Old Codger

3-0 to the smoggies, to end the year on a sobering note. No way for Rovers' run away from home to continue, against a proper footballing side, in a stadium filled with passionate and knowledgeable football fans (from the North West as well as North East), and the prospect of very different ends to the campaigns of either side, with 180 degree separation of trajectories... Rovers Riverside Rout? Smoggies 3 Rovers 0 Riverside Reverse Revelation? Boro 0 Rovers 3 Realistic Result Reflecting Resources? Smog Operators 2 Tommy Balls 0 However, COYB! & of course, odious VENKYS OUT!

Feck the walls with Venkys folly, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Tis the season to drink Stoli, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Dig the pitch up, drains are baggered, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Now the team's completely paggered, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Don't repair the stadium's flushing, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Troll the fans - they can do nothing Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Strike the heart of discord's chorus Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Silent as the fans implore us.. Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Follow ye in merry measure, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah While we bury this great treasure, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Throw away the old successes Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Why we stay is anyone's guesses Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Sit we all in Pune fortress Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Lancashire? We could not care less Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Hail the new, ye lads and lasses Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Disrepair, yet still time passes Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Where this ends, remains confusion, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Future dreams are just delusion, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Sing we joyoys all together, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah Just ignore the Christmas' weather, Fa la la la la, la lah lah lah To Venky Scrooges up and down the Pune gated compound, Goodwill? Naah. Christmas spirit? Naah. Something under the tree? Naah (except for maybe a brick wrapped in a note to say it's time to go, it's time to drop the pretence, it's time to do the honourable thing and admit that YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE, so feck off and leave us alone. VENKYS OUT!

Yes! Or inconveniently the Sweet FA 🤐

Well, that just goes to show what a load of crap my opinion on any game is. Very happy to be shown to be a complete buffoon, though 😉 The place looks pretty empty.. When you compare the attendance with that at Southampton...?? WTF!!? Litherland looking lively. Rovers looking surprisingly up for it, and Millwall so far just not at the races. COYB!

Huge show of faith, LOL, LOL, LOL! Scraping the barrel isn't showing faith, it is demonstrating desperation. Can't see anything other than a resounding reverse here for Rovers. Rovers 0 Harry the Dog 3 VENKYS OUT!

I'll ave some..!

Exactly. A scandal that is being perpetrated in full view of those who should be ensuring it doesn't happen. Someone, somewhere has information that would blow the doors off. It is waaaay past the time for them to step forward, in the name of decency, propriety and fairness to the bona-fide supporters of Blackburn Rovers. When the club has folded will be too late, but that is clearly the trajectory that these arseholes have us on, as evidenced by the gathering of leaches and bottom feeders that flit irritatingly around the carcass settling in the deep dark waters of footballing obscurity. VENKYS OUT!

We all might need to be, before too long. That, or the football equivalent of morphine. VENKYS OUT!

Yup - back on the managerial scrap heap before too long. The FACT is that none of the recent managerial incumbents have been supported by the ownership even when the club was (often miraculously) in a decent position to kick on in January for a push towards play-offs or automatic promotion. How the process will operate with the club dangerously poised over the trap door at the other end of the table remains to be seen, but if last summer's chaotic and confusing clusterfuck is continued, I think we are in for a very bitter and disappointing time, come the January sales. The signs are all there: Talk of recalling junior players from lower league loans to cover holes in the senior squad The manager making ridiculous noises about forgoing signings so the club can afford the alternative of giving the pitch a facelift Zero (nada, niet, zilch, sod all, nuthhhhhin) from the club about plans to strengthen the squad from outside The relative prominence being given to U18, U21 performances in club 'news' (although that might just seem more prominent because there is feck all to celebrate from the senior squad perspective) No ambition, no strategy, no clear plan, no character and (critically) NO MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE at the club. It all adds up to one thing, and one thing only - Robinson fucking Crusoe. I despise the Indian fuckwits and their knobhead two-faced incompetent henchboys. VENKYS OUT!

If the Rovers was a child, social services would have been alerted a long time ago for the clear and obvious signs of neglect. Anyone can see how the club's association with football is only peripheral to whatever 'business' is actually transacted behind the scenes - it is an irrelevance and an inconvenient historical legacy that allows something else to go on without proper scrutiny. The contempt with which the decent folk of Blackburn are treated by the owners is nauseating - makes me incandescent to think they are not challenged by the so called authorities for their sad little game. VENKYS OUT!

I prefer the current version that doesn't show Jack with his Walker family congenital defect (tree growing from head).. All the Walkers have that, especially Howard, who sports a spruce bough from his tonsure at this time of year

Harry the Dog and co... They can feck off

Surely that has to be the final nail in Gueye's coffin? Dead man walking look in his eyes, and complete lack of confidence in his demeanour throughout. Remember, football is a game that is built on feedback, and if that is the kind of 'support' he gets from his club captain and team-mates on a daily basis, there is no way back for the lad. If I was him I'd be asking to play centre half or something or go out on loan to a lower division, as it is clear he has the striking prowess of a gnat on a windscreen in Championship terms. Whilst it is a shame for the lad, it is much more of a shame on those who brought him to the club, who clearly haven't a clue what is required to compete effectively at this level of football. Time to move on, Maktar. The video re-confirms that Sondre Tronstadt is a solid, reliable and effective performer, and that Todd Cantwell is a show pony.

