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v Plymouth Argyle (h) - 15/2/2025
Old Codger replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Well, it turned out to go with the On Paper prediction. Comfortable enough game, and Plymouth didn't really have anything to hurt us with. My MOM would be Riberio, but my DAD would be Travis 😉 King Kenny's Blue and White Army! -
v Plymouth Argyle (h) - 15/2/2025
Old Codger replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Ribero on the other hand, looks like he knows what he is doing. We need to get something from our possession, otherwise there is always the possibility of a problem at the other end. COYB! -
v Plymouth Argyle (h) - 15/2/2025
Old Codger replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
ACD is the glaring weak point of this team as things stand. He always does the wrong thing imo, and doesn't seem to have any tricks in his locker to redeem his faults. -
v Plymouth Argyle (h) - 15/2/2025
Old Codger replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Great to see you back on the Forum, Gumboots. You were always a good read when you used to post, back in the day 😉 Don't worry about the 'Gumboots Effect' on the team - we all have our superstitions and routines that we believe affect what happens on the pitch - my worst one was believing for many years as a child / teenager / young adult / married person who should know better that popping a sarsaparilla tablet under my tongue when Rovers had a corner at the Darwen end would always lead to us scoring (even when inevitably it didn't!). Don't even get me started about the 'need' for a teddy to sail to it's doom overhead across the ranks on the Riverside for Rovers to win! Just enjoy the game, have a good old shout and know in your heart of hearts that you are there because YOU LOVE THE ROVERS! We all do! COY GB! 😉 -
v Plymouth Argyle (h) - 15/2/2025
Old Codger replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We really have to send the Janners back down the M5 wondering what hit them if we can. I hope that the lads will be up for another solid performance, chasing everything down and defending resolutely. A repeat of the great showing from the Big Mak would be a wonderful thing, and it would be marvellous to see the hard yards covered by Travis and for John Buckley to grow again into his creative role. A lot of our recent goals seem to have come from the long diagonal ball from the right, into the opposition penalty area for finishing, with either Brittain or Trav supplying the pass. No doubt Plymouth will have clocked that and may even go after those two players with cynical fouls from the outset to keep them quiet. Nay bother! I just want this motley crew of ragbag journeymen to be the surprise package of this season, and to beat the odds in achieving something that everything tells us that the club doesn't seem to want. On Paper (home advantage, league position) Rovers 2 Argyle 0 On Drugs (Form, Mojo, Adrenaline) Riotous Rovers 4 Jangly Janners 4 Christ On a Yellow Bike meets an upset on an apple cart (You know Rovers do this) Lost Rovers Boys 1 Plymouth Pillage People 3 All together now... COYB!! -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Derby look piss poor to be fair. Either their players were shite to begin with, or someone has put extra worry juice in their half time drink, as they don't half look nervous and lacking in ideas on the ball. Makes our performance at WBA look like a day out at the Bernabau! -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The Gurning Chump is cutting a folorn figure on their touchline... -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Unbelievable!! -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That's some makeshift back 6 -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
This has the feel of a Saturday evening peeking out from behind the sofa at an episode of Dr Who that was clearly written by someone on strong medication of the booglie my braincells variety... Mind you, didn't it generally turn out well for the Doctor? WHO? What did that Dalek just stick up his arse? Don't worry, it will be ok once you remember where the Tardis is. When you're done, please can I borrow it - I'd just like to nip back to 2011 and gatecrash a meeting between the Walker Trust and Kentaro... -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Can't see us taking anything other than a beating with that line up. Heads will drop once we go behind, inevitably to an Armstrong tap in, and that will be that. Hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. Kansas is about to go bye bye... Pass me them thar red pills... -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That would make sense of why he has got the gig this evening, I suppose. What the f does 'Pasha' do anyway, in and around the club, other than create an almighty reek from the shadows and sidelines? -
v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
No, that's only lightly rogered. Very bummed would be 6 without reply. Not having that though - the team is well acquainted enough to know what they are doing, so unless they just don't turn up mentally, I'm expecting us to deliver a manly 'feck you' performance. ....And then I woke up. COYB! -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
