19 hours ago, superniko said:

Yes it looks like odds on Leicester have drifted after sealing the title last night. Amazingly they're 1.71-1.72 to win on the Exchange, which equates to 8/11 in old money - i.e only 58% chance of beating us! 

It's a very tricky thing to price up though given 'motivation' etc. If this was earlier in the season it would have been considerably shorter, e.g. Leeds were 1/3 to beat us a few weeks ago (75% chance), which is probably what we would have seen Saturday too. 

 

Personally, I think 8/11 is a bet, they're still going for 100 points and we know how soft our lot are. There is no chance someone like Vardy will be taking it easy just because the title is already wrapped up.

This made me think of the stick that the N01 gave him about his wife in the reverse fixture. He ain't gonna let up is he.

You’re all correct yes thank you for clearing that up. In my head I had it at 45 points being the highest total for a championship side in Peterborough but as it turns out I got the numbers the wrong way around and it was 54 haha.

Also that assessment of the situation was helpful to me too. It really is very unlikely we go down but it wouldn’t be Rovers if we didn’t make things more difficult than they needed to be.

A lot of the teams down there play each other in these last few fixtures so not all of them can win all their games. Saying that, there is a still a formula for Rovers to get relegated. Avoid defeat against Wednesday keeps us up I'd like to say. That opinion comes with us having at least 50 points on the board which will smash the highest points total for a relegated team and Birmingham City and Huddersfield Town playing each other in the penultimate game.

Not sure what result I prefer in the Plymouth Argyle vs Stoke City game yet. A draw is possibly the best outcome for us?

For me personally, the 1 point we earned against Southampton and the 3 points we earned against Leeds make up for the 4 dropped against Rotherham and Millwall at home. Both were must wins and we drew them both. They are bonus points They made up for the points we shouldn't have dropped in my opinion.

I saw a decent analysis of the Championship relegation scenario recently. Ill post the link for anyone interested and that particular persons opinion was one in our favor.

All this talk about attendances has reminded me a vid I watched recently. Putting all the championship teams in a league for attendance loyalty. I’ll link below for anyone interested.

Maybe we should reside ourselves to starting a Phoenix club now. At least when the owners do run the club into the ground we could be a few tiers above the bottom of the English football pyramid...

13 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

‘Coyley’ and the club wreckers that first employed him, then kept him in post months too long were obviously far more to blame than TM who only lost 3 of the 15 games he had.

I agree with that. MW had a mountain of a task to keep us in the league. He nearly did but yeah a month earlier and he may well have achieved it, Only losing 3 games out of the 15 shows how much he needed to turn it around.

21 hours ago, rigger said:

He wasn't blaming Gally for us being relegated. He was blaming Gally for losing us two points in that game. Quite justifide in my opinion.

Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Although I didn't word it too well initially.

21 hours ago, D-side17 said:

He said "Personally I've tended to blame Gallagher for us going down."

Yeah that statement was a bit too broad. I didn't word it well and didn't proof read as I was quickly typing up a message before returning to work. But I do appreciate what Gallagher did over the whole season. He will have earned more points than the two he dropped that day but whenever I think about the relegation, I think of that game. If that didn't happen, Mowbray could well have kept us up. I think he did a good job to get us into a position where we nearly stayed up after the Owen Coyle disaster. The naive mistake that Gallagher did that day shouldn't lie on Mowbray getting us relegated. Hope that comes across better?

On 05/12/2023 at 16:48, DE. said:

I've always thought it was a little churlish for people to blame him for that. Came in to an already weak team that Coyle had wrecked with 7 months of donuts and 5-a-side, yet still ended with a points total that in 95% of Championship seasons would have seen us safe. If Venky's had acted sooner, ideally before feckin' February (mid-way through), we'd probably have scraped survival with Tone. 

His career in the Championship is mostly defined by mid-to-upper-mid-table finishes, and that's about where he is. Would I go out and appoint him if I was Rotherham chairman? Possibly not, but it wouldn't be the worst call for a team like Swansea who need someone to come in and steady the ship without walking into a total disaster.

