I still believe that with a good following wind and luck with other results going for us we can still have a top half finish.

if Mowbray is staying can you buy a season ticket just for the first half of the season so i don't have to watch the normal free fall after Christmas

39 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

They'll come down with huge PL parachute payments and (I assume) Dyche.

The roles have been completely reversed from the 90's / 00's. They're a significantly stronger club than we are at the moment. Thank you, Venkys.

Lets just hope the parachute payments are used up to service the loan payments to buy the club

2 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

It's now becoming more apparent that the year of our founding should read 1874 on our famous Badge.

I refuse to believe these early written references all got it wrong,quite exciting revelation this.

The oldest Rovers Team Photo known to exist taken in 1878,the markings on the shirts are numbers identifying the Players...

I bent these lads were not worried about which side the blue was on

nice to see Tyrhys Dolan getting some rewards for his hard work

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/march/18/tyrhys-for-england-/

im going for a 1-0 win  with an owngoal

all i can see is Blackburn nil groundhog day

have we changed our name to Blackburn Rovers nil

7 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Mitrovic’s a cheat. I had to laugh at his attempt to do Kaminski early on when he pretended to be hurt himself. The guy’s a con man. Still he got away with it. The ref fell for it hook, line and sinker. They obviously though Kaminski could be rattled.

It made me smile when the sky pundit said that he had been very clever there when he flicked his foot out to try and get a penalty ,what he should have said is he tried to cheat there and should be booked for it.

12 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Cracking goal.

Parker red card.

Adam Smith, already subbed, red carded.

6 mins extra time.

Mr Parker has a gutter vocabulary, worse than mine 😉

what suspension do you get for being sent off when you are not on the pitch?

can anyone remember the last time Steve Bruce won a game

13 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Booting those balls that some ran on with into the crowd…

you mean these balls

1 hour ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/february/26/injury-update--ryan-nyambe/ 

 

Encourage noises about Nyambe's injury, at least in terms of having him back this season. 

 

hope its good news

Hope its not a very bad injury ,depending on how bad the injury is he may be regretting not signing his contract, surprised waggott not in tunnel asking if he wants to sign

14 hours ago, Wheelton Blue said:

I agree.

To be clear, I'm not lambasting anyone & have no opinion as to who was at fault. As I said, I don't really care whose fault it was.

The point I was trying to make was simply that, as a customer of the club  if there was any explanation to be had I'd expect that to come from the club, which as you say has been given to a degree.

It's all a moot point anyway. The club won't criticse the ref, likewise the ref won't openly lay blame on the club. As supporters, we're just expected to lump it.

what explanation are you after do you want to know how high the river was and how it affects the water table and the drain lay out of the pitch .the game was postponed because the ref felt the pitch was not playable. that was the explanation.

lets discuss drainage types and water out lets ,soil types and the height of water tables around grounds in the efl.

why are people comparing conditions with Preston etc when other ground or in different location with different weather conditions and at different altitudes, before now i have driven through Preston with no snow and there has been a few inches in Blackburn,people just looking for someone to blame, if it had been played and we had lost they would be complaining that it shoud not have been played . It was postponed get over it.

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

Come off it.

The pitch is Rovers' responsibility. As is Ewood Park. If there is an issue with either of those then the blame for it lies at Rovers.

Correct - the referee has to assess the surface and determine whether it is fit to play on. It seems he did that and decided it wasn't in a good enough state to start the match. I would say that photographs and cameras and the view of things from the stands might be very different to the actual condition of the pitch when walking/running on it.

Maybe the referee has got it completely wrong here. Maybe he has made an absolutely ludicrous decision when the pitch was absolutely fine, in which case he should be dismissed. But isn't it strange how every other club in the land managed to avoid getting such a referee and he happened to turn up at Ewood, a ground we know from experience has been deprived of investment over the last 10 years.

Anyone who has been to or watched games at Ewood in the last 4-5 years will have noticed a clear deterioration in the surface and its ability to withstand heavy rain/snow. 

These call offs are becoming more frequent. Up until 2010 I can't remember games being called off due to the weather, or perhaps on very rare occasions, yet now it is becoming at least a once a year event.

It won't get better - only worse. 

Waggott knows investment is needed - he has admitted as much yet failed to deliver it. If Waggott admits money needs spending on something you know it is in urgent need. 

I think you will find there were a few ganmes off on Saturday due to weather so there are other refs that make the same decisions . just wish we could have got all February's games off with our record in feb over the years.

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

it does seem a bit suspicious that bolton and preston are at home and have no problems at all😅

not much snow in Preston and a different ref at Bolton why is anyone surprised with the standard of refs in the efl that you get different decisions on matches being postponed

God must be a rovers fan and waiting for Diaz to be fit

27 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

A Verdi Godwin played  27 games for us and scored 6 goals in the seasons 1946-47 and 1947-48. He later played for 9 other clubs ! Rothmans gives his birth place as Blackpool.

most places have him down as born in blackburn

https://peoplepill.com/people/verdi-godwin

https://www.where-are-they-now.co.uk/footballer/Godwin+Verdi/20310

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Oh aye, the pitch was terrible that season.

But by a few years later it was a cracking playing surface.

I can remember when the pitch was that bad it was green sand down the middle and we still won promotion

13 hours ago, renrag said:

I vaguely remember him when I first started going to Rovers, he was a winger I think. The older fans used to reckon he could go the full length of Ewood heading a ball all the way without losing control. I couldn’t understand why he didn’t do it in a match. Ah well!

are you sure it was verdi godwin and not freddie goodwin one played in the forties and the other in the seventies .

Verdi Godwin

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yep, sending Carter out on loan was a really smart move. I’d say he would have been on the bench tonight.

did you not see him against WBA at home