6 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

You've never completed the play-offs😉

competitive that should have wrote, i hope you accept that my true sincere sorry for looking to 😜mislead you 

12 minutes ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

True, but at the same the game is built on schadenfreude! I don't think I'm as bitter and twisted as some, but if I were a PNE fan I don't think I'd have been able to be as generous as you seeing Blackpool having their day in the sun. 

I want that fussed when they got relegated but hats off to others who achieve ...we had a little spell of being completive in the championship play offs and failed.   

19 minutes ago, rigger said:

But you assumed that I regard preston as a fierce rival, which I don't. Any team we play next season are to me rivals.

Well as has already been accepted everybody is entitled to an opinion and most things in life are simply that however strange they may be to others... two and two is four...no arguments ... are Preston fierce rivals with anybody but Blackpool ...not in my opinion ( i was being a little silly with that remark .please forgive me)  are Preston and Backburn at this present moment.. rivals in my opinion they are.

The meaning of rivals

a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity:

I would suggest to anybody that the meaning of rivals most certainly fits the present day Blackburn - Preston situation....

You win tonight your above us on goal difference and the aim of all teams is in fact promotion so i suppose your right although i am not sure why your referring to next season but yes i suppose all teams with a fighting chance of promotion are indeed rivals.... although in my opinion neither us or you are likely to get promoted but you never know Luton did amange last season.

Just now, rigger said:

I don't see Preston as either fierce or rivals.

Just now, rigger said:

I don't see Preston as either fierce or rivals.

Ok thats fine but i asked you a question, would you like to answer it or continue with your child like comments?

1 minute ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Yeah I was rooting for that Blackpool side , would of been sweet if they would of done united and stayed up 

Less of an issue for a Rovers fan but again my thinking has always been to support all other local and northern teams bar when they play against us.... jealousy and hatred is a bad thought pattern, and if smallish Lancashire teams can compete in the prem its show hope is there for us all .... it also usually allows myself and my grandson to pop along to watch prem football at a cost that is affordable!

4 minutes ago, rigger said:

I hope so.

Then who would your fierce rivals be....

2 minutes ago, booth said:

So a soft pen did decide where the 3 points went then. It looked like your player was one on one with the keeper completely missed the goal so threw himself on the ground after feeling Coventry's defenders head touch the back of his leg (who'd fallen arse over tit on the wet pitch).

Coventry were poor though.

As you appear to have read my initial run down of our results and point totals this season you will see that i have put WHAT I felt was a fair result.  

If you wish to suggest that any game is simply based on any given decision then that's your entitlement.  If you wish to take your mindset then i suppose we could knock the "dodgy" penalty off in your opinion  (if you go on the Coventry forum you fill find that a good numbers of there fans stated it was a penalty) and i could knock the dodgy Coventry first goal for offside and we would have a score of 2 - 1.  Would that change my opinion of the game ...no.  What do you base an opinion on?

Generally we bossed the first half without producing much of a goal threat but going in two one and then the game was more open and went end to end......my opinion was it was good solid win against a team that sold big and invested big. (in comparison to us)

9 minutes ago, tomphil said:

But it was 2000 less last season ?

Must be doing well or something.....

Have you seen the form table for the last 8 games?

Relegation form.

2 minutes ago, booth said:

What do you think about Lowe? Preston fans don't seem to like him generally.

Some people do not like him because it appears they are anti scouse...i am not i do not care where you come from if you up to it. some people do not like his fist bump to the crowd after any game that involves a win.  I think that the day is about entertainment and if parts of the crowd like it ie the younger ones no issues with me, i do partake away from home ... some people say he never takes the blame for owt.. i agree .. some people say he is tactically inept.  i think he is still learning this div and coaches a team that often comes up against teams with far better players... some people said he came in giving it the big one on his style of play...i ask them what do you want him to say!

My feelings are it is what it is and that often the grass is not always greener and managing to compare this crazy league possibly needs to be not attempted as its a league with such extreme levels of financial advantages you could argue all day long what's the most important factor.  If you argue against the advantages of parachute payments you will have people saying  "well Luton...look at Luton"

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3 hours ago, booth said:

Wasn’t a soft penalty the decider?

The penalty was the second goal for Preston which i believe was a foul therefore a penalty the only issue was that the lad didn't get sent off.....   dependent on how you wish to see it Coventry first goal was offside.

So overall a good solid win that should have been by a bigger margin unlike the defeat to West Brom which could have been eight!

24 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

No Dingles, Blackpool or Wigan this season so it’s the only local game for either side, so of course they’ll fetch plenty.. as we will there.

I must admit a number of fans do get ever so excited about numbers.  I often find that the more numbers there are especially i have found at Blackburn ( easy of getting to game) is that the more numbers do not pan out into a better atmosphere.

