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Sunderland v Rovers: 26th December 2012

Barmitzvah Boy

Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
How come we are always away on Boxing Day; the chance of a bumper Boxing Day crowd never seems to materialise for Rovers. Even worse we have a 12:30 kick off to keep the wallahs on Sky TV happy. I cannot for the life of me work out why Sky would want to show such a crap team like Rovers yet again; yes we may well be in 3rd place but Rovers are dreadful to watch and play mostly unattractive insipid football. Perhaps the reason we are on’t telly is the clash of those managerial titans Tony Moobray and John ‘Smurf’ Thomasson.

Gary Bowyer apart the likes of Tony Moonbug and Smurf Thomasson must rank as two of the most boring managers ever to step foot in Brockhall and Ewood. They even spout the same claptrap.

Tony ‘Mr Motivator’ Moocow:
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John ‘The Smurf’ Thomasson
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I feel ever so sorry for our fans given the 12:30 kick off. I am off to the game myself and in preparation for the journey I have decided to take it easy on Christmas Day. We have decided to have a theme this Christmas and instead of the usual ‘turkey and tinsel’ event the BB household are turning up the heating and going minimalist.

BB Family Get Together
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BB’s Christmas Eve Stocking Filler
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I am leaving early to trek up to the cold, dank, miserable North East. I will be the one in the Santa outfit carrying my old mucker Carol over my shoulder. We have even booked the Sunderland Premier Inn for a bit of post- match rest and relaxation; we doubt we will get any entertainment from from the Rovers players so we will have to make our own fun.

BB Humps Carol All The Way To Sunderland
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I am keeping the pressies to a minimum this year. The missus is getting a chocolate log and girlfriend Carol is getting a chocolate Santa to keep her quiet.

Carol Has A Santa To Munch On:
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The game will be a challenge for the Rovers. Training will take place at Ewood late Christmas Day afternoon followed by a coach journey up to Sunderland. I hear from a Club source that the team may also be stopping in the Premier Inn and I have already been asked to keep the noise down in case the players get jealous at the sound of us playing Naked Twister.

Naked Twister In Sunderland:
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It is a real challenge predicting who will get the upper hand in this match. Will it be ‘Tinkerman’ Moonpig or will it be The Smurf? My prediction is a tight contest resulting in a 4-0 win for Sunderland and BB getting banned for life from every Premier Inn in the UK and The Smurf reminding us all the we are on a journey and fans should be patient for the next 27 transfer windows.

Just one final point to mull over is that at this point last season Rovers were on 42 points with a goal difference of +14 😳

Love & kisses at Christmas 🗿 and Happy Holidays to all my loyal followers. 🖕
 
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Drog

Administrator
Staff member
Listening to H&J on talksport earlier and I don't know who it was going through the fixtures but he'd been to Carrow Road last week and was very generous in his praise of the Rovers work rate and pressing game. Paul Hawksbye didn't know about the Rovers not having drawn a match all season, neither did he know about the 'who scored first' nature of our results.
Who can predict the Rovers results this season is a better man than me. Ditto for the starting X1. So taking into account Sunderland's excellent performance at Ewood a couple of months back and recent reports of dissatisfaction in the dressing room I'm going to predict a 2-0 defeat. :(
 

Barmitzvah Boy

Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
I have heard similar reports about the dressing room being very unhappy with Smurf’s tactics and his attitude. It is apparently not a happy ship.
 

Drog

Administrator
Staff member
Sorry........ phones gone blank and wont switch on so match updates can be done by others. Bloody Christmas eh?
 

steve w

Senior Member
  • Rovers: Kaminski, Rankin-Costello, Hyam, Ayala, Pickering, Morton, Buckley, Hedges, Dack, Brereton, Gallagher
  • Subs: Pears, Phillips, S Wharton, Travis, Garrett, Markanday, Hirst
 

Barmitzvah Boy

Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
  • Rovers: Kaminski, Rankin-Costello, Hyam, Ayala, Pickering, Morton, Buckley, Hedges, Dack, Brereton, Gallagher
  • Subs: Pears, Phillips, S Wharton, Travis, Garrett, Markanday, Hirst
In a ‘pretty’ format:
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