3 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Americanisms are a blight on the British English language and need to be resisted.

And don’t anyone dare use  train station instead of railway station 

On that theme, Jim, train tracks instead of railway lines.

Both my kids, 30yrs and 36yrs say, ‘can I get’ instead of may I have...

2 hours ago, Roving Mick said:

On TV and radio interviews, people who have to start every sentence with the word 'So'.  It used to be 'Basically', but 'So' seems to be the in-word at the moment.

Quite agree Mick. They’re the same sort of people who have started making their voices rise at the end of their sentence (like Australians have always done). They come out with what should be a statement but, with the atonement in their voices, it now sounds like a question and that they are unsure of what they are saying.

10 hours ago, perthblue02 said:

The word route pronounced as rowt

Did they get their kicks on rowt 66? no it was route 66

Took a sat nav back a few years ago because of this  even the British English voice setting did it. The shop assistant thought it was quite funny that I actually wanted to test a different brand in the shop  to see how it pronounced it.

Yet another Americanism that’s creeping in is the way numbers are said. I’ve heard on the news several times now, ‘one hundred fifty’ instead of one hundred AND fifty. I just think, why?

I love America and (most) Americans, by the way. I just wish that over here we would keep to our British brand of English. 
 

16 hours ago, DeeCee said:

Paul O'Grady, Alan Carr, George Ezra, Ellie Goulding, Lenny Henry, people who don't indicate, people who take up all the road when turning left/right, people who don't dip their headlights till you've had your eyeballs frazzled, people who leave bags of dog shit lying about, litterbugs, fly tippers, The One Show, screaming children, snotty/frilly fried eggs, cauliflower, sprouts, magpies, people who run over hedgehogs.

Just off the top of my head 😁

Agree with most of those, especially The One Show which must be the biggest bag of cack on tv.

People who say ‘lay down’ instead of lie down. Another Americanism that has crept into the Queen’s English. Twenty five years ago, when my lad played Junior League football, a bloke with a dog at a game, was saying to it, ‘lay down....lay down...’ The dog just sat there and looked at him. I whispered to the guy next to me, ‘if he tells it to lie down, it may well do it.’

To re-emphasise a few football phrases from above, ones that do my head in are baller (Americanism), false nine and in the whole.

I’ve posted this before but a mate of mine, once in a blue moon, gets invited to corporate in the Jack Walker stand. Not too long after we signed Brereton, my friend was there with a couple of Forest fans at the Forest game. They couldn’t believe the fee we paid and reckoned it was one of the best pieces of business they had ever done.

3 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I’m pretty sure that is Tommy Gemmell and not Denis Law. My immediate impression of the other mystery player was Bobby Moncur of Newcastle United.

I think you’re right with Tommy Gemmell, TS. My first guess for the other player was Terry Paine but Bobby Moncur seems to fit the bill.

2 minutes ago, darrenrover said:

👍 Aye, it'll all fit on there! 🤔😱

It’s a fecking joke Nick or at least I wish it was! 

Final picture shows both Training Centres looking more or less south.

This picture shows the current Senior Training Centre, the one to be sold for housing.

Not sure if anyone has posted these images before but I have taken them from Google Earth. This picture shows the current Junior Training Centre, the one that Waggott & Co wish to develop into the main facility.

8 hours ago, Riversider28 said:

I’ve just received a copy of this book by Harry Kay, Sports Editor Of the then Northern Daily Telegraph. It was published in 1948. It is without it’s dust cover. Has anyone got a copy or read it, I hadn’t seen it until my son sent me a photo of it recently. Looks like it will be an interesting read.

I have this book. A friend of mine saw it, I think at a car boot sale, and bought it for me. It’s in poor condition but still readable with care.

Never been a massive Dire Straits fan but, again, the collector in me meant a couple of years ago, I bought the last two albums to complete the studio album set. I only have one of Mark Knopfler’s solo albums (Get Lucky) but, after listening to plenty of stuff on YouTube, he ain’t too bad. There are some nice instrumental compilations on there.

1 hour ago, Richard Oakley said:

You ought to have left defending yourself to others. They're doing a better job. Your reputation ain't worth a damn....You are displaying a clear lack of love for all things Blackburn Rovers over this.... You clearly don't value the Academy, Cat A status or Jack Walker's legacy. 