It did work though, didn't it? Pre-JE, what was the connection like between the team and the long-suffering fans? Pretty weak, is what I recall. Under JE there was much more of a feeling of togetherness, despite his 'droning on' as you put it, and this is partly how he managed to get some extraordinary results from a pretty ordinary bunch of players. I wonder will the next chump drone on, or whether we will return to the days of the players not being able to get of the pitch quick enough? I certainly know which approach I prefer and which endears me to my team despite their obvious shortcomings in some games, as a fan.. Anyway, who cares? JE has gone, and the cancerous thieving lying conniving dishonest spin-doctoring mealy-mouthed faceless spineless bog-eyed shysters remain. Rinse and repeat, methinks.. Night night oh gullible folk that we are. -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Fuck me but some people are just plain thick. This was never about John sodding Eustace! It was always about the lying, conniving, scheming, dishonest, untrustworthy and despicable morons that a) own the club and b) take the coin to run it as cheaply as possible. JE just happened to be the latest in a growing list of patsies who was incumbent when their latest hairbrained scheme to avoid promotion at all costs (literally it seems) came home to roost. Ask yourself two simple questions: 1) What do Steve Waggott and Suhail Pasha know about running a successful and upwardly mobile football club? 2) What do Steve Waggot and Suhail Pasha care about, based on the actual evidence we have all now seen at least three times? It is a shame that JE has gone, because he was doing a great job with the extremely limited resources that the two snidey chuckle brothers made available. But until we stop dicking around with a Mickey Mouse Management structure, and allow Mr Hide in the Shadows who knows feck all about football to run the show, any coach / manager / DoF is on a hiding to nothing here. So wake up, thickets - smell the shit in the coffee. It isn't coffee, by the way, it is just shit. -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
All we know, Chaddy, is that Rovers DIDN'T sign any of those players. The lying scheming conniving scunner Pasha told someone to their face that one of those players was having a medical at the club. That turned out true, didn't it, not. -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Erm... the management don't want promotion. Not sure how you don't get this, now that we are on at least the third rinse and repeat of the cycle. Waggot, Suhail Pasha and their cronies DON'T WANT PROMOTION. Full stop. Got it now? For the record, I don't want promotion either - it isn't like the goons would actually spend any of the windfall on trying to be competitive at that level, is it? The only potential upside is that the coffers would be somewhere approaching full enough for the bastards who have stolen our club and our dreams, to feck the fuck off and sell. -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The injuries haven't helped, tbf, but of course there is a direct comparison between the drop off in form this year under JE and a similar pattern under JDT. No doubt the matters have taken some weeks to come to a head, and the likelihood is that the bad blood started well in advance of the inevitable parting of the ways. It just seems so mindnumbingly obvious though that actually supporting the manager for once might actually produce a different outcome, and a positive one at that. Unbelievable that lightening should strike twice. Hurt me once, poor me. Hurt me twice, shame on you. Hurt me three times? AND I WILL RIP OFF YOUR HEAD AND SHIT DOWN YOUR NECK! -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
well said that man!! -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Honesty, transparency, self-awareness and responsibility to self. Nice to see those values back on our board again, although unfortunately it is this message board, and not the one that counts in the decisions taken in relation to OUR club. -
Robbie Savage was mentioned (in passing) on the emergency podcast... Can't imagine him being able to keep his gob shut though, can you?
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Let's go with the Belgium model (the country ran successfully without a government between 2010 and 2011) and see what happens when the grenade is just allowed to go off, and we keep going until the last man is standing. I mean, who in their right mind is going to come in for a gig as toxic and fecked up as the Blackburn Rovers head coach appointment, other than either a complete buffoon or an unemployed yes man? Waggott and his local funnel boss need to be asked one simple question - WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? Fook em. There are better ways to get column inches than this ridiculous circus.
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v WBA (a) - 12/2/2025
Old Codger replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
So, wheels have come off on the 'togetherness and leadership' fronts and we go into a really difficult fixture with more uncerainty than a rabbit that's burrowed up underneath a black bear's bum. We are still an injury plagued rabble, lacking steel and consistency where it matters. We will be expected to capitulate like a bunch of wet wipes due to the proven tactical nous of the gurning chump and his new talisman, Mr Selfish himselfish. On present trajectory you'd expect us to get our arses handed to us, which is probably a good reason to look for something surprising from our ragbag makeshift nohoper sad-sack rudderless rabble. Not holding my breath. Baggies 4 Baggereds 0 Albion 2 I'll be damned 2 WBA 0 Rovers Run Riot 5 Feck it. Let's just go for it. COYB! -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
And Forshaw & Woordow looked every inch like dead wood. Kargobo looks like he wants to make an impact, and worked his socks off. Dennis, meh - didn't contribute much IMO. -
Eustace…he gone…*official*
Old Codger replied to jim mk2's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
No, but the stink around the club would draw atttenion to the deliberate tactic of holding our heads down the bog, which is something that will just continue ad nauseam until something changes. It isn't time to be going all soft and namby pamby and letting these fuckers off the hook, you know. It is time for something completely different.