16 minutes ago, superniko said:

Surely we all want Sunderland to win this - Sheffield United have cheated their way through their finances for a few years now - resulting in them signing Anel A ahead of us despite the fact they couldn’t actually pay for him.

About time that all caught up with them 

I’d rather have seen Sheffield Utd go up, I’m fed up with them destroying my enjoyment of football. 

5 hours ago, davulsukur said:

Suhail wins (as said in your best Mortal Kombat voice)

So Waggott has taken the fall, but the biggest problem still remains.

Dolan has been brilliant today. Millwall can’t cope with him. It maddens me that he’s going to be let go on a free when we’ll struggle to replace him. 

27 minutes ago, Tom said:

Talking Heads said it best 

 

“You’re talking a lot but you aren’t saying anything”

19 minutes ago, ... said:

Or Ronan Keating....

Come on lads… James Brown?

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

Or the mist 'mist (missed) opportunities '

It feels like we’re in the dead zone, and a green mile away from any manager worth his salt coming in. 

12 hours ago, ... said:

I love it when they call me

Big papè

Win the ball in the air if yous a true player. 

On 23/02/2023 at 12:07, Dreams of 1995 said:

Been a while since I posted on here, but quite an old tune that I have been listening to quite a lot recently:

 

If you are a fan of Mungos Hi Fi you'll know they have been releasing bangers for years now.

Gardna and Charli Brix are now based in Bristol - the new home of all things electronic in the UK. London died years ago. Charli Brix's voice was made for music like this

Bristol is home to the record label "Born on Road", where dub music meets DNB and Jungle. Saw their set at Boomtown which blew the place apart.

I’ll have to check out that record label, that’s just the sort of thing I’m into. Never knew much about mungos hi fi until I heard a mr scruff mix with them on it. 

On 05/02/2025 at 19:18, Silas said:

I'll make an effort to check more out.

Only really listened to Folamour and Fred's. 

Dave Clarke played an awesome one. If you’re a fan of bicep, their boiler room from AVA is excellent. Also the Mark Archer one is very good if you miss the 90s 🥹

Really poor by hedges there, had time and still passed it straight to QPR. Get Kargbo on!

Yes Dolan! Wasn’t sure about him stepping up but he took it well. 

Clear penalty there wtf

So close there, Dolan almost made amends. This game is being played at a frantic pace, could end up with a lot of goals. 

11 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Lettuce agree that Eustace is playing ketchup with signings.  And that his signings have to be mustard otherwise it will cheese people off

My takeaway from the season so far is that it feels great to be firmly in the top 6 and not gherkin around mid table. If the venkys don’t back him then they can burger off. I heard from a good sauce that we’ll be strengthening the squad soon.  

47 minutes ago, ... said:

I miss the old ISSpro names lol 

David Peckham

Paul Shoals

Alan Shearler

Snake Derrick (Steven Davis)

Von Mistelroum

my two favourites 

20 minutes ago, KentExile said:

What a lovely machine

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

 

It wasn't boring (who said that?) and no one said the occasion wasn't exciting, 

On 05/01/2025 at 20:39, jim mk2 said:

The 10,000 or so extra fans would probably have been appalled by yesterday's match, which was low quality with little excitement

Eh?

In fairness, the match report I was referring to was in our old friend, The Guardian, and I wasn’t aiming my post at you. But you kind of did say the match was unexciting. 

22 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

No. In an nutshell

The 10,000 or so extra fans would probably have been appalled by yesterday's match, which was low quality with little excitement

They would also have been shocked probably at how limited Rovers are, compared to the teams and players they remember. 

And we lost. The atmosphere was good but from a football point of view was little if anything to make the average wabering fan to visit Ewood again 

Anecdotal I know but I enjoyed it and my Utd supporting friends both said they’d be happy to come again and that we should make plans soon. Our only quibble was with the ridiculous queues for beer and pies. Unbelievable!

I got a shock when I read a match report stating that the match was boring and not eventful. Maybe just because the match meant so much, but I was on the edge of my seat throughout. True, there wasn’t much quality on display from either side, but we’re Rovers supporters, not Barcelona.

If you can’t get excited by a closely-fought derby like that then you may as well give up on football. 
 

A frustrating match. Felt like we deserved a draw and neither team did enough to win it. It actually hurt to see the Burnley bastards celebrating that goal. 

I thought Brittain was excellent. Ran up and down the right all match and called out for the ball on a number of occasions when he had acres of space. Gueye makes trouble but he can’t pass, had a poor shot and is very slow. Why we don’t aim at him from corners is beyond me though. 

We were beaten today by a far better squad but as others have said we ran them very very close. The players worked so hard and I can’t criticise them even if the skill element is missing. We signed these guys for free or buttons; comoaring Gueye to Gallagher is mental - fee and wages are tiny in comparison. We will get worse than this creditable performance if money isn’t invested - we’re awful at creating and finishing chances already, and when Dolan leaves and Beck returns to Liverpool we’ll have two massive holes to fill.

I loved seeing Ewood full and the atmosphere was unreal. I’ll be back again soon, probably in summer months rather than January as I’m still trying to thaw out 6 hours later in the airport. 
 

The big day is finally here….

Hoping for passion, skill and hard work from the players, and a fiery atmosphere from the fans.

Come on Rovers!

I thought we were alright. Pears’s distribution is very poor today and we pass it back too much but we’ve had a couple of good chances. ACD has been very good and grown into the game over the first half. Hull aren’t great though.
 

I’d be disappointed if we lost this match but I think we’re capable of putting one of these chances away in the second half. With a bit of luck Gueye could have scored already, he’s getting in the right places and causing Hull problems. 

Danny Baath has been excellent today. 

35 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I knew that, so I've no idea why I didn't think to bet on under 2.5 goals and also on Travis being booked, which was an inevitability in this game!

I thought the exact same lol. Happens every weekend. Also I get stung sometimes - I put a bet on say, Dolan to be first goal scorer, 5 mins into the match one of the commentators will say “an interesting stat is that Dolan has never scored first in any match” 🤦‍♂️ 

On 08/12/2024 at 00:44, BlueNWhiteArmy said:

How many tickets do you need OP? And where? I'd happily head down to the Roverstore with you 

I got sorted for four tickets for me and three friends but thanks. Looking forward to this more than Christmas now!

So I got an email from the club to say that I’m now allowed to buy tickets which is fantastic news. Thanks to all the kind and helpful people on this thread. 

Now I have more questions lol. I’m travelling in to Manchester probably on the Friday night. Would I be best advised to stay in Blackburn or somewhere nearby to avoid any trouble/transport issues on the way in on Saturday? If so, where’s a good spot to stay with decent nightlife for a few pints with my friends? 

Apologies if this is off-topic now.