21 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Adam Wharton was born after the league Cup win.

I can't even fathom missing that.

God this makes me feel old.

From my era, Sergio Peter, Sebastian Pelzer and David Yeldell.

37 minutes ago, Darrenbot said:

Gerrard and Lampard are proving a great player do not automatically make a great manager,they could be going into the Keane slot of World class player/Non league manager

Not exactly a new phenomenon either... Tony Adams and Ally McCoist also come to mind.

Tugay and Friedel were my heroes growing up, as far as football went anyway. Now I'm older I realise how lucky I was to grow up in that Souness-Hughes era. We might not have achieved the heights of the 90s but it was wonderful fun, nothing like welcoming Man United and Arsenal to Ewood and knowing you had a very fair chance of getting at least a point; seeing us lift the League Cup and make two FA Cup semis; watching the likes of Friedel, Neill, Emerton, Short, Todd, MGP, Savage, Tugay, Bentley, McCarthy, RSC every week... 

12 minutes ago, Ewood Blackburn said:

Where you staying. if close to centre then agree with Drummers. if nearer ground then Fox Hounds, Beown cow or a little further out Black bull Three bees.

Would agree with the Black Bull / Three B's. It also affords superb views across the town and surrounding hills!

Away at West Ham it is.

Stockport County?

3 minutes ago, Mike E said:

After a bit more thought, I'd quite like Dancing on your Grave by Motorhead. Can't beat a bit of Lemmy!

His stepdad played for Bolton way back when.

The only thing worse than Sweet Caroline is goal music. The sound of 15,000 people spontaneously losing their mind is a million times better than some overplayed, copied, cliched noise being played over a PA. Do I daresay I'd do away with music at Ewood altogether aside from our take on Wild Rover between the teams walking out and kick off? 

And just to reiterate, Sweet Caroline is awful and stolen from another national team anyway. It's the kind of thing sung by your uncle after he's had ten pints at a wedding reception. I utterly hate how it is now so ingrained in elite level football in this country.

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

 

Bradford Northern/Bulls rugby league ground.

Lovely ground, was there for their game v. Dewsbury a couple of months ago. You can't beat the bowl shape with massive rakes of terracing.

(And thanks for the Northern reference, I can't get into the silly nicknames most of them have now at all.)

7) I want to say is Hampden, used to hold 140,000 or more back in the day (bit more trivia - when Hampden was completed in 1903, the three largest football grounds in the world were in Glasgow. Hampden remained the world's largest until the Maracana opened some 50 years later.)

8) Queen of the South. Nice little town and ground

11) The typical answer is Arbroath's Gayfield, the closest in Europe I believe, but they're only semi-pro

10 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Umm, we do have shirts that play on the 1875 and Arte et Labore themes.

Aye but most of them look terrible.

Did anyone really expect the magazine to last more than the bare minimum they could feasibly print it for? (As in, it was never going to work, not that the club set out deliberately.) I got the first edition as a one off, needless to say I was never tempted again!

Speaking of programmes, I was at Bradford (Park Avenue) on Saturday, where it turns out they have a massive shed full of old programmes of all types for sale. I picked out about a dozen Rovers ones at random (50p each!) from the 60s through to the 00s. It was only when I got home that I realised one of them was from the 1987 Full Members' Cup Final!

I don't understand why clubs would post that kind of thing on social media, it just sets themselves up for when it inevitably doesn't go to plan.

The SPL hasn't existed for nearly a decade.

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Words I never thought I’d say…

* Bring back Colin Murray*

Superb presenter with a genuinely infectious enthusiasm. You can tell he's bang into whatever he's doing. Best sports presenter in the country for me, sadly now also absent from the snooker too.

4 minutes ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

A good old fashioned Accrington Nori will do.

Younger fans on here, just Google it.

Pretty much my only recollection of my first night at uni was discussing Accrington and Nori with the lad serving me a kebab. Still to this day have no idea how the conversation came about...!

Used the world over I believe, most notably in the Empire State Building or somewhere?

I once walked from Reading station to the Madejski, which felt like a similar distance!

21 minutes ago, bazza said:

Queens Park were the biggest and best team in Scotland when we played them twice in the FA Cup finals of 1884 and 1885. They remained amateur for 152 years and gradually became almost insignificant; one of the worst teams in the league together with Berwick Rangers,Albion Rovers and Stranraer (amongst others).

