No - well not the ones I am thinking of anyway - surely ready steady or Cool Claret etc can come up with the goods?

Come on Dingles, Let's Be Having You.

Who has won more League Titles (old 1st Div)? - Rovers

Who has won more FA Cups?- Rovers

Who has won more League Cups? - Rovers

Who has played more times in the Top Flight? - Rovers

Who has won more Rovers v Burnley matches? - Rovers

Who has the better stadium? - Rovers

Who has the bigger stadium? - Rovers

Who has the higher record crowd? - Rovers

Who was formed first? - Rovers

Now then, there is one statistic that Burnley have over Rovers, yes, just the one. Any of our Dingle friends care to advise me what that is? It's a definite statistic, not an opinion. Sensible answers only please.

Oh and BTW, the rainbow thing wasn't funny at all.

Empty Seats 2 Full Seats 0

Attendance 8,880 (Empty Seats Wise)

Weather - Sunny but with some rain causing a rainbow starting over Ewood and finishing in Cardiff.

19000 tickets have already been sold

Ho-Hum, it was an attempt at humour. I'm well aware 19,000 tickets have been sold. My attendance was for empty seats.

If you look at the score........yes, that 2-0 thingy, you will see Empty Seats 2 Full seats 0 and another attempt at humour, empty being Rovers and full being Leicester. Two attempts at humour in only one post.

Get it now?

Empty Seats 2 Full Seats 0

Attendance 8,880 (Empty Seats Wise)

Weather - Sunny but with some rain causing a rainbow starting over Ewood and finishing in Cardiff.

Rovers to grind out a 1-0 win

I AM THE PROPHET..........AND YOUR NEW LEADER

Rovers to grind out a 1-0 win

Agreed - Norwich smacked everyones arses last season in Division 1 and are about to be relegated from the PL because of the huge gulf between the two divisions. We've just beaten Norwich 3-0. Says it all.

Although this is probably not the thread to discuss Gally, I have to say the one aspect of his game where he can provide quality is in his crossing. Perhaps a positional change is in order?

Agreed - it occured to me last night that we should give him a go wide right instead of Emerton, who never looks up, doesn't seem to know where anyone else is and just runs into trouble. rant over

Good points but I'm not so sure of Gally's tracking back and defensive duties.

But as my mate has said since day one, Emerton couldn't beat an egg.

..I await more from the, ...."I dont condone violence BUT brigade....."

Just change you name to theoriginalfootballhooligan and have done with it.

Pr!ck

2-1

14 April 1979

you say it like no one else knows lad. you won the premiership ffs, i think everyone realises you have the better team

Lad?

Nothing to do with the fact that we won the PL, sonny, I was pointing out the dumb use of the word respect.

I'll repeat - none of us have respect for Burnley.

Hey, ben The Beast, I see you're from Hayling Island. Most dads take their families somewhere exotic for their summer holidays - Mallorca, Tenerife etc (well fairly exotic). In 1968 mine took us camping to............Hayling Island!

...... are you seriously telling me it'd be like that against a team you didn't have respect for?........

Not one of us has respect (I hate that word) for Burnley. You have to earn respect and Burnley have never done that.

That said I do miss the East Lancs Derbies on a regular basis, but the fact that we do not play regularly in effect shows we are top dogs and have been for over a quarter of a century.

14 April 1979.

When Burnley last beat Rovers I was a single lad. Now married, we recently celebrated our Silver Wedding and have two kids, one almost 21 and the other 15 in a few weeks.

Burnley fans, read and weep. It was that long ago - 14 April 1979.

The 70s - a decade of :-

Watneys Pale Ale

Bus Conductors

Slade

Northern Soul

Punk Rock

Discos, not night clubs

Mobile Phones unheard of

Black & White TVs here and there

Starsky & Hutch

Steptoe & Son

Black & White Minstrel Show

Berlin Wall

Intact Soviet Union

Flares - 1st time round

Jimmy Carter

Pre Margaret Thatcher

Idi Amin

Pre Falklands

Need I go on?

LONG MAY YOUR INFERIORITY CONTINUE!!!!!!

BEATEN AGAIN BY THE ROVERS

BLACKBURN ROVERS FC - PRIDE OF EAST LANCASHIRE

..... if you really think it'll be another 17 years then your having a laugh......

