Spot on:

Telegraph rant

Have a good feeling you'll be buying a few beers Berkshire!!!

I don't

GAV ....... seem to remember a similar little quirk from you over the Dingle tickets

Very true Capt but speaking to many die hards they're just not bothering to go to Cardiff and thats a clear indication to me that we'll suffer with ticket sales for this one.

Hope i'm wrong.

Once it does we will have over 20,000 there, i I will bet anyone on this board a beer we sell over 20,000 any takers?

I'll have a piece of that......You're on!

I've always had a soft spot for Wales simply because they've missed out so many times when looking like qualifying for the big tournaments.

If memory serves me correctly Hughes record was less than impressive but you can only go with the players you've got and looking through the Wales side its not exactly brimming with quality.

Hughes seems very capable of assembling a team that can punch above its weight with limited resources and i think thats been the case both managing Wales and Blackburn Rovers.

Toshack on the other hand has been given the keys to the treasure chest on numerous occasions in Spain and has blown it more than achieved success.

Obviously he's a proud man who doesn't want to build on whats been created by the previous manager and that is a big mistake. He's also managed to make a number of enemies along the way with his outspoken comments and its not surprising some of the older end have decided to retire.

You can see nothing but hard times for Toshack and most of it is his own doing so i'll not be feeling sorry for Wales in the future.

The guys a complete p***k but on the other hand great entertainment.

The Porto side he created cheated their way to the European and UEFA cups, yet he complains about the very same tactics adopted against Chelsea?

Jose, we've all been to Chelsea with 8k on, you'll never created a decent football club with such fickle support.........

PLASTIC..............

With all the hassle of getting to cardiff for noon and parking, queuing, Iam seeing this as one big pain in the arse, that I can't really be arsed with.

They don't make it easy for us do they?

Me thinks you ain't the real deal matey boy......

On the national rail map there are two lines from Bristol to Cardiff. the line from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff is rail replacement buses, and the line from Bristol Parkway to Cardiff is trains!!! So chill

Have a look at a map and you'll notice there's a ****ing big river estuary slap bang between Bristol and Cardiff.

The tunnel the trains go through is 4 1/2 miles long.

It took thousands of men nearly 15 years and 76 million bricks to build it (opened in 1886).

They didn't build a spare one.

Comedy genius, you're wasted in your current role

just booked £70 a room THE CATHEDRAL HOTEL,room left

029 2023 6511

For an extra £30 you could have stayed in the best western with sauna Jacuzzi and all the trimmings

Plenty of rooms left HERE and only 20 minutes by train to Cardiff central

You're continual slagging of the "new" fans does nothing to promote the support at Rovers. And you'll be the first to post on here when we get low crowds. Why are you so bitter?

You'll struggle to find me 'slagging off' our new supporters in recent times Scotty apart from the above.

My views on the subject are well documented and i can't be bothered going in to it again.

Pre and Post

We can all complain and bitch about the venue for the semi final but Blackburn Rovers have not been in this position for 45yrs and we should look at the tie as a once in a lifetime experience.

You offer the likes of WestBrom, Norwich, Palace etc the same opportunity and they'd have 30,000 in Cardiff for the game.

The Blackburn public need to understand that this is an FA Cup semi final, they need to support the club, sadly i doubt many of the spoon fed pre Jack Walker fans have the inclination or desire to follow the team to Cardiff and thats just a fact we have to live with. If we'd not had the money injection we might not have had this opportunity, but bet your bottom dollar we'd have filled 35,000 for the semi final if we'd got the chance.

We've enjoyed the ride, but it does have its drawbacks.............

Play 4-5-1 and we've got a chance of a point because lets face it Liverpool are a 1 man team, you stop Gerrard you stop Liverpool.

I'd say a draw is the best result we can hope for, but Liverpool are a poor side which says allot about our current crop

Excellent post Billinge. Can we please also stop applauding the opposition keeper as he runs to the Blackburn End nets either at the start of the game or start of the second half. The only thing it does is make him feel more at home.

I've been saying this for years

Why the hell do we make them feel at home? to nice in my book although the coins usually thrown at Schmeichel is going a bit to far

I don't care who we get in the saemi final because today i've fulfilled all my dreams as a Blackburn Rovers supporter.

To win a cup

To win the league

To follow my team in europe

To see my team in a fa cup semi final.......

i'm a very happy Rover and i don't care who we get in the semis or what the result is my dreams have been fulfilled and for that i say thenks to Sir Jack Walker........i know youre watching.

so I'll shut up about it.

