Mattyblue

No they didn’t.

Doogs out of cold storage for the summer ST thread, welcome back!

All pretty meaningless tallies until after phase 1 and the claim your own seat deadline as the seat map opens up. Crank up the @goozburger bat signal.

Pretty bang on there, Matt 😅 https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24324375.blackburn-reveal-pre-season-details-friendlies-confirmed/

Kompany himself (I’d say Alan Pace but he’s teetotal) must be a regular at his Ribble Valley soirées.

Do I want them to fall down the leagues? Yes. Do I want to see their fans skriking as a result as we clamber back on to our east Lancs perch? Yes. But do I give a shit about some journeyman who played a game there in 2016 on loan? No.

Likes of Trippier, yeah go for it. Some of the others it’s all a bit lame.

If you say so, booing a bloke relentlessly for 90 minutes because he played down the road on loan for about 5 games a decade ago is all a bit small time to me… just like they always used to be.

Why?

Made me laugh that one high profile poster wouldn’t even have a certain manager here because a top professional head coach from, err, Kettering is a ‘Dingle bastard’.

I’m afraid the days of ‘I watched a game one week at Ewood, the following at Turf’ have long gone. NO1 with their seeming encyclopaedic knowledge of players will boo someone if they even drove past Burnley once on the M65.

Thought Norwich and Watford no longer have parachutes?

My apologies, I’ll edit ASAP

Why what happened?

Part timer. People should’ve been supporting their team and manager at Ewood Park.

Obviously it primarily aided Liverpool as the rest of our side was largely shite that year, so we may as well have not bothered bringing him in. But if you actually have aspirations to achieve something, then a top quality loan who is better than what you have can be the difference to push you over the top that season.

Lighten up, it’s Sunday morning. 😅 I wasn’t actually saying you should have received a certificate. Though I’d have given ‘The Chadster, Blackburn End row 7, saw every match, even when Swag wouldn’t let him sit in his seat for the cup game’ a big cheer.

I meant last season! At least we won plenty in L1, as embarrassing as it was to be down there.

Anybody who saw every game of that torturous Ewood campaign should’ve been brought on the pitch and given a certificate like 100% attenders in school assembly. Luckily I was away a fair bit and missed three or four (didn’t miss a win though obviously).

Cheers. Another question. With the ‘coffin ceremony’ etc going back decades, I always thought that there’s a decent amount of Rovers fans in Brig, ok, not as many as PNE, but a decent few. Take it that isn’t the case, but was there historically?

Something I’ve wondered about non league fans, especially once you get to Northern Premier level and below. Are any purely Brig fans, or Clitheroe etc or are most fans of the local football league club too (or Liverpool, Man Utd etc)

Oh god, you’ve asked for the full itinerary now 😅

Two Blackburns when it comes to the FA Cup. Proper football town.

There is, and AW is right up there with them after just a dozen PL games - some player.

There will be a lot of skriking kids across the country though whose weak parents have let them support City over their own club.