Sadly I think we will win...

It is part of the fathomably unfathomable pattern that the Gurning one does, to pepper an appalling run with top notch performances and improbable wins out of the blue. Tomorrow though I think we are just too far gone for any kind of fairy dust to sprinkle magic cheer into our weekend, so am going for 2-0 if we put up a glue-like show of stubborn resistance and prove difficult to break down, or 5-1 if the Canaries power past our young starlings on their headlong charge back to the Prem. Either way, the Gurning one talks complete bollox before and after the game, whilst remaining resolutely taciturn yet mobile of facial expression during the match. Coventry 3 - not for me. COYB

I wonder what Dack thinks.

Actually it wasn't a freak accident. Raya clearly fouled Dack. That the officials missed the infringement doesn't mean it didn't happen. It was a pressurised situation, sure. It was heat of the moment and unusual, sure. It was a deliberate action on the part of David Raya (to prevent Dack reaching the ball, rather than deliberately seeking to inflict an injury), I am sure it was. It was not 'an accident' it was a foul. And that foul cost this club its player and the value of that player on the transfer market. Simple as that.

Fair enough. I stick by my assertion that the consequences of the foul perpetrated on Dack are to be borne entirely by the club and the player himself, financially, professionally and without any notion of culpability on the player who inflicted the injury.

Sorry, she went ages ago in one of the accountant's cost cutting exercises. Sad really, as she was doing a great job keeping the terraces clean and swabbing down the stadium with that broom stuck up her arse...

Like I said earlier, dead rubber training game testimonial shite.

Not watching this, but let me guess... one is populated by a football manager looking to outwit the opposition, and the other (ours) features a half wit gurning champion who appears not to give a fook.. Am I close?

It is what I posted at the time, Raya recklessly and cynically cost our club one its prize assets, and possibly ended the career of a special footballer. The ref bottle it, and Rovers literally count the cost. Shocking.

Really difficult to call this one.. not because of a lack of form data or recent experience, but because to be honest I just can't be arsed. The result doesn't matter to us (it makes not one iota of difference to the Gurning One's tenure and we can't really contemplate relegation given the footballing turds floating below us in the Championship sewer-end). For the hard pressed fans of our once proud club the game is nothing more than a dead rubber, a training exercise, a side show, an irrelevance, a waste of an evening probably much better spent watching the lawn dry out., How low can we go? Let's see...

You have clearly hit a nerve with some of the oddball posters who come on here and act as if nothing is wrong with the set upat the club. My view is that many of these are actually plants, on the payroll of those at the club who don't want actual fans rocking their cosy little plans for the club. Feck em, I say!

Great work Nick, you are a bright light in the Rovers' wilderness! Surely there must be some 'journalist' out there worthy of the title who is capable of following the stinking trail back to its foul instigators (basically the proponents of the current plans for Brockhall)? You would have thought there is a community interest story at the least, and potentially the unearthing of a major and systematic long term blight on clubs like ours, Coventry City, Southend United etc.... On the scale and duration of this scam alone, there would appear to be a juicy story just itching to be picked up. SCAMMERS OUT!

'S why I have you on ignore, sweety 😉

Did anyone record the game? Perhaps we could re-run the incident that led to one of our prize assets being rendered worthless negative value to the club for the foreseeable future (perhaps even permanently).. It was a foul, despite the unusual circumstances. Officials missed it (or bottled it). Rovers pay the price. Mowbray hardly batted an eyelid as the stretcher passed him. Fact. Hasta has replied Show Reply

Haha, yes of course, that is a THING now!