Please do........

Outrage on the bumley site as certain sections of the support are again booing the team, some players are getting it before they've even come on the pitch

"The gaps closing though"

We wouldn't but then again we're more realistic when it comes to support.

They play Leicester at home tonight with all tickets reduced to £10 and £5 for kids.

Wonder if they'll fill the ground

I don't know about anyone else but i don't think i've ever been to Everton and seen a good sized following from the Rovers fans and i've been 4-5 times over the past 10yrs? it just seems one of them places that people don't travel to.

FA Cup game mid 80's was an exception but i missed that

I don't normally stick up for our away support because far to often its an embarrassment but being a Rovers fan has been very expensive over recent weeks and with one eye on a return to Cardiff i'm sure most are watching the pennies.

Trimm Trab, why is it you only appear to post and remark on this thread?

Cos he has a ban?

For being a ######?

Quality post, one of the best yet

He doesn't have a ban but does offer an alternative view, some of us have them you know....

A fellow member of this site emailed me some years back and claimed he/she has a remastered copy of the game at the turf on VHS. I'm sure myself like many will be willing to pay good money for such a copy so please get in touch if you're still around.

I'm sure i've stated previously that i think the banning orders are very harsh indeed, but deserved in a few instances.

But when you look at clubs around the country i can't help but feel enough isn't being done to convict similar 'lads' by the same route the Blackburn lads have been done. Some clubs have a real problem when it comes to hooliganism yet you'll find the same clubs being accused time and time again when the more explosive games come around. Why isn't the same process implemented to ban these repeat offenders? 25 Lads out of average home attendances around 20k isn't a real problem yet 250+ out of 10k is????

The money the club pays the local police is disgusting in my opinion. We have 5 riot vans, several horses and God knows how many foot soldiers to police 25 lads? Ok the police around the ground do a great public service and do not concentrate on hooligans but look after the genuine football fan going to the game but the ones assigned to the hooligans just milk the overtime and trump up not only the charges but the threat posed by these individuals.

A quick story:

I had a first hand account from a police officer of a surveillance operation that took place a few seasons ago. Four Members of the football intelligence unit were assigned to follow an active member of the local hooligan group. One of these officers had been following said lad for sometime away from football and God knows how much that cost the tax payer. Anyway back to the game in question, the officers had booked into a London hotel and then went out in search of the said lad. After many hours of searching, several beers and meals out they decided to turn in for the night. They arrived back at the hotel to find said lad drinking in the bar with his wife! He was only down in the smoke on a shopping trip and never had any intentions of going to the game in question.

How much did such an operation cost the tax payer? and with amateurs like this is it not surprising they have to trump up charges to get banning orders.

I'm definitely prejudice when it comes to policing of football so i'll always see the down side but having been the victim of assault by police officers on several occasions for no reason and witnessed my girlfriend being hit with a baton for no reason also in recent times it leaves a sour taste in the mouth. Walking round Soho with Debs before an England game and being grabbed by two police officers, hit in the stomach and told i'm scum, racist and bang to rights because i'm in the Leicester city baby squad and a cat 'C' hooligan you'll get my point

Football is the only social event you'll get treated like a criminal, pay £25+ for the priviledge and still come back the week after......

i'm suprised this was not in the press,but the case involving the rovers fans ans man utd fans in the postal order has been dealt with this week,sentence's ranged from 90 days week-end jail to fines off £1400 certianly makes you think

Have you got a link Waggy?

nothing been in the press,possibility of something after next monday.

6 year ground bans for the custodial sentences,3 year bans for the rest.

the fines and sentences were way over the top for the charge,same offence on a friday night in town and you wouldn't get anywhere near.

hanging,beheading or public stoning i say,thought i'd get that in to save you all the trouble.

Absolutely pathetic for a pub brawl, but if you participate on a football day you know the implications.

Do the same next Friday and you'll be lucky to even get locked up for the night

i'm suprised this was not in the press,but the case involving the rovers fans ans man utd fans in the postal order has been dealt with this week,sentence's ranged from 90 days week-end jail to fines off £1400 certianly makes you think

Have you got a link Waggy?

What exactly is he trying to say?

I know two separate groups of Rovers lads one group who were drinking in Nelson and the other in Burnley town centre from early doors and didn't get escorted to the ground? nor did they see any burnley lads either?

Big deal....