'Stand up for the Blackburn end'

How about 'Stand up for the Blackburn End'?

Did anybody hear Mourinho recently, when he said 'some game soon we are gonna score all our chances and put 5 or 6 past a team'? Anybody else thinking what im thinking?

I think its difficult for the younger generation like myself on who to deciede to vote for. In my lifetime of course, Ripley has been the best player, but do i choose him above Douglas who has got such great reviews from the older guys and sounds a Blackburn legend? Someone says he still goes to Ewood Park and is a Blackburn boy, one of us then that'll do for me Douglas it is!!

C'mon the Rovers, we can do it. We need to be postitive and start defending set pieces and the results will come. The new regieme has started!!

Our allocation is only 820 also!! Boy even our away support is going down and down. I hope we sell this out quick and get a 2nd allocation.

I know mate, how the heck are we gonna get down for it. Ive decieded to stay at a BLackburn exciled mate who now lives in London on fri nite. Sky with these kick off times are really getting on fans nerves.

Hey, no probs its a long way from home i only know of it because a mate of mine (from Blackburn) goes to uni in London near to the ground. Here are some pictures of the new ground!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/sport/gallerie...allery1/4.shtml

Ummm, have you forgotten that the ground has been rebuilt this summer to a 22K allseater with very few restricted views? The standing areas are all gone mate.

You've just sent a very cold shiver down my spine . That central midfield is a joke but as the post above me says, there is plenty of other alternatives!

Well last season, it was a boxing day clash, thus increasing the amount of away fans around 4,000ish? This yr i would expect around 3,000 from boro (they have an initial 1,800 with 1,200 extra if needed) which is a decent support considering their size of town. Id expect around 21k overall and a draw, 1-1 i reckon. Emerton for us, dont care for them!

Excellent crowd of around 18k, if you consider that Scotland only had 3,500 on and Italy only 14k on. Well done who all who turned out, the atmosphere was good, though too many horns/kiddy instruments!!

Yep, the attendance for that game was 16,922 and you're probably about right with your estimate for how many Rovers fans were in the west stand that night. I think we took around 6,500 to 7,000 Rovers fans. Considering there was only 17,000 crowd we made up almost half the supporters in that night. Continuing this away following thread, how many did we take to Manure in the league cup semi and Sheff wed semi?

Surley there will be alot of fans from other clubs around Lancashire and Yorkshire paying on the day and boosting the croud. We dont need an embarrising eng u21 crowd to add to our 'poor support' press!!

Finally, how many years have we been trying that now?

Thats 2 now, although ive grown up in the hendry, berg era i just couldnt resist voting for Fazackerley, all the effort he but into BRFC.

Latest update on MGP, he has no problem with being left out (vs villa) as he is adapting to the premiership, but hopes to be back for boro. He is in good shape fitness wise and is looking forward to playing for his country in 2 qualifing rounds. I think in the long run he is the future for BLackburn, after all how long has it taken Emo to come good? http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.a...rned+over+place

Id say that about Dunny, but i have no time for Yorke whatsoever and hope that most other Rovers feel the same. Dunn is 1 of us and id like to see him do well in general.

Who the hell is Rooney?

something you seemed a bit ###### off with at charlton jordan! Heard you quite a few times questioning why there were so many 'cockneys' in the blackburn end! Very short sighted comment as we need all the fans we can get. There are going to be a fair few older guys from the days when unemployment was high in Blackburn (1930's, post war and thatcher era) who moved down to London to find work. Most of the sons or grandsons from that time who grow up will be Rovers fans but also from London. A good mate of mine is actually in that exact position.

At which point one has to mention Martin from Bushy's (Ale of Man) who single handedly got the away end going (in the absence of the drum) by hammering on the side of the stand with his hand. When I saw him in the Antigallican after the game, he appeared to have paid for this enthusiasm with either a fractured - or certainly extremely badly bruised - wrist. But it did get the noise going. Indeed Tris. Like I said after the match, my section of the away fans was excellent and that man at the side really got the crowd going. After the rubbish we saw in the first half and going a goal down early in the second, the rovers fans really spurred the team on and the team responded well. Excellent support guys. Yeh i thought it was only 1 guy, fair play to him he really got us going, a great atmosphere from our fans in the 2nd half!! I cant imagine what his hand must have felt like on the tues afterwards, i just hope he used his wrong hand!!

There seems to be an obvious pattern emerging here, all those who actually bothered going to the game are taking positives outa a game which was a reasonably good performance (esp 2nd half) whereas the others who watched it on sky have come out all negative, . Moral of the story, get to the game!! Anyway i thought we were much the better team and should have had at least a point out of it and probably all 3. The ball isn't just running for us at the moment, flitty hitting the post, charlton player clearing it off the line, centremeters away from amo's foot and having a blatant pen not given. In the 2nd half we controlled and pressurised, perhaps summed up by the superb backing to players given by the noisy travelling Rovers fans. All is not lost, we must pick ourselves up to beat villa on saturday P.S, have you ever seen a player suffering from lack of confidence more than J Stead at the mo?

I would find that reasonably funny if he hadn't already said that about 10 times last season. He is very boring and repetitive.

Thanks cuidado, another excellent translation and interview. Keep them coming mate, the more i know about MGP the better!!

919, and "plenty" Well my 3 arrived today so thats o few less at least. C'mon we must be able to sell out this crappy allocation!!