We should all be very very worried. Dingles scored 2 today can any clarrot visitors remember the last time they scored 2. I have it on good authority Cotteril's pre match pep talk said just pretend it's Blackburn you are playing. It worked so well he's gonna do the same thing against Crewe. I wonder what he'll tell 'em when they are actually playing us. I have a funny gut feeling MGP is going to be the new Noel at the Morgue.

We want to win this one but not too well and not too easily. When we win at a canter we always have a let down in the next game, and we all know who that is.

Can't remember a wall collapsing But Exiled In Toronto has a better memory than me - he was probably at that game - could have been with me in fact in the Darwen End with the Dingles. We went to school with a number of them as the catchment area included Rossendale and Hyndburn as it was later known. The Dingles were charged twice by the Rovers lot - once from the Riverside and once when the gates opened when they surged in from Nuttall Street. Nearest I've ever come to getting a good beating - and that from my own lot! My first taste of a white hot East Lancs Derby - surprise, surprise, Rovers won that one as well. I think it was the charge from Nuttall street when the gates opened, Burnley fans tried to flee causing some of the wall to give in. If memory serves, many clarrots ran into the Riverside and were duly chased back, not sure I was very very young then. Funny perspective from a clarrot in the Nuttall street enclosure with his dad was that it was the clarrots chasing Rovers fans out of the Riverside. Bet his dad told him that though. BTW Don't we play Norwich tomorrow.

That could not of been our van? there was only 21 of us remember it well.

Sort of on the hooligan level but remember I was young. Tranny van t'turf. I think 21 of us packed in it, met at a mates flat at 8:00am. Nothing but Blue and White heading through Accy. Went to the ribble bus stop across from "the old house at home" pub, a clarrot hang out. Stopped Burnley fans getting on the bus, several of them ran into the pub only to come running back out when they saw it was full of Rovers fans that was funny. Best part, leaving the game in the plain white tranny van, 3 up front driver and 2 passengers. We got made by a handful of clarrots, maybe 5 or 6 they started in foot pursuit yelling and screaming. Paul the driver casually turned into a parking lot behind a camping store, the clarrots duly followed intent on mayhem. The three lads upfront go out and started offering it, the clarrots kept coming. Just as the clarrot got close enough our lads opened the back doors to the van and we started to pile out. the look on them Burnley fans faces as they realised they had just been had was supreme, it was like they was on ice skates as they tried to about face and high tail it. We laughed all the way home, I've never seen eyes get so big, it really was classic. The scariest visit to the Turf was the same day, got home from the match and Mum had fixed me a mixed grill before she went off for a few bevvy's herself, stuck it under the grill to keep it warm. Well, duly drunk I passed out, awoke to a house full of smoke and me mother screaming bloody murder, mixed grill was black and shrivelled clarrots were nowt compared to the wrath I caught that evening. Skuleked out for a few refreshers, things were still going off in bits and spats. Good day twas really good, shame about the mixed grill though I was famished.

Nah Longsider, not trying to fan flames really just reminiscing. How've you been? Have not heard from you in a coons age. Will you be wearing the whites . Hope life is treating you good, join in have fun but don't be naughty. Someone else was asking after you too, I won't be over. I will however, like many others, be plonked in front of the telly for it. ...well....I have been busy... Life is treating me very well..... Yeah, that Tony Scholes on ClaretsMad is sure a character. Does like it all his own way. I have been barred 4 times for having an opinion. I just booked my flights now for a weekend of debauchery. There are direct flights from Pheonix to London.... so whats stopping ya? No passport, no money, no tickets, a mortgage, a job, that plus it's on the telly.

Aye, and all 8,000 of us (in that part of the ground) had a smile as big as yours when the third went in. Couldn't stop smiling when the second went in at the 2-0 home friendly win in 1970. What did you think of that game? Was that when the wall collapsed at the Darwen End. I won't say why it collapsed for fear of being branded.

So how many did we squeeze on there Wrongsider,800 ?. The police closed the away section 5 hours before the kick off ....it gets better five hours before kick-off now...... I hope you took your deck chairs Make your minds up you lot eh...? No, I remember it well, it was 5 hours before the week before the kick off. We all lived by licking the empty crisps bags blowing around the terracing. Shut up about 2 and it was quite a squeeze. What were your recollections OLS?

Joined as I like the occasional bit of banter. Obviously if my presence upsets you I will gladly retire from your MB - assuming of course Rovertime et al will no longer visit ours Stick around you are doing fine.

Tell you what thats a good idea if it could be achieved. Not just cards but anything blue and white it should be a theme day i'd say. and i ain't going dont be nicking our ideas http://boards.footymad.net/mboard/load.php...&mid=2141648397 I may have a doppelganger but I don't like to talk about it Post largely on Clarets Mad - this is the only rival board I post on with any regualrity, and occasionaly PNE I used to post on clarrots are mad but was banned for some "insensitive" comments regarding your FA Cup loss at home to the Wombles many moons ago. That mod of yours can dish it out but he can't take it can he, he even bans his own kind just for simply disagreeing. I think even the original Longsider had a verbal with him.

No not really Mr Dingle sir, I used to be but age has slowed me a bit I would say I am more like a Johnny English now? Probably was then too, just dumber than I am now, I think.

