the cricket and Rovers?  Far better to half a glass empty, then you're not as disappointed

Bullshit!

Half full has always been (and always will be) my mantra.

It ensures you always strive to improve!

WE ARE The Rovers!!!

Just now, darrenrover said:

Lost for words!

Absolutely diabolically pathetic!

Fuming just does not cut it!!!

Some need to have a good look at themselves IMO, WE should all be paddling the same ship in the same direction!!

Lost for words!

Absolutely diabolically pathetic!

Fuming just does not cut it!!!

Come on Rovers, let's go for it and rip The Tykes a new arsehole!!!

COYB!!!

3 hours ago, rigger said:

I just went with Ribblesdale. The RATC meant rules that had to be followed. Ribblesdale was a free for all. At Southampton our coach got bricked, the driver hit the brakes, opened the door and shouted, "get the bastards".     

Agreed rigger, I was on RATC solitary coach trip to White Hart Lane on New Years Eve 1977!

We got thrashed 4-0, I got battered in The Park Lane Stand by 2 black lads, every window in the coach other than the windscreen was put through by a gang on Edgeware Road and when I got back to Lancashire just in time for Big Ben to chime, I saw my girlfriend , legs akimbo with some bastard else! 

Fucking great New Years Eve that was!!   Never forgotten though!!

7 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

You clearly don't "understand". Shame on the owners! Jesus, I don't want it to be true...

What evidence can you show that they have ever really gone for promotion?

I'm sorry Leonard but please behave, don't expect me to answer that.

59 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Therein a contradiction...Venky's/empowered board governance. 

Cheston appointed Warnock and while he was on holiday, someone else overturned the decision. And that was after all the "learning from their previous mistakes". 

Now the agenda looks worryingly like a nursery school for the premiership...

"WE WERE THE ROVERS"?

Sorry Leonard, I understand and all that but shame on you.

8 minutes ago, arbitro said:

They did various shapes but mine was rectangular with rounded corners. I can't remember which outlet we got them from (maybe the portacabin on Nuttall Street which doubled up as the Commercial offices) but I distinctly remember a mate buying one that was claret and blue. Once we pointed it out and ripped the piss out of him he shot back and exchanged it. 😁😁

What was wrong with 'rounded corners'? I don't understand.

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

Does anybody of a certain vintage remember RATC? It was an acronym for Rovers Away Travel Club and although it pretty much bombed I remember getting my membership card. It originated at a supporters meeting with Ken Furphy and the then commercial manager Keith Cafferty. The idea was to offer subsided travel to away games and at the meeting there were lots of enthusiastic young Rovers fans (including me and several mates) who signed up to it. As I said it died a death but I remember Furphy at the meeting bouncing lots of ideas around.

Offshoot was the "Ewood Express" I think Tony. The trains that we used to go on to away games. Can you imagine that now?

Just now, roverandout said:

Only with the right manager. If they appointed a proven coach. This squad is capable 

...and empowered Board governance!!

WE ARE THE ROVERS!!!