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Could build any new facilities on stilts above the existing car parks 😁

Yep mine landed this morning. Hopefully work don't clock my very elongated lunch break!

Still can't get over the fact that was filmed in Preston.

Allan McGregor acting like a gobshite? Well I never.

This, I was totally indifferent when the ESL stuff was announced however long ago it was, as far as I'm concerned it's the next logical step in the 'progression' that has been ongoing for the last 30 years. I feel genuinely sorry for the older generation of Spurs, Man United fans et al who've seen their club transform before their eyes, but I struggle to comprehend why 'We need to spend at least £100M to get the keeper, left back and striker we need' is the accepted standard, but the devil to pay for such lavishness is horrid. You made your beds guys...

Metaphorically accurate I suppose.

Great for those (primarily neutrals) sat on their sofa, shite for those (primarily actual fans) who actually wish to attend in person.

The tie at Leicester is on Tue 28 Feb, 1930 KO live on BBC iPlayer. Naturally, the three other ties that night are on BBC One / ITV / ITV4...

Fuck what Sky Sports and whatever any other media outlet think, the only thing they care about is there being enough drama for the entire sport to resemble an episode of Corrie. Fuck the state those cunts have presided the game in this country descending into. I would wear their disdain of us as a badge of honour. (Before anyone asks, I never have and will never subscribe to any of those mob and their packages.)

Surely this derives from them just looking us up on Wikipedia, which gives it as our (only) nickname. I have never heard us go by anything other than 'Rovers', or indeed sometimes just 'Blackburn' to non-natives.

Some fine competition on this thread alone, but 'get the W' is probably the worst thing I have ever read on here 🤮 Presumably we 'take the L' should we lose...

But yes, 2pm on a Sunday, after Christmas, at a ground where we were just weeks ago and in a part of the world that's awkward to get to is a piss take. Still, I'm sure they'll all be gathered around their TV sets in Jakarta and Seoul watching us, so all is well with the world. We'll have an outlet shop in Kyoto before we know it.

I'd have happily gone for a long weekend - lovely part of the world, excellent pubs and a tenner entry - alas the lack of trains has absolutely done me.

The branding of everything in senior rugby league bothers me, it belies its still distinctly working class manner. They feel as old as time now, but proper strongholds being called Tigers, Wolves, Bulls and what have you is just so against what the sport actually is. Still, at least the big guns don't have to worry about being so off they get relegated now... I'm not well-versed in RL by any means but I get the impression the game in this country lurches from one crisis to the next.

I have been the Sixfields and agree entirely - your stereotypical chain restaurant and supermarket next door job. At least you can watch from the hill outside to save on the admission! Derby is saved by the wonderful array of pubs right by the station! I have never been to Coventry for football but it certainly appears to follow the trend of new stadiums being built in the middle of nowhere in particular. I am very surprised we haven't at least openly attempted to sell off Ewood's name by now. Mind you, we'd probably flog it for a tenner to some stand on Blackburn Market.

Hopefully they are satisfied enough with St Helens!

- Soulless, identical, uninspiring new build stadiums that look like they've been torn from a catalog page. Southampton, Derby, Leicester, Stoke, Middlesbrough... all the same, despite widely differing geography, fanbases, local heritage, etc. Dare I say I feel slightly the same about some of the rebuilds too? - On a similar note, naming rights to grounds. The Super Awesome Construction Arena? Fuck off. Hopefully Waggot doesn't get ideas... - The "You're Shit, Ahhhhhhhhh" chant. Get it and the people who chant it launched into orbit.

Scunthorpe and Watford have taken quite different paths since then! Excellent. I'm not on the usual social media outlets so appreciate anywhere that can summarise for me!

Up to and including the Fourth Round.

Tell you what, why don't we just contact the FA and tell them we forefit? The money we'd save on travel and accommodation would be enough to pay the fine and everyone can have two weeks at home wrapped in cotton wool, preparing for the deep psychological and wearying challenge of a day out in Rotherham.

Don't understand this dislike of Liverpool or Scoucers in general. Proper city, proper club, proper people. A million times more bearable than Mancunians and their two mobs.

Harder than Buckley anyway, he couldn't beat fucking eggs.

Wasn't it Neil Young who played his new album in full for one half of his show - to a tepid reception - then came out for the second half promising to 'play them all stuff they knew', then proceeded to do the same songs again?

Andy Todd was full blown nuts. I absolutely adored him at Rovers. I think the difference for me perhaps is that the likes of Todd and Savage were hard lads who had the bite to go with the bark. Buckley doesn't - he appears a quiet, polite chap by and large, which makes his actions on Thursday all the more baffling. I was pissed off with him - I still am a bit - but hopefully he either matures out of such pettiness or gets the persona to go with it. I'd say the only player we've had of late like Todd, Savage, Neill and whoever else you want to throw in was Bradley Johnson.

I remember commenting at the times it vanished I wasn't surprised. With Rovers' level of fucks given, it was never to last more than the minimum it could justify. I bought the first one. They managed as much content in a glossy A4 ~64pager as you'd expect a National League side to get through in ten days of their programme output.