2 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

You don't have the first clue what you're talking about. It's not politics. Whatsover. It's 96 dead people. It's not posturing or sanctimony, it's basic decency. Grow up, or grow a heart, you need to do one of the two.

Right you are Peacock.

15 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Having a heart about 96 people dying at a football match is not political.

You should be ashamed of yourself for suggesting otherwise, frankly.

Excellent posturing there, you're such a good person. Now that you have Peacocked your sanctity perhaps we can get back to Blackburn Rovers?

1 minute ago, 47er said:

We thought it was. We agreed with TM that Top 6 was the aim and that we were capable of it. Never under this manager.

Can't disagree. Should have gone 18 months ago but that's for another thread.

15 minutes ago, Angry_Pirate said:

Wasn't my point.

During a covid "summer" during a lockdown without "holidays" 🤷‍♂️. We signed Tyrhys Dolan.

We singed 4 players on deadline day (Pears, Elliott, Trybull, Douglas)

Even had to play our first cup game without a proven keeper as Kaminski was quarantined until 1 day before we played Bournemouth. Ayala was signed after the season started.

Were we the only club in that position? Genuine question as it always seems to me that a multitude of clubs scramble around on deadline day.

3 minutes ago, Angry_Pirate said:

I always "enjoy" this period... we assume nothing is happening because Mowbray and Waggott are on holiday, hence why all the "good" "Bosman's" get snapped up over the next 2 weeks by other clubs...

Only to be told by the LT in about 2 weeks time that the transfer activity will increase a week later once Mowbray and Waggott are back from holiday, and after they speak to the owners a week after that.

I await the usual shambles.

I seem to remember last summer's window being fairly unanimously hailed as a good one.

Was it last season or the season before that this forum had a meltdown because Derby signed Graeme Shinnie before we signed anyone?

13 hours ago, Tabula Rasa said:

If he is just a show pony, you have to ask why?

He is the most astute player in our squad. We've missed a trick due to bad management in my opinion. Fancy benching him.

The next time we have a Germany or England international in our team will be a long time hence.

Unbelievealbe own goal.

Certainly a talent with a good pedigree. I just think that the stars didn't align. His first kid, family in Germany and lockdowns in place, catching Covid and some niggling injuries. I thought he going to be the new Tugay after Preston away but it just wasn't to be.

I 'm relieved. Not necessarily happy, certainly not ecstatic, just relieved. 

Mowbray out.

After last Friday's depressing debacle I can only bring myself to check Rovers news to see if the manager is finally being held to account. Instead I read that an ineffective waste of a squad number is being rewarded for not much at all with a lengthy contract. 

Ffs.

19 hours ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

Atmosphere wise, best Rovers game ever. We got on just before they locked the gates to the away section at 2pm. It was rammed in there. As you say there were two or three thousand Rovers fans on the Beehole End, maybe more. We scored early and Rovers fans queuing to get on the Beehole End thought Burnley had scored, the roar was so loud. Fights were breaking out all over the shop and hundreds of Rovers fans were led out around the perimeter of the pitch and somehow shoehorned into the Longside. I remember EiT commenting about this game in the past, a guy near him crapped into a pint pot and lobbed it over into the six fingered lot. There were Rovers fans in the Cricket Field Stand as well. We absolutely murdered them and missed a pen to make it 4-0 just before half time. They somehow scored twice to make the score look respectable and with the ref playing seven minutes injury time, I was biting my fingernails at the end to say the least. The atmosphere on the Longside with the fans side by side was generally superb and probably the best in the entire league but, with this game being an East Lancs Derby, it was white hot. Never to be repeated, unfortunately. 

I was there and it was my first away game. I have memories of Accrington town centre being totally blue and white, an Edgar Pickering Transit van with around 20 blokes in the back, a pub in Hapton with hundreds of Rovers fans on the car park, blue and white 'Ecky Thump' hats and walking down the side of the cricket club and seeing the packed mass of Rovers fans bouncing on the Longside. I was in the Cricket Field Stand with my mate and his Dad and, although I was only 10, I have a distinct memory of it being mainly Rovers fans in there.

