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Well done. Duff is in the team.
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[Archived] Most Hated People In Football
jim mk2 replied to ben_the_beast's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
1. Gary Lineker, for saying "shame Blackburn went down" on They Think It's All Over after we were relegated. I've not forgotten, Gary, and I'll give you hell when I meet you. -
Worthwhile exercise and an interesting team. My only real objection is the weasel Le Saux, who got in only because he was in the championship team and was not even a decent left back. Bagsie me manager - I'd haul Le Saux off in the first minute and replace him with Sir Keith Newton.
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1 COURTS Hooligan Lancs FIVE MONTHS JAIL FOR SOCCER HOOLIGAN A serial football hooligan who ran on the pitch to confront soccer star Robbie Savage was today jailed for five months. Jobless Michael Lewis was already serving a three-year ban from every football stadium in England and Wales before Sunday’s FA Cup tie between Blackburn and Burnley. The 42-year-old Burnley fan invaded the pitch and headed straight for Rovers star Savage. He was seen by millions of TV viewers offering to fight the Welsh international, Burnley Magistrates’ Court heard. Lewis, who has 24 previous convictions including for football-related incidents at Millwall, Blackpool and Wolverhampton, was warned off by players from both sides who protected Savage. He then ran to the touchline and assaulted two officers as they arrested him. Lewis, from Nelson, pleaded guilty to breaching the football banning order, encroaching on the football pitch, using threatening and abusive behaviour towards Savage and assaulting two police officers. He was jailed for five months and given another football banning order for 10 years. Lewis was already serving a ban of three years from Wolverhampton magistrates in December 2002 for being drunk at a match and obstructing police officers. Last March he breached the order by going to Burnley’s game at Millwall and was jailed for 28 days. He also invaded the pitch at Blackpool in 1992 and breached an exclusion order at Burnley in 1990. And he had been jailed for 18 months for assault in 1989.
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From the Guardian. "They are entitled to believe they created the better chances, with Savage and Morten Gamst Pedersen the best players, but they ought really to have done more to quell the Burnley fans, some of whom seemed to be frothing at the mouth Chortle
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The cup draw draw could not have been kinder to us .... this is our best chance of reaching the semi-finals that I can remember. Can we muck it up ? Of course we can.
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Amen to that. Lancashire in general has suffered terribly since the war through changing economic circumstances and the disinterest of successive London-centric governments. Let's celebrate the fact that the county's football teams are in relative good health. In the early 1960s, Rovers, Burnley, Bolton, Preston and Blackpool were in the old first division and I'd love to see them all back there (the top flight that is !).
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It's not that difficult. All it requires is foresight and long-term planning. Twenty years ago, Leicester rugby club started giving away FREE season tickets to kids in the area, building up a supporter base that is now maturing to the extent that the club are leaving Welford Road to accommodate their burgeoning crowds in Leicester City FC's Walkers Stadium. I think you overestimate the ability of chief executives and managers in general. Most do not have any special ability but have got where they are either through bullshitting/brownnosing their way to the top, or luck. I repeat what I said: running Blackburn Rovers does not require any special skills and for what they do Williams and Finn receive more than ample remuneration.
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With most of the club's income guaranteed as long as we stay in the Premiership, it does not need a genius to be chief executive and secretary of Blackburn Rovers FC and makes the salary increases of Williams and Finn even harder to justify. Attendances may be only a small percentage of income but it the one source of income that Williams and Finn have the power to influence through their skills (or lack of them) as managers. Williams has said over the past year that he does not know how to reverse the decline in attendances, which is a remarkable admission of failure that would have led to his departure/sacking in other industries.
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Who decided that Williams and Finn should be rewarded with such large increases in pay ? The other memebers of the board ? The trustees ? Or did they award themselves their inflation busting rise ? Is there any mention in the report of the departure of the club's longest serving employee, Tony Parkes ? And if not, why not ? Is there any hint at how Williams and Finn are going to justify their vast salaries by reversing the decline in attendances ? New marketing initiatives are needed desperately and it is their (well paid) job to put them into action.
