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An NFT company are looking to buy Bradford City.
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Rovers Under 23’s at a Leicester tonight postponed due to a number of positive Covid cases. The LCFC website does not say if they are in the Leicester or Rovers camp. 😣
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4 hours ago, Butty said:
That was the point I was making to Neo who was questioning why a lot of players aren’t vaccinated because even if they were you’d still be having games called off left right and centre!
They don’t stop the spread just helps the severity of the symptoms, I can only guess a lot of footballers would back themselves to beat the virus without being jabbed which is fair enough and is their choice. Everyone should have that choice and be able to decide for themselves if the want to be jabbed.
However if he is missing a game, therefore potentially impacting on the result due to his actions, because he refuses to be vaccinated the club should be able to penalise him. The players actions should. have consequences.
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8 minutes ago, Butty said:
What difference would that make? The virus still spreads whether you’re vaccinated or not.
Vaccines have never been promoted on it stopping the spread or stopping the individual getting Covid. It is about ensuring if you do get the virus you do not get too seriously ill and potentially dying, it effectively reduces your chance of hospitalisation and taking up much needed hospital beds.
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5 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:
I get you are enthusiastic Chaddy, so am I, this season has been an unexpected, but fantastic ride so far. But you need to get real.
Just because ‘the EFL have said x, y and z’ on the 16th December means bugger all when things are developing and changing this quickly.
Exactly. Also who in their right mind would trust anything the EFL says?
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At Brighton v Wolves over 49% of fans were checked prior to entry. They accepted vaccine cards which apparently Rovers will not accept 🧐. Only two were denied entry,
I have decided to give Ewood a miss on Saturday, the first home game I have missed all season. The risks are too great and my family’s health and well being comes first. I don’t want to go in a stadium where fans are coughing, shouting and some are ignorant of the risks Covid brings. One of my friends died of Covid a few weeks back so no lectures about conspiracy theories please.
My Hull tickets are also going back.
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3 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:
He sounds a very amiable chap. When I saw him doing the rounds in the Premier Suite the other week he looked like he was having many a jolly chat.
But that isn’t what he’s paid serious cash for…
I disagree. That is his job on match day and I would except him to ‘do the rounds’.
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2 hours ago, JBiz said:
A very enjoyable discussion. Great to hear talk about SW that isn’t just banal name calling or sweeping generalisations.
I would give him a C @Herbie6590 - for similar reasons to Glenn. I feel he’s done ok in some ways but could’ve been far better. (and far worse)
Couple of key points; if the deal to sell Dack was signed and only stopped by his first injury, that probably impacted a lot of planning with investment in team.(notably contracts)
Throw in covid, and his initial task of funding a rebuild after 1 year of league one money - we've not done too shabbily with limited resources. The squad looks (and is performing) great, albeit with an unsettling, nagging, contract scenario.
The club is coming back from a period of demise and neglect that started well before his appointment. I feel he has made some positive decisions to try and alleviate some of this, such as the generation busses.
My overall main gripe with his appraisal (similar to you two and others) is this relentless “accountancy first” protocol with tickets.
It doesn’t effect me because of season tickets, and I can’t complain much because I moved to JWU as a relative is unable to use stairs anymore (they let him use lift)
That said - if I had or ever was a walk on ticket buying fan, I would be hardly attending these days, namely to cost.
Surely there is a better way?
How pleasant to read a post that is not slagging off our CEO or using petty name calling; some reasoned debate 👍
Personally I have always found SW to be pleasant, forthcoming and easy to chat with. That does not mean I agree with him (eg. ticket pricing) but you can have a robust discussion with him.
I SHALL NOW DON MY TIN SANTA HAT.
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10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:
It is specificially stated that he hasnt asked out. If he did go though, it would be a professional moving up a division and for a massive wage increase as anyone would in his position.
My anger would lie at the feet of the owners if it was to happen. It would be beyond a lack of ambition and short sightedness.
What has it got to do with the owners? He wants out and he has ambition as well as a potential pay day and who could begrudge him that? I would bite their hands off for £25M. We have always been a selling club and I have see that for 40+ years.
The real issue is how much will be made available to our Manager.
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15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:
Taraa Ben. You were slated and slagged off all over the place and in particular on this MB. Both you and Rovers will be criticised if / when you go. You could not make it up. Hypocrisy rules ok.
Good luck when you go. You came good and gave us something to be proud of.
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On 10/12/2021 at 23:27, J*B said:
He’s talking about Venkys buying a huge area of land in the Ribble Valley, which they’re hoping to get planning permission for to create a new academy.
If Rovers manage to do this deal and get planning permission it will make a lot of sense and will benefit the Club for many years to come. The real stumbling block is planning. I just hope fans view this with open eyes before coming to an opinion.
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6 minutes ago, Roverinbelfast said:
Soaked to the skin in the airport waiting to go home, re living in my head today's game.
It was a tense game 2 teams cancelled each other out for the majority of it. It took a bit of Chilean magic to get the points.
This team are playing with a level of maturity way above their tender years. They are certainly not the best technically to ever wear the famous blue and white but by god they don't half put a shift in. Credit to our manager for this.
Absolutely delighted with the 3 points and to get one over the nobbers. I was walking down the Bolton road after the game and the walkers in a box chant was loud and clear from them.
Over and out now. Thats my last game until boro end of jan. Enjoy your Saturday folks.
Ps, that was the best crowd I have seen in a long time. From were I was JW stand and BBE end lower looked full
What a cracking post. Safe travels.