24 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

We have tried...

Hope he eventually agrees. He's a busy bloke and has been a guest on a few podcasts. He's always good value and often manages to get a Rovers mention in.

As the saying goes "it's the hope that kills you" and Mowbray has killed us too many times for me to have any belief that his inconsistent, schizophrenic team will finish in the top six. I have no faith in Mowbray and would like to see a change.

Looking forward to this as the owner of a pair of customised Gazelles. Adidas designer and creator of the 'Spezial' range Gary Aspden might make a good future guest. He's a Darwen lad, Rovers fan and inspiration behind the iconic Blackburn Spezial.

30 minutes ago, Wood26 said:

Firstly my post was about the present, not the past.

But yes I forgive them, not the type to hold a grudge forever.

Lost 10,000 fans? No we didn’t. We lost 10k people who pop by Ewood if they fancy it, like Oxford at home.

Don’t give a **** about that lot. I follow Rovers through it all, not just when it’s a good day out.

For me you can't forgive Venkys for what they did by dismissing it as being in the past.

I have no reason to doubt that you love the club so it puzzles me that you can readily forgive them for their crass, destructive disregard for it.

I'd ask Damien Johnson if he wanted to give it a go until the end of the season. 

I also wouldn't mind Gareth Ainsworth, I reckon he's destined to manage a bigger club than Wycombe.

Just now, Dan said:

There’s a difference between celebrating winning a penalty and asking the ref to send off a player and then celebrating? Surely? 

Exactly what I thought. A very strange post that was.

Any agent worth their salt would be telling Nyambe not to sign anything and see what offers come in as his contract runs down.

15 minutes ago, 47er said:

Did Bale spend 2 seasons looking like he couldn't get in a pub team? Did Spurs have little money for transfers and gambled most of it on him? Were they desperate to get back in the Premiership? 

Not sure there's a comparison to be had there.

To be fair to Bale, he did have a lot of injuries but he also didn't feature in a Spurs winning team for 2 years and he was ridiculed along with the club who had paid a lot of money for him. On that basis it's a fair comparison.

8 hours ago, 47er said:

Any player who cost that much and takes 2 years to get going is a bad buy.

Gareth Bale?

12 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

So I take it after two years of really poor performances after a £7 million deal, he wouldn’t be receiving anything as vicious as ‘tuts’ and ‘sighs’ like the bear pits of Lancashire anywhere else?

It was more than "tuts and sighs". Myself and a mate had to restrain his son from chinning a bloke at Bramhall Lane when he shouted some vile abuse at Brereton as he warmed up from the subs bench.

28 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Huge sympathy?

You're kidding, right? The tuts and sighs around me in the JW whenever he did something that didn't come off are unbelievable.

For better or worse, Lancastrians are some of the most critical fans around.

Didn't Jimmy Armfield say words to that effect specifically about Rovers fans?

I instantly regretted opening this thread to find out what it was about. At the risk of seeming like an old curmudgeon, one aspect of bygone days that I yearn for is not having a clue who players wives/girlfriends are.

I'm shocked that some on this board seem irritated enough to put a negative spin on yesterday's result by emphasisng the defeat in the game before.

*sarcasm mode off* (Vladimir Ivic said Rovers are the best team Watford have played this season by the way)

10 minutes ago, Wood26 said:

Big Sam was in charge, fans were restless as not hitting heights of Hughes. We had no money, Walker family wanted out wouldn’t invest. We was always going down. If Venkys knew then what they did now they could of saved us, but they didn’t.

Point is with or with out them, I know we finished 10th, but you could see writing on the wall. 
 

Venkys were awful don’t get me wrong, but now they aren’t, so quit crying and back the new era.

I think "the road to hell" is stretching it and nobody will ever know what would have transpired had Venkys not darkened our door. 

I can't forgive and forget I'm afraid.

6 minutes ago, Wood26 said:

You hang on to that pal.

We was on the road to hell before Venkys took over, just because we never saw it doesn’t mean it wasn’t coming.

Get over it. 

How were we "on the road to hell"?