Preston Friday neet

[Drog]

CE is a better player than you think he changed the match Friday .
He gets knocked about him self .
If you think CE is dirty you can’t have watched football in the 60s 70s 80s .

He certainly has. In fact I'd wager Al is prob the only one on here who watched it in the 50's too! However it's his memory you need to challenge if he's forgotten Fergy, Bray, 'Killer' Keeley et al from back in the day. Tell you what I wouldn't have minded us signing Ashley Barnes this summer.

We were never dirty under Mark Hughes despite what the likes of Wenger, Benitez, Houllier and Maureen persuaded the press to print. Granted we were tough and uncompromising but 9 / 10 men rarely win matches do they? To his credit Alex Ferguson, for the only time ever stuck up for us!
Rem the furore on Talk shyte (primarily by Adrian Durham who stated that it was GBH and a police matter) and the rest of the media at Cardiff when Van Persie watched his effort go into our net, wheeled away to celebrate and ran smack bang into Andy Todd's elbow? Todd's reputation vilified him until the FA Disciplinary committee viewed the incident from another camera the following day and declared there was no case to answer.
One thing we never did under Hughes was to engage in diving, screaming and acting like so many other clubs players do. In fact the only unsportsmanlike incidents that I can recall from the Prem days was Gamst Pederson diving (ridiculously and embarrassingly) once v Arsenal and of course the maestro (Tugay) sidling across to the other wing whenever he knew he was about to be subbed.
btw Did you ever watch Tugay at all Yorkshire? Maestro is not over egging his abilities.

 

[Drog]

this season rovers 38 yellows 2 reds
Pne 42 yellow cards no reds

I don't know how on earth you only finished with one yellow. Does Thomas Bramall referee you every week perhaps?

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Personally I think Evans was quite dirty in the game. He seemed to spend most of his time on their right which is where I was stood in W01 and there were a few times where he was leaving a bit in on our players in that corner. There was also a dirty late challenge he did on Adam Wharton near the end where he didn't get booked.

There's a very fine line between dirty and physical. I think players like Evans and Barnes go over it (Barnes was ridiculous against us at Turf Moor last season). But I also think we went over it in that first season under Hughes. Remember when Chelsea came and Mokoena broke Robben's ankle, Dickov lunged in on Cech after he saved his penalty. We roughed them up big style.

So I've no problem with it as a whole. It's a man's game, it should be a contact sport, and it's up to the ref to draw the line. I'd like us to get a home ref once in a blue moon though because god knows how Preston didn't get 5-6 bookings. Some refs think that just because its a derby they should keep the cards in their pocket, which is ridiculous and may be contributing to our poor record in derbies, our players getting less protection than usual.

 

[Drog]

PNE play bottom half Championship football well, the Rovers play bottom half Prem football poorly because of the lack of a No9 / Ched Evans type. I doubt either have enough to go up and certainly not to stay up. Don't despair though nobody wants to watch a protracted relegation season from day one.

 

[Alan]

CE is a better player than you think he changed the match Friday .
He gets knocked about him self .
If you think CE is dirty you can’t have watched football in the 60s 70s 80s .

I've been watching since I was 6 and I am now 81.

 

[Drog]

Jimmy Hill was a bit of a wuss but I wonder if Wood's bollocks have descended yet?

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Like I said earlier, the Lilly shites won’t be going up any year soon. They’re cursed. Also let’s face it, we were by far the better team and they only managed to scrape through in their cup final. Well it’s as near as they’ll ever get to a final!

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Jimmy Hill was a bit of a wuss but I wonder if Wood's bollocks have descended yet?

Hello Hello, Blackburn Aggro Blackburn Aggro

 

[Yorkshire 22]

PNE play bottom half Championship football well, the Rovers play bottom half Prem football poorly because of the lack of a No9 / Ched Evans type. I doubt either have enough to go up and certainly not to stay up. Don't despair though nobody wants to watch a protracted relegation season from day one.

Tables don’t lie we aren't good enough to get in the playoffs .but Rovers are to light weight
It’s no good tip tapping the ball about & no plan B Our 2 goals were quality on the night & holmes should have made it 3 rovers played well but didn’t give our goalkeeper much to do 5 shots on target to our 4 .

 

[Drog]

woodwork doesn't count 'on target' unfortunately.

 

[Yorkshire 22]

woodwork doesn't count 'on target' unfortunately.

Remember we hit the the inside of the post & was probably the nearest of the 3 as it came out at the back of the goal keeper.

 

[Alan]

Christ it was one match that it was a tragedy we did not win easily. Do we need all this discussion from a biased Knob Ender.

 

[Yorkshire 22]

Like I said earlier, the Lilly shites won’t be going up any year soon. They’re cursed. Also let’s face it, we were by far the better team and they only managed to scrape through in their cup final. Well it’s as near as they’ll ever get to a final!

Our cup final there seemed a lot of rovers fans who havnt been to ewood park for a long while on Friday .
You usually have 11,000 to 12,000 home fans.
Your average home gates has been boosted by pne Sunderland Middlesbrough & Leicester
Rovers fans only turn up for big games & that is a fact .
Ours are pretty steady.

 

[Drog]

Christ it was one match that it was a tragedy we did not win easily. Do we need all this discussion from a biased Knob Ender.

Yes.
Have to say that Yorkshire appears to follow the rovers very closely given the facts that he knows.

