10 hours ago, renrag said:

Welcome on board! Hope you really grab the Rovers bug and become a supporter of the only English club to win a major trophy in three different centuries, as well as being the countries (and possibly the worlds) most successful town club of all time. Hope your daughter also gets the Rovers fix in a big way.

Don't forget 'Only extant team to have won the FA Cup three years in a row' too!

I remember being on a train full of Luton fans that were coming back from Burnley earlier this season, and one of the lads on it was doing coke off his keys in broad daylight in front of the entire carriage, having a chat with his mate on the phone about how he couldn't even remember if he'd been let into the ground or not. What a way to spend your free time...

All the same these days though, the weekend away fixtures are just wedged with coked up wankers looking for a scrap; that's true whether it be in Lancashire, Tyneside, Devon, Kent or wherever else in between sadly.

Don't get this Mother's Day argument, just take her with you...

2 hours ago, smiller14 said:

No worries at all 🙂 I too am dreading the Burnley game, hopefully it's pushed back so there's no prospect of them securing promotion at Ewood.

 

Hadn't even thought of this. I wonder how many Rovers fans would be left at the final whistle if this was the case?!

One thing that annoyed me today was seeing all the comments, social media etc. along the lines of 'Newcastle have done well but United are better'. Didn't realise the black and white stripey team had dropped their suffix.

1 hour ago, K-Hod said:

Literally nobody has said Gallagher is worse than George Hirst in fairness.

It was a joke in fairness.

Does this count as concrete evidence that, despite our best protestations, Gally isn't worse than George Hirst?!

Just now, Darrenbot said:

You don't have to be on here if you don't like it

I do by and large, the problem is I'm reliant on this forum for my Rovers update today and most others. When things are great it's wonderful, now the tide has it's turned into Monty Python's argument clinic. T'was ever thus, see also the transfer threads.

Fuck me, hopefully Rovers start improving soon so we are spared the utter nonsense on here we get in lieu. Could fit the meaningful chat on this topic so far on a fucking post-it note.

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!

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

OOOOHHHHHH YEEEAAAAAHHHH!

 

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

Allan McGregor acting like a gobshite? Well I never.

1 hour ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Let them break away i say. Fk em. 

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...

3 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Is 'Pie Eaters' discriminatory? 🤔

Metaphorically accurate I suppose.

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

The last 30 years of football, Football has modernised in terms of Different days of the week, kick offs and tv coverage which is great for football fans who want watch plenty of football each week

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.)

15 minutes ago, Gaz85 said:

A report referring to us as “the riversiders” I’ll take as a pinch of salt 😁

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.

6 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

I will complain when/if we lose. For now, I think we’ve got a fairly good opportunity to get the W. 

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.

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yeah, Knowsley Road actually meant something to me. The trouble with Rugby League, and I’m a season ticket holder at my local club, is that everything is up for sale.

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.

19 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

I know what you mean - some are awful places. Try Northampton Town's Sixfields

Derby's Pride Park however I find to be  a very pleasant new build and not at all like the others

Coventry's was good too

All of them are better than the likes of Luton's stinking slum

Renaming Ewood is a red line for me. I wouldn't go

 

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.

11 minutes ago, Nuttall is lost said:

The Totally Wicked Arena

Hopefully they are satisfied enough with St Helens!