1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Punching above our weight next to Huddersfield, QPR, Luton and a few points above Coventry, Millwall and Preston?

We are punching well below our weight. 

It's like we're fighting a toddler and losing. 

50 minutes ago, Gav said:

We had a period in the late 80's where we seemed to miss a penalty every week. Howard Gayle, Garner and Kennedy all guilty if memory serves me correctly, it seemed to go on for the 2nd half of the season, with Gayle missing one in the playoff final home leg, not sure if it all happened in the same season.

Absolute madness, unbelievable to witness, as the customary wheels came off the promotion campaign.

Oh how great it must have been to see Rovers making a genuine attempt to get promoted. 

21 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto said:

First game in three years and I had a marvellous afternoon apart from the 95 mins bit in the middle of wallowing in our own crapulence.

My brother and I - two Tockholes lads - started off with an excellent lunch at The Rock from where the view was as good as it ever gets: Ribble estuary, Blackpool Tower, Forest of Bowland all crystal clear and even the fells of the lower Lake District on the horizon. Parked outside my grandma’s old council house near the Manxman, and walked down under the railway the way I remember being taken to see Billy Smart’s Circus. Back to Settle afterwards for the best fish and chips I’ve had since forever. 

Ah yes, I forgot to mention the shit in the sandwich - the game. 

First half far too pedestrian: a combination of Buckley not being at the races and Rothwell continually coming short to get a pass off one centre half before giving it to another, or, in a moment of rare excitement, giving it to a wingback before getting it back so as to give it to a centre-half. The much derided picture above of our two wingbacks in Bristol’s D fashioning a chance of sorts tells a deeper story: JR-C actually ran right past an immobile Gallagher, making the run Sam the Donkey should have been making, something that happened again when JR-C nearly got a toe on a Buckley cross with Gallagher spectating. I watched Sam the Donkey a lot off the ball and his movement is even worse than I’d thought from watching iFollow. I thought there was a marked reluctance from other players to give the ball to him.

Second half things improved slightly, Khadra being a real threat until shooting, Trav - our water-carrier - managing three more shots than Rothwell has managed since being retained “to propel our promotion push.” I’ve never joined in the BRFCS adulation of Rothwell but now I get annoyed virtually every time he gets the ball: easy sideways passes to the likes of Lenihan and Pickering - as if they are capable of doing anything with it - and those silly schoolyard runs that take five touches to get going and almost invariably end in a head-down barely-in-control-of-the-ball charge into four defenders. No wonder he has so few goals and assists in ten years as a pro. Add in his almost complete inability to defend and the middle of the park becomes increasingly wide-open, which is why four at the back is always so vulnerable for us.

Overall I think we got what we deserved. Bristol fashioned more and better chances. The subs, once again, did not improve things. Apart from the penalty and the missed sitter from Kahdra’s cross, I don’t think Dack had more than two touches.

However, not even such a poor display can take the shine of a wonderful afternoon of reminiscing with my only brother who I also hadn’t seen for three years.

Glad to hear you had a great day out.

I remember going walking over to Tockholes with my Grandad at least once a week when I was a nipper. 

I still don't think I'd be able to bring myself to going back to Ewood again yet.

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There are no excuses for those shit penalties.

Whether the keeper was off the line or the defender was in the box is irrelevant. Any professional football player should be able to smash a penalty in regardless. It's their job for fuck sake.

Shearer would never have had any issues, he'd just walk up and smash it into the net.

24 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

If you don’t have that hope then you might as well stop supporting the club , need to cling on to some hope 

The only thing I'm hoping for is the club being put up for sale.

What a damming indictment of English football that is.

The future looks incredibly bleak when you realise that Mowbray is the best manager we've had since Big Sam.

When did we last score a goal?

Dodgy agent dealings with this club? 

Well I never thought I'd see the day...

2 minutes ago, Dan said:

I don’t think you’re old enough to understand “it’s the hope that kills you” often mentioned around here. Believe it or not; I used to be very positive! Even when we were in rubber dinghy’s with Brian Kidd, playing against Man Yoo, needing a win to stay up, I still believed. I admire your positivity Chaddy, I wish I wasn’t such a moody bastard most weekends because of Rovers. 
 

One day you’ll be a miserable sod, like most of our older members ☺️
 

 

That was an awful time. 

Still infinitely better than the last eleven years. 

57 minutes ago, JHRover said:

We'll announce prices at the back end of June when the season is history, most people are off on their summer holidays and we've sold Brereton and put prices up to the most expensive in the Championship. Then wonder why sales are poor.

But you might be able to bring 1 friend with you to a couple of games....

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Do they mean “ early on “ in January 2022 ?

November 2010.

22 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

At the start of the season, would you have considered 2nd to be a minimum requirement?

Under Venkys, yes.

We were top half in the Premier League when they took over. Anything other than that is a total failure and unacceptable. 

"They made some mistakes early on" as people keep parroting but my question is what have they done to rectify those mistakes? 

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

NO! Why would I sack a manager that has 4th in the league and players are performing for him? 

But each to their own tho

 

The fact we are still fourth shows how piss poor this league really is. 

Anything other than first or second is not good enough given where we were in December. 

He will be here next year.  He's perfect for what the owners want. Mid table in this division. 

How low are season ticket sales going to be next year when we finish 13th and the price will go up to £550?

13 minutes ago, 1864roverite said:

Todays attendance if just over 13500 shows that despite every effort by Rovers to boost attendance it is rebuffed and rebuffed!

What effort did they make?

Another total fucking disgrace. 

1 hour ago, AllRoverAsia said:

That reminds me, my septic tank needs emptying.

Sludge out!

Mowbray out.

Waggott out.

Venkys out.

Beat we can hope for is 0-0. 

According to the people in charge at the club that will see us storming up to the top of the table.

7 hours ago, Crimpshrine said:

I was interested to hear Mowbray's terminology in his interview before the Millwall game. He was talking about Brereton possibly going to Chile while not being fit to play for Rovers.

Mowbray said ( from memory) "I can't influence the situation sat in my office with the owner's conduit".

I presume he is referring to Suhail Pasha but I find it interesting that he did not call him the owner's representative or advisor/spokesman/official. There are so many factors that make it impossible to run the club effectively under Venky's.

I can imagine the same situation on transfer deadline day when all other clubs would have all hands to the pump. Mowbray is sat in his office with a 'conduit' to people who are fast asleep in India and probably wouldn't respond if they were awake.

I'd be ecstatic with a return to the Don MacKay / Bill Fox  / no money period instead of multi billionaire owners with no interest who only communicate through a conduit.

 

I would snap your hands off to have that.

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4 hours ago, martonrover said:

.........and a largely harmonious fanbase, with no symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome.

That's what irks me the most.

When people say "where would we be without Venkys?" It just leaves me totally bewildered. It's like I'm in an alternate reality.

On 08/03/2022 at 05:14, LeftWinger said:

Just had the email through from the club about the final five games of the season for £99 and it contained the following line:

"You could be the difference as Tony Mowbray's men continue their charge up towards the top of the division"

I'm not sure charge is the best word to use.

My season ticket cost £90 when I was a junior. That was to watch a top ten Premier League team who were in Europe. 

And I didn’t realise that 12th place was the top of the division.