Hasta

Absolutely turgid, slack passing, lack of footballing intelligence and overrun for most of the second half. Get in 🔵⚪ 😀😀

The good thing from our perspective with it looking like it could be 3 from 4 ,is that even if you stop up it means Newcastle will go down, and vice versa. And yet there's a real chance you both go. And even if by some unexpected miracle that doesn't happen, next on the hit list are either Leeds or Everton 😀 Happy days 🔵⚪

Watford play Newcastle this weekend and Burnley next Tuesday. 6 points from those two games and it's jelly and ice cream.

Just finished the Resident Evil 3 remake. I have the same opinion as I had 20 years ago. It feels like they put so much effort into making RE2 special and memorable, with multiple story lines, endings and intriguing plot and locations. And then RE3 feels rushed and like a massive step back. Very linear and lacks the puzzle solving of the two that preceded it. It is definitely the ugly sister of the first 4 numbered games.

“Hi Stewart, it’s Tony”

As I state above, they gave it for offside on the guy who Cavani ran in to. The ref looked at the monitor to decide if the player was interfering. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12513373/man-utd-vs-aston-villa-steven-gerrard-points-to-length-of-var-check-after-danny-ings-strike-disallowed

It was offside. If a goalkeeper was back-peddling to tip a cross over the bar and he ran into a player stood behind him who was offside then it would clearly be an offside. If a defender is running back and a guy is stood in an offside position and stops the defender having a chance of getting to the ball (either because he stands in his way or makes the defender run around with him, then the offside player is clearly interfering with play. From the laws:- A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by: preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision. making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball When you actually look at it like that the offside decision is clearly correct. What IS a shambles is VAR doesn't have to explain the decision. If a report was published after each match as to WHY each decision VAR looked at was given or not given it would be a lot clearer for the fans.

We had Branthwaite from Everton and Harwood-Bellis from City both on loan. By the end of the season it was clear than Harwood-Bellis was the better player. However the lad we have on loan from Brighton on at the moment (Van Hecke) is probably a better defender than both of them, albeit not as technical a footballer as Harwood-Bellis. In summary quite good, will still be improving. If your desperate for centre halves as a cheap loan signing it’s not a bad shout.

Dolan has never played there and yes.

No-one is pretending that. Just that it’s the worst rovers goalkeeping performance most of us can remember by some distance. The worry is what happens if Kaminsky gets injured? Or just misses 2 games through COVID? With a strike rate of 2 bad games in 4 can we take that risk. I’d replace the kid we sent back to Liverpool with a loanee keeper.

Can’t wait to see the player ratings for this one.

If you've not seen the highlights be afraid, be very afraid. https://youtu.be/BiI-3Tk_KwQ

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.