I'm back on the Lidl lager. Copious amounts.

What's everyone drinking? FYI I've given up on the Lidl lager and moved on to home made sloe gin. By the time this horrorshow is over I fully expect to be on the meths....

44 minutes ago, Butty said:

Can’t say I’ve ever heard of that song 😂 but David Bowie obviously took some inspiration from it! 

Just looked it up on youtube... In the photo of the band on there, I'll swear it's Nigel Farage at the back! Always wondered what he did before he became a professional twat.

7 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

MacKenzie...God, I never recognised him!...until you mentioned it. My lad showed me the video.

Re the scapegoating, Lyle Taylor was one of a number of footballers, who took that line, but were I a Charlton fan, I know I would feel aggrieved about this player.

Obviously, relegation was not only down to Taylor, but he might have helped avoid it.

I certainly felt aggrieved about Shane Duffy and Owen Coyle. I am not sure I was merely scapegoationg them.

That said, I lay the blame for that dreadful relegation squarely on the shoulders of our ever so 'umble owners!

Never forgive. Never forget lol

Let's not forget that the arsehole Mackenzie was editor of the Sun when they published the infamous 'The Truth' headline about Liverpool fans after Hillsborough, urinating on the dead and picking their pockets. An utter, utter pathetic excuse for a man.

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

Tony Currie played with him at Sheffield along with players like Bill Dearden, Alan Woodward, Keith Eddy, John Colquhoun and Jim Brown and not to mention the ex Rovers like Bradford, Garbett and Speight (maybe Endean too). There was also a County cricketer called Ted Helmsley if I remember correctly.

He'd have been in his element at Bramall Lane as they were still playing county cricket there then.

Speaking of BL, an old geezer (ie a bit older than me) I know from my local and a big cricket man told me he saw Don Bradman play at the Lane for the Aussies V Yorkshire. Talk about legends...

6 hours ago, 47er said:

The wording on his gravestone should read "Six points short".

No, it will be "I'm on a journey....the greatest journey of all"

I'm torn between this and the 75 promotion-era kit, with the vee collar insert at the front. I always think a slight touch of  red really sets off the blue and white.

I'm currently toasting our latest shit-show with a cheeky little Perlenbacher pilsner from my local wine merchant Lidl & Co.

£2.99 for a pack of four. A very appropriate pairing, I think.....

England are doing well in the First Test, though. Let's look on the bright side!

Raya just dropped a clanger at Boro

1 hour ago, bazza said:

 

It was one or the other. I really don't know. Was the Mecca on St Peter Street between Mincing Lane and Darwen Street? If so this pub was on Darwen St.

I think the Wheatsheaf was Ken Pilling's pub on Mincing Lane. I'm pretty sure the one you are thinking of was the George (at the bottom of Mincing Lane, where it joined Darwen Street). I looked it up in a 1951 Street directory of Blackburn and surrounding area which I inherited from an uncle of mine. Great book, has every address and lists occupant and their occupation. Anyone want to know who lived in their house in 1951, just give me a dm. Please form an orderly queue, however.

2 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Yes, think you're right there. Is NW the blond in the bottom photo?

I think so, but not sure. I'd like it to be because one of the Rovers -mad mates I used to go to Ewood with was Neil Wilkinson's cousin and I have very fond memories of him shouting 'Come on our Neil!' every time he got near the ball.

58 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Sir Roger Jones, Billy Wilson, Derek Fazackerley, Dick Mulvaney (?), George Sharples I think, Stuart Metcalfe in there. 

The very best Rovers kit of all time...... round neck shirt, white socks and shorts. 

I think that may be Laurie Calloway rather than Mulvaney, and Neil Wilkinson instead of Billy Wilson. I'm sure neither DM nor BW played at the same time as Sir Roger.

On 03/02/2021 at 19:59, bazza said:

I know we've moved on from old Blackburn pubs but I just want to ask one question.

I'm not a Blackburn person but in the early 1960s we used to go to the Locarno (Mecca). I seem to remember enjoying the pubs, Jubilee, Vulcan and was it the Peel(?). There was a pub opposite the entrance to the Mecca (name please) and, if you came out of the Mecca, turned right to the main road, turned right again and a few yards down crossed the main road to a large pub. I always called it the St. Leger, but what was its real name?

 

Was it the George Hotel? A Thwaites pub, if memory serves.

Just heard a bit of commentary on the BBC about St Mirren scoring a second against Celtic. I picked out the words 'Duffy' and 'shocker'

2 hours ago, Riversider28 said:

I first started going to the Locarno as it was called then around 1966/7. When Mecca decided to upgrade the venue they held a competition for people to rename it. I can’t remember what the prize was for the winner(anyone out there know it?), but I had a go wanting it to be called “Topaz”. I was gutted when I didn’t win. The Golden Palms opened in June 1969.

I went to the Rovers end-of-season knees-up/awards do at the end of the 1975 Championship season. Don Martin got player of the season.

19 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

couple of glasses of aussie white wine was guaranteed to get the night off to swinging start!!!!!!!!!

I once took a mate from London to Blackburn Yates's and said you have to try this Aussy white wine. He had a dock and said 'Well, it may be Australian, and it may be white, but I don't think it's wine."

Somebody else on here must have been at the David Bowie gig at KGH , after Aladdin Sane came out? Fantastic - as we all agreed in the Vulcan afterwards. I'd seen him on the legendary 'Ziggy' tour at Preston Guildhall the year before.

I saw the Four Pennies at KGH circa 1963 when they had their big hit, 'Juliet'. I suppose because of that, and the home town connection, they were top of the bill. One of the support acts was a really good band who wore red hunting jackets at the time..... The Kinks! Whatever happened to them?

Also on the bill: Herman's Hermits and the Stylos.

On 22/01/2021 at 21:45, Gav said:

Anyone who arrived at Blackburn station or left on route to away games will have come across this:

I briefly worked on Blackburn station back in the early seventies and on one particular shift one of my jobs was to wash down that display case. Also used to wind up that big clock on the right.

Thanks for the memories!

Are we back to being a great team now? How few points are we off the top six???

I'm off to start cooking the tea.

1 minute ago, Darwen Rover 007 said:

Speaks volumes... 

Sadly, not best-sellers.....

9 minutes ago, matt83 said:

I wonder what actually needs to happen for Mowbray to go

Perhaps we could consider impeaching him?

1 minute ago, WIR Second Coming said:

It is always darkest before the dawn 🤔

It's been a bloody long night though. 

1 hour ago, Crimpshrine said:

Just So.

If you can keep your job when all around are losings theirs......

Then one day you'll be a Kentaro client, my son!