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Still less than 20K Rovers ..... great vocal support again but we really need those stay aways to come back,hopefully yesterday will help.

OUCH!!!!!...bet that smarts

WELL PLAYED THE LADS IN BLUE 'N' WHITE! .....you put some pride back into the club today and we can all hold our heads high again! Emerton and Bothroyd deserve special praise.

2-1 Liverpool, no doubt Rover will give their all but the quality is just not there anymore.

There are two players in the list that stand out amongst the rest....... Ronnie Clayton and Eddie Latheron.I have a feeling Clayton will win this but Latheron should be given special consideration I feel........ Edwin Gladstone Latheron was born in Grangetown,North East England and joined Blackburn Rovers in 1906 almost by accident.He was discovered when visiting Blackburn to play for Grangetown against Blackburn Crosshill in an FA amatuer cup tie.Rovers had originally gone to watch another player but it was Latheron who caught their eye and Rovers paid £25 to bring him to Ewood! A skilful inside forward who,despite his lack of height, was good in the air he possessed fantastic ball control coupled with a fine shot on him.... he quickly established himself as a fans favourite with the Blackburn public.A prolific goalscorer himself, he was claimed never to be a selfish player and always prepared to do the 'fetching and carrying' for other team mates. Without question a driving force(alongside Crompton) behind the all conquering pre war Rovers Championship sides of 1912 and 1914 he was capped twice by England and represented the football League. At the height of his powers Eddie played his last game for Rovers on March 17th 1917.Five days later he went to fight for Queen and Country in the trenches of France and tragically just seven months later he was killed by a German shell.He left a widow and a young child.....he was just 28. Played league football for Rovers between 1906-1915, made a total of 282 appearances in all competitions and scored an impressive 104 goals. http://www.cottontown.org/Nimoi/sites/CT/r...ces/jb08178.jpg http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/casualty_...asualty=4032402

Oh dear...even our fans are losing it now!

Its time Hughes looked deeper into his entire squad and tried to seek out players who can change the set of crap we have that is called a 'defence' LOL...they are all crap full stop!

I totally agree that our present problems are not the making of Hughes but I must say that I am now of the opinion that we may well have to go down and start all over again. Again I ask the question, Why have our players not responded to the appointment of Hughes?......

BRING ON 'T B'STARDS!!!

Why have these players not responded since the appointment of Hughes? Very worrying sign indeed.

We're a bloody awful side, who's confidence is shot to hell.Chelsea are taking the pish out of us. We need a miracle to stay in this league. -15 goals against ......appalling,the worst in the league

1-1 Dickov

Have said the same for ages...give the Blackburn End back to the hardcore supporter. Excellent post Alan75, you sum up the feeling's of many as to why a trip to Ewood has lost its spark for an ever increasing number of fan's. To compare the atmosphere of the now Ewood to that of the heady day's of Shearer etc is very painful.The buzz and expectancy before the game's back then was simply tremendous,you would hear the Blackburn end singing and chanting before the players even entered the field of play......now its a half hearted round of applause at best.

Couldn't agree more,you know what you have to do at the Liverpool match Rovers fans....over to us.

I am led to believe that John Williams does read this mb from time to time. There are now 6 page's to this thread of Rovers fan's who have grave concern's about the events of Saturday gone and are clearly worried that these problem's with heavy handed stewarding and policeing could badly escalate in the very near future. All I will further say on this matter is that if no reply is forthwith,if you act like those oh so wise monkey's with your ear's,mouth's and eye's covered and simply refuse to listen to the supporter's who remain the REAL lifeblood of this famous old club then those people to whom it concerns at Ewood should not be in the positions they hold. DONT TREAT THE FANS WITH CONTEMPT.

I'm sorry to say Colin but if you have away fans literally feet away in the home fans section and deliberately being provocotive just what the hell do you expect the reaction to be....give them a friendly wave and send them a round of drinks? What we need is a simple explanation from the club as to why this standing rule is not equally enforced with the away fans,that is all we ask. We wait with baited breath....................................................................

At present his summery is not far off the mark.....you have to swallow your pride sometimes FLB.

Surely the company which leases the box in question should be brought to book. They allowed a bunch of drunken smoggies to goad the fans directly in front of them in the BBE, resulting in a potentially dangerous situation. Put another way, it seems to me that the Boro "fans" in the corporate box incited a response from the supporters in the BBE, and disorder then followed. Incitement to disorder is a criminal offence, as is facilitating such incitement. Does anyone know, or have any way of finding out, to whom the box belonged? Good call Morph,to put away supporters(even if they are behind glass) literally feet away from the home supporters in the most partisan section of Ewood is foolish to say the least.

Would it be possible to send an 'official brfcs.com'e-mail to John Williams on behalf of members on this board to outline the problems and general feeling?

From my seat in area NO4 I didn't see this incident but I'm bl00dy furious at the news The atmosphere is bad enough without this sort of provocation..... Like I said on the safe standing thread I'm slowly losing interest and matters like this only help to compound this feeling!!!

The worst performance I have seen for years.Sorry to say but right from the kick off our players didn't look up for it..what the hell is going on?,where the hell is our next win coming from?. There is going to be some real trouble in the BBE very soon if the stewards dont back off..coupled with these awful performances there were a lot of angry faces today.There was also some trouble on Livesey branch Rd with the police being heavy handed. WHAT AN AWFUL DAY.

Douglas to walk it,his name is still revered even in my generation,how many players can claim to have scored against Brazil? Ripley comes second for me..the way he used to beat his man so consistently and then his pin point crosses to the head of Shearer brought only one painful conclusion for the opposition!. I have not seen a winger to match his ability since he left the club.

The club haven't the ###### to do anything pro-active about it.Its up to the fans to make (pardon the pun) a stand against this now enforced sit down,dont move or breathe shyte.It would appear the clubs only interest is bowing to the corporate cash cow. If the whole bottom tier of the Blackburn end stood in unison to make a point there would be nothing the bumbling stewards could do about it just like the away fans in the Darwen End. Back in the day, the old Ewood with 8,000 fans on created a better atmosphere than at present.... its vertually non-existent now.We dont want f'kin drums and stupid inflatable plastic footballers when we score I'm slowly losing interest to be honest and it pains me to say that,tomorrows game holds no expectancy for me,another run of the mill game played infront of a home crowd who have had their passion literally kicked out of them by their own. YAWWWNNNN!!!How very,very boring this clubs 'matchday experience ' has now become.

Stamford Bridge!?....where's Bloomfield Park in that list

Based on current form we're in for a pasting.Big worries about their strong attack and our static defence. Rovers 2 Boro 12 Att: 15,000 with 5k from Boro