Best looking Rovers away kit I've ever seen. Spot on! I suggested black/red halves on here in 2001 when a similar topic was running but seeing the design illustrated is just superb. Well Done Doc!

I've watched Accy away three times now and never any hint of trouble. There's usually the odd Rovers shirt and the odd Burnley one also. As I understand it, the trouble at York was mainly down to a stag do or two on that weekend and not football related. Ffs if people are starting to wet themselves at going to Accy it's time to start getting involved in bingo or something similar.

Very good signing - well done MH

I sincerely hope Jeffers returns to some sort of form but I don't think he will. Yes, I'm aware Mark Hughes knows far more about football than I do, although this season will be my 41 st watching the lads. Yes, I'm also aware there will still be one, if not two, decent and relatively expensive signings by the club. Folk are entitled to their opinions all the same but if Franny comes good I'll hold my hand up......I'll also show my arse at the Circus as us Darreners say.

Just driven past Ewood - the season ticket queue is unbelievable........................ I want to go on record, here and now, to state that Jeffers will be a complete and utter flop. Sorry, should have typed....will continue to be a complete and utter flop.

Part of the problem for me, and especially where penalties are involved, is the lack of our technical ability when compared with our continental counterparts. It's no conincidence that we invariably lose out in penalty competitions and also no coincidence that Hargreaves, who plies his trade in Germany, was our only scorer. Two of the best penalty takers I've ever seen were Tony Field and Alan Shearer. Field always sent the keeper the wrong way with a body swerve and medium pace penalties, whilst Shearers were hit with both speed and accuracy. The way Field took them meant he had to be very good technically, which he was, but he was an exception. It's a pity that our lot didn't just take a good run up and blast each one - it's a fair chance that if they did, say four out of five would have gone in and we'd have stood a better chance of going through. I normally don't get too worked up about England but I now feel really gutted after having blown a good chance to win the competition with as good a set of players as I've seen since the 1970 lads were who generally regarded as being better than the class of 66.

Just doing some clearing out pending house move - found some old season ticket books. 1976/77 (I was aged 18) £11.00 1977/78 £13.00 1978/79 £15.00 1984/85 £28.00 1985/86 £30.00 1987/88 £36.00 From 1979 to 1984 I had a season ticket at the Turf but I can't remember their prices. Just joking about the Turf

One of the best ever PNE away days was in the 74/75 promotion season. Nil-Nil but the atmosphere was second to none. Thousands of Rovers fans made the short trip. We went on a sort of football special and I was told it was the third train load that morning with the first one leaving Blackburn around 10am. Loads of double deckers were waiting at Preston railway station, to take us to Deepdale, as the police didn't want thousands of Rovers fans in the town centre. We were upstairs on one which was being rocked from side to side by everyone literally diving from one side of the bus to the other. The Town End was packed to the rafters and if I remember correctly, and like at Gigg Lane a few years later, the upper terracing was wooden and with the antics of the Rovers fans, absolutely rocking. We did them 3-0 at Ewood in the return fixture in front of 24,000 plus. Happy days. PS Can't remember much about the game.

My first ever pint was a lager, aged 14, in the Dirty Duck in Blackburn - an eight year old choir boy could have got served in there. Graduated to Thwaites mild but like folk have said, it can now be nigh on impossible to get mild, even in most northern pubs. Haven't had any for ages. If on a sesh tend to stick to bitter, Boddingtons or Tetleys. Had a few years where I drank nowt but Murphys before finding God's own, ie Guinness, pure nectar. There's nothing better. I couldn't get the hang of Guinness at first, preferring it topped with a dash of blackcurrant. Was in a bar in the east end of Glasgow (effing rough with a capital R) watching Celtic. Went to the bar and ordered 6 pints of Guinness and a Guinness & Black (for me ). The barman gave me a look as if to say you effing puff and from that day on I have drunk it on its own.

I'm convinced that Rovers have a very easy way of calculating the attendance each week. They simply take the official figure and subtract 2,000.

Love the photos dillo - you're a star! Were you wearing your Rovers shirt in Dingleland?

The stayaways will want free flight tickets but sod 'em, I'll be trying to arrange summat.

Hmmmmm - I can feel a week in Norway coming on followed by 2 or 3 days wherever we play in the UEFA Cup!

I'd go along with that Hughesy.

Well said Paul - last night I said (about the stayaways) we may need you but we don't want you. They can rot as far as I'm concerned.

Five previously and then last night makes six.

September 2007

The atmosphere last night was superb, especially in the latter stages. If ever there was an example of how the reaction of a football crowd should be spontaneous rather than orchestrated, last night was it. With five or so minutes to go the Blackburn End stood up en masse. Some had been standing for ages but then the whole end got up. There was no signal, it just happened and to a deafening and continuous chant of Barmy Army. Absolutely brilliant. I said 1-0 before the game, should've put a tenner on! Tight bar stewards us Darweners. I've only been to two European games so far but to anyone in doubt or mulling it over.....get saving, it's an experience to savour with the Ankara trip being one of my best ever Rovers highlights. Just hope we can draw an attractive club fairly close to home. Well done Rovers!

Norway would be great - over to Bergen to play Brann, down to Stavanger for Viking and then finish in Oslo with Lyn and a reunion with Henning! Knowing Rovers they'd arrange games against Hammerfest United and Kirkenes Athletic.

Exactly - It's imperative that Bolton get nowt today. McLaren has already said he's putting the kids in for their remaining matches. A Bolton win today will tip things their way unless we can come up a win against Chelsea.

Just seen some Bluenoses crying on Sky - what a crying shame - now, Big Club, eff off down!

It's in our hands - two wins won't guarantee it but should do.

"Henning has balls", says Elrich. Good to hear.

As manager/head coach of Lyn Oslo, Henning finished a creditable 3rd in his first season with the Oslo club. This season Lyn have got off to a flyer and are top of the Norwegian top flight with 7 points from their first three games. All three games were somewhat difficult but Lyn have come through unscathed. Henning as a player did it all and had the t-shirt, gaining a wealth of knowledge under managers such as King Kenny and Sir Alex. Over a hundred caps for Norway. Hopefully Mark Hughes will be at Rovers for many seasons to come but if the worst comes to the worst we could do worse than look to Henning, one of Ewood's great sons, to take the helm.

One thing that really puzzles me about MGP - he is a fantastic taker of a free kick and extremely accurate but when he takes a corner, his delivery is p!ss poor and around 50% (or more) fail to clear the defender on the front post. Could the reason be any of the following :- 1. He was born within the Arctic Circle 2. He has fair hair 3. He lives in Manchester 4. He has a fit girlfriend 5. He speaks English with a Norwegian accent. 6. Possibly another reason.