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Did anyone see the PKE fans being chucked out of a box in the BBE? Jumping up and down wearing PKE shirts and winding up the Rovers fans in the BBE Lower.
They looked like right drunken tossers. I hope they did not hang round afterwards 😂
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2 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:
Preston 'fans' have apparently gone all Burnley and smashed the Darwen End Toilets up in a fit of pique.
Sad b'stards.
Coventry fans did the same a few weeks ago. Rovers charged them and this damage will cost PKE. Pillocks.
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1 hour ago, damo100 said:
Nobbers have now sold DE bottom tier according to their website.
Upper tier now on sale.
Is it pay on the day for the Preston Plastics or do they have until 5pm Friday to sell 100 or so more before they go off sale?
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The Dingles sold 700 tickets and retuned 300.
One word: “pathetic”
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I would not even spend a second looking at any PNE forum. They are full of deluded wazzocks.
I do rather enjoy walking through the town of Preston and the occasional pub wearing my Rovers jacket. For some reason it really winds them up; I also get a good number of thumbs up.
Life is a bitch ☺️😂😂😂
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The Upper Jack Walker catering was excellent v Peterborough. Indeed all the outlets were open, sadly given the sparse crowd they were not needed and I suspect most of the pies were thrown away.
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2 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:
The wisdom of the club in keeping Mowbray as manager is becoming more evident by the day with the players responding to the environment that he has created within the club. Opting for the faded has beens like Warnock, McCarthy, Hughton, Hughes would have been a big mistake.
TM is doing an excellent job under challenging circumstances. The team spirit is amazing. Well done Tony and long may it continue 💪
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This post does not quite fit this thread but it was really good to see lots of fans in the Rovers club shop this afternoon on ‘black Friday’. Thanks to decent Macron kits hopefully the retail side will be adding some value this season.
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1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:
I think we will struggle to get anywhere near 20k against Nob End....stupid pricing and too near Xmas, a very bad combination.
£30 Adult in the rickety old Riverside..FFS!
My Nobber mate told me a couple of days ago that they had only sold 1,100. Like Rovers if the plastics get a decent result against Fulham tomorrow it will result in a surge in sales.
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8 minutes ago, Devon Rover said:Right then. I'm part way back to the West Country and wanted to share a couple of thoughts while I have a coffee in services. Firstly, and please don't crucify me for this but, despite being a Rovers fan since 1992, I have NEVER been to Ewood Park before yesterday. I know. Whilst I do feel embarrassed by this, I have my reasons, which relate to stuff you don't want to hear about my long term health condition and financial struggles, as well as the obvious distance from home. A very recent cancer diagnosis in my family - my uncle who used to take a young me on road trips to watch England - has meant I have decided to start taking opportunities where I can, and not waiting for the 'perfect time' in the future. I drove up on my own yesterday as it was quite an emotional thing for me to be doing and I wanted to soak every minute up. Obviously the result was great, as was, I think, the overall performance. Hugely impressed by Rothwell, Wharton and Dolan, in particular, but not exclusively.
But the fact this was finally a big 'first' for me (I've been to lots of away matches down South), meant I spent a couple of hours wandering round the stadium before the game, and was just about the last to leave after full-time. This was purely because I wanted to remember every moment of something I had literally dreamed of for many years. And didn't really want it to end - appreciating I can't know when I'll next get to attend.
Anyway, despite the low numbers in the crowd, I realised I had found a "happy place" in Ewood Park, and before the game not just after. I made new friends amongst the season ticket holders sat around me (one couple supplied me with chocolates for the match and for my journey home!) I witnessed one of the greatest talents I have ever seen (the chap in front of me, who surprisingly revealed from his coat pocket at half-time a clearly home-prepared hot pie!) I also realised how beautiful the blue and white halves are under floodlights, just like the moon rising in the clear sky behind the Riverside and the silhouetted trees, just a glance away from a "Rovers 4-0" scoreboard. I took my time visiting Jack Walker's statue and fountain and I chatted with stewards and the shop staff. As I stood in the JWU at the end of the game, I looked around at the then totally empty stands and I realised just how lucky I was that my friend Doug Smith had moved from Blackburn to my street in Taunton in the early 90s and 'recruited' me, with his stories of Rovers legends. And how lucky we all still are that we had Jack. What I saw is still what he built. My love and protectiveness of the club is now only greater. I hope that next time I come it might be possible to meet other Forum members. It might just be that I will be less of a pathetic 'fan-boy' about the whole thing. But I suspect, and hope, not entirely.
And apologies for this spam message. Just wanted to share a view as someone with a particular perspective on what was, on paper, just a cold Wednesday night v Peterborough. But really wasn't. Now, back to the M6/M5...!What a lovely and inspiring post 👏👏
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23 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:
Really interesting read this morning in the LT. The bit about a potential ‘surprise’ omission from the team as the player is worried they might get injured suggests either Lenihan or BBD have a move lined up in January. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Nyambe or Rothwell didn’t start…
All 3 want out Paul. Non are talking to the Club. Our only option is to maximise value and look for replacements. A lot point the finger of blame at the Club but I believe that is unfair in these cases. We have always been a trading / selling Club and when someone is determined to leave the best we can do is maximise the fee we receive,
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Rafiq is a nasty piece of work, equally as are those who abused him. His credibility is now well and truly tarnished.
v Birmingham (h) - 18/12/21
in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
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But not on the 29th December.