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[Archived] 5 Favourite Teams
jim mk2 replied to RoverinBath's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
1. Rovers. 2. Lancashire CCC 3. England (football, rugby and cricket) 4. Alloa Athletic er, that's it. -
Good for you sir. Laziness and ignorance is not an egscuse for paw speling. How can you tel I gru up reding the Grauniad ?
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To prevent marital disharmony neither should go and they should send their ticket to me.
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[Archived] Next Seasons Kit
jim mk2 replied to StroppyMoppy's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
I thougt it was quarters Not that old chestnut. Bristol Rovers play in quarters. -
[Archived] Next Seasons Kit
jim mk2 replied to StroppyMoppy's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Excellent idea especially as red and blue halves used to be ( still is ? ) QEGS colours. I'd like to see Rovers play in blue with white halves at home and white with blue halves away. -
[Archived] The Other Internationals
jim mk2 replied to emerton's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Emerton and world class in the same sentence - something wrong shurely ? -
You're having a larf ! Nelsen looks like he knows how to defend at right back, which Neill never does. Just because you cleaned out Lucas's goldfish bowl does not make him a good footballer. Pedersen is promising but no more. He was a reasonable Souness signing in a sea of dross.
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Anyone know why Mokoena was subbed (other than always getting in the way of Todd) ? Nelsen is a great discovery - a right back who can actually defend and play centre half to boot. Bye bye Lucas. As Jan said, we have leaders all over the pitch now. Friedel, Todd, Nelsen and Savage (who had an excellent game). Pedersen will be a special player in 12 months or so - but he ain't a left winger. I'd like to see him play down the middle where his skills would be more effective. The lad can head a ball too. Norwich should have scored at least two in the first half but after Bolton and Chelsea we deserve a change of luck. Hurrah for Robert Green ! You made my day. PS: I know it was a rotten day but the attendance looked poor.
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For those who don't know, Bob "the Butcher" Lord sold Burnley's best player (possibly of all time) Dunno about that. Dobson was very good but to be fair to the Deliverance folk they had some pretty special players in the 1960s and 1970s. The likes of Ralph Coates, Willie Morgan, Ray Pointer, Jimmy McIlroy, Leighton James, Dave Thomas, Brian Flynn and Ray Hankin were just a few of their top-class performers, most of whom were home-produced.
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At last, he's finally admitted it.
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Andrew Cole, our former striker, has scored 11 goals for Fulham so far this seaon. His replacement, the multi-talented Paul Dickov, has scored 7 goals. However, Dickov is beating Cole on yellow cards, by 9 to 6, though Cole has had one red. Nuff said.
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[Archived] Soton Winning, Oh Dear!
jim mk2 replied to krislu's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Nonsense. I'm fed up with the gloomsters writing us off all the time. Rovers will stay up at a canter, starting with a 3-0 triumph over the Canaries on saturday. -
I remember being on Blackburn railway station when a Burnley supporters "special" went through on its way back from another away defeat. Burnley fans were hanging out of the windows (you could in those days) throwing anything and everything at the poor folk on the platforms. I ducked underneath the old steamship that used to be on display on the main platform to avoid being hit by one of their missiles. Nice people.
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[Archived] Homegrown Player Plans Revealed
jim mk2 replied to krislu's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
And talking of the rich getting richer......... Manchester United tonight received planning permission to complete the expansion of Old Trafford when the local council agreed to proposals to fill in the north west and north east corners of the ground, raising capacity to 76,000. The additional 7,900 seats could net United £50million per season. Work will commence before the end of this season with the new seats set to be installed before the 2006-07 season. -
[Archived] Homegrown Player Plans Revealed
jim mk2 replied to krislu's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Uefa have bottled their chance to level the playing field. Their original proposal was for a minimum of seven homegrown players in each 18-strong match squad, which the big clubs opposed of course. This latest plan will not affect them at all. Effectively, it limits English clubs to 17 foreigners (including Scottish, Welsh and Irish players), hardly a severe restriction because any non-English players who have trained in this country for at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21 will count as homegrown. A match day squad of 18 would therefore need only include one home-reared player, assuming that all the foreigners were fit and available for selection. So it's as you were for the moneyed classes to continue to dominate.