In November 2019 they voted to turn professional. Look at them now; no longer languishing at the bottom. I am intrigued by this change in fortune. I shall follow their progress with interest.

P.S. Owen Coyle is their manager.

It was one of the strangest games I have ever been to when I went to see Queen's Park whilst they were still at Hampden - by my maths everyone attending that games had just under 100 seats each! I get the impression their new owner has quite a bit of money about him - not ridiculous levels but certainly enough to splash out a bit - they also seem to have a few experienced people behind the scenes. Given the trapdoor at the bottom of League Two in Scotland has now been opened (slightly) I can well understand why they chose to break from tradition and turn professional. It's entertaining I suppose when you're bad but can't be punished for it; it's dangerous when you're bad but can: just ask East Stirling, Berwick, Brechin and now Cowdenbeath...

Anyone booked on the trains tomorrow might want to double check everything first thing. Weekends have been all over the shop for a while now up to Scotland. The 15.08 back from Glasgow to Manchester is already cancelled and there'll likely be more to come.

Also, enjoy mixing with the Bolton fans heading up for their friendly at Carlisle 😉

28 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Easy enough selling out a 50/60k ground when pretty much every town in Scotland is full of glory hunters in either blue or green and white hooped shirts instead of their local club’s…

It's honestly heartbreaking to go for a walk around any Scottish town, especially those miles from Glasgow, and see people of all ages wandering around in the colours of that pair. I believe the biggest Rangers Supporters Club (I forget by which measure) is Lewis & Harris in the Hebrides!

What hit it home for me was couple of weeks ago. I was up there for a friendly with Ayr United - my Scottish team - played away from their home ground in a town down the road. One of the advertising hoardings - bearing in mind this ground is home to one of the bigger names in what was once Scottish Junior football - was from the local Rangers Supporters Club, advertising their buses to Ibrox...

1 minute ago, Madon said:

Has anyone managed to buy the stream? It's only giving me the option of 'pay with stripe'

Click on that and enter your card details.

Currently no audio on the stream 😑

Wish this metaverse mob would kindly depart for there and leave me a world where I don't have to listen to them tbh. Can't price a meat and potato pie right but can download the Riverside as an NFT. Aye, righto.

4 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

I think i have every home and away shirt since 1981 and the third strips too. I bought both of the re-released retro shirts too as i think they are a great effort.

However if i'm parting with £150 plus to buy all three shirts this season, as i do every season then i really do need to like it, and it needs to be a quality product.

I needed to change last seasons home shirt twice due to the stitching off the arm coming off the first day I wore it. It was a nice looking shirt, but needed looking after like an antique.

On this occasion I dont like the shirt, if it turns up in the sale at the end of the season, then i will probably buy one, as I collect shirts and have a couple of hundred of them now. My support is no less by not buying or liking it, and don't like my support being questioned because I dont like it (not you btw) some things I read on twitter.

I've also seen three post on FB where the sponsor has peeled off already.

I have my season ticket renewed, will get my parking pass, will spend cash in the blues bar.

I'm just not liking this new vibe from many quarters which is suggestive that unless you are being supportive of everything, we dont need your support or business. Its getting louder too, because many fans have walked away, leaving a majority who will be pleased whatever happens

Yes, I always find the blind following of whatever the club does rather strange. The greatest disservice you can give to something - anything - is not to have standards for it. I won't just accept 'the kit's shit but just buy it COYB...', because I expect the club and our manufacturers to put in the effort due to create something worth wearing. I bought all three kits last season as they justified it. Not a chance of that looking at what we know so far. The same goes for the ground, our squad, whatever else: I refuse to accept the potential JDT revolution and whatever BS they come out with as justification for our stadium lacking basic cosmetic and structural upkeep, senior players walking away, having gaping holes in our squad with just weeks to kick off, etc. I expect better. I will be in the trenches with this team for as long as I can stand / afford it, but in the meantime I refuse for myself or swathes of other fans to be called fake or false for expecting the people running our club to put some fucking effort in.

6 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

You are not allowed to not like the shirt, as you are deemed "a negative supporter" and the club dont want negative supporters.

I did see a reply on Twitter to the kit launch video which amounted to 'Get behind the boys; you buy it to support the team, it doesn't have to look good'. Needless to say, such a well-constructed and coherent argument has won me over...