As I said above, Dickens played ok that game against Wolves then made 1 mistake which cost us the game and he was remembered for it forever.. Pears just made 3, the second of which was far worse than Dickens. So I actually agree with @1864roverite. That will go down as the worst goalkeeping performance I’ve seen from a rovers keeper. (The Dickens mistake for those that haven’t seen it)

And Kidderminster from tier 6 beating Reading.

Presuming Luton beat Harrogate that’s a free weekend coming up.

He’s remembered for only making one howler in a game. And it still wasn’t as bad as that second goal..

If that was a goalkeeper for a North West Counties league team I’d stilll say it was embarrassing.

I never get why teams like Palace or Everton who are safety mid-table rest players for cup games. That final against Spurs is second only to the 92 play off final in glorious moments I’ve attended regarding Rovers. Two of my biggest disappointments were in semi finals. We were so close to playing in the first FA cup final at the new Wembley, and also the league cup semi we lost at old Trafford 3-2 on aggregate in 2006. Had Bellamy played that game instead of Kuqi I thought we’d have won, and gone on to play Wigan in a second league cup final in 4 years.

Only just been made aware of that on twitter. There's a lot of walk-ons for the two games who that could appeal to. They should be pushing that as widespread as possible.

There was a moment about 25 minutes in when the away fans first sang 'you're not fit to referee', and then for the next 5 to 10 minutes he gave them everything leading up to Mowbray booking. It was the most clear case of the crowd influencing the ref's decisions Ive seen in a long while. Once the home fans got on his back as well he didn't know what to do so basically just got most things wrong.

Guinness surger cans for about £4+ on the ground. If your a resident you'll get straight back in Fernhurst after game and when it reopens to the public it will be about 50/50 home and away .

The rule always used to be as @MarkBRFChas said, pricing had to be matched for like for like areas of the ground. It may have changed in the last couple of years mind.

I went in a party of 11 walk ons against Barnsley. They were ranging from recently lapsed season ticket holders like myself to someone’s partner who has no interest in Rovers but just tagged along. We all enjoyed it and after we were talking about the next game. It cropped up it was £10 more expensive and we ended up explaining to the casual fans it was because the club want to maximise profit from away fans and the home fans are just collateral damage. The first question was “Well how much is it in the opposite stand (Riverside)”. Again we had to explain that even though the facilities are of a much lower standard in the Riverside it costs the same money to sit there. Why I do not know. Why can’t the Riverside be £22 for Cat A games? Surely we can charge less for that stand and still £30 for the DE?

Hang on. You were saying that anyone who went to Ewood with Omicron so rife was barmy last week.

But in those years you have missed there have been many cracking atmospheres down at Ewood, especially on the Blackburn end. There was also many cracking atmospheres in the 90s too. What you want isn’t an atmosphere. It’s to be able to stand up, sing and swear without other people complaining at you. Now if the club set up a zone or an area (they kind of did with the DE unreserved ) for like minded souls that would solve your problem. But as they didn’t in 1999 you ended up in altercations with fans and then you chose to walk away.

Fans getting lectured on not being ‘hardcore’ by someone who has hardly been for 20 years . 🙄

It’s been a while since there were other championship games live on TV and we genuinely had an interest in their outcome. Derby win and then a draw today please.

Yep. Tottenham V Palace sounds like it’s been called off in the last hour.

Rovers win promotion. Then Chile win World Cup. Then England.. 😉

I actually like the fact this season we will launch it long and into the channels and mix it up a bit. The last few seasons have seen passes for the sake of keeping hold of the ball which looked good on the stats but was boring and got us nowhere. Now that the defence is more solid we will risk going longer and losing the ball more like we did in the league one days. Not that we aren't a good footballing side and don't play some good stuff - Buckley and Rothwell have been excellent in the opponent's half.of the pitch - but we have a second string to our bow.

Yep. Certainly was more Steele than steel.

If we were in the top 2 and they sold Brereton in January it would decimate season ticket sales even further for years.

Same way they did when they brought in allowing 5 substitutions midway through the 2019-2020 season.

From a footballing perspective hope it goes ahead purely as we are on an immense run of form and we don't seem to be hit with covid issues with key players. Having the points in the bag is always preferable to games in hand, but maybe especially more so this year if other teams end up with a congested fixture list in 2022.

Yep. Should ban them from seeing their kids and their family as well. 😄 On a serious note I think the next few weeks are going to be rough for this.

I say it every time but 5% off your ST if you had one last year, 10% off if you had one for 2 years etc.. up to 20% off for 4 years. I would definitely have renewed to keep my loyalty discount instead of taking a season out to see how COVID and Waggot affected this season like I have done.

Parker and. Bournemouth fans talking as if the first goal is definitely offside. They must have seen a different angle than on all the footage I’ve seen. Its tight but the defender behind Lenihan’is is the deepest and may be playing him on, and Diaz may well be in front of the defenders but may be behind Lenihan’s head when he heads the ball. You can’t pause the footage and get a conclusive answer.