As i find difficulty in our fans most recently at gentry day Middleborough "buzzing" off a great atmosphere produced while getting battered on the pitch and not even attempting to compete...... If Ryan lowe had been in distance that day he would have got more than a mouthful....

But i suppose its what turns people on ... some people like to make immature comments on a forum and get off on it...

6 minutes ago, lraC said:

I have to say, I admire the fact that you support your local team and place of birth. That's exactly why I support the Rovers.

From at he age of seven I was taken to a game, when we were in the old third division and have loved the club ever since.

I grew up with some of my school friend supporting the likes of Leeds, Liverpool and Man U despite all of them being Blackburn lads, so never quite understood it.

I can proudly say, I am a Blackburn lad and have not got my son and Grandson both following the club and hopefully both still will, long after my passing.

There is nothing wrong with supporting your home town team and fair play for you coming on here and saying so,

Enjoy the match tonight.

In general i find the Rovers site much better that the Preston one and always enjoy engaging with other fans on match days... I do not have a son but a grandson i have and he doesn't have a prem team he supports Preston North End.  

I do not know what the Blackburn away support is like (although i did attend the Blackburn v Burnley game last season) but i can tell you if your interested that Preston have a solid base of young fans aged 15 - 21 travelling away.

I hope all Lancashire teams have this and therefore the base of all our clubs  is stable for a long time...

4 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

You were doing so well until your last sentence 😂

I have to also admit sadly that enjoyed Blackpool fight in the prem back in early part of the after life...... Sadly i admit to wanting them to stay up and admit i quite liked Hollaway and wouldn't have minded him as our manager...

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

Such a well thought out retort your humour is top class scruff.

I wouldn't say so i think by reading your comments most can see that trying to attempt to have a proper conversation with you and your type would be pointless.

But as its matchday im going to try,  If you could if you will take the time to explain both of your comments to me that would be great and make me perhaps be able to understand your mindset.

At the moment i believe your a child but perhaps there is another reason your manner is as it is.

2 hours ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Growing up in Wigan has made me detest Man U. I learned to hate Burnley over the years but Man U will always be the team I hate the most. It’s in my blood. My family are all Liverpool fans and when I said I’d fell in love with the rovers the only reply I ever got was along as it’s not that lot (referring to Man U)

I always look out for the local results including “ the old Lancashire” as it’s now unfondly put. I want to beat them all more than other random teams but when we are not involved I’d rather they all did well. Blackpool , Wigan, Oldham,Bolton,  bury, Preston . Aslong as it’s not united or Burnley but tonight I will want to win that little bit more to make sure we keep our crown as  the best town team in the land . Maybe that’s why I don’t mind the other Lancashire teams because I know they will never eclipse us no matter how hard they try

I am glad i have found a fellow supporters with the same opinion, as a life long Preston fan i can put my hand on my heart and say that i enjoyed the Jack Walker time and was happy for Rovers to win the Prem.  I can also say that i enjoyed Burnley fight in the prem under Dyche......

10 hours ago, R0verb0y said:

Erm, well, yeah; it would rather defeat the raison d'etre of most team sports.

Excuse me asking; but what would be the sense of playing most team games without opponents? Isn't that what I'm sure more than a few of us on here might think of as "Claret logic"?!

I think you may be confused what i was looking to suggest in maybe a poor manner was that it TAKES two to tango, ie you may well have won more and more important trophies but without others you would win nothing.  So to make it more simple what i am saying is that its all about the competition itself.

Also could i suggest that history is a matter of opinion for example if i were a dingle i could look back and suggest that Burnley over the last decade have been the most successful team in Lancashire.  I suppose it depends on what agenda to push.

My agenda is  i am an old preston boy who supports his home town team and any glory or lack of it does not stop me attending home and away to support my team.    It doesn't matter to me if we are in non league i will still be going........

8 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Couldn't give a toss. 

Time to put the dingle cousins back in the box. 

5000 primark army ...the scruffs of nobberville

SCHOOLS OUT

7 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

Our chances of winning this game improved drastically when Wharton's red was overturned. Not because Wharton is a brilliant defender but because it means we don't have to have a complete reshuffle and a makeshift back 4. Brittain would have been at LB, Pickering at CH, and Trav at RB. Chances of getting a result with that back 4 and GK that can't cope with crosses would have been pretty low. 

Tough game still, but I think we'll win. Preston have overperformed in the first part of the season and are now levelling out. We, on the other hand, are a good side and should have more points on the board. 

As a fan that's been to every game bar Ipswich away i can give you the following opinion....

Bristol away - could have won but drew

Sunderland Home - Could have lost be three goals but won

Sheff Wed away - Deserved to win against a poor team

Swansea home - a win for pne but draw possibly fairer

Stoke away - deserved to win and won

Plymouth home - could have easily have lost but won

Birmingham home - Deserved the win

Rotherham away - should have won but drew

WBA HOME - battered could have ben eight

Leicester away - hung in then easily beaten

Ispwich away  - poor easily beaten

Millwall home- home drew but could have won game in first 20 min

Southampton home - drew but should have won

Hull away lost but fair would have been draw

Coventry homes - good solid home win

As a quick rule of thumb most games in this league that we win we could have easily have not!