2 points from a possible 9 in the last 3 fixtures (albeit one abandoned) tells the depressing story - the trajectory is clearly swinging downwards and the fixture pile up, pitch problems on wet days, long term absentees from the matchday squad and a general air of doom and gloom means... feck all in this league. We could do with a couple of sublime Alebiosu / Gudjohnssen combos tomorrow, and a cheeky Mori or Yuki top up to crown another 'unexpected' positive result for Roving Rovers on the Road. More likely it seems like the wheels will finally bounce off and we will be left careering towards oblivion. Not feeling the 'we can beat this lot' vibe at all. Pompey in circumstantial capitulation 1 Rovers in Rampant Renaissance Running Riot 3 Pomp up the volume 3 Raggedy Rovers 0 Pomp my Rovers Ride, I'm all at sea 0 Realistic Reflection of Resources 0 COYB! Oh, and to those who think I'm an AI bot..I say, oh bondage, up yours!

Wafer thin squad. Let the excuses begin.. Merry Xmas Xford.

The mighty Oxford United will probably do a job on us tonight. The conditions are perfect for a reverse. The omens are stacked against a 'normal' game or result. The chances are we will capitulate and concede at least once on the night. O woe is me Rovers 0 Oxford 2 Oh how did that happen? Rovers 1 Oxford 4 Oh not another reverse at home, surely Shirley..? Don't call me Shirley Rovers 0 Oxford 1 (95th minute own goal). Feck it. COYB

The cracks are certainly appearing in the wafer thin paper that has been used to disguise the reality of our club's plight by the faceless, useless, pointless, feckless ones. Way past their sell by, IMO.

Erm, how about the FACT that there should not be a problem in this basic respect in the first place? The simple solution would have been to continue to prepare the playing surface in the way in which it supported many years service without any issues during our Premier League tenure. But no, the buffoons in Pune, aided and abetted by their bean counting sycophantic legion of leaches 'knew better'. Hence here we are, once again the focus of unwanted (but well warranted) attention and derision of the rest of the football world. It was never rocket science. It was never difficult. It just needed some appropriate planning and preparation from people whose job it is supposed to be to care about these things. As we can see. THEY DON'T CARE. Feck them.

There is simply no excuse for the debacle. The inevitable sanctions from the FA will only serve to further dismay the already battered and disheartened faithful few, whilst the publicity is just another golden opportunity for those who would revel in our misfortune to have a free hit at our once proud club. The situation cannot go on (but we all know that it will) because the root cause continues to fester like an unpleasant chronic illness. The longer it goes on, the more inevitable it feels that it will become terminal for Blackburn Rovers. I am beginning to believe that this is actually the intention of the absent and despicable temporary landlords in the owners' box. The sooner they are gone, the better.

There can't be a 'post match' interview, technically, as the fixture will be declared null and void and will take place on another day, once the FA wake up and use the recent precedent as their measure. FWIW VI stomped off down the tunnel a long time before the ref got anywhere close to his final decision. It was clear from the ref's body language at the outset that there had to be a dramatic change in the prevailing conditions in order for there to be anything other than an abandonment. Those parasitic morons in Pune. I curse the day they were conceived - odious endeavours indeed. Currs and mongrels the lot of them, attended by sycophants and scoundrels. They are about as fit and proper as owners as Nicolae Ceaușescu was a philanthropist. Scum needs to skim off back to its scurrilous roots and divest.

Pune. No pune intended. It would be too pune-itive to contemplate anything as Puney as that.

Surely they can't expect everyone just to pay again, especially as there will be no guarantee that the replacement fixture will be completed.

Lol, this link popped up on the SW thread this morning..https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/event/singin-in-the-rain/?utm_source=audiencestore&utm_medium=programmatic&utm_campaign=tgm_royalexchangetheatre_singingintherain25_audiencestore_programmatic_pro&dclid=CMDD677XqJEDFdlV9ggd3GMOuA&gad_source=7 Hopefully it is a positive omen. COY soggy Blues!

Yes, I agree - they didn't make much noise even when they equalised. I'm not sure they could quite believe the unlikeliness of it, and there was probably more of a sound from the collective Victor Meldrew outburst from the home faithful than there was any shout of joy from the tractor children, particularly as most would have had to accept that Rovers had done enough on the evening to be worthy of the victory. The whoosh of the hapless Christian Walton's limbs through the air as he flailed back towards the Blackburn End in high excitement was more noticeable than the huzzah from the (prior to that) humbled travelling tractor faithful. For all his faults, HairPears was noticeably less prone to putting his defence under unnecessary direct pressure than the Ipswich stopper, who didn't fill me with great confidence, despite appearing to have grown a foot or so since his stint in the Rovers' ranks. History now. Time to move on and learn. Dopey twats!

The Owls will be playing for fun, as it is pretty certain that the season will end in relegation for their club, and not withstanding the payment (or not) of their wages going forward, they can afford to see themselves as very much either in the shop window or in the swansong of their journeys as professional footballers. Ceteris paribus Rovers should be capable of competing, especially if the energy levels of last night are repeated (over 90 plus minutes), but we haven't demonstrated much in terms of consistency in a positive sense this season, so perhaps it might be too much to expect us to put on a show. Feck it. Just go for it for the whole game lads. We will never criticise you for doing that...(but we mean THE WHOLE FECKING GAME!) Predictions? Nope. Speculation? Of course. Let's make them Owl all the way Ome to 'Illsborough - Rovers 3 Owls 0 Hoots mon and Haggis it's a foul feathered hangover - Rovers 1 Owls 2 That's tawny it, Chansiri's cast-off-cast-aways-cast cretinous chaos on the leafless trees of EWood Rovers 0 Wednesday 6 COYB!