0-0 written all over this

The striker situation looks dire now for the run in

How many passes can we string together? 3?

Rovers started well against Swansea and it went pear shaped. Robinson and Carrol will be a handful

Getting nothing out of this game . At best a dull boring draw.

The ruthless brutal authoritarian regime that governs the Premier League have outlawed the practice. Leicester City was a thing of beauty Never seen it done at Ewood. The most adventurous the groundsman got was doing a diagonal patter for the odd game around Nov 1994

I think the netting changed to a hexagonal design rather than the square ones around 1997-1998. Yes theyw ent to shallower nets possibly around 2000-2006. Might have been when Souness was manager but cant remember. For me 94/95 as I love the loop and Shearer's goal looked better with the ball hitting the saggy nets. I think Le Tissier's at Ewood at the end of 1994 looked all the better for it. Love the 92/93 stanchions as well. That was a bit of a strange move to go to those after 91/92 as they are a very old fashioned design. I always wondered who decides to change the post/stanchons every year and why they go for certain types of posts. Chelsea and spurs literally never changed their goals from the 70s until the box nettign came in circa Euro 96.

No. You will feel at home here with me and the other oddballs. Need net sag as this makes goals look spectacular. Think USA 94

Speaking of Portman Road, what's going on here with these mad nets

blackburn box netting.webpFor the stanchion and net geeks. What was your favourite Ewood stanchions? 1988 Loop with Stripey nets 1992-94 Stamford Bridge type stanchions 1994/5 Loop 1995 onwards modern box netting Box nets: 1994/95 loop blackburn box netting.webp1988 stripes 1992-94 Stamford bridge type

I think the attendances were boosted by large away support allocation though no?

Ewood Park is too big for Blackburn. A 15,000-20,000 capacity stadium would have been plenty.

Looked at it again there. It was certainly brainless what Hendry did but you may be right. Not sure how much connection there is. Gillespie didnt protest too much. Hendry looked a bit guilty though. Loved them old stanchions and nets from 1994/5. Hate the modern box netting they introduced from 1995 onwards The 92-94 Ewood stanchions were a thing of beauty as well!

I don't see us getting anything out of this game bar an unimpressive draw

Why was this taken away as pre match music? It had become tradition.

If Mowbray turns into a disaster by seasons end would Roy Keane be of interest of fans? Not a particular fan of his tbh but might be good enough to get the club out of the championship. (hopefully not down haah)

Really poor performance. Created nothing. Sloppy passing. Looks like teams have worked Blackburn out. Forest sat back tonight which stopped counter attacks knowing Rovers weren't going to break them down. In fact it was Forest who played the counter attacks.

Surprised tobody else named the 95/96 away. Absolute muck with the black badge. Ugh! It was so bad they lost almos every game in it and halfway through the season tried to go back to the much much nicer 94/95 away. Wouldn;t see that now!

It showed tonight though. Tonight the first 80 mins looked like a lazy training game.

I saw a video clip on social media of training the other day. Was shocked at the lack of intensity in the 5 a side game. Very lazy and half hearted. You train how you play.

What Zeefuik was that!

The new sponsor looks better on it than Recoverite

Watched the full game back on youtube last night. Played quite well in it. Blackburn were the dominant ream int he 1st half apart from a short spell and a Beardsley shot that Flowers made a great save from. 2nd half Blackburn played well. The commitment and energy put in by the lads was fantastic. Shearer missed 2-3 sitters in counter attacks. Newcastle were not as dominant as I remembered. The great saves that Flowers made were not from an onslaught on our goal as such. The game I thought was 50/50 and then Newcastle had these chances. Ruel Fox and Gillespie were dangerous but overall Newcastle looked nowhere near the side they would become when they got Ferdinand and Ginola. Blackburn just looked slightly nervous although they played well. Flowers was top class. Newcastle were denied a stone wall penalty in the last minute. How the ref didnt give it! Hendry had too much of a rash streak in him and loved jumping into diving tackles and he took down Gillespie. How he got away with it I dont know.

Its funny but I cant recall Mike Newell getting any game time even as a sub during the 94/95 season yet he and Sutton seemed to have role reversals in 95/96 with Sutton hardly playing and Newell being everpresent. The 95/96 season the squad was actually weaker than the 94/95 campaign. Gale, Slater and Atkins while no world beaters were better than what replaced them. Whose idea was it to sign Matty Holmes??? I think he played around 10 games and was never played after that.

I liked the novelty of Facebook when it first came out and you could facebook friend girls you met and have a gawk at their photos. Since the false information era started on it and the brainwashing I now think its a force for evil. I still use facebook so I am a hypocrite because I want to stay in contact with poeple in other countries. Instagram is a platform I cannot stand and think its the most vacuous, vain, shallow site full of posers. It has allowed people to self indulge to no end their vanity. Snapchat I have never used but have seen others using it. The most useless platform of them all.