Sod the 17 years figure - it's another one you should be looking at.

25 YEARS AND ELEVEN MONTHS SINCE YOU LAST BEAT BLACKBURN ROVERS.

Why is that, I wonder? I have never met a Dingle who can tell me?

Just back from the game - crap generally but atmosphere superb. Blackburn End and end sections of Riverside and Jack Walker Lower (nearest the Dingles) stood up all game. Makes the singing so much better when you stand.

Well done Rovers and once again MGP - soon to achieve cult status at Ewood.

Wait till we here from Longsider 1882 and the Original Longsider (named incorrectly because I must have set foot in the Longside before him) who'll no doubt go on about their fantastic support but not mention the match, as usual.

17500 Burnley fans on the Turf

21500 Rovers fans on Ewood

How can that be as they're the best supported club by far? And with a much bigger catchment area? Must be some mistake.

BLACKBURN ROVERS FC - PRIDE OF EAST LANCASHIRE AND UNBEATEN AGAINST BURNLEY SINCE 14 APRIL 1979

Dont you just love the farfetched rumours that surround these games...?

A few stellas on a Friday afternoon, and then 50 becomes 500.

Perhaps if you had been able to shift your tickets you could have had the last laugh.

There will be Rovers fans in home areas - who knows how many? I know of two Bolton lads who are missing Wanderers this weekend to take in the East Lancs Derby!

Burnley's propaganda machine of best support in the land blah, blah, blah has been defunct for a few years now. It's not worth cranking it up again with only 10,000 regular home supporters and a failure to sell out against their most hated rivals in their biggest game for years.

I'll be missing my first ever Derby having seen every one since the first in 1970, home and away.

Come On You Blues!

Sod that question - the real question is how did young Norman get out of Calderstones?

Incidentally, Hell isn't Turf Moor and never has been - it's a small place just to the east of Trondheim, Norway. I was bound for Sweden by train a few years ago. The train left Hell Station, carried on for a few hundred yards and then reversed all the way back. I think the train driver did it for a laugh as everyone found it amusing saying they'd now been to Hell and back. True (but boring) story.

nonesense.

Nonesense -

Try.........nonsense..........it spells and looks a bit better.

My prediction is a Burnley victory. But it's a win - win situation for us

Aye, sure it is. If you get beaten you'll have a smile as wide as Colne Road all week. Very win, win.

True, waggy - they're tourists. Just come up for a quick visit and then they'll return to where they belong.

Unfortunately Matt is finished and has been for some considerable time. I was happy to give him a certain level of time after the accident to recapture his form of old but this has never happened and it won't.

I posted on here many months ago about a local physio who told a friend of mine that Jansen's coordination was way out when the ball was played straight to him. Across him there was no problem, but straight at him and he had all sorts of problems. This was a good 12 months after his accident.

Against Portsmouth this season, and I know he scored on that day, the ball came straight at him a few times when he was in front of the Bburn End (where I sit). My mate to my right, and my son to my left both noticed that his legs were like jelly - a bit like someone who puts ice skates on for the first time and stuggles keeping his feet - when he tried to get the ball under control.

He was one of my favourites and I'm really sad at the way things have turned out. Unfortunately he won't be offered a new contract, but fortunately he is a bright enough lad who should be able to salvage a career outside of football when the time comes. And I think it will be sooner than a lot of people think.

All the best Matt and good luck.

Not a derby game but cast your minds back to pre Jack days.

B******* 0 Hull City 1 (A Payton)

You really are so funny Zak - I split my sides laughing at that one. Did Payton actually score against Rovers in an East Lancs Derby? Perhaps you could compare his record against that of Simon Garner.?

Was that when the wall collapsed at the Darwen End. I won't say why it collapsed for fear of being branded.

Can't remember a wall collapsing But Exiled In Toronto has a better memory than me - he was probably at that game - could have been with me in fact in the Darwen End with the Dingles. We went to school with a number of them as the catchment area included Rossendale and Hyndburn as it was later known.

The Dingles were charged twice by the Rovers lot - once from the Riverside and once when the gates opened when they surged in from Nuttall Street.

Nearest I've ever come to getting a good beating - and that from my own lot! My first taste of a white hot East Lancs Derby - surprise, surprise, Rovers won that one as well.