Was it clear? Mudryk clearly gets to the ball first - albeit with the sole intention to start falling and win a penalty - and it's beyond risky from Cristante but where's the actual 'contact'? A few rolls and pretending to be injured too....even if there was contact, it obviously didn't hurt. Up you get lad.

This is the season for them to have it; they've improved a lot lately and were well on their way to climbing into mid-table. They'll still comfortably stay up.

Hilarious that it's only November and a team that has struggled for a good chunk of the season so far has just received a 10 point deduction and they're still above that lot.

6 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

There's every chance he will take us down to League One !

There's not one thing from the entirety of JDT's reign so far to suggest that's even a remote possibility. 

2 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Unbelievably, odds on Preston win are 3/1.

We will barely have a defence come Friday and behind that defence will stand a nervous, error prone, 'draculaesque' goalie. 

The aerial bombardment will be akin to America's bombing of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia!

This is some opportunity to fill those Christmas stockings - make the most of it and soften the blow of a PNE win.

They've won once since mid September - I'll pass thanks.

Up the Rovers.

3 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

To get the mood going ahead of this tie. How I wish we had just a couple of these guys in our side for Wednesday.

Every Rovers goal scored at Stamford Bridge since 1993:

 

Great video, some good times! Less so at the end, our last Premier League goal for God knows how long 😔

Coyle would have to be bottom of any Rovers manager list since he who shall not be named. A disgrace that he was ever appointed. The reigns of Berg and Appleton were so short that I wouldn't include them, albeit almost certainly neither were going to work out. The club was still at its absolute lowest ebb then though.

After a spell of playing extremely dire football matched only by Appleton's last few games and not getting results either, I thought Lambert moulded a pretty poor squad into a decent enough, competitive Championship side. Once he decided to leave it went to pot again. I suppose looking at his record after leaving us, chances are we wouldn't have got any better. 4th is correct for him.

Not really a fan of either and both stayed on for too long, but you could definitely make a case for Bowyer above Mowbray. Didn't have the initial relegation, finished 8th and 9th in his full seasons (this was still underachieving though of course given the squad we had). Mowbray didn't match either of those until his last season. Even when Bowyer was rightly sacked, we were only in a very similar position to where Mowbray finished in 20/21 (so after 4 years in charge) and this was with a 30 goal striker, the pick of the PL loans in Harvey Elliott, and not being forced to sell anyone - complete contrast to Bowyer being forced to sell Cairney and Gestede etc in his final summer. But yeah, those two in a battle for 2nd sums the last 11 years up.

If he's a Feyenoord man and would like to manage them one day I don't think he'd dare go to Ajax. Albeit it'd be odd to see somebody turn down Ajax to stay at Rovers.

Thought he must have just had a beer last night but he's still at it this morning.

Very bizarre to do it all over Twitter, especially the things he's said about Coleman.

40 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Corry Evans.

Cheers. Not surprised I forgot about him.

2 hours ago, Displaced Rover said:

Need 3 players on international duty to postpone a game in L1 I believe.

Didn’t we sign Jason Leutwiler (?) as sub keeper purely because he used to get called up by Canada?

Think it is 3 yep. We used to have him, Mulgrew and there must have been one other that got called up....racking my brains as to who (without checking). Think it was too early for Nyambe with Namibia...

1 hour ago, SuperBrfc said:

Yordi, anybody? Shame he only scored once more for us after this, but a towering header it was!

 

Great header. Fun fact - he's one of very few players whose debut for a club has come in a major cup final (so excluding things like the Community Shield).

3 minutes ago, BigBar said:

Lucky the manager's name is Jon and not Tony. Pitiful stat.

Lucky it's the beginning of Jon's second season after a very good first one, rather than about 4 years into Tony's journey to nowhere.

48 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I sent my mail to the above email but got it returned. Does anyone have an alternate address for SWAG ?

I think the o in his name is a 0 (can't believe we're talking about the CEO of Rovers here....)

2-1 Rovers

31,367

Waggott out

6 minutes ago, rigger said:

I would love someone to ask JDT if he is happy with closing the Blackburn end for the Cardiff game.  

He won't be happy - it's clear he thinks Waggott is a proper plonker. And he's right.

6 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

 

Regarding tomorrow, im expecting us to absolutely batter Sunderland if Mowbray really is as bad as many on here like to make out.

Has he even been mentioned much apart from a couple of comments? You're the one that keeps bringing him up I think!

8 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Why not?

Announcing it when it's never normally announced made it seem like 16,000 is some kind of achievement for us, which it obviously isn't - just all feels rather small-time. Also gets the opposition fans going.

Just stick it up on the scoreboard, job done.

2-1 Rovers again.

Oh, and please don't announce the attendance over the PA system like on Saturday.

Is the Blackburn End really not open for the Cardiff game - what's all that about? Closing the Riverside is one thing, but the Blackburn End? Especially when it's been open for home games in earlier rounds both this season and in recent years. Well, it's just always been open.

They also seem to struggle to publish anything without any errors in these days (some effort considering this is just a few lines), the next round is the third round and Cardiff's win v Birmingham was in round two. 

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/september/06/ticket-news--rovers-v-cardiff-city/

1 hour ago, Andy said:

No thanks.

Can't imagine it'd appeal much to him either, it's not like he's not already managed a (relative) minnow in the CL.

He'll have much bigger clubs clamouring for him, when he does leave Rovers.

Better teams maybe, can't imagine any bigger clubs than Rangers though (I'm a big JDT fan - but Rangers are a massive club).

3 hours ago, ben_the_beast said:

Best manager since Souness. 

I love JDT, but right now he can't go down as a better manager for Rovers than Hughes. 

Hoping for Sutton United at home or something just as winnable.

12 minutes ago, Norn Iron Rover said:

Dingles attack Villa team bus...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66635771

Strange place with even stranger people.

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Does this mean Gallagher will miss Sunday?