3 hours ago, Hasta said:

The Burnley games are on a different level, as I'm sure are the Blackpool games for PNE.

There is more rivalry to this fixture than if we were playing Wigan or Blackpool, mainly due to the proximity between the two clubs and the fact you tend to work / encounter PNE fans more than other local clubs. Same applies with Bolton. The PNE game I see as an enjoyable derby.  You can go across, spend a full day in Preston, mingle and chat with their fans in most of the town centre pubs (as long as you are not being a dick head), and then enjoy the game. It's more enjoyable than Bolton as the Breezeblock is badly situated for a 'day out'. 

Whenever I look on the Preston Forum though, I do think that this fixture means more to you than to us.

 

To be fair maybe it does i want to win all games especially derby's...... as you say the Blackburn derby is not as fierce and is more enjoyable although i don't think i have ever been on a session in Blackburn on a match day.  Football fans are all the same bar they support a different team.

Back in the day when you where in the prem we use to jump off for a night out after Burnley and that was good fun....

My uncle tells me that in the 1970 both teams use to operate a bus to go to each others games when they were away from home.. my grandad in his day use to cycle to all teams in Lancashire simply to watch that teams star play......

3 hours ago, Displaced Rover said:

Yes - obviously just want to see us win every game in an ideal world.

I'll illustrate my point - I think I know the outcome of every dingle game, key incidents, background etc since 2000/01.

Whereas all the games against Preston (Jansen and 2017 relegation season aside) blur into all the other games we've had in that time. Maybe I'm from the wrong part of Lancashire (I don't know any Preston fans personally), it just doesn't mean any more than any other Championship fixture to me.  As you say, I could be in the minority.

Not knowing some annoy9ng little nobber probably means you miss out on the sensation of beating the pne..... i could maybe set of an adoption programme where those that don't know an annoying nobber could adopt one or maybe a family.... 

10 minutes ago, Displaced Rover said:

Think the definition of a derby requires a rivalry, not just proximity. I don’t think about Preston from one game to the next. No different to playing Ipswich in my eyes.

Everybody is entitled to an opinion but most fans as i have already stated agree both teams have bigger rivalries but i would suggest your probably in the minority and that clearly even by reading this forum there is clear evidence that a number of your supporters see this as a rivalry and a game they would like to win.  Although i would agree that most supporters want to to win every  game and it doesn't matter where the team is from!

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

For me, (and I don’t say this lightly) the club has been pretty sensible with the allocation, as for a night game on Sky at £30 it’s difficult to gauge how many they’ll fetch. Especially as they only brought c4k for a dinner time match and so didn’t actually require the upper tier to be opened last season.

Give them the bottom tier first, if they sell out that give them more, all fair enough.

I would say so i think its all been done in a fair and business like manner allowing all that want to travel to travel.  As you said last game just after the world cup i think was a smaller than what i would have expected following from Preston, not sure why but it was.

11 hours ago, R0verb0y said:

In any correspondence with my old schoolmate now in New Zealand who follows That Lot from Burnley, I always use the phrase "Lancashire's Most Historic Football Club" on the grounds that we've won, among other Trophies, The Football League; the Premier League; the F.A. Cup; and the Football League Cup.

It's the breadth of our successes that make us Lancashire's Most Historic Football Club.

(To spare his blushes, I never refer to the Full Members' Cup. That's because we won it the season before That Lot came within 5 minutes of dropping out of the Football League altogether!)

it does appear that way....lol,,, although without all the the other clubs you wouldn't have been able to beat anybody!

The English football pyramid the best and most interesting in the world.

47 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

They haven’t sold what they have been given yet after being on sale for weeks, and the game’s tomorrow, so what revenue is the club missing out on exactly?

That allocation sounds like half of the upper tier and the bottom (with netted off sections). Their Twitter account stated that ‘on the day sales to be confirmed’, so every chance they will still be able to rock up and buy one at Ewood if they do sell out today.

I slag off the commercial operation down there regularly, but don’t see the issue on this occasion.

I would have to agree with you on this one it does look like we have not sold all our allocation and if we do manage it today then it will be today and meaning that the vast majority bar one or two have had enough time to purchase a ticket.  I would believe that more fans would require more security types both police and stewards as well as catering staff.

10 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

all the pne fans i know are mega excited by the thought of beating us,i know they`ve had **** all to celebrate for the last 60 years but getting aroused at the thought of beating blackburn is the epitome of a proper small club syndrome imo

i think that's a fairly common thought process amongst all fans playing in a local derby and the derby is local even if both clubs have bigger local rivalries  going on against other more important enemies.

If i make ask you what you get excited about that would help me to understand your thought process..