Fair do's EiT, you disappoint me abit. We were at theirs. Fairs do's would be how many clarrots jumped up and down in the old Riverside or Blackburn End when they scored at ours. Dare I venture a guess nary a one. .....well what do you know....seems that chap from Pheonix is still doin his best to fan the flames from afar. USABlue....are you not going to book yourself a transatlantic for this one..? I have spent the last couple of days enjoying the banter on this thread. In particular the claims that you lot squeezed 8000 in the Longside away end.... But...its good to see you sold out this time......and I sincerely hope that our two clubs can show the nation what a real derby is like.... Nah Longsider, not trying to fan flames really just reminiscing. How've you been? Have not heard from you in a coons age. Will you be wearing the whites . Hope life is treating you good, join in have fun but don't be naughty. Someone else was asking after you too, I won't be over. I will however, like many others, be plonked in front of the telly for it.

Fair do's EiT, you disappoint me abit. We were at theirs. Fairs do's would be how many clarrots jumped up and down in the old Riverside or Blackburn End when they scored at ours. Dare I venture a guess nary a one.

I was, in fact I have never watched us live POST JW. Let me ask you this however, you indicate you were around way back when we actually did paint your town Blue and White, so tell me were you there THROUGH the sub 2000 gates or did your interest rekindle after "the" Orient game. Oh and let's not forget 30 years before JW you lot would pull 30,000+ for the Evertons and Man U's then pull 13,000 shortly after for the Ipswich's should we move on to glory hunters now. Let's see if we can exhaust every argument before the game. Kudo's to you though LS you are trying very hard to keep it level headed, unlike some clarrots who shall be nameless, that bragged at the Celtic game their DAD was soooo hard he beat up a drunken jock while the Celtic fan was taking a whizz. Always took the bicuit that one did, pretty hard that init? Hope the game goes off without incident.

I used to enjoy the Old Bob Lord is a Butcher. I don't recall any bricks flying but I do remember early on, before it got too crowded and they locked the gates, golf Balls bouncing back and forth. Also remember the scarves of both teams burning in no mans land. Anyone remember the ceremonial Clarrot scarf burning that used to go on on the Riverside on a regular basis.

For those who don't know, Bob "the Butcher" Lord sold Burnley's best player (possibly of all time) Dunno about that. Dobson was very good but to be fair to the Deliverance folk they had some pretty special players in the 1960s and 1970s. The likes of Ralph Coates, Willie Morgan, Ray Pointer, Jimmy McIlroy, Leighton James, Dave Thomas, Brian Flynn and Ray Hankin were just a few of their top-class performers, most of whom were home-produced. Hence the use of the word possibly, do keep up jim.

For those who don't know, Bob "the Butcher" Lord sold Burnley's best player (possibly of all time) to finance the building of a stand he named after his good self. Hence some people sarcastically refer to it as the Martin Dobson Stand.

At the famous 3-2 Boxing Day Derby in 1977 there were around 12,000 Rovers fans at the game. Away section of Longside, gates locked at 2pm with 8,000 in. Beehole End another 2,000+ with others in stands. During the latter part of that season we averaged 10,000+ ie we took more than our home average. Just goes to show what we can do when we try and more importantly when the Dingles are there for the taking. That day was the best ever for atmosphere. Goose bumps down my back and i wasn't even there I was and must admit to being rather scared that day. Why so SAR?

At the famous 3-2 Boxing Day Derby in 1977 there were around 12,000 Rovers fans at the game. Away section of Longside, gates locked at 2pm with 8,000 in. Beehole End another 2,000+ with others in stands. During the latter part of that season we averaged 10,000+ ie we took more than our home average. Just goes to show what we can do when we try and more importantly when the Dingles are there for the taking. That day was the best ever for atmosphere. Que the Dingle denials. Brilliant day that, just magical. Rovers fans wandering round Burnley at 10 am, no pubs open, Rovers fans locked out of any that did open, home fans only. Glad there was ale on the ground. Bloody great day. It sure was a squeeze in that Longside but what a great atmosphere, Rovers murder 'em first half, had we not missed that penalty I think we would have declared after an hour. Burnley pulled it back to 3-2 nerves jangling till the final whistle.

That's a good one that.

Hah here they go trying to down play it. Some silly buggar on your board actually suggested we were ###### it that we might not sell out, real daft one that. Don't try to belittle the monumental game this is to you. It's huge, it's the hugest, biggest of the big. Be nice for us to win sure but as I have said I'd take the three against Norwich over a cup win against you lot. Nice try but you are fooling no one with your rhetoric. Same idiot also said t'clarrots would sell out in 2 days, perhaps that silly old dumb clarrot did not see the number of CONFIRMED tickets sold last time they visited Ewood, took 'em many weeks to get that far. So let's wait for the day and see who wins shall we. As for L'pool did Baros play twice, the team they put out for you was totally different than the one for Man U, your list includes 4 semi regular first teamers, where's Gerrard, where's Hamman. If I want to big us up I just go read one of your web sites there are enough clarrots on there going on about how crap you are, oh, and how on earth are you going to beat Blackburn.

Make your mind up Longy, do you want to come on here foh bantah or brag about the hooligan element. Seems you jack me up for something similar. Biggest game for you this, even read some clarrots would be willing to toss league games to get this win under your belt, it is your biggest game. Don't think you will find too many rovers fans would would swap beating you for a Premiership victory right now. Not even me. Gimme three points.

So does this mean half our squad is going to be knackered ahead of our biggest game of the season thus far while Norwich will be good and rested.

What big games have you lot ever been involved in? apart from the mauling we gave you a few years back? Pull the other one samual Now that sounds a lot more like the Gav I know and love.

And lo and behold here you are, putting in your two cents.