You need to calm down a bit mate. I don’t know 1864 personally but he has been posting on here for a good twenty years or more. That doesn’t, of course, mean he is a better or more articulate poster than others but, over that period of time, you form a pretty accurate opinion of someone. Where their loyalties lie, the games they have been to, the length of time they have supported the lads and not least, their ‘love for all things Blackburn Rovers.’ You are totally wrong in this instance and your above comments are making yourself look rather stupid.

On 12/03/2021 at 19:30, Stonesrick said:

Such great away days 👍

Oh for those days of 1-0 wins.

But today it’s about the performance, not the result. 🤔

Struggling remembering this but I think the original game was called off due to a frozen pitch. About a dozen of us travelled over in a Ford Transit van. The Snake Pass was covered in snow, we inched along, stopped for a p!ss break, I jumped over a wall into a field and sank up to my waist in snow. Later on, we found the game had been called off. We diverted to Rotherham as they were at home, only to then get a puncture and miss that game as well. We had earlier had a few beers in Owd Bett’s above Rochdale so we’re were happy enough. 😆

40 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

I'm a fan of Neil Young but there are only so many versions of his songs I can listen to. I felt the same about the Beatles anthology series as well. I played a few from Vol 2 today but had to look quite hard to find stuff I hadn't heard before on bootlegs etc. 

But you're dead right he's an interesting artist. I would imagine a very difficult bloke to work with!

You’re right Andy but I think it’s the ‘collector syndrome’ in me. I have six or seven albums of his early stuff, so I have given Archives Vol 1 a miss. I was looking though at an eBay mint second hand copy a few weeks ago at silly money.

I think he was a quite shy guy in his twenties but has certainly developed into a difficult so and so. I’ve seen one or two interviews with him on YouTube and he’s certainly given the interviewer a tough time!

Neil Young’s Archives Vol 2 arrived last week. Going to enjoy listening to the ten albums. An interesting artist.

4 hours ago, 47er said:

I've already got it! Somehow or other my brain has managed to forget about it and it never bothers me

I've never listened at the volume you describe though.

It doesn’t really affect me either. I reckon I’ve got it at 3-4 out of 10 on a sort of scale. I understand one or two that have had it at full pelt have committed suicide. For a few weeks, one of my mates was getting seriously desperate but then the level of his reduced to a similar level to that of mine.

Careful with the headphones chaps, or at least the volume setting. I used to go to gigs with three of my mates, mainly modern prog rock bands. Loud, very loud. We used to also listen to our albums, often through headphones with the volume turned up to the highest setting. All four of us have been left with tinnitus 😢

3 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

What station was that on ? I'd like to watch it.

Pretty sure it was on the Yesterday channel TS. Channel 155 on our Sky set up.

8 hours ago, JHRover said:

This simple insurmountable issue was why Jack Walker developed the second site elsewhere. A simple fact that the bottom site didn't have the room nor freedoms to build what was required so he went up on the other site.

Unless brainbox Waggott has managed to do what Jack Walker couldn't do 20+ years ago with all his money, ambition and contacts and develop an all in one facility on Brockhall then the only conclusion to reach is that the planned facilities will be significantly inferior to what we already have.

Spot on 👍

Just watching Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo. Preston to Rochdale, via Hebden Bridge. Featured Preston, Hoghton Tower, got off at Pleasington, got off at Church & Oswaldtwitle for a stay at the Dunkenhalgh, back on at Accy then on to Rochdale. Neither showed nor mentioned Blackburn once.

16 hours ago, darrenrover said:

A 5-0 stuffing that Tommy Duxbury described as the best schoolboy performance he'd ever witnessed says differently! 😉

Exiled in Toronto, Arbitro and I are two or three years older than you Nick, I think. The first game I remember playing was at your place and finished 7-7!

Sky would have called it the Corporation Park derby 😆

4 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He was a class act Jim, Bobby Moore rated him as one of the players who always gave him a hard time. He specialised in scoring hat tricks against West Ham. It was real mistake selling him to Bolton when we did. For modern fans reading this he was in the style of Matt Jansen.

I was eight years old when I started going to Ewood in 1966. We had just sold Byrom to Bolton but, at that age, I was unaware of that. My uncle used to take me, as my dad had no real interest in football.

A few years later, I started going on my own and gradually got to the age when I followed the lads away. When we played Bolton, especially away, I used to dread Byrom being in their line up. I knew he was a prolific striker but still blissfully unaware of his previous status at Rovers. As you say, a real mistake selling him. We may well have gone straight back up with him in the side. We’ll never know.