The guy (PM) has got form, Nick, as a prize chump and a WUM. You can expect a tirade of personal abuse and vitriol for having called him out, mark my words.. As for the injury to Dack, as with all disasters, it was a combination of things going wrong, rather than one specific factor. What if he'd not started and been chasing all over the pitch for 80 mins? What if he'd been rested for the Tuesday game? What if the pitch wasn't a professional players' boggy nightmare? What if he'd nicked the ball off Raya, gone round him back towards the goal (would he have been hauled down)? What if he'd not tried to be a clever clogs and sneak up on Raya? What if Raya had not freaked out and clattered him, but just fallen on the ball (probably handling it outside the area)? What if Dacky had trundled back to his own half like everyone else...? We will, of course, never know. What we do know, however, is that the TV pictures clearly show the Brentford goalkeeper a) fouling Dack b) panicking under pressure; c) causing many many thousands of real damage to a Blackburn Rovers player and d) potentially ending a fellow professional's career in any meaningful sense. I felt sick when I saw what happened. The referee, in mitigation, didn't have the benefit of VAR (if that isn't an oxymoron!) and play had gone one a fair distance before anyone realised there was something seriously wrong with young Bradley (other than himself, of course, who must have been having an 'oh shit!' moment 😞 ) Rovers, on the night, returned to huffing and puffing without creating anything worthy of note or seeming likely to score. Brentford's penalty was a travesty, but hey- maybe their players are better at drawing attention to themselves in their opponent's box than our lot (esp Mr Dack)? Mowbray was far too pally with their lot for my liking - too many gurning smiles and pats on the back. The guy plainly doesn't give a fuck. Pasha out.

Ha, am there on Tuesday - probably shuffling in with many a former comrade from the days and nights a rolling on the BBE 😎 Anyways, back to the job in hand... let's use the consistency in the side to send these softies from the Sarf back to West London with their stinking tails between their jellied eel legs tonight! COYB!!!

It was like nothing else on earth at the time the celebrations for Rovers goals, the anticipation and excitement of match day home and away, the press of the crowd at your back, the chaos in the BBE when some lunatic away fan ventured in, the losing the ball in the floodlights, the taste of the pies and bovril at half time, the wafting of tobacco smoke over the Riverside - a real 'smell of a crowd'... Oh for a Hollands pie and a pint at half time these days.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much....

No, Mrs WIR indulges me for two things, my love of Rovers and my penchant for old Volvos 🙂 She is football agnostic, having been born in Lincoln and, as a Vicar's daughter (ooer missus!) moved around many times whilst growing up, so never forming any strong affinity towards any area. I've just checked too, and can confirm only 5 fingers on each hand 🙂 She does think the Brockhall plans stink though!

That is what I would call a blistering dismembering of a flawed plan being peddled by crooks. BRAVO, Rev, BRAVO!

Sign me up for one of those! Heck, sign me up for 5 in sizes to fit me, my 2 grown up sons and 2 little daughters !

I think we can all see what has happened to the other sides who, despite having limited resources, have kicked on towards the playoffs / promotion, whilst we have fallen away. There are at least four elements that have been missing from Rovers under the gurning one since mid-November: 1) A clear and consistent game plan 2) Leadership to inspire belief and commitment where it matters (on the pitch) 3) Playing players in their natural position to allow their strengths to be utilised 4) A bit of steel (no, not Steele) in defence (we've shipped far too many sloppy goals) The first three are all down to TM and his bizarre approach / losing of the plot. The last one is down to a variety of factors, including Mr Gurn, but also leadership and application on the pitch. Again we will finish the season with more questions about what 'might have been' than memories of 'what was' and, for me, the blame for this has to lie with the manager. If he had put more effort into sorting the defence; if he had played to players strengths, if he had sought a consistent line up and stuck to it; if he had adopted a consistent style of play / game plan and stuck to it; Ifs, buts and damned maybes is all we are left with, unfortunately. So I say, feck it - for the remainder of the season let's just take some scalps and bruise some egos. We are going to be in this division for at least another season (up or down!) but with any luck we will employ someone as manager who can actually address some of the problems that have held our heads under water this time out. COYB!

But our player, Gallagher, was as slow-witted and clumsy as fook, just like he continues to be at the other end of the pitch 🤔 Oh, for a player with the goal instinct and quality of someone like Andre Ayou - we'd have had a hatful if we had a properly hungry and sharp goal sniffer last night, rather than confidence-lacking lads who have been coached out of any knowledge of the joys of hitting 'th onion bag. Still, it was another slightly more encouraging turn out from our lot once again, and a million miles from that shite served up against QPR, Coventry and the like.

I had to double check myself! But no, it was cut and paste from the Rovers news pages on www.rovers.co.uk Crazzzzzzyyyyy Tombola DUDERINO!!