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.

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

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?

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.

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

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?

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...

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?

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.

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.

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...

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.

I tell that one to Burnley fans. I say they used to be called Burnley Rovers and they played in horizontal blue and white halves. Probably copying off Blackburn then they copied off Aston Villa as they were a successful team at the time. They hate it and they might as well be sticking their fingers in their ears saying "blah blah blah can't hear you!" when I explain it.

Yeah I have to agree with that. I saw on the Reading's fan forum that they have a thread called 'record watch' and basically they are quaking at their boots that Burnley may take their record points total for the championship. Not an exact quote but they have been saying that Rovers are their only hope of stopping it. Not all heroes wear capes I guess.

Great win last night. Still buzzing about it now. The thing that disappointed me was that we allowed Reading to gain confidence and get into the game. That confidence came from that fact that they should have been at least 3-0 down but found themselves still only trailing by 1. Not going to take anything away from Joe Lumley, he pulled off some great saves and kept his side in it. Still though, win is a win and being pegged back allowed us to show our character to take back the lead. Under Mowbray we would have got a draw at best in that fixture as he would of slouched and shrugged.

Haven't got any stats and I'm going off recent memory (which can be dodgy mind), but we seem to play Reading in mid week games a lot. It's happening twice this season.

I know a few neutrals that have got tickets for tonight's game. £10 a ticket for live championship football is an appealing prospect it seems. I think the club offering this promotion can only be seen as a positive and that's despite seeing a few opinions that have somehow turned it into a negative. Maybe 'The Halo Effect' could be at play there.

Before the Sheffield United game I looked at the table and estimated that another 6 wins were needed. I then looked at the fixtures and thought I could be a tough ask. Now after the Sheffield United game it looks a lot more realistic as I wasn't expecting any points from that game. We just need to consolidate those 3 points with wins against bottom half teams in Stoke and Reading. Win those two games and I think we really are cooking on gas. I'd say we would need 3 wins following that and it more than doable with games against Hull and Huddersfield in there. Stoke (A) = W Reading (H) = W Birmingham (A) = W Norwich (H) = L Huddersfield (A) = W Hull (H) = W Coventry (H) = D Preston (A) = D Dingles (H) = L Luton (H) = W Millwall (A) = D

I'm 35 and the Riverside is the only stand I've never been in. Not in a hurry to break that trend too. Met some people that love it in there but give me N01 anyday!