[Archived] Blackburn 2 - 0 Red Bull Salzburg

[USABlue]

A quite ridiculous situation really.

When millions of fans from all over the world can descend on Germany, drink all day in FIFA fan parks then rock up at the grounds and buy MORE beer to take to their seats whilst watching the World Cup final fixtures ...

... not 2 months later we're back to UEFA and stupid rules banning beer anywhere in the grounds (and closing off a valuable revenue stream for the clubs involved).

Boooooo to UEFA!

UEFA, Unacceptable Environment For Alcoholics

[tony gale's mic]

i like my beer, but i've never understood the absolute need for a beer inside the ground. i mean you can always drink before and after the match anyway, so long as you're not too drunk so they won't let you in.

Edited September 25, 2006 by tony gale's mic

[doctorryan]

Does anyone know the dates for the group stage matches? Might aswell be an optomist and book them off work now

Group stage

Matchday 1 - 19.10.2006

Matchday 2 - 02.11.2006

Matchday 3 - 23.11.2006

Matchday 4 - 29/30.11.2006

Matchday 5 - 13/14.12.2006

[frosty]

2-0 Rovers

Nonda, McCarthy

17,000

[Eddie]

A quite ridiculous situation really.

When millions of fans from all over the world can descend on Germany, drink all day in FIFA fan parks then rock up at the grounds and buy MORE beer to take to their seats whilst watching the World Cup final fixtures ...

... not 2 months later we're back to UEFA and stupid rules banning beer anywhere in the grounds (and closing off a valuable revenue stream for the clubs involved).

Boooooo to UEFA!

They would probably argue that there will be much less security and that they will be able to exercise much less control over the ground and that because of that it is best not to mix alcohol with two groups of fans from different countries who might have dangerous groups of supporters.

I'm not saying that I would do the same, but I do understand it and don't believe it will ruin the game for supporters.

[pick32]

4-1 rovers

nonda x2

savage

bentley

there keeper looks terrible n make alot of blunders i dont think he will be able to cope with the blackburn fans winding him up and we will force lots of errors out of him.

[doctorryan]

who are the other teams that could be in our gorup should we get through? Do we know? or is there another draw to determine that?

Anyway i'm going for 2-0

Nonda and Benni Mac to do the business!

Draw is Tuesday, October 3. The 40 remaining clubs are split into 5 pots based on their UEFA coefficients ranking; one from each pot for each group.

[Flopsy]

but surely UEFA could relax the rules for us, knowing what dreadful record we have in Europe surely they recognise our fans need for alcohol to stop the pain of another dismal european night of football

[berkshireblue]

I'm coming up for this one as a season ticket holder, which means another 1am return so we better win...

2 - 0

Nonda and BENTLEY

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Zickler a major doubt for Thurday according to their site.

[roversWASmylife]

Rovers 2 - 0 Salzburg

[RoyRover]

That's good news about Zickler, he's a good player. Weren't we interested in him a couple of seasons ago? I think we'll win this one 2-0, Nonda and McCarthy to score.

[Quack]

3-1 to Rovers don't care who scores.

13,000 crowd.

[AlamoRover]

Rovers 1 - 1 Salzburg

Just enough.

[Chris_Roe]

Not at all confident.. so lets go a positive option 0 - 0... clean sheet AND we go through

[Cheshireblue]

No need to be nervous. McCarthy has won the champions league for God's sake, so this tie will be taken very easiliy in our stride. I feel a rout coming on with McCarthy leading it. 5-0 Rovers, and we march into the group stages.

[yorkblues]

i go for a 3--0 win

att 18435

[krislu]

Here you can read what the Salzburgers think about the game

Ich bin grundsätzlich was Salzburg Spiele betrifft optimistisch, daher glaub ich wir haben die schlechte Partie gegen Blackburn schon gespielt. Jetzt kommt erst die GUTE!!! (bei Valencia wars umgekehrt)

So they like us

[Presty On Tour]

i just hope we don't sit back and defend our away goals advantage and play for a 0-0.

it will all end in tears if we do this imo.

if we get the first goal and attack them, we are cruising into the group stages.

[3rdpillar]

i just hope we don't sit back and defend our away goals advantage and play for a 0-0.

it will all end in tears if we do this imo.

if we get the first goal and attack them, we are cruising into the group stages.

I don't want to imagine paying to watch 90+ minuets of Rovers sitting back inviting pressure to defend a 0 - 0.

OK so we qualify, but that aint gonna get bums on seats and give pleasure to Rovers fans.

ATTACK, ATTACK, ,ATTACK,ATTACK,ATTACK!!!!!!

[Al]

Rover 2 Salzberg 1

[bob fleming]

2 - 1 Rovers - 12,800.

[OhmiBRFC]

i just hope we don't sit back and defend our away goals advantage and play for a 0-0.

it will all end in tears if we do this imo.

if we get the first goal and attack them, we are cruising into the group stages.

i've said that, we cant invite salzburg to score

[daveoftherovers]

We'll win, attendance, above 21k

MH, PLEASE BURY THIS EURO CURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[arealbrfcfan]

I really hope we make history by winning on Thursday! Would make my Birthday pretty memorable wouldnt it?

Edited September 26, 2006 by starscascade