Brighton deserved to lose because of that hideous kit - that's one of the worst I've ever seen! 

3 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

I leave all the Buckley doubters this.

Is this what they call the Dark Web?

59 minutes ago, USABlue said:

Bit arrogant.

Not in the slightest. Rovers supporters of my 'ilk', admittedly rather an ageing one, still think - quite rightly - that it's an affront to the history of our club that we are even in the same division as a tinpot, johnny-come-lately, utter flipping nonentity of an outfit such as "The Hatters". 

My mum was from Chorley so we used to visit quite a bit back in the day. We were there one Saturday and the Magpies were playing a league club (I think) in the FA Cup. My older cousin took me along to the match. I was only a nipper, probably the first time I'd been to a match apart from Ewood. We walked to the ground and I said 'Where do we get in?' My cousin proceeded to pick me up, step over a low hedge, and said 'We're in.'

Just now, Stuart said:

Unpopular opinion... Craig Bellamy.

Whenever he was clean through it was a certain goal.

I was watching the Rovers once at White Hart Lane when Shearer was in his pomp. Late on it was 2-2, although we should have been winning. The ball got lumped diagonally from our left back right into the inside right channel, virtually at Shearer's feet. I saw the Spurs fans on the other 3 sides get up as one man and head for the exits, as everyone knew there could only be one result - a Shearer goal and a Rovers win. And so it proved.

Just now, Joar said:

Should've had a  Dickov now, to pester Dickie  

There's probably a specialist website for that sort of thing...

I lived in Shepherds Bush once upon a time and I can remember watching  Brian Moore on the Saturday lunchtime footy preview programme. The big news was that Rodney Marsh had gone awol and was not expected to play that afternoon because of a row with the manager. I walked round the corner to my local and found Rodney downing what was quite clearly not his first pint. Or last one for that matter. What a geezer!

16 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Yes indeed, brilliant on his day. Great hair too. 

Another clean sheet!!

Just now, Elvis Biro said:

Are you drunk? I don't blame you.

 

Sorry, didn't spot the reference.

I'm trying to get drunk, though.

Are you drunk? I don't blame you.

Just now, S8 & Blue said:

Someone here walked under a ladder and nae cunt leaves til we find oot which cunt did et

Raya apparently playing a blinder for Brentford tonight, according to R5.

Just saying.

Just now, rigger said:

Worse for who, you or the donkey?

Anyone got a blank video?

Yes, my mum actually used to say 'I can eat hay with a donkey', now I come to think of it.

1 minute ago, rigger said:

Please note in the statement, can not will. 

1 hour ago, rigger said:

I think we can win the next four games.

And if we do, as my old mum used to say - 'I'll eat hay with a donkey'.

As a 12-13 year old I used to deliver the Evening Telewag , and the Last Sports on a Saturday. I got ten bob a week, Only trouble was we lived 'up Audley', so I used to have to leave Ewood just after half-time to get back to the paper shop to do my Saturday round. It was agony.....

Well, at least the dingles are getting thumped 3-0

1 hour ago, WIR Second Coming said:

Rovers: Pears, Nyambe, Lenihan (c), Williams, Rankin-Costello, Trybull, Evans, Holtby, Elliott, Armstrong, Brereton.

Substitutes: Stergiakis, Gallagher, Chapman, Davenport, Buckley, Wharton, Dolan.

I think I might paint some architrave this afternoon, after all.

If you do, can I watch the paint dry?

As the late, great, Franz Kafka once said: "There is hope. There is infinite hope.

But not for us".

2 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Have you?

Well, EB, knowing you, as I do, I am shocked (in the Claude Rains sense)

Well, that's two minutes of my life I'll never get back

2 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Have you?

Well, EB, knowing you, as I do, I am shocked (in the Claude Rains sense)

In the early years of the Prem I went to watch Rovers at QPR in a night match. The famous 'bloke behind me' was giving Mark Atkins totally undeserved dog's abuse all through - and then Atko scored. I couldn't help but say to him "Why are you cheering now?  You've been slagging him off all the game!" He came out with the old balls about having followed Rovers for years and therefore was entitled to verbally shit on anyone. It got me even more wound-up and I ended up having to be held back from having a pop by my neutral Glaswegian mate. (Most unlike mild-mannered Elvis's behaviour, I can assure you). Next day at work my mate, (who'd never been to a match with me until then) was telling everyone how 'He's a different bloke at the footy - Never seen anything like it - They score and then start fighting one another!" 

1 hour ago, philipl said:

One of the squad changes is apparently a fit again Ayala coming in. I have already said I would play him because of Lucas Joao's height.

 That doesn't look like an impervious Reading defence to me but we'd better watch ourselves for that guy who can hit it like a train from near the half way line!

On Saturday Holtby and Johnson had eight attempts between them and zero on target. If those two can up their accuracy to just 50% on target we should be ok tomorrow night.

Agreed. And there's some genuinely piss-poor defending from Rotherham.

Just set the recorder...

I once saw him described in a newspaper as 'The most stitched man in football'. Top bloke as well, by all accounts.

5 hours ago, rigger said:

And worth every penny just for the goal at Derby

I lived in London for about 30 years and the only place I never went to watch Rovers at was Millwall.

1 hour ago, oldjamfan1 said:

I've been to Millwall plenty of times - they are a fucking nasty lot. 

1 hour ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Shows how good defensively they are to

Fair point.