 

[Drog]

Our cup final there seemed a lot of rovers fans who havnt been to ewood park for a long while on Friday .
You usually have 11,000 to 12,000 home fans.
Your average home gates has been boosted by pne Sunderland Middlesbrough & Leicester
Rovers fans only turn up for big games & that is a fact .
Ours are pretty steady.

I can't argue with that although when we were in the Prem some survey / study discovered that more BRFC had a greater percentage of supporters from Blackburn than any other club had from their own town / city. I dare say that has changed now due to our massively increasing muslim population who as most know are not well represented in our core support. Also most North West towns will have seen young people move away to the South East or overseas to find better career prospects. It's a gloomy picture I'm afraid for all of us and one that doesn't bode well for the future, hence the only solution I see as clubs uniting under one or two at the most banners.
On gates and crowd potential you do need to bear in mind yorkshire22 that geographically we are hemmed in by Bolton, Burnley and PNE with nowt but barren fells to the north. PNE on the other hand has a larger population with a much greater hinterland to the North and South.
BWFC is similarly penned in to Blackburn but with a population double the size. Seems they've benefited greatly from the demise of Bury too as Bolton's crowds are averaging 18-20k in the first Division! No idea what they've done as historically they were never that high. They spiked up with gaining Prem status and building the Breezeblock and haven't suffered all that much by dropping down the divisions.
Burnley although the smallest borough have a massive gathering ground of support to the North, East and South with little competition until the Bradford / Leeds conurbation.
This is a great site for checking facts, research and of course settling arguments and winning bets.
Attendances England (european-football-statistics.co.uk)

One thing it doesn't make plain is the massive success in terms of actually winning stuff that gives BRFC a virtually unassailable whip hand over the other North West clubs. Odd to think that the likes of LUFC and WHU are trailing in our slipstream.

List of football clubs in England by competitive honours won - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Our cup final there seemed a lot of rovers fans who havnt been to ewood park for a long while on Friday .
You usually have 11,000 to 12,000 home fans.
Your average home gates has been boosted by pne Sunderland Middlesbrough & Leicester
Rovers fans only turn up for big games & that is a fact .
Ours are pretty steady.

Every study looking at catchment area (i.e. what is the nearest football ground of every postcode in England) puts Rovers (and Burnley I hate to say) at the very top of the entire football league in terms of % of catchment area that go to games. When you also factor in that Blackburn has probably the highest Muslim % of any council area outside of London (and they don't really go to games), our support among the white population of Blackburn is phenomenal. Its phenomenal when its 11-12,000 and its out of this world when its more than that.

But you surely have to admit that Preston fans have developed a total obsession with Rovers. Our rivals are Burnley, your traditional rivals Blackpool are usually in the league below you and are actually geographically further away from Preston than Blackburn is. Bolton's traditional rivals are Man Utd but that's just kinda tragic as obviously Man U fans don't care about them in the slightest.

So both you and Bolton have both become obsessed with us in recent times. I guess its nice to be popular, but it gets tiresome having Preston/Bolton fans always spoiling for aggro with us when we just don't really care, and watching your manager celebrate like he'd just won the league after the game was borderline embarassing.

 

[Drog]

No, not sad it's called passion b&wh. Everybody inside Ewood was anticipating a draw until that ET goal. We'd have gone crazy if we had scored it.

However my father was from Hoghton and rivalry between PNE and the Rovers was massive back than, Brig, Longridge and Chorley too would have been intense. My early rivalry was with BWFC as I went to Darwen Grammar School and 40% of those kids came from the other side of Darwen moors. Burnley rivalry was intense and probably ever more so in Rishton, Accy etc. I guess it does have a lot to do with schools.
Over the last 40 years though all serious BRFC rivalry has been with Burnley. I live in Pleasi and there are a few north enders who simply can't grasp that fact. Maybe Yorkshire should take in a Blackburn / Burnley match and then he'd understand. The 17/Dec/2000 'Battle of Turf Moor and the April Fools day massacre I believe cemented it.
Speaking of going to other grounds, my in-laws all confirmed Rovers fans used to go to Turf Moor when the Rovers were away whilst my Father went to Deepdale just to watch Sir Tom. All this is difficult to do now there is no pay on the door and maybe that is why the rivalry has become somewhat skewed.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Ah fair enough, maybe being a bit younger and a Rishtoner, its just been my experience not caring about Preston.

We'd have gone mental but I doubt JDT would have been leading the entire team in front of the Blackburn End with the type of 5-10 minute celebration normally reserved for securing a trip to Wembley.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Our cup final there seemed a lot of rovers fans who havnt been to ewood park for a long while on Friday .
You usually have 11,000 to 12,000 home fans.
Your average home gates has been boosted by pne Sunderland Middlesbrough & Leicester
Rovers fans only turn up for big games & that is a fact .
Ours are pretty steady.

It is your cup final and you know it. Your fans may be steady at the moment but I guarantee that when you stop winning they will all be using those Liverpool season tickets again.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Ah fair enough, maybe being a bit younger and a Rishtoner, its just been my experience not caring about Preston.

We'd have gone mental but I doubt JDT would have been leading the entire team in front of the Blackburn End with the type of 5-10 minute celebration normally reserved for securing a trip to Wembley.

Yep, they’d won their cup final.