Personally I've tended to blame Gallagher for us going down. Against Preston, he put a cross into a penalty box with no Rovers players in, instead of holding the ball in the corner and potentially winning a corner, throw in or even giving a throw in away to allow our players to reorganize a bit. Instead Preston put together an attack and scored in the dying seconds of the game. The whole season doesn't rest upon that moment but it was 2 points dropped which could have been very much avoided had he kept his head a bit and made a smart decision. Also it would of kept the momentum and confidence at the time.

23 hours ago, roverblue said:

I still feeling deflated from the north end defeat, so think we will lose 1-0.

Stoke went crazy with signings over the summer and it doesn't seem to have gelled yet which is one positive going into it.

Rovers are normally the team that it does gel together to.

4 minutes ago, Danishfan said:

I will be happy with a draw

Let hope you don’t regret that post at full time given that we’ve taken the lead. 

Not at the game as I’m under the weather today. What formation are we running following the red card? Same as before minus Dolan and Britain in Pickering’s position?

On 13/08/2023 at 13:46, Ossydave said:

Videos doing the rounds of that lot singing Jack Walker songs on Friday. People ask why I hate them so much..... 

I didn't sing it myself as I don't agree with that type of football banter but the Dingles were wondering why the Rovers fans were singing  "Rocky in a box" to them at Turf Morgue. What do you expect after two decades of celebrating our owner's death...

On 12/08/2023 at 10:01, Mike E said:

In all seriousness, as embarrassing as their fans are as a whole, I felt like I saw enough about them to stay up over the course of the season.

Hope I’m wrong!

Got to admit, I agree with you. My housemate is a City fan (Former Rovers ST holder. Another Story...) and we were saying that Burnley were playing well and look like they have enough about them to stay up. It all depends on if the rot sets in. A few losses and confidence is lost or the novelty of playing in the premier league is over and it feels like more of a struggle than an opportunity. Seen it happy many times. Although very rarely after a good performance like they the Dingles put out (despite the score of course).

Ranking every Championship home kit of the 2023-24 season (msn.com) 

Just seen this article ranking every championship team's kit. They seem to priorities the sponsor over anything else when ranking. What do people think of Blackburn's placing on the list?

On 15/07/2023 at 11:36, LeftWinger said:

I remember Ian Harte scoring a hat trick of free kicks against Rovers in a friendly. I know he's a left back.

My dad is a Leeds fan. He's never let me forget about that. He told me the Rovers fans around him were saying they wanted Harte to take their free kick for them when Rovers got one outside the box.

19 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Two home Saturday 3pms in a row 🥰

I've forgotten what a home match at 3pm Saturday feels like. Two in a row is very welcome. Don't let sky notice that though. They will find a way of changing it.

The first halved kit was navy blue and white but yeah, majority of the kits after that were light blue. I personally like it. There was the kit used for 2019-2020 that I remember being lighter than normal but no one seemed to care too much. I guess it was because it was darker than the sky blue of the previous season. I do love that sky blue and white halves with the white shorts and navy socks though.

On 15/06/2023 at 09:55, MarkBRFC said:

Leicester at Ewood opening day which will be moved to the Friday night, then sky can crow about two premier league winners in the second tier for the entire build up/game.

Exactly. The only time sky use premier league winner tag with Rovers is when they want to rub it in at how far we've fallen. "Blackburn Rovers are now the first team to have won the premier league and then play in League One". They hadn't mentioned Rovers being former PL champs for years before that. 

We are getting a new sponsor by the looks of things. Richard Sharpe has posted about it on twitter although it's not confirmed to be a new sponsor.

Don't forget about the new poorly fitted, Dad-Bod enhancing, new Macron shirt. Oh the joys...

46 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Armstrong is going to be back in the Championship next season with Soton, he won't get a move to another PL club and Saints will probably looking to let him go as he's hardly set the world on fire there and restructure and rebuild after relegation - who wouldn't be averse to him coming back to Ewood? 

What I found frustrating following the Armstrong sale was that we started to play counter football compared to the possession football when we had him. Imagine how useful Armstrong would have been in the season after he left. The lad could run!

I felt like Sunday was more of a 'Phone alarm test day' than 'Saint George's Day'. Sad really. They decided to do that alarm test on the 23rd April as though it was just any given Sunday.